"I think these fire meatballs are just so-so, not as good as the headmistress's hot pot boxes."
"Yes, I think so too... Do you guys think these fire dumplings might be copied from my sister's recipe? Immortals don't explode when they eat sulfur charcoal powder, and these things can keep you warm for a long time, but they contain impurities."
Tongyue insisted, "You haven't eaten yet, so don't make any rash judgments. Try it first."
The salt stalker trembled its whiskers, and a blazing flame erupted from its tail: "Huh, there are no impurities?"
Zhao Xi originally didn't care about these strange skills, but when she saw the end of the sweet potato salt, she went over and asked for a small piece, then put it in her mouth and took a bite.
this……
"Where did these fire balls come from?"
“I bought it from a traveling merchant named Pu Xin.” Tong Yue took out a map and a receipt. “It’s said that they are the only ones in the entire Lower Immortal Realm who have it. It’s very expensive, costing one million spirit stones for one piece. It’s too cold, and many people can’t afford it, so they’ve fled to the Abyss Volcano. Headmistress, I see that the children are weak. Should we move there too? If it gets any colder, all the land there will be taken, and they’ll have nowhere to stay.”
"Okay, let the cat owner get ready to leave now, and move all the pups over there." Zhao Xi wiped a tiny bit of fireball residue off her finger and said, "You guys need to do me a favor."
*
The group hurried through the winter snow; the two leading figures were a husband and wife.
“If you ask me, we shouldn’t have set such an expensive price. Our benefactor gave us this recipe so we could make it and give it to cultivators, but now we’ve made so many spirit stones. We’re just mortals, what use are spirit stones to us?” The woman at the head of the group, wearing a veil that completely covered her face, scolded her partner.
“Spirit stones make things much easier. Didn’t you see the cultivators following behind us? They’re all protecting us. Without them, how could we have sold these fire balls? We might have been killed long ago.”
"But these bodyguards took 990,000 spirit stones from us! Are you stupid?!" The woman angrily poked the man's head.
“If we exchange the remaining ten thousand spirit stones for gold and silver jewelry, it would be enough for us to eat and drink for a lifetime.” Her husband shook his head, letting her criticize him, and put his arm around her. “The great immortal doesn’t see anyone else, only you. This is your blessing! Just think of it this way: if we didn’t sell these fire balls, many immortals would freeze to death. Paying a little spirit stone can save their lives. You are saving people!”
The woman sighed.
A month or so ago, she fell off a cliff while herding sheep on the mountain. She was found by a deity at the bottom of the cliff, who healed her injuries and took her home.
The great immortal seemed to have nowhere to go, so he stayed at a farmhouse with an empty room.
The gods saved Pu Xin's life, so of course Pu Xin wanted to treat them to the best food and wine. But these days, natural disasters were frequent, all the vegetables in the fields were frozen and cracked, and even the fertilizer cakes were frozen solid. The farmers were really starving, and Pu Xin was almost ready to kick them out.
Unexpectedly, the great immortal, with a flourish of his pen, squatted on the ground with a fire poker and wrote down a detailed prescription for them.
The herbs in the prescription were ones they had never seen before, but the great sage knew where to get them. He would fetch them for them and dry them in the yard.
Even the doctors at the clinic didn't know the preparation method in the prescription, but as long as you followed the steps, you could get what they wanted.
Finally, the mixture was stir-fried into a paste and then rolled into bright red balls.
The great deity instructed them to sell at the lowest possible price so they could make the most money. Not only would they be set for life, but they might even enjoy wealth and honor in their next life because of the good deeds they had accumulated.
Unfortunately, Pu Xin's husband was too greedy.
The price of fireballs rose from one spirit stone to ten thousand, and then to five hundred thousand the next day.
Even at 500,000 spirit stones, people are scrambling to buy it.
The final price was set at a high of one million spirit stones.
When they were wandering around Fairy Town with a huge sum of money, they were almost killed, but luckily several gods came to their rescue.
But when Pu Xin returned home with the spirit stones, the great immortal had already quietly left, leaving only a courtyard full of spirit plants.
The few cultivators who followed them didn't have good intentions from the start; they wanted to kill and rob.
However, the prescription was destroyed by a great immortal, and the steps were said to be particularly complicated, not a common practice for cultivators refining pills.
Furthermore, this mortal couple was easy to manipulate; they merely wanted to survive in the chaotic world. The cultivators decided to divide the spirit stones from the fire pill equally, waiting for the couple to continue processing the remaining spiritual plants in the courtyard into pills.
"Is anyone home? Is this Pu Xin's house?"
bite--
Rumble—
Tongyue had just reached the doorway when she dodged backward as if electrocuted. Fire, lightning, and hidden weapons followed closely behind, striking the spot where she had just stood.
Without saying a word, she drew her weapon and kicked open the wooden gate.
Shanshan immediately transformed into a crow and flew in from the other side, shouting as she flew, "Which shameless person dared to attack us?! This farmhouse isn't your immortal territory, look what you've done to our yard!"
His noisy voice deliberately attracted magical attacks.
Xiao Jia and Zhao Xi took the opportunity to follow Tong Yue into the farmhouse courtyard.
Pu Xin and his wife were processing medicinal herbs, and a bitter smell wafted through the yard.
"Don't come any closer! If you come any closer, I'll make sure this Lower Immortal Realm is free of Fireballs!" Upon seeing their attire, the cultivator immediately pointed his magical artifact at the mortal couple. "Oh, isn't this Alliance Leader Zhao?"
Pu Xin raised his hands, trembling with fear: "Spare us! Don't kill us!"
Zhao Xi glanced at the cultivators and vaguely recognized their clothing: "Are they from the Hun Tian Sect?"
"Yeah, so what? You're chasing us all the way here just because we won't join your alliance?"
Her Lianxin Alliance is a righteous alliance, while Xingye's Xingmen is a demonic sect. Before heading to the Abyss Volcano, most of the major sects had already clearly distinguished between good and evil, except for the Huntian Sect, which specifically collected discarded disciples that other sects didn't want.
Scattered forces are not reliable.
Zhao Xi wanted to ignore him and looked at Pu Xin: "Was the great deity who saved you a man?"
Pu Xin trembled and said, "Yes, yes."
Zhao Xi wondered, "Could it be black clothes, black hair, and purple eyes?"
Pu Xin nodded: "Yes, those eyes are really scary, like a demon. Although his behavior is unrestrained, he has never harmed anyone. At first, we thought he was a great demon who had attained enlightenment, but after we sold the fire balls and learned about their benefits, we realized that he was a great immortal."
The little demon cultivators in the Beast Garden exchanged glances and looked at Zhao Xi.
Zhao Xi took a deep breath to calm herself before slowly asking, "Where did he go after that? Is he still in the mountains?"
"What's it to you? Your alliance is already big enough, do you still want to compete with us for the recipe for this fire ball?" Upon seeing this, the cultivator hurriedly interrupted her question, raising his magic weapon at her. "Everyone should run their own business. We got this one first, so don't come back!"
"There aren't any in the mountains, so there's no need to ask, Headmistress. If they knew, they would have killed those two mortals long ago."
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