As soon as the Firelight Beast cried, the flames on its tail grew larger. If Zhao Xi hadn't wanted to have high elemental attributes, all her hair would have been burned off by now.
"Hey! I'm being sarcastic! How could I possibly sell you all? Don't you even know what the Hundred Beasts Garden is for?"
The children sniffled and looked at each other.
"It's a mountain!"
"The Hundred Beasts Garden is just the Hundred Beasts Garden~ It's a garden..."
"There's food, there's lodging, and there's a headmistress!"
The little ones chimed in, each offering their own opinion in their sweet, childlike voices.
Zhao Xi thought, "Little fool, the Hundred Beasts Garden is your home! If you don't live here, where else can you go? The Master went to Seven Star Town to find you, and the houses were built for you. If it were just me, Brother Feng, and Sister Tu, would we need such a big canteen and such a grand gate?"
Shanshan shouted at the top of her lungs, "But I heard Brother Feng say that Headmistress, you're doing this to revive the Beast Garden! The Beast Garden is so poor right now, what are you going to do if you don't sell us off? Master is so amazing, he must be very expensive~"
Xiao Jia said worriedly, "The previous headmistress was like that; she wanted a lot of spirit stones even without hiring a tutor... Headmistress, if you're really short of them, just sell my scales. My scales are really valuable, but please don't sell us..."
Zhao Xi wanted to remain silent, so she tried to coax him: "Then let me ask you, are the scales on your bodies more valuable or the scales on the demon cultivators?"
The children scratched their heads in confusion and replied, "Some demon cultivators' scales are worthless."
Some are valuable, some are worthless.
"If it's a monkey demon, it won't have scales—it will only have fur."
Zhao Xi took a deep breath, flicked the foreheads of the few misbehaving kids, and explained with a calm tone: "There are plenty of demon cultivators in other sects. Have you ever heard of a demon cultivator being captured and having their scales peeled off? Absolutely not! A sect is meant to develop together so that everyone can improve. You are the cubs raised by the Hundred Beast Garden, how could we sell you off?! Impossible!"
"I've heard of many demon cultivators being killed..."
"Headmistress, you're just a mortal, you don't know, there are so many..."
The children exchanged information, saying that a snake demon had been dissected and its gall bladders soaked in wine, a chicken demon cultivator had been eaten by an eagle demon cultivator, and someone had given a male demon cultivator to a queen bee demon to possess...
I don't know where I heard the story from, but it's like a living animal world.
The children chattered away, each speaking with great insight and clarity.
Zhao Xi thought: "…………"
She was just a mortal.
Why would mortals get involved in the topic of immortals abducting and selling immortals...?
Why doesn't that make sense?
I'm so angry and resentful.
"…………"
"Wow!"
She sat on the ground and burst into tears. "I just won't sell you! The Beast Garden has all kinds of food, and you don't use up spirit stones! Didn't you hear the Master say that this formation is an internal circulation mode? The more you breathe in and out, the stronger your defense becomes?! Why would I sell you? Waaah... How can you believe me?"
The little ones scratched their heads, looking at their friends around them with a bewildered expression.
"Don't cry, we believe in you~"
"Wow, Principal, your crying makes me want to cry too!"
"Don't cry, Headmistress~" Meimei was the kindest, jumping onto her shoulder and nuzzling her face. "Headmistress, we know, you won't sell us."
A moment later.
Lin Che returned to the open space in the Hundred Beasts Garden.
In the open space, Zhao Xi wanted to sit on a pile of trash she had taken out of her ring, but was surrounded and cried by the little demon cultivators.
They patted her head and back, offering her words of comfort.
Lin Che, thinking something had happened, hurried over.
But when I got closer, I understood the cause and effect from their words.
"…………"
That's it?
As expected of her...
Just like before...
Lin Che breathed a sigh of relief.
Gods live as long as the heavens, have experienced countless ages, and have accumulated countless memories.
Those memories that are no longer needed will be sealed in the sea of consciousness, and over time, even he himself will almost forget them.
Although she did not cultivate in this life, her personality and temperament remained decisive and efficient, and her fire source power remained unchanged.
Summoning her to this world and then waking her up—will it save the world or hasten its demise?
"Are you done crying?"
Lin Che went to the kitchen and took out several jars of sauce, vinegar, wine, salt and other seasonings from the magic artifact one by one. Then he walked back to the open space and said, "Luo Haiqing is back. I bought all the seasonings you wanted."
He paused, then asked, "Would you like me to come with you?"
Where should I take her?
What's going on?
Zhao Xi then realized that Lin Che had returned. She quickly pushed the children away, patted the dirt off her body, and got up to cook.
"Well, food is essential for life. Let's talk about this after the meal is ready!"
...
After dinner, the two went to the foot of the mountain.
At Zhao Xixiang's request, Xiaoxiantong specially built a detached house for Luo Haiqing at the foot of the mountain.
Firstly, it would make it convenient for Luo Haiqing to travel back and forth on his sword without disturbing others; secondly, it would also be to separate him from the children.
After all, this old man had hurt Xingye before, and he was from the Five Spirits Sect. Zhao Xi didn't want to go through the story of the farmer and the snake.
This time, he was sent to a mortal town to buy sauces, and while he was at it, to sell all the boxes of pastries she had made to the teahouse in Seven Star Town, so that he could buy materials from the black market to upgrade the defensive array and make the training ground.
I've bought the sauce, but what about the desserts?
"Boss Sun had already agreed to 80,000 spirit stones per guest, but Mao Qiu'er interfered and ruined the deal."
In the courtyard, Luo Haiqing bowed and placed the entire food box on the stone table, inviting the headmaster to oversee the matter.
Zhao Xi wanted to open the food box and take a look.
The delicate pastries remained untouched; only the one specifically for tasting was cut in half.
Who is Mao Qiu'er?
"She is the daughter of the sect leader, and she is extremely willful and spoiled."
Seven Star Town is the territory of the Five Spirits Sect, and the richest person there is none other than the sect leader, Mao Jiren.
The person most cherished in the sect leader's heart was none other than his daughter, Mao Qiu'er.
Mao Qiu'er is the beloved junior sister of the Five Spirits Sect. She is always surrounded by admirers wherever she goes. Whatever she wants, even if it is worth a fortune, someone will buy it for her.
Zhao Xi thought in surprise, "Is she just bored and wanting to interfere with my business?"
Luo Haiqing said with embarrassment, "Does the director remember the iron-eating beast they brought that day? The little carp demon took a liking to it and kept it as a spirit pet."
"Iron-eating beast" is the ancient name for the giant panda.
The name "Lingli Xiaoyao" is an ancient name for the pangolin spirit.
Zhao Xi wanted to organize the terms of address from ancient times to the present.
The case is solved. That giant panda was Mao Qiu'er's spirit pet. Her father used it to humiliate the Hundred Beasts Garden, but Xiao Jia kept it and raised it.
Mao Qiu'er doesn't blame her father for actually coming to sabotage the Hundred Beasts Garden's side business.
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