Walking through the bustling streets, Su Nian linked arms with Xu Xinrou. The two, wearing masks, strolled along the street filled with shouts and noise.
"Making sugar figurines! The most authentic sugar figurines! Making sugar figurines!"
An old man selling sugar figurines on the street was enthusiastically calling out his wares, which caught Xu Xinrou's attention.
"Junior brother, look! There's a sugar figurine seller over there." Xu Xinrou pointed to the old man selling sugar figurines. Su Nian looked in the direction Xu Xinrou pointed and saw a group of children gathered in front of the old man, jumping and skipping.
The old man's stall displayed all sorts of sugar figurines. Making sugar figurines is not complicated, but it requires a great deal of skill.
The old man used a knife to cut the colorful sugar figurines into small pieces of roughly the same size, then placed them in a small bowl and added the seasoning packet from the sugar figurine packet, stirring it in.
The sugar figurines thus transformed into one little star after another.
They look very beautiful and cute.
Xu Xinrou pulled Su Nian forward and asked with a smile, "Uncle, how much do these sugar figurines cost?"
"Two copper coins each, young lady, which one would you like?" The uncle looked up at Xu Xinrou and Su Nian and said with a smile.
Looking at the adorable sugar figurines, Xu Xinrou pointed to a soft, white rabbit and said, "Give me this one!"
"Okay!" the uncle said, picking up the soft white rabbit and handing it to Xu Xinrou.
"Thank you," Xu Xinrou replied politely. Then Su Nian took out two copper coins from her sleeve and placed them in the vendor's palm.
Suddenly, the group of children surrounded the uncle, jumping and skipping happily around him.
"Uncle, uncle! Give me a Su Nian sugar figurine!"
"I want one too! I want Su Nian's too!"
"Me too!"
The two people, who were about to leave, suddenly stopped.
Su Nian and Xu Xinrou exchanged a glance, both seeing the curiosity in each other's eyes.
"Okay, just a moment, I'll make it for you right away."
As the uncle spoke, he took out a lump of soft cane sugar and began to manipulate his spiritual energy, shaping the sugar figure into a human form.
After the spiritual energy appeared, Xu Xinrou whispered in Su Nian's ear, "It's the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage. It seems that this uncle was a Golden Core cultivator before."
Su Nian nodded slightly.
Using spiritual power to sculpt sugar figurines can indeed produce incredibly exquisite results.
A moment later, a sugar figurine in Su Nian's likeness was sculpted, lifelike.
"Here, this is for you. Eat it quickly, it's hot and it'll melt soon." The uncle handed the exquisite sugar figurine to the little boy at the head of the group. The little boy said thank you in his childish voice and then accepted the sugar figurine.
Su Nian nodded to herself.
It truly lives up to its reputation as a sugar figurine sculpted by a master at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage; it indeed captures a bit of his handsome features.
Just as he was feeling sentimental, there was a cracking sound.
The little boy bit off 'Su Nian's' head.
Su Nian's smile froze.
Xu Xinrou giggled beside her.
The uncle then made a few more sugar figurines and handed them to the other children.
The children were overjoyed and skipped away, grabbing the sugar figurines.
After they left, Su Nian asked, "Uncle, do you often make these human-shaped sugar figurines?"
The uncle shook his head. "No, it's not that. My cultivation level wasn't high before, and the sugar figurines I made always looked lifelike but lacked spirit. After making them a few times, I stopped."
"I see. I see that your sugar figurine making skills are already extremely exquisite. With such skill, why don't you try something else?"
The uncle chuckled, "Young man, do you think this is still the old days? In the past, most ordinary people were at the Qi Refining stage, and the more powerful ones might have reached the Foundation Establishment stage. But times have changed. We are no longer the human race of the past. Everyone has improved by at least one or two major realms. In the past, a Golden Core stage expert could rule a small town, but now, even if you are a Nascent Soul stage expert, you might not be ranked among the top in the town!"
Su Nian nodded.
Once he arrived on the street, he could indeed feel that the spiritual energy there was many times stronger than before.
Then he asked with a smile, "Aren't you afraid of being arrested by the people of the Emperor's Palace for selling sugar figurines of the current Emperor like this?"
The middle-aged man shook his head. "His Majesty the Emperor wouldn't blame ordinary people like us for such a trivial matter."
Why?
The uncle said seriously, "You must have seen that Hundred Lifetimes of Memories, right? Oh no, I should say you have definitely seen that Hundred Lifetimes of Memories. There are hardly any people in this world who haven't seen that Hundred Lifetimes of Memories. After seeing that Hundred Lifetimes of Memories, everyone understands what this new Human Emperor has been fighting against all along. Now, many groups in the public have spontaneously formed support groups for His Majesty the Human Emperor. You can see a lot of portraits and story collections about His Majesty the Human Emperor just by walking around the streets. The purpose of me making this sugar figurine of His Majesty the Human Emperor is to let children know what His Majesty the Human Emperor looks like."
After the uncle said that, Su Nian looked at the other stalls on the street.
He then discovered that many art shops and stores had Su Nian's face printed on their canvases.
Especially the silk shop, after sewing Su Nian's image onto the bedding, the female cultivators were all scrambling to get their hands on it.
Seeing that she could actually be so popular, Su Nian was momentarily stunned.
The uncle's sigh brought Su Nian's scattered thoughts back to reality.
"Don't be fooled by the fact that I make sugar figurines. Many children who take the Emperor's sugar figurines home actually keep them as treasures. Only those greedy kids will actually eat them."
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