The duo awaited the return of the peculiar elder while they chatted:
"Pian, did you know anything about these badges, or is this news to you too?"
Mo Pian shook his head as he looked at the door. Which leads to the stairs, and said:
"I haven't been to this place before, even though I used to walk from casino to casino before. I have never gone to this place due to my lack of power, I broke through to the 5th level of the Qi apprentice realm a few weeks before you arrived at the restaurant, but I still didn't think about taking missions. They are too hard, and it's easier to make enough money to live with my job."
"You never considered taking even the lowliest missions for those mission points you talked about?"
Bai Feng's question struck at Mo Pian's sore spot as he said:
"I did... but I was never able to. Let's leave it at that."
Since Mo Pian didn't want to talk about it anymore, Bai Feng decided to stop the conversation.
How
Bai Feng started to make his way towards the inner parts of the market towards a peculiar building that stood out. It had the mascot of a wooden fish, which had the words "fresh food ingredients" inscribed in it. That's where the middle-aged man's friends and business partners sold the things that Bai Feng needed. Atleast that's what the man told him. He had no other better leads. Chitong only told him about the ingredients, not where he could find them. The list of ingredients was rather peculiar, to the point that he knew that even Mo Pian would be stumped on where to get them. He had some knowledge of the ingredients from Chitong's jade slip, and the connection with Aura helped him, so he wasn't in the dark, and he knew that Chitong was trying to help him. Bai Feng entered the building and looked around. He saw meats stacked together on stalls that had little plaques with their origins and prices. The smell of so many meats together was quite nause
Bai Feng felt conflicted, he wanted to break through further so he wouldn't be left in the dust by his sister's progress, but he knew that if he rushed things along. He wouldn't end well.It was quite annoying. His progress wasn't delayed by the lack of ingredients nor wealth but by his own ability.If he wanted to, he could eat the food he made with the ingredients he got even now as he only needed a little bit of work with it. But could he withstand the Qi which would rush through his body?He almost couldn't withstand the breakthrough last time, and according to the jade slip and his guessing, the concoction he would make was way superior to the crocodile elf rib-eye steak that Mo Pian made.But Bai Feng shook his head. It wasn't the right thing to rush things even though he had a good reason to.He still didn't know much about his own cultivation path, and everyone around him didn't know either. It seemed that the body cultivation branch was ra
Bai Feng wasn't perturbed by the fact that he had to fight Mo Pian's visage. He was more annoyed than anything. Couldn't the fire tribulation just take the form of Chen Lingxi again?He launched himself directly at the fire person without any plan. His attacks were quick and precise, as he slowly learned how to fight over time.There wasn't anything that the fire Mo Pian could do to him. At first, his head disappeared, then one of his arms was blown away, while it continued to say the same words as before.Bai Feng thought that every tribulation should have been harder than the previous one, but it seemed he was wrong.This wasn't really a challenge at all.But the moment he finished his thoughts, he saw how another head popped out of the fire body, it was his sister, Mu An!Bai Feng frowned as he glanced at the fire body and said:"Hey... you can do a lot of things, try to imitate my friend, become one of the people that I have probl
Bai Feng's melancholic mood infected Mo Pian as well for some reason, as he felt just a little bit exhausted with a tinge of wanting to do nothing for a while, seemingly as if he didn't have any goal.Bai Feng sighed as he looked at the drifting clouds through the moving leaves at the top of the tree. A small ray of light went through the gap of the leaves, only for the leaves to move and cover it a split second later.Mo Pian didn't lean on the tree and sit down like Bai Feng was doing as he was keeping a hand on the tree while he looked at the day sky, which was filled with fluffy clouds- did Bai Feng really didn't have any goal that he could call his own?He could understand what Bai Feng was going through, somewhat. As he didn't use to have a goal for quite a long time, but it didn't affect him that much. Back then, he was still drifting through life, and he didn't care much about that aspect of it. Especially because he wasn't a cultivator back then.<
The hooded person soon realized that they were stuck along with Bai Feng, and no matter how hard they tried to kick Bai Feng's hands away from their left leg, it ended up with them actually hurting themselves.Bai Feng's defensive powers had exploded after his last breakthrough, and the hooded person was so flustered that they forgot to infuse ki into their attempt at removing Bai Feng's hand from their ankles."Ok, you aren't what you appear on the surface..."The hooded person said as they admitted defeat. Bai Feng laughed as he struggled out of his rocky prison and got out of the hole he had been imprisoned in after releasing the hooded person's left leg.The person shook their leg for a little bit of time to get the blood back flowing. Before glancing at Bai Feng. Who returned to his new fit form.Bai Feng glanced at the hooded person and asked once again:"So, how is she doing?"The hooded person shook their head as they said:
Bai Feng could still feel somewhat exhausted mentally as he opened the door of his house and left. There was no information that Aura could help him with. Unfortunately, she had already expressed her concern for his situation, and she had no solution. Even though being a water spirit meant she was supposed to have purifying capabilities. Which should have helped with his mental exhaustion, but it seemed that her capabilities didn't reach that level of purification.According to herself, she was pretty young at a spirit's age, and she didn't have enough time to mature and become stronger. Unfortunately, she didn't have any opportunities to get stronger as she was locked in that river for such a long time.She felt rather bad that she couldn't help Bai Feng with his current issue, and she started to mull upon Mo Pian's words, thinking that she might encounter even more situations like this in the future.Was he right? Aura stood in the jewel space, pondering if sh
Bai Feng was quickly making his way back home. He stored the intricate box into his pouch, and he couldn't wait to use the pill inside to get rid of his headache.Fortunately, there were no troubles, and he reached his house with no problems.He quickly inserted the key into the keyhole of his door and entered before closing the door behind him.Bai Feng sighed as he directly went to his bedroom and opened his pouch before placing it on his nightstand and taking out the intricate box that he got from Chitong.He opened it slowly and inside of it. He saw it, the remedy to his headache.It was a tiny blue-colored pill. That had an intricate design on its front part that depicted a phoenix ready to fly up into the skies, a fire was surrounding the phoenix, and it had its beak open. Seemingly trying to cry out how majestic it was.The image was rather vivid, and Bai Feng could see a small introduction to the pill on the inside of the box's lid.<
Bai Feng smiled, seeing how Aura and the owl acted. It was almost as if Aura was his cheeky wife and the owl was their hungry child. It was quite a funny sight as Bai Feng- made his way to the table and sat down opposite Aura- After he placed all of the food on the table. The shrimp, swordfish, and other crustaceans had a very tantalizing smell as Bai Feng started to pour the sauce he made onto them. The smell was getting more intense the more sauce was poured, and Aura started to salivate. She couldn't help but want to dig in already, just like the owl did. However, she had some self-control as she waited for Bai Feng to finish preparing everything aesthetically. Bai Feng finished by giving a chef kiss as he had seen Mo Pian do it a few times while they were cooking together. "Well, let's dig in!" Bai Feng started with some swordfishes, which he started to devour at a quick speed, making the owl who didn't finish its meal quic