Li Ming stared at the nine stones that were laying inside the blooming lotus flowers. Each one of them emitting a different bright light.
"Are there supposed to be nine of these?" She asked the two immortals who were looking at her with soft smiles playing on their lips.
"No-Li, that's not the reason for my shock!" Alvina finally came out of her shock and hurriedly said before either of the two men could reply.
Li Ming raised her eyebrow as she stared at the Fairy, waiting for her to explain.
"The reason for my shock is that the stones are of different colors!" Alvina tried to explain but looking at Li Ming's expressions it was clear that the little fairy failed poorly.
Her explanation seemed more funny and stupid. Though it was surprising that the stones were of different colors but not surprising enough to let out an ear-splitting shriek. If the reason was the fact that in place of one they got eight more stones, it still could be counted as a justified reason to destroy people's sensitive ears.
"What do you mean by different colors?" Clank shouted from where he was standing with the rest of the crowd.
Yeah crowd, otherwise what would you call a group of almost 28 pixies, a little beast and a snowball, two insanely handsome immortals and a complete stranger in the name of a teenage girl who wasn't sure if she should be scared, afraid or confused?
"There are eight stones each one carrying the same colors as our pixie dust. There's blue, green, orange, purple, pink, amber and cyan. The only stone which is different is the one in the middle - the white one." Alvina explained to everyone and this time her explanation was actually good enough to be categorized as an explanation.
"Wait, what do you mean by that these stones match the colors of your pixie dust? Isn't pixie dust supposed to be golden?" Li Ming asked in a confused tone.
But she got her to answer the moment she saw the little blonde rolling her eyes. But she was in no mood to take the blond pixie's attitude.
"Don't give me that attitude little lady. I'm neither a pixie nor I've come across your race more than once or twice. Then how am I supposed to know all these things?"
Tera turned into fifty shades of red the moment she heard Li Ming's words. She could swear that it wasn't her intention to be rude to their savior. But she had a habit of being bitchy which sometimes became impossible to keep in control.
Alvina was about to answer Li Ming when the later stopped her. She looked at the baby Huli Jing and asked, "Will these stones remain safe if we leave them in their original place for now?"
"Don't worry. The stones are not going to vanish if you leave them in the flowers. But you will need to pluck them out within the next three days because the flowers will wither at the first sunlight of the fourth day." The baby fox spirit told it's master.
"Hmm. That's sounds good. Let's leave those stones in their original place for now. There are a lot of questions that we need answers to. First of all, let's leave this place." Li Ming told everyone as she teleported back to where the others were standing.
"Master, can I come with you too?" The baby fox asked in a barely noticeable voice. But its eyes sparkled with happiness when Li Ming nodded her head with a soft smile.
She put her left hand on the head of the girl in the black robes and the next second the girl was asleep. With a flick of Li Ming's hands, the girl disappeared.
"What did you do with her?" Fawn, another animal fairy, asked with curious gazes.
"I just teleported her to my room in the Black Jade Inn. We have no idea who she is and it's not safe to talk about anything in front of her. She had already heard and seen too much than necessary. It will be a headache later to make her forget all that she had already seen." Li Ming told all of them as she started walking towards the portal which will lead them out of the Godly Maple Tree.
Once they all were out, Li Ming sat down on the ground to give her aching feet a little rest. All the action and drama had exhausted her and she wanted nothing more than going directly for her bed and sleep for an entire day.
But there were some things that she needed to clear first. As all the pixies surrounded her and also settled around her on the ground, Snowy and the baby fox directly climbed into her lap and settled down in a comfortable position, snuggling into each other.
A soft smile appeared on her face as she looked at her only familiar and her first spiritual beast. Both of them looked like harmless cute little creatures but the reality was far from it. Even Snowy wasn't as simple and unharmful as he appeared.
She softly patted them as she settled her attention on the two immortals. Zhang Yong was sitting in a very carefree position on a lower branch of a tree and Ruoshan was standing leaning against the trunk.
She focused her attention back on Alvina as she asked, "So, about the stones and the different colored pixie dusts?"
Alvina nodded her head softly as she started explaining, "Li, you already know about the blue pixie dust and how we create the golden pixie dust from it, right?"
When Li Ming nodded her head, Alvina continued, "Though golden pixie dust is the most commonly used and the blue one is the most important one but other than these two, we can also create seven more different colored pixie dusts."