Chen Muxue took out the wok from her back and weighed it in her hand. "I'm not stealing or snatching. You've sent people to find trouble again and again, so can't I ask for some compensation? "
She had always been a good person who convinced others with reason.
"The first time, you kicked over a cauldron and a pot. I only got a pouch, which was only two taels of silver. Don't you know that pot is our Heavenly Cauldron Sect's treasure, the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth? Two taels of silver isn't even enough to burn the ashes off it."
"Then, the second time, this hermit smashed my gold nanmu table. Everyone knows about gold nanmu, right? He only has forty taels on him. He can't even afford to pay for a table leg!"
"Oh, and there's also the compensation for lost time and mental damage."
Chen Muxue counted with her fingers. "I'm only asking a hundred taels from you. That's already showing mercy!"
The faces of the manager and the chef were extremely dark. Who in the world would put out the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth and a gold nanmu table when they were setting up a stall?
Besides, everyone knew that the Heavenly Cauldron Sect was so poor that they had to farm on their own, and even their house had fallen into disrepair after so many years. If they really had such good stuff, why didn't they sell it?
Chen Muxue seemed to have read their minds. She added, "These are treasures full of spiritual energy. They are the collections of the sect. Unless it is a critical moment of life and death, they cannot be pawned and sold. I took them out to set up a stall so that the guests could get some spiritual energy. Everyone knows that spiritual energy is a good thing, right?"
Chen Muxue's serious look actually made a few passersby believe her nonsense!
"Sect Master is so open-minded!"
"The reason behind this is heartwarming!"
"Heartwarming? It's still heart-burning. Don't tell me you really believed it?"
Chen Muxue's grin was very bright, revealing a row of white teeth. It was so bright that it dazzled the manager and the chef.
After a long while, the manager finally resigned himself to his fate. "Very well, I give up."
"You're not really going to compensate her, are you?!" The head chef turned to him.
"Whether what she said is true or not, there's no proof. Even if the people of the Immortal Sect come, they won't make things difficult for her," the manager said, "Moreover, it's only a hundred taels. In the eyes of immortal cultivators, it's nothing."
The head chef was a little speechless as he pointed at Chen Muxue. "This person isn't a cultivator?"
"Except her!" The manager exclaimed in his heart that he had never seen such a shameless person.
After receiving a hundred taels, Chen Muxue left, satisfied. Halfway through, she felt as if she had forgotten something. She turned around and saw the four children following behind her silently. She shrugged her shoulders. Perhaps it was an illusion!
Cen Li looked at the unconscious hermit from the Hidden Forest on the table and hesitated. "Hey..."
BOOM!
In the end, he still couldn't say anything. A sudden clap of thunder exploded in the sky in the north. Without any warning, the sky that had been clear just a moment ago was suddenly covered with dark clouds.
In the midst of the thick dark clouds in the sky, thunder and lightning rolled. However, because the light emitted an ominous red-black color, it made people feel a little uneasy.
"Tribulation clouds? The Tribulation clouds of the demon race? No, she didn't look like one."
Cen Li glanced in the direction of the Heavenly Cauldron Sect, sighed, and turned to explore the north.
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In Qingshan County, Huo Chen had just finished reading the information from the town's restaurant. He pinched the space between his eyebrows as he read the restaurant manager's complaint against the leader of the Heavenly Cauldron Sect.
He didn't value such a small place at first, so he had chosen a bit carelessly. He didn't expect that he would be such an idiot. Not only did he not know the sect master of the Heavenly Cauldron Sect, but he also fell out with her for a few small coins.
If the Second Prince hadn't suddenly started to care about the Heavenly Cauldron Sect, he wouldn't have come to such a small place. He hadn't even reached the town, but this inn already didn't look like a place for people to stay.
In fact, the superior room he was staying in was already very good in the eyes of most ordinary people.
Suddenly, the sky rumbled deafeningly, and an inexplicable uneasiness welled up in his heart.
Huo Chen looked out of the window in disbelief.