Chen Muxue followed Xiaohua and saw a familiar figure halfway.
"What! Bold black-hearted peddler, you still dare to invade us!" Chen Muxue took out her wok and shouted pretentiously.
She thought to herself, "This is within the range of the Heavenly Cauldron Sect's barrier, but this person is walking around as if he belongs here. Either the barrier is too weak, or he's too strong!"
No matter what the situation was, it was not in her favor. But what she didn't know was that these two situations could exist at the same time.
"Ahem, Sect Master, this one has no ill intentions. Today, I happened to obtain some good things, so I wanted to visit you to apologize and clear up the misunderstanding." In order to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings, Cen Li immediately handed over the basket full of crayfish.
Chen Muxue took a closer look and immediately threw all the unhappiness in the past to the back of her mind. After all, she didn't really buy the life fruit to eat. Zhui Li didn't force her to buy it either and didn't cause any substantial harm. So, those misunderstandings were actually not that big of a deal.
She was just thinking about how to catch the crayfish! She didn't expect someone to send her a pillow when she was dozing off.
Dagui looked at the basket in Cen Li's hands, then at Chen Muxue. He said warily, "Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"
When Chen Muxue heard this, her vigilance returned. She carefully sized up Cen Li. Although he was still dressed in coarse linen clothes, he was very clean from head to toe. There was no mud at all. Moreover, the basket in his hands and the crayfish inside looked very clean.
From the looks of it, it shouldn't have been a spontaneous decision! In the past, when she went to the market to buy cultivated crayfish, they didn't look as clean as these. No one cultivated these things here, right? Since it was so clean, it must have been washed.
Chen Muxue agreed with her conclusion. Perhaps the temptation of the crayfish was too alluring. She waved her hand and said, "Alright, since you're so sincere, I'll accept your apology! Give me the crayfish, and you can go."
Cen Li was petrified on the spot. Wasn't it reasonable to be polite and then invite him to the sect as a guest? Shouldn't she have asked him to eat with her?
Xiaohua tried to take the basket, but Chen Muxue quickly moved it away. "You're not big, but you're quite big-hearted. Look, this basket is taller than you!"
"Are they really delicious?" Xiaohua didn't care. She looked at the crayfish in the basket, which were baring their fangs and struggling, and raised her doubts.
These ugly monsters were demonic beasts, no matter how one looked at them! She had never heard of demonic beasts that could be eaten. Weren't all those that can't be eaten spirit beasts?
Chen Muxue chuckled and didn't say much. 'It's best that you guys don't think it's delicious. I'll prove you wrong later!'
She weighed it in her hand and found that it was about five to six catties. It seemed that it would take a long time to bring it back. Fortunately, there wasn't much mud. She just had to remove the antenna and cut off the annoying little feet.
After all, this world was a world of cultivation. The heavy metal pollution shouldn't be too serious, right? She would keep the heads and boil them too.
As Chen Muxue pondered, she left with the group of children without looking back, leaving Cen Li in a mess.
His life, whether it was in life or cultivation, had always been smooth sailing. How could he not have his way today?!
As the sect master of the Heavenly Cauldron Sect, didn't she want to make more friends? How annoying!
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In Qingshan County, Huo Chen quickly received a letter from the Second Prince.
"Even the royal family can't escape from this temptation." Huo Chen looked at the letter burning in the fire and sighed.
He didn't believe the Second Prince's words completely. After all, ordinary people like them who couldn't practice didn't understand that the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth was only a high-grade magic weapon. It couldn't do what the letter said.
Therefore, the secret was still with them.