After spending most of yesterday afternoon creating prototype crystal light talismans and incubating the living stone golem eggs, nobody succeeded in their assigned tasks.
"How about going out today to the river slightly further from the town?" Mingfeng suggested over breakfast. "We can pick wild mushrooms there as well."
Bai Dajin, who had spent the whole night awake trying to wake his rock golem, had dark circles beneath his eyes. The man munched on his steamed bun absentmindedly. The vigour from yesterday had faded but Anji noticed how he still had not given up, subtly feeding rock his energy that was now stored away in his shirt's inner pocket. In fact, everyone had their living stone golem eggs stashed away somewhere close to their bodies.
"Are we going to pan for gold?" Anji asked.
