Ch246 - Delicious Stonefish

Sitting in the cabin, the four– Uncles and Nieces of the Zhou family gathered together.

“Second Brother, who are those two people? I seem to have heard the name Dong Feipeng somewhere?” Zhou Kun asked.

“Dong Feipeng? Is that the same Dong Feipeng that Senior Helian was looking for?” Looking at her Third Uncle, Zhou Xuening asked doubtfully.

“Ah, yes, Senior Helian seems to have been looking for a fifth-level alchemist named Dong Feipeng all these years, right? Could it be him?” Zhou Kun was also uncertain.

“En, it should be him. His name is Dong Feipeng, and his partner’s name is Song Mo. The names are correct. Moreover, he just casually gave us two top-grade Rejuvenation Pills. A top-grade Pill.” Nodding, Zhou Qian was very sure.

“He’s actually a fifth-level alchemist. No wonder you let them stay aboard.” Zhou Kun thought it was strange that his Brother let unknown people stay. With the cautious temperament of his Second Brother, it should be impossible to let other cultivators on the boat. So it was quite strange that such two people were taken in suddenly.

“Both of them were not weak in strength, and one is an alchemist. It is better to befriend them than to offend them. The two ladies should stay in their own cabins, and not go to the stern, so as not to run into them and have unnecessary troublesome incidents.” Looking at his two Nieces, Zhou Qian warned earnestly.

“Oh, I understand, Second Uncle!” Nodding, the two agreed.

“Second Brother, you said that although there are not many fifth-level alchemists in the Shengtian Continent, there are also those ‘not many’ ones, why did Senior Helian choose Dong Feipeng and want to find him?” Regarding this, Zhou Kun was also confused and did not understand the backstory.

“Because thirty-five years ago, Tang Zhan and his group of six went to visit some ruins to find opportunities, but they encountered a powerful demon beast. Two died and the other four were seriously injured. After that, Tang Zhan, Ye Qingtian and Yang Chengshu all took Master Dong Feipeng’s medicinal pills. The sixth-level pills he said his Master had refined, cured their injuries. However, Bai Xiong was unlucky and did not get any pills for healing. His injuries were too heavy, leaving hidden dangers, and his strength fell to the Spiritual Emperor Realm.” Speaking of this matter, Zhou Gan sighed.

“It’s a good thing that our Elder Brother went into seclusion at that time and didn’t go to the ruins with Tang Zhan and the others, otherwise it would have been a disaster for our family.” Zhou Kun felt his Elder Brother was very lucky.

“Second Uncle, since that City Master Bai’s strength has fallen to the Spiritual Emperor Realm, so will he go to the Mechanism Island this time?” Zhou Xueying asked her Second Uncle uncertainly.

“I think he will go.” Zhou Qian felt that it was very possible.

“That old bastard Bai Xiong has ruled Huo City for many years, how could he be reconciled now that his realm has fallen? He will definitely go to Mechanism Island to find opportunities and find a way to restore his strength.” Zhou Kun also felt that the old guy would definitely go to Mechanism Island.

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“Second Brother, I also think the quality of the Rejuvenation Pill that Dong Feipeng gave us is good. Anyway, we have to prepare a batch of pills before we go to Mechanism Island. Why don’t we just ask Dong Feipeng for the price? If the price is fair, we will buy it from him.” Zhou Kun suggested.

“Okay, you can figure it out.” Nodding, Zhou Qian agreed.

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A few days later,

When Zhou Kun came over with his two Nieces, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu were cooking on the top deck.

“It smells so good. Are the two Fellow Daoists making fish soup?” Zhou Kun asked with a smile, smelling the fragrant aroma.

“Yeah, we cooked some fish soup, would you like to eat it together, Fellow Daoist Zhou?” Liu Mufeng invited him with a smile.

“If that’s the case, then I won’t be polite. Fellow Daoist Dong, Fellow Daoist Song, these two are my Nieces, this is Xuening, and this is Xueying.” Zhou Kun introduced his Nieces to Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu.

“Nice to meet Senior Dong and Senior Song.” Zhou Xuening and Zhou Xueying bowed their heads in salute.

“Greetings to two Nieces, let’s have a bowl of fish soup together.” With a smile, Liu Mufeng greeted warmly.

“Thank you, Seniors.” They thanked them softly, and the two Sisters did not stand on ceremony. They directly took out two futons and sat by the fire.

The five people sat around together, and Liu Mufeng filled a bowl of fish soup for each of them, and took out the prepared spicy crayfish and steamed crabs he had cooked earlier. The five chatted while eating. It was a joy to eat such delicious food.

“I just want to say, Fellow Daoist Dong, your cooking skill is really good. This crayfish is really delicious.” Giving a thumbs up to Liu Mufeng, Zhou Kun was full of praise for Liu Mufeng’s cooking skills.

“Fellow Daoist Zhou is over praising, I just do it casually.” Smiling, Liu Mufeng said modestly.

“Fellow Daoist Dong, you are too modest. By the way, my two Nieces said that the Blood Pearls could be refined into some fragrance and beauty pills? So, I came over to ask Fellow Daoist Dong, could you refine some of these pills and let me buy them for my Nieces? What do you think?”

Liu Mufeng smiled. “My partner and I have been wandering on the sea for many years, and we have indeed accumulated a lot of pills in our hands. If Fellow Daoist Zhou and the two Nieces are interested, after dinner, I will take out my pills. Choose slowly. If you are not satisfied, you can tell me what other pills you want. If I have spiritual plants in my hand, I can refine them for you.” Liu Mufeng had no shortage of pills, and what he lacked most now was spirit stones. Therefore, if there was a business coming to his door, he naturally would not turn it away.

“Okay, Fellow Daoist Dong is really easy to talk to.” Zhou Kun was very happy when he heard Liu Mufeng agreed, and the two Sisters Zhou Xuening and Zhou Xueying were also very happy.

“Senior Dong, your fish soup is very delicious, what kind of fish is it made of?” Zhou Xuening asked curiously.

“Oh……”

“It’s made of Stonefish, of course it tastes better.” Jiang Xu smiled as he answered. Stonefish was a rare delicacy. Moreover, Stonefish lived underwater and were highly poisonous, so it was quite difficult to catch.

“Stonefish?” Hearing this name, the faces of the three, Uncle and Nieces changed drastically.

“Hehe, my partner was joking with you. How could it be a Stonefish? It’s a grouper.” Smiling, Liu Mufeng hurriedly smoothed things over.

“Oh, I was shocked. Fellow Daoist Songah,don’t scare people like this. The Stonefish is a highly poisonous fish. Who would dare to eat its meat?” Zhou Kun said with lingering fear.

Jiang Xu smiled wryly, and thought to himself:These three, Uncle and Nieces are really something, he honestly didn’t believe these people. Mufeng lied to them, and they believed it. How could there be such a delicious grouper in this world?

After the meal, Liu Mufeng took out 4th and 5th level pills for the Zhou Uncle and Nieces to choose from. Because the prices given by Liu Mufeng were relatively fair, the three generously took out spirit stones and bought a lot of pills. Liu Mufeng made a small profit of five million spirit stones.

“That’s right, we now have spirit stones and we can stay in an inn in Jiang City” Jiang Xu was very happy after having no spirit stones on him for three months and finally having five million spirit stones.

“I’m afraid that when we get to Jiang City, it will be hard to find an inn.” Liu Mufeng frowned. He had inquired from Zhou Kun today, and heard that the fortune teller had already calculated the date of the appearance of the Mechanism Island, so now many cultivators at the Spiritual Emperor Realm and those below the strength of the Spiritual Emperor Realm were rushing to Jiang City. At this time, Jiang City was probably overcrowded, and it would be difficult to find a place to live.

“Yeah, if there are too many people, it would be really hard to find a place to live.” For this, Jiang Xu also agreed.

“We can check the situation when we reach Jiang City. If we can’t find an inn, we can only rent a private house.” Liu Mufeng said.

“En.” Nodding, Jiang Xu agreed.

“Are you full? Do you want to eat some spiritual fruits?” As he spoke, Liu Mufeng took out a spiritual fruit and handed it to his wife.

Reaching out to take it, Jiang Xu took a big bite and started to eat. “Mufeng, why did you tell them that the fish is a grouper? It was a Stonefish.”

Liu Mufeng was amused. “This is a white lie. If you tell them that the fish soup they drank was made from Stonefish, they would be too scared. If you tell them it is grouper, they would not be afraid.”

Jiang Xu was also amused. “That’s right. If they knew it was a Stonefish, they would probably scare themselves to death.” Not everyone was as smart as Mufeng, who knew how to remove the Stonefish’s poison sac. Many people were afraid of Stonefish. The poison of the Stonefish could not only poison cultivators at the Spiritual Emperor Realm to death, but even cultivators at the Spiritual Profound Realm could not get rid of the poison. The weaker poison would cause the strength to drop, and the severe ones could easily be fatal.

“XiaoXu, I want to go into seclusion and refine some pills. There are more cultivators in Jiang City now. I can refine more pills that would heal wounds and nourish spiritual power, and sell them in Jiang City to earn a lot of spirit stones. This would solve the problem of our lack of spirit stones.” Liu Mufeng decided to go into seclusion.

“Okay, then you go into seclusion, and I will protect you. However, we can only sell pills of 4th and 5th level, it would have been better if we could sell 6th level to make more money.” Jiang Xu felt very helpless about the situation. In the Zunhuang Continent, a sixth-level top-grade pill could be sold at least 900,000 middle-grade spirit stones a pill.

“We can’t help it, this is not the Zunhuang Continent. There is only one sixth-level alchemist, Helian Xing, in the Shengtian Continent, and sixth-level pills are usually being sold in auctions. If I take them out casually, I will definitely cause trouble.” There was no way around it. In fact, Liu Mufeng’s storage necklace really had a lot of sixth-level pills.

“Oh, that’s true.”

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