Story 3 - Spiritual Vines and a Smokey Pill Cauldron (6)
“Fairy Lin?” Little Spring frowned worriedly at .
I blinked. Shit. I’d zoned out again.
I patted his head in thanks. “Not everything is lost. There are seeds down here, and we can use them to grow our own Vines of Stellar Rebirth.”
I took out a batch of my formation flags and quickly set up an obfuscation formation around the dirt piles. Because of the large area and complicated terrain, this actually took a good hour.
Since my junior brother couldn’t exactly help, he went off to go do whatever over by the pond.
Once I finished setting up, I grabbed my sword, then I once again used sword Qi to slice into the area where a good amount of seeds were located and transplanted them into the space. With a thought, I had the space dump a bit of spiritual spring water on them.
While I was grabbing stuff, I brought in a few of the larger blue-grey stones from the cliffside and set them up near the seeds so they could eventually climb up them. I’d need to construct a proper trellis later but this was a start.
I’d done so tests on earlier plants we’d picked up, and while it didn’t increase the growth rate that much, it did make plants stronger and more vibrant over a very short period of ti.
This ant that we’d still need to buy so from the nearby city.
When I finished, I wiped the sweat off my forehead and nearly collapsed onto my boulder seat. My side ached like a bitch. It wasn’t a good sign that my injuries were getting worse over ti instead of better.
The scent of cooked fish blew past and I peered over at Little Spring, who’d sohow managed to catch a couple, gut them and cook them in that short amount of ti. He brought one of them over to and grinned.
“You should eat sothing when you're hurt. It helps you heal.”
I nearly grimaced at the mundane fish on a stick but took it anyway.
“Thank you. You did a very good job,” I said, not aning a word of it.
He put in a lot of work for this, and while I didn’t like that he was so focused on so mundane useless thing like cooking, I appreciated the sentint.
Still, I peered suspiciously at the charred exterior. This was fine... Right?
I took out a clean knife and peeled away the black scales. The outside portion of fish looked cooked. Promising. I grabbed a bit of salt from my bag and sprinkled it over the cooked at.
Ever so slowly I took a bite. The flavor of fish overwheld my tongue. I nearly spit it out. Maybe it was the way he cooked it but this thing was beyond fishy. Still, I forced myself to finish the bite. I peered up at him. He looked so hopeful.
Fuck.
I took another bite and swallowed quickly. I placed my hand on my stomach and handed the fish back to him. “Ah, I’m so full. I had a grain liberation pill earlier so...”
He bit his lip and his eyes looked a little watery. “Fairy Lin. We’re both still growing. We need to eat. If we don’t eat then we can’t grow big and strong.”
I opened my mouth to respond and then closed it.
In fact, I wasn’t entirely sure that a growing body could grow better by just living off spiritual energy. I an, it sounded plausible but, I hadn’t done careful research into it. And, part of was hoping that not eating would stunt my growth in certain chesty areas.
Seriously, fuck that dumbass author.
I sighed. “In my past life, I practiced grain liberation. Those few things I did eat were spiritual dishes made by Immortal Chefs. Those are cultivators who create special food and tea infused with spiritual energy which help a cultivator beco stronger. So, to , mundane food is practically unpalatable. I only ate it before because I would die if I didn't.”
He nodded sagely.“So it’s not that my cooking is bad, it's just that I don’t make the kind of food you're used to.”
“Exactly! You’re an excellent little chef. I’m just used to things you can’t make.”
“Then we’ll have to find so you can eat.”
“Sure,” I lied. Immortal dishes were too expensive. How the fuck could our currently poor asses afford them? “In the anti, I’ll stick with grain liberation pills. I’ll even make my own once I get a good cauldron. They’ll be very nutritious, I promise.”
“Then we’ll do that. But I still think you should try and eat so normal food sotis.”
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