Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 151 Mermaid Silk
"Gudong!"

Bai Chenxue swallowed hard, and the people near the barbecue stall fell silent for a moment.

Swimming is indeed incredibly effective for fitness!

An unknown player gave a thumbs-up, and the sound suddenly rang out.

However, the players were only interested for a short while. Seeing that no special tasks or plots seemed to have been triggered, they went back to doing what they were doing. The area around the barbecue stall became lively again, while the native NPCs secretly watched Bai Chenxue and her companions.

"You humans seem to really enjoy gathering together?"

Coral's speech was still a bit stiff, but it was much better than the first few sentences.

Shen Yun nodded: "Yes, it's more lively with more people! And with more people, resources and products can be fully exchanged and utilized. Otherwise, if you live alone, it's difficult to even build a house!"

“That makes sense! If you’re interested, you can settle down in Chang’an City! If you don’t like living on land, you can dig a big pond and fill it with seawater to live in!”

Da Changzaisui chuckled and suggested, picking up the two fish from the ground, "Wow! They're heavy! You guys sit down first, I'll go grill the fish!"

Then, he winked at Shen Yun: "Hey! You there! Come and lend a hand! Help me move these two baskets to the kitchen!"

"coming!"

Shen Yun went to help, so Bai Chenxue had no choice but to invite Shanhu to sit down. Just then, she saw a system notification that her friend Lu Renya was online, so she asked, "It's perfect that Sister Yaya is online. Hey, what kind of drink do you like? Let's order takeout!"

Coral looked puzzled: "A drink?"

"It's for drinking, like milk tea and fruit tea, um... the taste is roughly like the one you just drank, with a richer flavor made from milk and tea, and a lighter fruit tea, which is made from fruit and tea, without milk—wait, right! Do you know what fruit is? Apple? Orange? Banana? I don't think there are any fruits in the sea, right?"

"Is it this one?"

As Coral spoke, she took out a red fruit that was as big as a fist from somewhere and asked.

The fruit was a blunt-headed cone shape, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with a clear, watery red peel. As Coral took out several, they also emitted a rich and unique fragrance!

"This……"

Bai Chenxue's eyes widened: "Isn't this a wax apple!?"

"Hmm? Wax apple? But I've heard some fellow Daoists call it 'Fusang fruit'."

"This definitely tastes like a wax apple!" Bai Chenxue said decisively at first, then asked somewhat shyly, "Where did you get this? Can I try one?"

"You eat! It's just to the south, nearby, a little to the west, there are many islands, lots of them!"

As she spoke, Coral took out a dozen more wax apples and pushed them forward, indicating that they were all for Bai Chenxue.

"I can't eat this much! I'll just try one! Let's see if it's the kind of wax apple we have on our Blue Star..." Bai Chenxue picked the reddest one and took a bite. The juice of the 'hibiscus fruit' burst in her mouth. It did taste like a wax apple, but it didn't have the astringent taste that almost all the wax apples she usually bought in the market had. Instead, it was a pure, sweet, and fragrant fruit. What was even more surprising was that after swallowing one fruit, she could even feel her spiritual energy becoming more active. She circulated her energy, and the surrounding spiritual energy seemed to be absorbed by her even faster—this cultivation world version of the wax apple was actually a spiritual fruit! It had the effect of accelerating the absorption of spiritual energy!
"Hmm... how should I put it? I feel like it's a wax apple, but it's also a spiritual fruit... if all else fails, let's just call it wax apple!"

Bai Chenxue made the final decision, then asked expectantly, "So, do you sell these kinds of fruits? Sister Ya Ya's milk tea shop next door is a long-term buyer of all kinds of spiritual fruits!"

"Sell? These are all unclaimed! You can pick them yourselves!"

"No, no, no, didn't you say that those fruit trees are on an island? We don't have boats, so it's not cost-effective to transport them by manpower alone. If you mermaids... cough, Quanxian tribe, can transport them in bulk, you can definitely do this business!"

Bai Chenxue felt sorry for the merman in front of her because of his naivety. She counted on her fingers and explained to him, "Look, you systematically plant these fruit trees, and we buy as many as you can! Although we don't know how often these fruit trees are harvested, we can use some methods to ripen them! Even if the spiritual content is a little low, it doesn't matter. Buying several hundred catties every month is more than enough!"
"And those islands, you can totally run them like an orchard. Oh right, there are wax apples, and there should be coconuts too, right? I've been craving coconuts for so long! Do you know what a coconut is? I don't know what it's called in the Guixu Realm... It's that kind of fruit with a thick, hard shell, a layer of white flesh inside, and the rest is all water. It grows on trees, and the trees are very tall!"

Upon hearing Bai Chenxue's description, Coral's expression suddenly dawned on her: "It's called Xuye. There are green ones and golden ones too."

"Yes, yes, yes! That must be it!"

Bai Chenxue nodded hurriedly, and then continued, "Look, why don't you just grow coconuts and wax apples on those islands and sell them to us in bulk? You'll make a sure profit!"

Coral seemed somewhat tempted, but her expression also held a hint of hesitation as she asked, "Is this alright?"

"Of course!"

"I'm back! What were you chatting about? Oh? Where did you get these wax apples? I'll have one!"

Shen Yun didn't hear Bai Chenxue's various plans to Shanhu. He only saw a pile of wax apples on the table, picked one up with delight, and took a bite without any hesitation as he spoke.

Bai Chenxue said smugly, "Coral gave it to me! And it's a spirit fruit! How is it? Delicious, right? Much better than the ones on our Blue Star! I was just saying that I'd have their clan set up a big orchard and plant wax apples and coconuts!"

Shen Yun was dumbfounded: "Huh? Let the Quanxian tribe plant them? Rose apples and coconuts can grow in the sea!?"

Bai Chenxue rolled her eyes: "Grown on an island, huh?! Stupid!"

After Shen Yun realized what was going on, he got excited and said, "Oh, that's great! By the way, there's seaweed, fish, and all sorts of local specialties in the sea. We could do scallop and oyster farming! Brother Dachang will definitely buy from us long-term!"

Coral listened quietly until the two finished speaking, then stammered, "What about these? Please, both of you, tell me, what do humans like?"

As he spoke, he began to pull out all sorts of strange things from a Qiankun bag that was hidden somewhere.

First came a handful of pearls of various colors, then a pile of colorful seashells, followed by many strange minerals, which shimmered with various metallic iridescent light under the glow of the surrounding osmium.

Besides these, there were various fish bones, scales, and other miscellaneous items, as well as the mermaid silk that Bai Chenxue and Shen Yun longed for day and night—two folded pieces of cloth. One was like a thin veil, with a strange color that could be seen to show different lights from different angles, sometimes blue, sometimes green, which was quite beautiful; the other was a thick brocade with a light gold body, but the surface seemed to "flow" with pink iridescence like ripples, which was extremely beautiful.

Bai Chenxue and Shen Yun were already stunned.

"The silk...it's so beautiful..."

(End of this chapter)