Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

She covered her lips with her hand, trying to hide it, "Cough, don't worry, I'll watch it with you."

The fiery sun slowly rises, the newborn sun full of boundless vitality and hope.

"Oh dear, Master, why is your face so red?"

"It's from the morning sun!"

"Oh? Then why isn't my face red?"

"Who knows why your face isn't red? Now that I've finished watching the sunrise, I'm going back to sleep!"

Hu Tao, somewhat embarrassed and annoyed, crawled out of Jiang Bai's arms, wrapped in her sleeping bag, and hopped and skipped, trying to crawl into her tent.

Seeing Hu Tao practically fleeing for her life, Jiang Bai laughed without restraint, deliberately drawing out the words, "Master~ be careful not to fall~"

She blushed; the hall master's skin is quite thin, isn't it?

"You are cursing me!"

Hu Tao glared at him, then jumped into the tent, blocking Jiang Bai's view.

In the private space, Hu Tao covered her head, her cheeks burning as she rolled around in the tent.

Damn it, why is her face so hot!

I can't sleep, I just can't sleep at all!

After watching the sunrise, drowsiness washed over me.

Jiang Bai yawned widely, and a coffin appeared on the ground. He spread out his bedding, crawled inside, and covered the coffin with its lid to block out the glaring light from the clouds. He fell asleep in no time.

Hu Tao tossed and turned in the tent for a while. After hearing no sound outside, she poked her head out and found that Jiang Bai had gone into the coffin to catch up on his sleep.

"Damn it, you woke me up while you were sleeping so soundly!"

She angrily pulled the little ghost out, grabbed its face in the little ghost's bewildered gaze, and pulled it out forcefully.

The poor little ghost was used as someone's stand-in and a punching bag for no reason.

After playing for a while, Hu Tao swatted away the still bewildered Little Ghost and crawled out of the tent.

The red hues of the morning glow had faded, and the sun was no longer as fiery as it had been at the beginning. A thin layer of morning mist permeated the mountains and forests below.

Hu Tao sat on Jiang Bai's coffin lid, her toes dangling in mid-air.

Since I can't sleep, I need to find something to do.

Looking down at the newly awakened forest, Hu Tao decided to take a bath and then hunt some wild game to eat.

Without hesitation, she wrote a note, placed a stone on Jiang Bai's coffin lid, and spread her wings of wind to fly downwards.

At this moment, in Liyue Harbor.

Xiangling, Chongyun, and Xingqiu, who had received the letter a few days earlier, met at Wanmin Hall.

Xiangling took out the mechanical crane she had borrowed from her master, manipulated it to grow larger, and the group jumped onto it one after the other.

Guoba cheered and pointed its claws to the sky. The mechanical crane took off and headed towards Qingyun Peak.

In order to reach Qingyun Peak on Hu Tao's birthday, she specially borrowed this means of transportation from the master.

There was no other way; time was too tight. In order to celebrate my friend's birthday, I had to resort to magical artifacts.

If Jiang Bai knew there was such a way, he might burst into tears on the spot.

They painstakingly traveled on foot, only to find that these people simply flew away.

It's true what they say, comparisons are the thief of joy.

"Why do you think Hu Tao celebrated her birthday at Qingyun Peak?" Xiangling asked curiously, holding a pot of rice crust.

"I guess the Hall Master found something fun!" Xingqiu shrugged. Hu Tao's personality was such that he would do whatever came to mind, so there was really no need to investigate the reasons behind it.

"Mmm!" Chongyun nodded in agreement.

"I wonder if I can find good ingredients at Qingyun Peak. I brought a lot of cooking utensils with me!"

Xiangling patted her waist pouch. To celebrate Hu Tao's birthday, she had specially borrowed a spatial magic item from her master.

"Don't deliberately serve me hot food..." Chongyun shuddered, recalling his past experiences with food tasting.

"I'll prepare an iced slime pudding for you..."

"Ugh! No!"

The mechanical crane flapped its wings, traversing the mountains and rivers of Liyue, and reaching the mountains of Jueyun.

Xiangling shielded her eyes from the glaring sunlight with one hand and looked around below.

Where exactly is Walnut?

"Just shout it out and we'll know. Let's shout it out together."

Xingqiu cupped his hands in a megaphone shape and shouted down into the mountains and forests below.

"walnut!"

"walnut!"

"Walnut, where are you?!"

"Lulu~"

Walnut, who was crouching in the woods waiting to catch the wild boar, looked up at the sound with a hint of surprise.

I never expected them to come.

She quickly climbed up the big tree next to her and stood between the branches waving at the mechanical crane in the air.

"I'm here!"

Xiangling quickly spotted her and controlled the mechanical crane to land.

Looking at her friends, Hu Tao hugged Xiang Ling tightly, wrapping her arms around her neck.

"I thought you wouldn't make it in time!"

Xiangling felt a little itchy from the rubbing of her hair. "It's our Hall Master Hu's birthday. We have to come even if we're from all over the country!"

“Yes!” Chongyun agreed.

Xingqiu noticed something that the others hadn't, "Are these new clothes? They look great!"

Hu Tao was wearing the same clothes she had bought while shopping that day. The red koi fish on the black dress looked exceptionally lively, and she even styled her hair into two small, puffy buns and wore a koi fish headdress.

"That's right! This is a new outfit that I bought especially for my birthday!" Hu Tao spun around proudly.

The three of them, along with Guoba, clapped in unison, showing their support: "Great!"

"Where's Jiang Bai? I haven't seen him."

"He's sleeping on Qingyun Peak!" Hu Tao raised her chin slightly, pointing to Qingyun Peak.

"Never mind him for now! I've spotted a huge wild boar. Its fur is shiny, its muscles are strong, and it's been eating all sorts of magical herbs and elixirs. The meat must be really good; it looks delicious! Let's catch it and have a whole roasted pig for lunch!"

As Hu Tao spoke, her mouth was practically watering.

Xiangling's eyes lit up instantly, and her pupils turned into the shape of wild boars.

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go catch it!"

A large group of people went to catch wild boars.

This caused great harm to various wild animals in the mountains and forests. Under the pursuit of the group, the wild boar fled frantically, and because of its considerable size, it knocked down countless trees along the way.

The terrified cries of wild boars and the sound of trees falling echoed in succession, raising clouds of dust.

Disturbed by the commotion, Shen He, who was in seclusion, stood on the treetop and watched the people below catching wild boars with a blank expression.

There are people she knows down there.

The commotion caused by catching a wild boar is quite alarming. Is the boar incredibly fast, or are they just playing around?

"Xingqiu Chongyun is heading your way! Freeze him!"

"Cutting away the rain while preserving the rainbow!"

"The sword imprint stains the ice!"

The two unleashed their elemental power, but before it could reach the wild boar, a talisman descended from the sky and froze it.

Chapter 183 Aunt!

The two of them froze, both looking up at the sky.

Above, a figure perched atop a treetop exudes an ethereal, otherworldly aura.

Seeing that the wild boar had been successfully frozen, Xiangling excitedly ran over carrying two wild pheasants, with Guoba following behind carrying a chicken coop full of fresh eggs.

She caught the two pheasants while hunting a large wild boar, and the eggs were found in the henhouse.

Not only that, Hu Tao was also carrying a mountain fox that had been knocked unconscious.

"What a bumper harvest! What a bumper harvest!" With so many ingredients, Xiangling was overjoyed.

As they approached, they saw Xingqiu and Chongyun looking up, and Hutao and Xiangling also curiously looked up.

"Shen He!" Hu Tao recognized him immediately.

She jumped up and waved, "Shen He! Come down and play!"

Upon hearing the name, Chongyun was initially bewildered, but the next moment he realized what it meant, his eyes widening in shock as he exclaimed:

"Auntie!"

This immediately drew everyone's attention to him, including Shen He.

She leaped lightly from the treetop, her movements graceful, without getting a speck of dust on her.

Looking at the ethereal Shen He, and then at Chong Yun who bore no resemblance whatsoever, Xing Qiu gasped in astonishment, “This fairy sister is actually your aunt!”

Chongyun scratched his head, not quite sure either. "My elders have always said that I have an aunt named Shen He who follows an immortal to cultivate, but I have never met her."

"It's me." Shen He nodded slightly, his expression still indifferent.

Perhaps because she spent many years practicing in the mountains and rarely came into contact with the secular world, she was not good at dealing with people, had a very indifferent personality, and hardly experienced any emotional fluctuations.

Hu Tao warmly invited, "Would you like to have a whole roasted pig with us? Your nephew is here too!"

"A whole roasted pig?" Shen He looked at the wild boar that she had frozen.

Seeing that the older woman seemed somewhat interested, Xiangling enthusiastically promoted the product:

"Yes! Place the wild boar on the grill, pierce the skin with steel needles, brush on the sauce, and keep turning it until it sizzles and is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Then sprinkle on my special spices. The taste is so good that even the Rock King Emperor couldn't resist it!"

"Lulu~" That's right, that's right!

Guoba raised the chicken coop to bear witness for the Rock King Emperor!

“This…” Shen He was unusually aroused by the desire for food.

"Xiangling's cooking skills are top-notch! My aunt has been cultivating in the mountains all this time, so it must be hard for her to eat food from the outside world. It's good to change things up once in a while!" Chongyun, who was usually bad at talking, was surprisingly quick-witted.

His elders had always wanted to get together with this aunt, but they couldn't contact her or find her. Now that they had finally met, they couldn't just do nothing.

"Okay." Shen He nodded in agreement; she was somewhat curious to try what a whole roasted pig tasted like.

"Let's go! Let's find a spacious place to roast the pig!" Walnut waved her hand and strode forward.

Chongyun originally intended to lift the frozen wild boar with Xingqiu, but Shenhe lifted the boar, which was as tall as a meter, with one hand, leaving the others speechless.

Reaching a place with a stream and open space, Xiangling tied the two pheasants and the fox with ropes, put on an apron, and began to gut and chop up the wild boar.

"Xiangling, can I borrow your mechanical crane for a moment? I'll go and call Jiang Bai down."

"it is good!"

After briefly learning how to use it, Walnut rode the mechanical crane and flew to the top of the clouds.

Flying is much easier and faster than climbing little by little.

When Hu Tao arrived, Jiang Bai was still asleep, fast asleep.

Hu Tao lifted the coffin lid and shook him awake.

"Get up! Get up! Time to work!"