Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

"How did you do that?" Hu Tao asked curiously as she leaned closer.

She cupped Jiang Bai's face in her hands, looking him up and down in amazement.

Qi Qi took two steps back to create some distance between herself and the woman, and slowly said, "Qi Qi's immortal techniques..."

"Can this be cured?" Hu Tao pointed to a small pimple on her chin. She had gotten a pimple a few days ago because she had a bit of a sore throat.

"Qiqi hates you... I won't treat you..." Qiqi's refusal was quite direct.

Walnut: ((???|||))

Is it really that direct?

"Okay, okay..." Hu Tao pouted dejectedly.

Seeing Hu Tao's discomfiture, Jiang Bai barely suppressed a laugh.

Even the sect leader has met his end; it's truly karma!

Jiang Bai, in his mind's eye, stood with his hands on his hips and laughed wildly.

"It's almost noon, let's take a break and have lunch. I'll go see if there's anything to eat."

Hu Tao, feeling hurt, decided to vent her anger on a wild rabbit in the mountains.

The wild rabbits were in big trouble now. They had been living peacefully in the mountains, but their entire home was wiped out.

Jiang Bai set up a pot, gathered firewood, and started a fire. Not long after, Hu Tao returned carrying several rabbits.

The rabbits had swirling circles in their eyes; they were clearly knocked unconscious.

"Let's have roasted rabbit for lunch!" Looking at her spoils, Hu Tao felt refreshed.

Looking at the rabbits, Jiang Bai felt a little numb.

"Master, do you know how to do it?"

"will not!"

"I don't know how to do it either..."

Roasting rabbit is quite different from grilling skewers. Grilling skewers is much simpler; just flip them frequently to prevent the meat from burning, and sprinkle some seasoning when they're almost done. As long as you do it properly, the taste won't be too bad.

As for roasting rabbit, how would he know how to do that!

He's just a poor guy with amnesia, don't expect so much from him, okay?

"It shouldn't be too difficult, right?"

Hu Tao recalled Xiang Ling's cooking steps.

"First, bleed them, then pluck the hair, then cut open the belly to clean the internal organs, then put it on a stick and roast it over a fire... That should be it... It doesn't sound too difficult..."

"I think once we finish following these steps, we won't be having lunch, we'll be having dinner..." Jiang Bai didn't know how long it would take to bleed and pluck the fur, but roasting such a large rabbit would definitely take a lot of time.

"That's true..." Hu Tao was a little discouraged. She had caught a whole litter of rabbits, but couldn't eat them all.

She casually placed the rabbit aside, tossed two meat patties to Jiang Bai, and collapsed onto the rock, refusing to move.

I'm so tired...

How about we take the rice crust with us and use it to cook next time we go out?

Having followed Xiangling for so long, Guoba must be quite good at cooking, right?

"Do you want some?" Jiang Bai asked Qi Qi.

"Qiqi isn't hungry, Qiqi doesn't need to eat..." Qiqi waved her hand. She was a zombie, and zombies don't feel hungry.

Jiang Bai didn't give her anything since she didn't need to eat. He took a bite of the pancake and found it a bit dry.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a small bag of tea leaves, which he had swiped from Zhongli.

He threw the tea leaves into the pot, asked Walnut for a pot of milk, poured it in, squeezed in the juice of the sweet flower, and started to boil it.

Hu Tao leaned closer with a curious look on her face. "What are you cooking?"

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"I want to try what it would taste like to add milk and sugar to tea." He had wanted to do this for a long time, but he never had the chance.

Now that I have the chance, I'll try it and see if it tastes good. If it does, I'll recommend it to Mr. Zhongli when I get back.

"It will taste really strange..." Walnut also drinks tea, but this way of preparing tea is quite novel.

He squatted by the pot and watched as Jiang Bai slowly stirred the milk, which began to turn a golden brown and gradually emitted a fragrant aroma.

She took out a spoon and curiously tasted it, and surprisingly, it was not bad.

It has the rich aroma of milk, a hint of tea, and the addition of sweet flowers makes what would normally be bitter taste sweet.

Seeing that Hu Tao had no adverse reaction after testing the poison, Jiang Bai confidently scooped up a spoonful, blew on it to cool it down, and then put it in his mouth and smacked his lips.

It tastes pretty good, but it's not sweet enough, so he's going to add a few more sweet flowers.

Hu Tao quickly stopped him from doing something so dangerous, "Let me serve two bowls first, and you can add sugar after I've finished serving them!"

She couldn't handle Jiang Bai's lethal dose of sugar; she wanted to keep her good teeth until she was eighty!

She served herself a bowl and then served Qiqi a bowl.

"Can you eat?"

This was also her first time spending time with Qiqi, and she didn't know if Qiqi could eat.

"It's edible..." Because she doesn't like things that are too hot, Qiqi kept a distance from the pot.

Hearing that it was okay, Hu Tao handed her the bowl.

"It's very hot. Let it cool down before you drink it."

Qiqi whispered a thank you, held the bowl in both hands, and gently blew on the hot milk tea inside, her cheeks puffed out like a little hamster.

"Do zombies have a sense of taste?" Jiang Bai asked curiously.

"I can't taste anything." Qi Qi shook her head.

Food has lost its meaning for her; she eats it occasionally out of human instinct.

Seeing that they had all finished dividing the ingredients, Jiang Bai started adding the toppings according to his own preferences.

Add as much sweet flower as possible, the sweeter the better. Cook until the roots and stems are soft and all the sweetness has been released, then scoop it out and throw it away.

Pour a bowlful, take a leisurely sip, and the sweetness will reach your soul.

Watching Jiang Bai drink so happily, Hu Tao felt a dull ache in her teeth.

How can this guy eat so many sweets?

At the same time, she was also a little curious about just how sweet the food in the pot was.

She carefully dipped a little bit of the pot into the sauce with her chopsticks and tasted it on her tongue, then was overwhelmed by the lethal amount of sweetness.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey..." Hu Tao's little face scrunched up.

When sweetness reaches a certain level, it's no longer sweet; it's poison.

She quickly picked a mint leaf from the side and put it in her mouth to chew, which suppressed the sweetness.

She learned her lesson and made sure to ask Jiang Bai how much sugar he put in the next time she ate something he made!

Jiang Bai, sipping milk tea and eating a pancake, laughed out shamelessly, "Master, if you can't do it, then don't try. Why bother?"

"I really can't..."

Hu Tao, who rarely admits her shortcomings, frankly acknowledged them. Rather than admitting her shortcomings, she didn't want to torture her taste buds.

Watching the two laughing and joking, Qiqi sipped her milk tea slowly. Although she couldn't taste it, there was still a sense of happiness in it.

This hot-tempered woman isn't always so unpleasant...

......

Seeing the cooking smoke rising from the mountains of Qingyun Peak, Thunderbolt and Lightning True Lord, who was hiding in the bushes, was certain that they would not be returning anytime soon, so he quietly sneaked back to his thatched hut.

Behind him followed a furtive-looking figure, none other than Ah Ling, who had been chasing him all along.

"Master, why did we have to sneak back?"

The old man looked annoyed. "Don't call me master. I only took your money; that doesn't mean you're my disciple!"

He opened the door and went to his bedroom, took out the bricks that were used to prop up the bed, and pried out a few 100-dollar Mora coins from the gaps between the bricks.

Looking at the few Mora coins, he pulled out the flyer that Hu Tao had given him, his face full of worry.

With just this little bit of Mora, he wouldn't even have enough to order a coffin from the Hall of Rebirth.

"Master, why did you hide the money here?" Ah Ling asked curiously, squatting down beside him as he dug the money out of the cracks in the bricks.

"What's it to you where I'm hiding!" His deception was exposed, and he stopped pretending, speaking without any politeness.

Looking at the obviously dim-witted guy in front of him, he was furious: "I've already told you, I'm just a fraud, I have no real skills, why are you still following me?"

"Master is too modest. Master is naturally a person with real skills," Ah Ling said ingratiatingly.

"I want to learn Master's art of talismans. I am so talented, please accept me as your student!" With that, he bowed deeply.

The old man looked at him with disgust, and the more he looked, the more disgusted he became.

His mastery of talismans began when he fell off a cliff in his early years, only to be entangled by vines and miraculously survive. He discovered a cave there and learned his skills from there. That cave was the place where a senior figure had fallen, leaving behind a legacy of talismans to prevent the tradition from dying out.

He lit an incense stick, kowtowed three times, and thus received the inheritance.

His knowledge of talismans naturally needs to be passed down, but he is a man of principle, otherwise he wouldn't pass it on so easily.

First, they must have talent in this area; second, they must be to his liking and able to see him off in his final days. He doesn't consider himself a good person, nor does he require his apprentices to be good, but they also cannot be evil.

He's still somewhat identifiable while he's alive, but it's hard to say what will happen after he dies.

Therefore, one of his requirements for accepting disciples was that even after his death, they could not use talismans to commit great evils or bring harm to the common people...

As for the person in front of him... he quite liked him before the scam was exposed, after all, he was too easy to fool.

But taking him as an apprentice? Forget it...

After taking the Mora, he turned and left.

"I still need to find a way to earn some Mora... I definitely can't use the title 'Thunderbolt and Lightning True Lord,' and the 'Shadowless Fist Technique' is too easy to expose. What should I choose instead... It's a pity about this thatched hut; finding a house in the mountains isn't easy..."

Seeing the old man muttering to himself as he quickly left, Ah Ling hurriedly chased after him.

"Master, wait for me! Master, wait for me!"

......

Unaware that the old swindler had turned around and gone back, Jiang Bai and his companions ate and rested for a while before continuing their journey.

Reaching the halfway point of Qingyun Peak, we finally saw Huaguang Forest by following a small path.

Huaguang Forest is a very unique place in Liyue's terrain, unlike the continuous mountain ranges of Jueyun Karst.

On the contrary, from a topographical point of view, it is more like a large canyon, where mountain streams converge and turn the area below into a lake.

Towering stone peaks rise from the lake, resembling giant, upward-pointing swords reaching straight to the sky. Vegetation and trees grow on these peaks, which are connected by man-made suspension bridges and boardwalks.

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However, due to the lake below, the Huaguang Forest is mostly shrouded in mist and clouds due to the evaporation of water vapor, and all they can see from their position are the mountain peaks that pierce through the sea of ​​clouds.

Hu Tao pointed to the stone peaks in front of them and said, "The Kongtong Hundred Spirit Jade we're looking for is right here!"

As for which rock peak it grew on, that remains unknown.

Traveling doesn't actually take too much time; what takes time is finding things.

With so many enormous stone peaks, no one knows which one contains the Kongtong Hundred Spirit Jade. They can only search one peak at a time. If things go smoothly, they might find it in two or three days, but if things go slowly, it could take ten days or half a month.

Jiang Bai couldn't see exactly how many stone peaks there were, but he figured there must be quite a few. If he didn't plan to stay for a while, he might really have to leave empty-handed.

As for food, there's no need to worry. Even if Hu Tao had brought a lot of dry rations, once those were gone, everything that runs on the ground, swims in the lake, or flies in the sky could serve as food.

Qiqi raised her little hand, "Qiqi will help too..."

Although she didn't know what they were looking for, Qiqi still wanted to help.