Chapter 187 – Partners (1/2)
Note: Regular Chapter 2/7
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Chapter 187 - Partners
At the time Ji Hao and Taisi were approaching the boys of the Great Dark Ocean Society, in a small village that was tens of miles away, a chubby was standing beside a huge pot.
Green magic flames were blazing in the snowfield. Within the huge pot that was broad enough to let two adults take a bath in, snow-white pieces of meat were rolling in boiling water. An extremely nice, attractive sweet aroma was spreading out, along with the steam that was rising from the pot.
The chubby boy seemed to be wholeheartedly concentrating on the pot, his face serious or even solemn. In the meanwhile, he was continuously taking out all kinds of poisonous mushrooms and throwing them into the pot.
These poisonous mushrooms were coloured vividly. Each of the mushrooms could easily poison over hundred people, killing them. Even after the chubby boy had thrown a mushroom into the pot, the boiling soup in the pot would change colour.
The colourful soup kept boiling. Gradually, the pot ful of soup became thicker and thicker. A huge amount of strange and cloudy sticky foams rolled up from the bottom of the pot. The chubby boy seemed very nervous, and was carefully observing the changes in the colour of the soup. Now and then, he would put his face near the pot and take a small breath of the hot steam.
A while later, the chubby boy took out three strangely-shaped plants from out his sleeve. These three plants were shaped similar as the Snow Fragrance Thoroughworts, but each had a long stem in the middle and a fist-sized green fruit grew on top of the stem.
“Eh, I have worked my ass off and completed eighteen tasks for the Magi Palace, but got only three Dragon－Slobbered Fruits in return…the Magi Palace is so freaking stingy! But, what can I do? This is my very favourite…hm, it’s so damn not easy to get myself some real delicious food.”
After having murmured and complained for a while, the chubby boy seemed to have spotted the perfect moment and hurriedly put the three Dragon-Slobbered Fruits into the pot.
Dragon-Slobbered Fruits needed to be watered by the venoms of thousands of different kinds of poisonous snakes, and they grew in the coldest and isolated places that were filled with the most negative power, for hundreds of years. These kinds of fruits were highly toxic, and ordinary Senior Magi would be poisoned even by only touching this kind of fruit.
After the chubby boy had thrown the three Dragon-Slobbered Fruits into the pot, a magical reaction instantly occurred between the Dragon-Slobbered Fruits and the hundreds of kinds of poisonous mushrooms that had been put into the pot previously by the chubby boy.
The vivid colour of the pot full of boiling soup, which was mixed with at least a hundred different colours, gradually became clear and transparent. Within the span of only a few breaths, the soup had turned into a crystal-clear cyan colour. Hundreds of pieces of snow-white meat were still rolling in the pot, and a stream of incomparably tasty smell slowly rose from the pot. Two lines of hot tears suddenly gushed out of the chubby boy’s eye sockets.
“Oh…mine Hundred-Poisonous-Mushroom and Snow-Flood-Dragon Soup! Finally, finally completed! In order to taste a mouthful of this soup, I have suffered for a whole year and a half! Feng Xing, a whole year and a half!!”
Seven to eight zhang away from the huge pot, a tall and slim boy, who had a pair of shining eyes, and whose whole body was releasing a positive, sharp sense of power. He was lying on the snowfield on his stomach and playing with two Snow Frogs. Hearing the chubby boy’s cry, the slim boy instantly leapt up. Swiftly his silhouette flashed across the air and immediately appeared beside the giant pot.
“Yu Mu, you stupid fatso, sooner or later, you will die because of your gluttonousness! Hm, let me try the flavour first.” While speaking, the slim boy slightly crooked his finger and picked a piece of snow-white meat up from the pot, took a deep breath of the fascinating great aroma, then opened his mouth and took a huge bite.
The chubby boy, who was called Yu Mu, popped his eyes wide open, stared at the slim boy, called Feng Xing, and said, “How is it? How does it taste like? I have done the math for over a hundred times, this pot of Hundred-Poisonous-Mushroom and Snow-Flood-Dragon soup can at least awaken ten more Magus Acupoints for each of us!”
Feng Xiang popped his eyes open as well, silently looked at Yu Mu for a short while, then abruptly threw the remaining piece of meat held in his hand entirely into his mouth, and fleetingly thrust both of his hands into the pot; he acted too abruptly and quickly, as if he had suddenly gone mad.
“F**k!” yelled Yu Mu, at the same time, he thrusts his chubby arms into the pot as well, leaving shreds of afterimages behind his arms.