It was nearly noon. Mu Feiyang had originally planned to head back, and just then, the Zhao sisters happened to appear.
The reason Mu Feiyang said they were in for a treat today was because he planned to have hot pot for lunch. He had tried every possible way of preparing it, and Seven Treasures Fish tasted best in hot pot.
After saying that, Mu Feiyang put away his fishing rod and stored everything in the System Space. Then he picked up his daughter and started walking back.
"Come on!"
"What are you still standing there for?"
After walking a few steps, Mu Feiyang did not hear any movement behind him. He turned around and saw that the Zhao sisters were still standing there in a daze, so he had no choice but to remind them.
Only after Mu Feiyang spoke did the Zhao sisters snap back to their senses and hurriedly follow after him.
"Young Master Mu, your daughter is..."
As they followed Mu Feiyang back, Zhao Yingying could no longer hold back her curiosity and asked him.
However, she did not know how to phrase the question. She could only stare fixedly at Mu Feiyang, hoping he would explain it to them.
An Innate Realm cultivator around one year old—not only had they never seen such a thing, they had never even heard of it. Even if one began cultivating in the womb, it should have been impossible to cultivate so quickly!
The Innate Realm was the third realm of cultivation and also a watershed. Many people were unable to break through to the Innate Realm throughout their entire lives.
At least, the sisters had never seen anything like it. There was no such monstrous genius in the entire Xiling Empire, so how could they not be astonished?
"What is it? Is there something wrong with my daughter?"
Mu Feiyang looked at Zhao Yingying in confusion, not understanding what she meant. Was there something wrong with his daughter?
Holding his daughter, Mu Feiyang examined her, but he did not find anything unusual.
"No, Young Master Mu, I wanted to ask about your daughter's cultivation. This... this..."
"Oh, so you meant her cultivation!"
"My daughter's constitution is somewhat special, so her cultivation differs from that of ordinary children. You need not concern yourselves with such trivial matters."
Zhao Shanshan: "..."
Zhao Yingying: "..."
Hearing Mu Feiyang say this, the sisters were completely speechless. He called something like this a trivial matter—then what sort of thing could possibly count as a major matter?
However, neither of them asked any further questions. They feared that if they continued asking, their Dao hearts would not be able to bear it.
Mu Feiyang had no idea about the sisters' speechlessness. He himself felt it was nothing much. After all, what his daughter had fused with was the Devouring Dao Body.
As long as she devoured things containing spiritual energy, she could raise her cultivation. If his daughter's cultivation had not still been so low, Mu Feiyang would have wanted to feed her Immortal Medicine already.
"Help me watch my daughter. I'll go prepare the ingredients. I'm treating you to a feast at noon today."
After returning to his courtyard, Mu Feiyang handed the daughter he was carrying to Zhao Shanshan, while he headed toward the kitchen.
Back in the kitchen, Mu Feiyang took out the three Seven Treasures Fish he had caught that morning. That was his entire morning's haul, and each fish weighed around three or four jin.
With Mu Feiyang's practiced hands, it took only a few minutes to clean the Seven Treasures Fish and slice all of them into thin pieces.
After slicing the fish, Mu Feiyang took a plate of ice cubes from the System Space and poured them over the fish slices. Only chilled fish slices had that real bite to them.
But after preparing the fish slices, Mu Feiyang felt that fish alone was somewhat monotonous. If it had just been himself, it would not have mattered.
But now that two guests had arrived, serving only one plate of fish slices really did not look presentable. Mu Feiyang put the fish slices back into the System Space and walked outside.
"Little Black, go into the mountains and catch two wild chickens. Hurry up."
After leaving the kitchen, Mu Feiyang called out to Little Black, who was making the little girl laugh, and told it to go into the mountains and catch two wild chickens.
After giving Little Black its orders, Mu Feiyang went to his vegetable patch, intending to pick some greens. How could hot pot be without vegetables?
However, when Mo Tianyu arrived at the vegetable patch, he found himself in a dilemma. He did not know which vegetables to pick, as he had only planted three kinds of greens there.
Chives were definitely out of the question. That left only water spinach and Shanghai bok choy to choose from, and in the end, Mu Feiyang chose Shanghai bok choy.
Mu Feiyang picked a whole basket of Shanghai bok choy. After washing the vegetables, he went to the courtyard and placed a large pot and a large stove on the table.
After setting the large pot on the stove and pouring water into it, Mu Feiyang snapped his fingers, and a flame surged to life beneath the stove.
Then Mo Tianyu took out a pile of homemade seasonings and began mixing them. This was the most crucial part of hot pot; the seasonings could be said to be its very soul.
While Mu Feiyang was preparing these things, Little Black lived up to expectations and returned with two wild chickens clamped in its mouth. Mu Feiyang asked Zhao Shanshan to keep an eye on the water in the large pot and pour in the ingredients he had prepared once it was nearly boiling.
Meanwhile, Mu Feiyang grabbed the two wild chickens and returned to the kitchen to prepare them. Only then did the sisters, who had been watching Mu Feiyang prepare the ingredients all along, come back to their senses. They were utterly stunned.
That was because Zhao Shanshan could sense a powerful aura from every item Mu Feiyang had taken out, whether it was the large pot or the stove.
And that whole basket of so-called vegetables Mu Feiyang had picked—was there a single thing among them that was not a rare treasure?
Take the large pot and stove on the table, for example. In Zhao Shanshan's perception, both were at least Dao Artifact-grade treasures, yet Mu Feiyang was using them to cook food.
Was he really going to squander Dao Artifacts like this? Even the highest-grade treasure in the Xiling Empire was merely a mid-grade spirit artifact.
Moreover, there was only one such item, and it was held by the royal family's ancestor. Her Imperial Father was a Sky Soaring Realm expert, yet even he used only a top-grade Treasure Artifact.
From this, one could see just how precious Dao Artifacts were. Yet here, Zhao Shanshan witnessed a scene that utterly overturned her worldview.
There was also that basket of peerless spirit herbs on the table. Those were Yangshuo Grass, the main ingredient for refining the Grade 11 Pill, the Holy Sun Pill.
The Holy Sun Pill was the pinnacle among Grade 11 Pills. It could help cultivators break through to the Great Saint Realm without any obstacle. Even some ancient immortals on the verge of death would fight to seize one if they discovered a Holy Sun Pill.
Yet such a supreme spirit herb was being used by Mu Feiyang as vegetables for some hot pot. Zhao Shanshan was completely stunned.
Then there was the clear water steaming in the large pot. If Zhao Shanshan had not seen wrongly, that so-called clear water was likewise a treasure rarely seen in the True Spirit Realm.
The clear water in the large pot was Innate Spirit Liquid. Innate Spirit Liquid only had a chance of appearing within top-grade spirit veins, and that chance was pitifully small.
There was only a one-percent chance for it to appear. In other words, only one out of every hundred top-grade spirit veins would contain Innate Spirit Liquid.
Yet top-grade spirit veins were exceedingly scarce in the True Spirit Realm, controlled only by those superpowers. A small nation like the Xiling Empire had never even seen one.
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