Only after the sky darkened did Long Xiruo pull two fish from Moon Pool—normal-sized ones.
She said they should try her cooking.
This might have been the only skill she could show off... As for whether going into the water and then grilling fish here would affect this spacetime somehow?
Hadn't Boss Luo already said that whether there was one more petal or one fewer petal, passersby would never know... Surely the same applied to there being two fewer fish—or two more—in Moon Pool.
Around dusk, a thin mist rose around Medicine Peak in Xuanyuan Palace.
A full moon appeared in the pool... It was not a reflection of the moon in the sky, but a glowing crescent stone at the bottom of the pool. That was where Moon Pool got its name.
"These are Starlight Fish. Of course, they aren't real stars. They just emit starlight at night." She pointed toward the starry river surrounding them in the pool and smiled. "According to the legends of Xuanyuan Palace, Starlight Fish were Xuan Nü's favorite food. So the Yellow Emperor brought some back from the Milky Way beyond the Nine Heavens and raised them here."
"Xuan Nü?" Boss Luo looked at Miss Long's face, reddened by the firelight, and asked curiously.
Her hair had not completely dried, and her clothes clung to her body. With her bright eyes and pearly teeth, she no longer looked as disheveled as before.
"It's just a legend." Long Xiruo seemed somewhat afraid to meet Boss Luo's gaze. After looking away slightly, she devoted herself to tending the grilled fish and said casually, "I've heard this legend since I was little, but I've never found any evidence to verify it. Although Xuanyuan Palace looks like a paradise secluded from the world, its people have lived