Night fell, in the side courtyard.
Lu Zheng and the other two sat around the courtyard once more, gathered around a small brazier where all manner of vegetables and meat simmered. Waves of spicy fragrance wafted from the red soup pot.
"Glug glug..."
Si Lingxi fished out a slice of scalding snake meat and casually tossed it into her mouth. Her pearly teeth and fiery red lips worked together with two crisp crunches before she swallowed the snake meat, which contained threads of spiritual energy.
Though they had eaten their fill during the day, those spirit-filled ingredients could not be treated as every meal. For one thing, they could not digest so much; for another, there simply was not that much to go around! Thus, even Si Lingxi's daily meals consisted only of various foods containing faint traces of spiritual energy, but not enough to qualify as Spiritual Material.
Like the many plants and animals growing near Ten Thousand Pines Mountain: none of them qualified as Spiritual Material and none had awakened, yet because of Ten Thousand Pines Daoist's presence, they themselves contained threads of spiritual energy.
Phoenix Mountain was naturally the same.
Moreover, because Si Lingxi loved eating snakes, Phoenix Mountain's territory had gained many forces that raised snakes in captivity, as well as all kinds of methods relying on snakes for battle.
If someone unfamiliar with the truth entered Phoenix Mountain's domain, they might well think that its ancestor was some peerless Snake Demon.
"Speaking of Snake Demons..."
Si Lingxi blinked. "Has that old snake spirit at Nine-Bend Bay reached a thousand years of Dao Comprehension?"
"Reporting to Palace Mistress, it reached a thousand years of Dao Comprehension three years ago," Xuan Mei replied.
"Fine, then there is no need to keep it around." Si Lingxi nodded. "Tomorrow,