The girl weighed the pouch in her hand, then opened it with some hesitation. When she saw how much jade it contained, she froze for a moment, but quickly forced herself to regain her composure. Lan Shi watched with a broad grin and said, "Legendary Xia genuinely wants to buy this Blazing Fire Dragon Armament. I'm sure Lady Chu can tell from the weight of the jade. Still, there are some things that have to be said—we hope you won't name a price that's too outrageous. Our Brother Xia is sincere, but he didn't come all this way just to be fleeced by you. Besides, Lan is here too."
"Hmph, got it. So, are we setting out now?" The girl happily put away the pouch and then stood up. Quite a bit of meat still remained on the plate before her.
I thought about it and said, "Packing some of it up for your mother to try would be a good idea. Otherwise, we'd feel bad taking advantage of Legendary Chu's hospitality and eating all this Green Ink Kirin jerky, wouldn't we?"
The girl immediately nodded happily, but soon realized what was happening and was about to politely refuse. However, when one of Lan Shi's men brought over a leather pouch for packing, she said nothing more.
We soon rode Gale Beasts out of the city. Since we were in a hurry, we galloped all the way toward the area near where we had hunted dragons before.
Although a legendary ferocious beast like the Imperial Sky Armored Dragon had once lived there, many hunters had come through transporting materials after I killed it. The journey was therefore much quieter. The ferocious beasts had surely fled elsewhere—no one wanted to court disaster. It seemed that either the girl was quite experienced,