They entered an ancient-looking restaurant, where Hua Qianshu skillfully ordered a table laden with delicacies. After learning that Lin Bai especially enjoyed drinking, she also ordered the specially brewed liquor of Nine Underworlds City.
Looking at the dazzling array of delicacies on the table, Lin Bai could not help sighing. "Nine Underworlds City lies a hundred thousand zhang beneath Plum Blossom Mountain Manor, yet it can actually obtain this kind of beast meat?"
Hua Qianshu chuckled softly. "Some of it is raised by the martial artists of Nine Underworlds City themselves, some is specially supplied by our Plum Blossom Mountain Manor, and some comes from the demon beasts they hunt nearby."
The first two sources—those raised by themselves and those supplied by Plum Blossom Mountain Manor—did not interest Lin Bai. Instead, the words "hunted nearby" made him freeze for a moment.
"There are actually demon beasts a hundred thousand zhang beneath the ground?"
Although the demon-beast tribes underground were not particularly rare, Nine Underworlds City had been established here for tens of thousands of years. Even if there had been demon-beast tribes nearby, could they really have failed to wipe them all out by now?
Hua Qianshu picked up a piece of meat as thin as a cicada's wing with her chopsticks and said to Lin Bai, "This is the spine meat of a demon beast unique to the area around Nine Underworlds City. It is called an Iron-Devouring Worm."
"Brother Lin, do you know what an Iron-Devouring Worm is?"
Lin Bai shook his head. He knew nothing about it.
Hua Qianshu smiled. "Then, Brother Lin, do you know about Celestial Hardrock?"
"I do." Lin Bai smiled. "Isn't there a rock belt of Celestial Hardrock above Nine Underworlds City?"
"This kind of rock can be said to be the hardest