No matter how much the Virtual Universe buzzed with gossip, Xue Xi paid no attention to what was happening outside. She did as she pleased and didn't care what anyone else said.
At that moment, Xue Xi was busy harvesting crops from her Internal World. Ever since she had advanced to the World Lord Level and gained an Internal World, she had copied the Cultivation Planet's setup there. The Cloning Chambers and Seed Banks ran day and night, while ecological robots tended the crops. Her food stores now far surpassed those of her former little planet. Even if the Chaos City Lord came to stock up, he probably couldn't casually buy up all the ingredients in an Internal World spanning three hundred billion kilometers.
Grains, melons, fruits, and fresh vegetables; flying fish, birds and beasts, snakes and insects—she harvested large quantities of every ingredient in her recipes.
With Xue Xi's specially prepared extra meals, Ai Chen had entered a state of sudden enlightenment. She was peacefully meditating in a quiet room while waiting for her clone to be nurtured.
The next day, Xue Xi took the Heavenly Kitchen Pavilion out of her Internal World. She still couldn't comprehend even a single secret pattern on its first level, so she could only use some of its most basic functions. Even Giant Axe might not recognize it as a Supreme Treasure if he didn't examine it closely.
She enlarged the Heavenly Kitchen Pavilion, which was originally about the size of an ordinary residence, and set it atop a mountain peak. After telling Man Yue where it was, she got to work preparing for business and waited for customers to arrive.
Meanwhile, things had been moving along in Chaos City. The progress bar toward one billion had advanced by a few million, which