After signing the debt agreement, Mu Bancheng and the others quickly slipped away. They were afraid that if they stayed any longer, the shameless Xia Ping would keep extorting them. At this rate, he might not stop until he'd squeezed them dry.
They had to leave as soon as possible and put an end to that bastard's schemes.
Xia Ping and the others didn't stay where they were either. They all headed back to the main hall of the Royal Palace in the Ruined City. The hall was spacious enough to hold a thousand people.
By then, night had fallen. The temperature plunged, and snowflakes as large as goose feathers began to drift down.
"What are you doing?"
Chu Rong watched Xia Ping curiously. He was rummaging around in the kitchen of a nearby house and seemed to have found a pot made from some unknown material. He propped it up over a wood fire.
"I'm cooking something to eat."
Xia Ping took five or six Fire-Thorn Lizard eggs from his clothes, along with some water from a Wine Bottle Tree, and put them all in the pot. Then he took out two reddish stones.
These stones were a specialty of the Wild Sand Ruins, known as firestones. When struck together and rubbed hard, they immediately gave off red flames. They were quite unusual.
With a bang, he set the wood beneath the pot alight.
"Cooking something? What is that? Where did you find it?" Jiang Yaru came over to look, too. The five or six eggs in the pot were strange, their shells covered with unusual red markings. They looked extraordinary, as if they belonged to some powerful monster, and seemed to contain abundant energy.
"Heh, I found them in that Fire-Thorn Lizard cave. They should be Fire-Thorn Lizard