Chapter 60: Magic Crystal Bullet
Reaching for the damp bodice beside the bath barrel, Xiao Yi Xian raised her hands and tied its straps behind her neck before asking, "Aren't you going to find your teacher?"
Xiao Yan shrugged. "That was just something I said to fool those two disrespectful old men. Even if I found my teacher, he wouldn't intervene over such a trivial matter."
"What about the things you need? That old gentleman said Gu Te isn't someone easy to talk to," Xiao Yi Xian said anxiously.
"I can only figure something out myself. You stay here and cultivate properly. Ask for food if you get hungry. I need to prepare for tomorrow's exchange, or I'll have to sell myself off as a live-in son-in-law." Xiao Yan spread his hands with a smile.
Watching Xiao Yan's retreating figure, Xiao Yi Xian pursed her jade-like lips. Xiao Yan was good in every other way, but he was far too playful.
Back in his room, Yao Lao stared intently at Xiao Yan, an oddly human-like grin on the puppet bird's face.
"Teacher, why are you looking at me like that?"
Yao Lao smiled. "Kid, you'd better take it easy. If things blow up in your face someday, none of those little girls will be easy to deal with."
Xiao Yan sat down at the table, tapped his storage ring, and took out three second-tier Magic Cores.
"You're planning to trade with just this?" Yao Lao glanced at the items on the table. "Even if those Magic Cores have been refined by you and can unleash extraordinary power, they're still far too inferior compared to a heavenly treasure like the Ice Spirit Cold Spring."
"Of course it won't be just this." Xiao Yan took three small iron puppet figures from his