However, making the snake soup was no easy task. Liu Changxu would have to wait at least nine days and nine nights before he could eat it.
So, after putting the snake meat and several precious supplementary ingredients into the pot, Liu Changxu left the kitchen, with his daughter Liu Bing and son Liu Cheng trailing behind him like two little tails.
Seeing how tightly the two children clung to him, Liu Changxu simply took them out of the Ruyi Lotus Palace with him. The children were overjoyed that their father was willing to bring them along.
To make it easier to look after them, Liu Changxu conjured a cloud about ten feet across beneath his feet with a thought. He set the two children on it to play while he steered the cloud around Spirit Crane Peak on an inspection tour.
First, he checked the growth of the spirit rice and spirit medicinal herbs in the spirit fields at the summit. Then he inspected the Blood-Jade Honey Peach, Yin-Yang Fruit Trees, and Snow-Moon Tea Tree, all of which were extremely important to him.
After making a circuit, Liu Changxu found that these precious fourth-tier spirit plants were all thriving under his wives' meticulous care.
In particular, the thirty-six spirit peaches on the Blood-Jade Honey Peach tree, which had already borne fruit, had grown considerably larger since he first discovered them. He estimated that he would be able to enjoy ripe Blood-Jade Honey Peaches in another ten years.
The eighteen Yin-Yang Fruits on the two Yin-Yang Fruit Trees were also growing well and would ripen in forty years at most. Liu Changxu greatly anticipated their effects.
With these eighteen Yin-Yang Fruits, Liu Changxu was confident that he could help his wives advance further. Of course, he himself would benefit the