Early the next morning, Qian Chongling was exhausted in both mind and waist, while Bibi Dong beside him looked as radiant as peach blossoms. Their destination was Phoenixsong Village.
The previous night, Qian Chongling had haggled with the Dumb System, quibbling over every last detail. After expending a great deal of mental energy and effort, he had traded ten thousand years of his lifespan for a Seed of Life.
Except this was not the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor's vital core, but a shoddy counterfeit the Dumb System had bought from Pinduoduo on Blue Star. As for the price—not 998, not 888, but just 98!
Aside from looking and feeling exactly the same, it had absolutely nothing to do with a Seed of Life.
But there was nothing he could do. Since Qian Chongling had no way to cross space and time to buy stock from Pinduoduo on Blue Star, he could only let the Dumb System pocket the profit.
As for his aching waist, those who knew, knew. All he could say was that women were wolves at thirty and tigers at forty. No field was ever ruined by plowing; only the ox was worked to death.
In less than an hour, the two arrived at the entrance to Phoenixsong Village. Nostalgia had already appeared on Bibi Dong's face as she carefully took in the changes the village had undergone over the years.
It had to be said that, having produced a "true phoenix" like Bibi Dong, this little village fully deserved the name Phoenixsong Village. With Bibi Dong deliberately favoring it in her policies, its development was already worlds apart from what it had once been.
The little thatched cottages of those days had all been replaced by two-story wooden houses built from black paulownia wood and white copper