When the crowd heard that the stones lying everywhere could be exchanged for rice and meat, they all rushed out in a hurry.
Clutching their meat and rice, they wailed and sobbed, begging that if this was a dream, they would never wake up.
Word spread from ten people to a hundred, until the entire tribe knew there was a sucker at the porridge stall who would trade rice and meat for purple smoke stones.
Even the elder's son, Xiao Yang, returned with purple smoke stones. Seeing everyone passing by carrying rice and meat, and dozens of sacks of rice stacked at the stall beside Nie Li, he grew increasingly puzzled. Where had someone this wealthy come from?
Beneath the Sky Screen.
The City Lord's Mansion.
"Purple smoke stones are useful, but you can't use them too often. I had no other choice back then. I needed to improve my strength extremely quickly, so I had to use them. Once you get there, you can collect some, but it's best not to use too many."
Nie Li cautioned them. Although they only wanted to improve their cultivation, they could not pull up the seedlings to help them grow.
On the Sky Screen.
Just as everyone was eagerly preparing to make more trades, someone roughly shoved the people around him aside, shouting at them to get lost.
It was a bald young man with a bare, heavily muscled torso marked by several scars.
Yun Ling knew at a glance that trouble had arrived. This man was notorious throughout the Heavenly Fortune Tribe: Xiao Kuang, the chief's son. He threw his weight around without restraint, and his strength ranked among the tribe's best.
Clearly, seeing Nie Li bring out so much rice and meat, he wanted to extort a hefty sum. He