The second day after Qin Ran left home, all the food at home had been finished off by Li Shiyin. She then took Long Qiqi to Questioning Dao Square on the main peak.
"What do you want to eat?" Li Shiyin pulled Long Qiqi through the crowd.
"I'm a snake, of course I want to eat meat!" Long Qiqi replied. "But do you have money?"
Li Shiyin waved her hand, took out a Spirit Stone from her storage bag, and tossed it in front of Long Qiqi.
"What's this? I just got my monthly allowance."
"Hurry hurry... I want to eat meat..." Long Qiqi got excited and pulled Li Shiyin into the market.
The two entered the market, wandered around, and soon their eyes were dazzled by all kinds of strange things. For a while, they wanted to buy this, they also wanted to buy that.
After walking a bit further, there was suddenly someone selling Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat by the roadside ahead. Long Qiqi became interested. The Lionheart Raging Flame Beast was a level 4 demonic beast. Her former self could never afford something so high-end. Moreover, there was a high-level cultivator at Dan Peak who had been severely injured by a Lionheart Raging Flame Beast...
She was very curious about how the Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat tasted.
"Let's go buy that!" She pointed at the Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat and said to Li Shiyin.
"That is... Lionheart Raging Flame Beast?" Li Shiyin also became interested when she saw it, but she had some concerns because she had never heard that lion meat tasted good. She hesitated, "Does it taste good?"
"That's the meat of a level 4 demonic beast!" Long Qiqi explained, "No matter how it tastes, the spiritual energy in the flesh and blood is very nourishing."
Li Shiyin thought about it. That makes sense. Even if it doesn't taste good, keeping it to refine pills would also be great. She no longer hesitated and pulled Long Qiqi to the stall.
"How much for your Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat?" she asked.
The stall owner looked very ordinary, clearly disguised. Seeing two young and beautiful girls with innocent eyes, he knew business had come to his door!
He smiled, looking smug, "My Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat is not for sale to ordinary cultivators! I'll have to see how sincere you are."
Why display it if you're not selling? Li Shiyin rolled her eyes. He clearly just wanted to rip them off.
"I often come here to trade, so I'm very clear on the market price of level 4 demonic beasts..." She said, holding up one hand, "50 Spirit Stones per catty."
The stall owner raised an eyebrow. Sure enough, prime lambs to be fleeced.
He shook his head. "This is Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat. How can you compare it to ordinary level 4 demonic beasts?
"Did you hear about the Sword Peak disciples who went hunting for Lionheart Raging Flame Beasts before? There were over a dozen Golden Core cultivators, but what was the result? They suffered heavy casualties, some even died."
"50 Spirit Stones? Are you joking with me? Is a Golden Core cultivator's life only worth 50 Spirit Stones?"
This guy was slick with his words, diverting the concept and equating a Golden Core cultivator's life to the meat of the beast.
Li Shiyin didn't notice and thought along with him. Huang Feiyu was lying injured in Dan Peak's Earthfire Chamber. The Lionheart Raging Flame Beast was indeed extraordinary.
It would be unreasonable to buy its meat at the normal market price of level 4 beasts. She held up another finger, "Plus 10!"
"Tsk..." The stall owner scoffed, "Hurry and leave if you don't have money. Don't come buying high level demonic beast meat."
"You!" Li Shiyin was furious and wanted to try out her fists on him.
Long Qiqi stopped Li Shiyin and went closer to inspect the meat on the stall, asking faintly, "You said the Lionheart Raging Flame Beast was difficult to kill... So where did you get this meat?"
She looked at the stall owner. "This isn't fake meat, right?"
"How could it be fake?" The stall owner got agitated but quickly calmed himself down again. He leaned in closer and said in a low voice, "Actually this is from the Lionheart Raging Flame Beast that Sword Peak hunted a few days ago. I got it through connections...
"If you really buy it, I can give you a discount." He went on. "It's rare to see such beautiful female cultivators as yourselves."
It was from the beast Sword Peak hunted? Li Shiyin nodded. It shouldn't be fake then. She also thought it would be great if she could buy some for Tian Wenjin to try, as a way to help him vent his anger.
"How many Spirit Stones do you want?" She also lowered her voice.
"A friendly price, since you two beauties are interested..." The stall owner held up a hand, fingers spread, and said softly, "500 Spirit Stones."
"What? Are you robbing us?!" Li Shiyin raised her voice.
Just then, someone else came by to ask, "Brother, how much for your Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat?"
"My deal with this beautiful female cultivator is 500 Spirit Stones. With your face, I'll charge you 600!" said the stall owner.
The person looked at Li Shiyin and felt it was reasonable. He took out a temporary storage bag, counted out some Spirit Stones and threw them to the stall owner: "One catty please."
The stall owner took the Spirit Stones and cut one catty of the meat for that person.
He didn't have much Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat on his stall to begin with. After that one catty, it looked to be over half gone. Li Shiyin started feeling flustered and quickly said, "Can you do less? 300?"
"That guy just paid 600 Spirit Stones, young lady!" The stall owner shook his head.
"For 500..." Li Shiyin thought about it. She only had 500 Spirit Stones total. Was she going to spend it all on this meat?
"Wait." Long Qiqi asked again at this time, "There's nothing wrong with this meat, right?"
"What could be wrong?" The stall owner said proudly, "I cut it off the Lionheart Raging Flame Beast myself..."
"Can I try a bite?" Long Qiqi asked.
"What?" The stall owner was stunned for a moment.
Long Qiqi stretched out her tongue which elongated, licking the meat once... It really was the taste of Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat. She nodded.
"Wow! I wouldn't have guessed, such a sweet looking girl yet you're actually a snake demon." The stall owner exclaimed.
"Is it that surprising?" Long Qiqi rolled her eyes at him.
"No no, not at all surprising!" The stall owner went on, "Alright, seeing as you're a snake demon, I'll give you girls another discount, 400 Spirit Stones, what do you think?"
Li Shiyin and Long Qiqi exchanged a look, and finally still took out the money to buy one catty of Lionheart Raging Flame Beast meat.
"Hmph!" Carrying the meat as they walked away, Long Qiqi said proudly to Li Shiyin, "I laced the meat with venom. It will all rot away soon. That will wipe the smugness off his face..."
Li Shiyin high-fived her: "You really are the best!"
"That guy who came to buy the meat earlier was their plant!!" Long Qiqi gnashed her teeth, "Don't let me see them again or I'll swallow them whole!"
"You only spent 400 Spirit Stones this time. Don't you still have 100 left?" Qin Ran asked curiously.
Long Qiqi said dejectedly: "No... the meat was fake!"
"Fake?"
"He only smeared a layer of Lionheart Raging Flame Beast blood on the surface, the inside was just ordinary beast meat!" Long Qiqi covered her face. "What's worse, it was rotten meat. We hadn't even gotten home before the bag of meat started stinking!"
"That's why he immediately dropped the price after I licked it." Long Qiqi was in despair.
"You spent 400 Spirit Stones to buy one catty of rotten meat!" Qin Ran praised, "Very impressive!"
"That guy who came to sell the meat was their shill!!" Long Qiqi gnashed her teeth. "Don't let me see them again or I'll bite their heads off!"
"You only spent 400 Spirit Stones this time. Don't you still have 100 Spirit Stones left?" Qin Ran asked curiously.
"That's... why we went to fight at the arena."