Chapter 380: Shop Around
Whether it's gold sand brown sugar baked glutinous rice cake or Law crystal grapes, the required ingredients are not simple.
Chen Xing had gotten used to it.
As the effects of the ingredients became more and more exaggerated, the materials needed became increasingly precious.
Of course, the effects these ingredients could achieve were far beyond their original value.
If one were to monetize their value, ingredients originally worth several hundred thousand could, through special methods of preparation and mixed proportions, reach a value of several hundred million.
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Of course, this is just a physical description; in reality, many materials cannot be purchased with money.
Not even Spirit Gold would be useful.
After all, Spirit Gold as a currency is merely a powerful force's implemented currency. A currency needs people to recognize its value for it to have value.
Many materials are extremely rare by nature; their owners either use them themselves or barter with them.
Chen Xing listed all fourteen materials needed this time and handed the list to his subordinates.
He used the power of the entire Great Xia to help him gather the necessary materials.
Soon, eleven of the materials were collected, and all the materials needed for the gold sand brown sugar baked glutinous rice cake were fully gathered.
But the materials needed for the Law crystal grapes were rarer and required more time.
Especially one of the main materials—Element Holy Crystal—was extremely rare.
An Element Holy Crystal is a natural mineral material formed naturally after an elemental life falls.
If it is the fallen land of an Elemental Lord, even tens or hundreds of Element Holy Crystals could condense at once. If it's an ordinary elemental life, perhaps thousands or even tens of thousands of burial sites would be required to condense a single crystal.
Thus, this material was very rare.
But its value is not very precious.
Although Element Holy Crystal contains abundant laws inside, the elements inside are extremely volatile, making it impossible to tame, so it's not very useful for many people.
Only certain special rituals require it.
Based on supply and demand, with few people needing it and not many uses, the price naturally isn't high, and very few people collect it.
But as long as he put in the effort, he could always get his hands on it.
Thus, Chen Xing was not worried; as long as he was willing to spend some time, he could always manage it.
While waiting for the materials, Chen Xing began to methodically make the gold sand brown sugar baked glutinous rice cake.
Two days later, the cake was finally completed.
The plate-sized cake wasn't very tall, but it was exceptionally delicate.
The top layer was sprinkled with a layer of specially made gold sand, which reflected dazzling golden light under the illumination of the lights.
Grains of transparent glutinous rice adorned the golden sands like tiny pearls.
The cake emitted a faint fragrance.
Upon seeing the cake, Taotie, who had just been lazily lying on the ground in the Gourmet Space, appeared next to the cake almost instantaneously.
Looking at his master adoringly.
The master is amazing! He made delicious snacks again!
Chen Xing's lips curled upward, "Eat."
Taotie let his master perform a pet physique correction to shrink himself down before crawling in front of the cake, making its size much more reasonable for him this time.
Taotie moved closer, opened its mouth, and gently inhaled.
The ground suddenly whirled up a huge gust of wind, sucking the cake directly into its mouth.
Taotie closed its eyes, slowly savoring.
"Gurgle~"
Dong Jun swallowed, squatting beside it and watching eagerly, "Does it taste good?"
Taotie, with its eyes closed, nodded.
"How good is it?" Dong Jun rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Very tasty!"
"What flavor is it? Is it beef?"
"No, this is vegetarian."
"Vegetarian can't be tasty." Dong Jun said loudly.
"Hmph." Taotie turned its back, leaving only its bottom facing Dong Jun.
Little brat, don't think I can't see that you're using reverse psychology. You just want me to tell you the flavor, but I don't have the time.
Taotie just wanted to slowly relish the taste in its mouth.
It felt that speaking more would dilute the taste.
Dong Jun watched eagerly, "Then what does this vegetarian taste like, tell me, or let me smell your breath."
"I'll make some in a bit, then you'll know," Chen Xing kicked Dong Jun's greedy dragon butt.
It's embarrassing, wanting to open your mouth to smell it.
When Dong Jun heard that he would also have some soon, he leaped three hundred feet high with joy.
"This is something that can awaken new talents. Eating one is enough for you, eating more won't activate the talent again."
Meanwhile, as Chen Xing was busy.
...
The teleportation array's Array of Light flickered, and a line of figures emerged from it.
Feeling the wave of heat coming at them, a woman in blue frowned, "It's so hot."
The woman with elongated eyes, a slightly upturned corner, a perky nose, and fair skin slightly reddened.
Her forehead was covered in fine sweat, her breathing slightly rapid, her full chest rising and falling. "It's boiling, what a godforsaken place."
"This is the Burnt Skies Realm, it's supposed to be hot." Someone next to her passed her a cup of ice water, "Ayou, have some water."
The woman in blue slightly frowned, taking out a cup of ice water from her Storage Ornament, "No need, I have my own."
"Too bad, if this Divine Country had fallen in our Illusory Dream Realm, it would have been better, but it ended up in this remote place."
"I wonder if the good stuff inside the Divine Country has been taken."
"It shouldn't have been, we got here pretty quickly, people from other realms probably haven't had the chance to come over yet."
The group comprised males and females, young and old, with youngsters making up about half.
"Siew Mai, Siew Mai, the Great Xia's specialty Siew Mai."