護花近衛 - 第2820章 丹火燒烤 - 翰墨軒

"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig was drooling.

Wei Zhao had no choice but to roll up his trouser legs and wade to the edge of the pond. Once there, however, he found that the pond truly held a great many fish. Perhaps because no spirit beasts or people had come here for years on end, the pond was simply overrun with them, and every one was plump and fat. Wei Zhao reached out and scooped a few times at random, and came up with several large fish.

Wei Zhao tossed the fish onto the bank, felt around for a few more, and only then climbed ashore. Carrying them along with the Heavenly Thunder Pig, he went back to where they had first been, and saw Tian Chan sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed in cultivation.

Wei Zhao was briefly taken aback, then recalled Tian Chan's attributes—she too was a cultivator of the five attributes, so it was only natural that she could cultivate using the qi of the Five Baleful. To Wei Zhao, however, the qi of the Five Baleful was of little use; though the baleful qi here was exceedingly pure, it was still not as pure as the true qi energy within the jade pendant's space. Cultivating here would do no more for Wei Zhao than allow him to cultivate normally.

"Tian Chan, do you want some fish?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Ah, you're back?" Tian Chan hastily roused herself from her cultivation. She realized that she had been far too absorbed in her training. Back at the sect it had not mattered—no one there could do her harm—so she had cultivated without the slightest vigilance. But here, had Wei Zhao meant her ill a moment ago, she would truly have fallen prey.

Then again, Tian Chan reflected, if Wei Zhao really did mean her harm, why would he have saved her? He could simply have finished her off with one more palm strike back then, and she would have been dead on the spot. Why wait until now?

So Tian Chan decided she had been overthinking; there was no need to guard against Wei Zhao.

"Mm, I only found fish here. I'm going to roast them—will you eat?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Of course I will!" Tian Chan wore a look of anticipation. "It's been so long since I've had any!"

"Ha ha." Wei Zhao laughed. "If you want to eat, come and help. There's no dry firewood here."

"Help?" Tian Chan was slightly startled. "How do I help?"

"You're a five-attribute cultivator, so you must be an alchemist too, aren't you? Condense some dan-fire and roast the fish." As he spoke, Wei Zhao laid the fish out in a row on the ground, then condensed a stream of dan-fire and began to roast them.

"So... this works too?" Tian Chan found it rather novel. Back at the sect, she had never so much as cooked a meal herself, let alone roasted fish with dan-fire, so she had never known that dan-fire could be used for barbecue.

"Ha ha, one look and I can tell you're a lady of good breeding—naturally different from loose cultivators like us. Under harsh conditions, we have to create our own conditions." Wei Zhao laughed.

"Yes, thanks to meeting you. Otherwise, this time I'm afraid I would have been buried beneath this cliff." Tian Chan spoke with feeling.

According to the words of Ancestor Xuanchen, she should have faced no danger coming here, but who could have foreseen that the Five Baleful Dragon would return to its cave so soon, putting her through such a harrowing ordeal? Had Wei Zhao not healed her injuries, she could have had a hundred Great Return Pills and still never have gotten one into her mouth.

Following Wei Zhao's example, Tian Chan also condensed dan-fire to roast the fish. With the two of them working together, progress was naturally much faster, and in the blink of an eye the roasting fish began to give off a savory aroma.

Tian Chan really was a little hungry. Once the fish were done, she could not wait to snatch one up and bite off a huge mouthful, then felt it was perhaps not ladylike enough. Her face flushed, she lowered her head and began to eat the fish in small bites, though she was still a little unused to it.