Chapter 84: Come Pick Up Clothes Tomorrow

Chapter 84: Pick Up the Clothes Tomorrow

Seeing the recording on the illusion stone and losing her ability to speak inexplicably, the Mermaid's delicate face instantly paled, her slender body swayed, on the verge of collapse, her expression filled with disbelief.

"Impossible..."

"You coming to my space is also fate," Jiang Yingxue persuaded gently. "The mustard seed space is restricted by the laws of heaven and earth. No matter how diligently or hard the beasts and Human Cultivators inside cultivate, no matter how fast their cultivation progresses, they cannot face the lightning tribulation within the space or break through to major realms. This means the path of cultivation cannot progress further."

"If you become my Spiritual Pet, I can take you out of the space."

The Mermaid sent a voice transmission, "Besides being a Spiritual Pet, do I have any other choice?"

Originally, the Mermaid lived carefree in the deep sea. Due to an accident, cultivators captured her and intended to give her as a birthday gift to an elder of a certain sect. She refused, of course. She injured the cultivators guarding her and escaped to the Beast Forest, hiding at the bottom of the pond to heal and cultivate.

Jiang Yingxue said calmly, "No."

If the Mermaid weren't beautiful and skilled at making clothes, she would probably just be a delicious deep-sea delicacy in Jiang Yingxue's eyes.

Jiang Yingxue gave the Mermaid only ten minutes to consider. Once the time was up, if the Mermaid was unwilling, she'd be raised for food. Jiang Yingxue could make the clothes herself or find another beast.

In the end, the Mermaid agreed to become a Spiritual Pet.

"What's your name?"

"Ji Fu."

A beam of white light entered Ji Fu's forehead: the contract was successful.

Jiang Yingxue brought Xiao Yang and Ji Fu to the Spiritual Flowers patch, where Xiao Feng was weaving through the flowers, picking them.

Seeing two new beasts by his master's side, Xiao Feng asked, "Master, who are they?"

Jiang Yingxue said, "My newly acquired Spiritual Pets, Jiang Yang and Ji Fu. They're here to help you with the work."

"Jiang Yang, Ji Fu, this is Jiang Feng."

Jiang Yang and Ji Fu greeted Jiang Feng, "Hello."

Hearing this, Xiao Feng handed them both baskets, saying, "Hey, hello. Let's pick Spiritual Flowers together."

They first looked at Jiang Yingxue, and after seeing her nod, they took the baskets and began picking Spiritual Flowers.

Jiang Yingxue gave each of them a small porcelain vial, saying, "These contain Transformation Pills. Take them after you finish picking the Spiritual Flowers."

"Do a good job." After leaving these words for the three workers, Jiang Yingxue went to the wooden house to collect the previously brewed Grade B Spirit Flower Wine. She also went to the Beast Forest and captured six beasts: three third-order Starlight Elk and three sixth-order Weaving Moon Golden Rabbits.

Besides having tender meat, these two types of beasts also have particularly beautiful fur, widely popular among female cultivators in the cultivation world. Many hunting cultivators often capture these two types of beasts just to collect their fur for sale.

In the wooden house, Jiang Yingxue sat behind the table. The table had items on both sides. On the left were eight pieces of beast fur and a basket of feathers. These furs were from a seventh-order Ice Blade Gray Bear, an eighth-order Howling Blood Silver Wolf, third-order Starlight Elk, and sixth-order Weaving Moon Golden Rabbits. The feathers were from a sixth-order Golden Feather Mesmerizing Sparrow. On the right was a stack of books related to clothing design.

"Ji Fu, come to the wooden house."

Ji Fu put down her bamboo basket and came to the wooden house.

She gave a slight curtsy and said, "M-Master, what are your orders?"

Jiang Yingxue pointed to the stool in front of the table, saying, "Ji Fu, sit."

"These are all books related to design. Take a look first."

Ji Fu took the top book and opened it. Huh? The characters inside looked like they were missing limbs—strange and incomprehensible.

"Look at the pictures first. We'll look at the characters later." Jiang Yingxue thought she needed to buy some literacy education books and discs for these three beasts to watch.

Although the clothing styles in the patterns were relatively novel, Ji Fu was skilled at making clothes. She could see how they were made at a glance and already knew how to make them.

"Master, are we to use the furs on the table to make clothes in these styles?"

"Exactly. You don't have to copy the styles in the books exactly. You can incorporate your own ideas based on the books. Use these two furs to make outfits suitable for the elderly," Jiang Yingxue pointed to the Ice Blade Gray Bear fur and Howling Blood Silver Wolf fur. These materials were prepared for her grandparents.

"For the remaining three types of fur, if there's less, make only women's dresses. If there's more, make both men's and women's clothing."

After thinking for a moment, she added, "If the fur isn't enough, go to the Beast Forest to get more." That meant Ji Fu would have to hunt the beasts herself.

Ji Fu was a Mermaid with late Golden Core stage cultivation, and the beasts in the Beast Forest were at most Golden Core stage. Jiang Yingxue wasn't worried about Ji Fu getting injured.

Only then did Jiang Yingxue observe Ji Fu's face up close and notice a sickly pallor. "Stretch out your hand. Let me see."

Ji Fu obediently extended her right hand. Jiang Yingxue placed her right fingers on Ji Fu's wrist.

After a moment, Jiang Yingxue withdrew her hand and pushed a storage bag toward Ji Fu, saying, "These are healing pills. Heal your injuries first. It's not too late to take the Transformation Pill after all your wounds have healed."

Ji Fu accepted the storage bag and used her Spiritual Sense to check inside. She found three drops of Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, a bottle of Golden Buddha Lotus juice, Thousand-Year Ginseng liquid, and two Vitality Pills—all excellent healing pills and spiritual liquids.

"Thank you, Master!" This "Master" was said willingly. Because of this healing storage bag, Ji Fu felt much more favorable toward her master.

Jiang Yingxue smiled slightly. "You're welcome."

"Can I come pick up these clothes tomorrow?"

Ji Fu said, "No problem!" Making these clothes was easy; she could finish them tonight.

*

The Sleepless Sacred Donkey, Xiao Yang, successfully transformed into human form—a little boy about the same age as Xiao Feng. After checking that he was fine, Jiang Yingxue left some pills and nourishing food before leaving the space.

As soon as Jiang Yingxue left the space, she saw multiple missed calls on her phone and many unread messages on WeChat.

She opened the Food Group and scrolled up. There was an online link posted.

Below the link was their conversation.

"Sister is being slandered again by those haters. Everyone, charge!"

"I'm so angry. I'm going to go curse them to death."

...

Jiang Yingxue clicked on the video link in the Food Group. It turned out someone had recorded a video of her today and posted it online.

The video included full shots of the Xuehe stall, the price blackboard, close-ups of the food, and the words Jiang Yingxue had said: "Sky-high prices? Do you have some misunderstanding about the term 'sky-high'? The food at my stall is high-quality and affordable. None of my customers have said it's expensive, but you think it is. Is that your problem or my pricing problem?"

She skimmed through the comments. Almost all of them were insults directed at her. There were a few who spoke up for her, but those comments had thousands of replies questioning and insulting the positive remarks.