Chapter 23: Bones Are Being Snatched Up Too

"This..."

Lu Yun widened his eyes, his face full of shock.

What came into view was, naturally, Houtu sitting in front of the campfire eating roasted meat.

However, the scene surrounding Houtu was a complete mess; the vast land was covered in charred wood chips and several massive skeletal remains of the Demon Race.

"These... did you eat all of these?" He blinked, then swallowed his saliva and turned his head to look at Houtu.

"Is there a problem?" Houtu glanced at him, puzzled, then lowered her head to focus intently on roasting the meat.

Seeing Houtu like this, Lu Yun was somewhat speechless.

However, thinking about it carefully, it seemed he was indeed making a bit of a fuss.

After all, she was an Ancestral Witch; those demon beast meats, once eaten, would likely be digested completely in an instant.

He had practiced for a whole day, so even if Houtu had been eating the entire time, it wouldn't be an issue! Lu Yun could only smile, then walked over to the campfire and sat down, choosing to turn a blind eye to the chaotic scene around him.

Seeing him sit down, Houtu handed over a piece of roasted meat and said, "Come, you try my craft too!"

While Lu Yun was practicing, besides going to resolve some trouble, she had basically been roasting meat the whole time, confident that her skills should be quite good by now.

Lu Yun did not stand on ceremony with her; he took it and tasted it, finding that the meat was indeed roasted quite well.

However, this meat was clearly different from the Kui Deer they had eaten before, and it was surprisingly delicious.

He couldn't help but say, "Great craft! By the way, what meat is this?"

Houtu said with a smile, "A Heavenly Immortal bird demon."

Lu Yun's heart skipped a beat.

He hadn't even become an immortal yet, and he was already eating the meat of a Heavenly Immortal-level bird demon? No wonder he felt the spiritual energy in this meat was astonishingly abundant! Lu Yun hurriedly took two more fierce bites, though he couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion in his heart: Sure enough, being in the Great Desolation, one still needs to hang out with big shots to have meat to eat!

Houtu said again at this moment, "By the way, you ran out of those seasonings. I found two of them nearby, but I couldn't find the other one."

Lu Yun looked toward where they kept the seasonings and, sure enough, saw that the fine salt he had prepared was used up, while there was still plenty of pepper powder and chili powder left, clearly found and prepared by Houtu herself from nearby.

"I have some more here."

Lu Yun said casually, then quietly opened the Transmigration Chat Group, preparing to buy some more table salt from the Points Mall.

He discovered that the many demon beast corpses he had listed before, along with quite a few weeds and loose rocks from the Great Desolation, had all been sold.

His account had gained another seventy or eighty thousand points!

Lu Yun couldn't help but click his tongue in secret. After hurriedly scanning the chat history of the Chat Group, he realized that those who had bought his items before found the quality too good and couldn't help but brag about it in the group, leading others to buy them as well, and they themselves had bought more.

As a result, not only were all the items he uploaded sold out, but now quite a few people in the group were @-ing him, asking him to upload more.

Without a doubt, items from the Great Desolation had now become hot commodities!

With so much income, Lu Yun naturally wouldn't be stingy with a little salt; this stuff could be bought in large quantities for just one point. Lu Yun bought one hundred portions directly, stored them temporarily in the System Space, and then took out a portion to use.

With salt, Houtu immediately erupted with intense enthusiasm for roasting meat again and quickly got busy.

Lu Yun, however, turned his gaze toward the nearby demon beast skeletons that had already been stripped of meat, and a thought stirred in his heart: these beast bones should be worth some points too! He asked Houtu, "You have no use for these beast bones anymore, right? How about giving them to me?"

"If you want them, take them!"

Houtu didn't know what he wanted these bones for, but she didn't ask further and just continued to focus on roasting the meat.

Lu Yun immediately stepped forward and uploaded the beast bones one by one to the Points Mall. Just as he had guessed, these beast bones were indeed of great value; among them, the worst Wild Boar Beast Bone was worth 10,000 points, while the Kui Deer beast bones were worth 30,000 points.

As for the two Heavenly Immortal-level beast bones, they were actually worth 100,000 points, which gave Lu Yun quite a shock.

And the moment he uploaded the new items, notifications naturally popped up in the Chat Group immediately.

"Lu Yun uploaded a new item: Wild Boar Beast Bone, Price: 10,000 points!"

"Lu Yun uploaded a new item: Kui Deer Beast Bone, Price: 30,000 points!"

"Lu Yun uploaded a new item: Xuan Bird Beast Bone, Price: 100,000 points!"

Four consecutive notifications appeared, causing everyone in the Chat Group who had been chatting about other things to suddenly stop.

The next moment, the group exploded!

Fang Wenjie: "Holy crap! Here we go again!"

Lin Yan: "I beg you, Lu Yun, please don't be so fierce, we're all starting to doubt our lives!"

Chen Hai: "Is this the Primordial World? Some beast bones are actually worth this much!"

Ming Xi: "You guys were still guessing whether Lu Yun died because he hadn't appeared for so long; is this what you meant by the Primordial World being very dangerous?"

Li Pengyu: "I'm so envious I'm crying! If only I were in the Great Desolation... forget it, if I arrived in the Great Desolation, I'm afraid I'd be dead in a second!"

Many newcomers were filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

And what made them even more envious, jealous, and hateful was that the old members in the group didn't participate in their discussion at all, and one by one, they all rushed to snap up the beast bones Lu Yun had uploaded.

Chu Xiong: "This Kui Deer beast bone is good; the furnace I'm planning to refine this time finally has its main material!"

Jiang Ye: "Damn, who was so fast, they snatched the Wild Boar Beast Bone I wanted!"

Liu Chongxiao: "Sorry, old Jiang, I was just a bit faster!"

Zhou Yu: "I really want to buy this Xuan Bird, but I don't have enough points, ah ah ah..."

Xiao Ling'er: "Can you guys not be so rich!"

While everyone was discussing, Lu Yun temporarily closed the Chat Group.

While continuing to eat the roasted beast meat from Houtu, he opened the system interface.

Because while he was practicing earlier, he vaguely heard a notification sound from the system, as if some task had been completed, but he was focused on his practice and had no mind to check it.

At this moment, with the system interface open, he realized he had indeed completed a task he had triggered earlier—taking Houtu to raid a Demon Race stronghold!

This task was triggered for him by Wen Xingyao, and the reward for completion was a Rare Treasure Chest, which was now lying quietly in the System Space.

However, Lu Yun was very confused by this, because he had not taken Houtu to raid any Demon Race strongholds!

Afterwards, he could not help but have a thought in his heart, looked at Houtu, and asked: "While I was cultivating just now, did something happen?"

(End of this chapter)