Chapter 898: Grilled Octopus
The Goddess of the Moon together with the Immortal Sun Emperor and the old couple, Tan Huangyu and Tang Yuyi directly teleported in front of the Noble District. Their sudden arrival by appearing in thin air had stunned the guards stationed at the entrance of the Noble district. However, they knew that not everyone can teleport. This is an ability which was rarely mastered by the gods. Shen Jueyang approached the gates and showed the proof of ownership of a certain floating island to these guards. The reason why he made the first move is simple: the guards didn’t know if they were real or not. Teleportation is too rare even in the Immortal World, due to this not just everyone knows about it.
The stationed guards at the entrance thought they were ghosts and didn’t dare to approach them. Only when the Immortal Sun Emperor had come closer that they had believed these people were living people and finally sigh in relief. It was only after their fear had faded that they realized that people had appeared at the gates.
"Who might you be, my lord?" asked the guard.
The Immortal Sun Emperor pulled out the proof of ownership for the Floating Island one and showed it to the guards. The moment the guards had seen it, their attitude immediately changed.
"This is definitely the documents of ownership!"
"Captain! These are the owners of that floating island one!"
"Immediately prepare transportation for the important guests!"
"Yes, Sir!"
The guards treated the group as precious guests and even prepared a flying artifact to escort them properly to their floating island. They bow their heads in greeting and only then did the guards have noticed that none of these four wear something ordinary, especially true for the young man and the young lady in veil.
The Moon Goddess asked, "Jueyang, is everything alright?"
"Don’t worry, Xue’er. A ride would be coming to send us home," Shen Jueyang said the aloof arrogance from before faded transforming into gentleness only meant for this one woman.
The Moon Goddess nodded her head and waited for the ride to come. The guards were so nervous until the arranged ride finally arrived. A slightly large carriage pulled by a pair of rainbow furred pegasus appeared.
"Young Lord, Young Miss, these carriage had arrived. They will escort you to your land properly," said the captain of the guards.
Yue Xuexia glanced at them and said, "Grandpa Tan, Grandma Tang, give them a reward."
"As you wish, Mistress!" Tan Huangyu and Tang Yuyi responded.
The Immortal Sun Emperor helped the Goddess of the Moon to enter the carriage and followed after.
"Reward from our Mistress. Accept!" Tang Yuyi said.
Tan Huangyu and Tang Yuyi took a bag of high-grade spirit stones and passed them to the guards leaving them flabbergasted with a shaking hand as they accepted the high-grade spirit stones.
"W-We thank the Young Miss!" said the guards and kneel on one knee.
Tan Huangyu and Tang Yuyi climbed up on the carriage and only then did the carriage fly towards the floating island one. The guards remained kneeling until the figure of the carriage had completely left their line of sight. Then they looked at the high-grade spirit stones that were rewarded to them. They surrounded it as its a rare treasure even, as this is a currency for all cultivators in existence. Moreover, this is extremely helpful for their training as a high grade spirit stone possessed purer qi which is helpful for making them stronger.
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On the other hand, in the city...
The two couples who were left behind were now using the carriage that was left behind by the Immortal Sun Emperor for their use. They had left the carriage for a puppet to bring them around and of course the first thing they did was to complete the task of the Moon Goddess. The two pairs didn’t plan to separate in this city for now even with the task given to them. They had been warned by Lord Shen Jueyang that the Inner Haven can be considered the main territory where the Divine Beast Tribe had quite an influence. Those who hated mixed blood of their kind would definitely mistake Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue before their Ice Phoenix bloodline and might get hunted again. This time maybe Madam Xue Shuyi might not escape as well. As his bloodline is also considered mixed as she is from the Xue family as well.
The Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor had already helped mask their auras and bloodline using some treasure to above others from seeing through their strength and bloodline. Even though they aren’t afraid of trouble, they still didn’t want their masters to make a move on them especially when they were not the one in fault.
Inside the carriage, Tan Bingyu, Xue Shuyi, Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue were seated together. Their first destination was to stock up food which would last for quite a while. Moreover, according to their Mistress, they might stay in this haven for a long time. There are also plans to visit a treasure land and join the Black Cloud Academy. Though the Goddess of the Moon wanted to focus on finding the location of the Phoenix Dragon Ancient Site. Well, this cannot be avoided. There is something in this treasure land which will be extremely helpful for treating the injuries of the soul, the Moon Goddess is suffering from.
Inside the carriage, the four individuals were observing the place within the car. They had noticed that this place had indeed a great number of beings from the Divine Beast Tribe. Even in their human forms an original part of theirs still remains like ears, horns, scales, slit irises, etc. However, this exposure was either intentionally done or something they couldn’t fully control. There are some individuals from the Divine Beast Tribe who can fully transform as humans and most of them were powerful beings.
"We are near the marketplace area. We should go by foot while shopping," Xue Shuyi said.
Her husband and children agreed, walking and seeing through items with their own eyes is better just just buying things randomly. Finding a corner within a street, they had asked the puppet controlling the carriage to stop at the side. After the carriage had stopped, the four of them had all got off the carriage and hid it in their space where even the living can be stored. Like many other marketplaces, this area within the city is boisterous, full of people and the noises mixing together.
While looking around the area, they would stock up food and basic necessities without care for money or expenses. They had started buying a lot that merchants would sometimes approach their group on their own offering most of their products to them. Of course, their group would only choose the most fresh and expensive among all kinds of things under the product called food. This is especially true for meat. They would only buy things that are both edible and high grade.
The family of four is actually at the market place where sellers were gathered in one area and each item was being sold through auction. There were quite a number of buyers who were surveying the area. Within the area, various kinds of meat were spread all over the place from a deer with a strange horn and eerie color, a boar with wings, a sheep with straight fur, etc. There are also lesser dragons and mutated pheasant that look a bit like a phoenix.
Tan Bingyu was observing the area and had already chosen the items she planned to buy. Xue Renxue and Tan Shengyu were on guard, instinctively putting Tan Bingyu and Xue Shuyi into the place where they could be protected by them.
Xue Shuyi pulled her daughter and said, "Sweetie, there seems to be seafood in that area."
Tan Bingyu stared at the large octopus that looks similar to the image of a kraken in the history book in the modern world. Her father also looked at the giant octopus and commented,
"Why does this thing look like a kraken in the story in the modern world?" Tan Shengyu asked.
Xue Renxue asked, "Can this thing be eaten?"
"Its an ingredient from that favorite takoyaki you really like," informed Tan Bingyu.
Upon hearing what his wife had said, the expression on Xue Renxue turned a bit dark and disgusted. Now he completely lost interest in eating takoyaki he used to love snacking on. Seeing this reaction, Tan Bingyu and their parents laughed.
Tan Shengyu said, "Don’t worry. Even though this thing looks ugly, it’s delicious. Anyway when it is chopped and cooked you cannot recognize it."
"There is no need to buy the head, a few tentacles should suffice just by looking at its size," Xue Shuyi said as she noticed that it was already missing a tentacle and a small stall near it was grilling this tentacle as a small free taste of the ingredient.
The family of four approached the stall which was being avoided by the other buyers, leading to the seller handling the fire frowning as if they were losing business deals.
Tan Bingyu said, "Are you selling this thing by its tentacles? We don’t need the head. Also four grilled servings to be eaten on the spot, please?"