People are Fighting to Break Their Diaries! They Forced Me to Eat Soft Food

9: Chapter 9: Is this gigolo any good? You can tell at a glance![At the Mittel Auction House in Wutan City three days from now, a mechanical jade box from a Dou Ling’s tomb will be auctioned. The key to the jade box is lost, requiring brute force to open it as a gamble. Inside is a high-grade Tier 4 dou shi pill (capable of allowing a 9-star Dou Practitioner to break through to Dou Master with 100% certainty).]

[100% Success Method to Open the Jade Box: Pour silver water into the keyhole. The decayed mechanism will completely fail, allowing it to be split open with an ordinary blade without risk of damage.]

Along with this information, images that seemed to come from the future surfaced in Xiao Ting’s mind.

Someone spent five thousand gold coins to win the auction for the jade box, only to have the mechanism trigger when they tried to force it open at home, destroying the pill inside.

”In other words, the person who originally bought this item would have wasted the dou shi pill inside.”

”Plane Blessing doesn’t produce opportunities; it just acts as a porter for them. Is that what it means?”

Xiao Ting found it quite interesting and began considering how to get his hands on the jade box in advance.

Going through the auction was a waste of money. For an auction item like this that involved gambling on luck with a risk of failure, as long as the price was right, it could be obtained beforehand.

But the prerequisite was knowing someone influential within the Mittel Auction House.

”That’s not difficult.” Xiao Ting believed that with Ya Fei’s keen eyes, that enchantress would be more than happy to befriend him and do him a favor.

Not to mention there was also Xiao Yan. Ya Fei suspected Xiao Yan had an Alchemist of Tier 4 or higher as a teacher, so she was very attentive.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ting stood up and left the courtyard, heading to the Xiao Family kitchen to pick out ingredients, preparing to cook in the small kitchen in Xun’er’s courtyard.

”No more writing?”

In the lava world beneath the desert, Medusa saw that no more words had appeared on the journal copy for a long time. With a thought, she withdrew it into her mind.

Stretching her back, she glanced at the Green Lotus Core Flame’s lotus platform and the core flame before turning to leave.

”With my strength, it won’t be easy to forcibly take it from this place.”

”I’ll first go obtain the Plane Blessing to get the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python’s remnant soul and the fragmented Magic Core.”

”Then, following the records in the ancient books, I’ll go back and collect ice spirit cold spring to build a lotus platform before returning here to take the Heavenly Flame.”

Medusa felt that as long as she didn’t harm Xiao Yan and Xiao Ting, and appeared before them at the right time, she wouldn’t have to worry about exposure even if there were minor changes.

Xiao Ting himself believed that the real world was different from the ’original novel.’ She could fully exploit this mindset of his.

Meanwhile, in the Magical Beast Mountain Range near Qingshan Town.

Xiao Yi Xian had already returned to the herb-gathering team, talking cordially with everyone with a smile on her face.

But in her heart, she was wondering if she should take the initiative to head to Wutan City for a visit.

Xiao Ting had written in the Diary that he wanted to see her. If she actively sought out a ’chance encounter,’ she should be able to get him to write more about her in the Diary.

”Since I am a unresolved regret for countless men, then in the story of ’Battle Through the Heavens,’ I must be an important supporting character with quite a bit of plot.”

”Xiao Ting is very familiar with this story, so he must know my situation like the back of his hand, including what exactly is going on with my body.”

”But rushing to Wutan City might make Xiao Ting suspicious. What if he connects it to the fact that I can see the Diary...”

”I need a plausible reason, or I should just wait quietly for him to come find me.”

As Xiao Yi Xian thought deeply, her pretty ears suddenly twitched.

She heard two mercenaries nearby discussing matters related to Wutan City.

”Brother Tie, do you know why Mr. Yao of Wan Yao Pharmacy suddenly added this herb-gathering trip?”

”You’ve asked the right person. I actually know. I heard that the Mittel Auction House in Wutan City is selling a batch of medicinal herbs to a certain family there. Relying solely on the nearby Miter Chamber of Commerce is a bit strained, so they’ve increased their herb purchases. After Mr. Yao heard the news, he wanted to get in with the Mittels and volunteered to supply them.”

”I see. Does that mean Wan Yao Pharmacy can do business with the Miter Chamber of Commerce in the future?”

”Hard to say, unless the Miter Chamber of Commerce keeps buying large quantities of herbs, or Mr. Yao becomes a regular supplier.”

”Wutan City is not a small place like Qingshan Town. If Mr. Yao succeeds, this will be Wan Yao Pharmacy’s big break.”

”...”

Listening to their conversation, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly remembered that the day before entering the mountains, Mr. Yao had told her this herb-gathering trip was very important and asked if she wanted to go to Wutan City with him when the time came.

When she was extremely despondent, Mr. Yao had given her a place to stay. She had repaid him by performing her duties as a physician and didn’t want any other involvement, so she had politely declined with a smile at the time.

”Going to the Mittel Auction House in Wutan City to sell medicinal herbs is a perfectly reasonable excuse.” A smile appeared in the depths of Xiao Yi Xian’s eyes.

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On Yun Lan Mountain, inside the Sect Master’s hall of the Yunlan Sect.

Yun Yun had been holding a book for a long time without turning a page, her gaze drifting as if she were lost in thought.

Until a voice sounded from outside: ”Subordinate Yun Wu requests an audience.”

Yun Yun’s gaze sharpened, and she immediately spoke: ”Enter.”

A middle-aged man wearing the uniform of an Inner Sect Deacon of the Yunlan Sect and a mask on his face walked into the hall. He came to the center and knelt on one knee: ”Reporting to the Sect Master, the intelligence from Wutan City has arrived.”

”And?” Yun Yun lacked her usual composure, her tone carrying a hint of urgency.

”In the re-testing of the Xiao Family’s coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Yan’s result was 8th stage Dou Zhi Qi, and Xiao Ting’s result was 1-star Dou Practitioner.” Yun Wu answered respectfully, his eyes also showing a trace of surprise.

As a member of the secret guards controlled by the Yunlan Sect, he only took orders from Sect Master Yun Yun.

A year ago, when Nalan Yanran went to Wutan City to break the engagement accompanied by Ge Ye, he had been guarding them in the shadows, so he understood the situation very well.

He never expected that the Xiao Yan who had shouted ’Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, do not bully a youth for being poor,’ written a letter of divorce, and set a Three-Year Agreement with Young Sect Leader Nalan Yanran, would not only have his cultivation talent restored but even surpass his former self.

”It’s all true.” Yun Yun subconsciously clenched her hands, her heart finally sinking.

The contents recorded in this journal copy, which could kill her at any time, were all correct.

This meant that the Yunlan Sect now had a sword of destruction hanging over it that could fall at any moment.

Until she figured out exactly how Xiao Yan and the Yunlan Sect became mortal enemies, she would have to remain on edge.

With the protection of the Diary and Xun’er as his backer, Xiao Ting was not someone she could provoke. In this matter, she and the Yunlan Sect could only back down.

”You may leave.” Yun Yun waved her hand lightly. Next, she had to think of a strategy on how to befriend Xiao Ting and minimize the conflict between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran as much as possible.

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Wutan City, Xiao Family.

In the pavilion of Xun’er’s private courtyard.

Xiao Ting and Xun’er sat facing each other, with eleven dishes laid out on the stone table.

”I’ve never eaten these dishes before.” Curiosity filled Xun’er’s large eyes. Since Brother Xiao Ting recovered his past life’s memories, his culinary skills had changed so much.

”These dishes are ones I’ve researched on my own behind my Cousin’s back over the years. You’re the first person to taste them.” Xiao Ting looked at Xun’er with a smile, his eyes full of appreciation.

Perhaps because the author was from the Shu region, the dishes Xiao Yan had taught him over the years were all Sichuan cuisine.

In his past life, he was from Zhejiang Province, so the dishes he made this time were mainly Zhejiang cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines, with some Huaiyang cuisine added.

Qianjiang shredded pork, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, Jinling roasted duck, etc., plus a few Quzhou dishes, would be more popular with girls.

”Brother Xiao Ting, you’ve really put your heart into this tonight.” Xun’er’s smile grew even sweeter as she took two scrolls from her storage ring and placed them in front of Xiao Ting: ”I originally wanted to give these to you after dinner, but take them now.”

”Congratulations, Cousin, on successfully breaking through to Dou Practitioner.”