The largest of the thousand-year fire spirit beasts, upon learning that the two were there for the thousand-year fire marrow, did not object, but instead let out a few meows.
Then, the few thousand-year fire spirit beasts behind it directly rushed into the cave.
Before long, those few thousand-year fire spirit beasts emerged carrying many red thousand-year fire marrow.
The king thousand-year fire spirit beast meowed a few more times.
Signaling Ye Fei to accept the pile of thousand-year fire marrow.
Ye Fei was quite flattered at this moment.
He truly hadn't expected this trip to be so smooth.
"Thank you!"
Ye Fei happily accepted it and carefully put it away.
After thinking for a moment, he took out over ten bottles of elixirs from his spatial pouch.
"These are elixirs I refined myself, I'm giving them to you!"
Ye Fei didn't want to take them for free; these elixirs would serve as payment for this venture.
The king thousand-year fire spirit beast was discerning and, after receiving the elixirs, directly opened them, sniffed, and then its eyes lit up.
It seemed to recognize them as good things!
"How is it?"
"Did I lie to you?"
Ye Fei asked with a smile.
The king thousand-year fire spirit beast was clearly very happy at this moment.
It even bowed to Ye Fei in a human-like manner.
Although there was plenty of thousand-year fire marrow here, it couldn't withstand the consumption of the Myriad Artifacts Alliance, so Ye Fei's heart moved, and he thought of a good idea!
"How about this, shall we make a deal?"
"From now on, I'll come and trade with you every three months. Each time, I'll give you an equal amount of elixirs, what do you say?"
Ye Fei was very confident in the elixirs he refined, and moreover, they had saved the youngling of the thousand-year fire spirit beast tribe today. With these two points, Ye Fei believed they would not disagree.
The king thousand-year fire spirit beast naturally understood Ye Fei's meaning. After discussing with its companions, it agreed.
Just as the king thousand-year fire spirit beast was about to finalize the deal with Ye Fei, the youngling, which had been in Feng Ruoqin's arms, came over holding a plump steamed bun.
The munching sound made all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts present involuntarily gulp.
Especially the satisfied expression on the youngling's face, which made the other thousand-year fire spirit beasts drool.
Their thousand-year fire spirit beast tribe had subsisted on blazing stones for generations. This was the first thousand-year fire spirit beast to taste human food.
Subsequently, all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts turned their gazes to the instigator!
That is, Feng Ruoqin!
Feng Ruoqin started to sweat cold sweat.
She hadn't thought that much earlier, it was just that the little creature was too cute, and she couldn't resist taking out the food from her spatial pouch.
She hadn't expected it to cause this situation.
Feng Ruoqin was still bewildered.
Were they going to turn on them now?
If that were to happen, she would be truly guilty!
As Feng Ruoqin was feeling anxious, Ye Fei observed carefully and tentatively asked.
"You mean you want to eat too?"
A slightly smaller thousand-year fire spirit beast beside them instinctively meowed, not forgetting to nod.
"And you guys?"
"Same meaning?"
Ye Fei scanned all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts present again.
Immediately, all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts meowed, and a few of them kept looking at the steamed bun in the youngling's hand.
Fine.
They were a bunch of gluttonous beasts!
Ye Fei found it amusing.
As for Feng Ruoqin, she had also recovered.
She directly took out quite a bit of still hot food from her spatial pouch, and there was a wide variety.
"These are all for you!"
The large pile of food was given to the group of ravenous thousand-year fire spirit beasts.
Including the king thousand-year fire spirit beast, the group of thousand-year fire spirit beasts grabbed the food and put it into their mouths.
As soon as the food entered their mouths, the thousand-year fire spirit beasts were stunned and narrowed their eyes.
So delicious!
They never imagined that human food was so tasty!
The group of thousand-year fire spirit beasts instantly devoured it.
The large pile of food was gone in an instant.
Ye Fei and Feng Ruoqin couldn't help but twitch their mouths.
All of them were foodies!
Feng Ruoqin was not stingy and took out another large pile of food from her spatial pouch.
After all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts had eaten their fill, the king thousand-year fire spirit beast once again entered the cave and dug out a large pile of thousand-year fire marrow.
Then it handed it over to the two of them.
Ye Fei and Feng Ruoqin hadn't expected this bonus.
"Thank you!"
"When I come next time, I'll bring you even more delicious food!"
Feng Ruoqin happily accepted the large pile of thousand-year fire marrow.
She thought about properly thanking them next time.
Recalling that Elder Chen and the others were still waiting for them, Ye Fei and Feng Ruoqin prepared to return.
Before leaving, the youngling of the thousand-year fire spirit beast was very reluctant to part with the two.
It started to act spoiled with whimpering sounds.
Finally, the two of them left under the reluctant gaze of the group of thousand-year fire spirit beasts.
Only after their figures disappeared did all the thousand-year fire spirit beasts reluctantly walk back into the cave.
"Ye Fei, I never expected this trip to be so smooth!"
"I never dreamed that we could even strike a deal with the thousand-year fire spirit beast tribe!"
With the mission completed, Feng Ruoqin finally relaxed.
Even her walking pace became much lighter.
"Now that the thousand-year fire spirit beast tribe has reached an agreement with us, there's no need to bring so many people next time."
"After all, too many people mean too much talk."
"It wouldn't be good if the thousand-year fire spirit beasts were discovered."
Ye Fei suggested.
"You're right!"
"I'll listen to you."
Feng Ruoqin knew it made sense and readily agreed.
Then, the two of them exerted their strength again and began to climb the smooth stone wall.
The two of them still relied on the swords in their hands and painstakingly climbed out of the deep pit.
Phew!
Only upon seeing the sunlight did the two finally let go of their pressure.
Elder Chen, who had been observing the situation from not far away, kept looking towards the scorching deep pit from time to time.
"Young Master, Little Friend Ye!"
As soon as Elder Chen saw the two familiar figures, he immediately shouted.
He rushed to Ye Fei and Feng Ruoqin in a few quick steps.
"Good, it's good that you're back safely!"
Seeing that the two were covered in injuries, exuded a strong scent of blood, and had pale complexions, it was clear they had sustained not minor injuries.
Although Elder Chen was very worried, he did not voice it.
After all, they had come out the second day; had they not found the whereabouts of the thousand-year fire marrow?
The three of them walked in silence and finally arrived before the crowd.
Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to ask about the results.
It was the young man with peach blossom eyes who took a close look at Ye Fei and could no longer help but ask.