Inside the spacious alchemy-and-pastry kitchen of the [Lv.3 Flying Courtyard Carriage], ten copper sugar-cauldrons were bubbling in synchronized harmony.
While the flying courtyard cruised smoothly southward through the afternoon clouds toward Peach-Blossom Lake—pulled at a leisurely trot by their Rank 4 Peak Flood-Bull Braise-Pot. First Elder Zhao and the three hundred reformed Inner Disciples stayed behind to guard Sky-Border Pass’s potato fields—the entire Gu Family household had transformed into a high-speed confectionery assembly line.
At the main stove, Grandpa Yao , at Rank 6 Golden Core Soul, controlled ten streams of emerald-green Nine-Turn Pill Fire at once. Melting five hundred pounds of crystal rock sugar and a thousand frost-rimmed Rank 4 Ice-Heart Peppermint Leaves into a shimmering, translucent jade-green syrup.
Right beside him on a wooden footstool stood eight-year-old Su Nuannuan, wearing a tiny white chef’s hat over her twin braided buns.
Every time a cauldron of jade-green peppermint syrup reached a rolling boil, Nuannuan leaned over the rim, took a deep breath. Exhaled a gentle, sparkling pink cloud of her [Myriad-Poison Nectar Body. Sweet Honey-Candy Dew] straight into the bubbling sugar!
Huuuuu~ Bubble-sparkle!
The moment Nuannuan’s innate poison-inverting honey breath touched the boiling peppermint syrup, the medicinal potency multiplied tenfold!
