How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

"Oh, and you too, you should learn to read some characters too, otherwise you won't even be able to learn the martial arts techniques."

I've realized I'm too soft-hearted. Being too good to you will only hurt you sooner or later. From today onwards, I'd better start learning to read properly!

Okay, my goal for day one is to learn two thousand characters first!

"!"

Xiao Li Huohe was startled: "Mom, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about the number two thousand?"

"What? You think it's a little too little?"

"How is that possible? Let alone two thousand words, even two hundred or twenty words a day would drive a crane to its death!"

Little Li Huohe let out mournful cries, which were drowned out by the surrounding clamor of vendors and didn't carry far: "Mom, don't you want me to learn to fly quickly, just like Elder Li from Aunt's family, who carried you up and down the mountain..."

"Oh, I didn't say you could stop learning to fly while you're learning to read."

Hongli tossed her hair, raised her eyes, and smoothed down a few stray hairs on her head: "Reading while flying, letting your clear voice resonate throughout the blue sky, just thinking about it makes me feel that the scene is too beautiful."

"Little Fire will die!"

Little Firecracker looked heartbroken and hid herself in Red Glass's long hair again: "Mommy, don't you care about me anymore? Waaah..."

"Hey, I haven't used that coquettish act for many, many years."

Hongli pursed her lips and continued looking at the shopping list in her hand.

"Auntie, why do you need Hundred Flowers Dew Face Cream? Do Foundation Establishment cultivators need to take such good care of themselves?"

Indeed, human desires are endless. Even when someone is already very beautiful, they are still not satisfied. Ha, what ugly greed!

"Oh, right……"

Hongli patted the little fire on her head: "Don't tell Auntie that I'm secretly talking badly about her!"

"What did you say, Mom?"

Xiao Huo looked completely innocent: "I didn't hear anything."

"Ha, so sensible."

Hong Li nodded in satisfaction, deciding not to bully her adorable daughter for the next five minutes.

Along the way, quite a few pedestrians occasionally cast respectful and envious glances at her. Hong Li knew that it was because she was wearing the clothing that represented the identity of a disciple of the Five Elements Sect, which made those people look envious.

The female disciples of the Fire Department of the Five Elements Sect wore very simple clothing: gray-black trousers and a white top, with a light red robe on top.

The cuffs are trimmed with gold and red lace, the patterns forming clusters of burning flames—a symbol of status.

At least in Five Elements City, a city dependent on the Five Elements Sect, the identity of a Five Elements Sect disciple is more useful than anything else.

Oh, it's not as useful as the titles of Elder of the Five Elements Sect or Sect Leader of the Five Elements Sect...

In fact, this was the first time Hong Li had worn this outfit. In the sect, unless it was a very serious situation, there were no strict requirements, since the waist tag was enough to represent one's identity.

However, my aunt said that it's better to wear this when going out, as it brings a lot of convenience.

Although her aunt's words were somewhat veiled, Hongli immediately understood: A fox wearing a tiger's skin, acting like a bully, harassing men and women, doing all sorts of evil deeds, eating without paying, and refusing to pay for things. When righteous young men and women rush out to stop them, the aunt sneers and says, "I'm from the Five Elements Sect. If you don't want trouble, don't meddle..."

Cough cough, that's definitely impossible!

The Five Elements Sect is a sect with a positive image. Disciples wear sect attire when they go out and are respected, but they must not bring shame to the sect!

Besides, is she, Hong Li, the kind of person who does all sorts of evil?

Obviously not!

She's on the good side too!

He's a positive character!

Feeling quite pleased with herself, Hongli hummed the song Heiyang had sung to her and continued reading.

"Hmm, what Xingyun wants is... two bags of bitter melon-flavored cookies, ten pounds of buckwheat bread, and two pounds of lotus seeds..."

This girl ordered nothing but food, and why was it all bitter?!

Hongli couldn't help but complain, "Is this really the life of an ascetic?"

Below is a note from Xingyun.

Since I couldn't find these items in the shops run by my senior brothers and sisters in the sect, I had to ask my senior sister to bring some back for me when she went down the mountain!

Hehe, I've already finished all the ones I brought from home. I haven't had bitter melon-flavored cookies for a while now, and it feels like cultivation has lost its flavor, boohoo...

"Sister, please stop crying! What kind of deity are you?!"

Hongli sighed, wrote down the list, and then wrote down the things she wanted to buy.

Rice, oil, salt, vinegar, sugar, garlic, sauce, scallions, ginger...

Pot, knife, cutting board, rolling pin...

Snow-capped mountains, flying pigeons, papaya milk, fish swimming on the ice plains...

Cough cough, none of that matters!

Hongli pretended to be nonchalant as she put away the list, touched the storage bag her aunt had generously sponsored at her waist, and nodded.

"So this is the legendary storage bag that cultivators must have? Ha, that guy Hei Yang definitely hasn't seen this thing before!"

But I have to return it to my aunt after I'm done using it. Sigh, she said this thing was worth so much...

Oh, right, it seems to be four and a half high-grade spirit stones…

Suddenly remembering something, Hong Li's voice became serious: "Speaking of this, I just remembered that I used up half a high-grade spirit stone to hatch you, Little Flame."

That's one-ninth of a storage bag! Rounded up, it's practically the same as a whole storage bag. So I've invested so much in you, you absolutely must spend the rest of your life working like a slave for your mother!

"Although Little Fire sounds valuable, it can never turn into an ox or a horse..."

Xiao Li Huohe's voice was calm. She felt that after spending more time with her mother, she would also be able to maintain this level of composure even if the Five Elements Mountain collapsed in front of her!

Commonly known as, numb!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 84 probably evokes the same feeling as hearing that school is starting early...

"Damn, so many people are buying this thing?!"

In a restaurant by the window, Hong Li slumped in her seat, looking at the two bags of bitter melon-flavored cookies on the table. She rubbed her temples to make sure she hadn't bought the wrong ones, then stuffed them into her storage bag.

She originally thought that such strange snacks should be found in remote little shops or in the corners of large stores with a wide variety of products.

After searching around without finding it, I went back to the best-selling products shelf and suddenly discovered that the bitter melon-flavored cookies were neatly arranged there.

Am I out of touch with the times?

Hongli sighed, "So I've gotten old..."

"Mom, stop complaining."

Little Fire jumped around on the menu: "Order, order!"

"Ah, you keep an eye on things."

Hongli waved her hand: "No wine, no animal offal, no greasy food, anything else is fine..."

"Okay, sure."

Xiao Huo lowered his head and continued flipping through the menu, racking his brains.

"I was busy all morning, and I managed to buy everything for my aunt and Xingyun."

Hongli sighed: "I didn't buy anything for myself!"

"Then let's go buy it this afternoon."

Xiao Huo casually replied, "This is the first time I've ever seen so many people."

"Wow, isn't the morning enough? We want the afternoon too!"

Hongli's eyes widened: "Just kill me, Mommy! You'll exhaust me to death!"

"What should I do?"

Xiao Huo didn't look up, but instead focused on studying the menu: "Mom, are you not going to buy any of those things?"

"Ah...whatever..."

Hong Li said lazily, "That kind of thing isn't really that important anyway."

As for tableware and such, I'd probably just buy them and they'd gather dust at home, since I'm too lazy to cook for myself.

And then there's this snow mountain pigeon, and all that stuff, it all sounds so complicated, why did I even write that stuff back then...

Besides eating, she initially wanted to go to the bookstore to see if there were any new novels she hadn't read before, but when she thought about the comics waiting for her, she instantly lost interest.

At least wait until she finishes reading those comics before looking for a new novel.

Although the illusionary trial was extremely difficult, Hong Li felt that she could break through it after a few more tries!

The problem is that the illusion was so unreal that you could only see it but not touch it...

Anyway, the comic is already hers, so getting it back is a wonderful thing!