Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 187 - 126: Toad Balloon, Magma Flowing from Dreams to Reality! (Part 2)
After Bai Mo finished eating the meat bun and then a serving of red oil noodles, he saw his phone light up with a notification.
He opened it to see Su Yaoyao's reply.
[I'm not telling you!]
What?
[Classified?]
[Not classified, but it involves my mood. You don't even want to call me Sister Yaoyao, which makes me really unhappy!]
Bai Mo smirked.
This was an old habit of Su Yaoyao's, she always liked to start off chatting with some useless banter.
Sure enough, without waiting for Bai Mo to reply, she sent more messages explaining the situation.
[Actually, it's all just promotion~]
[That little volcano is useless to us]
[But, you see, we're not sure, maybe it's useful for the Dark World or Giant Food Mountain or something?]
[So we made a decision to build a special workstation to keep an eye on it]
[No matter who, no one is allowed to use it!]
[Hahahahahaha]
This...
Bai Mo felt something was off.
But somehow it didn't seem to be wrong.
"Anyway, as long as there's a volcano, that's all we need."
After eating the meat bun and noodles, he threw the takeout packaging in the trash.
Bai Mo pulled out a tablet and searched documents, starting his calculations.
"If one wants to refine this Volcanic Smoke Sponge, how should it be done..."
...
"Does it really have to take such a long cycle?"
...
"Oh? Can't it be too thick volcanic smoke?"
...
It's easy to say but hard to do, even a small piece of Volcanic Smoke Cotton involves numerous processes and techniques, cumbersome and troublesome.
Bai Mo scribbled and sketched on the tablet, then frowned, thinking about the existing herbs on Fox Mountain.
As time passed and he thought it through, he looked out the window to see dark clouds gathering, thunder rumbling, it seemed like rain was coming.
"Just right."
He extended his Divine Sense to Fox Mountain, instructing his apprentices to bring the herbs.
Not long after, white mist rose at his feet...
Peach Blossom Eyes emerged, holding a small bamboo basket filled with various herbs the master needed.
"Eeeyoo!"
From it emerged White Tail, carrying a bucket of potion, the grafting potion the master required.
"Eeeyoo!"
From it emerged Black Star, holding a mess of fiery red beast skins, it was the Fire Toad Hide recently acquired.
"Eeeyoo!"
Bai Mo instructed the apprentices to place the various materials on the dining table.
"Just wait a bit.
"I'll finish this thing first, then we'll order takeout together."
The three apprentices nodded obediently.
"Eeeyoo!"
"Awooo!"
"Eeeyoo!"
Peach Blossom Eyes jumped onto the master's shoulder, White Tail jumped into the master's arms, while Black Star crouched at the corner of the table, quietly watching the master at work.
They watched as the master ignited emerald green Pill Fire with both hands, spread open the Fire Toad Hide, and stuffed various kinds of herbs inside.
The master's movements were swift, but every herb had a specific sequence and position.
Before stuffing them in, they were sometimes dipped in the grafting potion. Afterwards, the herbs quickly grew together with the Fire Toad Hide.
In the end, the master attached a piece of Ancient Immortal Dynasty Sponge to the belly of the toad hide, and beckoned Black Star.
"Open the window."
"Ow!"
Black Star jumped onto the window ledge, opened the window, and rain had already started outside, wind carried rain in, blowing Black Star's ears askew, and ruffling its fur.
"Move away from the window."
"Eeeyoo."
Black Star immediately complied, watching as the master picked up the stuffed Fire Toad Hide and blew a breath into it!
The gigantic Fire Toad Hide floated up, "whoosh", and flew out of the window by itself.
Flying in the air, flying in the rain, it expanded more and more, inflating like a hot air balloon, swelling to the size of a van, floating skyward against the wind and rain.
As it hovered in the air, this toad balloon, its surface shrouded in clouds and mist, concealing it entirely, making it look like a cloud for deception.
Its belly had a sponge attached, which was the raw material needing to be refined into "Volcanic Smoke Sponge."
It flew higher and higher, surpassing kilometers, surpassing ten thousand meters, eventually reaching twenty thousand meters high... becoming a small, invisible speck in the deep high-altitude sky.
At this height, there was no rain, the rain clouds were below.
At this maximum altitude, its toad nose began sniffing, as if following its lifetime obsession, searching for the scent of a volcano!
Not long after, it found it!
Thus this toad-hide balloon flew in the direction of the volcano, flying out of the urban skyline, flying over the suburban skyline, flying across West Ridge Mountain Range, sweeping past the vast mountain forests below in the misty rain, arriving above that volcano!
At this moment, the sulfur-scented light smoke spewing from the volcano was rising steadily upward. At twenty thousand meters high, by the time it reached this toad skin high-altitude balloon, the smoke had become very faint.
But this concentration was exactly what Bai Mo had calculated, just right!
Next, the toad skin high-altitude balloon would drift in the high altitude above the volcano for fifteen days, absorbing the smoke, waiting for the "Volcanic Smoke Sponge" to be refined and completed.
...
Whoosh!
Above the rain clouds, the Peacock Red Treasure was carrying Su Yaoyao, swiftly flying past.
The Red Treasure's durian shell hat was securely fastened to its head with straps.
Su Yaoyao sat cross-legged, also wearing a hat and pilot goggles.
She took out her smartphone for a quick glance.
"Hmph, that guy Bai Mo, not replying to my messages again!
"Why is it that I'm always the one sending the last message in every chat?"
Suddenly, Red Treasure shivered, nearly shaking her off.
"Ouch!
"Red Treasure, what are you doing?"
Red Treasure slightly raised its eyelids, looking upward, but only saw fragments of clouds high above.
"Goo goo goo..."
Its Spiritual Sense just suddenly warned it, as if the big toad that had injured it before had climbed on top of it?
It furrowed its brow... how could that be possible?
Besides, it was wearing a durian shell helmet now!
Even though this helmet was just bought from the supermarket, practically useless, and quite smelly... it reminded it of the time the durian-headed warrior thrashed the Fire Toad, giving it a sense of security and making it less scared.
...
Rumble...
Heavy rain poured down, the sky dark and gloomy.
Inside a luxurious villa, the little fatty Wang Yuanbao stood by the window, his face as somber as the weather, his features twisted in grievance.
"Master, I...I...you, you really scored over two hundred points.
"This...what college can I even attend?"
His mind was silent, unable to hear the master's voice.
Did that old guy run off pretending to be dead?
Wang Yuanbao furrowed his brow, simply lying back on the recliner, closing his eyes to enter a dream.
He was going to find that old guy in the dream and settle accounts!
...
"Huh?
"Where did he go?"
Wang Yuanbao was in a cave, couldn't find the Ancient Bee Immortal.
Opened the wardrobe, the old guy wasn't inside.
Checked under the bed, the old guy wasn't under there either.
He walked out of the cave.
Only to find that his dreamland was actually an underground cavern, dimly lit, with faintly visible stalactites and stalagmites.
Wang Yuanbao maneuvered skillfully through the tunnels, searching one cave after another for the Ancient Immortal Master.
Soon after, he discovered the Ancient Bee Immortal wearing a big hat in a brightly lit cave.
A river of lava flowed through this cave, emitting a red glow.
The Ancient Bee Immortal was squatting beside the lava river, staring in a daze.
Wang Yuanbao swaggered forward.
"Master!
"Your college entrance exam results are out!
"Ranked forty-eighth in class."
The Ancient Bee Immortal looked up.
"Oh? How many people in your class?"
"Forty-eight."
The Ancient Bee Immortal coughed a couple of times.
"Cough cough... Hahaha... this... sigh... maybe... I also...
"Hey, look at this!"
He pointed towards the lava river!
Wang Yuanbao pouted.
"Master, I've seen this lava river before. Are you changing the subject?"
He instinctively looked along where his master pointed.
"Huh?
"What's with the lava river?
"That white fog?" 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
Wang Yuanbao suddenly saw, by the side of the lava river, a mass of white fog blurring the boundary between reality and dream.
The bubbling lava was pouring into that white fog, flowing from this dreamscape into the real world!
"What the heck?
"Master, what's going on?"
The Ancient Bee Immortal frowned, as if he hadn't seen this before either.
"Do you remember, just a couple of days ago, in the West Ridge Mountain Range of your real world, they discovered a Little Volcano?"
