Chapter 1681: Conflict
The Hundred-flavored Wind was, as its name implied, a wind. It didn’t have a solid form. When it entered one’s mouth, they would taste all kinds of flavors of humanity such as sweetness, sourness, bitterness, spiciness, and more. It was quite profound.
The Seven Ultimate Flowers could only be found on a ten-thousand-year-old elm tree. Each flower was different from each other not just in terms of colors, but also taste. Each taste was exceedingly exquisite, delicious, and rare. That was why people called it the Seven Ultimate Flowers.
However, the Seven Ultimate Flowers were highly toxic. Consuming any one flower below the Sage-stage would result in death. However, if the flowers were consumed at once, then the toxins would neutralize one another and not harm the consumer. The combination of tastes was also something out of the world.
Snow of Dreams was a kind of snow that could only be found beyond the nine heavens. The consumer would experience an inexplicable dream where they flew across all the realms, witnessed all the amazing sights, and tasted the most wonderful flavors of humanity. Hence the name.
Phantom Moon was a moon that could only be seen in water; could only exist in water. It could only be scooped using a golden basin. The water of the Phantom Moon was unspeakably delicious and indescribably profound. They said that it was a phantasmal moon of red dust that all of the world shared.
The four delicacies known together as the Wind Flower Snow Moon were created using the Hundred-flavored Wind, Seven Ultimate Flowers, Snow of Dreams and Phantom Moon as the ingredients. The unnecessary parts were removed so that only the essence remained, and the flavor was enhanced without diminishing the original flavor in every way. They were delicacies people would happily squander fortunes to enjoy again and again.
It would not even be an exaggeration to say that it was a kind of taste that should only exist in the heavens; that those who got the chance to taste it were incredibly fortunate.
The Hundred-flavored Wind, Seven Ultimate Flowers, Snow of Dreams and Phantom Moon—they were all rare and profound objects of nature. Obtaining them was hard enough, cooking them into delicacies took even more effort and time.
Therefore, it was impossible to savor the Wind Flowe Snow Moon unless they placed their order months ahead of time.
Of course, not anyone could book it either. Only the wealthy, influential, powerful, or all of the above could do so.
It wasn’t because the commonfolk were barred from booking them, of course. It was simply because they couldn’t afford it.
Each delicacy cost three thousand silver each. That was twelve thousand silver for all of them. It would cost less money to feed the silver to a pen of pigs.