Talisman Emperor
Chapter 19 – Quiet Rooms
"Eight Precious Treasures, Fragrant Dragon Circular in Chocolate Sauce, Dried Inksoul Scorpion, Mixed Azure Silkie Boiled …"
Old Ma's culinary arts did reach an incredible level; in less than an hour, he once again cooked 13 extremely delicious dishes.
Chen Xi felt an overwhelming happiness, a happiness that she had never felt since she was a child. Dish after dish was a delicious dish that he had never tasted in his life; not only did they cause his six senses to gain extreme satisfaction, they did not, but the pure and thick spirit energy contained within the plate was like rain after drought as they gathered within his dantian, it actually gradually condensed into the fourth Violet True Essence cloud in an extremely short amount of time!
With each level rise of one's Innate Realm, a compacted cloud of True Essence would appear within the Dantian, and it was called the foundation building cloud ladder. It continued until nine clouds were formed, then one could develop the Violet Palace to become a Violet Palace Realm cultivator who had the Dao foundation to officially step into the immortal palace.
Chen Xi had already stagnated at the 3rd level of the Innate Realm for five years, and it was not because his natural talent was too low, but because the longevity that locked onto his mother was left behind. During these five years, it had secretly absorbed the True Essence within its body, and only when the key of longevity was shattered to reveal the jade pendant within it did it appear as if he had broken a shackle. From that day onward, he had never worried about his cultivation from being unable to advance.
However, even at that moment, in a state of lacking spirit stone support, spirit pills, spirit medicines, and other external sources of support, his cultivation progress was extremely slow. He never imagined that eating more than 10 dishes actually allowed his cultivation to be like the explosion of an oil well and break through the levels once again. This of course made him wonderfully surprised.
However, following that happiness, he also felt a kind of torment. Every time old man Ma cooked a delicious dish, the pungent alluring aroma caused him to be unable to stop even if he wanted to, but, and his initial intention of just a small bite turned completely into ignoring his image as he devoured the plate. This caused him to feel even more embarrassed, and he felt himself to be a bigger and bigger glutton who was unable to resist the temptation.
Old man Ma was shocked by Chen Xi's appearance when eating as well, when he gazed at those 14 empty jade plates, he did not dare to believe his eyes, and only muttered in a daze. "Sound! Could it be that this person's stomach was an abyss? The student I took was too ... weird, right? ”
Chen Xi felt even more embarrassed in her heart when she heard this, and her flat face that was ridiculed for being expressionless even revealed a rare blushing trace.
He felt it was very strange as well, after completely cleaning 14 dishes, not only did he not feel bloated, but he also had the urge to eat a lot of food.
"You're weird, just behaving exactly like that body-busting coolie, really greedy!"
However when these words entered Chen Xi's ears, it had instead caused a problem to cross her mind, it seemed .. Ever since she cultivated the Universe Starslayer Body Forging Arts, she had never felt full. Could this be the reason?
Chen Xi carefully sensed the changes in his body. He felt as if his flesh, blood, and skin were filled with boundless power. Even his bones seemed to have become 100g lighter, and his entire body surged with an overwhelming amount of strength.
At this moment, he completely understood that this spirit qi-rich cuisine was not only useful for qi distillers, but it could also exert an excellent nutritional effect for the body distiller!
Old man Ma seemed to be moved by his conscience when he saw Chen Xi prolonged and did not speak, and he did not mutter the words that caused Chen Xi to be so embarrassed again as he directly asked. "Among the 14 cooking methods, how many do you remember?"
Talking about proper business caused Chen Xi's expression to finally return to normal, then he pondered and said, "I almost memorized them all. ”
"really?" Old man Ma's eyes suddenly opened wide.
Chen Xi thought for a moment, then nodded seriously.
However, Old Man did not believe it and pointed towards the stove. "You go to cook. Hmm, cook dried fried Inksoul scorpions. ”
"okay!" Chen Xi replied straightforwardly, and her actions were decisive. He arrived in front of the stove, then followed the memories in his mind to start cooking step by step.
Cleaning and cutting Inksoul Scorpion, blending herbs, controlling spirit fire …
Old man Ma stared at Chen Xi's methodical cooking method, and his originally hesitant expression slowly became astonished and astonished. Until he saw Chen Xi using True Essence to absorb the iron spoon into his hand, then controlling the iron woman and the iron skillet with proper and balanced strength, his gaze completely turned into surprise.
The steps are not the slightest bit different!
Old man Ma could not help but quietly said in his heart, when I started to study culinary arts, I failed more than ten times before barely reaching the level this fellow had reached now. Could it be that I have actually taken out a genius disciple with a shocking understanding in the Dao culinary?
His heart suddenly became excited as he thought up to here. Perhaps, the target that I cannot achieve can be realized by this person …
After time to burn the incense, a plate of Dried Fried Scorpions with a delicious texture of crispy meat came out of the pan.
Old man Ma rushed forward impatiently, then took the gentle Inksoul Scorpion and put it in his mouth. He fell into a trance after slowly chewing for a moment, the taste and purity level of this spirit energy .. It was the same as what he cooked!
Chen Xi could not help but be a little distracted, when she cooked before, there were many occasions she was barely able to control the rhythm of the spirit flames. Fortunately, his disposition was stable and firm, and he was neither rushed nor disturbed. This allowed him to pass through without any accidents and endure to the end.
“I intend to change the method of teaching you culinary arts. "After a while, old man Ma seemed to have considered it carefully and slowly he said," Mimicking just doesn't make things difficult for you. Since that is the case, start cooking your own dishes. ”
Chen Xi was shocked. "What should I do?"
“It's very simple. Take 1,308 of the most basic ingredients and cook your own dishes according to their attributes. ”
Old man Ma said nonchalantly, "As long as you can let it have its aroma and taste, and at the same time allow the spirit energy of the dish to reach its optimal level, so long as you can let it have its aroma and taste, You will be considered as a true 1 leaf spirit chef! "
Chen Xi felt that it was a little inappropriate. He had just become a spirit apprentice chef and had only memorized two books: The Ultimate Guide, Illustrations for Foodstuffs and Fire Collection. As for the culinary arts, he had only memorized the cooking steps of 14 kinds of dishes from imitating the others and did not have the slightest bit of foundation.
Under these circumstances, why would old man Ma make such a request?
"Just as the understanding and understanding of the Dao of the Heavens were different for each cultivator, the culinary arts of each spirit chef were different. ”
Old Man Ma said nonchalantly, "Your natural talent in the culinary Dao is shocking, instead of following my path, why don't you look for your own Dao culinary path !?"
Old man Ma's eyes once again emitted a light of fanaticism and longing as he spoke up to this point, then he suddenly turned to stare fixedly at Chen Xi's eyes and said in a low voice. “However, I will test you occasionally, and if you can't pass, then don't dream of getting your salary from Clear Stream Restaurant. ”
Chen Xi was flabbergasted, she suddenly felt abandoned, and clinging to him was a bloody exploitation.
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Inside the Quiet Room.
Could it be that the dried Inorpoul Scorpion I cooked tasted so bad? Did Ma's parents take revenge on me?
Chen Xi looked at the various materials stacked in the mountains surrounding him, then looked at the new stove and sparkling cooking utensils. His gaze was confused while his mind was filled with countless thoughts.
Only he was here, according to the intentions of old man Ma, unless he could cook his own dishes and reach the level of a 1-leaf spirit chef, otherwise, he could cook his own dishes, do not think of getting out of the Quiet Room.
This old goat had an eccentric nature, and he even acted very strangely! He's totally nuts!
Even with his tolerance, Chen Xi could not help but feel irritated when he recalled what Old Man Ma had said. I just want to get some spirit stones to help pay for my sister's tuition, I never thought of going through the culinary Dao path at all!
After feeling annoyed, Chen Xi quickly calmed down, then she looked at everything around her. He knew that continuing to grumble would be useless, instead it would be better to think of how to use these ingredients to cook dishes that satisfied Ma's parents, he said, then he could leave this damned Calm Room.
He walked over to the mountain material pile and carefully inspected them one by one.
If I want to become a 1-leaf spirit chef, then I will have to cook a suitable dish to feed a Postnatal Realm cultivator. Not only are the ingredients of different types, even their tastes are different from each other. It's important to distinguish between their attributes to complement each other, and I should really not let them contradict …
When Chen Xi became serious, she definitely had an extremely shocking explosive power. His mind spun in madness as he combined the knowledge he had learned from An Ultimate, the Illustrated Guide to Food Ingredients and began arranging piles of various ingredients.
After time for incense to burn.
All materials were arranged into two large stacks, each representing Yin and Yang attributes. Each large pile is further divided into five small sections that represent the five elements connected by metal, wood, water, earth, and fire. Each material with the same elemental attributes is further divided into several even smaller parts based on taste, growth environment, main materials, complementary materials, etc.
This process takes up almost a day of time, and for the sake of making sure there are no mistakes, he did not even hesitate to taste the blood of the savage beast that attacked his nose with the smell of blood and ingredients in the form of a liquid that had a very disgusting color. . His tongue was almost tormented by numbness from being stimulated by these various strange materials, and there were even several times he almost vomited from disgust.
However, when he saw the various ingredients appearing before him consecutively, Chen Xi felt a trace of satisfaction, and he did not care to wipe the sweat on his forehead before starting to calculate the method of making a new dish.
Time pass. Chen Xi stood up after a long time, then she picked up over ten ingredients before directly arriving at the stove.
Hissing!
After preparing the ingredients and seasonings, Chen Xi did not hesitate in the slightest when he started cooking, yet it was not even 15 minutes when the burning smell was removed from the bottom of the pan.
He had long since prepared to fail, so he was not surprised when he saw this. He placed the plate onto the jade plate then ate it with a bite.
The spiciness is too strong. The spirit energy of the Woad Flower and Wine Fragrance Fish was out of balance, it seemed like I had to use warm fire to roast them slowly …
It felt very strange, but Chen Xi did not seem to notice in the slightest as she chewed with a dazed expression, her mind fully involved in analyzing the reasons for the failure.
After finishing and cleaning, Chen Xi started cooking once again.
Five uneven elements, FAILURE!
Mistakes in seasoning, FAILURES!
Improperly prepared material, FAILURE!
Over-cooking techniques, True Essence disappeared, FAILURE!
…
After successively failing more than ten times, Chen Xi had already become completely unreasonable, as she swallowed the plate that failed to bite after bite, then calmly analyze the reasons for each failure before starting again. That calm and stiff face was expressionless, and he was like a machine that knew no fatigue as he repeated the same action.
Chen Xi was completely unaware that his spirit energy was not drained, but also like a puddle of water under a rainstorm, growing at a noticeable speed.