Chapter 98: Barbecue

After Lu Zhanfeng left, Zhang Xingyu stayed within the array, carefully studying the newly acquired secret technique, "Soul-Tethering Guide."

This secret technique, "Soul-Tethering Guide," was a method for capturing spirits, involving the use of incantations and God Yuan to carve mysterious runes to ensnare the souls of living beings.

Zhang Xingyu felt that this secret technique didn't seem very righteous. If he were to cultivate it just like that, he feared he would incur karma and bring down heavenly retribution upon himself.

Although the Immortal Dao he cultivated emphasized self-preservation.

However, under the Heavenly Dao, everything has karma, and all things have reincarnation.

Do not refrain from doing good because it is small, and do not do evil because it is small—this is the foundation of how a cultivator conducts themselves.

Killing demons for meat is fine, but killing demons to take their souls is absolutely forbidden.

Putting away the jade slip, Zhang Xingyu looked at the tiger shark corpse before him and couldn't help but shake his head.

The "Illustrated Handbook of Ten Thousand Demon Sea Beasts" described tiger shark meat as delicious but containing demon poison. To eat it, one had to roast it with spiritual fire to remove the poison. If eaten directly, one would be poisoned; the mildest outcome was death, and the worst was turning into a half-human, half-demon monster.

Although Senior Brother Lu Zhanfeng said this tiger shark meat was suitable for roasting, he hadn't mentioned using spiritual fire.

Was it that he forgot to say it, or did he intentionally omit it?

Fortunately, what Zhang Xingyu cultivated was fire-attribute Daoist arts. Spiritual fire was a piece of cake for him.

Under the night sky, beside the great array.

A ball of spiritual fire burned fiercely.

Consuming one perfect-quality low-grade fire talisman, Zhang Xingyu began his open-air barbecue.

His flying sword, Fire Meteor, was used as an iron skewer, threaded with a large string of tiger shark meat.

Under the roasting of the spiritual fire, wisps of black smoke rose from the tiger shark meat.

The black smoke stank unbearably, and Zhang Xingyu couldn't help but hold his breath.

Once the black smoke dissipated, a rich, meaty aroma gradually wafted from the tiger shark meat.

The spiritual fire burned out, and the meat turned golden; Zhang Xingyu gulped down his saliva.

Tearing off a piece of roasted meat and taking a sip of fine wine, he felt incredibly relaxed.

At the same time, the system's notification sound kept ringing in his mind.

"Ding-dong, Host has contributed one point of Spiritual Aura; Spiritual Aura is insufficient and cannot be converted into God Yuan."

"Ding-dong, Host has contributed one point of Spiritual Aura; Spiritual Aura is insufficient and cannot be converted into God Yuan."

Enjoyment, this truly is a rare enjoyment. Senior Brother Lu did not deceive me!

In the center of the small island, Lu Zhanfeng wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat down on a rock with a thud.

He took a bag of dry rations from his storage bag, took two bites, and drank two mouthfuls of water before recovering.

"Leading newcomers on a trial is truly suffering. Not only do I have to provide support everywhere, but I also have to chew dry rations and drink water. If it weren't for those two Foundation Establishment Pills, the ghost would want to come. How nice it is to cultivate at the academy," Lu Zhanfeng muttered to himself.

"It's a pity that the only bottle of Drunken Hundred Immortals I had was given to that piece of trash. He's already a dead man, yet he wasted a bottle of my fine wine. A pity, a pity," Lu Zhanfeng sighed inwardly.

"Forget it, for the sake of the Foundation Establishment Pills, what is a bottle of good wine? Calculating the time, that trash should have died from the poison by now; I must go over and take a look. No, it's better to send others. That way, it's easier to clear myself of suspicion," Lu Zhanfeng calculated in his heart.

Thinking of this, he called over two new students and told them to go see how Zhang Xingyu was doing.

After a while, the two new students returned to report that Zhang Xingyu was drinking and eating meat, and everything was normal.

Upon receiving the news, Lu Zhanfeng was delighted.

Eat, eat. It won't be long before you, this trash, die from the poison.

Another hour passed, and estimating that Zhang Xingyu should have died from the poison long ago, he sent the two new students to check again.

Two quarters of an hour later, the two new students returned to report that Zhang Xingyu was still drinking and eating meat, and everything was normal.

Strange, why hasn't he died from the poison after so long? Lu Zhanfeng was puzzled.

Another hour passed, and Lu Zhanfeng couldn't help it; he sent two other new students to check.

Not long after, the two new students returned to report that Zhang Xingyu was over there roasting tiger shark meat, and everything was normal.

Having eaten so much tiger shark meat, he still hasn't been poisoned to death? Could that trash be immune to all poisons? Lu Zhanfeng was extremely strange.

Seeing the sky brightening, Lu Zhanfeng could no longer sit still.

This time, he would go see for himself what was going on.

Beside the great array, the spiritual fire was burning brightly, and the shark meat was sizzling.

A burst of meaty aroma rushed toward him, and Lu Zhanfeng couldn't help but twitch his nose.

This kid, how did he know to use spiritual fire to roast the meat?

Inside the great array, a tiger shark weighing several hundred catties was reduced to nothing but a skeleton.

"Senior Brother, good morning! Come and taste the tiger shark meat I roasted!" Zhang Xingyu shouted an invitation when he saw him coming.

"Junior Brother is enjoying himself, actually using spiritual fire to roast meat." Lu Zhanfeng didn't stand on ceremony and took some to eat.

Zhang Xingyu nodded and said, "Demon beast meat needs to be roasted with spiritual fire; this can remove the demon poison in the meat while keeping it fresh and tender."

Lu Zhanfeng said with a straight face, "I never thought there were such tricks to roasting meat. The last time I ate this meat was when the Senior Brother roasted it. I never imagined he used spiritual fire. Roasting meat with spiritual fire is truly too wasteful."

While Lu Zhanfeng spoke, he swallowed large mouthfuls of the roasted tiger shark meat.

After finishing a skewer of roasted tiger shark meat, he licked his tongue and said, "Such a small skewer isn't enough to satisfy me. Junior Brother, do you have any more spiritual fire? Can you roast two more pieces?"

Zhang Xingyu chuckled and pointed casually, "Senior Brother, I have plenty of spiritual fire, but this tiger shark meat has already been eaten up."

Lu Zhanfeng followed his finger and saw that the tiger shark, which weighed several hundred catties, had already turned into an empty skeleton.

Lu Zhanfeng looked at Zhang Xingyu as if he had seen a ghost: "Junior Brother, such a heavy tiger shark, you roasted and ate it all by yourself?"

Zhang Xingyu nodded and said, "Yes. This tiger shark meat melts in the mouth; I ate the whole thing and still don't feel full. Today, I must catch two more to roast."

Lu Zhanfeng shook his head and said, "Junior Brother, you have the potential to become a glutton."

Zhang Xingyu quickly corrected him: "Senior Brother, your word choice is inaccurate; you should say I have the potential to be a big eater."

Lu Zhanfeng left, walking slowly with a dejected expression.

A headache. If I can't poison him to death, I'll have to think of another way, Lu Zhanfeng thought.

After Lu Zhanfeng left, Zhang Xingyu tidied up a bit and prepared to welcome the arrival of a new day.

Replacing the array with new spirit stones, Zhang Xingyu returned to the array and sat down.

Closing his eyes, he inhaled slowly and exhaled slowly.

His body and mind relaxed, and his soul entered the ethereal realm once again.

The sun rose slowly, and the fire-attribute Spiritual Aura gradually became dense.

Inside his dantian, a miniature fire phoenix sang with its neck stretched high, then spread its wings to fly.

Then, it flew into the first layer of meridians, then the second, the third...

Every time it flew through a layer of meridians, it grew a bit larger.

Flying through the sixth layer of meridians, the fire phoenix had already grown a circle larger.

Its cries grew louder, and it flew faster and faster.

"Boom—"

A flame erupted from the fire phoenix's mouth, burning the gate of the seventh layer of Qi Refining into ashes once again.

The fire phoenix shrieked and broke into the seventh layer of meridians again.

Having burned through two barriers in a row, the fire phoenix exhausted its fire power and turned back to fly into the dantian.

"Zhang Xingyu, Zhang Xingyu..."

Outside the great array, someone was shouting Zhang Xingyu's name loudly.

Zhang Xingyu woke up from the ethereal realm and roared angrily: "Who, who is disturbing my sleep?"

"Zhang Xingyu, it's good that you're awake. Senior Brother Lu Zhanfeng wants you to go to the center of the island immediately; he has something to discuss with you." After saying this, the person didn't even meet Zhang Xingyu and walked back quickly. ===== CHAPTER 99 =====