Chapter 13: Secrets of the Six Sects

In the old street of the Heavenly Machine Workshop, at night, it was the time for every family to have dinner, and chimneys were puffing out misty air with different fragrances.

It was just that in one family, the smoke and fire were so strong that they surged into the high sky like columns of rainbow-colored gas.

It was fortunate that the night sky "swallowed" the smoke, otherwise the highly toxic and fragrant air contained within would probably have caused quite a stir on the old street.

The one causing this scene was naturally the Jiao family courtyard.

The courtyard had been arranged quite decently.

Single, double, and four-person dining tables were placed under the shade of the human-face peach tree and beauty willow, respectively. Although it was a bit eerie, it could be called elegant. It was thought that the dining experience of sitting there would be vastly different from that of a crowded grand restaurant.

In the brand-new kitchen, the mechanical maid Hongdou was burning fire for the chef. Besides the hot earthen stove and large pot, there were also some strange kitchen utensils that emitted powerful heat. It was difficult for ordinary people to look after them, but Hongdou was not a human after all, and multitasking was just normal.

And in the center, there was a long table piled with spiritual ingredients.

At this moment, Li Yu was in pain, performing preliminary processing on all the ingredients.

He was opening a banquet at the Zi hour tonight and supplying dozens of Spirit Foods, so naturally, he couldn't wait until all the diners gathered to start.

Almost all "ingredients" needed to be processed and cleaned first.

For example, the bag of gloomy black toads had to be slaughtered and cleaned one by one, and the poison sacs in their bodies had to be removed. Otherwise, when cooking, the black toads, feeling the threat of death, would explode directly, not only ruining their own flesh but also contaminating other food.

Or the river clams, even if he used extraordinary culinary skills, it would take half an hour to take out the clam meat.

And those poisonous insects, which Li Yu prepared to use to boil the Spirit Food 【Ten-Insect Porridge】, had to be boiled two hours in advance.

The trickiest one was a strange Spirit Food called "Hundred-Rat Stew."

The main ingredient was the evil rat unique to the black forest outside the city, which fed on all kinds of inferior strange things, and there were all kinds of terrible things in its body. However, the essence of this dish was these things.

Li Yu had to get them drunk first, and couldn't even peel off their fur, always keeping them in a living state.

Until the stewing started, all kinds of evil-thought strange things came out, gathered and merged, and finally, the original soup transformed the original food.

For ordinary people, there was no dish in the world more disgusting than this.

But for many evil cultivators, it was an extraordinary food with a rich taste.

These procedures!

Were really cumbersome, and the process was extremely painful and unbearable.

While Li Yu was processing, he also had to suppress the transformation of his shell, which was tempted by spirituality and fragrance.

In his mind, the Cai Ren song kept echoing, and relevant scenes were thoughtfully floating up.

This kind of torture forced Li Yu to curse in his heart: "I don't object to listening to songs while cooking, but who the hell wants to listen to the Cai Ren song?"

Unfortunately, no matter how much he cursed, he couldn't change this procedure.

Who told him to use the power of Cai Ren?

A true Cai Ren should be enjoying this moment.

Of course, if a Forbidden God path Sequence Eight Cai Ren were in this kitchen, the corresponding dishes would also change.

These dishes Li Yu chose actually belonged to the niche and minority category.

If Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang succeeded in their promotion and opened a private kitchen, the dishes on the menu would all be related to "making people."

I don't know how much time passed, but with an angry shout, Li Yu pressed a water beast that was blue-black all over, shaped like a dragon, but only a meter long, onto the cutting board, and with the other hand, picked up the boning knife and slashed across the beast's body more than a dozen times extremely quickly.

The dragon's cry stopped, the head and body separated, the scales fell off, and pieces of pink strange dragon meat were neatly arranged.

If there were bystanders for this skill, they would definitely shout "good." Even the butcher dismembering an ox was nothing more than this.

Li Yu, who finally finished preparing the vegetables, had no look of relaxation on his face at this time.

On the contrary, his face was twisted in pain.

The "mutations" all over his body were clearly visible. For example, his pair of hands had turned into ferocious claws at some point.

It was also because of this that he possessed the power to suppress the strange dragon.

You must know that this ingredient was a specialty of the terrifying river valley outside the city, with infinite strength. Usually, two or three big men couldn't hold it down.

As the price for borrowing strange powers, Li Yu was transforming toward the Child of the Forbidden God.

However, the diners hadn't arrived yet, and the formal cooking hadn't started. Now was not a good time, and he still needed to suppress it.

So the next moment, he saw him take ruthless action on himself again, chopping his thigh with a knife extremely skillfully. While preventing Hongdou from coming up to wrap the wound, he began to eat a large amount of canned food that had been placed aside early.

Double-pronged approach!

Soothe and suppress the wriggling of the Forbidden Egg.

It was just that as soon as he made the strange state disappear, the knocking on the door began to ring continuously, and at the same time, some conversations came:

"Sikong Nian, you fisherman, why don't you go to the bottom of the river to eat rotten mud, why did you run here?"

"Hehe, my goal is the same as everyone else's, to eat Spirit Food and watch the fun."

"What fun?"

"Need I say more? That kid looks like he's been parasitized, and he might degenerate and transform at any time because he can't suppress his desire to eat people. There's some fun to watch."

"Why don't we team up to tie him up when the time comes and send him to the Forbidden God Sect to exchange for some reward money."

"Buddha is above, why are you fellow Daoists so cruel? Old Pig saw the son of that couple during the day, and he has a fate with my Buddha. He is extremely suitable to go to my Pig Master Temple to be a Flesh Buddha. Although he can't move, at least he can eat his fill. The outcome is always much better than being taken by the Forbidden God Sect to be eaten."

The last sentence was obviously from Zhu Mei.

He had the strongest strength and the greatest influence, and one sentence directly choked the other diners so they didn't dare to say more.

Fortunately, at this time, the courtyard door was opened by Hongdou.

Cui Yuan, Sikong Nian, Chen Canglu, and other diners saw Li Yu, the chef who was about to die, actually buy such a beautiful mechanical maid for himself, and couldn't help but show astonishment.

Just as they were about to tease him, their eyes were quickly attracted by Li Yu.

He stood at the kitchen door, completely letting go of the suppression, and said to the diners:

"Everyone!"

"Please take your seats directly. The Spirit Food dishes will be ready soon."

"Before that, please make yourselves at home."

When he finished speaking, the strange state on Li Yu's body began to emerge one by one again.

This time, he didn't chop himself again, but quickly returned to the kitchen, extremely focused, and began to formally cook the extraordinary Spirit Food.

And the group of diners didn't have a single one who listened obediently.

After coming in, each of them occupied a position in the courtyard, and then openly looked into the kitchen.

According to the rules of the extraordinary world!

One must not peek when fellow Daoists are performing arts.

Especially the "Cai Ren" sequence, whether it was the means and skills, or the forces of the path, they were not to be trifled with.

Normally, even Zhu Mei, the abbot of the Pig Master Temple, would choose to wait for the food obediently. However, the law of the jungle was also a rule, and these people all bullied Li Yu because he was about to die.

Even if they knew they couldn't gain anything even if they peeked, they still chose to watch openly.

And the scene they saw next didn't disappoint them.

The first dish!

Deep-Fried Mountain Demon Brain!

Li Yu's four limbs had turned into claws, and he darted to the corner of the kitchen like a phantom. There, eight zombie-like monkey monsters were tied side by side with iron chains. Mountain Demon, a strange specialty from the ancient black forest outside the city.

Before they could scream, a snow-white blade light flashed, and the skulls of all the Mountain Demons were lifted.

The scarlet brain matter was exposed, and Li Yu quickly picked it up and put it all into a large iron basin, which contained sticky paste that had already been stirred.

He only flipped it a few times to coat all the Mountain Demon brains with paste, and then almost simultaneously picked all the brain matter into the oil pan.

A crackling sound exploded!

Three breaths?

Or five breaths?

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An extremely rich fragrance drifted out from the kitchen.

Just by smelling a wisp, everyone, including "Zhu Mei," showed a look of drooling.

An old man with a white beard, the fortune teller Chen Canglu, shouted even louder:

"So fragrant, it really is a human delicacy."

"I ordered this dish, everyone don't be greedy."

After he shouted, no dispute occurred.

Almost immediately after, Li Yu suddenly lifted the lids of the strange-looking steamers and stew pots on the large stove.

Seeing the delicacies inside, several more joyful shouts rang out:

"Two-Headed Strange Dog Pot, hahahaha, what a fierce taste, I ordered it."

"Peach Gum Stewed Jade Rabbit! It's mine."

"Eight-Treasure Rice, what a mysterious fragrance, I, Old Pig, have a treat tonight."

"Hmm?"

"Everyone, fellow Daoists, sit down obediently and don't peek at that kid anymore. Every time he completes a Spirit Food now, his shell transforms one fraction toward the complete 【Child of the Forbidden God】, and he becomes more sensitive and ferocious."

"It's nothing if you are rushed out and caught to be slaughtered and made into Spirit Food, but if you ruin my treat tonight, that won't be beautiful."

When Zhu Mei spoke, all the diners saw it clearly.

Li Yu, who was quickly completing Spirit Food in the kitchen, was indeed in a state of crazy mutation.

Initially it was the four limbs, then the mouth and tongue, sharp teeth, terrifying blood tongue, and then it spread to the forehead, where two Forbidden God eyes full of evil were opened, and that wasn't enough.

Above, two more cracks appeared inexplicably, tearing open, and two scarlet strange eyeballs rolled around, peeking back, with surging malice, as if sending an invitation to them, to enter the pot and the plate...

The diners on the street retreated one after another, then quickly took their seats, and didn't dare to look around anymore.

Each of them possessed extraordinary strange powers, and a few were infinitely close to the 【Sequence Eight】 of their respective paths to godhood.

But they all knew that a freak like Li Yu who was parasitized, once he went completely crazy, in a one-on-one situation, except for Zhu Mei, none of them were his opponents.

Who could guarantee?

When he rushed out to catch people to cook, would the others extend a helping hand?

I'm afraid most of them would kick someone when they are down. After all, this is the simple and honest Wanfu City.

As they took their seats one by one, the first goal of Li Yu, who had racked his brains to switch to a chef, also began to be realized.

This group of evil cultivator diners!

Each one was actually deliberately chosen by Li Yu.

Among them, there was no lack of chatterboxes and big mouths who loved to leak secrets.

For example, the hunter Hong Sanquan, who was speaking at this time, smiled and bowed to everyone:

"Fellow Daoists on the street, how is your business recently? Is everything going smoothly?"

"Not bad!"

"My tofu stall is right next to yours, can't you hear whether the business is good or not, Brother Hong?"

"If you have any fart to let, let it out early. Since when does a hunter care about our business?"

Being retorted by the neighbors, Hong Sanquan didn't show any annoyance on his face.

He was completely shameless, as if this was the effect he had wanted for a long time, and it had become a habit.

After everyone finished speaking, he mysteriously continued:

"Old Hong, I'm just caring about the neighbors. It's a pity, this kind of comfortable life might be coming to an end."

"Everyone knows that our Wanfu City has been coveted by the three countries of Gan, Jing, and Li for many years. If it weren't for the protection of the frozen plain, black forest, and river valley, I'm afraid it would have been leveled by the five major righteous sects long ago."

"But these three natural moats don't seem to be very safe. A few days ago, when I went outside the city to hunt 'people,' I heard something."

"A team of Sequence Eight old hunters encountered a group of 【Meat-Winged Warriors】 in the Wan-Strange Frozen Plain and were wiped out directly."

"Everyone knows that this is an extraordinary person of Sequence Six of the Thunder God path mastered by the Haotian Sect. A single one could kill us all. But in the past, they couldn't cross the snow mountains on the frozen plain. Now that they have suddenly appeared, Wanfu City is in great danger."

After he said this, the group of evil cultivator diners hadn't replied yet.

In the kitchen, Li Yu, who was crazily mutating, had those scarlet eyeballs glancing over involuntarily.

At the same time, on his eye membrane, the third "Truth Bubble" that was slowly recharging jumped a section again.

New extraordinary knowledge!

Meat-Winged Warrior... Sequence Six of the Haotian Sect's Thunder God path.

In the courtyard, the diners didn't know at all that the chef was eavesdropping. Those few sentences of Hong Sanquan completely opened the chatterbox.

As expected, they were all carefully selected by Li Yu, and they were indeed big mouths as recorded in the ledger.

"Heh, here we go again, listening to the wind and rain. Half of the rumors on the old street come from your mouth, Hong Sanquan."

"Even if it's really a Meat-Winged Warrior, so what? At most, they can only come over because they can fly, and they only dare to kill hunters like you who are making a living on the periphery. Do they dare to really approach Wanfu City? They can choose any of the four districts of East, West, South, and North. I'm afraid they would be caught and slaughtered if they approached within dozens of miles. Wanfu City has stood for many years without falling, and there is a reason for it."

"I'm not afraid of the Meat-Winged Warrior. I heard that someone once saw a 【Sword Immortal】 wandering in the terrifying river valley from afar. That is a powerhouse of Sequence Four of the Dangmo Sect's Great Luo Golden Immortal path. Even if they really broke into Wanfu City, they could kill from South to North."

"The Haotian and Dangmo sects are coming openly. What we should really worry about is the Dimu Sect. This sect masters three paths to godhood: Yin Son of Heaven, Corpse God, and Lady Lingying. No matter which path's practitioners are, they are very easy to mix into Wanfu City. For example, the Sequence Eight 【Corpse Collector】 of the Corpse God path, I have always suspected that there are Dimu Sect spies hidden among those wild dogs that collect corpses."

"Don't worry, as long as the Chishen Sect, which excels in war, doesn't move, Wanfu City will be safe. If one day this sect sends a powerhouse of Sequence Two 【Mars War Immortal】 level to attack the city, I will flee overnight."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 14 =====