[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit-":3,"chapter-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ten Thousand Laws of the Occult, I Am the Spirit Sovereign",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2356196,4609,"Chapter 13: Secrets of the Six Teachings","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>In the old street of the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop, as night fell and it was time for everyone to eat dinner, chimneys were puffing out clouds of mist carrying various aromas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet from one house, the cooking smoke was so thick and intense that it surged toward the high sky like pillars of iridescent vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fortunate that the night sky \"swallowed\" the smoke in the end; otherwise, the potent poisons and aromas contained within would likely have caused quite a stir in the old street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one causing this scene was, naturally, the Jiao family's small courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the courtyard, things had been arranged quite decently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Single, double, and four-person dining tables were placed under the shade of the Human-Faced Peach trees and Beauty Willows; although somewhat eerie, it could certainly be called elegant, and one would imagine the experience of dining there would be vastly different from that of a crowded, bustling restaurant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the brand-new kitchen, the mechanical maid Red Bean was tending the fire for the chef. Aside from the steaming earthen stove and large pot, there were several other strange kitchen utensils emitting powerful heat. It would be difficult for an ordinary person to keep an eye on them all, but Red Bean was not human, after all, and multitasking was merely routine for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center, a long table was piled high with spiritual ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Li Yu was wearing a pained expression as he performed the preliminary processing on all the ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was opening the banquet at the Hour of the Rat tonight and serving dozens of spiritual dishes; naturally, he could not wait until all the diners had gathered to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost all the \"ingredients\" needed to be processed and cleaned first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, that sack of gloomy Black Toads had to be slaughtered and cleaned one by one, and their internal poison sacs removed; otherwise, when it came time to cook, the Black Toads, sensing the threat of death, would self-detonate, not only ruining their own flesh but also contaminating the other food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or take the river clams; even with his extraordinary culinary skills, it would take half an hour to extract the meat from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there were the poisonous insects, which Li Yu intended to use to boil the spiritual dish [Ten-Insect Porridge]; they had to be set to boil two hours in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trickiest of all was a bizarre spiritual dish called \"Hundred-Rat Stew.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main ingredient was the vicious rats unique to the Black Forest outside the city, which fed on various inferior, strange objects and contained all sorts of terrifying things within their bodies—yet the essence of this dish was precisely these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu had to get them drunk first, without even peeling off their fur, keeping them in a living state throughout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not until the stewing began would the various evil thoughts and strange objects emerge, converge, and fuse, with the original broth finally transforming the original food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To a mortal, there could be no dish in the world more disgusting than this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to the many evil cultivators, it was truly an extraordinary food with a rich flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These procedures!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were truly cumbersome, and the process was extremely painful and hard to endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While processing them, Li Yu also had to suppress the bodily mutations triggered by the temptation of the spirituality and aromas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, the Song of the Dish-Person began to echo incessantly, accompanied by vivid, intrusive imagery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This torture forced Li Yu to curse inwardly: \"I don't mind listening to music while cooking, but who the hell wants to listen to the Song of the Dish-Person?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, no matter how he cursed, he could not change this procedure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who told him to use the power of the Dish-Person?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true Dish-Person would likely be enjoying this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if a Sequence 8 Dish-Person of the Forbidden God path were truly in this kitchen, then the corresponding dishes would also change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ones Li Yu had selected actually belonged to niche, obscure culinary styles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang succeeded in their advancement and opened a private kitchen, then the dishes on the menu would all be related to \"making people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unknown how much time had passed when, with an angry shout, Li Yu pinned a water beast—which was entirely blue-black, shaped like a dragon, but only a meter long—firmly onto the chopping board, while his other hand grabbed the boning knife and swept across the beast's body with lightning speed a dozen times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon's cry ceased instantly; head and body were separated, scales fell away, and pieces of tender, strange dragon meat were laid out neatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were any onlookers for this craftsmanship, they would surely applaud loudly; it was no less impressive than the legendary butcher dismembering an ox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu, having finally finished preparing the ingredients, showed no signs of relaxation on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, his face was twisted in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"mutations\" all over his body were clearly visible; for instance, his hands had, at some point, transformed into ferocious claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because of this that he possessed the strength to suppress the strange dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must know that this ingredient was a specialty of the terrifying river valley outside the city, possessing immense strength; usually, two or three grown men could not hold it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the price for borrowing this strange power, Li Yu was transforming toward a Child of the Forbidden God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the diners had not yet arrived, and the formal cooking had not yet begun; it was not a good time, and he still needed to suppress it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the next moment, he took a ruthless hand to himself, expertly hacking a knife into his thigh, and while stopping Red Bean from coming over to bandage the wound, he began to consume a large amount of canned food he had set aside early on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A two-pronged approach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To soothe and suppress the stirrings of the Forbidden Egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he managed to make the strange symptoms subside, a continuous knocking began at the door, accompanied by some conversation:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sikong Nian, you fisherman, why aren't you at the bottom of the river eating mud? What are you doing running over here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe, my goal is the same as everyone else's: to eat spiritual food and watch the show.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What show?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Need you ask? That kid is clearly being parasitized; he could lose control of his cannibalistic urges and fall into a mutation at any moment. There's a good show to be seen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not just tie him up when the time comes and send him to the Forbidden God Sect to trade for some reward money?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Buddha above, why are you fellow Daoists so cruel? I, Old Pig, saw that couple's son during the day; he has an affinity with my Buddha and is perfectly suited to go to my Pig-Master Temple to become a flesh-body Buddha. Although he wouldn't be able to move, at least he'd be fed. That outcome is always much better than being taken by the Forbidden God Sect to be carved up and eaten.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last sentence clearly came from Zhu Zhishan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the strongest and had the greatest influence, and his words immediately choked the other diners into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, at this moment, the courtyard gate was opened by Red Bean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Yuan, Sikong Nian, Chen Canglu, and the other diners, seeing that Li Yu, a chef on the verge of death, had actually purchased such a beautiful mechanical maid for himself, could not help but show astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they were about to make a few jokes, their gazes were quickly drawn away by Li Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood at the kitchen entrance, completely letting go of his suppression while speaking to the diners:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please take your seats; the spiritual dishes will be ready soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before that, please make yourselves at home.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he finished speaking, the strange symptoms on Li Yu's body began to emerge one by one again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he did not hack at himself again but quickly turned back to the kitchen, beginning to cook those extraordinary spiritual dishes with intense focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among the diners, not one was obedient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering, they each took a spot in the courtyard and then openly stared into the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, according to the rules of the extraordinary world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must not spy when a fellow practitioner is performing techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the \"Dish-Person\" sequence; whether it was their methods and abilities or the influence of the path they belonged to, they were not to be trifled with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, even Zhu Zhishan, the abbot of the Pig-Master Temple, would choose to wait obediently for the food. However, the law of the jungle was also a rule, and these people all bullied Li Yu for being a man on the verge of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even knowing that they couldn't gain anything by spying, they still chose to watch openly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the scene that followed did not disappoint them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first dish!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep-fried Mountain Demon Brains!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw Li Yu, his four limbs already transformed into claws, darting like a phantom to the corner of the kitchen, where eight monsters resembling zombie monkeys were chained together—Mountain Demons, strange creatures native to the ancient Black Forest outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could let out a shriek, a snow-white blade flashed, and the skulls of all the Mountain Demons were lifted off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scarlet brains were exposed and quickly harvested by Li Yu, all placed into a large iron basin containing a pre-mixed, viscous paste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flipped them a few times to coat all the Mountain Demon brains, then simultaneously tossed them all into the oil pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sizzling sound erupted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three breaths?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or five breaths?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[9+Shu_ba]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An incredibly intense aroma wafted out from the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just by smelling a wisp of it, everyone, including \"Zhu Zhishan,\" revealed a salivating expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One white-bearded old man, the fortune teller Chen Canglu, shouted even louder:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So fragrant, truly a delicacy of the human world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I ordered this dish, everyone, don't be greedy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he shouted, before any dispute could arise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost immediately after, Li Yu suddenly lifted the lids of the strangely shaped steamers and stew pots on the large stove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the delicacies inside, several more joyful shouts rang out:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two-headed Strange Dog Stew, hahaha, what a fierce aroma, I ordered this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Peach Gum Stewed Jade Rabbit! That's mine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eight-Treasure Rice, what a profound aroma; I, Old Pig, am in for a treat tonight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone, sit down obediently and stop spying on that kid. Every time he finishes a spiritual dish, his body transforms one step further toward the complete [Child of the Forbidden God], becoming increasingly sensitive and ferocious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you get pounced on, dragged in, and slaughtered to be made into a spiritual dish, that's one thing, but if you ruin my treat tonight, that wouldn't be pleasant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhu Zhishan spoke, all the diners saw it clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu, who was rapidly finishing the spiritual dishes in the kitchen, was indeed in a state of frantic mutation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It started with his limbs, then his mouth and tongue—sharp teeth and a terrifying bloody tongue—and then it spread to his forehead, where two evil Forbidden God eyes opened, but that wasn't enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two more cracks appeared inexplicably above, tearing open to reveal two scarlet, strange eyeballs that rolled around, peering back at them with surging malice, as if extending an invitation to them to enter the pot and the plate...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neighborhood diners retreated one after another, then quickly took their seats, not daring to look around anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of them possessed extraordinary powers, and several were already infinitely close to [Sequence 8] of their respective divine paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they all knew clearly that once a freak like Li Yu, who had been parasitized, went completely insane, none of those present—except for Zhu Mei—would be a match for him in a one-on-one fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would dare to guarantee otherwise?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he scurried out to snatch people to cook, would the others reach out a helping hand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I fear most would only kick a man when he is down; after all, this is the simple-folk-filled Wanfu City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they sat down one by one, the first goal of Li Yu’s painstaking efforts to change his profession to a cook began to be realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group of evil-cultivator diners!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single one of them was actually deliberately chosen by Li Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, there was no shortage of chatterboxes and big-mouths who loved to leak secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the hunter Hong Sanquan, who spoke at this moment, was seen smiling as he cupped his hands toward the crowd:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow neighbors and Daoist friends, how has business been lately? Is everything going smoothly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's passable!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My tofu stall is right next to yours; can't you hear whether business is good or not, Brother Hong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you have any crap to spew, just say it sooner. Since when does a hunter like you care about our business?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though rebuffed by the neighbors, Hong Sanquan did not show the slightest bit of annoyance on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was entirely a thick-skinned person; it seemed this was the effect he had long desired, and he was already accustomed to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After everyone finished speaking, he mysteriously added:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, old Hong, am just caring about my neighbors. It’s a pity, though; such comfortable days are likely coming to an end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you all know, our Wanfu City has been coveted by the three kingdoms of Gan, Jing, and Li for many years. If not for the protection of the Tundra, the Black Forest, and the River Valley, it would have long been leveled by the five great orthodox divine sects.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, these three natural barriers don't seem very reliable. A few days ago, when I went outside the city to hunt 'people,' I heard something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A team of veteran Sequence 8 hunters encountered a group of [Meat-Winged Warriors] in the Wan Gui Tundra and were completely wiped out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You all know that these are transcendents of the Thunder God path mastered by the Haotian Sect. A single one could slaughter us all, but in the past, they were never able to cross those snow-capped mountains on the tundra. Now that they have suddenly appeared, Wanfu City may be facing a great disaster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he said these words, the group of evil-cultivator diners had not yet replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the kitchen, Li Yu, who was undergoing a frantic mutation, had those pairs of scarlet eyeballs involuntarily glance over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the third \"Truth Bubble\" slowly charging on his eye membrane surged forward a bit more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New transcendent knowledge!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meat-Winged Warrior... Haotian Sect, Thunder God path, Sequence 6.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the courtyard, the diners were completely unaware that the cook was eavesdropping; those few sentences from Hong Sanquan had completely opened the floodgates of conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were indeed carefully selected by Li Yu, and just as the ledger recorded, every one of them was a big-mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, here we go again. You hear wind and think it's rain; half the rumors on the old street come from your mouth, Hong Sanquan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if they really are Meat-Winged Warriors, so what? At most, they can only get here because they can fly, and they only dare to kill hunters like you who are struggling to make a living on the outskirts. Do they dare to actually approach Wanfu City? They can pick any of the four districts—East, South, West, or North—but I fear they would be caught and slaughtered within a few dozen miles. There is a reason why Wanfu City has stood for so many years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not afraid of Meat-Winged Warriors. I heard someone once saw a [Sword Immortal] wandering in the Terror River Valley from afar. That is a powerhouse of the Dangmo Sect’s Great Luo Golden Immortal path, Sequence 4. Even if they really broke into Wanfu City, they could kill their way through from south to north.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Haotian and Dangmo sects both come openly. The one we should really worry about is the Earth Mother Sect. This sect masters three divine paths: the Yin Son of Heaven, the Corpse God, and the Lingying Yuanjun. Practitioners of any of these paths can easily sneak into Wanfu City. For example, the [Corpse Collector], a Sequence 8 of the Corpse God path—I have always suspected that there are Earth Mother Sect spies hidden among those stray dogs that collect corpses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rest assured, as long as the Red God Sect, which specializes in war, doesn't move, Wanfu City is safe and sound. If that sect ever dispatches a powerhouse at the level of a Sequence 2 [Fluorescent War Immortal] to attack the city, I’ll flee overnight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2820,"2026-06-21T04:11:00.205Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","0fc26dc1b3ad1274d9182ec6d855a9e4b14748b7e0bd3106ac0d5f4cb5a1a729","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-14","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-12",427,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ften-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--cover.jpg"]