Chapter 25: I Added an Immortal Pill (Revised)

"Hahaha... the little thing really does have some sort of reliance. Even though you were clearly scared out of your wits, you still dare to use a provocation tactic on me."

"Your culinary skills? You merely borrowed the power of the lowest-level human-dish, while I have cultivated in this sequence for many years, often praying to my great Lord and receiving His spiritual response. Where do you find the qualifications to compare yourself to me?"

"As for why this dish is called the Jade Maiden Feast?"

"Could it be that you don't know the sequence following the sequence eight [Courtesan] of the Lust Cult's evil god path is called [Jade Maiden]?"

This time, it was Li Yu's turn to be mocked with sound logic.

Of course, he also gained something from this; new secrets reached his ears, and the fourth truth bubble gained a significant amount of charge.

At the same time, he opened his mouth to retort to Yi Ya:

"This is exactly where your culinary skills are lacking."

"That Cui Yuan is currently far from being a sequence seven Jade Maiden, she isn't even a sequence eight Courtesan; she is merely unranked."

"Her body has never undergone transformation, and aside from various lust-toxin pollutions, there isn't a shred of Jade Maiden wondrous Qi within her. Although you peeled her skin and used the power of the human-dish to remove those impurities, making it barely count as a decent spiritual food, it absolutely cannot be called a [Jade Maiden Feast]. You should change the name."

After saying these things, Li Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He was truly becoming a bit unhinged.

He was now able to talk about these things with ease, and quite persuasively at that.

As his voice fell, he was released by Yi Ya.

He saw this terrifying evil cultivator from the Forbidden God Sect suddenly treat the Jade Maiden Feast in his hand, along with Cui Yuan's skin, like trash, tossing them onto the ground at will.

He then looked at Li Yu with a strange, appreciative gaze, clapping his hands in admiration:

"Good, good, good!"

"You really didn't lie. Your compatibility with the [Forbidden Egg] must be extremely high for you to have such insight."

"Come to think of it, this 'egg-planting ground' only had its mark removed a few years ago. It seems a pair of useless meat-selling wretches raised a child of the Forbidden God for over a decade without maturing it. We all thought those two were gluttonous and couldn't resist eating it themselves."

"Who would have thought it was hiding such a surprise?"

"Hurry up and take out your reliance. Once I deal with it and make you lose all hope, I will take you back. Who knows, you might become a stroke of fortune for me, hahaha..."

Yi Ya smiled brightly, clearly having seen through Li Yu's uniqueness.

His gaze flickered toward Li Yu's abdomen from time to time, full of curiosity.

Unfortunately, he did not have Li Yu's ability to "analyze all things," so naturally, he could not see through the fact that there was no Forbidden Egg inside at all.

Furthermore, he couldn't smell it either, because the essence of the Forbidden Egg had been refined into Li Yu's body, and in the end, that portion of the inheritance had also been left behind.

In a certain sense!

Li Yu was both a defective version and a perfect version of the Forbidden God's child.

And with these few words from Yi Ya, Li Yu felt a surge of joy in his heart.

He had suppressed his power, holding it back, and played along with this perverted scholar for so long precisely for this moment.

If they were to fight face-to-face, even though Li Yu was already a proper sequence eight [Elixir Disciple], he would be no match for a human-dish who had been immersed in this for years and possessed harvesting experience.

Even with the mechanical maid, who had recovered some functions and possessed the "Chainsaw Sword Art," it would be the same.

But if he utilized Yi Ya's weaknesses, consistently feigning weakness, letting the opponent believe he was in complete control, enjoying the pleasure of the hunt, and incidentally guiding him to talk about culinary arts and spiritual food while belittling and provoking him, there was a chance to make him fall into a trap.

Now, the opportunity had arrived.

Li Yu slowly climbed to his feet, patted off the dust, his face first showing self-doubt, then revealing a look of determination:

"I was parasitized by that thing. Aside from the extraordinary culinary skills it granted me, everything else has made my life a living hell."

"If I am to be killed, it can be considered a release."

"But before that, I hope to make one more self-created spiritual food. After you finish eating it and provide some critique, then you can strike."

Just as he finished speaking.

The elegant, posturing cannibal scholar before him nodded directly and smiled, exposing him:

"So you want to use the extraordinary culinary skills bestowed upon you by my great Lord to poison me?"

"A self-created spiritual food? This is even more rare. An immature Forbidden God's child has the ability to create their own spiritual food?"

"Hurry up and make it; I must taste it."

Yi Ya laughed heartily, the gaze sweeping over him filled with the absolute confidence of someone who controlled everything.

It was no wonder!

Before he came, he had slaughtered many evil cultivators.

And these evil cultivator diners knew Li Yu's "state" like the back of their hands.

In Yi Ya's eyes, Li Yu's threat was not even as great as those mature Forbidden God's children he had dealt with at will.

As for being poisoned by spiritual food?

Heh, one must know he was a veteran human-dish of the Forbidden God Sect; if that were truly the outcome, he would be laughed to death by others.

Seeing that he had agreed, Li Yu immediately went to the storage room, brought out a wooden box—the very one that had held the toxic minerals—and then headed to the kitchen.

Before entering, he instructed Hong Dou:

"Keep an eye on him, don't let him peek at my recipe."

"Yes, Master!"

This dialogue between master and servant unsurprisingly drew a sneer from Yi Ya.

Soon, he could no longer laugh.

Because not long after, astonishing aromas began to drift out from the kitchen.

Even a human-dish like him, who was skilled in cooking humans and had eaten a vast amount of spiritual food over the years, had never smelled such a fragrance.

A look of shock appeared on his face for the first time.

"So fragrant!"

"What kind of spiritual food is this? Did this brat really create an extraordinary spiritual food?"

"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle."

Practitioners of the Forbidden God Sect, from low to high, regardless of their sequence, were all gluttons.

They were simply unable to resist the temptation of fine food.

Yi Ya had already eaten his fill last night and this morning, his stomach rounded out by Li Yu's various evil cultivator neighbors, but at this moment, it still let out a sound, and his mouth was flooded with saliva.

If not for his belief in his own decorum and his disdain for peeking at Li Yu's cooking, he would have already kicked the mechanical maid aside and broken into the kitchen to steal a bite.

Fortunately, it was soon.

Just as Yi Ya was getting so impatient he was about to claw at his ears, Li Yu emerged, holding a pot of thick soup that shimmered with various colors, its soul-intoxicating fragrance instantly filling the entire courtyard.

The mist rising from the soup even condensed into palm-sized auspicious clouds above it.

Spiritual foods all have anomalies.

But one like this was rare.

"This soup is called Nine-Turn Immortal-Ascension Soup, it is something I..."

"Hahaha, you don't need to say more. I have a technique called 'Spirit Tongue' that can taste all flesh and ingredients; the secrets of your meat soup cannot be hidden from me."

As if to compete with Li Yu, Yi Ya lost his original composure in his urgency, snatching the pot of thick soup from Li Yu's hands with both hands.

Ignoring the fact that it was still bubbling, he tilted his head back, opened his mouth wide, and poured it down.

In the blink of an eye, the pot of thick soup, in which the ingredients were no longer distinguishable, had all entered Yi Ya's stomach.

It was unknown just how delicious it was; he revealed a look of utter satisfaction, his entire body flushed, trembling with pleasure, while he began to count the ingredients he had tasted.

The first one he mentioned was to mock Li Yu.

"Neurotoxic brain matter, hahaha, it was condensed from the residual evil Qi of your deadbeat father, wasn't it? You sold some to a diner last night; after I ate him, I tasted it too, and the flavor wasn't bad."

"It can indeed poison many people, but that does not include me."

"Hmm, what else... Seven-Ring Lotus, Centipede Crab, some poisonous insects, Blood Ganoderma, dead rats... eh?"

"What are these flavors? There are some that make one feel like they are ascending to heaven, and others that make the soul feel at peace? I have never eaten these... ah!"

"You little beast, what did you feed me?"

Without any warning, an anomaly that Yi Ya had never expected suddenly erupted within his body.

First, ulcerations appeared all over his skin, growing pus-filled sores and emitting a foul stench; then, his torso and limbs began to deform, and it felt as if a fierce, evil Qi inside him had begun to rampage, seeking an exit to vent, but finding none.

Finally, this evil Qi decided to move upward, and with a muffled sound, Yi Ya's skull was ripped off with extreme brutality.

As flesh, bone fragments, and brain matter flew everywhere.

An auspicious cloud of mist rose from within. Seeing this scene, Li Yu did not show any joy; instead, the killing intent in his eyes only increased.

Having inherited the original body's memories, Li Yu knew very well how tenacious the vitality of a human-dish was.

Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang had once said with great envy: "The combat power of the human-dish sequence might not be as good as the Blood Soldier types, but they are harder to kill. Even if their heads are cut off, as long as they are reattached within a short time, they can survive."

Therefore, at this moment, Li Yu ignored Yi Ya's roar and questioning, lunging straight at him.

And Yi Ya finally regained his senses.

Regret and hatred surfaced in his eyes as he kicked out at Li Yu with a force that could kill a tiger or leopard, roaring ferociously: "You little beast, I will eat you! I will eat you from head to toe without leaving a single drop!"

With a muffled 'bang', Li Yu took the kick head-on; if it had been the former him, he would likely have been crippled by this single blow.

But he was now an Elixir Disciple, and aside from feeling great pain, he was otherwise fine. After steadying himself, he rolled forward and slammed into Yi Ya, actually pinning him to the ground.

He opened his mouth wide, his upper and lower teeth clashing, sparks flying.

Seeing this scene, Yi Ya's entire soul was roaring.

An extremely intense "omen of death," which he had never felt before, erupted.

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I will die!

I will die at the hands of this person!

Although it was unbelievable, Yi Ya was, after all, an evil cultivator who had murdered and cannibalized countless people, and his reaction speed was far beyond what Li Yu could compare to.

In an instant, he transformed.

His eyes bulged, his muscles surged, and his skin split open from top to bottom, spraying venomous pus and blood; sharp teeth and a bloody tongue sprouted, and his topmost mouth split open limitlessly toward the back of his head, truly becoming a gaping maw of blood. Amidst the splashing saliva, he simultaneously lunged to bite at Li Yu’s body.

Seeing this, Li Yu had no choice but to let go; being bitten by a "human vegetable" was no joke, as it came with full-blown toxic contamination.

Yi Ya had intended to pursue and kill, but just as he rose.

Complex sensations of feeling ethereal and then crazed and dazed surged within him, causing his movements to become sluggish.

What was worse, at this very moment, Li Yu’s incredibly disgusting voice drifted over, answering his previous doubts.

Out of an obsession with spirit food recipes, even at such a moment, he could not help but focus his mind to listen.

But just by listening, he completely lost his way out.

"It’s a spirit elixir!"

"I added the Wonderful Qi Great Elixir that can help one ascend to immortality."

"You are a seasoned, old human vegetable; you certainly can't be poisoned to death, so I didn't intend to kill you with poison, just permanently ruin your human vegetable body so you would switch to another path of cultivation."

"Of course, the price of switching paths recklessly must be borne by you, senior."

Upon hearing halfway, Yi Ya went mad.

"You changed my path?"

"You fed me a different secret medicine recipe?"

Yi Ya’s face was full of disbelief, his features twisted, and the fear and anger that only appear after suffering a great catastrophe surfaced.

Amidst his roars, Yi Ya let his rage and killing intent occupy his heart and soul, losing every last bit of reason. His body seemed to expand without limit, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a two-meter-tall, fat, fleshy monster covered in sharp teeth and bloody tongues, with toxic blood like arrows, grinning with a gaping maw of blood, and pounced toward Li Yu like a ghost.

In the middle of this, a coroner’s blade, shimmering with a cold light and shaped like a scalpel, suddenly appeared in one of his hands.

Just by looking at it, an image seemed to surface in Li Yu’s mind of himself being meticulously sliced into pieces of uniform thickness and laid flat across the floor.

Immediately recalling that this fellow truly possessed a terrifying sword art, Li Yu’s expression turned solemn, thinking about whether he should strike first and bring out his trump card.

But soon, he didn't need to.

It was this Yi Ya, who only looked ahead and ignored what was behind, staring only at Li Yu while completely forgetting there was still a mechanical maid behind him.

Even before Li Yu could shout "Hong Dou," the chilling, vibrating sound of a chainsaw sword had already rung out behind Yi Ya.

Even more terrifying was that, accompanied by a burst of steam, the speed at which Hong Dou erupted in the next breath was not the least bit weaker than Yi Ya’s, and was even a fraction faster.

Chainsaw Sword Art!

And so, before Yi Ya could reach Li Yu, his massive body was first ravaged by Hong Dou.

"Screech!"

"Screech, screech, screech."

Following the teeth-aching sound of vibrating cuts, the arm Yi Ya was using to hold the blade was chopped off by Hong Dou in the blink of an eye, crashing to the ground.

By rights, at this point, Yi Ya should have left Li Yu to fight Hong Dou.

But he didn't; he actually ignored everything and, like a madman, continued to kill toward Li Yu.

If he couldn't use his blade art, he would use hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing this, Li Yu immediately began to dodge and weave, creating space while avoiding him, making it convenient for his maid to use her cold, heartless Chainsaw Sword Art to carve up Yi Ya’s massive body.

"The effect is surprisingly good."

"Is this fellow completely insane?"

Li Yu felt a surge of doubt.

He was not a follower of the Forbidden God Sect, nor was he a true human vegetable, so how could he understand the value a devout Forbidden God cultivator placed on their human vegetable body?

Li Yu had utilized Yi Ya’s arrogance and underestimation of his opponent to feed him a semi-finished secret medicine for elixir disciples, forcing him to switch paths.

For Yi Ya, this was nothing short of a catastrophe.

From this day forward, not only would he be unable to advance to Sequence Seven [Blood Slave].

What was even more unforgivable was that he had blasphemed.

Even if it was passive, even if he had been deceived, it did not change the facts.

That was why he had gone mad, desperate to eat Li Yu at any cost.

So much so that he completely failed to notice that his opponents were not what he imagined: a young, immature Child of the Forbidden God and a weak mechanical maid.

This pair of master and servant were both acting.

During the few breaths he lost his reason, Li Yu played "kite" while Hong Dou was responsible for cutting with her sword art.

Before long, watching Hong Dou’s chainsaw sword about to strike Yi Ya’s thigh, a bloody, oversized "human pig" was about to be born.

The medicinal effects and madness within Yi Ya finally passed, and he gave a violent shudder, suddenly snapping back to his senses.

With his reason returned, he realized his situation in the blink of an eye.

The ruthlessness and decisiveness of a veteran executioner of many years were fully revealed at this moment.

He didn't even look at Li Yu again, nor did he go to retrieve his coroner’s blade; instead, he gritted his teeth and self-detonated.

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, flesh and blood erupted across the sky.

Every scrap of meat, every drop of pus and blood, contained terrifying poison.

As a fellow Forbidden God sect member, the forbidden meat Yi Ya had eaten was likely far more than what Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang had consumed combined, so the meat toxins in his body were naturally not ordinary.

Seeing this turn of events, Hong Dou naturally followed her instincts to protect her master.

She did not notice, or was unable to attend to, a truly ghostly "blood skeleton" that was attempting to flee the Jiao family courtyard amidst the rain of blood.

Poor Yi Ya, this human vegetable specifically responsible for harvesting forbidden eggs, had been trapped by a brat like Li Yu today; he didn't even dare to utter harsh words as he fled, fearing he might startle him.

Even more pitifully, he couldn't escape at all.

Just as he darted out a few meters, about to reach the courtyard gate.

He turned his head, sensing something, and saw the young man who had been so submissive just a moment ago now standing firm against the toxic rain of blood, his whole body corroded and pitted, yet he had still erupted with terrifying speed.

He arrived after the start but reached first, completely ignoring the filthy, toxic blood-skeleton, and with strength in his hands that made Yi Ya disbelieve, he grabbed him firmly.

The next breath, Li Yu’s long-suppressed voice exploded:

"Weren't you going to harvest me, kill me? Where are you going now?"

"You just ate the spirit food I made, but you haven't paid the bill yet."

"How about you use your life to pay for it?"

As the words fell, Li Yu gave a brilliant smile.

As his upper and lower teeth collided, waves of strange flames, carrying smoke that made Yi Ya’s heart and soul tremble, surged out, wrapping around him and burning him.

(End of chapter)