Chapter 957

Dou the Great Bie Bao turned to look at the people of the All Xuanzhen Sect and said sadly: "Gentlemen, there are too many deaf, blind, and mute people coming to this temple. There won't be any more patients with nose or throat problems coming to see a doctor, right!"

Crow smiled: "Mr. Dou, why speak in riddles, there must be..."

The Insect King slapped the table and cursed: "Damn it, I've played with insects all my life, but I fell into a trap because of this insect. I've always been proud of this pair of ears, and never dared to let people know how powerful they are, but I still fell into the hands of a villain!"

Before these words of pointing at the mulberry and cursing the locust fell, a young man from the All Xuanzhen Sect stood out and cupped his hands to the Insect King: "Does the Insect King still remember me?"

The Insect King looked at him for a long time, then suddenly pointed at his nose and said: "You are the one who fought and killed my ghost-faced general in the land temple."

"It's me!"

The young man smiled and let the Insect King see his lips clearly, word by word: "That day I made a bet with the Insect King for three games. In the first game, my Gold-Toothed Fighting General was no match for your ghost-faced general, and I lost one game. In the second game, your ghost-faced general heard an insect sound and was bitten to death by my remnant-whiskered defeated general, which counts as a tie. After that, you left without saying goodbye... I have brought the five hundred big ocean dollars for the bet, and specially invite you to fight this third game!"

The young man neatly placed the five heavy ocean dollars wrapped in paper on the table beside him.

The Insect King smiled!

"You All Xuanzhen Sect are also painstaking in order to want this pair of ears of mine!"

The Insect King said coldly: "Good, how do you want to fight?"

"Take your head as the fighting basin, that Pulling Silk Play is my insect, you choose an insect, and let it crawl in from your right ear..."

This made the onlookers feel a chill. Taking a human head as a fighting basin and letting two crickets crawl in from the ears to fight.

This is not fighting insects, it's clearly wanting someone's life!

The people of the Three Sovereigns Society looked at the All Xuanzhen Sect—these people are sinister and domineering. Although they already knew that the All Xuanzhen Sect members were not good people, this was still shocking.

Dou the Great Bie Bao felt cold, and hurriedly smoothed things over: "This insect fighting profession emphasizes fighting grass and slipping whiskers to stimulate the insect's fighting spirit. In a human head, you can't stretch grass stems in!"

"Otherwise..."

The young man said calmly: "Using grass to slip whiskers is only the lower way of fighting insects. The upper way of fighting insects is to pick insects by sound. The Insect King is proficient in a skill of ventriloquism, and is good at simulating the long chirping of crickets, especially good at using this to make sounds and seize the insect's fighting spirit!"

The Insect King's face sank, and he said slowly: "Few people know this skill, how do you know?"

The young man smiled, cupped his hands and said: "Back then, there were two great insect kings in Zhigu, one proficient in South insects, and one good at fighting North insects, so they were collectively called the North and South Insect Kings."

"But since that bet, the North Insect King lost two games in a row, lost everything, and after that, there was only one Insect King in Zhigu, and that is you, Mr. Qi..."

"Who is the North Insect King to you?" The Insect King asked lightly.

"He is my father!"

At this moment, everyone who wanted to persuade them to make peace shut their mouths.

Listening to the young man's smile: "My father was obsessed with insects. Since the second game, he lost a move because of your ventriloquism and hidden insect sounds, and lost two games in a row. Everything outside his body was gone, and he had to bet on that third game with the reputation of the North Insect King."

"So he sold me for the price of an insect to the All Xuanzhen Sect in exchange for a strange insect, Blood Tooth."

"But the Blood Tooth strange insect has a strange feature, that is, it cannot be raised in the light. Because once it sees the light, it will have infinite fighting spirit, looking for insects to fight, until death."

"So after my father found this insect, he raised it in a jar under the bed, just waiting to invite you to the third game to win back that breath."

"After my father led me out, he only exchanged a jar back. My mother was anxious to find me, and actually opened the jar. The Blood Tooth jumped away without a trace, and she also jumped into the well. After my father came back and saw this scene, he hanged himself on the beam outside the house at night."

The young man cupped his hands again and said calmly: "I am Blood Tooth, the protector of the All Xuanzhen Sect, and specially invite the Insect King to fight for the last time!"

Dou the Great Bie Bao's face was red, and it took a long time for him to squeeze out a sound: "When will the retribution of grievances end!"

"Good!" The Insect King was deaf, but proficient in lip-reading. He listened to the young man's lips, and didn't miss a word, and answered with a sharp shout.

He looked at the sky: "Crickets love to fight at night. This insect of yours hasn't adjusted to day and night. Let's fight when it gets dark!"

Dou the Great Bie Bao saw that the two had a blood feud and couldn't intervene, so he could only ask Master Bei: "Master Bei, how did you come?"

Master Bei wrote on the ground: "Today, the All Xuanzhen Sect Master came to Juxia Building in person and presented me with a dish that reached the extreme of the five flavors—Immortal Meat. I tasted it, and my tongue touched that strange meat, tasting a flavor that transcended the extreme of the five flavors in the world, so this tongue can no longer taste other flavors, and even the flavor of language is lost."

"I didn't come here to seek medical treatment, but to ask the All Xuanzhen Sect for that strange ingredient, Black Tai Sui, in order to pursue that extreme of the culinary path."

Dou the Great Bie Bao looked at the line of text on the ground and muttered to himself: "All Xuanzhen Sect Master?"

Physician Hua also came to his side and stared at the line of text.

"All Xuanzhen Sect Master, who exactly is he?"

Physician Huo looked at this line of text and was even more shocked: "To be able to make Master Bei, the culinary god of Sichuan, lose her sense of taste after tasting it, that ultimate flavor, what kind of flavor is it?"

"The ultimate flavor of the world?"

"From then on, everything in the world is tasteless. For a chef, what kind of pain is that?"

"No wonder Master Bei wants to ask for that kind of ingredient to make her own ultimate flavor of the world. That must be the highest pursuit of all chefs!"

At this time, everyone had nothing to say.

The All Xuanzhen Sect did design to lead the two here, but one had a blood feud first, and the other had the ultimate flavor of the world in front.

That "Immortal Meat" is known to Master Bei that after eating it, she will taste all the flavors of the world, and her tongue, which can be called a divine tongue, will never be able to taste other flavors again.

She probably wouldn't give up this opportunity either.

The physicians of the Three Sovereigns Society and the foreign doctors held a consultation for Master Bei.

They took hawthorn, coptis, schisandra, chuanxiong, salt, etc., each with five flavors of medicinal materials, refined them, and placed them on the tip of Master Bei's tongue.

"Sourness is astringent, pungency is dispersing, saltiness is dispersing, bitterness is venting dryness, sweetness is nourishing. The five flavors of medicine have other mysteries compared to the kitchen. They can also regulate the five internal organs. The old man took Master Bei's pulse, but felt that her five internal organs were extremely active, and she was as strong as a young man." Physician Hua held Master Bei's pulse with a blank face.

Physician Huo also took a pulse, then his expression was serious, and after a series of looking, listening, asking, and feeling, he was lost and full of disbelief.

Others only heard him muttering: "Lock the five internal organs, hide the five qi..."

Physician Hua called him several times before he reacted.

Physician Huo looked at Master Bei, who was radiant and whose hair was getting darker and darker even though she was over seventy, and suddenly bowed heavily to her with his hands in his sleeves.

Master Bei hurriedly helped him up, and Physician Hua was also surprised: "Physician Huo, what are you doing?"

"I am worshipping the peak of the medical path!"

Physician Huo said: "That dish of Immortal Meat is not only the extreme of the culinary path, but also the extreme of the medical path."

"Sourness is astringent, pungency is dispersing, saltiness is dispersing, bitterness is venting dryness, sweetness is nourishing. Among them, sour belongs to wood, bitter belongs to fire, sweet belongs to earth, pungent belongs to metal, and salty belongs to water. Therefore, pungency disperses and locks the growth of liver wood, sweetness nourishes and suppresses the moistening of kidney water, saltiness disperses and overcomes the restlessness of heart fire, sourness is astringent to solidify the storage of spleen earth, and bitterness vents dryness to frustrate the sharpness of lung metal."

"Five elements mutual generation and mutual restraint!"

"I was still sighing before that the five internal organs have divine stores, but we mortals can't find them. Now people have put five big locks on the five internal organs and five qi of Master Bei right under my nose, using this heavenly flavor to lock Master Bei's vitality and internal qi, making her vitality astringent and long-lasting."

"This Immortal Meat is medicine and food from the same source. It is not only the ultimate flavor of the world, but also a divine medicine that solidifies the five qi and hides vitality."

"Back then, if Old Master Dou had eaten this medicine, even if there were internal thieves, they wouldn't have been able to steal any vitality. Compared with it, that bowl of Five Qi Returning Origin Soup is so ridiculous!"

Physician Hua twisted Master Bei's pulse, his face was dark, and sure enough, he felt the pulse was steady and powerful, just like the vitality under the earth hiding and sinking.

"Master Bei's loss of taste and speech is because the five internal organs have been added with five big locks, locking the loss of vitality and the changes of the internal qi of the human body itself. Because of the lock, it is full, and because it is slow, it is quiet. In this way, it slowly develops, but the changes in qi mechanism are still natural, so it can naturally prolong life."

Physician Huo stroked his beard and pondered, saying: "If I were to say, it is just as the sage said, 'The five colors make people blind; the five sounds make people deaf; the five flavors make people's mouths numb; galloping and hunting make people's hearts crazy; rare goods make people's behavior hindered. Therefore, the sage is for the belly, not for the eyes, so he takes the latter.' Therefore, this Immortal Meat makes people cut off the five colors, cut off the five sounds, abolish the five flavors, and be for the belly, not for the eyes."

"But what is rare is that originally the five qi were locked in the five internal organs, and all vitality was hidden inward, and the vitality of the limbs was all hidden in the five internal organs, like a divine turtle, slow on the outside, and vitality hidden inside."

"But the All Xuanzhen Sect Master actually locked the five internal organs while, besides abolishing the five flavors and being unable to speak, he didn't affect Master Bei's other activities at all."

"So, this disease of loss of taste and speech is incurable?" Physician Hua frowned and asked.

Physician Huo shook his head: "This is not a disease at all!"

"Old trees have mottled bark and are about to die, but after a spring thunder, the branches and leaves fall, the branches and trunks are disabled, and a new bud sprouts from the middle. You point to the sinking old body it abandoned and say it is about to die, and hurry to rescue it!"

"Isn't that the act of a quack doctor?"

"If I were to see this disease, I could only say that this is the transformation of the old body, turning vitality into internal storage. After the lifespan is exhausted, the teeth will fall and regenerate, and one will return to youth! But the All Xuanzhen Sect Master only cut off the five flavors and language, as if slapping our faces, saying that there is infinite vitality in the five internal organs, and it needs to be hidden to live forever."

"Immortal Meat, Immortal Meat, it is really cooked by immortals."

"This is the medical principle of the human world, and that is the immortal medicine of heaven. How can I think clearly and guess through it?"

The Three Sovereigns Society looked at Master Bei, who had bright eyes like a young child, and listened to the words of the one with the highest medical skills among them, and they were all speechless for a while.

At this time, they understood why the people of the All Xuanzhen Sect said.

You don't understand, that is a frog in the well seeing the moon in the sky. Once you understand, it is like a mayfly seeing the blue sky.

They didn't understand.

Physician Huo understood...

Crow hurried back from outside the door.

She was holding a piece of purple-black meat in her hand, which looked like it had been cut in a hurry, with meat patterns, and came to Master Bei.

Crow said: "Our Sect Master is very happy that you, Master Bei, could come. This is the 'Vision Meat' he promised you. The Sect Master said that only a great chef who has eaten his Immortal Meat and can still maintain a chef's heart, instead of being taken away by the ultimate flavor of the world and committing suicide in sorrow, is worthy of the Black Tai Sui he presented!"

Master Bei stuck out her tongue and licked the strange piece of Black Tai Sui.

She closed her eyes, and then said with difficulty: "I will... not fail the Sect Master's trust."

After saying that, she hung up the piece of meat lingzhi, faced the wall to break the map, respected the culinary path for a lifetime, and sought the method to make this ingredient that has no predecessor and no successor.