Chapter 979

A strange light suddenly burst from Dou Dou Dabiebao's gray and lifeless right eye: "Master Bei! Among us, perhaps only you can defeat this person!"

Scholar Yang also suddenly realized: "That's right! His Peering Divine Eye, my Dragon-Chong Long Long Yubi, whether it's treasure or fragrance, are all external things, and they cannot beat the word 'money'."

"And the reason why Master Bei was able to break the hair ghost with appetite earlier is because appetite is the most fundamental desire of a person, even more so than the desire distorted by money."

"If a person is about to starve to death! If a bowl of rice and money are in front of him, he will only choose the rice!"

"So as long as Master Bei points directly to the most fundamental appetite of a person, you will definitely be able to defeat him. I'm afraid this is also why the person behind the scenes left Master Bei for last."

They suddenly realized and their confidence increased greatly, but Fairy Bei herself hesitated.

"Manipulating people's appetite, making them fall into the most hungry state, and forcing them to experience delicious food, this is the means of the dark cuisine world! A true chef should make people feel the beauty of food!"

"The beauty of food cannot defeat money, only hunger can!"

Master Dou said decisively.

Fairy Bei was very hesitant: "But in that way, the culinary path I insist on will be completely defeated by the concept of dark cuisine, and the beauty of human nature will be completely defeated by human desire! Using this demonic means to pursue victory at all costs..."

"They are right!"

A copper coin was thrown into the air and suddenly fell into a hand reaching out from the darkness.

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist slowly walked out of the darkness. He was wearing a tattered Daoist robe, his hair was gray and white, messily tied into a Daoist bun, and a few strands of white hair hung on his face, looking like a down-and-out old Daoist.

"The poor Daoist's cultivation is all tied to the word 'money'!"

"Therefore, with a little bit of means, I can defeat the people in front! The Insect King was addicted to fame and fortune, it was too difficult to break free from that word 'money'! I just let him see money, and the sound of ocean coins colliding and gold knocking entered his heart. The Heavenly Sound Divine Ear in his hands is simply a waste of heaven's gifts. The method of fighting insects can take away his ears, but it cannot take away his heart, and his heart had long been covered by the sound of white ocean coins!"

"Therefore, I easily took away his Dao path."

"The old woman with the mysterious hair was led into the Dao by love, and her heart was tied to hair."

"But how can the word 'love' beat money? She can persist until now, tied to a strand of love, all because the person she loves is already dead! But money can connect with gods, and I can bring the dead back to life."

"Such love, the two people tied by the mysterious hair have turned into ghosts, and they persisted for a while, but love can't beat getting along in the end. How can the word 'money' be worn away by the trivialities of the world? Not to mention that the man she loves is just an ordinary person, even she herself, how long can that strand of true love she persisted in for decades withstand the wear and tear of the red dust and the wavering of the lover?"

"Three days!"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist smiled: "In just three days, I completely refined this mysterious hair."

"And your Illusion-Breaking Divine Eye!"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist pointed at Dou Dou Dabiebao and said: "You are the most useless! The Dao path of a pair of eyes is actually tied to 'treasure light'? What is treasure? Only things that are valuable are treasures! If the divine eye valued 'truth', I would have to spend some thought to reverse truth and falsehood. But you value treasure, don't you know that the value of the world is measured by money? If I measure it with money, I can naturally decide the value of the 'treasure' in your eyes. The treasure light of your eyes is all manipulated by me, so what obstacles are there to taking your Dao path?"

"The Dragon-Chong Long Long Yubi was a bit more troublesome, addicted to fragrance and hating stench, elegant! Too elegant!"

"Unfortunately, the elegance of the world seems to be far away from copper smell and hates copper smell, but it cannot leave copper smell. The fragrance of people and the fragrance of the earth you smell can all be accommodated by copper smell. If you could understand a little bit of the Heavenly Fragrance Dao, maybe there would be some hope, but you are also a waste!"

"Among the five, only you, Fairy Bei, have the highest cultivation."

"Appetite points directly to the root of human desire, faintly restraining my Daoist Tongshen Great Dao. If you turn to magic, using the demonic path to restrain the demonic path, it would indeed be very tricky for me."

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist sighed: "It's a pity that you are addicted to the hypocrisy of the righteous path and have too much prejudice against the demonic path."

"The All Xuanzhen sect led you five here to refine a Dao path that points directly to longevity, making up for a secret ritual of our Tai Sui Alliance's layout for hundreds of years to plot ascension—Five-Official-Head, River-Sinking-Corpse, Half-Cut-Person, Oil-Fried-Bone, Open-Belly-Buddha, Big-Golden-Person, Criminal-Ghost. With these seven longevity Dao paths as sacrifices, piecing together a complete immortal, only then can one ascend to heaven and attain the Dao!"

"The sadness of a chess piece lies in this..."

"The moment you were targeted because of your respective talents, your destiny was no longer your own! Who told you that your talents could piece together a part of the blueprint for becoming an immortal?"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist sighed.

In the pupils of Dou Dou Dabiebao's right eye, a copper coin gradually emerged, carrying all the divine light of his treasure eyes, and carrying the Dao path of the treasure-hunting lineage, falling into the palm of the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist.

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist caught the copper coin, opened his palm to look, and saw a treasure of the Ming Dynasty lying in his palm.

And Scholar Yang led the big green donkey and smiled bitterly. His nose itched, and just as Dou Dou Dabiebao wanted to go up and cover his mouth, he had already sneezed.

A copper coin also flew out with the sneeze and was caught by the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist.

"Jade Dragon Treasure!"

Ming Dynasty Treasure, Jade Dragon Treasure, Canghua Treasure, Idle Treasure—

The four copper coins were strung together by the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist, and then he looked at Fairy Bei: "It is simple to gouge out immortal bones, but it is extremely difficult to take away other people's Dao paths."

"Master Bei! You are the person among them who has walked the furthest on the Dao path, but you have not entered the true Dao in the end."

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist said regretfully: "Although your Dao path has gone deep enough, it is to the extent that my Daoist Tongshen Great Dao cannot cover it. But its foundation is too shallow! What can be the imprint left by a chef in this world? Isn't it the dishes left in the memories of diners? Your Dao path is mostly entrusted to the taste of food in other people's memories. It is those beautiful memories..."

"But how much money is it worth for you to leave memories for them?"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist looked at Fairy Bei regretfully: "Not worth much! In the thirty years in Sichuan, hundreds of thousands of people have eaten your food, from high officials and nobles to ordinary people. It can be said that in terms of the culinary path, you have done your best!"

"But I spent money to buy every dish they ate, and it only took a dozen copper coins to buy all their beautiful memories."

"High officials and nobles only satisfy a little bit of their desire..."

"I spent a total of 100,000 taels to buy all the imprints left by your Dao path in the world!"

After saying this, a phantom of a copper coin condensed slightly in the palm of the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist.

The memories of hundreds of thousands of people about food, and all the memories of the delicious food Fairy Bei left for them, were stripped away by that supernatural power and turned into a phantom of a life-connecting treasure.

All the memories of the world about eating Fairy Bei's cooking were bought.

Most of the foundation of her Dao path left in the world was severed.

"Deliciousness can be measured by money, only hunger is difficult to measure. If you control their appetite and imprint your cooking in their most hungry desires, completely covering their appetite, I think your Dao path would not be so shallow!"

"So easily, I stripped it away..."

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist integrated all the imprints of delicious food he stripped away, all the memories of Fairy Bei left in the world about food, and the imprints of the sense of taste, and fused those thousands of tastes into one.

A bowl of the most simple plain noodles, gathering the memories of countless people about food, was pushed in front of Fairy Bei.

"Eat it! This is what you deserve!"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist was high above, his eyes calm and everything under his control.

Fairy Bei sighed. For a chef who is devout to the culinary path, the most terrifying thing is that all the flavors and all the delicious dishes she left for this world have been stripped away.

That bowl of plain noodles is not only all the flavors she left behind, but also the most beautiful memories of the diners.

In front of the Dao of Money, these beautiful memories are sold so cheaply.

Because the past is always cheap, if you strip away the attribute of filling the stomach and satisfying hunger, then beauty is so easily shaken?

Fairy Bei knew that she could not refuse that person—because returning the beautiful memories and the memory of the sense of taste left by her to everyone is something a chef cannot refuse.

Eating that bowl of plain noodles is the result of her sense of taste and pursuit of delicious food being distorted by money.

"Besides the beautiful memories I brought to everyone and the satisfaction of delicious food, what you cannot strip away is the inheritance I left behind and everyone's future, right? You can buy all the memories of people who have eaten my cooking, but you cannot buy other things I left behind—Mapo Tofu, Twice-Cooked Pork, Fish-Flavored Shredded Pork... Even if those are no longer the food I made myself, my imprint is still left in their taste and shape."

"The memory of a chef leaving dishes will eventually fade."

"But the flavors he left behind will live forever. My culinary path will still live in the future..."

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist was silent. Of course! Stripping away a person's Dao path is not that simple. If he couldn't completely take away the foundation of Fairy Bei's Dao path, why would he force Fairy Bei to eat all the taste memories she left for the diners?

The Daoist Tongshen Dao path takes away the essence of those tangible and intangible existences, but it is still a transaction.

That bowl of plain noodles is also a kind of transaction, using all the beautiful memories of Fairy Bei left in the diners' memories to exchange for the remaining part of the foundation of Fairy Bei's Dao path.

But Fairy Bei still has a glimmer of hope—that is to make another dish that the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist cannot resist, and imprint her culinary path on him as well.

Then the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist's act of taking Fairy Bei's Dao path will have an irreparable flaw.

He can take away Fairy Bei's Dao path, but Fairy Bei's Dao path also has a trace on him. Others may not remember the flavors left by Fairy Bei, but he himself will definitely remember.

Then, a trace of the Dao path will always be in Fairy Bei's grasp. In the future, she can probably take back her Dao path through this trace.

After all, culinary art is not the foundation of the Daoist Tongshen old Daoist, and that Dao path is always closer to Fairy Bei.

The premise is that Fairy Bei must leave a deep imprint that cannot be stripped away by the Daoist Tongshen Great Dao...

"Turning to magic now is your only glimmer of hope!"

The Daoist Tongshen old Daoist also saw this point and said lightly: "Conquering me with your appetite is your only chance!"

Fairy Bei fell into silence...