Chapter 115: It Would Be a Waste Not to Do Barbecue

"Three-Flavor True Fire?" Lu Yang was baffled, thinking to himself, can't Senior Sister even distinguish between the characters for "ignorant" and "flavor"? The two characters only look similar; their pronunciations are completely different.

Then Lu Yang thought that Senior Sister’s cultural level was probably higher than his own.

Lu Yang pretended to be calm and smiled: "Hahaha, Senior Sister, you really know how to joke. What you taught is the Three-Mystery True Fire; how could I learn the Three-Taste True Fire?"

"Impossible, impossible."

Yun Zhi didn't explain, calling over a puppet and having it take a piece of demon beast meat from the kitchen.

Yun Zhi used some unknown method to make the demon beast meat hover and rotate in the air: "Roast it with True Fire."

Lu Yang spat out True Fire, roasting the demon beast meat until it sizzled with oil. Soon, a fragrance emerged, so fragrant that Lu Yang swallowed his saliva.

Although Lu Yang’s True Fire was not as powerful as the one Yun Zhi used, its heat was much stronger than ordinary flames. In no time, the demon beast meat was roasted.

"Taste it yourself," Yun Zhi said.

Lu Yang used his finger as a sword, sliced off a small piece, and put it in his mouth. It was so fragrant it could make his teeth fall out.

This piece of demon beast meat didn't have any seasonings, yet it gave Lu Yang the feeling of having added salt for flavor, sugar for freshness, and chili for aroma.

It really was Three-Taste True Fire.

"Something must have gone wrong somewhere," Lu Yang analyzed seriously. He had followed the method Senior Sister taught step by step, and had a great expert like Senior Sister demonstrate it personally; it was absolutely impossible for him to have made a mistake!

"Let me try again. I will definitely succeed!"

Yun Zhi nodded: "It is good that you have this heart. Then tonight’s dinner will be left to you, which can also consolidate what you learned today."

Having said that, Yun Zhi turned and returned to her cave dwelling to meditate, quietly waiting for Lu Yang’s meal.

"No, wait, I didn't mean that..." Lu Yang felt that Senior Sister had misunderstood his determination, but Senior Sister had already walked far away, leaving only the puppet to keep Lu Yang company.

Lu Yang sighed and called the puppet to the kitchen together.

This was Lu Yang’s first time in the Tianmen Peak kitchen. In the past, the puppet had always done the cooking, and Lu Yang had never done it himself.

Every day he practiced cultivation until he was exhausted; where would he have the energy to cook?

It was worthy of being Senior Sister’s dedicated kitchen; it was larger than the gymnasiums of his previous life. A dazzling array of ingredients was neatly displayed, and the corpses of demon beasts several meters high could be seen everywhere. The demon beasts were majestic, and one could imagine what powerful existences they were when alive.

It was just a pity that these demon beasts were blind when alive, running rampant in the Central Continent, only to be killed by Senior Sister in one strike. They didn't even react to the fact that they were already dead.

Lu Yang had some basic cooking foundation, but that was limited to ordinary ingredients. He didn't recognize a single one of the ingredients placed before him.

"What should I make? What does Senior Sister like to eat? It seems like every time she eats, she eats a little of everything; I haven't seen anything she particularly likes?"

"Master likes barbecue the most," an abrupt voice came, giving Lu Yang a start.

Lu Yang turned his head to look; it was actually the puppet speaking.

The puppet was wooden, similar to a female image, but its face hadn't been carved. The puppet had been by Lu Yang’s side since the first day he practiced cultivation, and Lu Yang had never known the puppet could speak?!

"What are you looking at me for?" the puppet spoke again, confirming to Lu Yang that this wasn't a hallucination.

"You can speak? Why haven't I heard you speak before?"

"Why would I speak to an idiot?"

"You..." Lu Yang was speechless. If he weren't unable to beat it, he would definitely have dismantled this broken puppet.

"You said Senior Sister likes barbecue? Why haven't I seen her eat it?" Lu Yang looked at the puppet suspiciously.

He knew there was a spell called Puppet Art, and knew that those proficient in Puppet Art were called Puppeteers. In first-rate sects, there was even the Yan Sect, which was composed entirely of Puppeteers.

But what he didn't know was where the limit of Puppet Art lay. Could it have such high intelligence?

Should he say it was worthy of being Senior Sister’s puppet?

"Master doesn't have the habit of revealing personal preferences to outsiders," the puppet still spoke to Lu Yang in a tone of disdain.

"See the Kui Ox on the right? Chop off a leg; Master likes to eat this part."

"I’ll believe you once." Lu Yang felt the puppet had no reason to play with him.

He took out the Blue Edge Sword and struck the Kui Ox’s leg with one sword. The Kui Ox’s body glowed, directly bouncing Lu Yang away. Lu Yang fell straight into a pile of flour, getting covered in white.

"Cough, cough, what level was this ox when it was alive?" Lu Yang could guarantee that this ox’s cultivation level when alive was absolutely ridiculously high, so much so that even after death, he couldn't damage it in the slightest.

The puppet didn't answer, shattering the Kui Ox’s protective golden light with one punch: "Try again."

"Slash!" Lu Yang performed the Slash Character Technique, cutting a superficial wound.

The Slash Character Technique’s power was inferior to the Break Character Technique, but its advantage was its wide coverage and it could be used multiple times.

"Slash!"

"Slash!"

Lu Yang performed the Slash Character Technique three times in one breath, his spiritual energy exhausted, and the puppet fed him a Great Return Pill at the right time.

"Slash!"

"Slash!"

"Slash!"

Great Return Pill.

Just like that, after repeating the cycle of Slash-Slash-Slash and Great Return Pill, he finally cut off the amount needed for a meal.

Just after preparing the ingredients, Lu Yang was exhausted and lay on the ground, limbs splayed, while the puppet continued to feed him Great Return Pills.

Lu Yang felt this scene was inexplicably familiar.

It had to be said, the Great Return Pill was indeed effective. Lu Yang recovered his lively appearance after taking it and continued to cook.

"Use sword energy to stir and break the meat tendons," the puppet on the side said.

The tip of the Blue Edge Sword pierced into the Kui Ox meat, releasing sword energy. Lu Yang felt the sword energy was like a stone sinking into the sea, unable to stir up even half a ripple.

"Come on, come on. You are the best," the puppet cheered for Lu Yang, but its tone was flat, and Lu Yang couldn't feel any encouragement at all.

Lu Yang said angrily: "Can you have some emotion!"

The puppet followed suit: "Lu Yang, although your cultivation is very low, you learn everything wrong, and you can't even beat me, but you have already worked very hard. Come on!"

Lu Yang’s veins bulged, and he kept increasing the power of releasing sword energy. The sword energy finally successfully entered the Kui Ox meat, bit by bit cutting off the meat tendons.

After the whole process, Lu Yang was so tired that he had no mood to be angry with the puppet.

When it came time to roast the meat, Lu Yang gulped down Great Return Pills while roasting it with Three-Taste True Fire. The fragrance of the meat soon drifted out of the kitchen.

"So fragrant, what is this smell?" Grandpa Ba walked into the kitchen, looking for the source of the fragrance, and saw Lu Yang barbecuing.

"Grandpa Ba, why are you here?" Lu Yang was surprised.

Grandpa Ba smiled and took out a canister of tea leaves: "The Enlightenment Tea just came down, and I intended to send it to Yun Zhi. Then I smelled the fragrance and came to see what was being roasted. So it’s roasted Kui Ox. With your cultivation, it must have taken quite a bit of effort, right?"

Lu Yang smiled embarrassedly.

"By the way, regarding the matter about Old Nine you asked about earlier, do you know where Old Nine is?"

Lu Yang felt that Master would be out of seclusion soon, so telling Grandpa Ba wouldn't matter, and he told him about Master being in seclusion in the pine forest.

Grandpa Ba’s eyes lit up when he heard this. Evil people have their own evil people to deal with; the heaven-killing Old Nine was locked up by Yun Zhi.

He put down the Enlightenment Tea and left: "I have something to do, I’m leaving first."

He had to hurry and tell the junior brothers about this so they could all watch Old Nine together!