TLed by Serena Love
Edited by Liya

Chapter 10 Cooking to Benefit the World

Due to its breakneck flight speed, first-grade Garuda was often used to refine swiftness pills for cultivators to take.

If its wing bone powder was added when refining a sword, it could also increase the speed of the sword.

However, the failure rate was very high. Whether in alchemy or refining weapons, the failure rate was about 80%.

Generally, the beast's inner core would be needed when using a beast's body parts for alchemy. However, the price of a beast's inner core was not cheap. A first-grade inner core was at least 10,000 spirit stones.

For someone like Lu Yizhou, who couldn't afford it at all, he had never even considered it.

The Garuda he bought was only 2,000 spirit stones for the whole body because it did not contain the inner core. Even after gritting his teeth, he could only afford a quarter of it. In addition, the piece that he bought was seriously damaged. Hence, he was able to buy a quarter piece of Garuda with his insufficient funds.

This showed how expensive and difficult it was for ordinary cultivators to use beasts as a material to refine tools or alchemy to improve their own cultivation.

Even though first-grade Garuda was sought after for its speed, Lu Yizhou didn't obtain a speed boost at this moment. Instead, he turned the sound of his qin into huge ferocious Garudas with two sword-like wings that seemed like they could slash the mountains. The elixir made Lu Yizhou realized the essence of a Garuda!

This had never been seen before!

"How?"

Qian Qingqiu was shocked.

He looked up to the sky. His ferocious eagles were slashed in the air by the galloping Garudas. The huge wings of the Garudas were like sharp blades. The other birds were not at the same level at all. They were cut into pieces on the spot!

Soon the Garudas spread their wings and screamed in the air. Several pairs of black eyes looked at them coldly.

"Senior Brother!" Lin Zhen's face changed greatly and he stepped back.

Qian Qingqiu was shocked and forgot to protect him.

As someone at the Golden Core level, he would not be affected when he faced <Hundreds of Birds Facing the Phoenix> which had not reached the Great Perfection.

However, Lin Zhen was only at the Foundation Building level. His face was pale on the spot. His sea of ​​​​knowledge was trembling under the gazes of these Garudas. As long as they swooped over, he would be hit hard!

Lin Zhen trembled uncontrollably.

"Your qin sound actually hides a murderous intention. The spirit chickens and spirit pigeons at the beginning were just decoys!" Qian Qingqiu's elegant confidence faded and his expression became serious.

"After letting your opponent lower down their vigilance, you reveal your hidden ultimate move... It turns out that they are all first-grade Garudas!"

Lu Yizhou swallowed and tried his best to restrain himself to not turn his head to look at his Second Senior Sister standing not far behind him.

Second Senior Sister's Seven Relish elixir really had deep meaning!

Not only did it allow him to comprehend the essence of those spirit birds, but it had also inspired him.

An elixir could have seven layers and seven changes. Why can't his qin sound have layers?

He tested it and he really succeeded.

At this moment, his heart was stormy, just like his opponent, Qian Qingqiu. His second senior sister was not a waste after all. She was a genius in cultivation!

"Originally, I wanted to compete with you by matching your level in the middle stage of Foundation Building, but I underestimated you." Qian Qingqiu stood upright on the spot. His sleeves fluttered, his ink-like hair flew and his guqin floated in the air.

"If that's the case, then I'll let you see the real deal..."

Su Yu pouted.

'This person's competitive streak is a bit high.'

As she complained in her heart, she took a few small steps backward quickly.

She was only at the fifth stage of the Qi Refining level. She didn't want to get hurt.

When she reached a safe distance, she would send a jade slip to ask Wei Zhao to contact their rescuer!

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However, after only two or three steps back, Qian Qingqiu's spectral eagles condensed again with the sound of his qin strings.

This time, Qian Qingqiu used the full power of a Golden Core cultivator. The eagles and hawks in the clouds appeared even more realistic.

One side had first-grade Garudas restrained by Divine Consciousness in the middle stage of Foundation Building, while the other side had cultivation at the peak of Golden Core level with ferocious eagles and hawks.

Even though the other party only had ordinary birds of prey, it was still obvious that Lu Yizhou's lower cultivation base was at a disadvantage. He had to retreat step by step.

After Su Yu walked away to a safe distance, she looked up and couldn't help but sigh.

The thoracic (front) and deltoid (back) muscles of those eagles, hawks and owls were perfect. The meat should be extremely dense and chewy. It could be fried with flour and beaten eggs. The eagle's claws were rich in collagen and could be steamed together with the bones...

'Sigh.'

Master Su had always been a good citizen who respected the law and loved all animals. She never cooked prohibited wild animals.

But in this world of immortality, such ferocious eagles were often evil...

Su Yu couldn't help but move her hands and fingers.

'My hands are so itchy.'

If she cooked these evil beasts, it would benefit the world, right?

Her eyes lit up with brilliance. The five-element pot in her dantian also emitted bright colors, shaking inside her body.

Qian Qingqiu, who was floating in the air, was urging his eagles to attack. But suddenly, he felt a chill in his sea of ​​​​knowledge.

One of the flying eagles suddenly stiffened. It was three feet away from the Garudas and could no longer move.

Qian Qingqiu gasped. His consciousness driving the Qin music seemed to sense some kind of latent crisis. His sea of ​​consciousness trembled.

A cultivator at the Golden Core level had a keen sense of the five senses and often had some perceptions of major incoming dangers.

Even though it hesitated only for a moment, the stiff eagle was severely slashed by a first-grade Garuda that swooped in. Its body was scattered among the clouds and mist!

Qian Qingqiu frowned. He took a step back and put away his qin.

"Junior Brother Lu, are you still hiding your strength? It seems that I was too arrogant."

'What?'

Lu Yizhou's face was blank. He stopped playing his qin immediately.

'Why would he call me Junior Brother?'

Qian Qingqiu's expression was complicated.

His consciousness that he turned into birds of prey seemed to be swallowed up.

If his consciousness was damaged and the recovery was slow, it could also cause a lot of damage to his golden core.

This feeling was very clear and there was no mistake. Qian Qingqiu sighed, "I hope we don't meet in the Thirty-six Peaks Competition."

After that, he looked at his junior brother, Lin Zhen. He was already immobile on the floor and sweating profusely. Qian Qingqiu's face was visibly darkened.

Lin Zhen was also in the middle stage of Foundation Building, but the differences between these two fellow disciples and classmates were too far apart.

Qian Qingqiu sighed, "Lin Zhen, apologize to Junior Brother Lu."

Lu Yizhou was stunned.

Lin Zhen, whose face was pale, couldn't believe his hearing. "Senior Brother?"

Qian Qingqiu squeezed a dust-removing spell, instantly making his purple robe, which was wrinkled after the fight, swayed smoothly in the wind.

"Yesterday, you told me that he deliberately used qin art to hurt all of your classmates, causing your sea of ​​consciousness to shake. Even the qin class that day could not continue."

After Qian Qingqiu said that, he felt that the consciousness in his sea of ​​​​knowledge seemed to no longer tremble. He was no longer in danger of being swallowed by Lu Yizhou’s qin attack.

Immediately, he nodded slightly towards Lu Yizhou with a friendly expression.

"But you have already seen today that Junior Brother Lu's qin sound can turn into Garudas. If he did it on purpose, your group of classmates who are just in Foundation Building might all have become idiots yesterday."

Lin Zhen stiffened.

Lu Yizhou's face turned slightly red when he heard this.

He only learned the essence of the Garuda today.

"You don't need to apologize. I’ll take out a bottle of Spirit Gathering Powder to make amends to Junior Brother Lu." Qian Qingqiu immediately rolled his sleeves, ignored the change in Lin Zhen's face and opened his spatial storage bag.

A jade bottle flew out immediately and catapulted towards Lu Yizhou.

"Junior Brother Lu, today is your Senior Brother being reckless. Farewell!" After saying that, Qian Qingqiu hurried away out of Zhiqiong Peak with his junior brother, Lin Zhen, who had long been unable to move.

It seemed that if he were one step slower, his sea of consciousness would be swallowed.

Lu Yizhou couldn't react when he got the Spirit Gathering Powder.

Obviously, if Qian Qingqiu insisted on continuing for half a cup of tea longer, he would lose.

'What happened?'

Could it be that this was what his third senior brother said, ‘don't bully the weak’?

Once someone's potential burst out, even if their cultivation base was weak at that moment, not many high-level cultivators could trouble them.

Thinking of this, Lu Yizhou hurriedly turned around to look for Su Yu, "Second Senior Sister!"

Second Senior Sister's Seven Relish elixir was really powerful. She definitely knew for sure that he would be fine. Asking him to study at Yuqiong Peak was just a joke!

He excitedly ran towards the slender figure. "Second Senior Sister, I will definitely comprehend and digest this knowledge well. I will definitely step up my practice so that the Seven Relish elixir will not be wasted."

Su Yu put her hands behind her back and hummed. "The written review. Don't forget it."

After she said this, her face changed. "Go and report your safety to your third senior brother. Otherwise, your teacher, Uncle Master Li, will come here."

Lu Yizhou: ...

Wei Zhao, who was waiting anxiously in his room, was about to send a message to Uncle Master Li. However, seeing them coming back together, he heaved a sigh of relief. He looked up and down at them worriedly.

"Is there any injury? Why did the other party give up?"

Lu Yizhou immediately glanced at Su Yu and his face turned red, "Third Senior Brother, I seem to have scared the other party away."

Wei Zhao opened his mouth, "Who was it that you scared off? Could it be that Qian Qingqiu asked his junior brother to fight with you?"

Lu Yizhou showed him the jade bottle, shook his head and said, "It's Qian Qingqiu himself. He gave me this Spirit Gathering Powder as compensation."

Wei Zhao was stunned.

Ever since he lost his cultivation base, he always felt that the development of things around him was like a wild horse.

He could hardly understand what his junior brother was saying.

"You made Qian Qingqiu, who is at the peak of the Golden Core level, admit defeat and make amends?"

"Yes, although I don't know why he gave up in the middle of the battle, Second Senior Sister's Seven Relish elixir is really exquisite. I can play the qin to hold him for a moment..."

Lu Yizhou described the scene of the confrontation on the spot.

Even though Wei Zhao knew that Lu Yizhou had realized nearly 60% of the realm of transformation, he still felt dazed when he heard that now Lu Yizhou was able to face an enemy at the Golden Core level.

This was a battle with someone one complete level higher!

His neck stiffened and he turned to look at Su Yu, who was already sitting leisurely on the only chair in his room.

He saw that her expression was calm. As if a mere medicinal elixir that could make their junior brother comprehend the art of the qin was not worth mentioning at all.

He was shocked.

Su Yu was already a little impatient.

It was just a Three-nested Duck dish. There was not much innovation.

Master Su's new dish research and development still had a long way to go. The construction of her entire back kitchen was still far behind schedule.

"What other uncommon fresh spiritual materials, birds, and beasts are there?"

Just now, her cooking addiction was completely flared up by Qian Qingqiu's illusionary flying birds of prey!

Su Yu looked at her two junior brothers in the room.

"If you have time, go buy some more."

---

At the Northern Glacier, on the top of the iceberg.

A black-haired man carrying a broadsword was meditating on the ice lake. From time to time, red-violet thunder and lightning circled over him.

The black-haired man looked at the light curtain in front of him.

'Not sure how Third Junior Brother's body is and whether Fourth Junior Brother is in trouble when he is supporting Zhiqiong Peak.'

Now he could only separate a trace of spiritual sense for every ten days. It could then be attached to an ice soul and suppressed his cultivation at the peak of the Golden Core level. The ice soul could be sent to Zhiqiong Peak to represent him.

However, even if his ice soul travelled day and night to reach Zhiqiong Peak from here, it would still take at least fifteen days for it to reach the peak, which might be too late.

If his juniors were in danger, he might not be able to catch up...

Xiao Muge frowned.

He looked at the light curtain and saw his third junior brother, Wei Zhao, who was lying on the bed. Wei Zhao’s expression was no longer as heavy as it was a few days ago.

Seeing this, Xiao Muge frown disappeared.

It seemed that the situation at Zhiqiong Peak was still optimistic.

"What is there to be ashamed of if we lose the Thirty-Six Peaks Competition this year?" A pretty voice sounded.

'This is... Second Junior Sister?'

Xiao Muge raised his eyebrows.

Had his second junior sister, who used to stay behind closed doors all day, finally come out to discuss countermeasures for the competition with his third junior brother and the others?

He was very pleased.

"Anyway, if we lost this year, the fault lies in your irresponsible eldest senior brother who ran away. What does it have anything to do with you and me?"

Xiao Muge's pleased expression changed at that moment.

Due to the shock, his divine consciousness that was suppressing a stage of the Golden Core level became loosened. It overflowed with a terrifying aura that could destroy the heavens and the earth.

At that moment, red-violet thunder tribulations hit the top of his forehead. It finally found its target and striked successfully!

Straight to the top of his head!

"Cough-!"

Xiao Muge felt his chest tightened for a while.

---

Many people came in and out at the gate of the sect's secret realm. All of them were disciples who wanted to kill beasts in exchange for spiritual stones or to sharpen their cultivation.

"Brother Xu, have you heard? It might be a bit difficult for your Yunwu Peak to challenge Zhiqiong Peak this year and take away its third-class peak qualification."

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A domineering male cultivator with a sword on his shoulder turned his head suddenly. His expression was also a bit fierce when he said, "Huh? Their eldest senior brother is not here and Wei Zhao is useless. Who else can stop my sword!"

A cat-eyed boy was walking behind the two of them. He was dressed in black and blood was dripping on his body. He stared at them instantly and his hand reached towards the two silver-grey rapiers that hung on his waist.

He was about to draw his swords in anger when he heard the other person say, "Hey, they have a qin player in the middle stage of Foundation Building. That person seems to be ranked fourth in the peak. You might not know yet. This person actually survived for half a column of incense under Qian Qingqiu of Yuqiong Peak yesterday. Qian Qingqiu is at the peak stage of the Golden Core level. That qin player's strength should not be underestimated."

The man carrying the sword was shocked. "Is this true?"

The hand of the sword-drawing boy also stopped for a moment.

"Why would I lie to you? Qian Qingqiu definitely didn't get any benefit. Yesterday, he ordered his junior brother, who had a disagreement with Zhiqiong Peak, to copy qin musical score many times. Brother Xu, your Yunwu Peak should be careful."

The two people's voices gradually faded away.

The bloody boy with two swords on his waist suddenly stopped in his tracks. His elbow wiped the black-colored blood on his face. On his expressionless face, there was a trace of a jerky smile that was barely visible to people that didn't know him well.

'Fourth Senior Brother actually broke through.'

He looked at a bright red Cloud Swallowing Demon Flower the size of an adult wolf in his storage bag.

He wanted to give this to his senior brother and asked him to exchange it with some spirit stones to consolidate his cultivation.

Thinking about it, the boy flew forward on a flying sword. 

Along the way, he heard another conversation not far away.

"Junior Brother, when we get back, I will teach you the fourth sword move of the Tianhe swordsmanship."

"Thank you, senior sister!"

"No need to thank me. You are my junior brother. I just got some spirit grass from the secret realm. I will ask an alchemist to refine it into Spirit Gathering Powder to help you to break through faster."

A female cultivator standing on a flying sword said with a smile to a male disciple beside her.

The tired two-sword young swordsman couldn't help but look at them, with a trace of envy in his eyes that he didn't even notice himself.

After a while, he turned his head blankly.

He had no senior sister.

He didn't need one anyway.

He coughed violently. He wiped the trace of blood on his lips, which then dripped on the flying sword under his feet.

This mysterious sword, like some living creature, sucked up the blood in an instant.

---

After half a cup of tea of flying on the sword, the young swordsman saw a few familiar courtyards on Zhiqiong Peak.

When he was about to land, he saw a yellow figure that he never wanted to see again.

He saw that the woman walked to the spirit chicken coop surrounded by a wooden fence, lifted up her sleeves and grabbed a spirit chicken that they kept for nourishing the body of their seriously injured Third Senior Brother.

His eyes were suddenly narrowed.

"Put it down!"

"What qualifications do you have to touch this spirit chicken!"

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