Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality Chapter 3
TLed by Serena Love
Edited by Liya
Chapter 3 She is a Second Rank... Alchemist!
Zhiqiong Peak was a third-class peak. Among the thirty-six third-class peaks in the Nanxun Academy, Zhiqiong Peak ranked at the bottom.
Their eldest senior brother, Xiao Muge, was the only one at the late stage of Golden Core. He could get a monthly allowance of a thousand spirit stones from the sect. Other core disciples, such as Wei Zhao, who was ranked third, could only get three to five hundred spirit stones per month.
It seemed like it was a lot of monthly allowance. However, realistically, it was not enough. They had various needs that required the use of spirit stones. Firstly, they needed refiners to refine their magic weapons. For this, they needed at least 5,000 to 10,000 spirit stones per magic weapon.
They also had to fight beasts or other cultivators to improve their cultivation and injuries were commonplace. The most common trauma medicine pill, Rongxue Pill, cost one thousand spirit stones per pill. The price may become five or ten times higher if the medicine pill could treat more serious injuries, such as meridian repair, etc.
Therefore, someone at the peak of the Foundation Building, like Wei Zhao, did not have much spirit stone savings at all. Even the quilt on his bed had no additional defensive function.
After more than ten years in Zhiqiong Peak, the only high-priced spiritual treasure he had was this red copper sword that he had been using all year round. It was only by saving money diligently that he managed to take it to levelthe sect's refiner to increase its strength twice. Even then, the sword was barely ranked third-level.
"I said... don't mind me."
Wei Zhao turned his head away in embarrassment.
He simply could not afford to pay for the Jade Pill Powder to keep on living in the future.
If it wasn't because he could only lie in bed and could not find a short-term solution, he despised this kind of tone.
But if he had to leech his junior brothers and sisters, he would rather die!
"Throw me to... a secret realm... if I can't find any herbs... let me just die with the beasts..."
Wei Zhao roared, pounding the bed with his pale fist.
He could self-destruct his dantian, taking a beast's life with him. His sacrifice could also be exchanged for some spirit stones, leaving some benefits for his juniors!
"Third Senior Brother," Lu Yizhou said hurriedly, "Don't worry. We didn't spend any spirit stones—"
Wei Zhao was stunned.
Su Yu's hand, which was still holding the porcelain bowl, started to feel a little sore.
Immediately, she put the bowl down.
Then she looked at Lu Yizhou.
"He doesn't want to try it. Then you do it."
The shame and anger in Wei Zhao's chest suddenly froze.
'Try what?'
"I don't know how to eat this." Su Yu looked down at the porcelain bowl with a strange expression.
She really did not know.
Originally, when they were outside the room, she wanted to dab a bit with her fingertips to taste it, but Lu Yizhou stopped her.
It was said that a bottle of jade pill powder cost five hundred spirit stones. Although the amount in the porcelain bowl was not much, it looked like only a fifth of a bottle, but it would be worth around one hundred spirit stones.
Wouldn't it waste at least ten spirit stones if she dabbed a little?
So she couldn’t taste it.
Su Yu had no choice but to give up taste testing the self-made unknown powder herself and returned to the room with Lu Yizhou to find Wei Zhao.
However, she really had no confidence in this thing.
She had been cooking porridge for 20 years, but she had never come up with something like this.
"Fourth Junior Brother."
Su Yu looked at Lu Yizhou seriously.
"Rinse your mouth and try it. Remember to tell me your five senses’ experiences and what level changes there are."
When people eat meals, they seem to only taste the food. Actually, they also mobilized the five senses of the human body - sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.
This also constituted the five profound meanings of cooking: color, aroma, flavor, shape, and texture.
These five matters complemented and influenced each other.
An excellent dish needed at least two to three layers of superposition and changes in these five profound meanings.
For example, rice porridge seemed to have a single ingredient.
But the heat when it entered the mouth, the soft and glutinous texture, the smell of the grain, the light and slightly sweet taste... Altogether, it had to achieve the maximum sensory enjoyment of a bowl of rice porridge.
This unknown powder must have had many defects and needed to be inspected.
This required feedback from the taste tester.
Su Yu looked at Lu Yizhou encouragingly.
Lu Yizhou was at a loss. What level changes?
He only knew that as soon as he got closer to the bowl, he could feel the spiritual energy that filled it. Although the spiritual energy was weak and insignificant for him, who had already built a foundation, it would be very beneficial to Third Senior Brother.
Why would he try it?
As he was hesitating whether to have a taste of this bowl worth a hundred spirit stones, he heard a struggle on the bed.
"I... I'll do it!" Wei Zhao clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, staring at Su Yu.
"If you want to test a poison, I can do it... Anyway, I'm a waste..."
His meridians were damaged and spiritual energy around his body was stagnant. He could no longer feel the changes in spiritual energy surrounding him at all.
Due to him no longer able to feel spiritual energy, when he saw the diluted powder in this bowl, he thought it was the same as the Jade Pill Powder fed to him just now, but it wasn't.
What do you mean testing medicine? She brought it here especially to humiliate him.
She wanted to poison him as well.
She hated him for ten years. If now she could vent her emotions, she might have a breakthrough in her state of mind. Maybe then, she would be able to hold up Zhiqiong Peak!
"Give it to me!" Wei Zhao welcomed death as if it was like going home.
Lu Yizhou was stunned and wanted to explain, but Su Yu had already handed Wei Zhao the porcelain bowl.
"Drink slowly." Su Yu kindly advised this first person to try her 'dish'.
Wei Zhao sneered and refused to listen to her. He raised his head and gulped it down.
Lu Yizhou didn't even have time to stop him. He was heartbroken when he saw that some liquid came out of his third senior brother's mouth because he drank too quickly.
'That is at least fifteen spirit stones!'
"Cough cough..." Wei Zhao drank too fast and choked a little.
"How is it?" Su Yu looked at him expectantly.
Nothing happened.
Wei Zhao closed his eyes and waited for the pain.
But no trace of pain hit him. Instead, a faint scent of rice grain was left behind in his mouth. It was elegant and slightly sweet. It lingered between his lips and teeth.
The liquid flowed down his throat as soon as he poured it in. He didn't have time to taste it, but at this moment, he felt a trace of heat between his breaths. The temperature was just right, neither burning him nor making him feel cold. The slight warmth seemed to stretch his meridians that had been twitching for a while.
However, he drank it too fast. He wanted to savor the feeling, but he had already lost it.
Wei Zhao suddenly opened his eyes.
"How is it, Third Senior Brother?" Lu Yizhou also asked anxiously, "Is there any use in drinking this?"
Wei Zhao regained his senses. The heat in his stomach lingered faintly in his dantian, which relieved him from the pain of breaking his golden core. It was previously densely packed with inhuman pain, like the pain of continuously being bitten by worms.
His face changed greatly.
Lu Yizhou could see that Wei Zhao’s complexion improved significantly. His pale face had become ruddier, though it was still pale. Lu Yizhou was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he heard Wei Zhao yelling.
"Stupid!"
"I'm a piece of shit. What can I do with this elixir?"
Wei Zhao looked at Lu Yizhou, his fourth junior brother, with disappointed eyes.
He has the kindness of a woman!
"Ordinary jade pill powder... is already a waste for me... But you asked a second-grade alchemist... refine it for me... You, you are so stupid... Go away..."
Lu Yizhou was dumbfounded.
"Second, second, second, alchem...?"
He looked at Su Yu, who stepped forward and quickly removed the porcelain bowl from Wei Zhao's hand so as not to be smashed by him. His sea of consciousness almost became turbulent.
"Third Senior Brother, this was given to me by Second Senior Sister. I didn't ask a second-grade alchemist!"
Wei Zhao, who was hitting the bed angrily, stopped for a moment.
"Oh?" Su Yu was very interested. "So, do you think this bowl is better than the first one you drank just now?"
She immediately regained the excitement of developing creative dishes. She had cooked a special 'spiritual food' for the first time.
She took out a jade slip and was ready to record.
"Is it the difference in texture or taste? How smooth is it? Is there any sweet aftertaste? Tell me about your experience."
Wei Zhao was dumbfounded. For the first time after being injured, he raised his pale face and used his purple gem-like eyes to look at Su Yu properly.
'What is she saying?'
He thought she would mock him and be happy because of his serious injury, but she didn't.
He only saw her calm but bright, focused eyes at this time.
He had never seen her look at him like that before.
"Why, did you drink it too fast and didn't experience it properly? Do you want to drink some again?"
She asked with a smile at him, holding the porcelain bowl.
Wei Zhao was stunned.
Lu Yizhou has already rushed over, "Second Senior Sister, Third Senior Brother, you can't use it anymore for now. It will not be too late to keep it until tonight. Save money, save money!"
A mouthful will cost fifty spirit stones but could only provide a small supplement of spiritual energy. It was more important to treat Third Senior Brother's wounds first.
Wei Zhao regained his senses and turned his face away.
"Second Senior Sister, where did you get this Jade Pill Powder?" Lu Yizhou finally asked the question that haunted him.
One more portion meant one more meal.
He really cared too much about how to get it.
"Did you meet a second-grade alchemist before?"
Wei Zhao turned a bit and raised his ears silently.
If the price was too high, he would rather die than eat it.
As a result, in the room, a beautiful voice sounded gentle but no less shocking than thunder.
"Well... I don't know any alchemists."
"Just a mere Jade Pill Powder. It's so simple. It was just what your second senior sister made casually and accidentally."
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Wei Zhao's hand, which was resting on the bed, momentarily weakened and his body swayed.
Lu Yizhou snorted softly and then slammed his hand onto the wooden table behind him.
'This is not true.'
'How can that be?'
'This must be the nonsense of Second Senior Sister, right?'
The two junior brothers in the room were experiencing three consecutive shocks in their sea of knowledge.
In the whole Nanxun sect, who did not know that ten years ago, the second senior sister of Zhiqiong Peak turned from a genius with a single spiritual root of the wind element into a waste with five spiritual roots? The five spiritual roots were mixed and chaotic. Her cultivation speed was not only ten times slower than others, but also collided with each other, causing her cultivation base to stagnate at the fifth stage of Qi Refining. She could not advance an inch for five years.
Because of this, their master, Taoist Mu, went down the mountain two years ago. He was looking for a way to purify her spiritual roots but disappeared into a deep cave in the secret realm.
From then on, Second Senior Sister developed a perverse character and gave up on herself.
But don't talk about the way she is now. Even ten years ago, when she was still an amazing cultivation genius, she had a wind element root which couldn't make alchemy!
Alchemy required a fire spirit root to perceive, control and manage the intensity of the fire being used to refine. Generally, only pure fire spirit root or double spirit root of wood and fire could perform alchemy.
"Second Senior Sister did..."
Lu Yizhou swallowed and looked at Su Yu, who was already carrying the porcelain bowl and was about to turn around and go out.
Because Wei Zhao couldn't tell her the result, she was going to make another one and try it for herself.
"Uh... Second Senior Sister, how much can you refine?" Lu Yizhou almost bit his tongue when he asked this.
'How much what? Do you think she can really refine things?'
Such an indecent and vulgar use of words, if any alchemist who passed by heard it, he could never ask any elixir from them in this life.
His second senior sister really misled him.
But before he could correct his words, Su Yu gave him a complicated look.
In fact, she didn't know whether she would produce any Jade Pill Powder if she cooked rice porridge again.
"Junior Brother, because it's too easy, Senior Sister doesn't know if it can be reproduced. After all, I, your senior sister, am someone who does big things."
Lu Yizhou was dumbfounded.
'What big things?'
'Is 500 spirit stones a bottle of Jade Pill Powder, not a big deal?'
Second Senior Sister had been hiding in her room every day for the past few years, unwilling to see people. Was she cultivating a big move?
Wei Zhao turned his face away. He was unwilling to see his somewhat overly stupid fourth junior brother with a foolish look on his face when he was being deceived.
Obviously, Su Yu's words were untrue.
Only his fourth junior brother will believe her.
At this moment, Su Yu was also very embarrassed. However, she looked inside her dantian and found that the big iron cauldron with colorful radiance was still there, and she felt a little more confident in herself.
Immediately, she raised her head and raised her chest.
"Hey, although this powder is unbearably simple, for you, your senior sister will reluctantly study it a little bit."
After talking for a long time, she had also become hungry. She had to fill herself up even if she didn't make any Jade Pill Powder.
"Second Senior Sister, you will try again?"
Lu Yizhou was immediately excited and looking forward to it.
Wei Zhao turned his pale face down again. His expression was constantly changing.
...
The three of them had reached an agreement, so Su Yu let go of her confusion and decided to try again. She immediately walked towards the small kitchen with mighty steps.
"Second Senior Sister, wait."
Lu Yizhou followed behind her while being dumbfounded.
This direction is not the way to Master's room at all.
In the Zhiqiong Peak, none of the brothers and sisters could control the spirit fire and refine pills.
So a few years ago, when their master, Taoist Mu, obtained a third-grade pill furnace from the secret realm, he kept it in his room. It is ready to be used by any new disciples who could learn alchemy in the future.
Lu Yizhou hurriedly stopped Su Yu.
"Where is Second Senior Sister going? Don't you want to go to Master's room?"
Su Yu didn't turn back and walked calmly to the small kitchen.
She scooped up a scoop of spirit rice, rinsed it with spirit water and threw it neatly into the large cast iron pot on the stove.
Lu Yizhou: ?
"You usually cook in Master's room?"
Lu Yizhou: "???"
'What, what?'
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