Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality Chapter 4
TLed by Serena Love
Edited by Liya
Chapter 4 An Elixir That Encourage Promotion on the Spot
In the small kitchen of Zhiqiong Peak.
Su Yu wanted to understand her current situation. She had a lot of questions in her mind.
Couldn't she cook with spirit rice or vegetables in this immortal cultivation world as per normal?
What was the probability of Jade Pill Powder appearing when she cooked rice porridge?
Was it possible to improve the taste of the Jade Pill Powder?
Su Yu, a retired head chef, now found the fun and challenge of developing new dishes again. She immediately became serious.
To cook porridge, you have to start by sifting each grain of rice and remove the slightly lower-quality grains.
After washing and soaking the rice grain, pour them into the pot and light the fire.
Cooking rice porridge required a very meticulous process. The rice had to be boiled without overflowing and the heat had to be just right. Every rice grain and water had to be ensured that they rolled together and collided gently with the pot wall so that the rice grains would pop, gelatinize into a soft and thick texture and would not become pulpy.
There was an old diner who came to her restaurant for three consecutive years and ordered a bowl of rice porridge every day.
At this moment, Su Yu stood in front of the stove and closed her eyes. She listened to the movement in the pot, constantly adjusted the fire and once again entered a wonderful sensory experience.
When the rice grains were boiled, a green cloud of spiritual energy lingered in front of them...
Lu Yizhou, who was standing behind Su Yu, was stunned when he saw her pouring spirit rice into the iron pot.
"Second Senior Sister, are you hungry?"
'But why don't you use a Bigu Pill?'
Lu Yizhou was full of doubts and called Su Yu a few times, but she didn't seem to hear him.
Just as he was about to leave, he felt that the spiritual aura of rice grains in the small kitchen gradually became clear, condensed and stable, which was a sign of successful essence extraction.
?
!
Lu Yizhou froze in place. He almost lost his mind.
This was the feeling.
It was the same feeling as when his third senior brother drank the Jade Pill Powder just now. Actually, the aura is even purer.
When he looked at Su Yu again, he saw that she had opened her eyes. She took a step forward and lifted the lid of the pot with her bare hands. When the aura of the rice was at its peak, she scooped out a heap of moon-like lustre powder with a ladle into a porcelain bowl.
'So many actions in one go!'
In disbelief, Lu Yizhou took two steps back and looked at the blue and white porcelain bowl on the countertop.
For a while, he didn't know whether he had entered his own demonic dream or the illusion of an expert.
No wonder his third senior brother was full of praise for her Jade Pill Powder.
Everything made sense.
No.
How can it make sense?
Lu Yizhou was shocked.
He heard that the most talented alchemists in the sect only used alchemy furnaces to refine pills!
No, obviously, all alchemists only used alchemy furnaces.
Lu Yizhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
There was a magic spell engraved on every alchemy furnace, which helped alchemists to perceive spiritual energy in the ingredients better and transmit the spirit fire's heat.
Without this, one couldn't become an alchemist even if one had fire spirit root.
He looked up sluggishly and watched Su Yu grab the next handful of spirit rice. She was sifting, cleaning, and pouring it into the pot... Soon the essence of spirit rice flowed out again.
Lu Yizhou gasped and looked at the second blue and white porcelain bowl.
'She made another one?'
Half a year ago, he saw a sect elder perform alchemy. He sweated profusely and looked tired and pale as if he was facing a great enemy. In the end, from the three furnaces he started with, there was only one furnace left and the rest were destroyed.
However, Second Senior Sister beside him moved with a smile on her lips. Her apricot eyes were curled up and her expression was like soaring in happiness. She had made a total of two bowls of Jade Pill Powder, but she was still comfortable and relaxed. How could this be?
Lu Yizhou didn't understand the way of alchemy, but he had heard more than once that practising alchemy might prolong a cultivator's life, which was like going against the heavens. Therefore, it was a very difficult skill.
The alchemist not only needed to focus on forcing the spirit fire out of their body and control the alchemy furnace, but also used their sea of consciousness to perceive the changes in the materials inside the furnace. These two requirements alone made most alchemists haggard and they failed frequently.
This was also why even though the raw materials of Jade Pill Powder were cheap, the finished products were so expensive.
However, Su Yu's face was getting more and more ruddy. Her eyes were getting brighter and brighter. She was obviously more energetic than before.
She was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining!
Lu Yizhou felt that his sea of consciousness was about to be shattered.
...
Rinse. Boil. Repeat.
The brilliance of the colorful cauldron in Su Yu's dantian seemed to be a little brighter.
The heat rose in her body and circulated along her meridians, making her every pore seem to be soaked in a hot spring and as if someone was gently rubbing her shoulders to make her relax.
Su Yu felt that she could cook continuously until the world ended.
So refreshing.
However, when she was about to boil the seventh pot, her exhilarated expression stopped strangely.
"Okay, let's finish here."
Su Yu took out six small plates and kept a sample of each bowl for herself. There were still six bowls of Jade Pill Powder left on the countertop.
"Bring these to your third senior brother. I have marked each bowl from one to six. Ask him to taste each one, and give me a handwritten note of the effect and taste of each batch of Jade Pill Powder."
Lu Yizhou was stunned.
After Su Yu finished speaking, she waved him away with a rosy face. "Go. Your second senior sister has worked hard and now I need to rest."
Lu Yizhou originally thought that she was in a very good state and alchemy seemed so simple. However, after hearing this, he immediately sighed in his heart.
Eldest Senior Brother once said that some strong people could look normal even if they go crazy.
It seemed that Second Senior Sister was like this!
How could she not be tired after cooking six pots, no, refine six batches of Jade Pill Powder in a row?
She was only at the fifth level of Qi Refinement, so her sea of consciousness must be exhausted.
Lu Yizhou immediately took a deep look at Su Yu.
He just felt that his second senior sister seemed to be a bit taller under the sunset.
...
After Lu Yizhou left, Su Yu stretched out her body and relaxed.
She opened the pot's lid and looked at the snow-colored white porridge with rising steam and the tumbling rice grains in the pot.
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She looked at the cauldron in her dantian.
Sure enough, its multicolored lustre had dimmed.
Therefore, she cannot extract the rice essence the whole day. With her current condition, she can only do it about six times a day.
The five-colored light on the surface of this dantian's cauldron should be the five elements of the spiritual power of her waste five-spiritual roots.
Once exhausted, it would be temporarily unavailable to use.
She just didn't know how long it would take to recover her spiritual power.
Master Su touched her ruddy face. Luckily, she drove that demon boy away. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to answer his questions.
She comfortably filled a bowl with rice porridge and returned to her room.
Her dantian's five-element cauldron seemed like a production machine for molecular gastronomy.
Before her body and spiritual power recovered, she could only cook ordinary meals. Once her spiritual power had become abundant, it would be very easy to extract the essence of food.
But apart from the simple Jade Pill Powder, were other spiritual foods the same?
What else could this five-element cauldron make?
Master Su still needed to make more experimental samples and needed people to try her 'dishes'.
Su Yu leaned her head leisurely. When the rice porridge was cool enough, she narrowed her eyes and slowly brought it to her red lips.
Smell.
Taste.
Experience the stickiness and softness of the rice porridge between her lips and teeth.
This was a beautiful, flawless art.
As she expected.
"What, she made all this?" Wei Zhao, who was still resting on the bed, looked at all the bowls filled with Jade Pill Powder that Lu Yizhou could barely hold with both hands and almost lost his voice.
Six bowls.
"She is now..."
Lu Yizhou sighed, "Second Senior Sister went back to her room to rest. She said she was tired."
Wei Zhao couldn't recover from his shock for a long time.
Immediately, he imagined a slender figure that was sluggish. Her sea of consciousness was empty.
How could she do this for him?
"Third Senior Brother, do you think Second Senior Sister is actually a genius in alchemy?"
Lu Yizhou pondered and looked carefully at Wei Zhao.
"She can cook...refine Jade Pill Powder. After this, can Second Senior Sister refine a third-grade Heavenly Replenishing Pill for you?"
Wei Zhao was speechless.
Heavenly Replenishing Pill was the elixir for repairing a golden core. Even if the golden core was broken, it could be repaired as long as the fragments were intact.
If he took one of said pills, not only could he protect the peak immediately, but he could also become a real Golden Core level swordsman!
But was that the kind of elixir that could be refined by someone at the fifth level of Qi Refining?
Previously, a cultivator from a first-class peak made a mistake when he was refining a medicinal pill. His sea of consciousness became turbulent and rendered him unconscious. He did not wake up for three days.
"You are confused. You are not allowed to bring up this matter to her."
Wei Zhao firmly vetoed his junior brother.
"By the way, is there any news from Eldest Senior Brother?"
Lu Yizhou's shoulders drooped instantly and his expression became heavy.
"Three days ago, when you broke your golden core, Sixth Junior Brother used his flying sword to pass a message to Eldest Senior Brother. But his flying sword turned around Zhiqiong Peak and couldn't find the direction. After two days of hovering around the peak, it came back."
His tone was sad.
Eldest Senior Brother was at the peak of the Golden Core level. Nascent Soul level was just around the corner for him. Not only was he very powerful, but he also usually taught them like a father, giving them pointers in practice.
For many years, even when their master disappeared, they did not feel that their group was leaderless.
It was because Eldest Senior Brother was their long-term support.
But now...
"Third Senior Brother, it seems that Eldest Senior Brother has also disappeared." Lu Yizhou said in pain.
Wei Zhao was shocked.
He fell down beside the bed, and his face was ashen.
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In the Northern Glacier.
On the top of the iceberg lay three inches of silver frost on the ground. Hailstorms were swirling all over the sky and no living things were seen anywhere.
Three thousand tons of water in the lake had frozen into a mirror-like ice.
Boom! A snake-like crimson violet thunderbolt landed on the lake, smashed the ice, and turned it into ice mist.
On the frozen lake, a black-haired man was carrying a broadsword. He was immersed in the ice mist and was meditating with his eyes closed.
Another crimson violet thunderbolt flew down and struck the top of his forehead.
He groaned. A trace of blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
"Master, your Dao has been completed. It will be futile to suppress your cultivation base."
An ice turtle with a frozen soul next to him talked in human words.
"Heavenly tribulation has started. It's time for you to pass the tribulation and ascend!"
If there were other people here, they would probably be shocked.
In the entire southern and northern borders, no one had ascended for a hundred years, but this black-haired man was about to transcend.
He didn't say a word. He took off his broadsword, inserted it into the frozen lake and erected a barrier, preventing several thunderbolts from striking him.
The ice turtle was shocked, "Master, why would you do this?"
Every time he suppressed his realm, it would make the thunderbolts stronger. When it came to transcending the heavenly calamity, it would be several times more terrifying. If he was not careful, he might die and disappear.
The black-haired man sat upright in the ice fog. His thin lips were overflowing with a hint of bitterness.
This was unexpected. He had struggled to find Zhiqiong Peak, a place with weak spiritual energy. He did not accept any cultivation magic weapon from the Nanxun academy and only took a minimum amount of spirit stones. He did all he could to suppress his ascension.
Between heaven and earth, yin and yang intersected, and qi and luck were conserved. He originally respected the way of heaven and did not intend to interfere in anyone's fate. He was just patiently waiting for ascension.
However, recently, the fate of his junior brothers and sisters had suddenly become bleak. The luck of Zhiqiong Peak was originally already sparse. He suspected that it had then been stolen, which made him very angry.
He was trying to regain their original luck, but the thunder tribulation showed signs of coming five days ago. Therefore, he could only come to the top of this iceberg to forcibly suppress it.
81 heavenly thunders for nine days and nine nights.
He could only escape for three hundred days in this icy and cold place that covered the sky and the sun. Only then will this catastrophe dissipate automatically.
At that time, he would be able to return to the peak, change the life of his junior brothers and sisters and find his master again!
After everything was done, ascending to the upper realm was not too late then.
"Open."
He did not resist the thunder tribulation but separated a spiritual sense and attached it to the ice.
Three thunder tribulations slashed down and the ice glowed into a light curtain.
The floating broadsword remained motionless.
The thunder stayed for a while, then slowly dissipated.
The black-haired man looked at the light curtain.
He didn't know what was going on in the peak and if his Second Junior Sister... was reliable.
Thinking of this, he felt uneasy.
If he hadn't been in a hurry and the hexagram had not pointed directly at her, he really wouldn't put this burden on her.
'Third Senior Brother, Eldest Senior Brother may not be able to help us anymore.'
Xiao Muge looked at his fourth junior brother and the bedridden third junior brother projected in the light curtain. His eyes were full of pain.
'Third Junior Brother and Fourth Junior Brother, wait for your brother for three hundred days. I will definitely come back to save you!'
'Let's find Second Senior Sister and let her try it out. In the future, maybe she can refine a third-grade Heavenly Replenishing Pill and help you reshape your golden core?'
Xiao Muge's expression was sombre, and he paused for a moment.
A crimson violet thunder struck into his broad sword without leaving a trace.
The thunder was too loud, and maybe he had heard it wrong.
Who... can do alchemy?
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"Second Senior Sister, I'm sorry. The written review of the effects and taste of the Jade Pill Powder you wanted has not been completed yet."
In the early morning of the second day, Lu Yizhou looked at Su Yu, who had walked to Wei Zhao's room to ask him for the review.
Wei Zhao, who was still resting on the bed, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Those are enough for ten days. Second Senior Sister, please wait." Lu Yizhou coughed lightly, "Third Senior Brother only ate the first bowl."
Su Yu: "..."
This was inefficient.
Her addiction to innovating new dishes was hooked, but the food testers were far behind schedule.
"You can use six servings for one meal, one-sixth of a bowl each."
Lu Yizhou didn't expect her to be so demanding. He couldn't help laughing when he heard her words. "Second Senior Sister, every time you take out some Jade Pill Powder from the spatial storage bag, the spiritual energy will dissipate a bit. How can you use six servings at the same time?"
'Procrastination.'
If they couldn't give her the difference between the samples, how could she improve the new dish immediately? How could she develop a new dish again?
The management of this kitchen had lost at the starting line!
Su Yu gave him a deep look, "Fourth Junior Brother, you thought that you had saved a small sum of 500 spirit stones, but in fact, it seriously delayed my big event."
Lu Yizhou was stunned.
What's the big event?
"I, your second senior sister, might have been able to develop a spiritual powder that would allow you to upgrade immediately, but as a result..."
Su Yu shook her head with disdain.
"Isn't this delayed by you?"
There were two shocked faces in the room.
In the sect exchange office, a first-grade Spirit Gathering Powder that accelerates the absorption of aura is worth 1,000 spirit stones. Some disciples on the first-class peaks had a lot of resources and no shortage of spirit stones. They took one bottle every ten days, which was three bottles per month. According to observation, they were indeed about 20% faster in cultivating as compared to ordinary cultivators in the Foundation Building stage.
She said it could allow them to upgrade immediately? This kind of Spirit Gathering Powder had never been heard of before and couldn't be developed so casually.
However, Lu Yizhou was a little sceptical when he thought of her ruddy expression in the small kitchen when cooking with the iron pot.
"Anyway, speed up your tasting."
Su Yu didn't care about their desire to save spirit stones.
Increase income and reduce expenditure.
But increasing income is the number one priority.
In total, the entire peak now only had 8,000 spirit stones. Could you afford the cost of hiring a calamity-transcending expert?
"Junior brothers, don't delay the serious business."
Su Yu tidied up her robes and turned around gracefully, leaving her two shocked junior brothers with a slender fluttering back.
But after two steps, she stopped.
"I saw that there are many spirit chickens in the back mountain. Do they have a master? If not, Senior Sister will use them for the time being."
It is early in the morning. She hasn't had breakfast yet.
"This, this... Second Senior Sister, please use them to your heart's content." What if the spirit chicken turned into Jade Pill Powder?
No, they might become a Spirit Gathering Powder!
Lu Yizhou couldn't help but have a glimmer of anticipation. He had never taken any Spirit Gathering Powder before, but he heard that it had the best effect the first time taking it.
"Fourth Junior Brother, if you believe everything she says, how could you manage the entire peak?" Wei Zhao couldn't stand it any longer.
"Spirit Gathering Powder requires spirit grass that aged more than 50 years old, not a normal spirit valley grass that grows two seasons a year."
Lu Yizhou suddenly sobered up and couldn't help but felt lost.
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