Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality Chapter 63
TLed by Serena Love
Edited by Liya
Chapter 63 - Chrysanthemum Tofu
The secret realm of the North had never seen something so absurd.
In a rare event that had never occured in a hundred years, the heir of the Buddhist Sect joined Nanxun!if you are reading this on a site other than puretl(.)com then this chapter has been stolen
The elders and disciples of various factions in the secret realm came quickly.
The original illusion formation set up by Hang Wan'er and the others had been lifted. Because too many Nascent Soul elders had come, so even together, their formation was simply not enough to block them.
Fortunately, they had already eaten all the fragrant Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
More than 300 people in the Bingling Sect felt extremely fortunate.
Qing Xuan and Elder Zhang soon landed next to them as well, where most of the third-grade beasts were "stored."if you are reading this on a site other than puretl(.)com then this chapter has been stolen
At a glance, they saw Su Yu behind a group of core disciples of the Bingling Sect, flipping her iron wok.
The beautiful Son of Buddha, Xia Jingsi, who had grown his hair, was clasping his hands together. He was not far from where they landed, listening carefully to Hang Wan'er's words while nodding compassionately from time to time.
"So that's the case. Your senior sister Su is the second highest ranked disciple in Zhiqiong Peak. This humble one is her senior brother. So this humble one is your senior brother, who is ranked first in Nanxun's Zhiqiong Peak."
Xia Jingsi felt that he was enlightened.
Hang Wan'er: "..."
Qing Xuan and Elder Zhang, who just arrived: "..."
"Qing Xuan, Elder Zhang, very good. It's no wonder you didn't look for the Son of Buddha just now!" They already abducted the person to their own sect!
The other elders from the southern border were all speechless.
After going back and forth, everything was completely useless.
The elder of Jinbamen felt very fortunate that he did not move.
But he couldn't help but say, "You are not very kind, Qing Xuan. Our two factions have a century-old friendship, eh? Why didn't you tell me in advance?"
Elder Zhang laughed suddenly and nearly made his Nascent Soul laugh out loud.
Qing Xuan held his forehead.
'It isn't like that at all. Did I know this before?'
"Everyone," Qing Xuan looked around. "Although the strongest beast in the secret realm is only fifth-grade, it is not appropriate for us to stay here with such diverse cultivation techniques and spirits. It is easy to cause beasts to riot. It's better to leave the secret realm first."
"What did you say? Qing Xuan, are you still not returning the Son of Buddha to the Buddhist Sect?"
The Tiansheng Sect's Li Yiming held his chessboard and scolded him while taking a step forward.
Tiansheng Sect would be the first to disagree.
"The elders of the Buddhist Sect can testify that they found this secret place and found the Son of Buddha because of the fourth-grade talisman of our Tiansheng Sect."
If they left the secret realm, then how to say it clearly? The three prophecies of the Tiansheng Sect would fly away.
One prophecy was worth thirty million spirit stones.
Li Yiming squinted and blocked the only way out of the secret realm. "You are in a hurry to leave. Are you trying to steal the credit of the Tiansheng Sect for finding the Son of Buddha? If you are worried about beasts, you don't have to."
This secret realm was for disciples to experience.
In turn, he threw down the chessboard in his hand, immediately forming a fifth-grade defensive formation.
"Make it clear, and then we'll leave together!"
The head of the elders of the Buddhist Sect had white beards reaching his chest.
After he heard this, he sighed and looked at Nanxun and the others. "Indeed, I have received the assistance of the Tiansheng Sect. Please, Nanxun, return the Son of Buddha as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will be our Buddhist Sect's enemy."
"What to return?"
Elder Zhang was about to yell when he heard Xia Jingsi's retort.
His diamond eyes were not angry and mighty but were as clear as a child's. "I vaguely remember that I have not been able to gain enlightenment for thirteen years. Today, my breakthrough has nothing to do with the Buddhist Sect."
The elder of the Buddhist Sect was almost suffocated. "All Sentient Beings Are Suffering is the fifth level of my Buddhist Sect Heart Art!"
Xia Jingsi smiled. "Then what do you say the next layer is?"
"The sixth level is the Thousand Flower Smile." The elder of the Buddhist Sect knocked on his tin stick.
Xia Jingsi nodded. "This is indeed known to many donors."
Buddhist Sect: "..."
"I'll recite Thousand Flower Smile's mind technique to you!" The elder took a step forward and wanted to transmit the sound.
But Xia Jingsi frowned and clasped his hands together. "Elder, don’t lie. To go back to the truth, you need to pay more attention to your own mind and be conscious of your nature. You remember the way of the mind, but what does it have to do with this humble one?"
"...!?"
"Now, my junior sister's elixir helps me to comprehend my own mind, which is the way for this humble one. Does the Buddhist Sect also have an elixir to help you comprehend Thousand Flower Smile?"
"If there is, I will believe it. Maybe I have some relationship with the Buddhist Sect."
The elder of the Buddhist Sect was stunned.
How could their sect possibly have such an elixir?
He himself was still stuck on the fifth level!
"Son of Buddha, there is no such elixir in the world!"
Tiansheng Sect's Li Yiming couldn't help but chuckle. "Indeed, everyone knows that Thousand Flower Smile is the sixth level of the mind method of the Buddhist Sect. Not to mention Nanxun doesn't know how to cultivate this method. Even if they know, it is impossible to refine an elixir for this."
Elder Zhang waved his sleeves. "No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak! If we really refine it, could it be that he will be the master and ask the Buddhist Sect to merge into our Nanxun?"
The Son of Buddha was the title for the most enlightened disciple of each generation of the Buddhist Sect. It was said that he held the most important fifth-grade instrument of the Buddhist Sect, the wooden bell of ten thousand monks, and made it recognize him as a master.
Once the current Venerable Shixuan of the Buddhist Sect passed away, the Son of Buddha would succeed him and the next Son of Buddha would be elected.
The Buddhist Sect had to find Xia Jingsi because unless the current Son of Buddha died, the fifth-grade instrument could not change hands, nor could a new Son of Buddha be selected. Xia Jingsi would still be the next leader of the Buddhist Sect.
If Venerable Shixuan passed away and Xia Jingsi was still in Nanxun, then the Buddhist Sect might really be merged into Nanxun...
Everyone was amazed.
Elder Wu Wang from the Buddhist Sect also glanced at Li Yiming complainingly.
Then he took a step forward and sighed towards Qing Xuan. "Junior Sister of Nanxun, who is always called by the Son of Buddha, I don't know where she is? Nanxun is also a great sect that has been famous for a long time. Did she come forward and explain it clearly to the Son of Buddha?"
Hang Wan'er and the others immediately looked bright. They turned their heads in admiration and looked at their Second Senior Sister, who was behind the hundreds of people of the Bingling Sect.
Qing Xuan also nodded. He turned his head and called Su Yu.
"Little Niece Su."
He called and called, but she was still focused behind the stove without raising her head.
"Ah," Hang Wan'er patted her forehead. "Elder Qing Xuan, my Second Senior Sister thought it was too noisy here, so she added a muting spell to herself. She can't hear you now. I will go call her."
Qing Xuan: "..."
Buddhist Sect: "..."
It was hard not to suspect that Nanxun deliberately abducted their Son of Buddha.
Su Yu quickly raised her eyebrows, wiped her hands unhappily and quickly walked in front of them.
"What's the matter, Elder Qing Xuan?"
"I'm preparing a parting gift for the disciples of Bingling Sect and I'm in a hurry."
After she finished speaking, she looked back at the more than 300 core disciples of the Bingling Sect.
For such a large corporate group meal order, Master Su hoped to leave a deep five-star impression on her guests.
So, she was going to make an extra piece for them to bring back.
But even she couldn't complete a gift for 300 people in such a short time.
She couldn't keep the guests waiting for a long time, so she was really in a hurry at this moment.
Elder Zhang coughed lightly, looked at Xia Jingsi, and winked at her.
Su Yu held her forehead. "It turns out about this. I have already explained it to him."
Master Su had always been honest in her business.
She glanced at the people who came from the Buddhist Sect and could only go to the beautiful Xia Jingsi in ragged white clothes again. She spoke slowly so that everyone could hear clearly. "Son of Buddha, I have told you before. You are not from Nanxun and I do not understand your Bodhi method."
Elder Zhang and Qing Xuan quickly looked at each other with strange expressions.
Little Niece Su also said the same when Baiyu Peak wanted to rely on her.
And then...
Then, Little Niece Su became the peak master of Baiyu Peak!
They knew it all too well.
Both the Buddhist Sect elders and the Tiansheng Sect's Li Yiming breathed a sigh of relief, "Son of Buddha, you heard—"
But at this moment, Xia Jingsi put his hands together with a rich expression.
"The lost are ordinary people and the enlightened are Buddhas. I have been lost for a few years and today I saw the Dao again with the help of my junior sister. Why did my junior sister not recognize this senior brother? What did I do wrong?"
Buddhist Sect: ...
Tiansheng Sect: ...
Su Yu threw her hands and there was a bit of helplessness between her eyebrows. "You all heard him. That's it. If nothing else, I'll continue to work."
She left after she finished speaking, then made herself a sound insulation formation.
Son of Buddha was the plot for the lucky heroine.
Master Su didn't want to stay as the heroine’s comparison. There was no need to listen to even one more word from them.
Besides, the quarreling really hindered her kitchen efficiency and prevented her from doing business.
She would have already completed half of her gifts if they hadn't been so entangled.
Su Yu immediately returned to her cutting board.
At this moment, there was a giant bowl next to her cutting board, which was about 60% full of high-quality spiritual water.
She added another sound insulation formation to herself, which was already a helpless move.
In this icy world, as long as the spiritual fire was not ignited, the spiritual water in this giant bowl would soon solidify into ice.
She could only use her spiritual energy to ensure that the water would not condense and the ingredients would not be frostbitten.
Feeling that the temperature ignited by the spirit fire under her feet had finally reached a suitable temperature like spring, she carefully brought out a white jade-like condensed tofu from her spatial storage bag.if you are reading this on a site other than puretl(.)com then this chapter has been stolen
The whole piece was as big as a jade bed. No matter how smooth it was when it was taken out, this boxy, white, and tender tofu was still trembling, as if it would break if she was not careful.
Su Yu sprinkled some water on it and then dipped the surface of her kitchen knife with water before starting to move.
Today, in the frozen snow, she was going to present a large jade flower that the disciples in the northern realm did not often see - a thousand-filament double-petal flower-carved tofu.
Ninety percent of this dish depended on the knife work.
If you didn't practice your knife for three days, the beauty of the finished product would be greatly discounted.
Master Su took a deep breath and gently pressed the giant tender tofu with her left hand. The kitchen knife in her right hand was steady and fast, cutting it quickly.
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"You heard it. It has nothing to do with Nanxun. It is the Buddha who follows a Great Way."
Elder Zhang couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. He was looking at the Tiansheng Sect and the Buddhist Sect in front of him.
'They are really good at reincarnation!'
He turned around and was about to leave to see what good things Little Su was doing.
Zhiqiong Peak disciples and the others followed him, ready to leave.
"Wait a minute." The lead elder of the Buddhist Sect took a deep breath. "My Buddhist Sect's ancestral hall is dedicated to relics of several generations of elders. If you take it, you will be able to understand that all living beings are suffering."
"Has Nanxun stolen my Buddhist Sect's relic?"
"Well, you are innocent. Everyone who is good at alchemy belongs to your family?" Elder Zhang stared at him.
Qing Xuan frowned. "Buddhist Sect, speak carefully."
The lead elder of the Buddhist Sect took a step forward. "Otherwise, how would you explain it? This practice is not passed on and I lost two of the relics of the Buddhist Sect three years ago. The whereabouts are still unknown."
The Tiansheng Sect's Li Yiming smiled instantly. "Isn't it easy to understand?"
"All factions are here today. Why don't you be a witness and see if Nanxun still has an elixir to make a breakthrough!"
He held his chessboard and smiled. "If you can't take it out, either return the Son of Buddha, or the lost Buddhist Sect relic and any practice method that was stolen. Nanxun just has to settle it."
"Bah!" Elder Zhang angrily called out his natal sword. "Nanxun never planned to take your Son of Buddha, but you have to be this way! Then if we don't take him away, I'll be sorry to you!"
The elder of the Buddhist Sect sighed helplessly. "Although Tiansheng Sect's words are direct, they are reasonable. I have no malicious intentions. One of the disciples around me happens to have not yet realized that all living beings are suffering. If Nanxun alchemist can make alchemy on the spot, without using relics, and let him break through, it will naturally solve my doubts."
"I will give you the compensation related to the elixir and my misunderstanding of Nanxun."
Elder Wu Wang opened his pair of majestic eyes.
"But if someone steals treasures of our sect, don't even think about leaving this place today."
Qing Xuan snorted coldly. Green bamboo grew on his sleeves and he was about to ask Elder Wu Wang for advice.
However, they heard one after another shouting from the core disciples of the Bingling Sect.
"Lost two relics? Just need to make two pills?"
"Buddhist Sect lost two hundred relics, or two relics?"
The lead elder of the Buddhist Sect was dumbfounded. The tin stick in his hand almost waved towards the Bingling Sect.
"We have not yet had two hundred elders pass away!"
Wasn't this cursing the Buddhist Sect for the destruction of the whole sect!
"Hey." Wei Shuang stomped and ran out. "Then it's fine. It's definitely not the relics you dropped."
"Yeah, Master Su made full jars of fragrant pills for more than 300 people. Two relics, how can that be enough..."
"??"
"Yes, we each have at least one bowl and we took at least one piece of elixir from the jar."
"???"
The elders in the audience were sluggish.
'Three hundred?'
Wei Shuang hurriedly took two steps forward, clasped her fists to salute and said, "Our 300 core disciples of Bingling Sect can testify that we have all taken the pills that the Son of Buddha ate. How can two relics do so much?"
She looked at Su Yu admiringly.
"Senior Sister Su has a noble character and is very powerful. My Bingling Sect disciples can testify."
As soon as she said this, there was a panting soft water-like voice behind her.
"My, my, Shuilingmen, can also testify!"
"Elders of the Buddhist Sect, I am Xue Ning, the core disciple of Shuilingmen. My 280 brothers and sisters can also testify for Master Su!"
Wei Shuang looked back in amazement and stared at Xue Ning.
Xue Ning blushed. "That, that, I also admire Senior Sister Su very much..."
Wei Shuang: ...
She raised her head in awe. "Our Bingling Sect's Sect Master can also testify for Senior Sister Su!"
Xue Ning: ...
She immediately raised her head. "The Sect Master of Shuilingmen can also testify for Senior Sister Su!"
The Buddhist Sect was stunned, as were the other nine sects from the southern border.
Not long after, there was a splash of flame in the air, condensed into large characters floating in the air.
[I am the chief disciple of Jinbamen. Jin Haotian can also testify to the character of Junior Sister Su.]
[She is really good at alchemy. She doesn't need relics at all!]
[Our Jinbamen can testify!]
The elder of Jinbamen: "?"
Elder Li of the Tiansheng Sect, who held a chessboard, laughed in surprise.
"It turned out that Nanxun was very ambitious and deceived so many..."
Before he finished speaking, his voice stopped.
Not far away, behind the more than 300 core disciples of the Bingling Sect, spiritual energy suddenly fluctuated in the air.
A spiritual flower with stretched petals, about two feet wide, instantly appeared behind them.
Hundreds of layers of golden petals twisted like a feather fan, clustered around a soft flower core and now floating with the aura.
"This is-"
Everyone looked back and was stunned.
"Isn't it..." Hang Wan'er covered her red lips in the crowd. "Second Senior Sister has really made a Thousand Flower Smile elixir that the Son of Buddha said just now?"
Everyone was stunned.
However, Elder Zhang didn't think it was a big deal. He turned his head and gave Elder Li a sideways look. "Hey, isn't the main method of the Buddhist Sect is right here in Nanxun? If so, I'm afraid the Buddhist Sect stole my Nanxun mind method!"
Everyone: ...
The elders of the Buddhist Sect were in a panic.
Most of the disciples in their sect had high cultivation levels, but they were trapped in their cultivation method.
Of twelve elders, only one of them understood the Thousand Flower Smile.
The rest of the people searched the books but couldn't understand.
It was not because of a lack of comprehension, daily practice or insufficient research.
It was because they predicted a demon disaster a hundred years ago. Twelve seven-grade magic weapons were destroyed on the spot and six elders passed away.
The secrets of heaven could not be leaked.
Since then, their Buddhist Sect had been particularly slow in comprehending the Bodhi method. It seemed that they had been punished by heaven.
After a hundred years, they still had not recovered.
Thousand Flower Smile...
How could it appear casually in the Southern Sect?
"If Nanxun really has someone who can refine an elixir that allows me to breakthrough to Thousand Flower Smile, then I will also enter Nanxun—"
Elder Wu Wang said this with no anger, but halfway through, he coughed.
He would not lose his mind in excitement. However, soon he made up his words.
"Then I'll... follow the Son of Buddha and call her Junior Sister Su!"
Hang Wan'er: "..."
Elder Zhang: "..."
They had a bad feeling about this.
Without arrogant words, he leaned on his tin stick and quickly pushed aside the people of the Bingling Sect. He arrived at the gathering place of the double-petaled flower aura.
When he saw it, he was startled.
He saw Xia Jingsi's hands clasped together. He was smiling and looking forward.
He then looked at his junior sister, Nanxun's young female disciple in a yellow dress.
He saw a kitchen knife flowing with water in her hand, quickly cutting a large piece of white jade tofu on the table.
As soon as her knife went down, there were several phantoms formed in the air.
She didn't seem to need to breathe and there was no hesitation in her heart. She cut with her knife like she was following a certain rule between heaven and earth. She cut several slices of the tofu in an instant.
Smooth and silky... Maybe only a cultivator with a higher cultivation level could see how many strokes she had made.
"Eight hundred and twenty-one."
Xia Jingsi replied with a smile.
Everyone was stunned.
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In an instant, they saw her knife stopped. She wiped the smooth knife surface, with no tofu residue, with a white cloth. Then she tilted the chopping board. Some spiritual water rushed down and the whole piece of tofu, which had been cut with more than 800 slices, but was neither broken nor became mush, slid into a glass water tank next to it.
In an instant, like a flower, the jade-colored tofu stretched out with strands of gorgeous fine petals, blooming inside the golden soup in the giant bowl.
These slender petals seemed to be able to thread inside the eye of a needle. It was slender and delicate, but soft and continuous, scattered but not broken.
Thousands of petals were clustered around the heart of the flower. The buds were soft but magnificent.
Immediately, spiritual energy condensed from the bowl. Gorgeous flowers with thousands of double petals slowly floated out of the golden soup and flew into the air, shrouding everyone from the Bingling Sect.
In an instant, Yan Yan sat down beside Su Yu, cross-legged.
His thirty-six swords were lifted into the air, like golden petals hovering in one place.
Ice soul swords of the Bingling Sect's disciples flew out from their sheaths. They gathered around Yan Yan's thirty-six swords, like layers of petals surrounding the stamen!
Thirty-six, thirty-seven, ...forty-eight swords...
Yan Yan's aura was soaring and he was about to condense a golden core.
Everyone was surprised.
Then a qin sound also sounded instantly. When they turned around, they saw Nanxun's qin cultivator, Lu Yizhou, also smiling and crossing his knees.
The strings were lightly picked and turned into blossoming golden flowers.
Spectral flowers bloomed more and more.
"What's the matter? Did they break through?"
"This is... an array? What kind of array is this? It can make people breakthrough on the spot?"
They were surprised when they saw the beautiful Son of Buddha, with bare feet and a ragged white robe, folding his hands. His shoulder-length messy black hair draped behind his head.
With a pair of pure and innocent eyes of compassion, he smiled at Yan Yan and Lu Yizhou, who were in the epiphany, and also at Su Yu, who was still immersed in the rhythm of knife rising and falling.
He looked up at the flowers condensed by hundreds of swords and the sound of qin, and he stepped into the golden light.
Then for a breath, he smiled as if to correspond to their roots of wisdom.
His right hand slowly stretched out. He gently pinched his index finger and thumb. A long branch and leaf were vaguely formed between his pinched fingers.
‘Thousand Flower Smile.’
Everyone: ...
Buddhist Sect: ...
Tiansheng Sect: "???"
Elder Zhang took a step back.
Something went wrong.
He opened his mouth... What would he do if he went back to Nanxun with the whole Buddhist Sect?
Hang Wan'er hissed and covered her dantian.
'Help.'
'Second Senior Sister, if this goes on like this, it will not be far from the day when Hang Wan'er soars.'
Mei Zhen'er, who came in a hurry, twitched her eyelids.
'The secret realm of the North is suffocating.'
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A hundred feet away from the northern market.
[Come quickly. The Buddhist Sect may have a fight with us - Qing Xuan]
Taoist Mu glanced at the jade slip and waved his robe in the air. "Wu Wang, this old guy, actually helped the Tiansheng Sect to abuse and humiliated us! Brother Hong Yun, don't panic. Sixteen years ago, I played against Wu Wang and I still won by half a point! Speaking of which, he also called me Old Brother Mu!"
Hong Yun smiled wryly. Blood drained from his face at the moment.
They came to the north, but they were extremely unlucky. They fell into the crack created by the aura vortex.
For some reason, Nanxun's luck had been declining recently.
He glanced at Elder Mu's Nascent Soul, who had shrunk by three-quarters and sighed. "Save it. Your Nascent Soul is already like that. Do you want to be buried there after fighting?"
Taoist Mu didn't look too far ahead. "You get off the boat first and call Wu Wang directly. I will fight him to the death. Don't tell my apprentices that I am here."
His Nascent Soul had deteriorated rapidly and he shouldn't last long anyway, even if he didn't fight.
"Let them think I'm dead outside!"
Hong Yun didn't know how to answer. The boat was already parked at the address given by Qing Xuan - the Nanxun shop.
"I'm not going. You do as I say."
Taoist Mu was wearing a green robe which was fluttering in the wind.
"You don't have to persuade me."
"I would rather let my disciples remember me as the most powerful figure of my peak, their omnipotent master. I will not let them see my weak and incompetent last days. However, with the last bit of spiritual energy that I have, I will go seek justice for Nanxun from the Buddhist Sect!"
Hong Yun sighed. "Don't act rashly. Wait for me to observe the situation first."
He had no choice but to control his talisman and get off the boat with the other two elders.
The Taoist priest closed his eyes on the boat and stood against the wind. A drop of crystal tear glittered at the corner of his eyes.
"My apprentices, I'm sorry for you, as your teacher."
"But this is for Nanxun, and for the thousands of other disciples like you...!"
He took a deep breath and took out a jade slip from his storage bag.
Then he started writing his last words.
He still had many exercises that he hadn't passed on to his disciples. There were also 500,000 spirit stones hidden in his room that he hadn't told his disciples!
After a moment, he heard the sound of a talisman coming from behind.
Taoist Mu turned around quickly, "Where is Wu Wang?"
Hong Yun looked complicated. "He’s right at the door of Nanxun shop..."
"What, what's the point! He really sees Nanxun as nothing!"
Taoist Mu rushed down immediately and even pinched a hiding spell for himself.
"Wu Wang, you old donkey. Do you still remember me, your Old Brother Mu!" He shouted angrily.
"I, Wu Wang, have seen Senior Sister Su."
Taoist Mu: "??"
The "old bald donkey" quickly turned around again and faced the gentle male disciple standing next to Su Yu, holding a qin, who was also very familiar to Taoist Mu.
"I, Wu Wang, have seen Junior Brother Lu Yizhou."
Taoist Mu: ...
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T/N: The Chrysanthemum "thousand cuts" Tofu is the most iconic dish that demonstrates dao yi, or the art of the knife. Making the chrysanthemum tofu is not difficult, but it's the chopping that reveals whether you're a master chef or not.
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