Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality - Chapter 8

Inside the kitchen, Su Yu looked solemn and looked at the stove in front of her.

For this Immortal Cultivation World version of the four-bird feast, she was inspired by the Three Sets of Ducks, a famous Huaiyang dish.

An old male duck with tight meat is placed inside a plump wild duck, and then a young and tender pigeon is placed inside.

[T/N: pictured above. It’s almost like a Turducken but steamed instead of roasted. A duck is placed inside a mallard, and then a pigeon inside.]

This dish requires a dexterous combination of fingers and a knife. She had to remove all the bones and internal organs one by one but also ensure that the duck skin was intact and even able to hold water. When the skin is held against the light, the brightness of the light coming through has to be almost the same from left to right.

Perfect knife work is the foundation of this famous dish. This is to ensure that when it is steamed, it can be cooked well and evenly, and the taste is uniform.

Then, the focus is on the cooking.

The three different birds have their own characteristics. These characteristics need to be preserved to the greatest extent in this dish, but they must be highly unified and cannot conflict with each other.

When Su Yu first followed her grandfather to learn this dish in the kitchen, the process of removing bones alone took no less than two years of practice. Her thumb was ground red by duck bones, and she practiced mixing the seasoning no less than a thousand times.

Thinking of the past, she couldn’t help thinking of those failed products that could not be served on the table and could only be eaten by herself. Instantly, she felt a little full.

Su Yu shook her head helplessly. She stretched out her hand and scooped up a spoonful of Garuda’s wing bone soup with clear pale gold color. Her eyes turned focused, and she slowly poured it on top of the stuffed spirit birds that had been finalized.

Three flavors in “one bird,” with the garuda stock on top as the finishing touch.

Place the steamer, light the fire, and simmer them on a low fire.

The colorful iron pot in her dantian was also lit up in an instant.

Four lifelike birds appeared in front of her eyes for a while, and the chirping continued. Among them are three birds of different sizes, followed by a big fast bird with dark brown wings and a little golden light stick closely behind it…

“Second Senior Sister, what is this?!”

Lu Yizhou hugged his qin and rushed to the door of this small kitchen.

His eyes fell on the stove shrouded in a red mist, and his immortal posture of a cultivator was gone.

After he called, Su Yu woke up from the illusion in front of her eyes. She only felt that the five-element pot in her dantian vibrated faintly, and the meridians of her whole body seemed to be removed from impurities. She was full of saturated spiritual energy that she could never use up.

‘Comfortable.’

Su Yu couldn’t help but squint her eyes.

And the purple-red mist shrouded in the large pot on the stove quickly gathered up and disappeared at the bottom of the pot.

Su Yu put down the cooking ladle in her hand, washed her hands, and looked into the pot with scrutinizing eyes.

At the bottom of the pot lies a pale white pill the size of a fist in the shape of a spirit cormorant. The bird raised its head and spread its wings. A golden thread lingered on its wings, faintly smearing the cormorant’s body, adding a sense of vivid beauty.

It didn’t waste her busy morning.

This time’s work is finally a level higher than that of jade pill powder.

Su Yu felt that this was a dish with a passing grade.

But after finishing this Cultivation World dish, she had thought of the past. She also had tried the golden wing bone soup halfway through and felt full. Immediately, she pulled her guinea pig over.

“Fourth Junior Brother, come and give it a try.”

‘Try… how to try this?’

Lu Yizhou hugged his qin and slowly took a step back, “Second Senior Sister, this is… an elixir?”

He thought it must have failed.

But what lay in the pot this time was not powder but a large solid bird far beyond his expectations.

Second Senior Sister can actually make alchemy?

But what is this elixir? So big, and also in a ‘bird’ shape!

Lu Yizhou had never seen an elixir like this before.

While he was shocked, Su Yu had already stuffed a pair of chopsticks in his hand, “Have it while it’s hot.”

“…”

Lu Yizhou froze and felt that the whole thing was strange.

“Second senior sister, wait. I’m going to find my third senior brother and eat it in front of him.”

Su Yu: “?”

Since his meridian and golden core were damaged, Wei Zhao left his room in the main courtyard with the most spiritual energy on the Zhiqiong Peak. He moved to a different courtyard where the spiritual energy was thin, and no one cared about it.

This is what he asked for himself.

Since he can’t cultivate anymore, he might as well give up his position to other junior brothers and sisters.

When he moved away from the main courtyard with many disciples, Wei Zhao clearly felt the loneliness that he had never had before.

Now he was lying on the bed, staring at the phoenix tree outside the window, and froze when he heard the sound of vigorous footsteps coming towards his room.

Wei Zhao was taken aback.

He is now a disabled person, but his fourth junior brother runs to him so diligently…

The door opened, and Wei Zhao looked at the woman in yellow who walked into his room with his fourth junior brother.

She was standing beside Lu Yizhou with her arms and hands behind her. She is wearing a pale yellow dress, which makes her fair cheeks very pretty. Her eyes which used to be mean and dark, became much brighter.

Wei Zhao looked away awkwardly.

“…Second Senior Sister.”

He called her extremely softly, and his face was filled with shame.

In the past, she encountered a bottleneck in her cultivation and targeted him all the way, causing him to hate this second senior sister very much. He always kept a distance from her and never cared about her.

But now, it was him who stayed behind closed doors and became a waste lying on the bed. Not only did she not escape, but she also refined jade powder for him, and now she came to visit him.

In contrast, he simply didn’t deserve it. He didn’t deserve to be her junior brother, didn’t deserve to be a junior brother with a higher cultivation level than her!

Wei Zhao fell into self-blame and felt ashamed to see Su Yu.

However, he heard his fourth junior brother say, “Third Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister has made an elixir!”

Wei Zhao was busy feeling ashamed, but suddenly he felt like he was split by thunder.

He looked at Su Yu in shock but saw that she was standing calmly. Her expression was not moving at all, as if this was some kind of trivial matter.

“Third Senior Brother, you don’t believe that I only comprehended the qin art of Hundreds of Birds Facing the Phoenix after taking the chicken powder refined by Second Senior Sister. Then I will try the elixir in front of now. I ask Senior Brother to witness it for me.”

?

Su Yu’s calm expression did not change, but her feeling almost went out of shape.

‘Comprehend the qin art?’

She looked at Lu Yizhou.

When he finished speaking, he looked at her with admiration and care, showing a respectful expression, and asked her for instructions, “Sister, I will take this elixir now. Do you have anything else to tell me?”

“Is this elixir more ferocious than before? Do I need to meditate first?”

Su Yu had a strange expression.

‘Do you have to meditate?’

She doesn’t know anything.

But if the head chef shows timidity in front of his deputy, they will lose credibility. If the group of dragons has no head, the back kitchen will be in chaos.

“How do you take elixirs normally? You can do the same.”

Su Yu glanced at him, not looking guilty at all.

“Cautiousness is always good.”

Lu Yizhou blushed immediately.

“What Senior sister said is right.” How could he bother Second Senior Sister with such trivial matters?

In the past, when Senior Brother was here, he would never make such a foolish mistake.

Immediately, he lifted up his white robe and sat cross-legged beside his second senior sister.

He quietly felt his sea of ​​​​consciousness, and he found that the gray fog that made him very disturbed was no longer covering him.

He carefully took out the large plate of ‘elixir’ from his spatial storage bag with both hands to bring it out smoothly.

Wei Zhao, who was on the bed, finally regained his composure. But when he saw this elixir, he sat up in a panic.

“What is this?”

‘Why is it so big!’

‘Is this even an elixir?’

‘Isn’t this a meal?!’

Why is it in the shape of a spirit cormorant?

“What kind of elixir is this?!”

He had never seen an elixir that wasn’t in the form of a pill.

‘Will it be okay to take it?’

“This elixir,” Su Yu looked into the distance with calm eyes, “is called Seven Relish.”

Wei Zhao was speechless.

‘Why Seven Relish?’

Su Yu did not explain immediately.

Because at this time, Lu Yizhou, who was sitting on the ground, had finished adjusting his breath. He took out the chopsticks from his storage bag, and carefully poked at the snow-colored ‘spirit cormorant’.

Wei Zhao: “???”

‘What is this pose?’

Su Yu interrupted Lu Yizhou, who was trying to put his chopsticks on the cormorant’s beak first.

“When taking this pill, first open the back of the cormorant’s body and take one mouthful. Then try the next layer of spirit river duck and take one bite. Next, go into the next layer of water-pulling pigeon. Then, combine the first two and eat them, and then the last two. At last, take three layers together.”

“A total of seven flavors, seven layers, and seven changes, hence the name Seven Relish.”

Wei Zhao: “…???”

Lu Yizhou was stunned. He had never heard of this way of taking elixir, “Second Senior Sister, this… How to distinguish the seven layers?”

Su Yu calmly said, “Cut it open.”

Lu Yizhou did not dare to do it, but Su Yu took out the original owner’s water-breaking sword from her spatial storage bag.

After sterilizing the sword with spirit fire, she slashed the bird on the plate with this sword.

They saw the ‘spirit cormorant’ elixir was instantly divided from top to back. The incision was smooth.

Su Yu held the hilt of the sword and flicked it lightly, revealing the vertical section of this pill.

They saw the outermost layer of snow-colored spirit cormorant, the next layer of a pale red spirit river duck, and then in the middle was a vermilion water-pulling pigeon. It was actually three layers of elixir!

These three layers have different colors and outlines, but they are clear and distinct.

Wei Zhao almost thought it was an illusion.

Lu Yizhou didn’t dare to move his chopsticks.

But when everything was opened, the spiritual energy from the elixir began to dissipate. He could only bite the bullet and destroy this shocking elixir.

According to Su Yu’s instructions, his chopstick first picked up the outermost layer, but he was still a little apprehensive.

But as soon as it entered his mouth, he felt a firmness in the texture, accompanied by the fresh and delicious taste of spirit cormorant, full of salty fragrance… In an instant, he recognized the figure of a large agile bird in the sea, flapping its wings, gliding rapidly, and breaking the water!

The bursts of cries that resounded through the heavens and the earth echoed in his ears!

Lu Yizhou was shocked all the way into his sea of ​​consciousness, and his complexion changed.

“Fourth Junior Brother?” Wei Zhao saw that his expression was wrong and regretted it too late.

Generally, when taking a strong elixir, you must find someone to protect the Dharma to avoid the medicine being too strong and accidents happening. But he previously thought that Su Yu only had the fifth level of Qi Refining, so there should be no accident.

But when he was about to ask Su Yu to call someone, he saw Lu Yizhou’s face suddenly stretched out with a smile, as if he had successfully entered a meditation state.

Wei Zhao was stunned.

Su Yu saw that it seemed that this would take a while, so she simply walked to a chair in the room and sat down comfortably.

After a stick of incense, Lu Yizhou opened his eyes.

‘So fast? It seems that although there is some effect, it is not that strong.’

Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.

This is also good, so it will not be easy to get into trouble and hurt his root.

“Third Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister,” Lu Yizhou opened his eyes to feel his dantian, and said excitedly, “I feel that my Hundreds of Bird Facing the Phoenix have already broken through 30% of the cultivation realm and are approaching 40%!”

Just now, he still felt that he knew his sea of consciousness was covered by clouds, and the sun was hidden. Forcibly comprehending the song must lead to madness, but now… he actually did it so easily. He even faintly uncovered the true meaning of other birds!

Wei Zhao on the bed opened his mouth: “?”1

—

In the Huoling Peak of Tiansheng Academy.

Mei Zhen’er smiled lightly while instructing her junior brothers and sisters to share the herbs, but a few anxious figures flew over to her.

“Second Senior Sister, Fourth Senior Brother failed to comprehend the sword move and was attacked by the spirit fire! Now he is unconscious. His sea of ​​consciousness is seriously injured. Please go and see him!”

Mei Zhen’er suddenly stopped her smile.

‘How come?’

On her wrist, the white moonlight beads seemed to lose some of its lustrous color. The light has also faded a bit.

—

Soon after, Lu Yizhou took the second bite of the bird elixir with great interest, the pale red spirit river duck.

After the softer texture and delicious taste lingered in his mouth, another teal figure was swimming in his sea of ​​consciousness.

“Second Senior Brother, Third Senior Sister, I realized something again.”

“??”

After taking the innermost layer of the water-pulling pigeon, the taste is delicate and tender, almost melting in the mouth, and the umami taste is stronger than the other two birds.

“Third Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister, I’m…”

Then, combining the two and two layers, and all three layers together…

After another incense stick, Lu Yizhou opened his closed eyes for the seventh time, “Third Senior Brother…”

Wei Zhao: “!”

‘Tired!’

He is tired of listening!

After Su Yu saw that he had finally finished taking the whole thing, she looked at him with great interest, “How is it? How are the specific taste, enjoyment level, and the overall effect.”

Lu Yizhou opened his eyes and said excitedly, “Second Senior Sister, there are indeed seven layers. After taking one layer each time, my understanding of the qin art is even better.”

When one is stepping into the threshold of the realm of perfection, each layer is ten times more difficult than the last. Not only does it take longer and longer to comprehend, but it also depends on comprehension and opportunities. Not everyone can comprehend the Dao. If you go in the wrong direction, your cultivation will be stagnant in best case scenario, but worse case, your sea of ​​consciousness will get backlash.

For ordinary qin cultivators who learn ordinary qin skills, it is already very good if they can master three forms to the point of transformation.

“I feel that if I play Hundreds of Birds Facing the Phoenix again, the power will be twice as strong as yesterday.”

Wei Zhao leaned against the bed. He was already numb.

“Cough!”

Su Yu coughed on the spot.