Chapter 13: Secrets of the 6th Religion

Chapter 13: Secrets of the 6th Religion

Chapter 13 Six Religious Secrets
At nightfall in Tianjifang Old Street, when every household is having dinner, chimneys are spewing out mist with different scents.

In just one of them, the smell of fireworks was so strong that it looked like rainbow columns surging into the sky.

Fortunately, the night sky "swallowed" the smoke in the end, otherwise the poison and fragrance contained in it would have caused quite a bit of trouble in the old street.

The cause of this scene was naturally the Jiao family courtyard.

The courtyard has been arranged in an orderly manner.

Single, double and quadruple tables are placed under the shade of the peach and willow trees. Although a bit eerie, it is also completely elegant. I think the experience of dining there will be very different from that in a crowded restaurant.

In the newly renovated kitchen, the mechanical maid Hongdou was lighting a fire for the chef. In addition to the steaming earthen pot, there were also some strange kitchen utensils that emitted powerful heat. It was difficult for ordinary people to take care of them all, but Hongdou was not a human after all, so it was normal for her to multitask.

In the center, there is a long table piled with spiritual ingredients.

At this moment, Li Yu was looking painful as he was doing the preliminary processing of all the ingredients.

He is going to hold a banquet at midnight tonight and serve dozens of spiritual foods. Of course, he can't wait until all the diners are gathered before starting.

Almost all "ingredients" need to be processed and cleaned first.

For example, that bag of sinister black toads must be killed one by one and the poison sacs in their bodies removed. Otherwise, when it comes to cooking, the black toads feeling the threat of death will directly explode, not only destroying their own flesh and blood, but also contaminating other foods.

Or as for the river clams, even if he used his extraordinary cooking skills, it would take him half an hour to extract the clam meat.

As for those poisonous insects, they were what Li Yu was going to use to cook the spiritual food [Ten Insect Porridge], and they had to be cooked two hours in advance.

The most difficult one is a strange spiritual food called "Hundred Rats Stew".

The main ingredient is the evil rats that are unique to the black forest outside the city. They feed on all kinds of inferior and weird things, and have all kinds of terrible things in their bodies, but these are the essence of this dish.

Li Yu had to get them drunk first, and he couldn't even take off their hair, so he had to keep them alive at all times.

Until the stew starts, all kinds of evil thoughts and strange things come out, gather and merge, and finally the original soup becomes the original food.

For mortals, there is no dish in the world more disgusting than this.

But for many evil cultivators, it is indeed an extraordinary food with rich flavor.

These processes!

It is really cumbersome and the process is extremely painful and unbearable.

Li Yu had to deal with it while suppressing the changes in his body that were induced by spirituality and fragrance.

The song of the vegetable began to echo in my mind, and related scenes also appeared in my mind.

This torture forced Li Yu to curse in his heart: "I don't mind listening to songs while cooking, but who the hell wants to listen to cooking songs?"

Unfortunately, no matter how much he cursed, he couldn't change the process.

Who made him use the power of a novice?
A true noob should be enjoying this moment.

Of course, if there really is a Forbidden God Path Sequence Eight Cook in this kitchen, then the corresponding dishes will also change.

The dishes selected by Li Yu are actually niche dishes.

If Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang succeed in getting promoted and open a private restaurant, the dishes on the menu will all be related to "being a human being".

……

It was unknown how much time had passed. With an angry shout, Li Yu pressed a dark blue water beast that looked like a dragon but was only about one meter long onto the chopping board. With his other hand, he picked up the boning knife and slashed the beast's body with more than a dozen extremely fast strokes.

The dragon's cry suddenly stopped, its head and body separated, its scales fell off, and pieces of pink and tender dragon meat were neatly laid out.

If there were bystanders watching this kind of skill, they would definitely applaud loudly, as it is just like the way a butcher cuts up an ox.

Li Yu, who had finally finished preparing the dishes, did not look relaxed at all.

On the contrary, his face was twisted in pain.

The "changes" in various parts of the body are clearly visible, such as the hands, which have turned into ferocious claws at some point in time.

It is also because of this that he has the power to suppress the strange dragon.

You should know that this food is a specialty of the Horror Valley outside the city. It has great power and normally three or two big men can't hold it down at all.

As the price of borrowing the special power, Li Yu transformed into the Son of the Forbidden God.

However, the diners have not arrived yet and the formal cooking has not started yet. Now is not a good time and it still needs to be suppressed.

So the next moment, he attacked himself again, chopping his thigh with an extremely skillful knife. While trying to stop Hongdou from coming up to bandage the wound, he began to eat a large amount of canned food that had been placed next to him.

Two-pronged!

Soothe and suppress the restlessness of the eggs.

But just as he let the strange feeling subside, the knocks on the door began to sound continuously, and at the same time, some conversations came:
"Sikongnian, you fisherman, why are you here instead of eating mud at the bottom of the river?"

"Hehe, my purpose is the same as yours, to eat spiritual food and watch the fun."

"What's the excitement?"

"Needless to say, that kid is obviously a parasite. He may lose control of his desire to eat humans and degenerate into something else at any time. It will be fun to watch."

"Why don't we kidnap him together and send him to the Forbidden God Sect in exchange for some reward money?"

"Buddha, why are you so cruel? I saw the son of that couple in broad daylight. He has a connection with Buddha and is very suitable to go to my Zhulao Temple to be a living Buddha. Although he cannot move, at least he can have enough food. His fate is much better than being eaten by the Forbidden God Sect."

The last sentence obviously came from Zhu Mei.

He was the strongest and had the most influence, and his words choked the other diners so much that they dared not say anything more.

Fortunately, at this time, the courtyard door was opened by Hongdou.

Cui Yuan, Sikong Nian, Chen Canglu and other diners were all surprised to see that Li Yu, the dying cook, actually bought himself such a beautiful mechanical maid.

Just as he was about to make a joke, his eyes were quickly attracted by Li Yu.

He stood at the kitchen door, completely letting go of his inhibitions, and spoke to the diners:

"Everyone!"

"Please take your seat. The spiritual food will be ready soon."

"Until then, please do as you please."

As he finished speaking, strange symptoms began to appear on Li Yu's body one by one.

This time, he did not chop himself, but quickly returned to the kitchen and began to cook those extraordinary spiritual foods with great concentration.

And none of the diners were honest and obedient.

After coming in, each of them took a seat in the yard, and then looked into the kitchen openly.

Originally according to the rules of the extraordinary world!
You are not allowed to peek when your fellow practitioners are performing a spell.

Especially the "rookie" sequence, no matter their methods and abilities, or the forces they are in, they are not easy to mess with.

Normally, even Zhu Mei, the master of the Zhu Lao Temple, would choose the dishes such as Guai Jue. However, the law of the jungle is also the rule, and these people bully Li Yu as someone who is about to die.

Even though they know they can't gain anything by peeking, they still choose to watch openly.

What they saw next did not disappoint them.

First dish!

Deep fried mandrill brain!
Li Yu's limbs had turned into sharp claws, and he jumped to the corner of the kitchen like a phantom, where eight zombie-monkey-like monsters, mandrills, were tied up side by side with iron chains. They were a specialty of the ancient black forest outside the city.

Before they could scream or roar, a flash of white knife light appeared, and the skulls of all the mandrills were lifted open.

The scarlet brain matter was exposed and was quickly picked out by Li Yu, who put it all into a large iron basin filled with stirred sticky water.

He only flipped them a few times and all the mandrill brains were covered with pulp, and then he picked up all the brains into the oil pan almost at the same time.

A hissing sound exploded!
Three breaths?

Or five breaths?

An extremely strong aroma wafted out from the kitchen.

After just a sniff, everyone, including Zhu Mei, began to drool with desire.

One of the white-bearded old men, the fortune teller Chen Canglu, shouted even louder:

"It smells so good, it really is a delicacy."

"I ordered this dish, please don't be greedy."

He finished shouting before any dispute arose.

Almost immediately afterwards, Li Yu suddenly opened the strangely shaped steamers and stew pots on the stove.

After seeing the delicious food inside, several more shouts of joy were heard:
"Two-headed weird dog stew, hahaha, it smells so fierce, I ordered this."

"Braised Jade Rabbit with Peach Gum! This is what I ordered."

"Eight Treasure Rice, what a mysterious aroma, I, Old Pig, am in for a treat tonight."

"Ok?"

"All of you fellow Taoists, please sit down and stop spying on that kid. Every time he finishes a spiritual meal, his body transforms a little bit towards the complete form of [Son of the Forbidden God], and he becomes more sensitive and ferocious."

"If he jumps out and catches you and kills you, turning you into spiritual food is nothing, but if you ruin my good feast tonight, that would be bad."

When Zhu Mei spoke, all the diners saw it clearly.

Li Yu, who was quickly preparing spiritual food in the kitchen, was indeed in a state of madness and abnormality.

It started with the limbs, then the mouth and tongue, the sharp teeth, the terrifying bloody tongue, and then spread to the forehead. It was not enough to open the two forbidden eyes full of evil.

Two more cracks inexplicably appeared upwards, and they opened up. Two strange scarlet eyeballs rolled around and peeked over at them, with surging malice, as if inviting them to get into the pot and onto the plate...

The neighbors and diners all stepped back, then quickly took their seats, not daring to look around anymore.

Each of them possessed extraordinary powers, and several of them were already infinitely close to the [Sequence Eight] of their respective divine paths.

But everyone knew that once a parasitic freak like Li Yu went completely crazy, no one except Zhu Mei would be his match in a one-on-one situation.

Who can guarantee that?
When he jumps out and grabs people to cook, will the others lend a hand?

I'm afraid most of them are just trying to take advantage of someone's misfortune. After all, this is Wanfu City, where the people are simple and honest.

As they sat down one by one, Li Yu's first goal of becoming a chef, which he had worked so hard to achieve, began to be achieved.

This group of evil cultivators!

In fact, each of them was deliberately selected by Li Yu.

Among them, there are many chatterboxes and big mouths who love to reveal secrets.

For example, the hunter Hong Sanquan who spoke at this time, smiled and bowed to everyone, saying:

"Dear fellow neighbors, how is your business these days? Everything is going well."

"Not bad!"

"My tofu stall is right next to yours. How is the business? Brother Hong, can't you hear it?"

"If you have something to say, just say it now. Since when did a hunter like you start to care about our business?"

Despite being rebuked by the neighbors, Hong Sanquan did not show the slightest bit of annoyance on his face.

He is a completely shameless person, as if this is the effect he has wanted for a long time and it has become a habit.

After everyone finished speaking, he continued mysteriously:
"Old Hong, I am just concerned about my neighbors. It's a pity that such a pleasant life may be coming to an end."

"As everyone knows, our Wanfu City has been coveted by the three nations of Qian, Jing, and Li for many years. If it weren't for the protection of the tundra, the black forest, and the river valley, I'm afraid it would have been razed to the ground by the five major orthodox sects long ago."

"But these three natural barriers don't seem to be very safe. I heard something a few days ago when I went hunting outside the city."

"A team of old hunters at Sequence 8 encountered a group of [Flesh-Winged Warriors] in the Wangui Tundra and was instantly wiped out."

"As you all know, this is a transcendent of the sixth sequence of the Thunder God Path controlled by the Haotian Sect. One of them alone can kill us all, but in the past they have never been able to cross the snow-capped mountains on the tundra. Now that they suddenly appear, Wanfu City may be in great danger."

……

After he said this, the evil cultivators and diners had not yet responded.

In the kitchen, Li Yu, who was going crazy, couldn't help but glance over with his scarlet eyes.

At the same time, the third "bubble of truth" that was slowly charging in his eye mask jumped forward again.

New extraordinary knowledge!

Flesh-winged warrior...Sequence six of the Thunder God Path of the Haotian Sect.

In the courtyard, the diners had no idea that the cook was eavesdropping. Hong Sanquan's words completely opened up the conversation.

As expected, they were all carefully selected by Li Yu, and just as recorded in the account book, they were all big mouths.

"Oh, here we go again. Half of the rumors on Old Street come from you, Hong Sanquan."

"Even if he is a flesh-winged warrior, so what? He can only come here because he can fly. He can only kill you hunters who make a living on the outskirts. Do you dare to really get close to Wanfu City? They can choose any of the four districts, east, west, south, and north. I'm afraid they will be caught and killed if they get within a few dozen miles. There is a reason why Wanfu City has stood for so many years."

"I'm not afraid of the Flesh-Winged Warrior. I heard that someone once saw a Sword Immortal wandering in the Horror Valley from afar. He is a powerful man of the Daluo Golden Immortal Path Sequence 4 of the Demon-Slaying Sect. Even if he really breaks into Wanfu City, he can kill everyone from south to north."

"The Haotian and Dangmo sects are both here openly. The one we should really worry about is the Earth Mother sect. This sect controls three divine paths: Yin Tianzi, Corpse God, and Lingying Yuanjun. No matter which path the practitioners are from, it is easy to sneak into Wanfu City. For example, the Sequence Eight [Corpse Collector] of the Corpse God path. I have always suspected that there are spies of the Earth Mother sect among those wild dogs who collect corpses."

"Don't worry. As long as the Red God Cult, which is good at war, does not move, Wanfu City can rest assured. If the Cult sends out a Sequence 2 [Mars Soldier]-level warrior to attack the city, I will flee overnight."

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(End of this chapter)