Chapter 98: Becoming a Taoist Priest

Chapter 98: Becoming a Taoist Priest

Chapter 98: Becoming a Taoist Priest
Let’s go back in time a little.

Tianjifang, old street.

Although this place was not too close to the explosion site, it was also severely affected. People on the entire street were covered with scarlet rust.

They were originally waiting to die, and many new residents who had settled in Wanfu City were coughing and regretting that they should not have come here.

As this miserable atmosphere spread, suddenly, an extremely loud voice resounded throughout the street:
"Neighbors, neighbors."

"Good news for you. My master is the spiritual chef of the City Lord's Mansion. He was accidentally infected with the blood rust plague last night. However, in just one night, my master developed a medicinal decoction that can relieve the symptoms. Not only is it delicious, but it can also temporarily save your lives and bodies."

"A bowl of [Furnace Refining Soup] only costs five hundred taels of silver."

"No life-saving item in the world is so cheap, come and buy it."

Originally, most neighbors were unwilling to pay attention to such noisy shouting. They believed that some people could avoid being poisoned or even get rid of the poison.

In fact, they knew it last night that many practitioners had resisted the poison.

But all ordinary people were infected.

But being able to resist yourself and helping others detoxify are two completely different concepts.

Everyone just thought they were having fun and wanted to tease them.

Until the next moment, they all saw a bronze crowing rooster, which was "shiny and smooth" without a single speck of rust on its body, flying around in broad daylight.

Broadcasting while flying.

When this irrefutable evidence appears, who can still not believe it?

You know, after the blood rust broke out last night, almost all metal objects in Tianjifang became rusty, even the airships and monster buses that patrolled the city were the same.

If there really is no antidote, where can one find such a clean bronze chicken?

So, the neighbors struggled to get up and headed towards Li Yu's butcher shop.

Soon, as they approached, coughing and spewing rust, they all saw a handsome and sloppy young man standing in front of the butcher shop, and a pretty maid who was obviously wearing high-end bionic skin.

In front of the two men, there were three large vats.

The jar contained some liquid, perhaps soup.

The color is yellow and black, a bit like dirty motor oil, or lard that has not yet solidified?

"Can this decoction cure the blood rust plague?"

Everyone was confused, that's why they didn't leave.

It was because of the [Badge of All Blessings] hanging in front of the door. Everyone in the city knew that being able to hang this badge meant that the owner of the courtyard had a position in the City Lord's Mansion.

In turn, Li Yu looked at everyone with an eager gaze.

In his eyes, the faces of these people began to blur and they turned directly into symbols of gold, silver and wealth.

More importantly, each of them will become part of his promotion ceremony.

For this reason, he did not order Hongdou around, but spoke up himself:

"I work in the City Lord's Mansion. Like all of you, I personally experienced the disaster last night and was also infected with the blood rust poison. Fortunately, I am good at cooking medicinal foods with various magical effects. After a lot of hard work, I was able to get rid of the blood rust poison. I used these [Furnace Refining Soup]."

"I know that all the neighbors are suffering, so I stayed up all night and came up with all this."

"Although because the Tianji Workshop is now full of plague, my furnace soup cannot be effective forever. One bowl of soup can last for a day, but it can always last longer. If you want it to last longer, you can buy a few more bowls."

"Because the ingredients are precious, I cannot give them away for free at a loss, so I will sell them to you for five hundred taels per bowl."

"Watch the demonstration!"

In order to save time in persuasion, Li Yu deliberately lowered his guard before speaking, allowing the blood rust virus in the air to invade his body.

When he finished speaking, he had already started to grow a lot of rust spots on his body, just like everyone else.

Li Yu didn't waste any words. He picked up the bowl of "Furnace Body-Refining Soup" and drank it in one gulp.

In an instant, it was as if a furnace was ignited inside the body. The horrible heat spread to every part of the body, burning all the cold and dirty blood. It seemed that some sticky embers were left behind, completely covering the rust in the body, and gradually forming a protective film under the skin to prevent new blood rust viruses from invading.

The effect was exactly as Li Yu expected, except that the taste was a little too stimulating.

"Well, there's a little more devil pepper in this jar."

"Fortunately, the other ingredients such as fire essence, lard, motor oil, and my Dantu Qi are the ones that really work."

"The furnace is worthy of its name."

When Li Yu's mind fell, all the rust spots on his body disappeared without a trace.

Once again, the evidence is overwhelming.

There was no doubt left in everyone's eyes, which had originally been filled with despair, and now there was a glimmer of hope.

As for the selling price of five hundred taels, it could be described as a rip-off.

No one objected.

Just kidding, this is Wanfu City.

If they had such ability, they would sell it for at least five thousand taels.

"I want it. Give me one bowl. No, two bowls."

"And me, give me a bowl."

"There are five people in our family, give me five bowls."...

So the next scene was what the people watching the fun outside the shield saw.

Soon, a rumor that had been confirmed was quickly known to more people.

Many people from other towns who were originally scattered outside the shield to watch the miserable plight of the people in Tianji Town, all gathered in the area where the old street was located.

I watched with my own eyes as the townspeople who were about to be transformed into "Iron Corpses" all saw their symptoms disappear and they returned to normal after drinking a bowl of the so-called [Furnace Body-Refining Soup].

For a moment, exclamations arose everywhere:
"It's actually true? Someone really solved this strange epidemic overnight."

"Who is this boy? He seems to be from the City Lord's Mansion. What path sequence is he from? He is so smart."

"The Furnace Refining Soup...Looking at its color, it looks like the motor oil commonly used by Tiangong Sect disciples."

"Oh, the poison was removed overnight. Could it be that he was the one who released the poison?"

"Where did this fool come from? Even a blind person could have sensed the huge explosion last night. If Holy Nest hadn't reacted in time, this disaster would not only have affected the entire South District, but even the neighboring City Lord's Mansion would have been unable to avoid it. You think it was done by a cultivator who looks like a low-sequence cultivator?"

"Which murderer would be so open and honest to sell the antidote afterwards? Unless it's Hallownest who sells it, then it makes sense."

"The City Lord's Mansion doesn't keep idle people. Every staff member is a ruthless person. It's normal for them to have such means."

"I found out that he is the medicinal chef of the ninth pioneering team of the City Lord's Mansion. He has incredible medicinal cooking skills and has tailored special medicinal meals with incredible effects for the entire pioneering team. I highly suspect that he is a practitioner of the [God of Food Path]."

"The God of Food path, that's perfectly normal."

……

At this moment, in front of the butcher shop.

Li Yu had already handed over the task of collecting money to Hongdou, and he himself began to enter an extremely special state.

Ever since he sold the first bowl of Furnace Refining Soup and it sparked a lively scene.

Nine completely different kinds of spiritual energy began to emerge in his body. They were the nine pills he had taken in advance. They were Sword Evil, Sorrowful Cry, Vajra, Hundred Filths, Bloody Battle… There were nine extremely powerful true gods involved, both good and evil.

At this moment, Li Yu was "stealing". As these spiritual energies were absorbed and refined by him, his body and some invisible parts began to undergo strange changes. Some essences of Sequence Eight of the Path of the Gods were being quietly stolen by him in this way.

Ordinarily this is the behavior!
It is undoubtedly blasphemy.

Moreover, it is also a way to death.

Because in this process, there is the existence of spirits.

If any of the gods showed any unusual movement in their spirit, Li Yu would be transformed and die suddenly on the spot.

But soon, he didn't have to worry anymore.

As more and more people bought and took the body-refining soup, the scene became more and more lively. Even outside the shield, the old street area where he was was already surrounded by people watching the fun.

The words “City Lord’s Mansion Spiritual Chef… Li Yu… Path to the God of Cookery… Furnace Body-Refining Soup…” etc. spread rapidly.

Thanks to the sound-isolating shield, onlookers can know what is happening inside through lip reading, but they cannot communicate with the people inside, nor can they tell other people in Tianjifang that someone is selling antidotes in the old street.

Otherwise, Li Yu's plan might really be ruined, because he doesn't have the ability to detoxify tens of thousands of people in Tianjifang.

If he really did this, he would be exhausted to death, not to mention being tired. This furnace-refining soup may seem to have a simple recipe, but in fact, to cook it, one must use the art of medicinal cuisine to the extreme.

Li Yu really didn't lie. He really stayed up all night to finish these jars.

But even if he could cook it at will, he would not make this choice.

A virus that infected tens of thousands of people was solved overnight by a small figure like you, a Sequence Eight... You will definitely become famous and will definitely make the headlines of the Wanfu Daily, but how is that different from seeking death?
His plan was to only have thousands of people near the old street, and this has been perfectly achieved.

But there were also things beyond his expectations!
That's fame!
He thought that becoming famous among a group of a thousand people would be enough for him to refine the alchemist's secret medicine and complete his promotion.

But at this time, the expansion started tenfold.

When those majestic, chaotic and vague "Qi" surged over invisibly, he was sensed and formed a special protection for him.

Li Yu heard a lot of noisy thoughts directed at him, those discussions, those speculations, and some groundless malice.

Li Yu suddenly realized something:

“These are all part of reputation.”

"Becoming famous is just a superficial appearance. The real ritual is to let these messy thoughts and qi disrupt the spiritual responses of the gods for me."

"Wonderful!"

"It's really wonderful."

"As a thief, how can you steal from someone alone? Of course you have to sneak in on a busy street so that it's easier to do it."

"The description of Ling Zun in the Illustrated Guide to the Gods is indeed very vivid. At least the word thief is very appropriate."

"Well, I did it."

……

When Li Yu completed the refining of all nine pills, he slowly opened his eyes while blaspheming the true god of his path.

The jars in front of him were apparently empty.

And he himself was also at this moment.

From Sequence Eight [Alchemist], he was officially promoted to Sequence Seven on the Path to Spiritual Venerable...Alchemist.

(End of this chapter)