Free Web NovelChapter 1088: The Comprehensive Culinary Compendium is Profound and Unfathomable
The Five Poisons used to brew the soup earlier hadn’t been entirely used up. Song Tianjing bit into a dried scorpion. Under normal circumstances, this would have made his lips turn purple, left him dizzy and disoriented, and in severe cases, could even render him unconscious.
After finishing an entire dried scorpion, he was somehow perfectly fine.
“The Hundred Poisons Sacred Body, this is indeed the Hundred Poisons Sacred Body!” Song Tianjing was overwhelmed with excitement. This legendary constitution had appeared in him. Even if his Hundred Poisons Sacred Body hadn’t even taken shape yet, it was still a good start.
Song Tianjing was elated. One dish alone has allowed me to break through and has also granted me a physique immune to all poisons!
After the excitement subsided, Song Tianjing ruminated calmly. Why did the dish recorded in the cookbook grant me immunity to poison?
“That’s right. In the ancient era, humanity didn’t know what was edible and what wasn’t. Poisonous things were everywhere. For the prosperity of the human race, the progenitor of spirit chefs set the first dish in the cookbook as a detoxifying dish, so that humans wouldn't be poisoned to death.
“The progenitor of spirit chefs had put so much thought into this.”
The first dish already had such a high efficacy. Song Tianjing couldn’t wait to research the second dish. While preparing the soup earlier, he had only glanced through the recipe, but now, he would examine it carefully.
“The second dish is called Eight-Treasure Chicken Duck Fish?"
Don’t throw away the fish bones from the first dish. They have absorbed its essence. Take them out, roast them dry, grind them into powder, and use them as a dish primer for the Eight-Treasure Chicken Duck Fish.
“Dish primer?” Song Tianjing was full of question marks. He had only heard of medicinal primers. This was his first time hearing of a so-called dish primer.
Never mind, I’ll just follow the book’s instructions.
Feed the fish bone powder to the chicken and duck, and they will pass out. While they are unconscious, slaughter them.
The internal organs of the chicken and duck encompass the principles of the Five Elements—do not discard them. Cut open the duck’s belly, stuff the chicken inside, and add the Eight Delicacies ingredients. Steam for four hours...
The ingredients recorded in the recipe were all too extreme. They were either ancient aberrant species, exotic herbs, immortal flowers, or species long extinct and impossible to find. Song Tianjing could only do his best to find substitutes.
Four hours later, Song Tianjing looked at the chicken and duck in the dish, their eyes still wide open in death. He wondered if he had gone too far with the substitutions.
Never mind, I’ll just eat it.
Bracing himself, Song Tianjing took a bite. It was truly a delicacy of the mortal world. The chicken bore the flavor of duck, the duck bore the flavor of chicken, and upon careful tasting, there was also the flavor of fish. Three flavors danced on his tongue, leaving an endless aftertaste.
Song Tianjing wolfed down the dish and patted his stomach with a satisfied smile. He felt sticky all over. Looking down, he saw a black substance oozing from his skin, foul and fetid. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
“Cleansing the tendons and purifying the marrow?” Song Tianjing muttered, his voice quivering. He had taken Tendon-Cleansing Marrow-Purifying Pills before, but their grade was too low. After a few doses, they were useless, and he couldn’t afford higher-grade ones.
Did eating the second dish actually cleanse my tendons and purify my marrow?!
Song Tianjing took a bath and felt that his body was lighter. Unable to wait, he went to prepare the third dish.
The third dish was called “Past Worldly Affairs.”
As before, Song Tianjing used low-grade substitutes. After eating the dish, he fainted again.
When he woke up, he found that his body hadn’t changed like last time.
“Strange. How long was I out?”
Song Tianjing groggily went out to ask, only to discover that he had been unconscious for seven days. Today was the day of the Spirit Chef Exam.
He rushed to the Spirit Chef Competition and signed up for the Foundation Establishment category of the Spirit Chef Exam. By chance, he got to know the Jade Rabbit Tribe’s Holy Maiden, but this also drew the enmity of the Five Poisons Tribe’s Holy Son.
The exam’s theme was “fish,” but the finished dish could not show any visible trace of fish.
The Five Poisons Tribe’s Holy Son secretly poisoned Song Tianjing’s fish. However, since the Pearl Fish Soup that Song Tianjing was making required the Five Poisons, it enhanced the dish’s quality instead.
Next, Song Tianjing used the fish bones to prepare the second dish, earning praise from all the judges.
The Jade Rabbit Tribe’s Holy Maiden, seated in the audience, kept stealing glances at him as affection quietly stirred in her heart.
Finally, Song Tianjing used the third dish to win the championship of the Spirit Chef Competition, basking in unparalleled glory.
However, the Spirit Chef Alliance realized that Song Tianjing had cooked dishes from the Comprehensive Culinary Compendium, violating a taboo, so they secretly dispatched spirit chefs to hunt him down.
On the run, Song Tianjing continuously broke through, obtained new recipes, and successfully turned the tables on his pursuers, killing them instead.
In the end, Song Tianjing acquired the complete Comprehensive Culinary Compendium and faced the alliance leader of the Spirit Chef Alliance in a culinary duel at the Great Xia’s imperial palace. Winning two out of three rounds, he defeated the alliance leader.
With that, he became universally recognized as the distant successor of the progenitor of spirit chefs, separated by a generation.
In the presence of the Xia Emperor, Song Tianjing took the Jade Rabbit Tribe Holy Maiden’s hand and gazed at her tenderly. “Yu’er, I like you. Let’s get married.”
The two closed their eyes and kissed.
When Song Tianjing woke up again, he found himself lying on the ground. He seemed to have knocked his head. It hurt. He struggled to his feet and touched the bowl of Pearl Fish Soup on the table. It was still warm. His eyes were clouded with bewilderment.
“What is real and what is fake...”
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Lu Yang and Yun Mengmeng walked side by side through the bustling square, holding freshly baked meat pies. With each bite, their mouths glistened with oil.
The air was filled with the aroma of all kinds of food. Just smelling it could make one salivate.
“This place really has plenty of good food.” Although Lu Yang wasn’t particular about food, after strolling around and having a taste, he felt that accepting the Spirit Chef Alliance’s invitation had been the right choice.
“Right, right? I told you this was a great place.” Yun Mengmeng beamed with joy.
As both were cultivators, their stomachs were practically bottomless. As long as they wanted to eat, they could keep eating. They also didn’t have to worry about losing their appetite from being bloated.
“Where is that seventh-generation heir of Essence-Nourishing Tower? Why haven’t I seen him?” Lu Yang mused. It’s already the second day. Didn’t that kid say he wanted to rent a stall to earn money? Why is he nowhere to be found? He seemed like an honest sort. Surely he hadn’t absconded with the funds.
“Probably studying my cookbook. After all, my cookbook isn’t something you can understand at a glance.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was extremely confident in herself.
“What’s that place selling? Dirt clods?” Yun Mengmeng noticed a deserted food stall with little business. Two spirit chefs were stir-frying dirt clods in iron woks.
“Is this some local specialty?” Curious, Yun Mengmeng dragged Lu Yang over. “Boss, give me two servings.”
“Gotcha.”
One of the spirit chefs scooped out two bowls of dirt clods.
Yun Mengmeng took a bite and let out a sound of disgust. “Isn’t this just ordinary dirt?”
Lu Yang was also puzzled. Everyone is selling food. Why are you buying these clods of dirt?
Could it be that these dirt clods contain some secret?
Lu Yang activated his spirit energy and used Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth to take a bite. “This really isn’t ordinary dirt. It’s mixed with a bit of Xirang Soil?” freeweɓnøvel.com
The two spirit chefs exchanged a glance and quietly approached. “Fellow Daoist, you’ve come quite late. Perhaps you’re the last. The meeting is about to start. This way, please.”
Lu Yang was speechless. What are you two talking about?
