Chapter 169: I can say it, but Brother Li can’t!
Lingchan Peak.
Waves of fragrance wafted from a side hall next to the small kitchen.
There were several delicious dishes on the long table in front of Li Yu, and they were quickly swept away by the demon girl and Qing'er. Li Yu didn't even have time to take a few bites.
Not long after, Xu Yi came out of the small kitchen again, holding a jade plate in both hands, and said: "This dish is called Splendid Mountains and Rivers. It is cooked with six kinds of seasonal fresh vegetables. It is a dish I created based on the cuisines of Chen and Shu . Brother Li and the Saint Girl, please taste it..."
Li Yu picked up a piece of diced lotus root, which had a moderately crisp texture and a refreshing aroma, just enough to dispel the greasy feeling brought by the first two meat dishes and rekindle one's appetite.
He glanced at the jade plate that held the food and asked in surprise, "There is another formation underneath this plate?"
Xu Yi explained: "This dish needs to be kept at a certain temperature to maintain its best taste. Before serving the dish, the dish needs to be heated. The function of this formation is to maintain the temperature of the dish and keep the dish at its best taste at all times..."
Li Yu glanced at him, and apart from professionalism, he had nothing else to say.
A formation was engraved on the bottom of the plate just to maintain the best taste of the dish. Even the rare delicacies from Kunlun that cost hundreds of spirit coins each did not have so many particularities.
Even the place where they are eating now was suggested by Xu Yi.
This side hall is neither too far nor too close to the small kitchen. According to Xu Yi, the time it takes for a dish to be taken out of the pot and served on a plate before being eaten has a great impact on the taste of the dish.
Some dishes are best eaten right after they come out of the pot, so the dining place should not be too far from the kitchen.
Some dishes need to be left for a while in order to achieve the best taste.
In order to stay away from fireworks and not affect their sense of smell, the place where they taste the food cannot be too close to the kitchen, but it cannot be too far away either. Otherwise, when the dishes are served, they will miss the best tasting period.
Li Yu didn’t know whether Xu Yi’s theory was right or not, but he had lived two lives, and the dishes cooked by this guy were indeed the best he had ever tasted.
Even a simple dish of stir-fried seasonal vegetables can be so unique.
This is called professionalism.
While Xu Yi was in Xuanyin Sect, Li Yu decided to learn a few tricks from him. With his current cooking skills, he really couldn't handle the situation of the demon girl, a woman who was easily bored with the old and easily pleased with the new. After returning to Kunlun, he could also cook for A Li and Zhou Zixuan to taste.
After cooking ten dishes in a row, the ingredients prepared by Xu Yi were used up, and Li Yu and the others had almost finished eating. Yaonu and Qing'er took a walk outside to digest the food, while Li Yu asked Xu Yi for advice on cooking in the hall.
During the learning process, Li Yu couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the dishes he cooked were so delicious.
For every dish, his pursuit of details is simply outrageous.
The selection of ingredients, the size of the fire, the cooking time, and even how long it takes to eat the food after it is out of the pot, all have to be considered carefully.
And this is what he summarized and sorted out after countless experiments.
How long will this take?
Li Yu couldn't help but ask, "Don't you usually practice, but study these things?"
Xu Yi said: "Not really, these are all things I slowly researched while practicing."
Although he said so, Li Yu had no idea whether he cooked while practicing or practiced while cooking. But what was certain was that this guy's talent was definitely more than that.
If he could use all his time to practice, his cultivation would definitely improve faster.
This kind of genius was willing to be a cook for them. Li Yu felt bad, so he took out another bottle of Tuomai Dan and said, "Thank you very much, Brother Xu, for cooking so many dishes in person and teaching me. Please accept this gift..."
The important relatives and friends around him have all formed the Five Spiritual Veins Pill, so he has more than enough of the Tuomai Pill to use up, so he might as well continue to use it for investment.
From many contacts, I think Xiao Xu is a nice person.
Although he is in the devil's way, it can be seen that he is a friend worth making close friends with.
Xu Yi stared blankly at the pill bottle in front of him. There were at least a dozen pills in this bottle. Counting the previous ones, he saved at least ten years of practice in just less than an hour here.
Besides his heart being shaken, his eyes were also a little moist.
For many years, no matter whether it was his family, friends, or fellow disciples, they all sneered at his hobby of cooking. Many people thought that he was not doing his job properly, that he was an outlier among the immortal cultivators, that he was a disgrace to his master, and that he was wasting his talent for cultivation...
Many times, even Xu Yi himself began to doubt him.
Can't a cultivator have his own hobbies?
But today, his faith is stronger than ever.
What's wrong with liking cooking?
One of Xu Yi's dishes is worth two Tuomai Pills. Who else in the world of immortal cultivation can do that?
He looked at Li Yu with a touched expression on his face.
Brother Li not only gifted him the elixir, but also recognized him.
For Xu Yi, the latter is even more important.
He opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Li Yu smiled and said, "Take it. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you in the next few days."
Xu Yi patted his chest and said, "Brother Li, don't worry. Whatever dish you want to learn, I will teach you everything I know!"
After a moment, Li Yu asked, "Besides making fish balls, what other delicious ways can whitebait be made?"
Fish balls are just one of the ways to cook whitebait. Xu Yi's own recipe book records eighteen ways to cook whitebait.
"There are many ways to cook silverfish, including..." He was about to tell Li Yu all of them, but suddenly paused and said, "There are more than a hundred ways to cook silverfish. If you want to learn, I will teach you all of them."
Li Yu bowed and said, "Thank you, Brother Xu."
There are more than a hundred ways to cook it. Even if you make one dish every day, you can make it for more than three months in a row, and the girl won’t get tired of it that quickly.
At this time, Xu Yi was also thinking in his heart, one dish contains two Tuomai Pills, and there are more than one hundred kinds, which means more than two hundred pills, which are more than enough for him to cultivate the two spiritual veins of water and fire to the peak of foundation building.
By then, he will be able to form a pill within ten years, and his lifespan will increase dramatically to five hundred years.
By then, the Nascent Soul would no longer be a dream for him, and he could even have a glimmer of hope for the legendary Transformation of the Gods...
After fantasizing for a while, he looked at Li Yu again and asked, "Brother Li, you and the Saintess of Xuanyin Sect are really not a Taoist couple?"
Li Yu waved his hand and said, "You misunderstood, we are just good friends."
Xu Yi heaved a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. A genius like Brother Li, who is rare in thousands of years, can only be matched by your clan's Fairy Qin Keren..."
He did not notice that Li Yu was winking at him frantically, and asked with a smile: "I heard that Fairy Qin is not only outstanding in appearance, but also has an extraordinary temperament, just like a fairy from heaven. Is it true..."
Nangong Chan stood at the entrance of the palace, looking at him coldly.
Xu Yi suddenly felt a chill all over his body. After looking back , he immediately stood up and said, "Brother Li, I'll go back first..."
…
Xu Yi left Lingchan Peak temporarily. He said he wanted to organize the recipes and come back tomorrow to teach Li Yu a hundred ways to cook silverfish.
Nangong Chan leaned against a stone pillar in the hall and said disdainfully: "Do you men all like Qin Keren?"
Li Yu had a different opinion on this and said, "Of course not. Although Senior Sister Qin is excellent, she is actually not suitable to be a Taoist partner."
This is what Li Yu is thinking. Senior Sister Qin has countless admirers and is the goddess in the eyes of countless people, but her personality is too cold and boring. She can only be the high and mighty Fairy Qin and is not the most suitable candidate to be a Taoist partner.
Nangong Chan was very surprised. It was rare that Li Yu actually said something bad about Qin Keren.
“Why?” she asked.
Li Yu said truthfully: "Senior Sister Qin is too boring."
Nangong Chan agreed and nodded, "I've told you a long time ago that woman is boring. She practices all the time. Anyone who marries her as a Taoist partner will be suffocated to death. If I were a man, I wouldn't marry her either..."
As she spoke, her tone softened again, and she said with emotion: "However, someone like her should not be anyone's Taoist partner, right? Who can be worthy of her..."
As an opponent, although she didn't like Qin Keren very much, she actually felt a sense of sympathy for her.
Li Yu glanced at her and asked casually, "What about you?"
Nangong Chan straightened her chest and said, "Qin Keren doesn't need a Taoist partner, and I certainly don't need one either. Romance and the like are the biggest detriment to cultivation. Do you think everyone is like you..."
…
Xu Yi had just flown out of Lingchan Peak. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, found a secluded place, and took out two pill bottles from the storage space.
He counted them and found that the total number of Tuomai Pills in the two bottles was exactly twenty, no more, no less.
If there is no problem with this pill, after he takes it, his two spirit veins will be widened ten times each. Combined with his previous two times, in terms of magic power alone, he is already very close to the middle stage of foundation building.
He had no need to doubt the elixir that Li Yu gave him.
In order to avoid any further complications, Xu Yi immediately took the pills one by one.
The feeling of his meridians being expanded constantly in his body made him extremely excited.
The Tuomai Pill is real, and his cultivation is also improving at an incredible speed.
The feeling of top-grade elixirs is different. After taking twenty pills in succession, his body did not feel any discomfort. Even the most talented and core disciples in the sect did not receive such treatment.
It took a long time for Xu Yi to calm down.
He returned to the mountain where the Xuanyin Sect temporarily arranged him to live as quickly as possible. Time was urgent, and he had to hurry and come up with more than 80 ways to cook the silverfish, which was not an easy task.
Xuanyin Sect, somewhere on a mountain.
A few simple stone palaces were where the low-level disciples of the Soul Refining Sect stayed during this demonic ceremony.
As soon as Xu Yi returned here, he was surrounded by several figures.
"Brother Xu, is that really the Young Master of Kunlun?"
"What did he tell you?"
"What is your relationship?"
…
The Soul Refining Sect's foundation-building disciples, who had already heard about this, surrounded him.
Ever since he established his foundation, Xu Yi has never experienced the feeling of being surrounded by people. It was only after he met Brother Li that his life underwent a major change.
Xu Yi enjoyed the atmosphere of being noticed and smiled, "Nothing much, I just simply chatted with Brother Li and drank a few glasses of wine. Brother Li also asked me some questions about cooking."
"Ah, Young Master Kunlun, are you also interested in cooking?"
"No wonder he became friends with Senior Brother Xu."
"I didn't expect this kind of genius to have such unique interests."
"Senior Brother Xu is so lucky that you can encounter such a thing..."
The disciples of the Soul Refining Sect were very surprised about this matter. The future leader of the second largest sect in the righteous path would definitely be one of the giants that would dominate the world of immortal cultivation. In their opinion, he should be mysterious and high-ranking.
But for such a genius to ask for cooking lessons from the disciples of the magic sect, it is really... too mundane.
It does not match their understanding of the identity of Kunlun's young master.
However, this also seems to explain why he, as the young master of Kunlun, would become friends with Xu Yi, an ordinary disciple of the magic sect.
Have common hobbies.
For men , this reason is enough to become friends.
Although they also felt that for cultivators, this kind of thing was not a proper job, but after all, he was the young master of Kunlun. With his status here, even this hobby seemed to become noble.
“Haha, you are a cultivator, but you don’t practice well and choose to be a cook. I never thought that the second largest sect of the righteous way would let such a person be the future headmaster. It seems that Kunlun is not far from decline…”
At this time, a weird voice came from behind the crowd.
Upon hearing this, Xu Yi's face darkened and he angrily said, "Huang, what did you say?"
The young man who had just mocked Xu Yi walked out of the crowd and said disdainfully: "I thought the Young Master of Kunlun was so great , but it turns out that he is just like you and likes to be a lowly cook..."
A female disciple from the Soul Refining Sect said unhappily, "Brother Huang, how can you say that!"
Even though she felt that her love for cooking was not presentable, that was Li Yu from Kunlun. It would be fine if he just called him Senior Brother Xu, but she was very unhappy when he said that about the person she admired.
Xu Yi's face had turned completely cold.
He didn't care no matter how Huang Wei mocked him.
But he couldn't insult Brother Li.
He looked at the man, a fierce light flashing in his eyes.
Seeing him like this, the young man surnamed Huang laughed and said, "Why, you don't accept it? If you don't accept it, let's fight. If you win, I will apologize to you. If you lose, you can kneel down and kowtow to me and call me grandpa. How about that?"
Xu Yi looked at him calmly and said, "You lost. I want you to kneel down and admit your mistake."
Huang Wei did not get angry but smiled and said, "Okay..."
As he spoke, he did not hide the disdain on his face.
Xu Yi had no background in the sect. Although he had a master in the Nascent Soul stage, he was not favored. The two had had friction when they were in the Qi Refining stage. Since then, whenever he had the chance, he would make trouble for Xu Yi.
He had already established his foundation and expanded his meridians to ten levels, while Xu Yi had only expanded his meridians to two levels at most. He was sure that Xu Yi would not dare to accept the challenge.
If it were in the past, Xu Yi would certainly not dare to accept the challenge.
But today, he is no longer the cowardly guy he used to be.
The situation between the two was tense, and all the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect subconsciously dispersed to give them space.
Huang Wei sneered and took the lead, but did not use any magic. Although the sect did not prohibit disciples from fighting, they had to be careful. After all, Xu Yi had a master in the Nascent Soul stage. If he was accidentally disabled, it would still be a bit troublesome.
The magic power in his body surged, and his figure disappeared almost instantly. With a simple punch, a sonic boom occurred and hit Xu Yi's chest.
Several Soul Refining Sect disciples who had not yet established their foundation were affected by the power of this punch and could not help but take several steps back.
Although those disciples who had just established their foundation could still stand in their original places, their faces were somewhat pale. If Huang Wei’s punch that could expand the meridians to the tenth level landed on them, at least a few bones would be broken, and they would need to recuperate for several months.
Xu Yi's strength is similar to theirs, and he is far from being Huang Wei's opponent.
boom!
After a dull sound, everyone's faces showed disbelief.
Facing Huang Wei's powerful punch, Xu Yi stood where he was, not moving a single step.
He simply stretched out his hand and caught Huang Wei's fierce punch.
Huang Wei's fist was held by Xu Yi. Because of the severe pain, his face became extremely ferocious and his body bent involuntarily. However, the pain from his fist was nothing compared to the shock in his heart.
He was shocked. Didn't Xu Yi just establish his foundation? But the fluctuation of mana coming from his body at this moment was already close to the middle stage of foundation establishment!
"too slow."
Xu Yi put one hand behind his back, and in the midst of everyone's shocked gazes, he looked at Huang Wei calmly and said indifferently: "It's great that you have the courage to challenge me, but this is the only thing I can praise you for..."
