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

by SerenaLove0167-8 minutes

 

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.

 

'Um.'

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!