I open a restaurant in Xiujie

"So, you caught this flying fish and wanted to invite a spirit chef to attend the Spirit Cauldron Conference with you as a gift?"

"...That's right."

The girl in front of Yu Xiaotan was very cautious, she held the flying fish carefully, the flying fish was still very flexible out of the water, its hard tail kept flapping, making the girl's hand red and swollen.

It just looks like it hurts.

But the girl didn't let go at all, but clenched even tighter.

The young man raised his head high, staring at Yu Xiaotan without blinking. He stood in front of the young girl, looking rather courageous - if one ignores the trembling hands behind his back and the slightly constricted pupils.

Yu Xiaotan thought for a while and asked, "How far is it from the nearest town?"

"...It's not very far." The boy's voice was hoarse, "You're not from the town, don't you know that this is the outskirts of the forest?"

Yu Xiaotan shrugged noncommittally.

Since it was not far from the town, he decided to go to the town first, after all, the siblings in front of him looked terribly afraid of him.

But just as he was about to turn around, the girl holding the flying fish suddenly yelled, "Wait... please wait!"

She took a deep breath: "Senior...Master, your cultivation is extraordinary, can, can you help us...to catch another flying fish..."

The girl's face became more and more red, and finally her voice was as thin as a mosquito gnat.

Obviously, she knew it was an abrupt request.

The boy also grabbed her wrist violently, and said in disbelief: "Sister, you are crazy, what do you want so many fish for?"

The girl lowered her head slightly, and said blushingly: "One is a gift for the spirit chef, and the other is used to make the ingredients to be cooked at the Spirit Cauldron Conference."

The young man was short of breath: "Gifts are enough, what ingredients do you want? Wouldn't it be good to make some vegetarian food at the Lingding Conference?"

"How can vegetarian food beat meat dishes?"

The girl bit her lower lip tightly, raised her hand and took off a gold hairpin from her head, and her hair fell loose.

"Master, I have nothing to help you, only this gold hairpin is left by my father, it is a spiritual object, and there is a fish recipe engraved in it, if you don't dislike it, I think..."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Xiaotan had already waved at them.

"I have no shortage of recipes."

Yu Xiaotan knows hundreds, if not thousands, of how to cook fish, which is not bad.

The girl was slightly stunned: "My recipe is very detailed, as long as I follow it step by step, even ordinary people who are not spiritual chefs can make a good grilled fish..."

Yu Xiaotan continued to shake his head: "Cooking dishes requires comprehensive consideration of factors such as the freshness of the ingredients, the customer's preferences, the temperature of the day, the season, etc., and fine-tuning the ingredients to make the best dishes. Add ingredients step by step , has fallen behind.”

The girl's face suddenly turned pale.

"But..." Yu Xiaotan changed the topic.

He raised his head and smiled, his eyebrows were exquisite and flawless: "If you are willing to help me answer a few questions, I can help you catch a few more flying fish for free."

……

Yu Xiaotan also didn't expect that the movement of his spiritual power in Tianzhou was blocked, but the Thunder Taoism learned from Ji Chuchen was not affected at all.

It seems that this method should be born in Tianzhou, and it should shine in this chaotic law field.

With a touch of his fingertips, the thunder with a purple arc fell into the stream, and under the grateful, awe-inspiring and envious eyes of the siblings, it crackled and stunned three or four flying fish in a short time.

The boy opened his pocket at the side, while Yu Xiaotan threw the flying fish into the bag one by one, until finally the girl's lips and teeth trembled: "Enough, enough, master, enough!"

Yu Xiaotan turned his head sideways, glanced at his eyelids, and shook his head.

"There's not enough here," he muttered, "Even Xiaobai can't feed himself."

The body of the fish is thin and narrow, it looks as long as a forearm, but in fact its body is only two fingers wide, Yu Xiaotan held the one he just caught and turned it upside down in his hand, feeling that this fish is not sure if it is for the purpose of flying, The body is very light.

In other words, don't weigh the scales.

Lightning flashed again at his fingertips, and just as he was about to plunge into the stream, the girl rushed over and boldly grabbed Yu Xiaotan's hand: "Enough is enough, Master, it is really enough! Don't waste your spiritual power for us anymore Already!"

Yu Xiaotan: "..."

In fact, this method does not require much spiritual power, even when the thunder flashed, Yu Xiaotan felt that the speed of spiritual power gathering in his body increased a lot.

However, seeing the girl's anxious look on the verge of crying, he still stopped.

Seeing Yu Xiaotan stop, the siblings were visibly relieved.

——Two spirit fish can still be rewarded with gold hairpins, but if there are more, they really have nothing to sell.

"What...you want to ask, just ask."

The girl took the skin bag from the young man, bowed her head and counted the number of flying fish, a wry smile appeared on her lips: "As long as we know, we must know everything and say everything."

Yu Xiaotan thought for a while, and finally decided to say frankly: "Actually, I am not from Tianzhou. I got lost in the wilderness and broke into this forest by accident."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said these words, the two siblings looked at each other for a moment, and their vigilance relaxed a little.

"It turns out that the master came from outside, no wonder he is so full of spiritual power," the girl said softly, "Although we haven't met these years, we have heard that some monks who lost their way outside entered the Tianzhou domain, but master, you will But don't use your spiritual power indiscriminately, it is extremely difficult to replenish the spiritual power here, if you use a little, you will lose a little."

Yu Xiaotan suddenly became interested: "How could this happen?"

The girl sighed: "This has to start from the previous catastrophe..."

……

Back then, the world changed drastically, a catastrophe came, and the entire Tianzhou was reduced to a pond of lightning.

Kitchen Immortal and his followers incarnated Taoism to fight against Heaven, and set up a shelter for Tianzhou within the Thunder Domain.

Their consciousness and will are like a torrent, forcibly erecting a barrier in the sky——Yu Xiaotan squinted his eyes under the girl's instruction, looked into the distance, and found that the sky above her head was indeed as she said, faintly revealing the vertical and horizontal crack.

Like a glass dome on the verge of shattering.

In the territory of Tianzhou, Taoism collapsed after the catastrophe, and fragments of the law scattered everywhere, resulting in a chaotic state all year round. The aura of heaven and earth is passing away rapidly, and people can no longer absorb aura from the air as usual.

Although the spiritual root can condense the spiritual power by itself during exercise, but soon the monks of Tianzhou discovered that the spiritual energy dissipated faster than the condensed one during the exercise.

The whole thing doesn't make ends meet.

In this way, the gain outweighs the loss in cultivation, and the spiritual root has become a decoration. Those who survived the catastrophe had to restrain their aura, seal up the flying shuttle spirit sword and other objects, and try to adapt to the new life like ordinary people.

And then they found that life couldn't go on.

Mortals want to eat and drink Lazard!

The monks who had long been accustomed to bigu held their stomachs and pressed their chests to their backs, recalling the fear of being dominated by hunger.They discovered for the first time that without spiritual power and practice, they were not as good as the most ordinary old farmers—old farmers could still work hard on the fields, but they were lucky, they couldn't do anything, they could only eat and drink.

The old farmers in Tianzhou were very generous and shared the food with the once high-ranking fairy elders.

And the monks who had been influenced by the chef fairy and had a little kindness towards mortals reciprocated, and tried to use the little spiritual power to improve the lives of the people.

They used the thinking logic of the formation method to improve water conservancy and farming facilities. The monks of the gold system studied iron, stone and fire to build stronger houses. The cultivators of the spiritual roots of the wood system studied rice and wheat and tried to increase the average yield of the field... … Gradually, some people have developed talismans that ordinary people can use. Although the talisman cannot exert its due power in an environment where spiritual power is scarce, it is also very beautiful to be used to set off fireworks during festivals.

And Ling Chef...

Flying fish jumped in the fish basket, splashing countless water splashes, the girl held the fish basket tightly in her arms, and whispered: "The spirit chef has discovered a unique cooking technique, which can cook spirit beasts, The law fragments scattered in Lingzhi's body are transformed into huge spiritual power for cultivation and breakthrough."

"This unique spiritual power can be absorbed even by mortals who don't know how to practice."

"So in Tianzhou, the spirit chef quickly became the highest status existence, surpassing all monks."

Yu Xiaotan took a light breath.

There was a faint glint in his eyes.

Isn't the people's livelihood model in Tianzhou exactly what he wants?

People and immortals coexist in harmony, everyone can practice, and the link is the spirit chef who is most suitable for Yu Xiaotan.

"Then there are no mortals in Tianzhou?" He excitedly said, "As long as they have eaten the food made by the spirit chef, everyone can be a monk?"

And monks can't easily use their spiritual power, which greatly avoids fighting!

The girl smiled bitterly: "It's not that simple."

Not all spiritual chefs can make dishes that greatly increase one's strength after eating, and not all ingredients can be used to cook such meals.

Many spiritual chefs follow the old methods, and the dishes they cook look delicious, but after eating, they are actually dark dishes.

Moreover, ordinary dark dishes are just unpalatable, but this kind of dark dishes mixed with principles is... terrible.

"So so far, the vast majority of people in Tianzhou are only slightly stronger than ordinary people. Like the two of us, our father is a spiritual chef. He has a recipe in his hand and has eaten several spiritual food. We are lucky to be able to reach the consecration period."

The girl paused for a moment, then raised her finger to point to the fish in the fish basket.

"I said it was difficult to make fresh meat before, but also because of the Taoism attribute of spiritual food. After all, the ingredients are full of chaotic Taoism, and cooking is like carving. It is necessary to carve a stone full of edges and corners into a work of art. The more complicated the cooking During the process, the more traces the carving knife makes, the greater the probability of successful transformation."

"However, for the two types of fresh meat and pickled products, the former can only use knife skills, and even uses very little seasoning, while the latter needs to preserve the spiritual power transformed from the food in the middle way for a long time to avoid its natural passage. , even the longer the marinating time, the stronger the spiritual power... These are the severe tests for the spiritual chef. It is difficult for ordinary spiritual chefs to obtain ordinary recipes, let alone make such delicious dishes."

As she spoke, she spread out her palm again, revealing the gold hairpin in her hand.

"Master, after listening to this, you should understand the importance of a detailed recipe, right?"

"This is the perfect version that my father has spent his whole life and constantly improving. During this period, he has spent a lot of manpower and financial resources. If it weren't for it, the two of us would not have fallen into this situation, and my father would not have tried it because of it. There are too many failed recipes, and the fragments of the Dao in the body are scattered and piled up. Not long ago, he became obsessed and passed away..."

As she said that, tears welled up in the girl's eyes again.

Yu Xiaotan sighed.

He turned his head, glanced at the flying fish scurrying around in the stream, and said softly, "Why don't I try making a fish cake?"

"I'm afraid you won't believe me, but I'm also a very good spirit chef outside."