Chapter 14 Senior Brother Wang is a good person (new book, please read it)
After Li Xiuchang received the Lingchu inheritance, he couldn't wait to find a deserted corner and study it first.
"If you want to become a qualified spiritual chef, you must first become a qualified chef and learn the way of spiritual chef. Start by learning how to cook..."
Li Xiuchang glanced at ten lines quickly and had a general understanding of the way of the spiritual chef.
"It turns out that when learning any skill, you have to start from the basics. You don't just try to make first-level spiritual dishes right from the beginning."
If you want to become a first-level spiritual chef, laying the foundation in the early stage can be divided into two parts.
The first part is learning to cook, including mastering various cooking methods such as steaming, cooking, frying, and stir-frying, mastering knife skills, handling ingredients, etc.
When you can make a variety of dishes with delicious flavor, this first part is completed.
Li Xiuchang's predecessor, Li Chang, learned cooking skills at an early age. He worked in the kitchen with his father since he was a child. At the age of seventeen, he had eleven years of work experience. He was proficient in cooking and had top-notch knife skills.
Therefore, Li Xiuchang can skip this first part of the basic exercises.
Seeing this, Li Xiuchang knew that he had made the right choice by choosing to practice spiritual cooking!
This first part alone would save him a lot of time.
The second part of the basics of the Spiritual Chef is the processing of ingredients, but the ingredients here do not refer to ordinary ingredients, but spiritual ingredients.
For example, the meat of various monster beasts has strong spiritual power and is difficult to absorb. If it is cooked and eaten directly, it is very likely to be injured by the spiritual power, or even explode to death.
What the spiritual chef has to do is to tame the spiritual power in it and make it gentle and absorbable.
Different ingredients have different processing methods.
There are many ways to process the same ingredient, and the different processing methods will directly affect the eating effect and value of the ingredient.
Li Xiuchang could skip the first part of the basics and directly learn the second part, which is the processing methods of various ingredients.
The above two parts are just the basics. The most important thing is the cooking skills after the spiritual ingredients are actually cooked.
Pairing different ingredients together will produce a chain reaction, and different cooking methods will also cause many changes.
This requires long-term practice to accumulate experience.
Li Xiuchang planned to buy some low-level ingredients and go back to practice his skills. These things were sold in the markets outside the Fairy Dust Sect, but they had to walk, which was time-consuming and laborious.
But as soon as he started, a familiar face walked towards him.
"Senior Brother Wang Long!" Li Xiuchang said in surprise.
He didn't deliberately look for Senior Brother Wang Long this time, but it was just a coincidence that he met him.
Everything is God's will. Li Xiuchang has absolutely no reason to refuse this free ride that comes to his door - wouldn't that mean he is at odds with God!
"Junior Brother Li, I bumped into you again." Wang Long was also slightly surprised. In the past few days, he had indeed bumped into Li Xiuchang quite frequently.
When Li Xiucheng saw Wang Long, he recalled what Senior Brother Song Yu had said, saying that first-level Talisman masters earn spiritual stones by recruiting new disciples.
He suspected that Wang Long might also be a first-level talisman master, but after his last experience, he knew not to ask more questions.
But Li Xiuchang didn't ask, and Wang Long brought up the topic himself.
"Junior brother, are you here to choose the inheritance of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals this time?" Wang Long asked.
"Exactly, I have chosen the Lingchu cuisine."
"Spiritual chef?" Wang Long was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect that Li Xiuchang would choose such an unpopular skill.
But then he chuckled like a self-deprecater: "You're good as a spiritual chef, but don't learn anything else but making talismans. Like me, I'm stuck at the peak of the first level of talismans, and I don't know how much money I have to spend to break through this level. What's called I gave up the Tao of Talisman to practice other skills, but I was unwilling to do so and could only go to the dark side."
Wang Long exposed his own scars and used himself as a negative teaching material to persuade Li Xiuchang to stay away from Fu Dao.
Li Xiuchang could only say a few words of comfort and wished him to become a second-level talisman master as soon as possible.
"Okay, let's not talk about this. Junior brother, you want to go back to Donggeng District now? How about I give you a ride."
"This... I am planning to go to the market outside the sect to buy some ingredients and cooking utensils. Why bother to bother senior brother? I can just go by myself..."
Li Xiuchang said he was sorry and announced his destination.
After some refusal, Li Xiuchang got on Wang Long's boat again.
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This was Li Xiuchang's first time visiting the peripheral Xianchen Zongfang City.
This market is so big that if Li Xiuchang comes by himself, it may not take long to find what he needs. Fortunately, Wang Long will lead the way.
"The stalls in this alley sell first-level or lower-level materials and equipment. Junior brother, please take your time and browse around. I have official duties and will pick you up in an hour."
Li Xiuchang cried to death. He didn't expect that Senior Brother Wang Long was so enthusiastic that he would come to take him back.
Even though he was not thin-skinned, he felt embarrassed at this moment and quickly rejected Wang Long's kindness:
"Senior Brother Wang, you are busy with official duties, so don't worry about me. I will stroll around this market and go back later."
Li Xiuchang refused again and again, and Wang Long finally stopped insisting. However, he was afraid that Li Xiuchang would be cheated, so he told Li Xiuchang the approximate prices of various ingredients before leaving.
"Junior Brother Li, if you have enough spiritual stones on hand, you can buy a low-grade furnace magic weapon. These low-level magic tools, elixirs, and talismans are very cheap in our Xianchen Zongfang Market, so it is still a good deal to buy them back. "Wang Long gave a final warning and left in the flying boat.
Senior Brother Wang Long is someone who can deal with... Li Xiuchang has received a lot of care from Wang Long in the past few days, and he also wants to reciprocate the favor.
"Brother Wang seems to be in a tight spot and still owes Brother Zhang Wanzhi spiritual stones. There are ways to earn spiritual stones later, so we can bring him along."
Next, Li Xiuchang went shopping in this alley and bought some spiritual cooking materials to practice.
Because he bought some materials that were not of the highest grade, the price was not expensive, but it cost him four spiritual stones in total.
Li Xiuchang listened to the advice and bought a low-grade magic furnace.
Thanks to the internal competition of the first-grade refiners, the price of low-grade magic tools is quite affordable. Li Xiuchang compared prices from three vendors, and he didn't even need to bargain. Several stall owners started a vicious competition, allowing Li Xiuchang to buy this low-grade magic furnace at the lowest price.
The price was ten spiritual stones, and a set of low-grade kitchen utensils was also included.
The so-called low-grade kitchen utensils are defective products after the failure of refining low-grade magic kitchen utensils, but they are completely enough for beginners like Li Xiuchang.
Fourteen spiritual stones were spent, and Li Xiuchang only had three spiritual stones left, and he was very poor.
But these were necessary investments, and there was nothing he could do.
Li Xiuchang put all the items he bought into his storage bag, and then walked back to Donggeng District.
Even though Li Xiuchang had become a first-level cultivator, he was already panting when he was almost at Donggeng District, but at this moment, he suddenly found a shiny object on the ground in front of him.
That was... a spiritual stone!
Feeling the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the spiritual stone, which was far better than the three spiritual stones on his body, Li Xiuchang's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
A medium-grade spiritual stone, one piece is equivalent to a hundred low-grade spiritual stones!