After showing Reina the basics of how to cook nip cake into natural sugars and fudge, I also integrate a few items that the cooking process will activate.
Theoretically, this will allow the fudge to have a bit of qi infused into it. Just enough to let it be nourishing for cultivators, while not too much to harm regular people, even if they indulge in it.
As she makes it, even her parents seem to get into it, amazed by how simple the process is. With that said, I let them know the timing on these is significant, just like normal cooking. Though, if you make a mistake with this, even in the worst case, it won’t harm anyone, just not taste good or provide as many benefits.
Reina is clearly ecstatic at being able to make sweets herself.
“This is so coooool… you an we can actually eat this afterward?”
I give a smile at her innocent cheerfulness.
“Absolutely, and this actually is just the start. Do you know what ice cream is?”
Both she and her parents shake their heads.
That's understandable, given that they have spent their entire lives in the slum. Only the rich would really know about the delicacies, like this.
“I know you guys know milk, but after a certain amount of work, you can turn it into a sweet, cold, creamy treat.”
I lean in almost conspiratorially, with a grin.
“And that’s just the start. You can put many sweets into ice cream to make it even better. Fudge is one of those things.”
The awe I feel from them makes realize I may just need to bring more than just fudge into their lives.
… I’m sure of it now. I’m going to make them into them into a purveyor of sweets. Not only them… but many other people need it. This world needs it.
“You know what… I had so plans, but let do sothing.”
I pull one of the many jade slips from my bag.
“I’m sorry, but could I ask you to keep practicing making the fudge while I try to do sothing?”
The parents furiously nod their heads, drawing the connection between what we are doing now and the slip that I’ve taken out. Of course, because of her age, Reina hasn’t. Just enjoying the activity of making sweets for herself, as she continues to test the work.
As they continue, I insert my consciousness into the slip, encountering a wide, blank space. Within that space, I conjure my mories of countless foods, desserts, and other dishes that I had tasted and heard of back on Earth. Using my scan, I created even more, along with the necessary recipes to make them.
And now to connect it with this world.
Using that knowledge and creations, I have my scan co up with ways to integrate the ingredients, recipes, and culinary techniques of this world with this information. Adding to that, I consider my OCS thod and yet another secret cultivation thod that I built into it.
“The Nourishing Star-Devouring Repast thod”
A thod focused on helping others' progress in their cultivation by feeding them. Most interestingly, it is a symbiotic cultivation thod, since it relies on the connection between them and others to progress.
You can still cultivate with it by eating your own food, but it’s considerably less effective.
Despite that weakness, it’s powerful, because of the benefits the person gets while practicing it. The symbiotic part of the thod allows you to gain the slightest bit of affinity with the person’s cultivation techniques who eat your food.
Which ans that if a fire cultivator is constantly eating your food, you will eventually be able to use similar or the sa fire cultivation techniques. Albeit much weaker ones.
And all without conflict between them. Turning it into a jack of all trades class, centered on helping others.
That most cultivators hold their cultivation techniques close to themselves balances this as well. You would have to have a lot of trust with a cultivator for them to share their techniques. With the type of groups that I hope to build, this likely won’t be an issue.
Plus, I may just end up making techniques myself that are ‘open source’ anyway.
With this in mind, I develop another OCS thod jade slip. Baking into it, like many of the others, the secret thods. But in this specific jade slip, I also place the recipes and cooking techniques they can use to grow a culinary focused sect in the future.
Considering the increased speed of my scan and that I’m in safe territory, it doesn’t take long for to do this, only 20 minutes or so. Once I finish, I finally pull my consciousness out of the slip to see that Renia and her parents have completed making their third batch of fudge. It looks really great.
She may have a talent for this.
“Hmm, this batch looks tasty. May I try?”
After their quick nods of affirmation, I taste it.
Yep. Delicious.
“Hahaha, I’m glad that this cultivation thod won’t be going to waste on soone who can’t use it well. Here, I’d like the three of you to take this thod. It’s called the ‘Nourishing Star-Devouring Repast’ and is a culinary cultivation thod, based out of the Omnibus Cultivation thod.”
I still see the flashes of concern in the parent’s eyes about the culinary aspect, so I add an additional note.
“And for anyone who might like to persecute you, though there shouldn’t be any, you can easily switch back to the normal OCS thod that you’ve already been practicing. So, you can pretty easily hide your true cultivation thod, if necessary.”
This seems to have drastically eased their concerns, as I can see the tension leave their shoulders.
It’s a good reminder that no matter how much you trust soone, things that are scary, are scary.
“Before you check it out, though, let adjust your bodies a bit.”
I place my hands on their backs, as I had done with Da Xia earlier, to adjust their bodies and unlock the thod in the jade slip. It doesn’t take a long ti, so they can soon place their consciousnesses into the slip to start learning.
Considering that they aren’t geniuses, like Da Xia, I already know that this will take quite a bit of ti.
I move into a cultivating position and just spend the ti thinking, using my scan for plans, and creating spirit stones in my storage space. The planning aspect taking up of most of my thought processes, as my scan informs of other urgent aspects that have been bothering Gong.
It looks like I’ll need to et back with Gong and navigate so of the other demihumans' issues that she’s been encountering.
It’s not that she couldn’t handle it, but so issues are just causing her frustration, that could be eased with a bit of additional knowledge.
…then there are so that I’ll need to deal with, as Gong’s support. Because there are so people that she is too close to, to say sothing to.
Nonetheless, I set the pieces in place by whispering my thoughts to so nearby spiders that I know Gong is monitoring. Adding in my own feelings and thoughts through our shared connection.
Looks like she's mostly on board. There are a few things we’ll need to discuss, but I expected as much.
This continues for a few hours, until I finally see Kai, Hana, and Reina wake up.
The excitent on their faces tells everything I need to know.
With a huge grin on my face, I pull out a giant pot. The sa one that I had used to create the large number of concoctions on the way up the mountain for my sect exam.
“So… ready to cook with cultivation?”
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