Story 8 - Tribulation Trepidations (6 ?)
Did he seriously just kick the damn pan?! Unnecessary and risky! If he couldn’t catch everything... Fuck, we’d have to store the first dish in the new ti-freezing pantry of the space, then search for the ingredients for the tofu and vegetables.
I should yell at the brat. But I had to keep silent — cooking was one of the few subjects I knew shit about. For all I knew this was necessary.
While I kept a stiff face, I watched the little shit use an immortal chef technique to spin the bowls under the falling vegetables, catching each of them before they could fall all over the place.
When the dishes landed softly on the countertop next to the Scorching Garlic Chili Noodles, they appeared to be full of energy, but also a tiny bit lackluster. It was like the dish wasn’t complete and was duller for it.
That was when he grabbed his pre-made sauce. With a twist of a spoon, he drizzled it over the rice, vegetables and tofu. That was when both dishes started to sparkle. Waves of intense mouthwatering scent wafted through the kitchen.
When he added a few julienned sprigs of Split Yang Carrots as a garnish, I visibly saw the al increase in quality. If this were in a manhua, it would have gone from having a few sparkles to filling the panel with them. Possibly even a rainbow effect just to add that extra bit of special.
“We start by juicing these in a way that extracts the spiritual essence into the juice.”
“Oh! I can do that really fast.” As an immortal chef in training, I expected as much.
“Good. While you do that, I’ll take care of the hard part.”
“And that is?”
“Cutting up this shard into manageable pieces so it doesn’t take a week to dissolve.”
He nodded, then disappeared with the lis.
The first thing I did was fire up the furnace. This upgraded version ward up within a minute.
Once it was the highest temperature I could make it, I threw the sword shard inside.
Because of how hard the fragnt was, it couldn’t lt at all.
But that was expected. This was the type of tal that would need a strange fla to fully liquify. But that didn’t an that I had no other thods of working with it.
I placed the heated shard in the center of the secret crafter’s formation I’d set up earlier. After activating it, I started using my forging tools to chisel the hot shard like I was carving marble.
My increasing strength from finishing the body cultivation helped speed things up.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t use sword Qi here since this was a type of material that was added to blades and armor specifically to block sharp types of energy.
Just as I finished the last break, Little Spring carried in a pot filled with Spiraling Li juice.
“Here’s the juice. What should I do with the peels?”
“When you have a free mont, slice them up and throw them in the garden later.” I gestured for him to bring the pan to the worktable and pulled out a glass jar I’d made just for situations like this.
Actually, to make it, I’d taken a different special sand that I’d collected on the crab mission, fired it up in the furnace and blew a few jars from it. They didn’t look pretty but they’d work for my needs.
Fuck, I missed my old tools. A good craftsman was worthless without quality ones.
While I’d made do with those I cobbled together myself, I’d have to make progressively better tools by myself. There had been a lot of progress in item forging in the past thousand years.
I placed the tal fragnts into the jar, grabbed a ladle and poured so juice over it until it completely covered the small pieces.
The kid looked into the glass. When nothing happened, he turned to . His narrowed eyes as if asked if I had him juice all those lis for nothing.
I grinned and pulled out another item I picked up for cheap during the mission we did not speak about. A special black stone.
“Ah!” The kid pointed to it. “Isn’t that the ugly pearl soone conned you into buying?”
Brat. “You an that I conned soone out of.”
He looked skeptical.
I coughed. “This is a Black Dreams Sea Pearl, and while it looks like an eldritch lemon with the surface of a black pearl, it is actually a stone found in the ocean.”
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