Chapter 6-You all shouldn't be here unless he's coming along!
Ma Shu, Gao Shi, and Luo Hua were at Bronze Dragon Peak playing with the animals and gardening. "Gao Shi, Luo Hua, I just thought of something" "What is it?" "What weird idea is it now" "Let's try to cook like Liao Ping" "Okay" then they start by looking in his hut but all they find are some paintings, sketches, clothes, and pill bottles. Then they go to the restaurant that Liao Ping is working at and go substitute in for him. "Hello! do you know what the owner of the restaurant is currently doing?" "Oh, she is currently on her break for the day" "Can we go in and talk to her?" "I personally recommend that you don't but if it's important she'll hear you out" "Thanks for the advice!" "Your welcome" then they head into the kitchen and before they can even talk Ms.Chang quipped at them, "State your business and it better be important!" "W-We are here to tell you that our senior brother Ping is currently busy and we'll be subbing in for him" "What she's tryna say is that we wanna learn how to cook from you since our senior brother is working here so it has to be a good chef" "Do you think that you can just ask to learn and be accepted that easily?" they nod then realize that she is quite different from other mortal chefs, "They want to learn how to cook and I also want to learn but he isn't my senior brother" "You girls from an immortal sect?" "Yes," "affirmative" Luo Hua nodded as well, "My apprentice is part of your sect?" "Yes," "Then why is he working in my restaurant?" "You'll have to ask him" "Why can't you two just tell me?" "We would if we could but he is out of the sect currently" "You said you wanted to learn?" "Yes!" "Affirmative" Luo Hua nodded again, "Well if you want to learn then first prove that you can cook as well as your senior brother" they then started gathering and doing things in the kitchen that made noise.
Elder Tyrant had an incarnation watching over them from the tavern in the town. He was very meticulous by watching and noting down the people they interacted with. As his incarnation woke up again he saw them leaving the restaurant and heard the yelling of the owner. "You better not come back unless your senior is accompanying you!" the three girls left hurriedly and as he watched them scurrying away, "I wonder how long this is gonna take, sigh" then he checks out of the tavern and heads toward the sect.
As Liao Ping and Xu Huo are walking through the forest of eerie, Xu Huo decided to strike up a conversation, "Brother Ping, so what is our objective?" "We're going to hunt down a monster that is terrorizing a mountain." "How long will it be until we're there?" "It shouldn't be too long, since the mountain that is being terrorized by the monster is after the forest of eerie that we're in" "oh, and what do you do usually?" "I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't want to know since my master considers my hobbies as weird" "You're making me curious now, come on and tell me!" "Alright, but I had already warned you" "I like to paint, play chess, do calligraphy, write novels, sewing, carving/sculpting, etc." "..." "See I told ya" "I now finally have seen for myself a true eccentric person!" "..." "Whatever, come on let's go before the sun sets" then Liao Ping and Xu Huo start trailing off into the forest.
As Ma Shu, Gao Shi, and Luo Hua are scurrying out of town, they make a lot of heads spin towards their direction. Some just stare while some try to chase after them, but then they see a middle-aged man calmly walking after them but when they try looking at his eyes they feel intimidated when they think of chasing after those three girls. 'I really shouldn't be in a mortal town but a promise is a promise' mumbled Elder Tyrant as he walked out of the town. "Ma Shu! We're never gonna listen to your ideas ever again!" "Yeah!" they started playing and teasing each other but didn't notice that they were making the single male disciple's heart twitch like crazy while also giving them a view of wholesomeness. While they had eyes of multiple males on them, Elder Tyrant when he saw them being playful had some nostalgia of how his dao companion was like 'You're so stupid!' 'Why can't you just kiss me when the opportunity shows itself!' 'Hah, weren't you so fierce when you were competing for whoever won would be my dao companion competition', thinking of what she said made Elder Tyrant give out a slight smile which was rarely seen on his face. He decided that he would converse with Liao Ping about what to gift his dao companion when he returned. Elder Tyrant started walking toward the mission's pavilion as the sun started setting in the sky.
As the sun started snoozing, Liao Ping started setting up the campfire for the night alongside assigning some tasks for Xu Huo so that he wouldn't start asking questions about everything he's doing. By the time the sky was dark and filled with visible stars, Liao Ping and Xu Huo were sitting down on the ground and chatting about things like their relationships and hobbies. "brother Huo, I don't know what you were thinking when you hooked up with Xing Yuwen, but it was probably your worst decision when you started cultivating to think of having a dao companion" "sigh, brother Ping, you wouldn't understand since you haven't seen someone who you're attracted to" "Are you sure you know what you really want?" "What do you mean by that? Of course, I know what I want" "If you say so but what do you usually do when you aren't cultivating or doing stuff in the sect?" "I used to just spend time with her but now I don't know what to do after this mission is finished, sigh" Liao Ping stayed quiet for a while until thinking about something, 'What should I do while he is moping about his relationship with Xing Yuwen', then he starts taking out his cooking materials alongside his tools from his storage treasure.