Chapter 75 - Cooking

  "Spiritual plants and beasts below the third rank..."

  Lu Xuan muttered to himself, sweeping across the spiritual field, his sight focused on the red-bearded carp resting with its eyes closed in the spiritual spring pool.

  The red-bearded carp is a non-ranked spiritual beast, and Lu Xuan intends to use it for experiments first.

  The spiritual power entangled one of them, and with a fierce pull, it was pulled out of the spiritual spring pool. Before the red-bearded carp could react, Lu Xuan had already put it into the life bag.

  The spiritual consciousness probed into the dark blue cloth bag, and the red-bearded carp floated in a chaos, shaking its head and tail, and its two thin red long whiskers fluttered randomly.

  With a bang, the red-bearded carp flew out of the life bag and hit the surface of the spiritual spring pool, waking up the other two.

  The three red-bearded carps awakened from their sleep stared at each other stupidly, not knowing what happened.

  "Little guy, come here."

  Lu Xuan summoned the green-eyed cloud-stepping lynx that was eager to try not far away.

  The young lynx looked at Lu Xuan coldly, and its thick paws like white clouds stepped silently on the ground, and it walked gracefully.

  "Let's put you in and try, it will come out soon."

  The stepping cloud lynx nodded gently.

  Lu Xuan put it in the life bag, and took it out after a while.

  "Ah..."

  As soon as it landed, the stepping cloud lynx cried softly. It can be seen that it is not in a good mood at the moment, and its voice is much more delicate than usual.

  Lu Xuan's mind is focused on it, and he instantly knows the reason. When the lynx stays in the life bag surrounded by dim light, it recalls the experience of being caught and locked in a cage before.

  "Okay, don't worry, I will try my best to keep you outside when I go out, and I won't put you in the bag unless it is absolutely necessary."

  Lu Xuan comforted him.

  "Ah~~" The lynx cried lightly, and the voice unconsciously became clamped, but because the original voice was too rough and hoarse, it revealed a strong sense of disobedience.

  One night passed.

  The next day, as soon as the sky was dawned, Lu Xuan got up and came to the spiritual field where the blood jade ginseng was located. He separated the remaining blood jade ginseng that were in groups of three or five, hugging and cuddling together.

  He inspected the spiritual field again and satisfied each spiritual plant in various ways according to its slightest needs.

  "Hmm?"

  Finally, when he came to the spiritual spring pool, Lu Xuan couldn't help but exclaimed.

  He saw a fist-sized white light ball floating quietly on the water, reflecting different shades of light in the rippling water.

  "This is... a red bearded carp has entered the mature stage?"

  Lu Xuan said to himself with a look of surprise on his face. He

  scanned it with his mind and quickly locked onto the red bearded carp that had entered the mature stage.

  "Go, catch it from the spiritual spring pool."

  He pointed to the fattest red bearded carp and said to the stepping cloud lynx. The

  lynx jumped up, stepped lightly on the water with its hind feet, and grabbed the thin red long beard of the red bearded carp.

  The red-bearded carp was involuntarily brought out of the water. Just when it thought it would fall into the spiritual spring pool as usual, a red needle pierced the fish's head and brought it into the kitchen.

  "Get out of the pot!"

  "When it's ripe, it's time to put it in the pot. You've eaten so much of my spiritual rice, it's time to repay me."

  Lu Xuan rolled up his sleeves and picked up the white light ball floating in the spiritual spring pool.

  [Harvest a red-bearded carp and obtain the second-grade magic weapon Red Scale Armor. ]   

  An idea emerged from his mind, and a red inner armor appeared in his hand. The surface of the inner armor had dense scales like fish scales, which had strong protective power.

  Lu Xuan put the second-grade red scale armor into the storage bag and hurried to the kitchen.

  The silver-breaking blade decomposed into more than ten silver-white fragments. In a few breaths, the scales of the red-bearded carp that had just died were scraped clean.

  Lu Xuan gathered the two thin red whiskers and many scales together.

  The red-bearded carp was just a non-grade spiritual beast, and the long whiskers and scales on its body naturally could not be exchanged for many spiritual stones, but Lu Xuan never had the habit of wasting, so he put them all into the storage bag.

  After working for half an hour, a pot of steaming fresh fish was brought to the table.

  Lu Xuan picked up a piece, and suddenly, a fresh and fragrant taste filled his throat.

  As soon as it entered his stomach, he felt a ray of warm heat flowing through his limbs and bones, warming his whole body.

  "It has been with me for so long, I have some feelings for it, I really can't bear to let it go..."

  Lu Xuan couldn't help shedding sad tears from the corners of his mouth. Thinking of the red carp when it was just bought, it was small, and he raised it little by little. He couldn't help but feel sad, and fiercely picked up a large piece of fish meat, turning it into appetite. With

  delicious food in front of it, the stepping cloud lynx still maintained a reserved and elegant posture, lying quietly at Lu Xuan's feet, but just kept making a cry, indicating that he should feed it more fish meat and bones.

  Lu Xuan couldn't bear its ambiguous cry, and quickly stuffed a large piece of fish meat into its mouth.

  ...

  "Senior sister."

  Wang Chong'an knocked on the door gently and called softly.

  With a creak, the door opened and a girl in red stuck her head out.

  "Junior brother Wang, what's the matter?"

  "I went to the market to look for it, and found several spiritual fruits suitable for senior sister's spirit beast. Senior sister, take them and see if Chi Xiao is interested." The

  handsome young man Wang Chong'an raised the corners of his mouth with a hint of smile, making people feel like bathing in the spring breeze.

  "Thank you, Junior Brother Wang."

  The red-clothed girl took the fruit plate handed over by Wang Chong'an, went into the inner room, and came out again after a while, with a helpless look on her face.

  In the fruit plate, there were several spiritual fruits with tooth marks on the surface, but they were only small gaps, which showed that the four-eyed red goblin had little interest and had no appetite for these spiritual fruits.

  "It still doesn't work. The red goblin has been eating the spiritual fruits cultivated by the sect for a long time, and is particularly picky. It has extremely high requirements for the types and quality of spiritual fruits."

  "Although there are varieties of these spiritual fruits that it can eat, the quality is only average. It will not eat them after taking a bite."

  "The red goblin is a strange beast, so it naturally looks down on the wild fruits cultivated by ordinary spiritual plant masters in the market. I will go and ask for my senior sister and find the spiritual fruits it likes as soon as possible." Wang Chong'an

  said with a smile. The red-clothed girl in front of him was gifted and had an extraordinary background. The four-eyed red goblin she raised would be of great use whether in tracking evil spirits in the market or in cultivating the secret realm later. He did his best to meet the various requirements of the man and the beast.

  "When you are too hungry, you will naturally eat everything."

  The red-clothed girl looked at the four-eyed red goblin in the house and said angrily.

  "Senior sister, don't take this to heart for now. There are many young talents from major forces in the market who have admired the disciples of the sect for a long time. They want to make friends with the senior brothers and sisters. Why don't you go with me to relax?"

  "Okay."

  The red-clothed girl agreed without hesitation.

  The three of them came to a quiet garden with flying eaves and winding water. There were more than a dozen young men and women waiting in the pavilion, all of them with extraordinary demeanor.

  He Yuntong, the granddaughter of the foundation-building alchemist of Baicaotang, was also among them, with a low brow and a pleasant look, standing quietly in the corner.

  (End of this chapter)