Chapter 47: Spirit Chef

After breakfast, the family members went to their duties. Amrit was left in the waiting room all alone. The family members were so busy they didn't even do their dishes. So Amrit went to the kitchen and started doing dishes. After cleaning the pots and plated he wiped them with a cloth and put it in the rack. He then went outside the house. The sun was shining and it felt like a third of the day had passed. He didn't know how many hours and minutes made a day in this world but he felt like the cycle of day and night was a little different than Earth. He had estimated there were twenty-six hours in a day. The seasons here were determined by the harvest of crops and herbs as well as the state of forest in the woods.

 There was no rainy or winter season here. The weather was unpredictable and there could be drought for a week and flood or snow the other week. Most of the city was covered in arrays so only the scattered villages were affected by the weather. Even the harshest weather wouldn't affect the foundation building realm cultivators and above provided the disaster does not contain calamity qi. This was a rare occurrence throughout the cultivation world. So it may rain the next day and snow the other and maybe the hottest very next day. But the months and years here were almost similar to the Earth. Thirty days made a month and twelve months made a year. The months contained exactly thirty days, no more, no less.

Amrit made his way towards the spirit fruit tree. This was becoming his favorite place. Teasing fishes and sleeping under this tree was becoming his favorite pastime. Amrit sat under the tree and looked above at the fruits. There were few of the fruits remaining and there were many flowers budding but none of the fruits were ripe today. One or two were on the verge of ripening but he felt it would be a waste as they weren't as sweet as the ripe fruits. The ripe fruits had certain flavors contained within them aside from sweetness which caused cravings to the consumers. Closing his eyes and going through his legacy he found the spirit chef inheritance. When he looked at the inheritance, he found this was the most normal inheritance he had.

Previously he had only engraved the inheritances that were mainstream in this world so there were many he had to discard just by their names. But when he looked at the inheritance of spirit chef he found that this was no less than the alchemy in case of efficiency. He found that the food created by this inheritance had various functions ranging from increasing the cultivation to solidifying the foundations to healing and increasing certain attributes temporarily. The benefit of this profession was that the energy contained in the foods was easier to digest and had almost no impurities. The only downside was that the effects were milder than pills.

 And the ingredients needed for some type of spirit food contained rare herbs used in alchemy. This was why there were few spirit chefs and even fewer inheritances left. After all who in the right mind would use the precious herbs for food instead of pills? Very few would go for the taste rather than the effect and even fewer had the capital to indulge in the taste. Even in large clans, there would be very small numbers of spirit chefs. If you are not extremely talented in the field of culinary, no one will invest in you. After all, with the same amount of resources, the clan could produce an alchemist.

But looking at the contents of inheritances, Amrit felt that the spirit chef profession was no less than the alchemists. If he told that to the outside world, there would be people clamoring to beat him to the pulp. But Amrit could afford to say that because the inheritance he had was not simple. It contained the best of the formulas and blueprints. Very few could match him in auxiliary inheritance in this word and that was in case of comprehensiveness in lower grades, not the formula and blueprints he had. This was why he thought the spirit chef profession could rival alchemy. The spirit chef inheritances in this world or the nearby countries didn't have such benefits. There were few legacies and even fewer who could prepare such spirit foods. The more Amrit looked at the inheritance, the more dumbfounded he became.

 There was food for everything I mean everything. Just a little tweak of ingredients would make the effect vastly different. This was like chemistry on Earth, add one different chemical and tweak a process a little then you have a different compound with completely different properties. Even the simple omelet when added with different herbs and spices will have different flavors and properties, some contain body-strengthening properties, some healing, some increased cultivation, some increased soul power, and so on. The spirit chef inheritance went up to third-grade low-tier for now and he even saw a food that could help a foundation building realm cultivator breakthrough to the Golden Core Formation cultivator.

 He was shocked, even the pills would increase the possibility by twenty to thirty percent and they were very rare. The herbs needed to concoct those pills and the formula for the pill were very rare, almost impossible to find in small cities like Lunaris city. But the food could gradually improve the cultivation and increase the chances of a breakthrough if taken every day for a month. The ingredients were rare but not rarer than the ingredients needed for breakthrough pills. And unlike pills, there were way fewer impurities contained in the spirit food.

 If one had the ingredients and time, breaking through wouldn't be too difficult. But the downside was it needed large numbers of herbs and a qualified spirit chef which most of the clans didn't have. Having one or two ingredients is normal, but having thirty of those same herbs would impose immense difficulty for many clans. Even the common herbs were not that common unless you could cultivate them. This was also one of the reasons the spirit chef profession was unpopular. You have to take the food a few times to achieve what a single pill could do. Although there would almost be no impurities in spirit food very few could afford the luxury of resources and time.

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