Chapter 536: Look at This Poor Kid
“Hall Master, you came so early.” Zhang Konghu thought Commander Liu had called Jiang Li over. He gave the top candied hawthorn to the baby and ate the rest himself.
“You all chat, I’ll cook.” Zhang Konghu piled the ingredients on the ground and took out pots, pans, bowls, and utensils from his storage ring.
Zhang Konghu often wandered outside and was quite skilled at cooking.
The lowest cultivation level in the Human Sovereign Hall was the Spirit Transformation stage, so there was no kitchen to speak of. If Zhang Konghu wanted to cook, he had to find a temporary spot.
He started working in the corner of the side hall.
The ingredients, mainly the mountain-moving chicken, were still resisting. Zhang Konghu wrestled with the ingredients.
The mountain-moving chicken, as its name implied, had strength sufficient to move mountains. Ordinary cultivators didn’t dare approach it.
Besides the mountain-moving chicken, there was also a yellow ox with wings.
Jiang Li looked up at the yellow ox flying around overhead, not knowing what to say.
Zhang Konghu used his supernatural powers, suppressing the ingredients with his Unity Stage cultivation, sharpening his knife menacingly.
The flying ox tried to charge out of the side hall but ended up crashing headfirst into Commander Huang who was walking in.
The flying ox was knocked unconscious. Zhang Konghu dragged it away, and it never woke up again.
Commander Huang’s face was deathly pale, his legs trembling, his condition very poor.
“What happened to you?” Jiang Li quickly supported Commander Huang.
Commander Huang smiled miserably: “I was accidentally poisoned on the way here. It was a minor poison that could be expelled by circulating my cultivation technique. The poison was eliminated, but my cultivation circulation went wrong, and I’ve had a stomachache ever since. I’ve already been to the bathroom fifteen times today.”
Jiang Li quickly had Commander Liu support Commander Huang.
“I told you earlier, if you ate one of my leaves, you’d be fine. Why wouldn’t you eat it?” Commander Liu plucked a hair, which turned into a verdant willow leaf.
Commander Huang shook his head firmly.
“Sorry, sorry, I was delayed on the way.” Commander Mu also arrived, but he wasn’t alone. Behind him followed a female cultivator with brown skin and a shy expression.
Ayisu, the Gu Clan Leader.
Commander Liu had privately told Commander Mu that if he learned Jiang Li’s techniques for chasing girls in reverse, he would succeed.
It seemed this was indeed true.
Ayisu greeted everyone with a red face, and Commander Mu said the two would marry on a chosen day.
Jiang Li thought it was due to his effective teaching and nodded with a smile, saying he would definitely attend.
His methods were still useful—it only took Commander Mu ten years to succeed.
“Take my punch!” Zhang Konghu shouted loudly, using his full strength to pound the meat filling, his punches so fast they left afterimages.
“Keep your voice down.” Commander Huang covered his stomach and muttered. He was circulating his cultivation technique and was almost healed when Zhang Konghu’s shout startled him, causing his cultivation circulation to revert to its problematic state.
“You don’t understand. Pounding the meat filling makes it especially chewy. After you eat the beef balls I make, you’ll never want to eat anyone else’s.” Zhang Konghu said confidently, his punches creating sonic booms.
“Then I’d rather not eat them.” Commander Huang shook his head.
Zhang Konghu took out a kitchen knife to make white-cut chicken. The chopping sounds were very rhythmic, and even the little baby nodded along.
The little baby struggled to eat the candied hawthorn. The sugary coating was slippery, making it hard to bite. He could only try to eat it whole, but his small mouth couldn’t manage that, so he kept struggling with the candied hawthorn.
Now hearing Zhang Konghu’s vegetable chopping sounds, he finally gave up fighting with the candied hawthorn.
“This child is so adorable. Little Mu, let’s have one too.” Ayisu went forward to play with the child, smiling even more happily than the baby.
Commander Mu coughed and said softly: “Let’s talk about it when we get home.”
Ayisu also realized it wasn’t appropriate to say such things in public and shyly lowered her head.
“Then… then we’ll talk about it at home.”
“Has his spiritual root been tested? What spiritual root does he have?” Jiang Li saw the baby had stopped crying and also approached to play with him.
“Metal spiritual root.”
“Not bad aptitude. When this child starts cultivating, I’ll create a cultivation technique tailored for him.”
“Thank you so much, Hall Master.” Commander Ma Zhuo quickly expressed his gratitude.
At this moment, Zhang Konghu came over: “I want to make claypot rice.”
Commander Ma Zhuo was so frightened he quickly protected the child: “You can’t have the child.”
Zhang Konghu couldn’t quite understand his colleagues’ reaction: “I’m asking Brother Jiang to lend me some fire. The better the fire quality, the better the claypot rice will be.”
Jiang Li became interested and went to help.
A ball of Southern Brightness Leaving Fire appeared in his palm, burning the claypot rice.
“Brother Jiang, I remember you weren’t very good at cooking?” Zhang Konghu scratched his head.
Facing Zhang Konghu’s doubt, Jiang Li was unhappy: “I can’t cook complex dishes, but the key to claypot rice is controlling the fire. That’s not difficult for me.”
After a while, Jiang Li withdrew the fire and opened the lid, discovering that under the burning of the Southern Brightness Leaving Fire, the rice and the pot had fused together, difficult to separate.
Either don’t eat it, or eat both the rice and the pot together.
Seeing this, Commander Mu held Ayisu and analyzed: “The Hall Master’s action has profound meaning. The Southern Brightness Leaving Fire is a test. Under the fire’s trial, the rice and the pot overcame difficulties and became one. This is the Hall Master’s blessing for us.”
Ayisu gently punched Commander Mu’s chest, saying he was annoying.
Jiang Li expressionlessly handed the claypot rice to Commander Mu: “Then eat this blessing.”
Commander Mu immediately fell silent.
In the end, Zhang Konghu made another portion of claypot rice.
When Zhang Konghu cooked, golden light emerged, creating heavenly phenomena. Dragon and tiger illusions fought and struggled in the air. After determining the winner, the dragon and tiger illusions returned to the dish.
“What in the world is this?” Commander Ma was stunned for a long time, completely unable to understand the principle behind it.
Jiang Li explained from the side: “Konghu modified the Golden Light Mantra to create the Golden Light Myriad Phenomena Mantra. When cooking, random celestial phenomena appear in the sky.”
“What’s the use of that?”
“What do you think is most important when two masters face off?”
“What?”
“Momentum.”
Everyone chatted for a while. Zhang Konghu finished cooking and called everyone to eat.
Commander Mu gently picked up a beef tendon ball that Zhang Konghu had boasted about for a long time. When he bit down hard, the beef tendon ball bounced away.
“…”
Was it necessary to make it so bouncy?
It had to be said that Zhang Konghu had great talent in cooking. The table full of delicious dishes made anyone’s mouth water.
The little baby was no exception.
The little baby watched everyone eating with eager eyes, sucking on his pacifier with a wronged expression.
“Look how pitiful this child is.” Zhang Konghu couldn’t stand it anymore. He picked up a piece of stir-fried pork with his chopsticks, waved it in front of the child, then ate it himself.
“This child is too far away to see what the dishes look like clearly. Here, come closer.” Every time Zhang Konghu ate, he would wave the food in front of the little baby.
The aroma was overwhelming. The little baby couldn’t stop drooling no matter what, and could only suck hard on his pacifier.
Commander Huang finally sorted out his cultivation circulation path, and his stomachache finally stopped. He looked up and saw only empty plates on the dining table.
Zhang Konghu slapped his forehead: “I forgot about you.”