Who Let Him Cultivate?!

As Yun Mengmeng had guessed, Lu Yang had been very busy during the following days.

As the saying goes, love what you do; since he was to participate in the Spirit Chef competition, merely having the connections to qualify was far from enough. He needed at least a basic understanding of Spirit Chefs.

One of the fundamental skills of a Spirit Chef, for example, is bone and meat removal without damaging the bones.

Spirit Chefs have their own ranking system, divided into nine stars, corresponding to the stages of Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divinity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Transcendance Tribulation, and Immortal.

The Qi Cultivation stage corresponds to one star, while the Immortal corresponds to nine stars.

A six-star Spirit Chef at the Void Refinement stage is basically just a title. When a five-star Spirit Chef from the Divinity Transformation stage advances to the Void Refinement Stage, the Spirit Chef Alliance grants them the title of six-star Spirit Chef.

There is only one nine-star Spirit Chef, and that is the legendary Ancestor of Spirit Chefs, Yingtian Immortal!

Lu Yang had uniquely favorable conditions for studying the Spirit Chef knowledge, as the real legendary nine-star Spirit Chef, Fairy Eternity, personally taught him.

"Little Yang, look, this is the structure of the Kui Ox. This white line is where the bone meets the meat. When removing bones and flesh, start at the seam."

In the Spiritual Space, Fairy Eternity squatted on the ground, drawing simplified sketches with a stick. If she hadn't said this was a Kui Ox, Lu Yang might have thought it was a skewer of two hawthorns, the first one being the head and the second the body.

"Fairy, maybe we should get a real object to practice on," Lu Yang earnestly suggested. At this rate, he feared he would forget what a real Kui Ox looked like, let alone learn how to debone one.

However, Lu Yang couldn't directly criticize Fairy Eternity's drawing skills; changing a Spirit Chef to learn from might hurt her feelings.

"Getting a real object, that might indeed be a good idea."

What Lu Yang needed wasn't just the body of a Kui Ox, but many bodies of Demon Beasts.

Obtaining a large number of Demon Beast bodies by buying them himself would be troublesome. The simplest method was to have someone buy them for him.

"Is the Gold Clan Leader available?" Instead of troubling Zhu Tian, Lu Yang approached the Qiongqi Clan.

Zhu Tian was, after all, a ruler of a nation, and his regular duties kept him busy. It was hard enough for him to spare time for a meeting; such a small affair wasn't worth bothering him about.

After Zhu Tian established his nation, aside from the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, all the Demon Clans with a Transcendance Tribulation Demon Emperor settled in Demon City, including the Qiongqi Clan.

"Who are you?"

Lu Yang couldn't interact with the Qiongqi Clan under his real identity, so he used a disguise.

Lu Yang took out a small wooden sword, which contained one of his Sword Qi: "Give this to the Gold Clan Leader; he will come out to greet me himself."

Hearing this, the Qiongqi Clan guard did not dare to underestimate Lu Yang and took the small wooden sword.

Soon after, the Gold Clan Leader hurried out from his clan and personally welcomed Lu Yang, escorting him to his Abode before Lu Yang dispelled his disguise.

"Lu... my nephew... Daoist friend... Senior?"

The Gold Clan Leader changed his address three times, clearly unsure how to address Lu Yang.

He should be subordinated to Lu Yang, considering the Heavenly Court Young Sect Master's lineage.

But he was also Daoist Buyu's younger brother, which technically made him of a higher generation than Lu Yang.

"You flatter me too much, Clan Leader. It's too much for me to be addressed as a 'Daoist friend' or 'Senior.'"

"Young Sect Master, please, have a seat," the Gold Clan Leader finally stopped fussing over titles and warmly welcomed Lu Yang.

Since their Qiongqi Clan started handling the business of Recording Orbs, their days had finally improved, compensating for the loss they faced from monopolizing the candle industry. From this standpoint, Lu Yang was practically their clan's lifesaver.

"I've come to purchase some Demon Beast bodies to practice my culinary skills."

"Demon Beast corpse? That's easy, Young Sect Master, what kind of Demon Beast corpse do you need?" Since Jin Caiwei had made an appearance in the battle of Imperial City, the status of the Qiongqi Clan had dramatically risen too. Among the Demon Race, aside from the Dragon and Phoenix Clans and the Di Jiang Clan, the Qiongqi Clan had a high status and many channels.

"The more types, the better."

"Alright, give me a little time." Gold Clan Leader hastily bid farewell to Lu Yang and went out to instruct his subordinates to collect various types of Demon Beast corpses.

Not long after, the door was pushed open again, but it wasn't Gold Clan Leader who entered.

"Young Sect Master, how come you didn't notify me when you arrived in Demon City?" Little Qiongqi Jin Caiwei, upon hearing the report from Gold Clan Leader, put down what she was doing and rushed over directly.

Lu Yang smiled as he stood up and clasped his hands together. "Knowing Senior Jin is busy, I wouldn't dare to disturb you."

"Where's the talk? You are the Young Sect Master and our Qiongqi Clan's benefactor. If you come to see me, there's no disturbance at all."

"Have you received all the Spirit Stones I sent over?"

"I have, and that's way too many. I only offered a suggestion, it's not worth so many Spirit Stones." Given Lu Yang's current worth, not to mention those in Divinity Transformation Stage, even some in the Transcendance Tribulation Stage don't have as much wealth as Lu Yang.

For example, Daoist Buyu.

Soon Gold Clan Leader had delivered an endless stream of Demon Beast corpses—those that swam in water, crawled on land, or flew in the sky, with not one being of the same type, too much to fit in the Abode.

Lu Yang simply moved them all into the Green Blade Sword Small World.

Jin Caiwei had not yet visited the Green Blade Sword Small World and was curious about what Lu Yang intended to do, so she followed him in.

"Little Tiger, it's been a while." Upon entering the Green Blade Sword Small World, Immortal Fairy appeared, smiling as she tousled Jin Caiwei's head, messing up her hair.

"Immortal Sister!"

"So well-behaved."

"Little Yang, bring out this Kui Ox." Immortal Fairy pointed at a one-legged cow demon among the Demon Beast corpses.

"Alright."

Lu Yang lifted the Kui Ox out, and the piled-up Demon Beast corpses crashed down, but Lu Yang moved quickly, and they didn't hit him.

"The meat of the Demon Beasts has a different taste depending on the part." The Nine Star Spirit Chef was sharing her experience.

"That sounds a bit troublesome. Oh, Little Tiger, press this ox down with the Outline of Dao Fruit."

Jin Caiwei activated the Plane Dao Fruit Outline, pressing the Kui Ox into a sheet of paper.

"That makes it easier to explain," Immortal Fairy said as she drew circles on it, "This part is called 'tenderloin', this here is 'beef shank', this is 'beef shank', and this is called 'handle'…"

Lu Yang nodded and took note, earnestly learning.

Jin Caiwei was also learning on the side; it was her first time hearing this information, and she realized she had been far too casual about her food before.

"Have you remembered everything?"

"I have."

"Carve out these parts."

Lu Yang held the Inheriting Shadow Sword, facing the Kui Ox carcass as if it were a formidable enemy. The body structure of the Kui Ox was clear under his powerful Spiritual Sense, and as the sword light flashed, the skeleton collapsed and scattered into pieces, and the various parts were neatly arranged on a platter.

"Ha ha, turns out it's quite simple."

In the vast Green Blade Sword Small World, where Demon Beast corpses piled up like mountains and emanated an ominous aura, the Blood Clothes Swordsman walked among the corpses. Each swing of his blade brought another Demon Beast to the ground, brutally mutilated and unrecognizable from what they once were, leaving only scattered bones. The Blood Clothes Swordsman laughed maniacally…

According to the official "Dou Book·Emperor Chronicles," the Green Blade Sword's Small World, possessed by Emperor Dou Ling Lu Yang, was littered with carcasses and piled with skeletons.