Soul Land: The Wraith of the Underworld, Mei and the Raiden Shogun
Chapter 45

General, Your Culinary Skills Are Unmatched!

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Zhu Zhuqing had been struck by lightning several times before her body finally showed signs of being unable to take it.

She then sat cross-legged on the ground and quietly cultivated.

Snake Woman instinctively shielded Meng Yiran behind her, her face full of vigilance.

"You don't need to be afraid. Little Zhuqing is just tempering her body."

Starry Sky explained to the two of them.

"Using lightning... lightning strikes! This little girl is truly impressive." Snake Woman said tremblingly.

"Don't find it unbelievable. The lightning I release isn't lightning formed from the power of nature, and I can control its strength. That's why she can endure it. If she were struck by lightning during a thunderstorm, her body would have been ruined long ago."

Starry Sky said calmly.

"So... so that's how it is." Snake Woman said in sudden realization.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!!"

"General, your culinary skills are unmatched!"

"General, your beauty puts fish to shame and makes geese fall!"

"General, your intelligence is unparalleled!"

Just as Starry Sky was explaining things to the two women and clearing up their misunderstanding, it seemed that the Raiden Shogun had finished cooking.

A group of people gathered around the huge pot and the Raiden Shogun like devoted fans, shouting wildly.

They were dancing about in utter chaos, looking as though they were performing some evil ritual.

Meng Yiran and Snake Woman felt that something was even more wrong. They felt there was a serious problem with this place.

"Grandma... how about we go back and find... Grandpa?" Meng Yiran said, backing down.

Gulp.

Snake Woman swallowed hard, wanting to leave as well.

The Raiden Shogun curled her lips into a smile and walked toward Raiden Mei.

Tang San, Yu Tianheng, and the others quickly made way for her.

"Mei, I'm done already. What are you still wrapping?"

The Raiden Shogun felt that she had finished quickly and looked rather pleased with herself.

"You finally finished. If you took any longer, these little ones of mine would starve to death."

Mei said as she rubbed Xiao Wu's head, who was lying beside her.

Xiao Wu looked weak and frail. "Sister Mei, I don't want to starve to death. Give me something to eat..."

"Hmph! Then let's begin!"

The General gave a cold shout, then glared at Starry Sky and the others.

Starry Sky shuddered and hurriedly followed her.

Tang San and the others had already formed a line beside the General's huge pot.

Each of them held a plate, waiting for the General to serve them food.

"Brother Sky, will this really work?"

Since it was a competition between the two sides, everyone naturally had to eat the General's cooking in order to compare them and score the two chefs.

Zhu Zhuqing held a transparent bag in her hand, somewhat uncertain whether this would let them escape having to eat the General's cooking.

"Just do as I do later."

With that, Starry Sky went to join the line, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing followed closely behind him.

Meng Yiran and Snake Woman were somewhat confused, but they felt something strange was going on and planned to leave.

However, before they could take two steps, a purple figure appeared in front of them.

The Raiden Shogun held a large ladle in one hand and placed the other on her hip as she said, "Where are you going?"

As she spoke, violent lightning power erupted from the Raiden Shogun's body, incomparably powerful!

It frightened Snake Woman into retreating again and again.

"We... we were just passing by. My lady, my husband called me home to eat... eat dinner."

"Eat? Is this General's food not good enough?"

The Raiden Shogun pointed at her with the ladle.

The thick purple food clinging to the ladle could be seen making a sizzling sound, as if it were corroding something.

Snake Woman swallowed. You called this food? This thing was poison, wasn't it?!

But the Raiden Shogun was far too powerful. The force she had unleashed could absolutely kill them in an instant.

Seeing everyone else lining up to eat, they figured there probably wouldn't be any problem.

The two women, who didn't want to die, could only follow along and join the queue.

They had even brought pots and bowls with them, so they held their bowls as they waited uneasily in line.

Raiden Mei was even more considerate.

She first took out several sets of tables and chairs and arranged them together.

Then she placed the prepared dishes one by one at every seat.

Every dish Mei made was exquisitely prepared and gave off a faint fragrance.

"Can these two even... be compared?" Meng Yiran complained.

As long as one wasn't blind, anyone could tell who was the chef and who was the evil potion-brewing witch!

"Ah! General, I love the food you make so much! Please reward me with one more spoonful!"

Yu Tianheng held up a pot as large as a washbasin, hoping the Raiden Shogun would give him more food.

But what greeted him was not delicious food, but a bolt of lightning.

It shocked Yu Tianheng until his body trembled violently.

As though his soul were about to leave his body.

Even so, he still clutched the food basin tightly, not daring to let it fall to the ground.

"Ah! General, I love the food you make so much! Please reward me with one more spoonful!"

Yu Tianheng ahead of him had clearly been struck by lightning for greedily asking like that.

Yet Qin Ming behind him repeated the same trick.

Naturally, he too was fiercely punished by lightning.

Then Dugu Yan, Yu Yuanzhen, and the Poison Douluo did the same.

Lightning crackled nonstop, yet the few of them seemed to enjoy it instead.

Meng Yiran and Snake Woman were terrified out of their wits.

Something was fucking wrong with this.

They felt that they were done for this time.

When it was Starry Sky's turn, he opened a bag over the pot and filled it with air, saying excitedly:

"Lady Raiden Shogun, my wife! I love eating these! I'll give my wife a perfect score later!"

The Raiden Shogun did not get angry. She merely nodded slightly and let Starry Sky leave.

After Starry Sky succeeded, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing likewise preserved their lives this way.

Meng Yiran and Snake Woman had no bags, so they could only bring their bowls forward.

After the Raiden Shogun served them each a bowl, she took out another box, packed a large pile into it, and told Snake Woman:

"Take it back for your old man to eat."

The Raiden Shogun's voice was imposing and confident.

She had great faith in herself.

If Snake Woman brought the food back for Dragon Duke to eat, Dragon Duke would surely fall in love with her cooking.

What else could Snake Woman say?

She hurriedly nodded again and again, thanking her, "Thank you for your gift, General! I believe this old woman's old man will like it."

As for greedily asking for more like those people ahead of her and letting the General strike them with lightning?

She decided she had better not court death.

After everyone had received their food, they finally sat down at the table Mei had arranged.

But once the food made by the Raiden Shogun was placed on the table, it immediately felt like an ugly duckling had wandered into a flock of swans.

Its appearance was just... too much.

Tang San's eyes shone as he dug through his food basin. This was good stuff that could even raise a Titled Douluo's strength.

But after digging around for a while, his face turned a little green.

How was he so unlucky that he had been assigned a deer's ass?

One bite of that would be comparable to Old Eight's special little burger.

And the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent added at the end—were they sure its meat was cooked?

Would eating this really increase one's strength? Or would it just send one off to reincarnate into a better life?

Tang San stared blankly. If the basin had been full of rare herbs or something, he could still have forced it down.

But these were just ordinary ingredients. Were they really sure they could increase one's strength?

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