Half a month later, Demon-Dissolving Sixteen Lanes, Xin Si Courtyard.
Inside a partitioned workspace enclosed by walls on three sides and open on the fourth.
A short, fat burly man in brown shorts sized Chen Mu up and down.
"New here?"
"Steward Wu has a keen eye." Chen Mu respectfully cupped his fists.
"Talking nonsense is useless." Steward Wu's face remained expressionless. "You have half an hour to skin it and remove the bones."
As he spoke, he tossed a two-meter-long Hook-beaked White Jade Snake onto the stone table before Chen Mu.
Chen Mu cupped his fists again, grabbed the forearm-length sharp knife beside the table, and immediately got to work.
The Three Yin Slaying Demon Technique activated silently, emerald light enveloping the blade.
Slick.
Like a hot knife cutting through solidified tallow, the Qi Mechanism on the White Jade Snake's surface was instantly pierced.
The slender sharp knife entered through the hook-beak, and with a deft turn of his wrist, the blade moved steadily beneath the snake's skin.
After a quarter of an hour, Chen Mu set down the sharp knife and used both hands to easily peel away the entire layer of scales from the Hook-beaked White Jade Snake's head.
Steward Wu, who had been standing beside him all along, raised his brows and nodded in satisfaction.
The White Jade Snake's head had the most complicated structure and was where mistakes were most likely to occur. Once the head was done, the rest would be much easier.
Sure enough, in less than another quarter of an hour, Chen Mu easily stripped off the entire snake skin.
Then, sharp knife in hand, he began cutting meat from the snake's exposed scarlet flesh.
He had never learned a butcher's meat-cutting techniques, but he had practiced quite a few techniques for