Senior Brother Wang is Trustworthy (New Book Seeking Reads)

After receiving the Spirit Chef inheritance, Li Xiuchang couldn't wait to find a secluded corner to study it.

"To become a qualified Spirit Chef, you must first become a qualified cook. The path of a Spirit Chef begins with learning to cook..."

Li Xiuchang skimmed through the text, quickly grasping the general principles of the Spirit Chef path.

"So, learning any skill requires starting from the basics. You don't immediately attempt to make tier one spirit dishes."

To become a tier one Spirit Chef, the foundational stage is divided into two parts.

The first part involves learning to cook, including mastering various cooking methods like steaming, boiling, frying, and stir-frying, as well as honing knife skills and preparing ingredients.

Once you can create dishes that are visually appealing, aromatic, and delicious, this first part is considered complete.

Li Xiuchang's previous self, Li Chang, had learned culinary arts from childhood, assisting his father in the kitchen. At seventeen, he already had eleven years of experience, possessing skilled cooking and top-notch knife work.

Therefore, Li Xiuchang could directly skip this first part of foundational practice.

Reading this, Li Xiuchang knew he had made the right choice in cultivating the path of a Spirit Chef!

This first part alone would save him a significant amount of time.

The second part of the Spirit Chef foundation involves processing ingredients, but here, "ingredients" refer not to ordinary ones, but to spiritual ingredients.

For example, the meat of various demonic beasts contains potent spiritual power that is difficult to absorb. Simply cooking and consuming it could lead to injury from spiritual energy surges or even death.

The role of a Spirit Chef is to tame this spiritual energy, making it gentle and absorbable.

Different ingredients require different processing methods.

Even the same ingredient can be processed in multiple ways, and the chosen method will directly affect the edible effects and value of the ingredient.

Since Li Xiuchang could skip the first foundational part, he could directly learn the second part, which is the method of processing various ingredients.

The two parts mentioned above are merely foundational. The core lies in the actual cooking techniques once the spiritual ingredients are in the pot.

Combining different ingredients can trigger chain reactions, and using different cooking methods can also cause various changes.

This requires extensive practice to accumulate experience.

Li Xiuchang planned to buy some low-tier ingredients to practice with. These items were available in the outer market of the Immortal Dust Sect, but it would require walking, which was time-consuming and tiring.

Just as he was about to leave, a familiar face appeared.

"Senior Brother Wang Long!" Li Xiuchang exclaimed in surprise.

He hadn't deliberately sought out Senior Brother Wang Long this time, but they had met by chance.

Everything was fate, and Li Xiuchang saw no reason to refuse such a convenient ride – wouldn't that be going against heaven's will!

"Junior Brother Li, we meet again," Wang Long also seemed a bit surprised. He had indeed encountered Li Xiuchang quite frequently in these past few days.

Seeing Wang Long, Li Xiuchang recalled Senior Brother Song Yu's words, mentioning that tier one Talisman Masters earned Spirit Stones by taking in new disciples.

He suspected Wang Long might also be a tier one Talisman Master, but based on his previous experience, he knew it was best not to ask too many questions.

However, Li Xiuchang didn't ask, and Wang Long brought up the topic himself.

"Junior Brother, are you here to choose a Hundred Cultivation Arts inheritance this time?" Wang Long asked.

"Yes, I have chosen the path of a Spirit Chef."

"Spirit Chef?" Wang Long was slightly taken aback, seemingly surprised that Li Xiuchang would choose such a niche skill.

But he then chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Spirit Chef is good. In any case, learn anything but talisman crafting. Like me, stuck at the peak of tier one talisman arts, I don't know how much more I'll have to spend to break through this bottleneck. If I were to abandon talisman arts and learn something else, I wouldn't be willing, so I can only push forward on this path."

Wang Long revealed his own struggles, using himself as a negative example to advise Li Xiuchang to stay away from talisman arts.

Li Xiuchang could only offer a few words of comfort and wish him an early breakthrough to tier two Talisman Master.

"Alright, let's not talk about that. Junior Brother, are you heading back to the Eastern Geng District now? Why don't I give you a ride?"

"This... I was just planning to go to the outer market of the sect to purchase some ingredients and Spirit Chef utensils. How could I trouble Senior Brother? I can walk there myself..."

Li Xiuchang spoke with feigned modesty while revealing his destination.

After some polite refusals, Li Xiuchang once again boarded Wang Long's convenient ride.

This was Li Xiuchang's first time visiting the outer market of the Immortal Dust Sect.

The market was so vast that if he had come alone, he wouldn't know how long it would take to find what he needed. Fortunately, Wang Long was there to guide him.

"The stalls in this alley sell tier one or unranked materials and utensils. Junior Brother, take your time browsing. I have official duties, so I'll pick you up in an hour."

Li Xiuchang was touched. He hadn't expected Senior Brother Wang Long to be so enthusiastic that he would even come back to pick him up.

Even with his thick skin, he felt a bit embarrassed now and quickly refused Wang Long's kindness:

"Senior Brother Wang, you have official duties, so you don't need to worry about me. I'll just wander around this market and go back later."

Li Xiuchang insisted on refusing, and Wang Long finally stopped insisting. However, fearing Li Xiuchang might be taken advantage of, he informed Li Xiuchang of the approximate prices of various types of ingredients before leaving.

"Junior Brother Li, if your Spirit Stones are not too tight, you can consider buying a low-grade Fire Furnace artifact. These low-grade artifacts, elixirs, and talismans are very cheap in our Immortal Dust Sect market, so buying them is quite worthwhile," Wang Long added as a final piece of advice before leaving in his Flying Boat.

Senior Brother Wang Long is a good person... Li Xiuchang had received a lot of care from Wang Long since joining the sect, and he wanted to reciprocate.

"Senior Brother Wang seems to be short on funds and owes Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi Spirit Stones. If there's a way to earn Spirit Stones later, I can bring him along."

Next, Li Xiuchang made some purchases in the alley, buying materials for a Spirit Chef to practice with.

Since he only bought unranked materials, the prices weren't expensive, but all together, they still cost him four Spirit Stones.

Li Xiuchang wisely took the advice and bought a low-grade artifact fire furnace.

Thanks to the intense competition among first-tier artifact refiners, low-grade artifacts were quite affordable. Li Xiuchang compared prices at several stalls, and without him even needing to haggle, the vendors started a price war among themselves, allowing Li Xiuchang to buy the low-grade artifact fire furnace at the lowest possible price.

The price was ten Spirit Stones, and it even came with a set of unranked kitchenware.

What were called unranked kitchenware were actually defective products left over from failed attempts to refine low-grade artifact kitchenware, but they were perfectly adequate for a beginner like Li Xiuchang.

This expenditure of fourteen Spirit Stones left Li Xiuchang with only three Spirit Stones, making him completely broke.

However, these were all necessary investments, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Li Xiuchang put all the items he had purchased into his storage bag before walking back to the Eastern Geng District.

Even though Li Xiuchang had become a first-tier cultivator, he was panting with exhaustion by the time he neared the Eastern Geng District. But just then, he suddenly spotted something sparkling on the ground ahead.

It was... a Spirit Stone!

Sensing the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the Spirit Stone, which were far stronger than those from the three Spirit Stones he possessed, Li Xiuchang's heart suddenly pounded faster.

A mid-grade Spirit Stone! One could be exchanged for a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones!