Chapter 873: Your talent is one of a kind. Sizzle!
Wisps of white smoke drifted through the courtyard as hot oil spattered.
Ta Ta Kai heated oil in a wok, shook the handle with one paw, and flipped the fish in a single fluid toss. After pouring off the excess oil, Ta Ta Kai set the wok back over the fire and swiftly wiped it with a damp cloth, sending up white smoke. The fried fish went into the gleaming iron wok, followed by quick ladlefuls of water, tender tofu, rehydrated dried shiitake mushrooms...
On the dark-red chopping board, Awei lay drinking blood, his pale-gold wings trembling excitedly.
The five Treasure Fish provided exactly one serving of innards each for Fat Catfish, Round Head, Fist, Cannot Move, and Little Mirage Dragon.
Long E Ying peeled away the skins, filling a Porcelain Plate with creamy-yellow Lotus Seeds.
The Dragon Man Tribe's Lotus Seeds, harvested in July and August and kept until November, were thoroughly overripe. Without removing their cores, bitterness dominated their flavor. Fortunately, Round Head's talent had preserved their marsh essence, giving that bitterness some purpose.
Halfway through the meal.
Fish soup and grilled fish arrived at the table, sending up billowing steam.
"Whew!"
Liang Qu drew a deep breath. Rolling the Mermaid Tear in one hand and holding wooden chopsticks in the other, he picked up a piece of fish belly coated in sauce and stuffed it into his mouth, suppressing the bitterness as he rapidly "nourished himself through food."
Inside the Ze Cauldron.
The blue tide surged without pause, crashing against the cauldron walls like waves and curling into foam.
Marsh essence +78,942 Marsh essence +75,420 Marsh essence +40,174 Marsh essence: 379,000!
*Three hundred seventy-nine thousand. Another thousand would make an even 380,000. Put it all