792 Culinary Skill Add Points! Achievement Reached!

Seeing Zhang Guangmu transform into a human, Wang Shangqing was somewhat disappointed.

He had originally thought it would be some rare humanoid ingredient resembling a Ginseng Fruit, a flesh goblin, or a human-faced fish.

Now it seemed he had simply been overthinking things.

The other party really was human. He merely preferred using special methods to shrink himself for movement. Perhaps this form was more convenient for infiltration and intelligence gathering?

However...

When Zhang Guangmu mentioned the term "Partner Eater," Wang Shangqing nearly lost his composure.

Wang Shangqing, whose attitude had been fairly good until then, immediately turned grim. "I don't need a Partner Eater!"

"Eaters and the like... They're nothing more than parasites clinging to chefs!"

In his memories, his mother had been an exceptionally talented chef, while his father had been his mother's Partner Eater. The two had once shared a sweet, passionate romance, but unfortunately...

After awakening his Transcendent ability and growing powerful enough to spread his wings, his father, who had been an eater, defected to a powerful Transcendent chef group in the human world and found himself a new chef partner.

His heartbroken mother fell gravely ill and never recovered. She died when Wang Shangqing was still very young.

The good news was that his father did not enjoy himself for long either. The chef group he belonged to was annihilated after recklessly attempting to capture dangerous ingredients.

In Wang Shangqing's view, if his mother's strength and influence had been great enough, she could have restricted his father's personal freedom and kept him firmly by her side. Even if she had let him leave, no chef group would have risked taking him in.

Because of those painful memories, Wang Shangqing had set an ambitious goal for himself from childhood: to become the Master of the