So Stinky! Ah, So Fragrant!

The Anomalies on the street, each with a different form, all stopped in their tracks subconsciously.

Their noses twitched uncontrollably, and their gazes all turned towards the source of the aroma.

"What is this smell? It's so potent!"

"I've never smelled such a strong fragrance before. Just smelling it makes my mouth water!"

"Huh? It's that human! He's actually setting up a stall outside Gluttony House? What divine item is he cooking in that pot?"

Upon smelling the potent aroma, many Anomalies from the commercial street flocked over to watch the excitement. Chu He chuckled, just as he expected!

The fish were biting.

But he knew very well that the process of cooking these "special ingredients" absolutely could not be seen by these future diners.

As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.

As long as I can't see it, even if you used year-old, sweaty socks to make sauerkraut, I could still eat it with gusto!

"Yao Yao, create a barrier," Chu He commanded without looking back.

Xia Yao understood and waved her jade-like hand gently.

Buzz!

A pure black energy field instantly expanded, like a giant bowl inverted and placed over them, perfectly enclosing the three of them and the stove. It blocked all external sight and prying eyes.

Inside the field, it was another world.

Chu He dumped the bloody, slime-covered giant stomach and tangled intestines onto the ground with a splat.

An indescribable, primitive odor, a mixture of fishy, gamey, and foul smells, instantly filled the entire field space.

"Gag--"

Even Kachi, who had seen much and possessed a strong will, couldn't hold it in.

Her delicate face turned instantly pale. She covered her mouth with her small hand, her stomach churning violently, letting out intense dry heaving sounds.

Xia Yao's complexion wasn't much better. Her delicate brows were tightly furrowed, and her body instinctively retreated two steps. In her lifeless eyes, an endless disgust and resistance appeared.

They stared with wide eyes, looking at Chu He in disbelief. How could he remain so calm while smelling something so pungent and foul?

Even more so, on his face, there was a look of... appreciation and excitement, like a chef seeing top-tier ingredients?

"Little He He... are you... are you really going to make us eat this?" Kachi's voice trembled as she pointed at the "filth" on the ground, feeling her worldview being profoundly shaken.

"Can this thing really be eaten? Will we ascend to heaven the moment we finish it?"

"Trust me, I'm a professional."

Chu He gave them a confident look and then activated his cheat.

[Eye of Nirvana]!

Activate!

In his eyes, the dirty stomach and intestines were instantly deconstructed.

All their structures, textures, and impurities were clearly presented in his mind in a data format.

What was essence and what was waste was immediately apparent.

He moved his knife, his actions flowing like water, so fast that only a blur remained.

The foul-smelling filth attached to the inner walls was perfectly stripped and removed with precision akin to surgery.

The intestines were also de-greased by Chu He to just the right amount. With the Eye of Nirvana's ability to see through illusions, dealing with this was child's play.

Soon, the pile of unsightly materials transformed into two brand-new ingredients.

The stomach, white as jade, thick and springy.

The intestines, pink and translucent, with excellent chewiness.

The previous nauseating stench was completely gone, leaving only the purest essence of the ingredients themselves.

Xia Yao and Kachi were stunned.

What kind of divine operation was this? It was truly turning decay into magic!

Chu He didn't stop. He brought over a basin of water.

With a slight blink of his eyes, in the next second, an invisible, extremely cold aura shot out from his eyes!

The water didn't even have time to ripple. Upon contact with the cold air, it instantly froze solid from the inside out, becoming a piece of crystal-clear ice!

Chu He flipped the basin of ice onto a wooden board, creating a perfect ice cutting board.

He placed the prepared stomach and intestines on the ice board, his fingers dancing with a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.

Swish, swish, swish--!

Slices of stomach and intestines, so thin they were almost transparent, were evenly cut and artfully arranged on the ice.

Having finished this, Chu He clapped his hands with satisfaction.

He picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a slice, and swished it in the boiling red oil broth for about five to six seconds, precisely calculating the time. The moment the stomach slice slightly curled and reached its crispiest texture, he quickly fished it out.

The snow-white tripe slices, now coated in a vibrant, tempting red oil, were adorned with sesame seeds and chili flakes, exuding an intoxicating aroma.

He extended his chopsticks towards the two women.

"Who wants to go first? Try it?"

The air froze for a moment.

Xia Yao and Kachi exchanged glances, seeing deep hesitation and struggle in each other's eyes.

Although... although it smelled delicious now, the thought of its "former self" made it hard to overcome the mental hurdle.

"Yao Yao, if you eat this first, you'll be in charge from now on, and I'll obey!"

At the critical moment, Kachi decisively pushed Xia Yao forward.

Xia Yao glared at her but didn't back down.

She had a near-blind trust in Chu He.

If he said it was delicious, then it must be.

A solemn expression, as if heading to her death, appeared on Xia Yao's face.

She slowly lowered her head, opened her small mouth, and took a bite of the tripe.

However, the moment it entered her mouth...

Xia Yao's eyes snapped wide open!

The expected foul smell was completely absent!

Instead, there was an indescribable, complex texture!

First, as her teeth cut through the tripe, there was the crisp, springy chewiness with a wonderfully resilient texture!

Then, the domineering, spicy red oil exploded on her tongue like lava, instantly igniting all her taste buds!

Spicy!

Fragrant!

Crisp!

An unprecedented, exhilarating, ultimate deliciousness swept through her mouth like a storm!

After finishing, Xia Yao was stunned for several seconds before slowly turning her head to face the nervous Kachi.

"It's really delicious."

"There's no smell at all, it's very spicy and fragrant, delicious!"

Kachi knew Xia Yao never lied.

Seeing Xia Yao's astonishingly bright eyes, she finally mustered all her courage, picked up a piece, and ate it as if facing death.

The next second, Kachi's beautiful starry eyes also widened instantly!

"Waaah!!"

She let out an unintelligible exclamation, her small face flushing red from the extreme deliciousness and spiciness.

"Delicious! So delicious! How can something be this delicious!"

She never expected that something all the anomalies threw away like trash could be so fragrant and tasty!

"See? I definitely wouldn't trick you guys!"

Chu He laughed heartily, an unprecedented sense of accomplishment surging in his chest.

He had Xia Yao deactivate the black force field she had set up!

Xia Yao waved her hand casually!

Boom!

The heavily suppressed, tenfold intensified hot pot aroma, accompanied by Xia Yao and Kachi's suppressed gasps of amazement, surged outwards in all directions like a breached dam!

The anomalies outside the force field were instantly stunned!

When the force field disappeared, they saw that the human's stall was now filled with clean tripe and intestine slices they had never seen before!

What drove them even crazier was that the two legendary King-level existences, the Highnesses of the Void Gazer Royal Family and the Star Law Royal Family, were now shamelessly, even competitively, dipping those slices into the pot bubbling with red oil!

On their faces were undisguised, ultimate happiness and satisfaction!

"W-what in the world is going on?"

"Those things thrown away like trash are... supreme delicacies?"

A passing beastman butcher who sold meat nearby said.

The surrounding anomalies listened curiously, and the butcher recounted the human's story in detail!

All the anomalies were shocked upon hearing it.

Outside, a dense crowd had gathered, countless eyes fixed on the bubbling iron pot, their throats involuntarily bobbing.

Chu He ignored them. He picked up a piece of hot beef tripe, turned around, and spoke loudly towards the closed vermilion-lacquered door.

"Gluttony House, it's your turn to taste!"

The words fell.

A thick, black mist instantly surged from the crack in the door, condensing in mid-air into a tentacle without skin, covered in muscle fibers!

The tentacle snatched the beef tripe from Chu He's chopsticks at extreme speed, then retracted lightning-fast back into the door.

The entire Gluttony House fell into dead silence.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Suddenly!

BOOM--!!!

The thick, vermilion-lacquered door of Gluttony House violently exploded inward!

A suffocating will, filled with endless hunger and ecstasy, descended with a roar!

Immediately after, something within lunged fiercely towards Chu He!