Just as Yun Mengmeng had guessed, Lu Yang was busy over the next few days.
As the saying went, if you did a job, you had to love it. Since he was entering the Spirit Chef competition, simply pulling strings to qualify wasn't nearly enough. He needed at least a basic understanding of spirit cooking.
For example, one of the basic skills of a spirit chef was deboning and trimming meat without damaging the bones.
Spirit chefs had their own ranking system, divided into nine stars, corresponding to Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment Realm, Golden Core, Nascent Soul Realm, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration Realm, Tribulation Transcendence, and immortals.
Qi Refining corresponded to one star, while immortals corresponded to nine stars.
The six-star Spirit Chef rank for Void Refinement cultivators was essentially just a title. When a five-star Spirit Chef at Spirit Transformation advanced to Void Refinement, the Spirit Chef Alliance would grant them the title of six-star Spirit Chef.
There was only one nine-star Spirit Chef: the legendary founder of spirit cooking, the Immortal Ying Tian!
Lu Yang had a tremendous advantage in learning about spirit cooking: the legendary, genuine nine-star Spirit Chef, the Undying Fairy, was personally teaching him.
"Little Yang, look. This is what a Kui Ox looks like. This white line is where the meat meets the bone. When you're deboning and trimming it, you start at the seam."
In the mental space, the Undying Fairy squatted on the ground, drawing a simple picture with a twig. If she hadn't said it was a Kui Ox, Lu Yang would've thought it was a candied hawthorn skewer with only two berries: the first was its head, and the second was its body.
"Fairy, why don't we get a real one to practice on?" Lu Yang earnestly suggested.