After school in the afternoon, Su Yuan, carrying a delivery box, excitedly brought Chen Nuoyi to the back kitchen of the cafeteria to report for duty.
"The Dragon Scale Geese are kept in the yard behind the kitchen. Go handle them yourselves."
Chef Li smiled and handed each of them an apron.
After Su Yuan thanked him, he and Chen Nuoyi came to the backyard. They saw a square yard, about three hundred square meters, where various ingredients were being raised.
There was the Iron Mountain Pig, weighing two thousand jin but only the size of a regular domestic pig, with astonishing body density; the Chicken Dragon, with sharp, menacing teeth and brightly colored feathers, capable of surviving on land; and the Dry Hemp Fish, rough in appearance and about the size of a basketball.
All these ingredients were, without exception, spiritual beasts at the Qi Cultivation stage.
Their flesh and blood could either aid students in their cultivation or strengthen their physique. The food made from them was the most expensive sold in the school cafeteria.
Preparing these spiritual beasts into delicacies posed a considerable challenge for the chefs.
One common difficulty was that the chef might not be able to defeat their ingredients.
Su Yuan looked towards a large iron cage in the corner of the yard. Inside were four geese, each as tall as a person. The feathers on their bodies all had a silvery-gray sheen, glittering under the sunlight like densely packed dragon scales.
This was how the Dragon Scale Geese got their name.
The aura emanating from these geese was at least at the sixth level of Qi Cultivation. One of them, the largest and fiercest-looking goose, had an aura fluctuation that reached the late stage of Qi Cultivation.
Su Yuan estimated the gap between himself and the goose and ultimately reached a very objective conclusion.
His combat power was inferior to a single goose.
Fortunately, he had anticipated this and invited an external helper.
"Class Monitor, it's your turn! Help me catch the fiercest goose in the cage! But remember not to kill it directly; I want to handle it myself!"
Su Yuan said to the tense girl beside him.
"Okay."
Chen Nuoyi nodded solemnly, her entire demeanor changing. Like a hunting tigress, she strode quickly towards the iron cage housing the Dragon Scale Geese.
Crack—
The iron cage opened. The four geese seemed to see a glimmer of freedom and stretched their necks out together, trying to rush out.
However, a slender figure blocked their path and reached for the strongest among them.
Seeing the delicate hand reaching towards it, the goose's eyes flashed with sharp light. It opened its large mouth, revealing teeth like a shark's, and fiercely bit down on the hand.
This fair, delicate hand, which looked as if it could be broken by a touch, did not dodge. It allowed the large mouth to bite and tear at it.
However, no matter how desperately the goose tried to tear, it couldn't leave even a faint white mark on the hand.
"Gaa—"
Chen Nuoyi's hand shot out like lightning, gripping the goose's neck. The goose let out a dying moan and, under the horrified gazes of its three companions, was dragged out of the cage.
The remaining three geese immediately scrambled to retreat further into the cage, trembling like quails, their previous arrogance completely gone.
Chen Nuoyi dragged the goose, which was larger than her, to Su Yuan and asked softly:
"Coach, what should I do next?"
Su Yuan didn't answer. Instead, he carefully examined the goose in front of him as if it were a work of art.
After a long while, he snapped back to attention, smiled, and opened the delivery box in his arms. He pulled out several nails, about twenty centimeters long, emanating a faint cold aura...
The style of these nails was subtly similar to coffin nails.
The girl curiously examined the nails, clearly unaware that she was on the verge of hell.
Then, Su Yuan said slowly, "Class Monitor, please hold this goose's head down. I'm going to use my family's secret roasting... goose technique to perform the initial processing on the ingredient."
"Okay."
Chen Nuoyi obediently pressed the goose's head firmly to the ground. No matter how much the seventh-level Qi Cultivation Dragon Scale Goose struggled, its head couldn't move an inch.
Su Yuan aimed the nail at the goose's crown. He took out a hammer from the delivery box, gathered his strength, and condensed the power within his muscles into a single point, transferring it all to his palm. With one strike, he hammered the nail!
Boom—
With a muffled thud, the twenty-centimeter nail was driven into the goose's head, disappearing among its feathers.
Strangely, after the nail was driven in, the Dragon Scale Goose didn't bleed at all. Although its thrashing gradually stopped, its eyes still glowed with an eerie light, as if it hadn't completely died.
This was only natural. In the Cultivation World, death was defined as the soul leaving the body. Although the goose's head had been pierced, its soul had not left its body.
Because Su Yuan's strike was a secret technique from the Ancient Corpse Refining Method—the Soul Suppressing Nail!
Using the Soul Suppressing Nail technique, driving a nail into the target's body directly affects their soul, preventing it from leaving the body! This was the first step in corpse refining!
Indeed, this was Su Yuan's plan to guide Chen Nuoyi towards absolute depravity!
He wanted her to learn the Ancient Corpse Refining Method, an evil technique among evil techniques.
But the problem was, how could he get Chen Nuoyi, the Righteous Path Saintess, to learn corpse refining?
Su Yuan's inspiration came from the roast meat shop he saw last night!
When he saw the roasted geese, ducks, and suckling pigs, Su Yuan realized that the preparation methods for roast meats had many overlaps with the Ancient Corpse Refining Method!
Having thoroughly mastered the Ancient Corpse Refining Method, he could completely impersonate a master of roasted meats!
That's why he chose to apply for a job at the school cafeteria. Once his application was successful, he could naturally teach the Righteous Path Saintess how to refine corpses... cough, how to roast meat!
The Saintess learns corpse refining
Refines a goose that scents for ten miles
Counts money until his hands go numb
How decadent!
Not only did he teach the Saintess a Devilish Dao evil technique, but he also turned her into a slave to money. No wonder Chen Nuoyi's fate today was [Eternal Descent into the Abyss]!
It would be a miracle if she didn't fall!
Su Yuan exhaled a breath of stale air and slowly said:
"Class Monitor, the next steps are bleeding, de-feathering, and evisceration. You're not squeamish, are you?"
Chen Nuoyi shook her head slightly:
"I received a perfect score in the 99% realistic simulated killing training."
Su Yuan nodded in satisfaction:
"Since that's the case, Class Monitor, you will participate fully in the subsequent ingredient preparation."
"Okay!" Chen Nuoyi's pretty face showed a thirst for knowledge. "Coach, please feel free to instruct me. I will watch and learn diligently, striving not to hold you back."
Su Yuan: "..."
She's actively asking to learn the Ancient Corpse Refining Method? Class Monitor, you're something else!
However, this suited him perfectly.
Half an hour later, the Dragon Scale Goose was completely de-feathered and its innards were removed. The entire goose was clean and white, resting peacefully.
The ingredients were ready, and they could proceed to the next step, the formal corpse refining... cough, roasting!
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