A Journey to Break the Ice

Seafood and marine products were truly rare things to the people of the God Continent. In fact, it had only been a few hundred years since Modern Dharma Cultivators cleared the coastal borders and allowed common folk to settle there.

To the residents of the God Continent, "seafood" was not only a rarity, but also something very difficult to prepare—after all, they had no experience with it.

At present, the God Continent generally had only two ways of preparing seafood: "steaming" and "stewing soup." The former involved steaming it with cooking wine, shredded ginger, and the like, then dipping it in fragrant vinegar and eating it directly to savor its original flavor. The latter emphasized slow simmering over a low flame, gradually drawing out the broth.

Of these two methods, the former had especially high requirements for the freshness of the ingredients. That was why Chen Youjia knew this road so well.

The seafood market lay very close to the spontaneous trading grounds frequented by cultivators. This was hardly strange. Due to the Dragon Race's choices over hundreds of millions of years, sea fish grew more delicious the closer they were to the deep sea and Holy Dragon Abyss. Fishing at sea was already a high-risk profession in this world of sea demons. Hunting seafood from the distant seas was something only cultivators could do.

And not just ordinary cultivators, either.

Chen Youjia looked around. Most of what was being sold here were chunks of meat of various sizes. Judging by their shapes, they were probably the "scraps" left behind after cultivators hunted demon beasts. Once the Innate Divine Runes and useful body materials had been removed, some good meat still remained on these demon beasts. Throwing it away would be wasteful, so some cultivators brought it here to sell.