Beneath the Starry Sky

Babata crawled out from the smoke-billowing screen, looking sheepishly at the two people whose faces had darkened: "Well, it's not a big problem, I just forcibly destroyed the spaceship's intelligent system. I can split off a sub-body to replace it, it's just that..."

Luo Feng looked at the guilty Babata, speechless: "Xue Xi already warned you, yet you were still so reckless. It's just what? Keep talking."

Babata flapped his demon wings, poking his two index fingers together in front of his chest: "It's just that the repair time will be a little longer, but don't worry, I, the master repairman Babata, will definitely get it done within a year!"

There was no other way at this point, so Luo Feng could only load the Black Dragon Mountain X81 Spaceship into his World Ring. Once the wreckage of Hong and Thor's ships arrived, he could toss them in for Babata to repair.

After finishing, the two searched the wreckage of the fleet's mothership. They collected a few functional C-Rank laser cannons, three repair robots, and two Silver Flow Guards, along with other items like the ships' energy cores, taking everything away.

It wasn't until the red sun was half-set on the horizon that Xue Xi and Luo Feng broke through the water one after another. Wrapped in telekinesis, the two didn't have a single drop of seawater on them, their clothes dry and neat.

"Xue Xi, this trip was a full harvest. You finally got the spaceship you wanted. You've been running the restaurant for so long, do you want to take a break for the next year and prepare for future space travel?"

Xue Xi shook her head: "No need. As long as I fully master a dish, my domain will record it forever, so it's not very tiring. Besides, my domain grows based on the experience of cooking. It's almost at the ninth stage of the domain now, so I can't stop."

At this, Luo Feng looked at Xue Xi with envy: "Your domain is just too useful. I only managed to comprehend the Gold Domain under your teppanyaki, and even with a thousand-fold acceleration, I'm only at the third or fourth level. You're like a rocket, almost at the ninth stage?"

Xue Xi didn't look happy: "Sigh, I've roughly explained the laws to you before. It's fast, but I don't know how to proceed with the laws in the future. My domain is composed of water and fire attributes, but these are only low-level laws. It's destined that I won't go far, I can only look..."

Thinking of the Gourmet Catalog in her mind, a light flickered in Xue Xi's eyes. She wondered how the Great Book, the reward for the next level, would handle this?

"Only look at what?" Luo Feng felt an itch in his heart from the abruptly ended conversation.

Xue Xi came back to her senses and teased: "What else, look forward to our... Speaker Luo taking care of this little girl's business after you make it big!"

Luo Feng knew everyone had their own secrets, so he stopped asking and followed Xue Xi's lead: "Hey, Fourth Sister, calling me Speaker Luo already? That's distant, our relationship is getting distant!"

The two chatted and laughed as they returned to the restaurant, which the four of them had used as a meeting point. Thor and Hong were already sitting under the moon, each with a jar of wine, drinking together. Xue Xi and Luo Feng took their seats, and with a wave of their hands, a jar of wine and a glass of iced cola floated over.

The four looked at each other, raised their glasses (and drink cups), and clinked them in the middle: "To the stars and the sea, cheers!"

The two masters who guarded the era of the Great Nirvana and the two young people who opened up the future of the human galaxy raised their glasses together, as if mourning the past and watching over the future!

Xue Xi downed the Tianfu Cola in her glass, the sweet, spicy, and fizzy liquid blooming in her throat. She slammed the cup onto the table and stood up. The other three leaned back: This girl, she's drinking cola, why does she look drunk?

Seeing their reactions, Xue Xi pursed her lips and smiled: "Don't be nervous. Look at you guys, keep drinking, I'm going to whip up a few side dishes."

She rolled up her sleeves. Since she was cooking for her own people today, she wouldn't worry about quantity; she would do it herself.

Walking into the kitchen, the sensor lights turned on automatically. Xue Xi pulled a slaughtered Fire-Scaled Three-Trident Pig from the freezer. This pig had reached the high Lord Rank and was hunted by Luo Feng on the North American continent. Xue Xi decided to make a full-pig feast!

Coincidentally, five of the dishes in the ten-page menu unlocked by the Stellar Rank goal were related to pork. Today was the perfect day for five ways to eat the Fire-Scaled Three-Trident Pig.

She fed the Culinary Spirit Fire into the SS-Rank Alloy Stove she had customized from Xu Xin. For the first dish, Xue Xi was going to make braised pig trotters. Its modified effect was to provide the eater with a defensive shield that could block one attack five minor levels higher than their own, regardless of the form.

This was only the effect Xue Xi could produce at the Hong Rank; at the Cosmos Rank, it would block attacks seven minor levels higher, and at the Universe Rank, it would be a shield for an entire major stage.

The Coiled Dragon Blade fell ruthlessly, and with the help of telekinesis, she quickly cleaned the trotters and cut them into neat pieces.

She then channeled the stored water from the Universe Pot into the cooking area, added a spoonful of cooking wine, and blanched the trotters in cold water. Once the water boiled, she skimmed off the foam, boiled them for 45 minutes, scooped out the scalding water ball, and set the trotters aside.