Yu Lili Visits and the Spirit Chef

Once a Pokémon passed its Growth stage, it officially stepped into the Normal-level, where it could already be considered moderately strong.

In fact, most wild Pokémon were Normal-level. Going any further was difficult, though wild Pokémon generally knew fewer moves than Pokémon raised by Trainers.

Lu Li planned to return to his old home that afternoon and have the Housekeeping Company clean up the courtyard while he was there. No one had lived there for nearly ten years, and renovating it would probably take some time as well.

Feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket, Lu Li quickly took it out to check.

Seeing the name on the caller ID, Lu Li answered. "Yu Lili? What do you need me for?"

"Didn't you say you raised a pretty good Feebas? I want to come over to your house today and take a look at it," Yu Lili said over the phone.

Lu Li asked, "When are you planning to come over?"

"Before lunch."

"Alright."

After hanging up, Lu Li opened the refrigerator and looked at the ingredients inside, only to find a single piece of meat lying there.

He could only head to the nearby market to buy ingredients. He couldn't exactly serve a guest nothing but grilled meat—and just one piece at that.

After returning from grocery shopping, Lu Li checked the time on his phone. Seeing that it was nearly noon, he hurried into the kitchen to start cooking.

Knock, knock, knock...

Hearing the knocking outside the courtyard, Lu Li looked at the dishes on the table and silently gave himself a thumbs-up. His timing was perfect.

When he opened the courtyard gate, he saw Yu Lili and Jin Huang standing behind her.

Yu Lili curiously examined Lu Li's courtyard before praising him. "Lu Li, I didn't expect your courtyard to be so charming."

"Huh?"

Yu Lili noticed the two Berry Trees in the courtyard.

"Wiki Berries and Indigo Berries? Those are both Berries used to make Blue Pokéblocks."

As a Water-type Trainer, Yu Lili clearly knew her stuff. At the very least, she recognized Wiki Berry Trees and Indigo Berry Trees.

Lu Li casually showed off. "I planted them specifically. Premium Wiki Berries and Indigo Berries are too hard to buy on the market, so I had no choice but to grow them myself."

Jin Huang, who had just entered, explained, "Lu Li isn't just a Breeder. He's also a Berry Planter, and my mom said his talent for growing Berries isn't any lower than his talent for breeding."

"As expected of you!"

After hearing that, Yu Lili gave Lu Li a thumbs-up.

Since there were no Premium Wiki Berries or Indigo Berries available on the market, he had simply grown them himself at home. The most unbelievable part was that Lu Li had actually succeeded.

As the daughter of a Gym Trainer, Yu Lili was not some spoiled rich kid who knew nothing. She understood perfectly well how difficult it was to cultivate Premium Berries.

If Premium Berries were really that easy to grow, there would not be so few of them on the market.

There was a saying in the Berry Market: Premium Berries never drop in price. It meant that as long as a Berry was premium quality, there would never be a shortage of buyers.

"Alright, we can talk later. You two haven't had lunch yet, right? I just finished making lunch," Lu Li asked with a smile.

Hearing that, Yu Lili, who did feel rather hungry, nodded.

After Lu Li led them into the living room, Yu Lili and Jin Huang saw the lavish lunch spread across the table.

"Sweet and sour ribs, shredded pork in garlic sauce, shredded potatoes, Kung Pao chicken! Ahhh! Kung Pao chicken is my favorite!" Yu Lili shouted excitedly when she saw the Kung Pao chicken on the table.

Watching Yu Lili make such a fuss, Jin Huang teased, "Don't worry. There are only three of us, so all the Kung Pao chicken will definitely be yours."

Smelling the tempting aroma, Yu Lili eagerly picked up her chopsticks and reached for the Kung Pao chicken.

"Oh my god!!!"

"How can something this delicious exist in the world?"

Yu Lili exclaimed in a voice that sounded as if she were about to cry.

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

Jin Huang looked speechlessly at Yu Lili, who was nearly in tears.

He did not believe there was any food in the world delicious enough to make someone want to cry.

Thinking that, Jin Huang curiously picked up his chopsticks and took a piece of sweet and sour rib.

"Hiss~"

The moment the rib entered his mouth, Jin Huang realized he had been careless.

There really was food in this world delicious enough to make someone want to cry.

The corners of Lu Li's lips curled upward as he watched the scene.

With the Hundred Immortal Cultivation Arts at his disposal, he could confidently say that there was no chef in the world better than him.

Among the Hundred Immortal Cultivation Arts, Spirit Chefs excelled at making all kinds of Spirit Food. Many of the ingredients used in the Cultivation World did not exist in this world, and Lu Li was also too lazy to Pokémon-ize the Spirit Chef profession.

Thus, this Master-level Spirit Chef had retained only cooking skills so absurdly good they were practically unbelievable—and those skills were only for humans.

Fifteen minutes.

In just fifteen minutes, Lu Li had successfully made Yu Lili's stomach swell.

Jin Huang was too embarrassed to fight Yu Lili for the dishes, so most of the food on the table ended up in Yu Lili's stomach.

"Ah~"

"My stomach is so big. It hurts so much," Yu Lili groaned.

Lu Li: "..."

Jin Huang complained enviously from the side, "Who told you to eat so much?"

If Yu Lili ate a little less, he could eat a little more. Jin Huang deeply despised Yu Lili's behavior of forcing herself to keep eating even when she could not eat anymore.

"If you're stuffed, then stop eating! At least leave a few bites for me!" The depressed Jin Huang was already considering whether he should stay overnight at Lu Li's house today.

Yu Lili sighed. "Lu Li, it's fortunate your cooking skills never made you a chef. Otherwise, how many people's stomachs would you have blown up?"

Lu Li rolled his eyes at Yu Lili and retorted, "Do you think everyone is as lacking in self-control as you? Aren't you afraid you'll eat yourself to death?"

Looking at Yu Lili's stomach, which resembled someone six months pregnant, Lu Li was genuinely worried that this Unlucky Kid would eat herself to death in his house.

Worried that something might happen to Yu Lili, Lu Li said, "Jin Huang, how about you go buy some Digestive Tablets for this idiot?"

Jin Huang nodded without hesitation. He had brought Yu Lili out with him, and if anything really happened to her, their teacher would definitely not let him off.

Yu Lili also pleaded pitifully, "Please, Little Jin."

After Jin Huang left, Yu Lili sincerely praised, "You really are amazing."

She actually felt rather conflicted about Lu Li.

Before coming here—and even over the past few days—her mother had constantly hinted in various ways that she wanted Yu Lili to find a way to win Lu Li over.

Yu Lili, whose heart was set on becoming an outstanding Trainer, naturally disliked the idea. Besides, she was only sixteen this year and had no intention of dating at all.

Because of that, Yu Lili had been somewhat resistant toward Lu Li.

But less than half an hour after arriving, Yu Lili's mindset had undergone a complete reversal.

Yu Lili felt that she might not be worthy of the boy before her.

Not yet sixteen, he was already an Intermediate Breeder and a Berry Planter. At sixteen, he had independently cultivated two Premium Berry Trees. Now, he could even cook this well. Most importantly, he was so handsome.

Then she looked at herself. Aside from having some talent as a Trainer and looking fairly decent, perhaps the only thing she could show off was her relatively good family background.

But being the Daughter of the Gym Leader...

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, that identity was already extraordinarily prestigious. But in the eyes of those true Great Families, a so-called Gym Leader was merely a starting point.

Not to mention the entire Asian League, there were over fifty Gyms in the Kyushu Region alone. Her status as a Gym Leader's daughter truly amounted to nothing.