Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring

With Yueling, a water mage capable of controlling water, around, all Wu Chu needed to do now was find a place to store these dried octopus tentacles and dried shrimp meat.

A cellar or a cave would be the best choice. Those octopus tentacles were huge, and his little wooden cabin simply could not hold that much.

Besides, both the octopus tentacles and shrimp meat carried a strong fishy stench. Keeping them nearby was not a good idea; they might even attract mosquitoes.

After thinking it over and circling the Purple Jade Heavenly Tree, Wu Chu found a spot deep in the valley behind it. Leaning against the valley wall, he began digging a cave.

"Brother A Chu, are you planning to establish a cave abode?"

Watching Wu Chu dig with his hoe, Little Moon Spirit drifted over to his side, stepping on flowers.

Wu Chu shook his head. "I just want to dig a cave to store the dried octopus. That stuff reeks too badly. If we keep it beside us, the smell alone will suffocate us."

After a pause, he looked at Yueling again. "Little Moon Spirit, don't tell me you know earth magic too!"

Little Moon Spirit shook her head. "I do not!"

Wu Chu sighed inwardly, then smiled. "Forget it. I'll just dig it myself!"

"Then, Brother A Chu, shall I cook you a bowl of octopus soup?"

Little Moon Spirit seemed eager to give it a try, as though she wanted to show off her skills.

Seeing her expression, Wu Chu nodded. He felt that he might have picked up a little cook. In the future, he would not need to cook for himself anymore. Wonderful!

Just as Little Moon Spirit was about to leave, Wu Chu called her back. "Little Moon Spirit, go catch a fish from the lake! We'll have fish soup later."

"Okay!"

Little Moon Spirit happily floated toward the lakeshore.

Yibao appeared on Wu Chu's shoulder and complained, "Master, aren't you ashamed of treating her like a little errand girl? She's still a child!"

"A child? She only looks like one. Compared to her actual age, I'm the child here, okay?" Wu Chu curled his lip. "Who isn't a baby?"

By then, Little Moon Spirit had reached the lake. With a gentle wave of her pale hand, she wrapped a several-meter-long fish in lake water and effortlessly lifted it from the lake.

"Brother A Chu, is one this big enough?"

Hearing Yueling's voice, Wu Chu looked toward the shore and saw a fish over five or six meters long struggling in terror inside a transparent bubble of water.

Yet the water bubble was far tougher than the fish's strength.

Wu Chu glanced at Yibao. "This is a child?"

"..."

Yibao had no reply.

"Ahem! That's too big. Catch one about a foot... roughly this long."

Wu Chu gestured with his hands. "It wasn't easy for that fish to grow so large. A small one is enough for us to taste something fresh. There's no need to take its life. Let it go!"

"Okay!"

After replacing it with a fish about a foot long, Yueling asked Wu Chu how to handle it.

Wu Chu began directing her from afar. "Use the kitchen knife to knock it dead, remove the scales, scrape off the slime on its body, then gut it and remove the innards... Oh, right, keep the fish maw."

Little Moon Spirit controlled the fish in midair. Holding the simple kitchen knife Wu Chu had made in her small hand, she scraped over its body, removed the scales, and then gutted it.

"Brother A Chu, what next?"

As Wu Chu swung his hoe, he replied, "Then wash the fish clean with the water from this pool..."

"Brother A Chu, that pool water is the Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring. Isn't it too extravagant to use it for washing fish?" Little Moon Spirit asked somewhat sheepishly.

"The Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring? Is it very impressive?"

Wu Chu only remembered Divine Water of Three Lights, One-Origin Heavy Water, and Three-Thousand Weak Water. He knew nothing about the other spiritual springs of the Primordial World. As for this Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring, he had never even heard of it.

Yueling hummed in acknowledgment. "Purple Jade Daoist once said that the Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring is one of the finest spiritual springs between heaven and earth. For spiritual roots of heaven and earth, its effects are not much inferior to supreme spiritual springs like Divine Water of Three Lights. For water-art cultivators like me, this Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring is also quite beneficial."

Wu Chu nodded slightly, then asked, "Is the amount of Primordial One-Qi Pure Spirit Spring fixed? Will it continue to replenish itself?"

Yueling found this rather strange. She felt that Senior A Chu was being overly low-key. Did he really need to ask her such a question?

Still, she answered, "As long as the primordial one-qi within the spring is not damaged, this spring will be inexhaustible and endless."

"Then what's there to worry about? Use as much as we want!" Wu Chu laughed.

To a mortal like him, this thing might be extraordinarily precious, but he had no clear understanding of its value and had no way to make use of it.

To him, this water was simply a necessary daily consumable.

So if someone came to snatch it from him now, for the sake of his life, he might not hesitate at all before handing it over.

Just like when he had encountered Lantern-Burning Daoist earlier. If Lantern-Burning Daoist had not treated him that way, but instead started looting all the treasures on Purple Jade Mountain, he would only have watched helplessly as the man plundered them without uttering a single objection.

Unless the other party wanted to take his phone!

After carrying back a bucket of Clear Spirit Spring water and washing the fish, Yueling asked again, "And then?"

Wu Chu smiled as he swung his hoe. "Then it's just like cooking shrimp meat. Our conditions are limited right now, so this is all we can do. Once we have the means later, I'll teach you how to steam, pan-fry, and deep-fry it! There are all sorts of ways to cook fish!"

Little Moon Spirit asked longingly, "Brother A Chu, what else do we need?"

"Conditions? We need a lot!" Wu Chu paused with his hoe. "For example, cookware like a wok, and seasonings—fragrant ones, spicy ones, ones that enhance flavor, ones that remove fishiness..."

As Wu Chu said this, he quietly swallowed.

Come to think of it, the ingredients in this Primordial World truly were beyond reproach, but seasonings were rather hard to find.

It could be said that he simply did not know how to make many seasonings. As for those that could be found in the mountains and forests, he did not even know what they looked like.

He had rarely searched for such things on his phone before, and Yibao probably did not have that kind of knowledge stored away either.

Although high-end ingredients often required only the simplest cooking methods, if he had all sorts of seasonings, there would be far more variety in how he could eat them.

Having inexplicably arrived in this world, eating, drinking, and answering nature's call were his most urgent problems to solve.

As for cultivation, for now, he could only leave it to fate.

That wonderful fantasy of transmigrating to another world, defying heaven and earth, defeating every great power, winning a rich beauty, and reaching the pinnacle of life—he could only dream about it.

He did not even have a cultivation method, let alone a cheat. A postnatal being like him struggled just to survive in this world, yet he still wanted to dream of such wonderful things? What nonsense!

Thinking of this, Wu Chu felt once again that heaven had maliciously targeted him. He had just won thirty million in the lottery and was about to enjoy luxury cars, beautiful women, pools of wine, and forests of meat...

But before he had even caught a glimpse of any of it, he had inexplicably been thrown into this world to suffer. What kind of nonsense was this?

Even after taxes, he would have had twenty-four million! He would never have needed to worry for the rest of his life!

Sigh!

His endless bitterness and helplessness could only turn into a faint sigh.

I wonder if Mom and Dad can get that money from my bank account?

Wu Chu gritted his teeth and fought to keep the sweat from spilling out of his eyes.