It had to be said.
Phantylia really was useful.
He did not need to worry about the temperature at all.
All he had to do was give instructions.
Phantylia was getting better and better at working with him.
That meant her chances of staying alive were getting better, too.
Although Jiang Yao was cooking three dishes at once,
splitting his attention three ways was easy.
And to make sure nothing went wrong,
mostly to make sure Phantylia did nothing wrong,
Jiang Yao kept strict track of the cooking time for each dish.
Even with the red-braised meat simmering away, Jiang Yao could see through the lid.
He absolutely had to keep an eye on it!
After all, this was the dish with the most Ambrosial Arbor in it!
Because of the properties of True Sting meat,
when Jiang Yao made the red-braised meat,
he came up with a new idea.
He would make the Ambrosial Arbor taste like True Sting, too!
Put simply: mock meat.
In fact,
there were many ways to prepare the Ambrosial Arbor.
But they took some time to prepare.
After all, this was the Ambrosial Arbor, a miraculous blessing bestowed by Yaoshi!
There was not much of it in the entire Universe.
Of course, that was not the point. The point was that the Ambrosial Arbor was lustrous and translucent, looking nothing like wood. It was rich in nutrients, and the healing power of Abundance within it rivaled even an Emanator of Abundance.
When Jiang Yao processed the Ambrosial Arbor, he used his own saliva!
That made it an even more potent tonic!
Normally, only starting once the idea occurred to him would certainly have been a little late.
But Jiang Yao had prepared the Ambrosial Arbor for different uses well in advance.
He only needed