Liu Changxu warmly reciprocated the enthusiasm of Yu Hai and the other four. Although their Dao Paths had reached a dead end, their wealth of experience far surpassed his own.
Their posts were not too far from the Liu Household, either. If he cultivated good relations with them, he might be able to ask for their help should anything happen to the lineage.
Of course, the five had come with the same intention. Getting acquainted with a True Disciple with a bright future was a good thing for both themselves and their lineages!
Liu Changxu had prepared the spirit cuisine served to these five Golden Core guests in advance. Owing to his lack of experience, the lower-grade third-tier spirit cuisine he made was only barely satisfactory in his own eyes, nowhere near as delicious as his second-tier spirit cuisine!
Ingredients for third-tier spirit cuisine were simply too hard to obtain, leaving him with too little practice. After the Golden Core celebration, Liu Changxu planned to venture deep into the Azure Cloud Range to hunt a few third-tier demon beasts. Not only would that satisfy his appetite, it would also replenish his woefully empty Storage Ring.
Even so, the eighteen exquisite, enticing dishes of third-tier spirit cuisine on the jade table made the five Golden Core True Persons drool.
The Soy-Braised Beef used meat from a lower-grade third-tier Azure-Wind Ox as its main ingredient. Tender, succulent, and savory, it could strengthen a cultivator's blood and vital energy.
The fish ball soup used lower-grade third-tier Golden Dragonfish as its main ingredient, complemented by lower-grade third-tier Red-Heart Lotus root. Its flavor was exquisite, and it could strengthen a cultivator's constitution.
The Great Five-Element Ascension Soup was an upgraded version of the second-tier top-grade Five-Element Ascension Soup, carefully simmered from eighteen varieties of third-tier