Liu Changxu was particular about his life as a cultivator. He normally ate spirit fruits and spirit cuisine, rarely consuming ordinary food or medicinal pills.
To enjoy delicious spirit cuisine on this demon-hunting trip, he had deliberately packed these dining utensils in his Storage Bag, even bringing some spiritwood charcoal for roasting meat.
He could not understand the attitude of cultivators who, in pursuit of eternal life, refused to take a Dao companion and devoted themselves solely to arduous cultivation.
What were they cultivating for? Endless loneliness? Even if they reached a higher realm and gained a longer lifespan, what of it?
He believed the road of cultivation was long and rugged! While pursuing eternal life, cultivators needed not only to keep improving their cultivation to extend their lifespans, but also to learn to enjoy the wonderful cultivation life before them.
This attitude toward cultivation came from his mother, a Spirit Cuisine Master.
His mother, Lin Yulian, paid close attention to Liu Changxu's daily cultivation life, always doing everything she could to create the best possible environment for him.
To give her children a solid foundation in cultivation from an early age, she had begun learning to prepare spirit cuisine after her son was born, doing her utmost to supply all the dishes his cultivation required.
Although Liu Changxu's father was an alchemist, Lin Yulian had insisted since Liu Changxu was young that he must not take medicinal pills to improve his cultivation unless necessary.
This was because prolonged use of medicinal pills would cause pill poison to form within a cultivator's body. As it accumulated day after day, it would hinder their future breakthroughs!
Under his mother's influence, he too had grown fond of preparing and eating spirit cuisine, making it an important means of improving his cultivation. His steady consumption of spirit cuisine over the years had laid a solid foundation for his cultivation journey.
With Lin Yulian's guidance and help, Liu Changxu had essentially reached the standard of a lower-grade first-tier Spirit Cuisine Master, with roasting meat being his greatest strength.
Preparing spirit cuisine was one of the hundred arts of cultivation. Many edible spiritual ingredients were difficult to swallow and offered poor benefits unless processed and prepared by a Spirit Cuisine Master.
Different ingredients required different preparation methods. Many were quite troublesome to process, but a Spirit Cuisine Master could transform them into delicious spirit cuisine beneficial to cultivation.
For example, the flesh, blood, and organs of demon beasts were rich in the spiritual essence cultivators needed. Regularly eating spirit cuisine made from demon beast flesh and blood helped strengthen a cultivator's body and was especially beneficial to those who cultivated their physiques.
However, the meat of many demon beasts was extremely tough. Ordinary methods could hardly turn it into spirit cuisine; a Spirit Cuisine Master had to use spiritfire or other methods to prepare delicious dishes beneficial to cultivation.
The spiritwood charcoal used for tonight's roast was something Liu Changxu had brought from home, made from branches pruned from the Lineage's Spirit Peach trees.
To encourage the trees to bear higher-quality Spirit Peaches, the Lineage's Spirit Planters would prune their branches, which the Lineage then burned into spirit peach charcoal.
Spirit peach charcoal was mainly used for alchemy and roasting meat, and brought the Lineage an annual income of five hundred low-grade spirit stones.
Its flames burned hot and steadily, producing little smoke and carrying the fragrance of peach wood, making it popular among alchemists and Spirit Cuisine Masters.
Soon, the aroma of roasting meat filled the campsite. Xiao Qing had stationed itself before the grill early on, gazing eagerly at Liu Changxu with its two pairs of eyes and constantly begging its master for meat through soul transmissions.
Clearly, it could wait no longer, leaving Liu Changxu to keep soothing it.
While roasting the meat, Liu Changxu also steamed a pot of spirit rice.
Only after the snake meat had roasted to a golden brown did he take the tray off the grill and call everyone over to eat.
No one stood on ceremony with Liu Changxu; they all hurried over to enjoy the roast.
Xiao Qing also grabbed a slice of roasted meat in its mouth and retreated to one side to enjoy it!
Liu Changxu took a jug of Peach Blossom Brew and several White Jade Wine Cups from his Storage Bag, then filled everyone's cups.
The Peach Blossom Brew of the Liu Household on Peach Blossom Mountain was made by naturally fermenting jade spirit peaches. The wine was crystal clear, rich in Spirit Peach essence and spiritual energy, intensely fragrant, sweet and refreshing, with a lingering finish! It could replenish a cultivator's magical power and improve their cultivation, making it highly popular among Qi Refinement cultivators. It was one of the Liu Household's two main sources of income on Peach Blossom Mountain, bringing in a large quantity of spirit stones every year!
Everyone sat together, drinking wine and eating meat in high spirits!
With so many Lineage members present, a great deal of roasted meat was needed. Liu Changxu had to keep roasting without pause just to satisfy everyone's appetite.
Although Xiao Qing was only the size of a palm, it ate a great deal of roasted meat too. Who knew where all that meat went!
Among the Liu Household's cultivators, his third uncle, Liu Shijie, and fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, ate the most. The father and son were both Body Cultivators and had always had enormous appetites.
Both men were tall and powerfully built, and both used Coiling Dragon Staffs as their magical artifacts.
His third uncle, Liu Shijie, was fifty-five that year, yet had only reached the sixth level of Qi Refinement.
His fifth elder brother, Liu Changshun, was twenty-six and had only just broken through to the third level of Qi Refinement.
Yet thanks to their powerful physiques, the two could often fight opponents above their level in close combat. Their strength was not to be underestimated.
However, the spiritual resources required for a Body Cultivator's daily training were simply too great, and both father and son were very poor.
Once everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they thanked Liu Changxu for his hospitality, then sat cross-legged and circulated their cultivation arts to refine the food in their stomachs.
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