Bai Yaoyao left Great Sage with Chef Li again, asking him to teach Great Sage how to cook until they left the Safe Zone.
Bai Yaoyao drew up a menu of her and her teammates' favorite dishes and handed it to Chef Li, asking him to stick to it as closely as possible.
Then she left a case of cup noodles and headed out, saying she would pay the rest of the tuition based on how much Great Sage learned.
Chef Li was thrilled. Captain Bai was incredibly generous, as he had seen during their last collaboration. Given another chance to work with her, he pulled out all the stops, teaching Great Sage diligently and barely stopping to sleep.
Great Sage did her proud, too. Knowing his master loved good food, he took his lessons exceptionally seriously.
Chef Li's initial enthusiasm gradually turned into an existential crisis.
Was this really just a monkey? Why was he so smart? At the very least, he was much smarter than Chef Li's apprentices. Skills he had spent years honing had been almost entirely mastered in just a few days...
This was... a little too crushing.
Aside from Great Sage, the Dark Night Squad took missions whenever they had nothing else to do. When they got tired of missions, they wandered around the area and hunted some meat. They certainly weren't bored.
Everyone had drunk another round of Spatial Spring Water. Apart from Chenxuan, who awakened an ability that could restore energy, no one else awakened any new abilities.
Bai Yaoyao suspected that people with only one ability might have a better chance of awakening another after drinking the spring water.
Having lots of abilities was useless on its own. Mastery mattered most.
While absorbing energy from Crystal Cores, they also needed to practice