The Deep Sea Exploration Vessel was a hot news topic, with reports about its crew running all day long. Cities throughout the Heavenly South were inviting them to visit as guests. Their party was more popular than rare animals.
Mo Caihuan had already left, however, and had no idea what they were doing now. She simply smiled and said, "Let's cook. I'll make the food myself."
"Wonderful, wonderful! It's been ages since I tasted your cooking. I've missed it dearly." Food Immortal laughed and led the way to the Five Elements Kitchen he had painstakingly built.
As its name suggested, the Five Elements Kitchen was a kitchen arranged according to a five elements formation. It was his proudest creation.
"What's the reasoning behind this kitchen?" Mo Caihuan asked curiously, looking at the five stoves arranged in the order of mutual generation and restraint.
"Now that's something you don't know, is it? The five elements don't just correspond to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. They also correspond to the five organs, five senses, five directions, five bodies, five flavors, five smells, five seasonal phases... They have an enormous influence on how food tastes. To cook fine food, you have to know the five elements inside out. Only then can you make sweet truly sweet and bitter truly bitter..."
Mo Caihuan indicated that she had never heard of this and asked, "Is that really true?"
"It's all the fruit of my painstaking research. The art of cooking is vast and profound. You have plenty to learn." This was Food Immortal's own original theory.
Mo Caihuan studied the Five Elements Kitchen and gained a rough understanding of it. Essentially, it eliminated interference to restore the ingredients' original flavors as closely as possible. Ultimately, it was also a contest and conversion between controllable