"These spirit beasts of yours are quite extraordinary, Senior Nephew."
In the Chen Kingdom, beneath Jade Emperor Peak, in front of a temporary administrative palace established by the Earthly Treasures Hall.
Song Dongyang looked with surprise at the spirit chickens, spirit turtles, and other spirit beasts before him.
Over the past few days, the way he addressed Wang Ba had quietly changed without his noticing.
Hearing this, Wang Ba wore a helpless smile:
"You're joking, Uncle-Master Song. These are just ingredients for spirit cuisine, nothing particularly rare."
"Supreme Grade Third Tier spirit beasts as spirit cuisine? You certainly spare no expense, Senior Nephew."
Song Dongyang could not help looking even more surprised.
He knew that Wang Ba served concurrently as deputy minister of both the Spirit Cuisine Department and the Beast Taming Department.
In fact, he had personally reviewed the many spirit cuisine recipes and new spirit beast breeding plans Wang Ba had previously contributed to the sect.
He was also very familiar with Wang Ba's talents in spirit cuisine and beast taming.
But seeing Supreme Grade Third Tier spirit beasts used as ingredients for spirit cuisine with his own eyes still came as quite a shock.
After all, perhaps because of the rules of heaven and earth, once spirit beasts reached the third tier, their reproductive efficiency plummeted, regardless of species.
With their numbers unable to increase, spirit beasts were bound to remain rare, making it even less likely for them to become ingredients for spirit cuisine.
Nearly sixty percent of the sect's third-tier spirit cuisine came from fierce beasts hunted at sea that could not be tamed and were ultimately refined into spirit cuisine.
Yet even among those, exceedingly few reached Supreme Grade Third Tier.
At this thought, Song Dongyang nodded reflectively:
"You must never let your beast-taming