131: Chapter 130: New Cards Unveiled!! Fragment Mutation!! (4k)

Chapter 130: New Card Out! ! Fragment Anomaly! ! (4k)

Sun Po did not immediately reach out to grab that dim green light spot, but instead asked in his heart: "Do you know the name of that True Name?"

Wuzhiqi replied: "Its name is Yiya."

Sun Po happened to have heard of this name Yiya. He was a favorite minister of Duke Huan of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period, and was also known as the "Ancestor of Chefs". His culinary skills were famous for his mastery in blending the five flavors, and legend has it that he was also the founder of Lu cuisine.

However, Yiya himself was both a favorite minister and a rebellious official. He was extremely adept at flattery, and even went so far as to commit the inhuman act of "cooking his own son to make porridge" to please Duke Huan of Qi. In history, he was a figure with a poor reputation, and in Sun Po's heart, he was also a person with talent but devoid of morality.

But what Sun Po cared about most was not this point: "If this True Name is allowed to successfully awaken directly, what quality will this card reach?"

A moment later, Wuzhiqi's voice sounded: "At least Blue quality, or even Purple quality is not impossible."

Upon hearing this, Sun Po said: "Then I cannot take this True Name, otherwise the card quality will be too high, and my spiritual pressure will be huge."

Wuzhiqi understood and said: "In that case, Master, are some low-quality True Names the most suitable?"

Sun Po said: "Are there low-quality True Names?"

In Sun Po's heart, True Names should at least be of Purple level. For example, Yang Xinyue's Yang Wulang back then had awakened its True Name, directly advancing from a [Green 3-Star] Monk Soldier to a [Purple 6-Star].

Awakening a True Name on a true name card would greatly enhance the quality of the card itself, which could be found out with a little inquiry within the circle of Card Makers.

If it were an ordinary Card Maker, they would naturally be overjoyed, but Sun Po could rely entirely on mods to improve card quality. He did not want cards with such high initial quality, but true name cards seemed to have a guaranteed minimum of Purple quality anyway. At least Sun Po had never heard of a true name card below Purple quality.

Wuzhiqi said: "Complete True Names in the River of Destiny are naturally extremely rare, but True Name Fragments like Huang Chao's are somewhat easier to find. Why doesn't Master persist a bit longer to see if you can attract more suitable spiritual light spots?"

Sun Po said: "No problem, there is no rush. I can persist for at least another two hours."

Not long after, Wuzhiqi said again: "Master, that light spot ahead contains a True Name Fragment named Shanzu, perhaps we can give it a try."

Shanzu was the domestic chef of Duan Wenchang, a Tang Dynasty chancellor, gourmet, and writer. She was one of the top ten ancient Chinese master chefs with exquisite culinary skills, and possessed a unique talent for cooking dishes and making pastries.

She was handy with ingredient preparation, seasoning blending, and the techniques of controlling gentle and intense heat, possessing extraordinary abilities.

She originally had a proper name, but because everyone respected her unanimously, they called her Shanzu. Later on, even her real name was not recorded, which shows how exquisite her culinary art was, far from being ordinary.

Just as Wuzhiqi said, this was indeed a suitable True Name Fragment.

Just as Sun Po was about to use a massive hand manifested from spirituality to draw that spiritual light spot into his hand, he heard Wuzhiqi suddenly say: "Master, wait a moment. There is also a green spiritual light spot beside you, which might be even more suitable."

Sun Po asked: "How so?"

Wuzhiqi said: "This spiritual light spot contains a complete True Name, but its aura is not particularly strong. The advantage is that the True Name can be awakened when card making succeeds, saving the trouble of helping this card awaken its True Name."

Hearing this, Sun Po also became interested and asked: "What is this True Name?"

Wuzhiqi said: "Its name is Paoding."

Hearing this, Sun Po's spirits lifted. Paoding?

Sun Po had definitely heard this name. After all, the idiom "Paoding dismembers an ox" was known by quite a few people even in this world with a cultural fault line, which showed how high its renown was. This person might not be some ancient master chef, but his knife skills were definitely left famously in history.

Moreover, what was rare was that the quality of his True Name itself was not high, which further reduced Sun Po's spiritual pressure.

Sun Po immediately hesitated no more, his large hand directly grabbing toward that green light spot, refining it instantly.

The subsequent process was to try his best to make the formed card have a somewhat lower quality while taking shape.

He carefully controlled himself not to absorb too many spiritual light spots, but because it was a true name card, the final quality of this card still reached [Green 7-Star] quality.

But this was also unavoidable. true name cards were high-end goods to begin with, and it was already extremely rare for him to pull off such a "beggar-version". Furthermore, just by consuming a bit more spirituality during future summons to add the potential of a true name card, Sun Po felt it was very worth it. Especially since Sun Po felt that his current spiritual storage still had a lot of room for improvement, mainly because he had always been from the civilian class and had always used the most basic cultivation technique provided by the official authorities—[Spirit Nourishing Technique].

After entering university, he would see if there was a chance to replace it with an advanced cultivation technique, which presumably could increase his spirituality by quite a bit by then.

After all, as a public cultivation technique provided by the authorities, the greatest characteristic of this [Spirit Nourishing Technique] was being peaceful, stable, and difficult to make mistakes with.

Like Li Tiance's Saints Heart Formula, its trait was that during the process of cultivating spirituality, various powers could be born within the spiritual space and stored up.

Like Xu Xiu's Eight Swords Heart Manual, its effect was providing a considerable power bonus to sword-type cards, and when all eight swords were gathered, it was said there could even be special changes.

And what about the [Spirit Nourishing Technique] that Sun Po cultivated? Aside from being safe, it could be said to have no traits at all. Moreover, compared to a junior Card Maker who advanced by cultivating the Saints Heart Formula, a junior Card Maker who advanced by cultivating the [Spirit Nourishing Technique] might only have half of the other person's spiritual storage. And that was still because the Saints Heart Formula was not a cultivation technique renowned for spiritual storage; otherwise, the gap would be even greater.

Sun Po also relied on the Golden quality of Tianhe Budu to forcefully prop himself up, which allowed him to suppress these geniuses in terms of spiritual storage.

But anyway, right now, his True Name storage burden of supporting a few grayish-white cards plus a green card was still quite effortless.

Soon, the room was shrouded in a deep green light, and a card entirely covered with patterns of various kitchen knives appeared before Sun Po's eyes.

Painted on the card's surface was a chubby, smiling, greasy-faced fat man holding a boning knife wrapped in greasy cloth strips.

Around the fat man's waist was tied a greasy large cloth belt, outside of which protruded the hilts of knives wrapped in cloth strips one by one.

Beside him was a yellow ox whose flesh and bones had already been separated, yet it was still raising its head and mooing.

Written at the top of the card was not [Double-Blade Chef], but two eye-catching words:

[Paoding]!!

The next second, amidst flashing green light, a smiling big fat man identical to the one on the card face appeared before Sun Po.

Paoding made a bow and said: "Commoner [Paoding] greets Master."

Sun Po stepped forward to help Paoding up, but Paoding hurriedly stepped back and said: "My Lord, this commoner's body is full of oil and dirt, fearing it might soil Master's sleeves."

Sun Po was stunned for a moment. Having been used to the divine monkey listening to destiny, the overbearing Overlord Xiang Yu, the murderous fiend who had killed countless people, and the Yin god feared by ten thousand ghosts, suddenly having a commoner with such a humble attitude pop out really made Sun Po quite unaccustomed to it.

But this was also a characteristic of true name cards. Compared to ordinary cards, they would be influenced to a greater extent by the personality of the True Name figure during their lifetime.

After a good deal of pacification by Sun Po, Paoding finally let go of some of his humbleness. He also looked at Paoding's panel:

Name: [Paoding]

Mod: Unloaded Category: [Human / Ancient Era Citizen]

Quality: [Green 7-Star]

Description:

[Paoding was a chef in a small country during the ancient era, and his knife skills were superb.]

[Legend has it that he had a set of treasured knives, and he was extremely adept at slaughtering and dismantling animals, especially skilled at butchering oxen.]

[Paoding once carved up an ox, his blade gliding through the ox's muscle textures like flowing water, and until the ox died, it did not even realize it, still letting out long moos.]

Traits:

[Dismemberment]

Paoding can dismantle monsters into materials. Dismemberment can to a certain extent increase material drop rates and preserve material spirituality to a certain extent.

When perfect Dismemberment is achieved, it can greatly increase material drop rates and greatly preserve material spirituality.

[Eighteen Blades]

Paoding possesses eighteen ancestral treasured knives. These eighteen treasured knives are legendary for being forged from extraterrestrial meteorite iron, making them extremely powerful.

For every additional knife used, the spiritual consumption will increase by ten percent.

Using six knives simultaneously can help Paoding dismantle monsters one tier higher than his own quality.

Using twelve knives simultaneously can help Paoding dismantle monsters two tiers higher than his own quality.

Using eighteen knives simultaneously can help Paoding dismantle monsters three tiers higher than his own quality.

Skills:

[shadow beef slices]

Paoding can use different meats to make a dish of shadow beef slices. Eating shadow beef slices made from different meats will yield different effects.

This dish requires meat materials of no lower than White quality to make.

[Ox-Dismembering Blade Technique]

Paoding can conduct meticulous observations on the skeletons and muscle textures of all animals. After observing for a certain period, he can quickly analyze their weaknesses and perfectly dismantle them upon reaching a certain number of attacks.

For bovine creatures, no observation is needed to achieve perfect Dismemberment, and the required number of attacks is halved.

To be honest, [Paoding] was indeed not a powerful card. This shabby number of traits and skills couldn't even compare to the [Wrongfully Deceased Scholar].

But Sun Po knew that whether a card was powerful or not was not compared this way.

Although [Paoding]'s traits and skills were few, they coordinated extremely closely with one another and were very practical.

First, as a cook, this card was definitely qualified.

[Paoding] seemed to only have one skill related to spirit meals, which was [shadow beef slices], but this [shadow beef slices] was not a fixed dish, but rather more like a method of material processing.

Especially since the range of ingredients for [shadow beef slices] was wide—all meat materials could be used, and different meats had different effects.

Sun Po felt that this spirit meal-related skill was quite good, but because he had never seen other spirit meal-related cards, Sun Po couldn't easily make a comparison.

And as a cook extremely skilled in knife work, [Paoding]'s core lay in a trait called "Dismemberment".

In Sun Po's understanding, this trait was very OP. Since it had the trait of cooking ingredients as a chef, it also had decent combat attributes, but none of these were its biggest highlights.

"Enhance material drop rate, preserve material spirituality!"

Just for this trait alone, Sun Po felt that [Paoding] was definitely worth cultivating vigorously.

After all, it was the first time Sun Po had seen a trait that enhanced monster material drop rates and drop quality, and even such an OP trait appeared on a [Green 7-Star] quality card.

Moreover, the [Eighteen Blades] trait also raised the upper limit of this card, enhancing [Paoding]'s attack capability by increasing consumption.

Under the condition that all Eighteen Blades were used out, even the current Green quality [Paoding] might be able to dismantle Orange quality cards.

Of course, this was only a theoretical possibility; actual fighting still had to be subject to practical combat.

"A cook who can't play with knives is not a good monster hunter? Could it be that in the future, [Paoding] really has to hold a kitchen knife and charge at the very front of the battle line?"

Many images flashed through Sun Po's mind. But he quickly reined in his thoughts and looked at the [fragment of yi yins soup cauldron] he had just tossed aside.

After all, it was for the sake of this dish of vinegar—the [fragment of yi yins soup cauldron]—that he wrapped this plate of dumplings named [Paoding].

[Paoding] could only be considered icing on the cake; the legendary [Yi Yin], who possessed the title of [God of Cookery], was the key.

Sun Po didn't even let [Paoding] go take a look at the Tianhe Water Mansion Kitchen, and instead picked up the [fragment of yi yins soup cauldron] first, preparing to load it onto [Paoding].

But unexpectedly, as soon as it came into his hands, he felt something was wrong.

The fragment, which was previously dilapidated and covered in patina, had unexpectedly changed its appearance at this moment.

The previously damaged interior had now unexpectedly spawned dense electronic components, with a faint red light flashing among them.

"Master, I cannot hear the Voice of Destiny of this thing either. It's a problem with that material!"

Sun Po was full of question marks. It was normal that you couldn't hear it; if you could hear it, that would truly be seeing ghosts.

Whose normal bronze cauldron fragment would suddenly sprout electronic components inside?

When he first came to this world, Sun Po discovered that the technology of this world was not backward, and it could even manufacture high-tech products like Card Maker watches. Therefore, he had seen quite a few mechanical structures in his life.

But the electronic components revealed inside this palm-sized bronze cauldron fragment were far more complex than any mechanical structure he had ever seen.

The flashing red light reflected the intricate structure inside the fragment.

Sun Po also hadn't expected that just by touching it, this thing could have such a bizarre effect on the material.

Correspondingly, the system's analysis of the fragment also underwent changes:

[Card-Making Material Analysis]

[Fragment of Yi Yin's # Cauldron -- *]

[Quality: Purple 2-Star]

[A large cauldron used by a Shang Dynasty chef named Yi Yin % -- & *, which shattered due to unknown reasons, spirituality & -- @]

Mod [Unknown] and [Paoding] Adaptability: 92%

OD [Unknown] Loading Success Rate: 91%

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For some unknown reason, the analysis of this fragment had also produced garbled text at this moment.

But the quality of this material had inexplicably increased by quite a bit, especially since the loading success rate was still very high.

Sun Po felt that this thing was like some kind of highly contagious virus; just by being close, it actually displayed the exact same traits as it.

If it were truly loaded onto [Paoding], there was no telling what chaos might ensue. He planned to research it first before making a decision.

Suddenly, the red light in the fragment blazed fiercely, and the bronze fragment underwent a clattering trembling and deformation. A strange mechanical sound rang out from inside the fragment: "High-spiritual metal host detected! ! Transform! ! Set out! !"

Immediately, it actually broke free from Sun Po's palm, landed on the ground, and transformed into a four-legged small cauldron. Even the surface of this small cauldron was shining with a red light like a searchlight.

Its eyes flickered with uncertain red light, and its four cauldron legs scrambled rapidly, rushing straight toward [Paoding]