133: Chapter 132 Mad Bull Knife Spirit!! [Hundred Herbs Spirit Soup]!! (4k)

Originally, the card surface depicted Paoding holding a boning knife to dismember an ox. At this moment, however, the knife in Paoding's hand had disappeared.

Not only was the knife in Paoding's hand gone, but even the knives in the cloth bag slung across his body had vanished, and even the ox was nowhere to be seen.

Replacing it across the entire card surface was a new image. Paoding was still standing there with a full smile on his face, but he no longer held a knife in his hand. Behind him was an ox-shaped creature whose entire body seemed to be made of tiny, shattered blade fragments, and this ox-shaped creature looked full of sci-fi flair.

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Atop its head were two giant blade-shaped ox horns, and its ox eyes flickered with red light akin to spotlights.

Its entire body was mostly a hollowed-out structure. The tiny blade fragments on the surface of its body seemed to have no connecting objects at all; they simply floated across the body's surface, forming the outer contour of the ox and part of the exposed steel skeletal structure.

Inside, however, it was a dense structure of circuits and wires, making this ox resemble a monster full of sharpness and technological sense.

The entire card surface was filled with a bizarre sensation, as if an honest ancient cook had an alien creature standing behind him.

Furthermore, the card Paoding had also directly changed from a green border to a purple border.

Suddenly, a familiar system voice rang in Sun Po's ears: "Paoding has loaded MOD [Yi Yin # * & Blade * —— Ox]. Obtained 50 system experience points! Currently remaining: 6206 / 10000 points."

Sun Po was full of question marks. This material was loaded successfully just like that?

Moreover, this loaded result was completely different from what Sun Po had imagined. Where was the cauldron?

Sun Po stepped forward and inspected the card information:

Name: [Paoding]

MOD: [Yi Yin # * & Blade * —— Ox]

Category: [Human / Near-Ancient Folk]

Quality: [Orange 1-Star]

Description:

[Paoding was a cook in a small country during the near-ancient era. His knife skills were transcendent, and legend has it that he possessed a set of precious blades. He was extremely adept at slaughtering and dismembering animals, and was particularly skilled at killing oxen.]

[Once, when slaughtering an ox, Paoding's blade swept across the ox's muscle texture like flowing water; until its death, the ox remained unaware, still letting out long bellows continuously.]

[Now, strange changes have occurred to him, his precious blades, and even that ox.]

Traits:

[Dismemberment]

Paoding can dismember monsters into materials. Dismemberment can increase the material drop rate to a certain extent and preserve the spiritual nature of the materials to a certain degree.

When a perfect Dismemberment is achieved, it can greatly increase the material drop rate and greatly preserve the spiritual nature of the materials.

[Eighteen Blades]

Paoding possesses eighteen ancestral treasured blades, which are rumored to be forged from extraterrestrial meteoric iron and are extremely powerful.

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

Using six blades simultaneously can help Paoding dismember monsters one tier higher than his own quality.

Using twelve blades simultaneously can help Paoding dismember monsters two tiers higher than his own quality.

Using Eighteen Blades simultaneously can help Paoding dismember monsters three tiers higher than his own quality.

[Absolute Heat Control]

Paoding learned the method of controlling absolute heat from Yi Yin. The success rate of making a spirit meal is increased with a higher probability, and the spirit meal made by Paoding has a tiny probability of gaining a quality upgrade.

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.

[Hundred Herbs Spirit Soup]

Paoding learned a soup called Hundred Herbs Spirit Soup from Yi Yin. It contains rich essence and Qi of vegetation, which can increase the vitality of the Card Maker's spiritual space.

This dish requires one hundred types of vegetation materials, with a quantity of no less than one each, and a quality of no lower than blue quality.

[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 dismember them upon reaching a certain number of attacks.

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

[Furious Ox Blade Spirit]

A bizarre blade spirit has been born within the eighteen treasured blades. It has fully developed the extraterrestrial power hidden within the blades, blending the soul of the dying ox under Paoding's blade to transform into a blade spirit, using the eighteen treasured blades as its body to morph into an ox-shaped creature covered in blades.

Paoding has spent every waking moment with the eighteen treasured blades since childhood. The blades' familiarity with Paoding makes the blade spirit naturally develop a favorable impression of Paoding and recognize him as its master.

After deploying all eighteen treasured blades, Paoding can unlock "Furious Ox Blade Spirit" to enter battle.

???

Has the mod loading system become so wild now? A green card plus purple materials created an orange card??

But upon second thought, Sun Po realized that it was mainly because the match between Paoding's Eighteen Blades and the mechanical life influenced by the allspark fragment was simply too high. Kitchen knives forged from extraterrestrial meteoric iron, while the allspark itself also belonged to an extraterrestrial object—wasn't this a perfect match?

Especially looking at the skill description, those Eighteen Blades seemed to contain some hidden extraterrestrial power, but Paoding

seemed unable to stimulate it. However, after the activated Fragment of Yi Yin's Soup Cauldron transformed into the blade spirit, it perfectly activated this extraterrestrial power.

This power was likely an important reason for the card's quality leap.

And upon seeing the Eighteen Blades that were more suited to itself, the small cauldron formed by the Fragment of Yi Yin's Soup Cauldron resolutely abandoned the carrier of the soup cauldron fragment.

This allowed Paoding to still gain some benefits from the Fragment of Yi Yin's Soup Cauldron. However, the soup cauldron fragment was already weak in spirituality to begin with. After being tossed around like this, the residual spirituality related to Yi Yin was practically non-existent. Not to mention anything related to the God of Cooking, Paoding merely acquired one trait and one cooking skill—though both the trait and skill looked quite decent.

Absolute Heat Control was a down-to-earth increase in the success rate of the spirit meal and a probabilistic increase in its quality. It belonged to an unpretentious buff—simple yet useful.

After all, as a cook, the most important thing was to make dishes and make them well. This simple trait successfully took both points into account.

As for this Hundred Herbs Spirit Soup, its description was somewhat abstract. The essence and Qi of vegetation? The power of vitality within the spiritual space?

These unfamiliar terms left Sun Po baffled, but the materials it selected suited his wishes very well. After all, he already had shadow beef slices for meat materials, so a soup targeting vegetation materials came at just the right time.

Moreover, through this description and the quantity of selected materials, Sun Po also understood that the quality of this Hundred Herbs Spirit Soup was likely far superior to shadow beef slices.

In short, in terms of spirit meals, it could be considered some gains and growth, even if it wasn't all that prominent.

Of course, this was mainly because the growth in combat power was too prominent. The mechanical life influenced by the allspark fragment becoming the blade spirit of the Eighteen Blades caused Paoding's overall combat power to skyrocket.

This also made the art style of this Paoding card very different from what Sun Po had imagined; he originally thought this card would be purely a support card.

But as the Fragment of Yi Yin's Soup Cauldron—influenced by the allspark fragment—came to life, the entire direction of the loading began to completely veer off course.

At this moment, Sun Po felt that Paoding seemed more like a cook who could summon things. Originally, Sun Po had been worried that his main body's combat power was too weak, leading to an inability to unleash the powerful trait of Dismemberment. Now it was great: the blades and the ox were put together, and in the future, he could directly summon the blade spirit to fight independently of Paoding.

Once the monsters were hacked to death and dropped materials, it would transform back into the form of kitchen knives in Paoding's hands to chop vegetables—the division of labor was extremely clear-cut.

But these were all fantasies; everything still had to be tested in actual combat to see the true results.

Sun Po summoned Paoding out. The man himself hadn't changed much, still maintaining that smiling, amiable fat man appearance.

Sun Po asked, "How do you feel, Paoding?"

Paoding replied, "My Lord, this humble subject feels—"

Sun Po coughed and said, "Our fates are bound as one; don't address me with terms like 'humble subject' or 'My Lord' anymore."

Paoding quickly changed his words, "Master, I feel very good right now. I've learned a lot of new cooking knowledge, and my blades seem to have come alive, but they are still my blades."

Sun Po was extremely curious about this "Furious Ox Blade Spirit", so he said, "Deploy all eighteen of your blades right now and show me the transformation of your Eighteen Blades."

Paoding acknowledged the order with a yes, but said that it couldn't be fully displayed inside the house. Thus, the two of them came to the courtyard. At this moment, it was just dusk. Under the setting sun, all eighteen kitchen knives in Paoding's cloth strap flew out. Those kitchen knives danced in the air, rapidly shattering, combining, transforming, and entangling with one another.

An ox-shaped creature whose whole body shone with glittering blade light and whose dense circuits were faintly visible in the gaps of its body appeared in the Yang family's large courtyard.

Aside from its glowing red eyes, fierce blade-like skeleton, and giant horns, Sun Po noticed that the ox was also surrounded by fine steel fragments. Those steel fragments seemed to undulate with the breathing of this "Furious Ox Blade Spirit", appearing shimmering and sparkling.

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded, "Master, what a bizarre thing. Can you give me the thing called allspark fragment to study? This is so interesting."

Sun Po naturally had no objections. His own kid was exceptionally talented and smart, and only Wuzhiqi had a chance to figure out this kind of gadget.

After this "Furious Ox Blade Spirit" came out, it remained quiet for just a split second before an electronic voice came from its chest cavity: "Master! Master! Play with me! Master!!"

Immediately afterwards, it sprinted rapidly toward Paoding.

The "Furious Ox Blade Spirit" was covered all over in glittering blades, and it charged straight at Paoding like this.

Paoding was also so scared that the smile vanished from his face in an instant, and he shouted loudly, "Disperse!!"

The "Furious Ox Blade Spirit" actually disintegrated in response to his voice, once again transforming into eighteen kitchen knives that flew back into Paoding's cloth strap.

Good grief, a bull three meters tall at the shoulder, five meters long, covered all over in blades, and surrounded by tiny blade fragments running wildly towards you to act cute and cuddle—whoever encountered this wouldn't be terrified?

After a bout of such cuddling, Paoding would probably have to directly surrender his "first blood" and be beaten back to the Tianhe Water Mansion.

Speaking of the Tianhe Water Mansion, Sun Po suddenly remembered that he made the card related to spirit meals precisely to see if there was any connection between the Tianhe Water Mansion Kitchen and cook-type cards.

The next second, Sun Po successively turned Paoding back into card status, making him return to the Tianhe Water Mansion.

Immediately, the scene shifted rapidly.

Appearing before Sun Po's eyes was a huge stove room. The first thing that came into view was a pool filled with blue-black liquid. Sun Po was very familiar with the liquid in the pool; it was precisely liquefied calamity qi.

Behind the pool were stove tops one after another, atop which various gorgeous and exquisite kitchen utensils and containers were placed.

But these stoves had no air intakes, yet crimson flames rose from within them.

Sun Po sensed it and was certain that these were just ordinary flames, prompting him to click his tongue in wonder.

Wuzhiqi drilled out and said, "When this kitchen was newly repaired back then, I also came to study it for a period of time.

This pool is precisely the source of stove fire for the kitchen, and it is pure flood calamity qi.

I gained inspiration from Master's calamity qi reactor and also referenced the conversion principle of the calamity qi reactor.

With the amount of calamity qi in this pool, it is enough to supply these stoves for five hundred years without extinguishing."

Sun Po thought to himself: "Wuzhiqi is indeed overpowered. Back then, I had to rely on the power of the system to make the calamity qi reactor, yet Wuzhiqi was actually able to reverse-engineer its principle and achieve the conversion between calamity qi and flames. It is truly extraordinary."

Paoding was rather excited at this moment, looking left and right, unable to put down these exquisite kitchen utensils.

He was a cook to begin with, so the Tianhe Water Mansion Kitchen was like an immortal's kitchen to him, something he had naturally never seen before.

Paoding was so excited that his speech stuttered slightly, "Master, can I use this kitchen?"

Sun Po said, "This kitchen was prepared for you in the first place, but it's a pity that there are no ingredients right now to let you fully showcase your culinary skills."

Paoding instead said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. The stove fire in this riverbed kitchen is burning as usual and can be controlled by one's mind. To be able to see such a wondrous kitchen, Paoding is already very satisfied."

Suddenly, a system prompt rang in Sun Po's ears: "Detected that the Tianhe Water Mansion Kitchen has met the activation conditions. Do you want to appoint Paoding as the head chef of the Tianhe Water Mansion?"

Hearing this, Sun Po breathed a sigh of relief. It was about what he had guessed: even if the various functions of the Tianhe Water Mansion were repaired, it seemed that a card proficient in this field was still needed to fully activate these functions.

The previous secretariat and training camp were functional areas that were intact to begin with, so they didn't have such trouble.

Sun Po thought of that dense string of functional areas: "The quartermaster's office is now intact. Just like the kitchen, it only needs a suitable card to activate it. I feel it's best to choose a [Human Card]; monsters, immortals, and Buddhas seem hard to find suitable true name cards for military provisions. As for the Spirit Gathering Pool in the future, what kind of card should I look for? Also for the Royal Horse Stable and the Kitchen Plain, I do know a famous Protector of the Horses, but I'm afraid I won't be able to make it out anytime soon."

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard Yang Xinyue's call from the outside: "Sun Po, stop standing there like a fool, come help me carry the food!"

Sun Po's mind withdrew from the Tianhe Water Mansion. Watching Yang Xinyue carrying large and small bags as she ran toward the kitchen, a thought suddenly struck him: "Since Paoding is already an [Orange 1-Star] culinary-type development [true name card], even without materials, cooking me a meal with ordinary ingredients shouldn't be difficult, right?"