137: Chapter 136 Packing Ingredients, Triangular Freedom?

Hearing this, Lin Lei froze for a moment, pointed at himself, and looked utterly bewildered.

"Ah? Me starting the fire?"

Ye Qingxuan glanced at him sideways, his tone casual and tinged with a bit of teasing.

"Otherwise? Could it be that you still want a free meal?"

"Monk, don't just stand around either. Marinate the rest of the meat and skewer it to make roasted fish slices!"

Upon hearing this, Duyuan realized there was still something for him to do? Then, Holy Monk Duyuan utterly lacked situational awareness and blurted out,

"What about Lady Bai?"

"She has to watch over Xiao Jiu. What? Do you have a problem?" Daoist Ye glanced at him sideways, his eyes filled with Killing Intent.

"No, not at all!" Great Master Duyuan waved his hands hurriedly.

Looking at Ye Qingxuan, Bai Yuekui curved her lips into a sweet smile and said nothing, merely picking up the endlessly bouncing kitten.

Lin Lei smiled sheepishly. Since even the Great Master had been assigned work, he no longer shirked.

As a Martial Artist who controlled all elemental powers, the moment his thoughts stirred, dense and scorching fire elements instantly surged in his palm.

"Wrath of the Fire God!"

A huge, scalding crimson fire lotus condensed out of thin air, slowly drifting to the bottom of the giant Pill Furnace and steadily supporting the furnace body.

The blazing flames burned, just right for slow-cooking soup.

The suspended Pill Furnace quickly grew slightly warm, and the furnace body circulated with a faint, warm luster.

CCTV Livestream — —

Host Xiao Sa looked on with envy; the energy fluctuation of that fish was not low at all, what kind of effect would this ingredient have?

Master Yuanxin looked at Ye Qingxuan and Bai Yuekui with an aunt-like smile. His little disciple had gained a wife, and Qingling was also close to a Breakthrough to the Body Integration Stage. It would be best if they could give him a little grand-disciple to play with by then.

Thinking and thinking, Master Yuanxin's mind began to wander off. What name should be given to the little grand-disciple?

Li Qiye clicked his tongue in wonder, "The energy of this big fish is not weak at all. I wonder what effect this furnace of soup will have."

Celestial Master Zhang said, "Didn't Qingxuan say he's planning to farm a batch? Just stew a pot yourself later and you'll find out."

Bullet Curtain Area — —

[Great Master Duyuan completely lacks situational awareness!]

[Daoist Ye really favors the Boss!]

[An overlord roaming the Universe turned into a pot of fish soup, I am truly impressed.]

[Gosh, our Martial Ancestor is using the Wrath of the Fire God to stew soup?]

[Otherwise? Fellow Daoist Qingxuan's Pill Furnace is at the Immortal Artifact level, ordinary fire is truly useless.]

[I'm just a bit curious how this fish should be artificially farmed.]

National Destiny Space — —

Ye Qingxuan raised his hand to touch his storage ring, directly taking out a pool of crystal-clear spiritual liquid.

This was liquid Spiritual Qi, and its purity far exceeded ordinary Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

With his Undergoing Tribulation stage cultivation, ordinary Spirit Stones and spiritual water had long been useless to him. Keeping them would just be leaving them idle, so using them to stew this rare ingredient was simply most appropriate.

The spiritual liquid was poured into the Pill Furnace, moistening the chunks of fish meat piece by piece.

The extremely refined Spiritual Qi slowly permeated along the Meridians of the meat chunks. The originally restrained pure energy was completely stimulated, and a faint fragrance slowly drifted through the gaps of the furnace among the high-altitude clouds.

Floating in mid-air nearby, Xiao Jiu's furry body was pulled straight, her little tail swayed left and right unceasingly, and her little mouth meowed endlessly.

A pair of round, big eyes stared fixedly at the meat chunks in the Pill Furnace with full anticipation, eagerly waiting for the fish meat to come out of the pot the entire time.

Master Duyuan transformed into a kitchen assistant, marinating the fish meat on the side with a peaceful expression and anticipation in his eyes. Food personally made by Ye Qingxuan was not something one could usually eat.

Bai Yuekui's Mental Energy still gently enveloped the Pill Furnace, meticulously observing the changes in energy.

The four people leisurely stewed fish and cooked food. Below the clouds, the crowd on the Juxia Ship still remained in the shock of that heaven-shaking palm strike just now.

The fire lotus burned fiercely, and the temperature of the Pill Furnace steadily climbed. The Triangle Body meat chunks soaked in the top-grade spiritual liquid gradually tumbled under the nourishment of the furnace fire.

Top-grade ingredients only required simple cooking. Thinking about it, Ye Qingxuan began to continuously add various medicinal herbs.

Tianxin Lotus, Blood Bodhi, Golden-Patterned Purple Ganoderma, Xuanbing Jade Lotus, Bodhi Seed, Ninglu Ginseng, Glazed Honey, and so on.

A furnace of fish soup was made by him into a spiritual meal with medicinal efficacy no less than a butian pill.

Watching Ye Qingxuan's prodigal behavior, Duyuan couldn't help covering his mouth, because tears were about to flow from the corners of his mouth.

"Fellow Daoist Qingxuan, isn't this a bit too..."

"Then don't eat it later, just give it to Xiao Jiu." Ye Qingxuan retorted without turning his head.

Hearing these words, Xiao Jiu stared at Duyuan with her sparkling heterochromatic pupils. As long as he dared to speak, Cult Master Meow would dare to eat every last bit of it.

"Then it's fine!" Master Duyuan chickened out spinelessly.

Because this aroma was simply too fragrant!!

Xiao Jiu looked disappointed, which amused Bai Yuekui and Lin Lei endlessly.

An extremely mellow and crisp aroma gradually diffused out through the gaps of the Pill Furnace.

This fragrance was not pungent, heavy, or flamboyant. Instead, it carried rich vital essence and pure energy. Just taking a single sniff could cause one's Meridians to slightly stretch out and the Divine Soul to settle.

Smelling the aroma, Xiao Jiu called out even more happily, her little paws gently scratching in the air as she wished she could pounce directly into the Pill Furnace to bite the meat.

"Meow, Daoist, is it ready yet? Meow is hungry!!"

Bai Yuekui was quick-witted and fast-handed, grabbing the kitten by the back of its neck. Looking at the furnace of fish soup, the kitten let tears flow ungratefully from the corners of its mouth.

Bai Yuekui flicked Xiao Jiu's cat ears, "You little foodie, it'll be ready soon, just wait."

Lin Lei stared at the Pill Furnace, his eyes shining brightly.

As a pure Martial Artist, he was most into physical nourishment. Just smelling this Qi made him know that for ordinary Martial Artists, this pot of fish soup would have extremely good effects on Physical Body polishing and bone/muscle quenching.

Duyuan held up one hand with his palm vertical and sighed softly,

"Truly, Heavenly Dao loves life; everything can be used as medicine and everything can be eaten."

Bai Yuekui nodded slightly, seeing through it clearly.

Triangle Bodies ran rampant across the Universe, slaughtering countless civilizations with Mental Energy. In this world, they could be considered top-tier combat power.

But in front of the immortal cultivation and martial arts systems, they were ultimately just a rare, Advanced ingredient.

"Almost done, Lin Lei, high heat to thicken the sauce!"

"Alright!" Hearing this, Lin Lei burned the fire lotus even more fiercely.

Ye Qingxuan's expression was calm as he raised his hand and waved.

The Spiritual Qi inside the furnace rolled, and the heat was grasped just right—it would neither ruin the Origin of the meat quality nor fail to fully stimulate the deliciousness of the food.

Inside the lens of the National Fortune Live Broadcast Room...

Watching the four people and one cat leisurely stewing fish soup, the bullet curtain went completely crazy.

[I can feel through the screen that this furnace of fish soup is definitely delicious!]

[Good grief, what top-grade Heaven And Earth Treasure are they stewing? Oh! It's that Triangle Body from just now, Universe-grade ingredients starting to stew!]

[I'm jealous, truly jealous, I also want to drink a bowl of immortal cultivation fish soup!]

[The supplementary ingredients Fellow Daoist Qingxuan added to the furnace are incomparably precious. I really envy Monk Duyuan.]

[Tianxin Lotus, Blood Bodhi, Xuanbing Jade Lotus, and Glazed Honey—using so many Heaven And Earth Treasures to stew soup, if I dared to do that, my Master would definitely beat me to death.]

[Sigh, it's only Fellow Daoist Qingxuan who has this kind of confidence.]

CCTV Livestream — —

Master Yuanxin also couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva. Good lord, this furnace of fish soup looked delicious just by looking at it.

Li Qiye: "No way, this old man can't take it anymore. I'm going to stew fish soup. I can't use top-grade medicinal herbs, can't this old man use low-grade ones?"

Celestial Master Zhang wanted to say something, but Li Qiye vanished with an escape technique.

Xiao Sa could only smile politely, pretending he neither saw nor heard anything.

National Destiny Space — —

On the deck of the Juxia Ship, everyone also smelled the faint fragrance drifting from afar.

The Xiongbing Squad members, whose heads were originally stinging and whose bodies were drained of strength, only felt their fatigue swept away, and the remaining mental stinging in their minds directly faded by more than half.

Du Cardo looked up at the invisible high altitude, leaving only endless sighs in the bottom of his heart.

The formidable enemy they regarded as a world-destroying crisis was nothing more than a pot of food in the eyes of truly high-Realm Cultivators.

A rich, savory aroma diffused. Ye Qingxuan opened the furnace lid; the fish soup inside was as white as jade, constantly bubbling, with the Triangle Body meat chunks floating within.

Ye Qingxuan took out a few jade bowls. They looked like ordinary bowls, but they were actually Magical Artifacts, each capable of easily holding a lake's worth of water. From the furnace of fish soup, everyone was served a bowl.

"Alright! Let's eat!"

"Meow, Sister Bai, Daoist, hurry, Meow wants to eat!!" Xiao Jiu was so anxious that her tail kept shaking.

"Eat, go move around after you finish eating," Ye Qingxuan said meaningfully.

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The kitten's tiny head had huge doubts, but anyway, let's eat first.

Lin Lei picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish meat, and took a bite. The savory aroma instantly filled his mouth and exploded on his taste buds, making him feel as if he were floating in fairyland.

"Delicious! Too delicious!"

Swallowing the fish meat, he only felt a warm current enter his body. His internal magic power automatically circulated, absorbing it in an instant. Lin Lei felt that his magic power and Physical Body had strengthened by a tiny sliver.

If he hadn't broken through to the Inner Scenery Realm, he could barely feel it; it was even smaller than a mosquito's leg.

"Hmm, it really can increase magical power and Physical Body, but isn't it a bit too little?"

Hearing Lin Lei's words, Bai Yuekui and Duyuan also carefully felt it. Mm, the increase was negligible, about the same as meditating normally.

For their Realm, this faint enhancement could not even be considered a mosquito's leg of improvement.

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan glanced at Lin Lei and casually complained.

"Ingredients produced by a deformed science-side world, and you still expect them to have a major effect on the Void Return stage? Aren't you being too wishful?"

Lin Lei was stunned for a moment. After carefully pondering it, he suddenly understood.

Indeed, at their Realm, their Physical Body and magical power had long been polished to the extreme of the current era. It was simply impossible to pile up cultivation purely relying on Heaven And Earth Treasure and spiritual meal supplements.

Unless it was something of a higher level, such as flat peaches, divine nectar, and the like.

In future cultivation, all that one competed on was state of mind and the comprehension of Dao.

If one could not comprehend it, even sitting in dry meditation for a hundred years would yield negligible improvement, whereas a single Epiphany could rival ten thousand years of bitter cultivation—this was an unchanging theorem in the cultivation world since ancient times.

Duyuan: "If not for the various Heaven And Earth Treasure added by Fellow Daoist Qingxuan, I'm afraid for us, it would just be tasting the flavor."

Several people nodded one after another. For their Realm, this faint enhancement was indeed dispensable.

Duyuan held the jade bowl and drank in small, slow sips, eating while silently reciting the Rebirth Mantra, looking exceptionally contrasting.

Bai Yuekui took her time, mainly to taste the flavor.

Little Jiu didn't care about any enhancements or lack thereof; she buried her head and frantically devoured it, shoving her little head into the bowl until her whiskers were stained with soup, and her little belly quickly puffed up into a round, chubby furry ball.

Ye Qingxuan drank two casual sips with a calm expression.

After all, the Triangle Body was just a deformed energy creature of the science side. It looked frightening, but placed in the cultivation system, it was barely enough to serve as a nourishing ingredient.

The National Fortune Live Broadcast Room barrage instantly flooded the screen.

[Laughing so hard I passed out, the Universe-level villain is just this? Only enough to fill the gaps between the Great Masters' teeth]

[The Realm is too high, even top-grade spiritual meals have no effect, this is too humblebrag]

[Only Lady Sanhua eats the most earnestly, a pure rice-devouring cat!]

[Watching this made me hungry too, ordering takeout!]

[Fish soup already ordered!]

[Leader, leave some for us!!]

The entire crew of the Juxia Ship was dumbfounded. Smelling the fragrant aroma filling the sky and recalling the strength of the Triangle Body just now, their mentality completely collapsed; the gap was simply too huge.

Ye Qingxuan put down the jade bowl in his hand, his gaze sweeping across Lin Lei, Duyuan, and Bai Yuekui, and casually asked: "What do you all think of the taste of this Triangle Body?"

Hearing this, Duyuan's tongue subconsciously twirled between his lips and teeth, carefully savoring the fresh richness of the fish soup just now. He couldn't help licking the corner of his mouth stained with soup and replied with a straight face:

"The taste is superb, truly a rare top-grade delicacy. Moreover, for low-level Cultivator, it also has the effect of enhancing cultivation."

Bai Yuekui gently nodded, her brows and eyes carrying a hint of approval.

Lin Lei on the side didn't make a sound. His pair of bright eyes simply stared straight at the remaining meat soup in the Pill Furnace, his gaze clear and direct, clearly spelling out four words—I want to eat more.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan nodded: "Since you all find it to your taste, this poor Daoist will pack up and take this entire clan away. Such delicious 'sea fish' will be hard to find a second place for."

At this moment, the science gods observing this place through the dark plane were breaking out in cold sweat. They deeply understood the strength of the Triangle Body; even if they joined forces, they might not necessarily win against it.

The shadow of the Body War still hung over their hearts, yet such a powerful Triangle Body was, to these Cultivators, merely a delicious dish?

Then what about them, the gods?

Through the conversation of Ye Qingxuan and the others just now, they were incomparably grateful that Ye Qingxuan and the others were not demonic Cultivators, and they were all in human form. Otherwise, what was being stewed in that furnace might just be one of them.

Ye Qingxuan and the others were crystal clear about the gazes these science gods cast toward this place, but they simply couldn't be bothered to care. Who would care about the gazes and thoughts of a group of ants?

As Ye Qingxuan's voice fell, he intended to set off for the lair of the Triangle Body.

Seeing this, Lin Lei hurriedly stepped forward and asked with full curiosity: "Big Brother Ye, do you even know the location of their base camp?"

Ye Qingxuan glanced at him, his gaze looking as if he were looking at an idiot.

Duyuan let out a helpless long sigh, put his hands together in a Buddhist salute, and softly explained:

"Lin Lei, the Body Integration Stage merges with the Dao. In the mortal world, it is the Incarnation of the Dao. Tracing the Karma line alone can accurately locate the root source. For Fellow Daoist Qingxuan, it couldn't be simpler."

Bai Yuekui tilted her head to glance at Lin Lei, her tone carrying a hint of disdain: "The higher your cultivation gets, the more naive you become. Can't you use your brain a bit?"

Lin Lei scratched his head in awkwardness, thinking to himself: 'Use my brain? What is that? Isn't Big Brother Ye here? Can't I just swing my fists?'

Ye Qingxuan muttered inwardly, could he be Lin Dong's counterpart from a parallel spacetime? Yet his name was Lin Lei? It really baffled people.

He didn't think much more about it. Following the Karma line left behind from slaying the Triangle Body just now with his mind, his figure suddenly vanished on the spot, teleporting directly to Proxima Centauri, where the Triangle Body was entrenched.

His Divine Sense spread out to envelop the entire planet. What met his eyes was that seventy percent of the entire planet's area was covered by oceans.

Ye Qingxuan silently tallied them up, sighing inwardly, good grief, there were actually hundreds of millions of Triangle Body populations dormant within the ocean.

Now that they were brought back to Blue Star, everyone could eat to their heart's content. If a stable breeding method could be researched, they would never have to worry about lacking such top-grade ingredients in the future.

With a slight movement of his mind, his majestic Divine Sense swept across the entire planet like a wave, instantly eradicating the intelligence of all Triangle Body.

After being deprived of their spiritual intelligence, these creatures running amok across the Universe completely degenerated into pure ingredients surviving purely on instinct.

Ye Qingxuan turned his hand and raised it, and a precious bottle glowing with warm, azure ripples emerged from the Void Realm—it was precisely the Innate Spirit Treasure, the Drop in the Ocean Bottle.

The mouth of the bottle slowly expanded, and a vast suction force capable of swallowing the four seas surged out from it, aiming at Proxima Centauri.

The suction force erupted abruptly. In mere breaths of time, the entire ocean of Proxima Centauri was pumped completely dry, and hundreds of millions of Triangle Body that had lost their spiritual intelligence, along with the resources in the sea, were swept clean and fully stored inside the treasure bottle.

A Drop in the Ocean, just like its moniker, could accommodate the waters of the four seas—the four seas of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Mere Proxima Centauri was not worth mentioning in its eyes. Even if the entire Supergod Universe were expanded ten thousand times, falling into the four seas of the Earth Immortal Realm would merely stir up a tiny splash of wave.

Taking away the oceans and populations of an entire planet was, to this Innate Spirit Treasure, at most equivalent to dripping a single water droplet into a boundless lake, its weight so light it could almost be ignored.

Ye Qingxuan's movements were smooth as flowing water. After gathering all the Triangle Body of Proxima Centauri, he raised his eyes to sweep across the Star Domain Void Realm, revealing a meaningful, faint smile.

The various science gods who were spying on the entire process from the dark shadows were scared so badly that their Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering on the spot. Ye Qingxuan's casual glance just now pierced through the dark plane barrier and met directly with their hiding and watching line of sight.

As if the next moment, this group of high-and-mighty gods would be casually collected as ingredients just like the Triangle Body, a boundless chill rushed straight from their spines up to the top of their heads.

Inside the Heavenly Blade floating far in the interstellar space, Kesha and Hexi stood side by side in front of the observation light screen. On the light screen, the vitality of the entire planet Proxima Centauri had completely dissipated.

The two looked at each other, both filled with disbelief. Hexi spoke first, her tone full of trembling:

"Relying on Mental Energy to suppress countless civilizations so they couldn't hold their heads up, the Triangle Body that once triggered the Body Wars and that even we had to handle cautiously... just completely disappeared like this?"

Kesha lightly rubbed her fingertips against the armrest of the throne, her eyes full of solemnity as she answered in a deep voice:

"Before that Daoist, the Triangle Body are merely a batch of ingredients waiting to be stored. Today it is the Triangle Body, but if one day we provoke the other party, our Angel Tribe will probably be easily taken away just like the Triangle Body."

The National Fortune Live Broadcast Room barrage rolled wildly:

[Oh my mom! Gathering a planet is as simple as drinking water, this bottle is simply too outrageous]

[It's great now, Daoist Ye directly packs and hoards stock, achieving Triangle Body freedom in the future]

[Great Master Duyuan said it right, Karma positioning for Daoist Ye is truly just a casual move, Lin Lei is truly too naive]

[Little kitty Little Jiu is in luck, from now on she can drink Triangle Body fresh soup every single meal]

On the Juxia Ship, Du Kaao looked at the galactic anomaly transmitted by the Deno and his throat was so dry he couldn't utter a single syllable.

The Triangle Body population that they could hardly contend with using the entire power of their civilization was, in the eyes of Cultivator, merely a warehouse of ingredients waiting to be processed.