Chapter 50: Spirit-level Superior Food, Success!

To make Spirit-level Superior Food, Yun Ye purchased a hundred portions of meat all at once.

Most of this meat came from a half-demon beast known as the Water Bone Blood Ox.

This half-demon beast was inspired by a genius from the government in a past generation.

Not only does it lack any demonic aura, but it can also grow meat quickly by absorbing spirit energy, greatly enriching the food supply for the common people in Baishi Town.

However, the taste of this meat isn’t very good; it’s just well-suited for making Superior Food, which is why it’s raised in large quantities.

The Water Bone Blood Ox is barely considered a half-demon beast, and its meat is quite tough, ensuring that life energy doesn’t dissipate too quickly during cooking.

Normally, if common livestock or grains are used, the life energy drains very quickly, making them unsuitable for producing Superior Food.

Although Blood Ox meat isn’t delicious, it still falls into the upper grade of meat options despite its unappealing flavor, costing about twenty dark copper per portion, nearly the price of C-level Superior Food.

However, if used to make Superior Food, only two portions would be needed to create A-level Superior Food, which makes it worth the price.

Since the meat was delivered personally, Yun Ye set up various cooking tools at home and started a fire to preheat.

His kitchen had many new items, including a pressure cooker, which didn’t exist in this world and was crafted by himself.

These cooking tools made it much easier for him to create Superior Food.

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Soon, the ingredients arrived at the courtyard in large boxes.

These hundred portions had no preservation measures.

It was the buyer’s responsibility to handle any leftovers, and it had nothing to do with the logistics department of the Black Armored Army.

Yun Ye didn’t mind at all; he could easily handle hundreds of portions, let alone just a hundred!

Chunyu and Xiahua immediately began processing and sorting the meat.

Although most of it was Blood Ox meat, there were also small amounts of other meats and ingredients.

Quickly, ten portions were cleaned, cut, and plated, ready to be served to Yun Ye.

Yun Ye got straight to work.

This was an experiment for Spirit-level Superior Food, and it was very important, so Yun Ye sent Chunyu and Xiahua away to prevent any leaks of information.

With everything prepared, Yun Ye followed the calculated process for cooking meticulously.

First, he coated the Blood Ox meat with food essence and placed it in the pressure cooker to stew.

Ten portions weighed around twenty pounds, which was too much; in the first step, he needed to reduce the volume by more than half.

The pressure cooker raises the boiling point of water under high pressure, which greatly speeds up the cooking process.

During this process, the areas coated with food essence would quickly gather most of the life energy.

The faster the cooking, the quicker the life energy would flow, resulting in less loss.

This cooking would take one hour.

When Yun Ye opened the pressure cooker, the majority of the twenty pounds of meat appeared a dark, withered color, with only the center shimmering with spiritual light, transparent like blood jade, completely unlike cooked meat.

Yun Ye ran his finger over it, cutting out that portion, and after weighing it, he quickly calculated the exact weight.

About 2 portions weighed around 4 to 5 pounds.

With Yun Ye’s appetite, he could barely eat a little over 2 pounds, and there were still further steps to take.

However, these 2 portions already had roughly ten times the effect; with some additional processing, reaching fifteen or twenty times wouldn’t be a problem.

But Yun Ye’s goal was Spirit-level Superior Food, and this amount was far from enough.

With a flick of his fingertips, spirit energy flashed, and the Blood Ox meat was quickly sliced into extremely thin pieces. Each slice was dripped with a different essence and thrown into the pot, along with a large amount of other ingredients.

He covered the pot and simmered it on low heat.

Then, Yun Ye took out another type of meat and placed it in the pressure cooker, adding essence every ten minutes.

After thirty minutes, the meat was ready.

A transparent, lotus-like heart of meat sank in the boiling water, and the impurities dissolved without needing to be cut.

He fished it out, ground it into powder, opened the Blood Ox meat pot, and poured everything inside… boom! Boom!

The cooking produced a low rumble of thunder!

This was a strong reaction of spirit energy!

Yun Ye quickly covered the pot to prevent the spirit energy from escaping.

Half a minute later, the thunder subsided, and Yun Ye, filled with anticipation, lifted the lid—

A radiant glow burst forth, lighting up Yun Ye’s face with colors.

The red Blood Ox meat had developed lotus-shaped patterns inside, and its fragrance was intoxicating, completely different from ordinary Superior Food. Without thinking, Yun Ye instinctively picked up a piece of meat and took a bite.

The meat was extraordinary; it broke apart easily and turned into juice as it flowed into his stomach, causing Yun Ye to feel a fire igniting in his belly, quickly spreading throughout his body.

“This is… massive life energy bursting forth?”

Yun Ye was astonished; he didn’t even need to practice cultivation, and his Qi Cultivation Technique was advancing spontaneously!

“Is this Spirit-level Superior Food? Is this the lowest level of Spiritual Herbs?”

Yun Ye finally understood what luxury meant!

Having consumed three bowls felt like he had practiced Qi Cultivation for a whole year, which was incredibly fast!

With a limited vocabulary, Yun Ye could only express one feeling… this food was terrifyingly amazing!

Yun Ye quickly finished the bowl of Superior Food.

Although the meat was fragrant, it had no real taste; each piece melted in his mouth like water. After eating it all, Yun Ye felt he could still eat two more bowls.

In Yun Ye’s opinion, just one bowl had the potency of fifty portions of normal food; three bowls equated to one hundred and fifty portions, far exceeding the lowest requirement of one hundred for Spirit-level food.

However, the cost of production was also increasing…

It took thirty portions of Blood Ox meat to create one serving of Blood Ox Spirit Food, plus some various miscellaneous ingredients, bringing the cost close to seven hundred dark copper.

Spending two thousand dark copper a day, while not much compared to a year’s worth of cultivation, was still too suspicious to pay for Blood Ox meat in such a short time.

Even if he claimed it was for practice, it seemed a bit exaggerated; continuing this way was not careful enough.

Perhaps he should purchase large quantities of materials under the guise of training family Superior Food chefs and make Spirit-level Superior Food at the estate in Baishi Town, while also training Wang Yao.

“By that logic, I should buy land and become a landlord. If I grow the ingredients myself, not only would the costs drop significantly, but outsiders wouldn’t know how many materials I used to create the Superior Food.”

Yun Ye left the kitchen and brought in another twenty pounds of ingredients, while Chunyu and Xiahua took the discarded meat outside to bury it.

“What a waste! So much meat, how much has Yang Shi spent to learn to make Superior Food?”

Chunyu couldn’t help but feel regret.

Those exquisite pieces of meat became waste after just sitting in there for a while, which was truly extravagant.

“This is the necessary tuition for learning. Lord Yang Shi won’t necessarily stay with the Black Armored Army, and when the time comes, I can make it myself and save a lot of money. Now, stop being lazy and hurry up! There’s more meat to process!”

Xiahua urged, exasperated.

“Yes, Xiahua sister!”

“Come here!”

“Ah, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

…

While waiting, Yun Ye practiced the Qi Cultivation Technique.

His skin quickly flushed red, and white vapor rose around him as he felt his cultivation level rising rapidly.

If he divided the progress bar of perfect cultivation into 100, he was originally around 5%, which would take at least a decade to complete.

But after eating three bowls of Spirit-level Superior Food, the progress bar visibly climbed.

In a short time, it rose by 1%, and there was still more potential.

At this rate, he could probably increase his cultivation by about 3 to 5% in a single day.

If he continued eating like this for a month, he would definitely reach perfect mastery of the Qi Cultivation Technique!

This was the technique after awakening the Spiritual Roots, and it was being worn down by spirit energy every day, making it significantly harder to improve than before, so reaching perfection in just a month was astonishing!