After mastering the Nine Palaces Stance Technique, standing in the stance for five hours every day can increase Qi and Blood Value by 0.5. Based on Chen Feng's current Qi and Blood Value, he will be able to break through to the late stage of the Ninth Rank by the time of the college entrance examination.

Once the Wild Bull Fist is perfected, it can double the attack power. With 10 points of health, it can unleash an attack power equivalent to 30 points of health, comparable to a typical late-stage ninth-rank martial artist.

After mastering the Meteor Step, Chen Feng's speed can be increased by two times, and as long as his Qi and Blood are not depleted, he can travel at three times the speed.

During this period, Chen Feng ignored everything else and focused solely on cultivation. After consuming half of his experience, he finally reaped considerable rewards.

Seeing that he still had a lot of experience points left, Chen Feng impulsively added 130 experience points to his cooking skills, wanting to try out his skills after mastering them.

However, to his surprise, after mastering his culinary skills, he transformed them into spiritual culinary arts. A wealth of knowledge and experience about spiritual cooking flooded into his mind, and after digesting it, Chen Feng mastered the methods for making various spiritual foods.

Spiritual food is a special product of this world. Only martial artists can become spiritual chefs. They cook spiritual plants, spiritual herbs, spiritual grasses, and wild beast meat into food imbued with spiritual energy, which can assist martial artists in their cultivation and improve their qi and blood.

The difference between spiritual food and ordinary spiritual objects is that eating ordinary spiritual objects directly would waste a lot of energy and would not be easily absorbed by martial artists, while cooking them into spiritual food can maximize the use of the spiritual objects' energy.

In Jiangzhou City, out of more than two million people, there are no more than ten people with culinary skills, and they have all been hired by big hotels and restaurants with high salaries.

It's fair to say that hotels and restaurants without a spiritual chef are only second-rate in Jiangzhou and even major cities. No matter how powerful their background, they won't gain the recognition of martial arts experts.

To become a spirit chef, one must not only be a martial artist or skilled in cooking, but also possess talent—the talent to handle various spirit objects and the talent to cook various spirit foods. Both are indispensable.

Name: Chen Feng

Qi and Blood: 14.2

Realm: Early Stage of Rank Nine

Exercise: Level D: Nine Palaces Stance Exercise (Perfect)

Martial Arts: Rank D: Raging Bull Fist (Perfect), Meteor Step (Perfect)

Basic Swordsmanship (Perfect)

Skill: Chef (Beginner 1/400)

Experience: 3058

This is precisely why Chen Feng was shocked and excited after discovering that he had become a spirit chef. Because with the skills of a spirit chef, he no longer needed to hunt wild beasts in the wilderness. He could simply become a contracted spirit chef at a large hotel and earn a high salary.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng invested another 400 experience points to upgrade his Spirit Chef skill: Spirit Chef (Minor Success 1/800)

After mastering some of his spiritual cooking skills, Chen Feng learned more methods for making spiritual foods, including those that enhance qi and blood, those that heal injuries, those that replenish qi and blood, and those that detoxify.

However, the experience required to upgrade a culinary skill to perfection is equivalent to the experience required to upgrade a D-level cultivation technique or two D-level martial arts techniques to perfection.

Chen Feng thought about it and realized that his current spiritual cooking skills were sufficient. There was no need to spend more experience on spiritual cooking skills, since he was not a professional spiritual chef.

Of course, now that I have the skill of a spirit chef, I should use it to help me practice the Nine Palaces Stance Technique and increase my Qi and Blood value every day.

"Brother Ping, come with me to the market tomorrow, I have something good to tell you," Chen Feng whispered to Zhou Ping after school.

"Brother Feng, what good news is it? Could you tell me first? Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight," Zhou Ping asked quietly.

"I've become a spirit chef. Last night I comprehended a spirit recipe for a Qi and Blood Soup. I want to try to make it, as it can help us increase our Qi and Blood value by 0.1 every day." Chen Feng decided to reveal the simplest spirit food first.

"What? Really, Brother Feng? Okay, I'll come to see you first thing tomorrow morning," Zhou Ping said excitedly.

He knew that, given his relationship with Chen Feng, if the Qi and Blood Soup was actually made, he would definitely get a share. And with an extra 0.1 Qi and Blood points every day, he could get an extra 3.6 Qi and Blood points by the time of the college entrance examination, and he would have a chance to reach 20 Qi and Blood points.

Just like half a month ago, Chen Feng gave him a guide to practicing various basic martial arts techniques, which helped Zhou Ping master all three basic martial arts techniques to the highest level within half a month.

Of course, it might be unrealistic for Zhou Ping to master all three basic martial arts techniques before the college entrance examination, but he can at least master one of them, which will give him extra points on the exam and help him get into a good martial arts university.

At seven o'clock in the morning on May 1st, Zhou Ping couldn't wait to knock on Chen Feng's door. Fortunately, Chen Feng had already gotten up, because if you want to buy fresh wild animal meat, you have to go to the market early in the morning.

Jiangzhou Yuanye Market is a large market covering more than 20 acres. It not only has meat and vegetable trading areas for ordinary people, but also spiritual plants and wild beast meat trading areas for martial artists.

"Brother Feng, I've brought all my New Year's money from when I was a child, a total of 23,000 yuan. Do you think that's enough?" Zhou Ping asked Chen Feng in a low voice.

"Brother Ping, what are you doing with so much money? I asked you to come with me to buy groceries, not to pay for them," Chen Feng quickly said.

“I know that making spiritual food is not cheap, and I don’t want to take advantage of you. Aren’t you still paying off two houses? I’ll just pay the cost price and waive the production fee. Otherwise, I’ll feel embarrassed to ask for it later,” Zhou Ping insisted.

"Okay." Chen Feng thought about it and agreed, because it was out of respect for Zhou Ping; otherwise, their friendship might not be able to continue.

Moreover, Chen Feng had another idea: if making the Qi and Blood Soup wasn't too complicated and didn't take too much time, he could help by having Zhou Ping buy the ingredients and secretly sell some to the classmates.

Making Qi and Blood Soup requires several spiritual plants, such as Qi-Nourishing Grass, Beast Blood Crow, Star Spirit Fruit, Wild Beast Meat and Bones, etc., so the two of them went to the market to select and buy them.

Using his culinary skills, Chen Feng could discern the freshness of various ingredients and the amount of energy they contained. Therefore, he spent two hours carefully selecting and purchasing several large bags of materials.

"The cost of these materials is nearly 5,000 yuan. If all the ingredients are successfully made, they can make ten servings of Qi and Blood Soup, with an average cost of 500 yuan per serving."

Chen Feng and Zhou Ping calculated the cost of purchasing the materials and the number of Qi and Blood Soup that could be made, and finally concluded that the cost price was five hundred yuan per serving.

"One serving a day costs 500 yuan. There are still 37 days until the college entrance examination. I only need 18,500 yuan, which is enough." Zhou Ping also calculated his New Year's money and found that it was enough for one serving of Qi and Blood Soup every day.

"Brother Ping, how much would you be willing to pay per serving for this Qi and Blood Soup if we sold it to our classmates?" Chen Feng asked Zhou Ping.

"If it were me, I would be willing to buy each portion for two to three thousand yuan if given the opportunity," Zhou Ping said after thinking for a moment.