Star Gate is indeed powerful.
This place imprisons the world's most skilled craftsmen, the most complete set of materials, and divine-grade forging furnaces.
The craftsmen worked tirelessly throughout the day to forge this enormous Purple Heaven Divine Mirror.
It can connect the communication artifacts of multiple cultivators, enabling them to communicate remotely face-to-face.
In addition to the function of multi-person online video, it also allows cultivators to smell the scents and hear the sounds of this place.
The Purple Cloud Divine Mirror was so large that it couldn't even fit in the courtyard Xingye had given her. After it was completed, it was moved to the training ground. Zhao Xi thought the place was spacious, so she started taking classes there.
"Alright, stop prying into my life. Come on, let's hurry up, I don't have much time to show you~" Zhao Xi wanted to show the cultivator in the mirror how she rolled the dough into a ball.
The group stared wide-eyed, then suddenly leaned closer to examine her gestures closely.
As expected of the Alliance Leader, even when trapped in enemy territory, he doesn't forget to do business.
This private lesson costs 300,000 high-grade spirit stones and only teaches how to make three kinds of pastries.
Boil the spring water, add glutinous rice flour and stir with chopsticks until the glutinous rice flour sticks together. Then mix in half of the dry glutinous rice flour and knead into a dough for making glutinous rice balls.
The filling is flexible, including sesame, peanut, meat, and other flavors.
The steamed buns are made with cold water dough and need to ferment. Even though it's a flat strip, when you flip it over and fold it, it can still be rolled into a flower shape.
Steamed cake is the simplest to make; just put flour and water together and add any other ingredients you like.
"Alliance Leader, you know so many fancy tricks, why do you only teach these plain ones? Do you think we're stupid and don't want to teach us?"
“Stir-frying is indeed prone to failure, but making pastries is relatively simple. As long as you follow the steps, there generally won't be any problems, and they can also be stored,” Zhao Xi tried to inspire. “This glutinous rice uses the hot water method. You can try using other flours; the effect is quite different from making it with cold water. Adding sourdough will cause it to expand and ferment, but what if you use alkaline water and stretch it out? Wouldn't that be like soup dumplings? You can add whatever you want to this steamed cake according to your taste and spiritual root attributes. The preparation method can also be changed. I used to teach you to boil glutinous rice balls, but what if you fry, steam, or bake them instead?”
The main problem was that the entire village was flooded by the floodwaters from Linche. The water carried a lot of bacteria, and food became inedible after being submerged.
She's already quite lucky to have managed to get this much flour and glutinous rice flour.
The main reason she's showing up here today is under the pretext of wanting to earn some extra money.
Of course, there are other purposes involved.
"I see! No wonder the Alliance Leader charges so many spirit stones for a single lesson. With just this one lesson, we can learn by analogy and develop other recipes based on this."
"Actually, I don't like learning those big-pot stir-fries and knife skills. Those are all superficial. We cultivators spend most of our time cultivating in natural caves. Where would we find the time to light a stove and cook? At most, we brew tea and eat some snacks. The Alliance Master's instruction to make pastries is exactly what I want!"
The new and old disciples of the Star Gate stood around.
Some had only just absorbed demonic energy, their golden cores still solidified. There were also disciples who had been rescued from the calamity a few days prior.
They were waiting for Zhao Xi to give them a reward.
The reward, of course, was the steamed buns, glutinous rice balls, and steamed cakes she made.
After being placed in the steamer, a layer of fresh lotus leaves was laid underneath, and the aroma of the pastries wafted out. This smoky and chaotic place of the Demon Sect had a refreshing scent that was different from usual.
The smell was indistinguishable from ordinary pastries, but this pure spiritual energy was something they could only dream of.
Zhao Xi, intending to place the kneaded pastries into the steamer according to their type, gently inspired, "In ancient times, when our ancestors were still playing in the mud, they ate wild animals, picked wild fruits, and ate raw fish. Occasionally, a bolt of lightning would strike the forest, causing a forest fire, and the wild animals and raw fish would be thoroughly cooked. They occasionally discovered that meat roasted by the natural fire's spiritual energy was tender and delicious, with less fishy smell and its essence extracted. Do you know why?"
"Why?" "Isn't that the effect of fire?" "Because it was roasted by fire!"
Zhao Xi smiled and asked, "Why can fire do that?"
Not only were the people on the other end of the magic weapon stunned, but even the disciples watching were dumbfounded.
Fire is just like that, it's natural, why is there any reason why?
"Flame naturally possesses immense offensive power, transmitting heat to other entities through radiation, convection, and conduction. It can purify and refine all things in a domineering manner, eliminating the dross and retaining the essence. It is the most vital of all spiritual energies."
Upon hearing this, the cultivators who specialized in fire magic cheered.
"That's absolutely right!"
Zhao Xi thought, "But fire is the easiest to disappear. Not only water, but any metal, wood, or earth, even if blown by a strong wind, will vanish into thin air and become a wisp of black smoke."
"The alliance leader is so familiar with fire elemental energy, could he really be the God of Fire?"
"Many demons say that the Star Gate will soon have a Fire God, which has fooled many fools into joining. Could that Fire God be you?!"
Zhao Xixiang nodded slightly: "It is indeed me, but I will not become the God of Fire unless I awaken. I am Zhao Xixiang, your leader. I was temporarily captured at the Star Gate."
The onlookers quietly dispersed.
I originally thought this woman was cunning because she decisively divorced the Water God and pleased the Demon Lord.
Unexpectedly, Hoshino denied it again simply because he hadn't personally kept watch.
This woman isn't smart enough; she doesn't know how to hide herself. She might be disliked by Hoshino in just a few days. She's not worth their flattery.
By the time Zhao Xi had earned enough spirit stones for her alliance, closed the Divine Mirror, and was ready to distribute the noodles, there were only a few disciples left watching.
These people had long admired her and just wanted to try her cooking. After taking the snacks, they left without exchanging many pleasantries with her.
She carried the food box back to the courtyard, and saw a dark shadow flash in front of her.
Thump—
The food box fell to the ground.
She was forced to the ground backward by a tremendous force.
Hoshino pressed his hand against her chest, immobilizing her, and held a red and black spirit pearl in his hand, his chest heaving violently: "Zhao Xixiang, you're lying to me, this isn't the origin at all! The origin is still in the Abyss Volcano!"
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Treehouse in the Zoo.
The lesser demon cultivators crowded behind the table, watching Zhao Xi in the teleportation artifact.
Xiao Ding sniffed: "Look, the headmistress is teaching a class, and she doesn't seem to be hurt. Hoshino still cares about our past relationship; she won't hurt her!"
Tongyue snorted: "Is this the time to discuss this? Whether she's injured or not, she'll become a different person in a few days. Is the old Hoshino the same person as the current Hoshino?!"
"I think so." Xiao Jia sat in the corner. His hand had been broken by Xingye and tainted with demonic energy, and it had not yet healed.
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