Chapter 489 Golden Light Curse (Thanks to book friend Bumie Lunhui for the reward)

"This question is a coincidence, and I came up with it at the right time, as the Lingchu Sect is going to hold a competition." Jiang Li took a look at the trial question and felt that he was lucky.

Commander Liu didn't know that Jiang Li was also going to participate in the candidacy for the Human Emperor, so he gave Jiang Li some trial questions. He didn't let Jiang Li pick them randomly, but asked him to choose from them. Some of the trial questions would be difficult to carry out if he missed the deadline.

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Candidates for the Human Emperor from all over the world were summoned to Jiang Li's consciousness space. There were two more faces among the candidates for the Human Emperor, Luo Ying and Luo Zhu.

Jiang Li greeted casually, without any airs: "Hello everyone, we meet again."

"Now that you've seen me, you should realize what you have to do. Yes, it's time to take the Human Emperor Candidate Test again."

"After the last fishing competition, I gave you an assignment to guess which two candidates for the Human Emperor caught the most fish. Has anyone come to a conclusion yet?"

Jiang Li glanced at the group of young boys with a smile. They all shook their heads in confusion. They thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure out who it was.

Seeing this, Jiang Li shook his head slightly, pretending to be disappointed with everyone.

Fortunately, I was not recognized and could continue to pretend to be a candidate for the Human Emperor.

"This time the test also does not involve cultivation."

"It is said that food is the most important thing for people. Food is indispensable for intelligent creatures. Although cultivators no longer need to eat after reaching a certain level of cultivation, is the purpose of food just to satisfy hunger?"

"Of course not."

"Eating is a kind of enjoyment, a kind of entertainment, and a method of cultivation. Eating delicious food can make people feel relaxed and happy, and eating food full of spiritual energy can improve your cultivation."

"It is for this reason that the Spiritual Kitchen was born."

"The Lingchu Sect is currently holding a competition, and all cultivators can participate. This time, the test for candidates to be Human Emperors requires winning the Lingchu Sect competition."

"Considering the sensitive nature of the candidate for the Human Emperor, participating in the competition as a candidate for the Human Emperor will cause a commotion, so everyone must hide their identities during this test."

"I will send you to the vicinity of Lingchu Sect, and you can go there on your own."

Jiang Li finished speaking and sent everyone away.

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Qi Sha Daozi happened to be traveling near Ling Chu Sect, so Jiang Li didn't need to move.

He told the little princess of the mermaid tribe and the little princess of the southern dragon tribe about the test of the candidate for the Human Emperor, and both women felt a little regretful.

"It's a pity that we didn't become candidates for the Human Emperor. Otherwise, with our cooking skills, it would be no problem for us to be the first."

Upon hearing this, Qi Sha Daozi shuddered and didn't want to recall the meals prepared by his two female companions when they were camping outdoors.

During the journey, Qi Sha Daozi was determined not to spend the night in the wild. He insisted on finding an inn, not to find a place to stay, but to find a place to eat.

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"Is there anyone among us three who can cook?" Yu Yin looked at Bai Hongtu and Jiang Li and thought to herself that she couldn't cook and had never seen these two brothers cook.

Yu Yin had only ever made simple food like roasted rabbit with salt. She knew the theory of cooking complex meals but had never put them into practice.

Yu Yin was not a person who was interested in eating. Her requirement for food was that it was edible. After the fasting period, she had never eaten except when Jiang Li or Bai Hongtu invited her.

Yu Yin had read books about spiritual chefs. The novel was about a certain Mahayana monk who was a hidden spiritual chef. He had superb cooking skills and even without using any seasonings, he could still make intoxicating food by just controlling the heat.

The Mahayana spiritual chef and the foodie heroine met in the jungle, and the chef captured the heroine's heart with a barbecue.

At the end of the novel, the heroine dies. The Mahayana spiritual chef is disheartened and ascends to the fairyland, where he discovers that the foodie heroine is actually the trial body of the immortal-eater. The heroine is not actually dead, but has returned to the fairyland and waited for the Mahayana spiritual chef to ascend.

The two finally lived happily together in the fairyland and gave birth to three children.

After reading it, Yu Yin rubbed his eyebrows and felt that he had wasted the whole day. What kind of nonsense was this?

"I can eat." Bai Hongtu told the truth. He had never cooked before.

Jiang Li is not much stronger than these two.

Commander Liu chose the content of this test perfectly, as it happened to be the blind spot of the three people.

The three of them started at the same starting line, and Yu Yin felt that she could possibly surpass Jiang Li.

Jiang Li looked nonchalant: "What are you saying? If you can't cook, you can't participate in the spiritual chef competition?"

Jiang Li took out his proof of being a Grand Master of Alchemy: "See? I won first place in the Alchemy Conference, and Su Wei had to rank behind me."

Yu Yin felt that the waters at the alchemy conference were very complicated.

She had witnessed Jiang Li's alchemy skills. When the three of them were still candidates for the Human Emperor, the Old Emperor assigned them a task to kill a certain demon monk.

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When the three were exhausted from fighting the demon monk, Jiang Li took out a blood-exploding pill. After taking it, one could squeeze out potential and increase strength by 50% in a short period of time.

As long as Jiang Li takes this pill, victory is destined to belong to them.

Unexpectedly, the demon monk used his magical powers to steal the Blood-Exploding Pill and took it directly.

Just when the three were in despair, the power of the demon monk suddenly decreased for no reason, leaving only half of its original power. Seeing this, the three attacked together and killed the demon monk.

Afterwards, Yu Yin asked what was going on with the Blood-Exploding Pill. Jiang Li said that he had made the Blood-Exploding Pill himself and had followed the recipe step by step, but somehow he ended up making a pill with the opposite effect.

Not only does it squeeze potential, it also sets power back.

From then on, whenever Yu Yin saw Jiang Li refining the elixir, she would avoid him.

When the three of them arrived at the Lingchu Sect, they found that it was overcrowded. Many monks with kitchen knives on their waists were walking back and forth. The number of Lingchus was so large that it was enough to subvert ordinary people's cognition.

These are all the famous spiritual chef masters in the Kyushu continent.

In the general impression of people, spirit chefs are scarce and it is rare to see real spirit chefs. This impression is actually correct, it’s just that the number of spirit chefs is small relative to the total number of cultivators.

The conferences held by the Lingchu Sect now attract spiritual chefs from all over the place. With all the spiritual chefs gathered together, there are naturally more people to see.

"I heard that after some chefs finish cooking a dish, when they open the lid, golden light will come out?" Yu Yin had heard some rumors. The Tianyuan Dynasty didn't even have an imperial kitchen, so she had never had much contact with spiritual chefs.

"Yes, this is the 'Golden Light Mantra' passed down orally among spiritual chefs. Before closing the lid, silently recite the 'Golden Light Mantra' towards the food, and it will make the food glow." Jiang Li had also eaten glowing candied haws.

"What's the use of this?"

“It’s impressive.”

"Why do I remember that when I was a child, spiritual chefs didn't have this skill." Bai Hongtu was a wandering monk of the Yuandao Sect. He had participated in many banquets when he was a child and had seen spiritual chefs cook, but this was never the case.

Jiang Li said calmly: "Because I wrote the Golden Light Curse."

“…”

As the three of them chatted, Jiang Li noticed that the candidates for the Human Emperor who had hidden their identities had all come here and completed their registration.

(End of this chapter)