17
The wontons stuffed with pumpkin vine and chicken floated in the milky chicken soup, with a few small green vegetables floating in it. It's a pity that I didn't find chopped green onions and coriander, otherwise the color would be more beautiful.
Old Xia praised the food highly, and his goatee was covered with soup. He ate the wontons in a bowl for half an hour, like he was savoring a treasure: "It's delicious, better than the chefs at Yunyan Tower! You are worthy of being called the God of Cooking, and you have entered the Dao with your cooking skills!" Du Heng was embarrassed: "It's just so-so... Would you like some more?"
He didn't find ginger, onion or garlic, so the wonton filling must have tasted a little off. And there was no seasoning like MSG or chicken powder in this world, so Du Heng always felt that something was missing when he ate it. He felt embarrassed when he heard such comments.
Old Xia put down his chopsticks contentedly: "No, no, I've eaten too much." Du Heng nodded in understanding. It is normal for people to eat less as they get older and their stomach function becomes poor.
Xuan Yu ate three bowls of rice without showing any emotion. Du Heng was actually a little disappointed. Xuan Yu's expression was too calm, and it was hard to tell whether he liked it or not. He always ate three bowls, which made him feel unsatisfied.
Jing Nan's fighting power today was not as strong as last night. He ate three bowls like Xuan Yu: "Oh, it's delicious. But you can't eat too much. I was so full last night." Xuan Yu said: "If you feel full, just use your spiritual energy to dissolve it." Jing Nan glared back: "What's the difference between that and not eating? Isn't it a waste?"
Du Heng raised his eyebrows: "Hmm? What do you mean?" Jing Nan smiled and said, "It's like this. You also know that cultivators generally don't need special diet. As long as there is spiritual energy, they will not die." Du Heng nodded. After building the foundation, the cultivators can reduce the number of times they take fasting pills. When they reach the golden elixir stage, the cultivators can survive on spiritual energy.
Jing Nan said, "Because eating is a time-consuming thing, and it is far less convenient to absorb spiritual energy from food than from elixirs. There used to be cultivators in the cultivation world who relied on cooking to enter the Tao, but when those cultivators reached the Golden Core stage, they would often change their ambitions. Some would become depressed and some would start practicing from scratch. The higher the level of cultivation, the more spiritual energy is needed, and the spiritual energy that can be provided by food is increasingly scarce. This is a barrier that cultivators who rely on cooking to enter the Tao cannot cross. Doesn't it sound desperate?"
Du Heng nodded and shook his head: "Well...it seems to be really uncomfortable."
Jing Nan said, "After working so hard to cook a meal, the spiritual energy gained from the meal is not as good as taking a pill. In addition to spiritual energy, there are also a lot of residues in the food. If you take these, you need to spend spiritual energy to consume them. Often after a meal, once the spiritual energy circulates, only the residues are left in the stomach. It's a waste of time and effort and it's not worth it."
Du Heng's face darkened: "You make me feel like I have no sense of accomplishment at all."
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Don't say that. That's only true for most cultivators. You are different from them. The things you make are rich in spiritual energy, have less residue and taste good. And how should I put it..." Xuan Yu said to Jing Nan calmly, "Don't say that."
Jing Nan raised his eyebrows: "Okay, then I won't say any more." Du Heng was listening attentively, and he almost jumped up when he was suddenly interrupted: "Hey? Why don't you say anything? Come on and tell me."
Jing Nan said: "In short, you just need to remember one thing: what you do is good." Du Heng: ??? What are these two talking about? So annoying.
Old Xia wiped his mouth and put the empty bowl on the stove. He bowed to Du Heng and said, "Mr. Du, I have benefited a lot from tasting your cooking today." Du Heng: ...It's just a bowl of wontons. Do you have to be so serious? You've benefited a lot?
After eating the wontons, Du Heng washed the dishes, Jing Nan carried a basket on his back and went to take care of his spiritual plants, and Xuan Yu and Old Xia continued to build the house.
Du Heng was washing the dishes. He looked at Xiaoxiao who was drinking wonton soup and said, "Xiaoxiao, don't you feel uncomfortable after eating so much?" Xiaoxiao drank the wonton soup and shook her head, "Chirp, chirp." Du Heng rubbed Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Just don't overeat."
Xiaoxiao is so small, but he eats more than Xuanyu and Jingnan. Maybe he is in the process of growing up.
Du Heng looked towards Xuan Yu and the others, and saw spiritual energy flowing in Old Xia's hands, and bricks and stones emerging from his storage bag. Du Heng was not a graduate of architecture, so he didn't know how the bricks and stones were stacked, but he knew that the speed was extremely fast.
They didn't tamp the foundation like modern people do, but buried a layer of talismans underground. The talismans flashed with various colors of spiritual light, and even the bricks and stones placed on the talismans flashed with spiritual light. The bricks and stones were stacked up layer by layer, and Du Heng watched intently, and the movements of his hands stopped.
An hour later, the house had been built to the first floor. Du Heng looked at it and found that the layout of the house was just as shown, but the building in front of him was hundreds of times larger than the model shown. With Du Heng's ability, he could only see the front wall.
At this time, the superiority of the cultivators was revealed. When a cultivator has cultivated to a certain level, he will have spiritual consciousness. Spiritual consciousness is a projection of consciousness, which can leave the body and fly into the sky and hide in the ground, and can see things that the naked eye cannot see. Although Du Heng is a young cultivator at the first level of Qi training, he also has a spiritual consciousness that is ready to move.
But compared to other powerful beings whose spiritual consciousness could fly across thousands of mountains and rivers, Du Heng's spiritual consciousness could only reach less than three meters, not as far as Xiaoxiao's uncle's palace. Du Heng had his own way. He used the wood-inducing talisman to summon a three-meter-high ladder, then sat on the ladder and looked slowly with his spiritual consciousness.
Old Xia looked at Xuan Yu in embarrassment: "Mr. Xuan, look..." Xuan Yu looked at Du Heng, and then Du Heng's eyes went dark, and his consciousness was shot back into his eyes by a force. The sudden return of consciousness made Du Heng's body unstable, and he almost fell off the ladder. However, he could feel a strong spiritual energy around him supporting his body, and he knew it was Xuan Yu without thinking.
Du Heng felt a little aggrieved: "What's wrong?" Why can't I watch it?
Xuan Yu said slowly, "The formation that Elder Xia is going to place next is very powerful and will harm your consciousness." Don't you know what level of cultivation you are in? Do you have to make yourself bleed from all seven orifices to be happy? Hearing this, Du Heng could only get down from the ladder in dismay. The world of cultivation is much more complicated than the world he lives in.
Sometimes when you release your spiritual consciousness and encounter a powerful one, the weak one will be destroyed in a matter of minutes. If you release too many spiritual consciousnesses and they are destroyed by others, you might become a little fool. Du Heng thought he should not watch it. He might as well go to the fields to look for food. Maybe he can find something edible.
His meat dishes were all gone, and Xiaoxiao had gnawed all the chicken bones as snacks. Next, he could only find some vegetarian dishes. Fortunately, there were a lot of them here. I heard that many of them were brought from outside by Jingnan and planted here specially.
Jing Nan was fiddling with a bunch of red grass that was as tall as a person. It looked like purple sugar cane. When Du Heng walked over, Jing Nan was happy: "I've always said that building a house is not good. Why don't you join me in fiddling with spiritual plants?"
Du Heng asked Jing Nan with a smile: "Is this sugar cane?" It looked a lot like sugar cane, but Du Heng had never seen sugar cane with red leaves. Jing Nan said: "This is dragon building grass, which grows a leaf every hundred years. It contains rich spiritual energy, and many spiritual pills use it as medicine. It is a spiritual plant with fire attributes, which is helpful for cultivators with fire spiritual roots."
Du Heng knew about the five elements of spiritual roots. Spiritual roots were the foundation of cultivation. Whether a person could cultivate depended on whether he had spiritual roots. Du Heng was originally a cultivator with low-grade wood spiritual roots. Cultivators with single spiritual roots could cultivate quickly and would often walk more smoothly on the path of cultivation. However, the quality of Du Heng's original spiritual roots was too low. If he had a medium-grade spiritual root, he might have been accepted as an inner disciple by the cultivators of Medicine King Valley. However, low-grade spiritual roots could only do odd jobs.
Spiritual roots are like ladders, which determine how high a cultivator can climb on the path of cultivation. The original owner with low-grade spiritual roots was holding a rotten ladder, which could only allow him to stand a little higher than an ordinary person. If he wanted to go higher, his spiritual roots would not allow him to do so, and he would fall down.
Du Heng looked at the dragon-building grass in front of him and smiled: "It looks like sugar cane." Jing Nan laughed: "Sugar cane? It does look like it. Dragon-building grass tastes like sugar cane, but you can't eat it carelessly. Especially those that are a certain age. The few dragon-building grasses I have here will cause even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage to explode if they eat them."
Body explosion is another piece of trivia in the world of cultivation. The so-called body explosion refers to the situation where the physical body is blown up by spiritual energy. If the human body is compared to a balloon, it can only hold so much spiritual energy. If you want to fill the balloon with several times more spiritual energy, the balloon will burst with a snap.
Du Heng's original body had seen a fellow disciple who had been blown up. That fellow disciple had taken an 800-year-old purple Ganoderma lucidum. Then he fell to the ground like a broken hot water bottle, and the bleeding could not be stopped.
Of course Du Heng would not be stupid enough to chew the dragon-building grass. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't be that stupid." Jing Nan nodded implicitly. He looked Du Heng up and down and said, "Come to think of it, you should have a top-grade wood spiritual root, right? How come you are only at the first level of Qi training?"
Du Heng was confused: "Top-grade wood spiritual roots? Doctor Jing, you must have made a mistake. I have low-grade wood spiritual roots." The elders of Medicine King Valley had tested it when I was first admitted, and Du Heng had found it in the original owner's memory. It had only been a few days, but Du Heng actually felt that the memory of the original owner was like it was imprinted in his mind. He even had a feeling that it was something he had experienced.
Jing Nan said affirmatively: "My eyes can't be wrong. Here, hold this." Jing Nan took out a palm-sized piece of white jade from his waist: "This is flawless jade, which can judge the spiritual roots of cultivators."
Du Heng took out the flawless jade, and saw that the warm white jade in Jing Nan's hand turned into emerald green when it fell into his palm, like the color of tourmaline, but it was warmer than tourmaline. Jing Nan smiled and said, "See, it's a top-grade wood spirit root, I'm right."
Du Heng was a little stunned. What happened? Why did his spiritual roots suddenly change?
Du Heng suddenly remembered something. He came to the Taixu Realm and broke into the body of the original owner because of the Huantian Pearl! Could it be that because of the Huantian Pearl, his spiritual roots changed?
Jing Nan held his chin and smiled: "Hmm~ Interesting. Ah Heng, how about you follow me to practice? I promise to transform into an infant in a hundred years and a god in a thousand years?" Du Heng was helpless. He returned the flawless jade to Jing Nan: "Doctor Jing, please stop teasing me."
There are only a few out-of-body cultivators in the world. Didn't you see Yan Buhui resort to all means to achieve out-of-body? Jing Nan said that becoming a baby and becoming a god was as easy as eating. Du Heng would be foolish to believe him.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
