"I have all of these ingredients, but isn't twenty-two percent a little too little?"
From Kong Ying's point of view, Gu Zheng did not ask for an exorbitant price because he thought highly of him. However, he felt that he was mistreating Gu Zheng by only paying twenty-two percent of the total value of the ingredients. After all, as long as Gu Zheng could cure this illness, he would feel that it was worth it even if he had to pay ten times more, let alone twenty-two percent of the total value of the ingredients. After all, this was a life-saving treatment!
"The rules are as they are. I can't raise the price just because Fellow Daoist Kong is in a hurry to cure your illness."
Gu Zheng smiled faintly and said, "Fellow Daoist Kong, let me get the primer. Once I get the primer, I can perform the food therapy for you. "
The primer that Gu Zheng was referring to was some of Kong Ying's blood. Although it would be extremely painful for him to bleed Kong Ying, there was nothing he could do about it.
"Sect Leader Gu, do it!" Kong Ying gritted his teeth.
Gu Zheng nodded and took out a jade bottle. He slit Kong Ying's palm and blood immediately flowed out.
"Ugh …"
As soon as the blood flowed out, Kong Ying groaned and his body trembled. He gritted his teeth and tried his best not to make a sound. However, he only managed to hold on for three seconds before he screamed in agony.
Fortunately, he only let Kong Ying bleed for five seconds. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Return to Void Pinnacle Stage would scream in agony after five seconds of blood loss.
"Sect Leader Gu, please!"
Kong Ying looked at Gu Zheng with pain in his eyes. His voice was unbearable. Only a terminally ill person would make such a complicated sound when asking for help!
"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Kong, please wait a moment!"
Gu Zheng immediately went into the kitchen and took out the ingredients that Kong Ying had given him.
In addition to the primer, Gu Zheng was going to make a total of six ingredients for the diet therapy. They were: Fire Phoenix Orchid, Phoenix Blood Wood, Wolf Meat, Ambergris, Chicken Blood Fruit, and Celestial Swallowing Flower petals.
Every ingredient had its uses when dealing with the 'Blood Worm Gu'. Gu Zheng felt that only by properly cooking these ingredients could Kong Ying's illness be cured.
Gu Zheng used an immortal technique to maintain the jade bottle containing Kong Ying's blood at a suitable temperature. This temperature prevented the blood from solidifying, and also prevented the Blood Worm Gu from dying.
He lit the ambergris and put its ashes into the water. Then, he threw all the parts of the Fire Phoenix Orchid except for the stamen and slowly stewed it over a small fire.
Gu Zheng had once used the Phoenix Blood Wood to repair the Primal Chaos Pagoda, but its juice was not only rich in immortal essence, it also had medicinal properties. After squeezing out the juice from the Phoenix Blood Wood, Gu Zheng used the Water Control Art to remove the unnecessary components and put it aside for future use.
After drizzling the juice from the Chicken Blood Fruit over the Wolf Meat, Gu Zheng used his immortal power to knead the Wolf Meat a few times and put it into the basket to steam.
The Celestial Swallowing Flower was a strange flower in the Primordial World. It was a combination of animals and plants, and could hunt cultivators with lower cultivation levels. Therefore, it had such a name.
The petals of the Celestial Swallowing Flower were like the leaves of a succulent plant. They contained a large amount of juice with a strange taste. After Gu Zheng squeezed out the juice, he put it aside for future use.
The preparation work was done. Gu Zheng poured the water used to stew the Fire Phoenix Orchid into another pot and threw the steamed Wolf Meat into it. He used the Water Control Art and the Fire Control Art at the same time to cook the food in the pot.
After a minute, Gu Zheng took out the Wolf Meat from the pot and poured the juice of the Celestial Swallowing Flower over it. Then, he put it into the basket and steamed it for another minute.
After the Wolf Meat was out of the pot, Gu Zheng covered the plate and carried it out of the kitchen.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, you're so fast!"
Although Kong Ying had been anxiously waiting, Gu Zheng only used a few minutes to prepare the food therapy. This speed was a little beyond his imagination.
"I know you're anxiously waiting, so I tried my best not to waste any time," Gu Zheng said with a smile.
"Let me see how good Fellow Daoist Gu's cooking skills are."
Kong Ying excitedly lifted the lid on the plate. His eyes widened, and he stuttered, "This … This …"
Kong Ying had imagined all kinds of food therapy, but he really didn't expect that Gu Zheng's food therapy would be like a piece of meat that was like an inkstone.
In the Desolate Era, Kong Ying was a frequent customer of the Immortal Kitchen Store, so he knew some things about Immortal Chefs. In his imagination, he thought that the food therapy this time would have an extremely fragrant form, but he didn't expect that not only did it not have an extremely fragrant form, even the smell was very strange. While the smell of blood was strong, there was also a faint fragrance.
"What's wrong?" Gu Zheng asked.
"Nothing!"
Kong Ying replied and was about to pick up the chopsticks on the table to eat.
"Fellow Daoist Kong, you misunderstood! The food therapy for you is not to let you eat, but to use food to treat your illness and draw out the 'Blood Worm Gu' in your body! "Gu Zheng said.
"Oh? This piece of meat can draw out the 'Blood Worm Gu'? "
Although Kong Ying was experienced and knowledgeable, he couldn't help but be surprised. This was really a unique treatment method.
"Yes! When I tell you to bleed later, you will bleed. This is the last step of the food therapy for the 'Blood Worm Gu'! "Gu Zheng said.
"Okay!"
Kong Ying excitedly stretched out his arm and placed it on the plate.
Gu Zheng poured Kong Ying's blood into the indentation of the Wolf Meat Pie. Then, he took out the stamen of the Flaming Phoenix Orchid, which he hadn't used until now.
The stamen of the Flaming Phoenix Orchid was in the shape of a silk thread, which looked like the tail feathers of a phoenix. Gu Zheng's heart stirred. After igniting it with a flame from his fingertip, he let it fall into Kong Ying's blood.
When the stamen of the Flaming Phoenix Orchid fell into Kong Ying's blood, it had already turned into pink ashes. Once it entered Kong Ying's blood, it immediately caused his blood to boil.
Not only that, but the fragrant smell of blood had also reached its peak at this moment. A lot of blood-red mist floated out from the food and condensed, finally forming the shape of a fire phoenix, circling around the food and dancing.
"Now is the time!"
Actually, even without Gu Zheng's reminder, Kong Ying also felt that it was time. This was because he felt an unprecedented restlessness in his blood. It was as if the Blood Worm Gu was in a hurry to escape but couldn't find a vent.
Immortal power passed through his fingertip and Kong Ying opened a wound on his wrist. Blood immediately flowed into the plate.
Unlike before, when he bled, he would feel excruciating pain. Now, not only did Kong Ying not feel any pain, he even felt an indescribable sense of carefreeness! And in his eyes, the Blood Worm Gu in his blood were scrambling to swim out.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, this, this is really amazing!"
Kong Ying's excited voice trembled, but Gu Zheng only smiled slightly and didn't say anything.
Gu Zheng looked at the Blood Worm Gu as an ingredient. What ingredients were compatible with what ingredients, and what ingredients resonated with what ingredients. For ordinary people, these mysteries could only be understood by relying on experience. However, to Gu Zheng, all of this was clear at a glance. Moreover, he already had an answer from his experience! Even when he was inexperienced, he knew roughly what kind of things were needed to blend ingredients with each other.
It didn't take long for all the Blood Worm Gu that had troubled Kong Ying for more than a hundred years to escape from his blood. He couldn't find a single one in his inner vision.
Turning into a ray of light, Kong Ying flew out of the window of the Great Fragrance Villa. Standing in the void, he let out a long howl toward the sky.
More than a hundred years of torment, more than a hundred years of trouble, more than a hundred years of grievance, finally came to an end today.
When Kong Ying flew back to the Great Fragrance Villa again, his expression was much calmer. Now that his chronic illness had been cured, although he was still very thin, he not only appeared to be in high spirits, but the arrogance of a cultivator at the peak of the Return to Void Stage also naturally appeared on his face.
"Fellow Daoist, thank you!"
Kong Ying bowed to Gu Zheng. His voice was slow and serious, and even the way he addressed him had changed.
"You're welcome. Congratulations on curing your chronic illness!"
In response to Kong Ying's bow, Gu Zheng didn't stop him. While accepting it calmly, he also changed the way he addressed him.
"This is all thanks to you, Fellow Daoist!"
Kong Ying's emotional voice paused for a moment, and then he smiled. "Fellow Daoist, you cured my chronic illness, so I should thank you greatly. Please don't refuse, Fellow Daoist. This is an oath that has existed in my heart for a long time!"
As soon as Kong Ying finished speaking, he saw that Gu Zheng was about to refuse, so he immediately spoke again. "Fellow Daoist, you don't want to see me betray my conscience and die in the Inner Demon Realm when I attack Jin Xian in the future, right?"
"Since it involves the oath that Fellow Daoist once made, then this Gu will respectfully accept it."
Gu Zheng wasn't pretentious. Since Kong Ying insisted on giving it to him, he would accept it with a clear conscience.
"Regarding my oath, there are two types of rewards! If it's for you, Fellow Daoist, I'll designate a large batch of high-grade ingredients or a high-grade ingredient. Which one would you like to choose? "Kong Ying asked.
"I'll choose the high-grade one!"
Hearing Kong Ying's words, Gu Zheng's heart was somewhat excited. Kong Ying was a frequent customer of the Immortal Kitchen, and his cultivation base was at the peak of the Void Return Realm. The high-grade ingredient he mentioned would definitely not be of the excellent grade! Then, what was the ingredient that was of a higher grade than the excellent grade? The answer was obvious!
"Although this Kong Ying has collected many ingredients, and there is no lack of precious ones, this is the only top-grade one! Not only can it be used to refine pills, but it can also be used to refine tools! If it wasn't for you, Sect Master Gu, and if it was someone else who saved me, I wouldn't have taken it as a reward for my oath! "
Kong Ying took out the item he mentioned. It was a tail that looked a bit like an ox's tail, but its grade was indeed of the highest grade.
"This is a Qilin's tail?" Gu Zheng's eyes widened.
According to legend, the Qilin had the head of a lion, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a tiger, the body of a scorpion, the scales of a dragon, and the tail of an ox.
"That's right, this is a Qilin's tail!" Kong Ying said.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist."
Gu Zheng accepted the Qilin's tail, his heart blooming with joy.
With this Qilin's tail, Gu Zheng now had three high-grade ingredients in his storage.
Kong Ying had just recovered from a serious illness, and he still had many things to do. After chatting with Gu Zheng for a while, he didn't even have time to eat before taking his leave.
However, Kong Ying also told Gu Zheng that he would come back to the Extreme Fragrance Villa to taste Gu Zheng's cooking skills after he was done with his current affairs.
During the conversation between Gu Zheng and Kong Ying, Gu Zheng naturally asked Kong Ying if he had the Immortal Wind Grass and the Cloud Scraping Beast's bone, two resources that were urgently needed to repair the Chaos Tower.
Unfortunately, like the majority of people, Kong Ying felt that the grade of these two resources was not high enough, so he didn't collect them.
Not long after Kong Ying left, near noon, the Extreme Fragrance Villa was once again bustling with activity.
"Today's business is pretty good. Including the table that's coming, this is already the fourth table of guests!"
Meow Meow looked at the sparkling jade in the kitchen and prepared to go out to greet the guests.
"Yes, today's business is really good. You go and greet the guests!"
Gu Zheng faintly smiled. Originally, there were only five customers left. Now, it was only noon, and another one was about to arrive.
Meow Meow obeyed the order and left. Gu Zheng was still cooking. After the island's immortal array was activated, he let the artifact spirit attach its divine sense to his divine sense to investigate the guests.
This time, the guests were two men and one woman. It was their first time coming here, so they met the criteria to eat in the Extreme Fragrance Villa.
However, among the three, only the man was a middle-stage Void Return cultivator. As for the two women, they had no cultivation at all. They were just two ordinary people. As for the appearance of the three, the man was a little dark and fat, and the woman was very beautiful.
"Boss, bring out all your signature dishes!"
The man hugged the two beauties as he walked into the Immortal Kitchen, shouting loudly even before he took a seat.
His loud voice always attracted other people's attention, and the guests in the other private rooms all turned to look at him! One had to know that this was the Immortal Kitchen, and there were no low-grade ingredients. Eating here was already painful, and yet, this new guest actually wanted to order the signature dishes here.
"Haha."
"Has this person never been to the Immortal Kitchen before?"
"I don't know. Maybe he's puffing himself up at his own cost!"
"He even brought two mortals to the Immortal Chef Shop. What a unique style!"
The guests in the other private rooms smiled and whispered to each other.
The truth was similar to what the guests had guessed. This man was called Wang Letian. Not long after he came out of the Desolate Era, he heard that there was an Immortal Kitchen on Earth. Thus, he brought his two most satisfied cultivation furnaces to broaden his horizons.
"What do you want to eat? Look at the menu first!"
Meow Meow was only responsible for bringing people into the Extreme Fragrance Villa. The person in charge of receiving Wang Letian was the Yang family's sister.
Regarding this noisy cultivator, the Yang family's sister despised him in her heart.
As a member of the Yang family, the Yang family's sister had the same special bloodline as Yang Zhenling and the Great Elder. That was, she could vaguely sense a person's cultivation level.
In the Yang family's sister's eyes, the Extreme Fragrance Villa had received many people with higher cultivation than Wang Letian, but none of them were noisy! Compared to them, this new guest was not like an immortal cultivator at all. Instead, he was like a nouveau riche from the outside world!
The menu of the Extreme Fragrance Villa was very detailed. What could be used to make each dish, which method could be used to pay, and how much one had to pay. All of these things were clear at a glance.
Wang Letian only looked at one page of the menu, and his eyes widened.
"Is there a mistake? The lowest grade ingredient on the menu is actually equivalent to a fourth-grade resource! "
Just as Wang Letian stood up in surprise, he realized that his reaction was a little excessive, especially in front of the furnace that he was satisfied with! Hence, Wang Letian looked at the menu and added with dissatisfaction, "When I was in the Immortal Kitchen of the Desolate Wasteland, the food I ate was made with fifth-grade or even special grade resources. I usually don't look at the food made with these low-grade resources!"
Fourth-grade resources were equivalent to second-grade ingredients. Fifth-grade resources were equivalent to ordinary ingredients. As for special grade resources, they were equivalent to middle-grade ingredients.
The Extreme Fragrance Villa did not only have high-grade dishes. On the first page of the menu, there were dishes made with second-grade ingredients, but that was only one page.
"Besides the first page, in the last few pages of the menu, the lowest grade ingredients are also equivalent to fifth-grade resources," the Yang family's sister said.
"So it's like that!"
Wang Letian said after realizing it. Then, he casually flipped through the menu.
It didn't matter if he didn't look, but once he did, Wang Letian's heart tightened. This was not an ordinary price!
"Master, what are fourth-grade resources? What are fifth-grade resources and special grade resources? How are these things divided into different grades? "
The white-clothed woman beside Wang Letian looked at him with a puzzled expression, which inadvertently resolved a lot of Wang Letian's embarrassment.
Putting down the menu, Wang Letian patiently introduced the items to the woman beside him.
After introducing the grades of the resources and their approximate value, Wang Letian introduced the grades of the ingredients to the two women, as well as their comparison with the other resources.
"Resources are divided into different grades, and ingredients are also divided into different grades. The worst is poisonous, followed by trash, low-grade, second-grade, ordinary, medium, good, and high grades. Second-grade is equivalent to fourth-grade resources, ordinary is equivalent to fifth-grade resources, medium is equivalent to special grade resources, and so on. "
Listening to Wang Letian's frank and assured explanation, the two women looked at him with eyes full of worship. However, they did not know that Wang Letian's knowledge of ingredients was only after looking at the menu.
"Master is so awesome. Unexpectedly, you know so many things. However, these things should look the same, right? How do we differentiate between the Normal and the Medium ranks? "
The black-clothed woman beside Wang Letian asked the question in her heart.
"Well, naturally, it depends on the experience of the Immortal Chefs. For people like you who are ordinary, naturally, you can't see the grades of the ingredients."
After saying this, Wang Letian's body was full of a sense of superiority. His eyes swept over the two women, and a wave of arrogance surged in the wind.
However, Wang Letian's aura only affected the two women beside him. The Yang family's younger sister was not affected, and the disdain in her heart became even stronger.
"Customer, what do you want to order?"
The Yang family's younger sister's tone was somewhat hurried. Seeing that Wang Letian had been pretending to be a wolf for a long time, she had already lost her original patience.
Wang Letian had enough of pretending. He threw the menu to the woman beside him and waved his hand. "Order whatever you want!"
"This' Dragon and Phoenix Bringing Prosperity 'sounds good, but I don't know how it tastes. I want this and this!"
The white-clothed woman rushed to speak first, ordering two dishes that she felt were not bad.
The black-clothed woman disdainfully looked at the white-clothed woman, then opened her mouth and said, "What dragon and phoenix? Just hearing it sounds vulgar and unbearable! I want 'Green Field Immortal Track' and 'Sea and Sky Blend', these two dishes! "
The impoliteness of the two cultivation furnaces made Wang Letian break out in cold sweat.
"What a wastrel! Do you really think that I'm taking you out to eat steak? If you want to eat me, do as you please? This is the f * cking Immortal Kitchen! The things you ordered were cooked with medium grade ingredients at the very least, and there were even excellent grade ingredients. You really don't feel any pain when you sit down and order! "Wang Letian cursed inwardly.
"Customer, I've already noted down the dishes you ordered. What else do you want to order?"
Ignoring the cold sweat on Wang Letian's face, the Yang family's younger sister was especially 'conscientious'.
Wang Letian's eyes lit up, and he said very generously, "They just ordered four dishes. Then, give me a soup!"
"Customer, what kind of soup do you want? Our 'Eight Treasures Soup', 'Jade Leaf Lotus Soup', and 'Golden Thread Honey Snow Soup' are all very famous! "
The Yang family's younger sister 'enthusiastically' recommended, but the corner of Wang Letian's mouth slightly twitched because she recommended very expensive soups!
"I want …"
The white-clothed woman rushed to speak first, but before she could finish, Wang Letian raised his hand and interrupted her.
"Take me to the kitchen. I want to ask the boss to make a soup that can beautify and nourish the skin. I want to let my two women taste it," Wang Letian said.
When the two women heard Wang Letian's words, their faces immediately bloomed with smiles. Their big, expressive eyes blinked as they looked at Wang Letian, as if they were saying, "Go quickly and come back quickly."
"Kitchen …"
The Yang family's younger sister was about to tell Wang Letian that the kitchen was an important place, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter. However, Wang Letian's voice had already resounded in her mind.
"Miss, I have something to see your boss about!" Wang Letian said.
"Follow me!"
The Yang family's younger sister frowned and led Wang Letian to the kitchen.
Gu Zheng was preparing the last dish of a customer. He quickly poured the contents of the pot into a plate, then covered it with a lid and handed it to Meow Meow who was waiting at the side.
"What's the matter?"
Gu Zheng looked at the Yang family's younger sister and glanced at Wang Letian who was beside her.
"Young Master, this customer says he has something to talk to you about," the Yang family's younger sister said.
"Alright, you can leave now!"
Gu Zheng asked the Yang family's younger sister to go outside and busy herself. Then, he looked at Wang Letian seriously.
The dark and fat Wang Letian was really ugly. His face looked like the skin of a toad. If he was seen at night, it would really give people a fright.
"This person must have been poisoned in his early years. Although he's fine now, the damage caused by the poison to his appearance is irreparable. Tsk tsk, such a person paired with those two beautiful women, and he's so noisy when he comes in. He really does look like a nouveau riche from Earth! "
The artifact spirit's voice sounded in Gu Zheng's mind.
"Ahem!"
Seeing that Gu Zheng was only looking at him without saying anything, Wang Letian coughed dryly and said in a slightly awkward manner, "It's like this. I, I want to ask Mr. Gu, if the four dishes I ordered don't have the corresponding ingredients, can I use other ingredients instead?"
Wang Letian was a little nervous. This was not entirely because of his request, but also because of the invisible pressure that Gu Zheng was exerting on him.
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