Man is iron, rice is steel—skip a meal and you’ll feel weak with hunger.
Sect Leader Jun, who hadn’t eaten for six or seven days, was preparing to show off in front of his disciples. However, just as he landed in the great hall, his body went limp and he tumbled down from above.
Trying to show off only to lose face instead—how tragic and lamentable.
In the dining hall.
With a large bump on his head, Jun Changxiao was wolfing down food, with several empty plates already piled up beside him.
“Sect Leader, eat slower, don’t choke,” Liu Wanshi said worriedly.
“Phew!”
After eating several more plates of dishes and two bowls of rice, Jun Changxiao put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a napkin, saying, “Dudu, your cooking skills are getting better and better!”
It wasn’t that the cooking was good—he was just too hungry.
Even a bowl of cabbage boiled in water would taste like delicacies from land and sea to him right now.
“Sect Leader.”
Liu Wanshi blinked and said, “The culinary competition in Southwest Yang Province will start in a month.”
“Eh?”
Jun Changxiao scratched his head, looking rather embarrassed. “If you hadn’t mentioned it, this Seat would have completely forgotten.”
He’d experienced so many things recently, how could he remember?
Liu Wanshi’s eyes filled with resentment as she said dejectedly, “I knew the Sect Leader didn’t take it seriously.”
“Don’t worry.”
Jun Changxiao gave her a head pat, smiling gently. “This Seat will take you to participate and let the world know what a God of Cooking is!”
He’d promised before, so he would definitely take Liu Wanshi.
Moreover, now that the Zhenyang Commandery matter was resolved, there wasn’t much else going on.
He could spare some time to go out and look around. Maybe by some stroke of luck, he’d pick up another 4,988 Martial Kings with monstrous talent.
“Clap.”
Just as Jun Changxiao was daydreaming, Liu Wanshi placed a bowl of fried rice on the table and smiled. “This is my newly developed fried rice. After eating it, you can increase your strength. Sect Leader, please try it.”
Jun Changxiao immediately became nervous.
He’d once eaten strength-boosting food made by the little girl and ended up being carried to the medical hall for emergency treatment.
Definitely psychological trauma!
Liu Wanshi’s face was full of seriousness. “Sect Leader, this disciple now knows many medicinal ingredients like the back of her hand. The food developed this time definitely has no toxicity. Please eat it with confidence!”
Jun Changxiao still wasn’t reassured.
But seeing the little girl’s expectant expression, he couldn’t bear to refuse. He could only pick up the fried rice, then… walk out of the dining hall, call over Su Xiaomo who was playing ball outside, and say, “Eat this fried rice clean.”
He didn’t dare eat it himself, so he had a disciple do it.
How principled!
“Sect Leader.”
Su Xiaomo said, “This disciple just ate and isn’t hungry yet.”
“Just eat when told to eat, don’t talk nonsense.”
“Oh.”
Su Xiaomo took the fried rice.
Just as he was about to pick up the chopsticks to eat, he heard Liu Wanshi smile and say, “Senior Brother, this is strength-boosting food I developed. After eating it, you can increase your strength!”
“Ah?”
Su Xiaomo was immediately dumbfounded.
The image of the Sect Leader foaming at the mouth, convulsing all over, and being carried to the medical hall suddenly appeared before his eyes.
“Sect Leader…”
He almost cried. “Can this disciple not eat it?”
“You must eat.”
Jun Changxiao took out a pill. “This is an Antidote Pill. If you notice anything wrong, you can take it immediately.”
The Antidote Pill was already prepared!
I must approach this today with the determination to die as a poison tester!
“Sect Leader!”
Su Xiaomo held the fried rice, his gaze filled with resolve. “In the next life, this disciple will still be a disciple of the Iron Bones Clanging Sect!”
With that, he resolutely swallowed a mouthful.
Gradually.
Su Xiaomo’s complexion changed, his muscles began to twist, giving the impression that… he was poisoned!
Sect Leader Jun hurriedly moved to stuff the Antidote Pill in his mouth.
However, Su Xiaomo picked up the chopsticks and “chomp chomp” finished the fried rice, then said with wild joy, “Sect Leader, this fried rice is not only delicious, it really can increase strength!”
Gah.
Jun Changxiao was stunned.
…
Boom!
Su Xiaomo punched the testing machine, and the strength value displayed was 400,000 pounds!
During the month Sect Leader Jun was comprehending the Sword Dao, his realm had broken through from sixth-grade to seventh-grade Wuzong, with a tested strength value of 370,000 pounds.
In other words.
After eating Liu Wanshi’s fried rice, his strength increased by 30,000 pounds!
Some might say, that’s not much.
But you must understand, this was just a bowl of fried rice, not a pill or a Strength Increase Talisman!
For a Wuzong to gain 30,000 pounds of strength after eating it was absolutely incredible!
“This Seat will try!”
Jun Changxiao ordered Liu Wanshi to make another bowl of power fried rice, then punched the testing machine. The strength displayed was 4,400,000 pounds!
An increase of 400,000 pounds over before!
The System said, “The fried rice this little girl made contains many types of heaven and earth spiritual energy and can provide the host with 10% strength increase.”
Compared to the multiple-fold amplification of the Strength Increase Talisman, Liu Wanshi’s power fried rice certainly wasn’t worth mentioning, but it still made Jun Changxiao extremely pleased.
Food could be made casually without consuming many medicinal ingredients, and eating one meal increased combat power by 10%—this was absolutely an amazing thing!
“How long can it last?” Jun Changxiao asked.
After analysis, the System said, “Based on the consumption of food energy in the host’s body, it should last about two hours.”
Not bad!
Jun Changxiao looked at Liu Wanshi and said, “Dudu, your power fried rice is truly miraculous!”
“Hehe.”
Receiving the Sect Leader’s praise, Liu Wanshi smiled brilliantly.
Jun Changxiao said, “If we could mass-produce it, not only could it satisfy hunger, but also increase strength. That’s killing two birds with one stone.”
“I’ve already mastered the essentials. Making several large pots is no problem!” Liu Wanshi said.
“Then what are we waiting for?”
Jun Changxiao urged, “Hurry and cook, make as much as you can!”
…
Liu Wanshi’s power fried rice was truly wondrous.
However, there were also flaws.
One had to fill a bowl to sufficient quantity and eat it all clean to achieve the strength-increasing effect.
“If eating just one bite could increase strength, that would be even better,” Jun Changxiao said.
Liu Wanshi said, “Sect Leader, I can improve it!”
Having learned a lot about medicinal ingredients from Old Wei, she could use them freely to experiment.
Jun Changxiao said, “Then work hard and strive to make fried rice where eating just one small bite can increase strength!”
“Yes!”
Liu Wanshi nodded vigorously. “I will!”
The several large pots of rice just cooked, Jun Changxiao distributed to his disciples, having each of them fill a large bowl and store it in their spatial rings.
Other martial cultivators stored pills, crystal cores, banknotes, and various martial dao resources in their rings. Iron Bones Sect disciples stored fried rice. This was not only peculiar, but they had to carry the “truly fragrant” principle to the end!
…
Because of the fall, Sect Leader Jun also had no interest in showing off by demonstrating the Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin technique. Instead, he inquired about the Ning brothers’ teaching situation with the disciples over the past month.
Mm.
They performed very well, and the disciples benefited greatly.
In view of their performance, Sect Leader Jun publicly announced the appointment of the Ning brothers as Elders.
From this point on.
The Iron Bones Sect had three Elders, all at the Wuwang cultivation level.
Even fifth-rate sects couldn’t compare!
After the appointments, Jun Changxiao went to the medical hall to collect various medicinal ingredients.
Cultivated through the Seed Nurturing Pool and carefully tended by Old Wei, the newly matured medicinal ingredients were extremely abundant in spiritual energy.
Ding!
Ding!
Mid-grade Qi Gathering Pills were continuously refined.
After taking one, Jun Changxiao determined that pills refined from these high-spiritual-power medicinal ingredients could achieve 50 times absorption speed!
“Now that my Iron Bones Sect has even faster resources for improving cultivation, if we can’t become stronger, there truly is no justice!”
…
“Sect Leader.”
Half a month later, Liu Wanshi said, “The culinary competition is about to start. When are we going?”
“Let’s go tomorrow,” Jun Changxiao said.
“Good!”
The next day, Liu Wanshi made a sumptuous meal for the journey for the Sect Leader and herself. After eating, the two set off with peace of mind.
Their destination: Tianyu Royal City!
Having crossed over to this other world for almost two years now, this was Jun Changxiao’s first time heading to the largest city in Southwest Yang Province’s territory. He was very much looking forward to what made this royal city different from everywhere else!