Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 235 One Heart Lotus Pod, Monkey King's Visit
In the bustling kitchen, Chen Xu opened the Book of Culinary Secrets.

You guide the rat demon, enabling it to awaken its true nature from ignorance, much like preparing a delicious dish and triggering its spiritual potential.

Obtained the spiritual material, the Lotus Seed Pod.

[New material unlocked, Fireworks Value +300.]

【One-Hearted Lotus Pod: All lotus pods in the world have many hearts, but this lotus has only one heart.】

Take this lotus seed, add Heavenly River Water, Ghost King Tears, and Midnight Rain, and cook it with Spirit Rice to make Lotus Seed Porridge.

Taking this elixir can maximize concentration within twelve hours, induce a state of flow, unleash all potential, expand comprehension, and enhance computational ability.

This "One Heart Lotus Seed" is truly miraculous; Chen Xu has witnessed yet another novel and interesting spiritual material.

But that's not all, because the "One Heart Lotus Pod" contains more than just lotus seeds.

After the lotus seeds are removed, the lotus pod also has its own separate entry.

【Lotus Seedpod: After the lotus seeds are removed, this lotus seedpod is roasted and scorched for ten days using the Eight Methods of Spiritual Roasting, which can form a strong protective armor. After consumption, this armor can penetrate deep into the spiritual body, protecting both the physical body and the soul.

To draw a specific analogy, its protective capabilities are comparable to a full-force attack from an ordinary Core Formation Realm cultivator.

This is this...

Chen Xu was astonished in the kitchen. He had obtained quite a lot of spiritual materials, some of which were extremely valuable.

For example, the Karmic Fire Ashes, which are said to possess the power of "Binding Dragons and Returning Waves" after being refined!

However, the auxiliary materials for the Karmic Fire Ashes are extremely demanding, and it's hard to say when they can be truly gathered.

The lotus pod before them was real; the One Heart Armor could be forged in just ten days.

Its protective capabilities are also exceptional.

Chen Xu didn't actually know how strong the so-called "full-force attack of an ordinary Core Formation Realm cultivator" would be.

However, the Core Formation Realm is definitely not something you can find everywhere, and the value of the Heart-Protecting Armor is self-evident.

By the way, isn't Zhu Xianpo at the Core Formation Realm?
Chen Xu pondered to himself, feeling a pang of regret. It seemed that the armor he was focused on wasn't very strong.

However, since this substance came from the mouse's "enlightenment," Chen Xu decided to give it to the mouse for protection after it was refined.

For mice with today's fragile bodies, the armor is a powerful form of protection.

As for Chen Xu himself, he has the Stove Fire Protection Technique, which allows him to forge a fire armor body, so he doesn't need this.

After making the decision, Chen Xu felt relieved.

Without wasting any time, he took out the ash from the alien bone demon and the blood residue charcoal, unlocked the recipe, and began to prepare it.

Chen Xu was preparing elixirs in the kitchen, his mind telling him that there were twelve hours in total, but in reality only a quarter of an hour had passed.

Fifteen minutes later, the rosy clouds in the sky had all dimmed without anyone noticing.

Sometimes, it's said that darkness falls in an instant.

Just then, as the afterglow faded, stars seemed to rise imperceptibly on the distant horizon.

The starlight was hazy, and you couldn't see any specific stars. You could only see that although night had fallen, the whole sky had a unique clarity.

A wondrous silver light spilled across the earth; it seemed to be the moonlight of the fifteenth of the lunar month.

But the moon is nowhere to be seen; it may still be hiding behind the clouds, and it is unknown when it will finally appear.

The little mouse Ashi stood on Chen Xu's shoulder, head held high, looking around, wholeheartedly protecting Chen Xu and Wei Yuan.

The little hedgehog was still asleep on the rock next to it, with a cushion under it. The moonlight fell on it, making the chirping of insects in the mountains seem both serene and somewhat unsettling.

Ashi was a little timid, but it held a few golden bullets that Chen Xu had just given it in its hand.

This gives it a strong foundation.

That night, the mountains and forests were so vast, yet also seemed so mysterious.

The Taoist soldier had actually returned to Chen Xu's side, and the little Taoist soldier was lying in wait at the edge of the dense forest on the east side.

Although Chen Xu was not consciously controlling it at this moment, the Dao soldier itself possessed a certain degree of autonomous action. In fact, the Dao soldier was the true protector that Chen Xu had set up.

In the quiet of the night, a small figure moved slowly and steadily through the forest.

It moved with light steps, its entire body traversing through the mountains, yet it seemed as still as the night light at this moment.

Only when passing by the hiding place of the Dao soldiers did its breathing become slightly more noticeable.

This makes it seem less illusory.

It walked past the soldiers, out of the dense forest, and came to the clearing on the mountaintop, where it suddenly stopped.

Just then, the moonlight suddenly leaped out from behind the clouds.

The silvery light fell like a veil, illuminating the small figure with its snow-white fur, and then filtering through its body and into the soft green grass.

Wow, it turns out that this figure doesn't cast a shadow when illuminated by the moonlight!

The little mouse Ashi, perched on Chen Xu's shoulder, involuntarily turned its gaze, finally noticing the figure's presence and simultaneously realizing that this figure cast no shadow—

"Squeak! Squeak squeak squeak!" Ashi couldn't help but jump up and scream.

It was so startled that it almost dropped the few gold bullets it was holding.

Suddenly, a warm hand reached out to it and gently scooped it up.

Ah-shi was only three inches tall, so small that he fell into the palm of that hand in an instant. The palm seemed to form a small house, protecting him inside.

Then, a familiar voice, tinged with a slight smile, rang out.

Ah Shi heard the scholar say, "Isn't it a pleasure to have friends coming from afar?"

The Monkey King's charisma is indeed more impressive in person than in name.

Fortunately, the moonlight is there tonight; Monkey King, please take a seat.

Wait, that guy without a shadow, is it the Monkey King?

But why doesn't the Monkey King have a shadow?

Ah Shi didn't understand, so he clung to Chen Xu's fingers and peeked out through the gaps between his fingers.

With a simple wave of his hand, the scholar created a small low table in front of him.

The scholar sat on the ground, and the white-haired old monkey that had come out of the mountains and forests also sat on the ground in front of the table.

There were also wine pots and wine cups on the table. Under the moonlight, the white porcelain wine cups seemed to gleam with a jade-like luster.

The white-haired old monkey sighed and said, "Where is the glory left? It is just a dying demon, unable to move its physical body. Only a wisp of its primordial spirit has left its body to meet with you, fellow Daoist."

Ah Shi then realized that the white-haired old monkey was not a living creature, but a wisp of primordial spirit!
No wonder it has no shadow.

Ah Shi felt a sudden realization, yet also a sense of shock.

Ninth Master once said that anyone who can cultivate their primordial spirit to separate from their body must be at least a great demon.

Great demons all possess demon cores.

Yes, the ability to separate one's primordial spirit from the body is at least at the Demon Core Realm, a fact that Chen Xu was also aware of.

However, it was Feng Yuanbo who told him.

Chen Xu is no longer the ignorant young scholar who knew nothing about cultivation when he first began his practice.

He learned at least most of his common sense from Feng Yuanbo.

Feng Yuanbo was a learned scholar, worthy of his status as a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations).

His villa also had a large collection of books, and Chen Xu, with his photographic memory, read almost all of them.

Chen Xu recalled that the Dao soldiers had inquired at the Bitan Monkey Cave, and according to what the monkeys said at the time, the Monkey King should not have broken through to the Demon Core Realm.

But now it can project its spirit into its body. I don't know if the information is wrong or if the Monkey King has some other secret method.
(End of this chapter)