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

Chapter 370 White Willow City, Forty Miles East

Chen Xu decided to head east.

Before leaving, he climbed the highest mountain in the vicinity and carefully memorized the various terrain features within his sight.

Although this place is a wilderness, the mountains rise and fall, and the green hills stretch endlessly.

From this vantage point, the view is surprisingly beautiful.

As far as the eye could see, the terrain to the east gradually opened up, and about thirty or forty miles away, the outline of a city could be clearly seen.

The city was surrounded by wide avenues and winding rivers.

Beyond that are stretches of farmland, arranged in grids of different shapes, their verdant greenness inlaid in the landscape, like newly opened jade, pleasing to the eye.

Having read "The Immortal Journey of Jizhou", Chen Xu now knows that those seemingly ordinary farmlands are actually spiritual fields under the names of various sects!

In the Xuan Tian Star Realm, wherever there is a city or settlement, there will inevitably be various kinds of valuable items around it.

It could be a spiritual field, a spiritual mine, or a medicinal mountain or a spiritual spring—these are all local specialties.

In comparison, spirit fields are actually the most common type.

If one cannot reach the sixth rank or above, ordinary eighth or ninth rank spirit fields are practically worthless in the eyes of the upper sects and others.

However, spirit fields can be nurtured and have a certain possibility of advancing in rank.

Furthermore, while low-grade spiritual fields may seem to be everywhere, it is precisely because they are "everywhere" that they have become the cornerstone of this vast cultivation world.

It feeds millions of ordinary people, and even low-level cultivators.

In fact, in the eyes of cultivators below the Qi Refining level, or sects of the eighth or ninth rank, low-grade spirit fields have always been important strategic resources with considerable value.

How can it be "worthless" or unimportant?

It can only be said that people's perspectives vary greatly depending on their position, and the things they see will often have drastically different characteristics.

Chen Xu repeatedly pondered "Travels to the Immortal Island of Jizhou," and gradually gained his own in-depth understanding of many of the words in it, rather than just being limited to the comments of the Star Return Ancestor.

Ding Chuan was extremely reluctant to see Chen Xu leave, and he shouted many times into the air:

"Senior, are you really leaving? This junior, this junior..."

He gritted his teeth, then suddenly bent his knees and knelt down with a thud.

Ding Chuan's voice gradually gained a firmness, and he spoke with great emotion:

"Senior, my sect has been destroyed and I am being pursued everywhere. I wonder what your purpose is in coming here?"

However, if you are not going to Qingxi City or Bailiu City, I am willing to accompany you and serve you, running errands for you.

Please, senior, do not abandon me. Although my cultivation is low, my aptitude is of the upper level of the Yellow rank, which is not too bad.

If I improve my cultivation in the future and am able to condense Qi Hua Dan, I am willing to offer ten Qi Hua Dan to you every month!

"Please, please protect me, senior..."

After he finished speaking, he was about to prostrate himself deeply.

Ding Chuan was already at his wit's end, so it's not surprising that he did this.

But just as he was about to kneel down, he suddenly felt a gust of wind in the air, as if it were invisible.

The wind lifted him up, making it impossible for him to bow down.

Ding Chuan could only hurriedly straighten up and kneel on the spot in disappointment.

Before he could say anything more, a voice suddenly came from the air: "You shall stay here for a while and wait for me for a few days. If I have not returned after a few days, you shall make your own arrangements."

Ding Chuan was overjoyed.

This was the first time he had heard Chen Xu's voice directly.

The senior has finally spoken!

God knows how difficult it was for him to communicate with a silent mass of air before.

The difficulty in communication is one aspect, but the hardest part is the inner torment and constant anxiety.

If his seniors refused to speak, he would always doubt himself, wondering if he had done something wrong or shouldn't have done it.

In addition, Ding Chuan was actually a little scared.

The other party is so mysterious. Although he seems to be a "good person", in fact, this good senior is by no means an easy person.

Who knows when this senior might turn on you?
Or does he have other quirks?

After all, it's hard to believe that someone who likes to be invisible and doesn't like to talk doesn't have some quirks.

Ding Chuan watched Chen Xu leave, his mind racing with a myriad of thoughts, but in the end, he patiently waited.

He kept reminding himself: The senior is a good person; I must gain his trust; I must obey his orders obediently and without any disloyalty. I must accelerate my cultivation and reach the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible…

Just when he thought Chen Xu had gone far away, a large bowl suddenly fell from the sky with a crash.

Ding Chuan instinctively reached out his hands and hurriedly caught the large bowl.

"boom!"

The large bowl landed between his arms, thankfully not causing his arms to go numb from the impact.

The contents of the bowl left Ding Chuan speechless.

The rice balls were white, yellow, and shiny, and looked very tempting.

Occasionally, it is adorned with some bright red cinnabar, and the rice ball even has a distinct meaty aroma.

This is...this is a wild boar meat rice ball made from different types of rice?

It was a huge bowl, with a rich aroma and an enticing color. Ding Chuan stood there dumbfounded on the mountaintop, holding the bowl of rice balls. The mountain wind blew, making his hair messy and his body covered in frost.

At this moment, he was probably the most disheveled and foolish cultivator in the world.

But Ding Chuan also felt that he was probably the luckiest cultivator in the world.

His eyes stung, and tears nearly welled up in the corners of his eyes.

He was moved to tears by the fragrance.

You're such a kind person!
Before leaving, she left him such a large bowl of rice balls. Was she afraid he would starve to death?

Ding Chuan dared not shout too loudly, and could only mutter, "Senior, this junior will definitely work diligently and cultivate well, and strive to condense the Qi Hua Dan as soon as possible."

"I will never forget your great kindness, senior. I will repay it even if it costs me my life!"

After he finished speaking, he finally couldn't hold back his tears and burst into tears.

"Woooooooo..."

It was both touching and tempting.

The rice balls smelled so good that he really wanted to gobble them down right then and there and eat them all.

But he didn't dare.

He was really afraid that if he impulsively ate it all, and his senior came back late in a few days, would he starve to death in the mountains again?

A dignified cultivator can die in battle, so how can he starve to death?

What Ding Chuan didn't know was that Chen Xu hadn't actually left yet.

He walked around the mountaintop again, observed Ding Chuan's movements one last time to assess his character, and then finally descended the mountain.

Chen Xu's movements were light and silent. After a day of practice and training, his cultivation level had recovered to about 30%.

The attributes on the Culinary Cauldron Heavenly Book have undergone new changes.

[Soul: 3]

【Shouyuan: 18/343】

He can now use the wind-summoning technique within a certain range, but he still cannot fly.

However, due to the enhancement of his life soul and the unsealing of his strength, Chen Xu's physical body was also released overall.

He began to possess the agility of a high-level martial artist from the Great Li Kingdom. If he had the Wu Hook in hand and used the wood-chopping knife technique, Chen Xu even felt that he could kill Ding Chuan with a single blow.

In addition, there is always a force stirring in the sea, as Chen Xuwen said.

He did not intend to use Wen Hai easily.

Because Chen Xu discovered that there seemed to be no Confucian cultivators in this world, and that literary talent was an extremely special existence that had to be used with caution.

As for the cultivators in this world, Chen Xu has now come to understand their cultivation system to some extent.

Interestingly, the cultivation titles used by cultivators in this world are remarkably similar to some of the immortal cultivation settings Chen Xu had seen in his previous life:
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Tribulation Transcending, Returning to Truth, Dao Integration...

It is said that there are nine realms.

The names of its last two realms, "Returning to Truth" and "Uniting with the Dao," are the same as the names of the last two realms in Chen Xu's own Food God cultivation system.

This refers to the idea that in the world of spiritual cultivation, different paths often lead to the same destination.
But who knows if there are even higher levels of cultivation after "returning to the truth and merging with the Dao"?

The Star Return Ancestor referred to himself as a minor cultivator with the cultivation level of "Tribulation Transcending Stage". Sometimes, thinking about it, this may be a kind of humility, or perhaps when he reached his level, he would truly feel his own insignificance.

As Chen Xu pondered this, he continued forward, gradually casting aside distracting thoughts and returning his focus to the cultivation of "resisting this world."

In this realm, he is actually allowed to enter the kitchen.

However, compared to the time in the Great Li Kingdom, entering the Fireworks Kitchen in this world requires consuming a thousand Fireworks Points!
The tenfold difference, while not making entering the kitchen a luxury, still requires careful planning and consideration; it can no longer be done casually.

He had entered once before and found that although he could still cultivate in the kitchen, he could not increase his life soul and could not accelerate his integration into this world.

So Chen Xu decided to accumulate fireworks points first.

One must at least grow one's life soul to a level outside the home that allows for the full release of one's cultivation before considering entering the kitchen.

After walking for about half an hour, Chen Xu arrived at a wide "official road".

Both sides of the road were lined with spiritual fields, and in these fields, there were scattered groups of farmers.

They were either bending over to weed or spraying fertilizer.

There were also figures of cultivators appearing during this time.

Chen Xu originally thought that these cultivators were guarding the spiritual fields and playing a protective role.

After observing more closely, Chen Xu discovered that these cultivators were actually using magic to spread spiritual rain and nourish the spiritual fields!

This is a world where even cultivators need to farm.

On the official road, one can occasionally see spirit horses and deer with antlers pulling carts, their "yo-yo" sounds adding to the peaceful atmosphere.

The occasional sound of farmers talking drifted into my ears; I could hear them discussing amongst themselves:
"Songyan Dining Hall has been recruiting apprentices for spiritual cuisine these days. Why don't you give Sanjin a try?"

"Hey, that's Songyan Dining Hall, it's not so easy to get in. My son Sanjin... he's too weak, so he won't try. By the way, what about your Suisheng, is he going to give it a try?"

He's strong; he can definitely handle starting the fire and flipping the wok. I think if he went to the Songyan Dining Hall, he'd definitely be selected!

"Where? That kid is quite unruly, he's gotten too big for his britches and doesn't even want to listen to me anymore."

Guess what he's doing now? Hey, he's running errands for a big shot at the Hundred Battles Market!

Hearing all sorts of news, Chen Xu kept walking, following behind a blue-curtained carriage pulled by a spirit horse, and floated into the city of White Willow.

(End of this chapter)