I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 35 The Uchiha's Cheat Code

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is essentially a stew, but the ingredients are arranged in a specific order, resulting in an extreme combination of umami flavors. The key lies in the selection of ingredients and the cooking time.

Different ingredients require different preparation times, so they need to be cooked or soaked according to the specified time.

The dried sea cucumbers and abalone, which had been soaked before the meal, were partially softened after washing the dishes. Uchiha Yu began the initial processing, cutting open the sea cucumbers to remove the sand, mouth, and teeth hidden inside, and cleaning the abalone again to remove the mouth and gills, before continuing to soak them.

Now is the perfect time to process the fish maw. Place it in a pot of cold water and steam for ten minutes to release its aroma. Immediately remove it and rinse it with cold water. Once it has completely cooled, replace the water with fresh well water and soak it.

At this point, a handful of ginger slices is absolutely essential, because this batch of fish maw comes from the Land of Waves, and we have no idea how the swim bladders are dried after being extracted; the fishy smell is unusually strong. If the fishy smell isn't properly removed, the strange odor can ruin everything.

Around 10 p.m., we started processing the fish lips. These are actually the head skin of a large fish, which naturally has excellent waterproof properties, so they need to be soaked in warm water.

After the fish lips were treated, the tabby cat that had stayed with him was so sleepy that it could barely keep its eyes open, and the whole cat hung on Uchiha Yu's shoulder as if it had no bones.

"Alright, work is temporarily finished now. Rinka-chan, go to sleep."

"Meow, no..." (weakly)

"Don't insist. The work of soaking the conch will continue until four o'clock tomorrow. You can take a good rest in between."

"Don't stay up late, we need you to watch the fire tomorrow, so make sure you're well-rested."

"Meow……"

After settling Miwa Masayo in, Uchiha Yu quietly left home and headed towards the clan's archives.

The so-called "Repository Room" is a combination of library, archive, and museum, and is the most important foundation of the Uchiha clan. Unfortunately, only Uchiha Yu currently believes this.

Most members of the Uchiha clan did not value the archives room much, especially after the former clan head, Madara Uchiha, stole the ninjutsu data and treasures. No one thought it had any value anymore.

Since no one was willing to reorganize, they simply piled up everything that Madara Uchiha had left behind, using it as a storage room or garbage room, and ignored it.

The person in charge of the archives had been absent for a long time until Uchiha Yu discovered this and took over, and the archives gradually returned to order under his management.

In the process, he also gained a wealth of knowledge.

Unlocking the storage room and pushing open the heavy, foot-and-a-half-thick stone door, a faint stench wafted out. It was the smell of strange writing materials, a mixture of sheepskin, ancient primitive ink, dried blood, bone fragments, tortoise shells, tree bark, and so on—quite pungent.

Uchiha Yu didn't like the taste either, but he could tolerate it.

In this ninja world where no entertainment is interesting to him, he has become accustomed to the pleasure of reading. Searching for interesting anecdotes in the history of the Uchiha clan among these old papers was one of the few pleasures he had before meeting Miwa Masayo.

Eighteen-year-old Uchiha Yu has spent most of his nights in this small storage room for the past fourteen years. Back then, before his biological father was gone, he was also a busy ninja who was often away from home. Staying at home was neither as interesting nor as safe as being here.

After fourteen years, Uchiha Yu finally categorized and organized all the materials, copying them into twenty-four large scrolls, recording all the legacy of his predecessors in a categorized manner.

These twenty-four scrolls contain the insights gained from the predecessors' own battles, rare chakra phenomena, reflections on chakra research, the inspiration for developing bloodline limits, attempts at Sage Mode, and speculations about natural energy.

Uchiha Yu considers himself a true materialist and will not collapse just because he has been to a different world and has supernatural powers and so-called "gods".

Those who see phenomena beyond their comprehension and shout "science is dead" or "physics no longer exists" are nothing more than mechanical materialists.

They do not admire the materialistic scientific spirit, but rather scientific achievements with real-world power.

For Uchiha Yu, whether it's extraordinary power or a god, as long as it truly exists, it's something interesting or powerful that can be understood and ultimately mastered through observation, analysis, and summarization.

However, all analysis and summarization are based on observation, and on obtaining sufficient information through observation.

The archive room was filled with information, precious information, and even information that could not be replicated.

It was precisely because of this information that Uchiha Yu was able to truly embark on the path of immortality, instead of dying from the erosion of natural energy after sensing it.

Uchiha Yu turned on the lights in the storage room and, under the bright light, began to transcribe the last part of the original documents that had not yet been organized.

These words and patterns recorded on silk have been worn down over hundreds of years, and even the silk itself is now damaged. The words on them are missing strokes and are very difficult to decipher.

Often, Uchiha Yu recorded things by guessing and even had to draw out the original, incomplete text as a record for future research.

After copying it down, Uchiha Yu would carefully read and analyze it, classifying it into the corresponding category scrolls.

By the time I finished my work for the day, it was already 4:20 in the morning.

……

I rushed home, glanced at the still-sleeping Sanwa Yashi, and continued preparing the ingredients for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.

Slice the conch and wash it repeatedly until it is clean, then soak it in fresh well water.

Then, Uchiha Yu took out the dried scallops, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients, washed and soaked them, and then soaked the pork trotters, tendons, deer tendons and pig's feet to remove the blood.

By 6:30 a.m., all the material preparations were finally completed.

Fire! Fire high!

Make diagonal cuts on the abalone, remove the heads and veins from the fresh shrimp, and boil the quail eggs in cold water and then peel them.

Cut the pig's trotters into four pieces, chop the soup bones into large pieces, remove the internal organs, head, tail, and wing tips from the hen, and put them into a pot of cold water along with the trotters, tendons, and deer tendons, add ginger slices and peppercorns, bring to a boil over high heat, and skim off the blood foam.

Uchiha Yu carefully skimmed off all the blood foam. This step was crucial; even the slightest residue could significantly diminish the aroma of the final product.

Once you've confirmed that the boiling water has completely dried out, remove most of the firewood, block the air vents, reduce the heat to low, and fill the water to overflowing level to slowly simmer the stock.

Heat oil in a wok, add quail eggs and fry until tiger-skin pattern appears, then remove them. Wash the wok and add cold water, ginger slices, scallions, spices, and cooking wine. Once the water boils, it's time to test your skills.

Abalone, sea cucumber, and shrimp are blanched, while conch slices, shiitake mushrooms, fish maw, and fish lips are blanched in sequence. The timing is crucial; too little blanching will not remove the fishy smell completely, while too much blanching will cause the flavors to develop prematurely and affect the blending of tastes.

Find the largest jar in your house, place the pig's trotters and large bones at the bottom, then add fish maw, fish lips, conch slices, followed by quail eggs, abalone, and sea cucumber.

Add broth and sake, but unfortunately, there's no Shaoxing wine in the ninja world, and sake isn't suitable either, so I can only use shochu, which loses five parts of its aroma and mellowness but gains three parts of its crispness.

Once the mixture boils, add salt, sugar, and soy sauce and stir well. Then, quickly add sea cucumber, abalone, shiitake mushrooms, quail eggs, and shrimp in that order. Pour in chicken broth, cover with multiple layers of gauze, and then place the bowl on top to minimize steam leakage.

Finally, place the pot on the fire and start simmering over low heat.

At this moment, Miwa Masayo had already woken up, his eyes fixed intently on the earthenware pot, his gaze filled with flames.

(End of this chapter)