Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

"Eat!" Wu Xingyun was too lazy to tease him anymore and stretched out his hand: "Wine."

"Drink less." Ling Chi handed her the wine gourd at his waist and began to devour the leftovers.

Wu Xingyun took a sip of the strong liquor, the spiciness making her squint her eyes in pleasure. She was getting old, and her mouth often felt bland, but this liquor stimulated her taste buds; she was enjoying drinking more and more each year.

Especially the wine brewed by Lingchi itself.

While leisurely sipping his wine, watching Ling Chi quickly clean up the leftovers, Wu Xingyun said indifferently, "You like that infatuated girl?"

"Huh?" Ling Chi was taken aback, not understanding for a moment: "What infatuation?"

"Why are you pretending to be confused?" Wu Xingyun said, "You are Wu Yazi's grand-disciple."

“…Sister Qinglu!” Ling Chi smiled as she thought of the mature and voluptuous Shi Qinglu, and said, “I do like her.”

"Sister Qinglu, you're calling her so affectionately!" Wu Xingyun snorted coldly and said in a deep voice, "She's already forty years old, more than old enough to be your mother. Are you sick in the head?"

“Not yet forty, thirty-eight,” Ling Chi corrected.

Wu Xingyun looked at him coldly: "You're only nineteen years old, how can you find a woman twice your age?"

"As long as there is love, age is not a problem." Ling Chi smiled and said, "Besides, I just like mature women, and older sisters in their thirties are just right."

"You..." Wu Xingyun was furious and said angrily, "If your parents were alive, they would never allow you to marry a thirty-eight-year-old woman! How can a thirty-eight-year-old woman continue the Ling family line?"

"Grandma Tong, you can't say that," Ling Chi retorted. "As long as a woman's menstruation hasn't stopped, she can have children. Under normal circumstances, a woman can have children even when she's fifty. Besides, Sister Qinglu has practiced martial arts and takes good care of herself. She looks to be only in her thirties. She can have children for the next twenty years."

"You..." Wu Xingyun was so angry that he couldn't say a word.

"I'm telling you, Granny Tong," Ling Chi put down his chopsticks and said, "Why are you in such a hurry about my own affairs?"

“I’m worried about your parents.” Wu Xingyun sneered, “If they were alive, they wouldn’t let you act so recklessly.”

“Aren’t they gone?” Ling Chi smiled faintly. “I’ll make my own decisions about my own affairs.”

"..." Wu Xingyun felt a tightness in his chest, took a big gulp of wine, coughed a few times, and said, "Whatever you want!"

"Drink slowly," Ling Chi said. "What's wrong with you? Even if Wu Yazi's arrival has upset you, it doesn't have to make you angry with me, does it?"

"It's nothing." Wu Xingyun didn't want to say more, but he was just sulking, and he was angry at himself.

“You’re alright? I do have something I want to discuss with you,” Ling Chi said.

Wu Xingyun glanced at him and said, "Speak."

"I want Lingjiu Palace to help me find two people." Ling Chi recounted A Zhu's situation and said, "A Zhu is obsessed with finding her parents, and she probably won't give up until she finds them."

After hearing A'Zhu's story, Wu Xingyun sighed, "Another pitiful woman. Why must all the misfortunes in the world be borne by women?" Wu Xingyun glared at him and said, "Men are all the same."

Ling Chi: "..."

Having vented some of his frustration, Wu Xingyun asked, "Does A'Zhu have any items related to her background?"

“Yes.” Ling Chi nodded, took out a gold locket, and said, “This should be a locket left to her by her parents. There are words written on it.”

Wu Xingyun took it and saw that the gold locket had twelve characters written on it: "Stars in the sky, bright and shining, forever brilliant, peace in Chang'an."

“In addition, A’Zhu has the character ‘Duan’ tattooed on her left shoulder,” Ling Chi said. “Judging from this, A’Zhu’s biological father should have the surname Duan.”

Wu Xingyun was silent for a moment, then said, "Duan is the royal surname of Dali. There are many people with the surname Duan in Dali. Perhaps A'Zhu's biological father was from Dali."

“It’s not impossible,” Ling Chi said. “But A Zhu has lived in Suzhou since she can remember, so her mother must be from Suzhou.”

Wu Xingyun nodded: "In that case, I will order my subordinates in Suzhou and Dali to investigate."

"Then thank you very much, Granny Tong," Ling Chi said with a smile.

Wu Xingyun said calmly, "No need. I just don't want A'Zhu to be trapped in misfortune as well."

“No, not at all,” Ling Chi said. “With me here, A Zhu will only have a better life in the future.”

Wu Xingyun glanced at him and sneered, "If you marry that old woman Shi Qinglu, when she sees a young and beautiful maid like Azhu every day, I'm afraid Azhu will suffer."

"..." Ling Chi said helplessly, "Grandma Tong, Sister Qinglu is gentle and kind, she wouldn't do such a thing."

"What do you know!" Wu Xingyun said coldly, "You can know a person's face but not their heart. You only met her for the first time, yet you're protecting her at every turn. In the end, isn't it just that you want to sleep with her? You're just afraid that once the novelty wears off, you'll find her old and unattractive and abandon her, then flirt with those two maids, A Zhu and A Bi!"

Ling Chi frowned: "Grandma Tong, is this the kind of person you're looking for?"

"..." Seeing that he was a little angry, Wu Xingyun's coldness subsided slightly, and he said calmly, "You are a restless person with no fixed abode, and it will be difficult for you to give a woman a stable home."

These words left Ling Chi speechless. He was indeed quite unconventional and loved excitement and traveling around. Even when he was on Peach Blossom Island or Impermanence Island, he would always run away from time to time, making it difficult for him to live a stable life in one place for decades.

but……

Who can blame him for having the God of Cookery System! Who can blame him for having a farm! Who can blame him for now having an extra ranch! He can definitely give his woman an incredibly stable home.

As long as they don't get jealous.

Ling Chi coughed lightly: "That's a matter for the future. Besides, I'm content to stay in Lingjiu Palace right now!"

"You're just taking the blame for me." Wu Xingyun looked at him. "After next year, who knows where you'll go?"

"Well..." This really hit him where it hurts.

Some of the recipes he recently revealed require many rare ingredients, but his current ingredient reserves are severely insufficient. Not to mention the 'Divine Condor Egg' he already obtained, even the 'Northern Sea Fish' that he obtained from Wu Yazi requires going out to sea to catch whales, and they have to be the largest blue whales on Earth. Moreover, the meat of each blue whale can only be used once. This is...

Regardless of the reason, once he helps Wu Xingyun resolve Li Qiushui's lingering problems next year, he'll have to go out and find some ingredients. This world of Tianlong is different from ordinary worlds; it has many rare and precious materials.

For example, the Master Zhiguang, whom he killed, brought back exotic tree bark from overseas. This exotic tree bark could actually cure miasma and treat plagues, so there must be many other good things overseas.

The world has almost run out of recipes to reveal. After that, we'll reveal the recipes for Li Qiushui, Xiao Yuanshan, and Murong Bo, and then we can set sail to search for treasure.

"What?" Seeing that Ling Chi didn't refute, Wu Xingyun's heart tightened, and he stared at him coldly: "Are you really leaving?"

“It’s not like I’m leaving,” Ling Chi said. “As you know, Granny Tong, the dishes I make are actually medicinal cuisine with all sorts of miraculous effects. But these ingredients are all obtained from my travels. If I stay in one place, I won’t be able to make these dishes once the stock runs out. So I have to go out and find them.”

"I see." Wu Xingyun felt relieved and said, "Now that you are the leader of the Xiaoyao Sect, you can give an order and someone will help you search. You don't need to go yourself."

Chapter Sixty-Four: Rejuvenation

“Some are possible, but others are not.” Ling Chi shook his head: “Many ingredients need to be kept in their freshest state, and many are in the ocean. If I don’t go there, I simply cannot obtain them.”

"The sea?" Wu Xingyun's heart stirred, and he asked, "Since we're going to search in the sea, do we need a ship?"

"It would be best to have it, but it's fine if we don't," Ling Chi said. "With my martial arts skills, even if I only have a small boat, I can move freely on the vast ocean."

"..." Wu Xingyun looked at him and said, "When you first came to Lingjiu Palace, you boasted to the Four Swords that I was no match for you. It seems that your words were true."

"You still remember?" Ling Chi chuckled and said, "Maybe I was bragging a bit back then, but after learning martial arts from you for so long, I'm much better than before. Plus, you're getting old, so I should be confident I can beat you."

"..." Wu Xingyun looked at his rough hands, feeling both unconvinced and helpless: "If I could turn back the clock, you might not be my match."

"Let's talk about it when you become a child again!" Ling Chi smiled and asked, "Will you look like a six-year-old then?"

“Hmm.” Wu Xingyun said, “Then you grow one year older each day, stopping at eighteen, and then you grow normally.”

"So, you've reversed your aging process at forty-eight." Ling Chi looked at her face and nodded. "You do look like a forty-eight-year-old woman now, but why have your bodily functions deteriorated so much?"

“The technique is flawed after all, there’s nothing we can do about it.” Wu Xingyun said, “Back then, Master created this technique just to test it on me. It’s just that I started practicing too early, and then I was secretly harmed by that bitch Li Qiushui. My body will never grow up, so Master passed the position of sect leader to his junior brother and left.”

"Is that so?" Ling Chi perked up. "I thought your master was going to ascend to heaven in broad daylight before leaving. I didn't expect it was because you made a mistake while practicing your skills."

“Actually, I never understood it all these years until the day my Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian was restored, and the changes over the past few days made me realize the key.” Wu Xingyun narrowed his eyes: “Perhaps my master has already found a second test subject and drawn a conclusion!”

Following Wu Xingyun's line of thought, Ling Chi pondered for a moment and said, "He has been gone for sixty or seventy years, and has searched for verification subjects at least twice, but no one similar to you has appeared in the martial arts world. Presumably, this technique has failed."

"Perhaps it succeeded," Wu Xingyun said, "but my master silenced him."

"..." Ling Chi paused for a moment, thought for a second, and nodded: "It's not impossible."

If the cultivation technique had failed, Xiaoyaozi might have allowed these failed test subjects to roam the world, but obviously he didn't. So there's another possibility: the Eternal Youth and Longevity Technique has succeeded.

Because he succeeded, Xiaoyaozi killed the person who could live forever, so that he himself could live forever.

While it's possible they didn't want these immortals to wreak havoc on the martial world later, human nature is inherently evil, and Ling Chi and Wu Xingyun preferred to believe that Xiaoyaozi was a selfish person. In a world where the strong prey on the weak, selfless people don't live long.

"If Master were still alive..." Wu Xingyun's eyes flickered, "I wonder what level of power he would have reached?"

"You're overthinking it," Ling Chi said. "How old was your master when he passed away?"

Wu Xingyun thought for a moment: "About forty years old."

“Even if he’s forty, that’s already sixty or seventy years. Even if he succeeds in the first round of observation, it will still take thirty or forty years! By then he’ll be seventy or eighty. If he’s seventy or eighty and still practices the Everlasting Spring Technique, even if he can rejuvenate, he’ll still be over a hundred years old. But rejuvenation is calculated from the age he started practicing, right? Just like if you start practicing at six, rejuvenation will also start at six. So if he’s seventy or eighty and practices, even if he goes back, he’ll still be a seventy or eighty-year-old man, right?” Ling Chi asked.

Wu Xingyun frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "It shouldn't be like that. If that were the case, Master wouldn't be cultivating."

“Alright, let’s assume he really did go back to his childhood. But so many years have passed; he must have made a name for himself in the martial arts world by now! Yet he hasn’t appeared all these years.” Ling Chi asked, “What do you think this means?”

"..." Wu Xingyun pondered for a moment, then said, "Either retreat from the world, or..."

“He’s already dead,” Ling Chi said. “Compared to the first possibility, I’m more inclined to believe the second.”

“…Perhaps!” Wu Xingyun shook his head and said, “Let’s not talk about my master. Since you want to go to sea, I will have someone build a ship and I will go with you.”

"What are you going to do?" Ling Chi was taken aback and said, "Aren't you supposed to be stationed at Lingjiu Palace? What if enemies come if you leave?"

Wu Xingyun looked at him and said, "With my junior brother here, there should be no problem. Besides, I haven't left Tianshan for many years, so it's time for me to go out and see the world."

"I'm fine with it," Ling Chi said. "But I don't know how long it will take to get back, so you'd better prepare in advance."

Wu Xingyun nodded: "I will make the arrangements."

"That's good." Ling Chi smiled and said, "Actually, overseas is quite fun. You can see all sorts of strange and wonderful things, but you will also encounter many natural disasters. You must be careful then."

Wu Xingyun smiled slightly: "I will be careful, no need for you to remind me." After a pause, he asked: "When do you plan to set sail?"

“There’s no rush,” Ling Chi said. “After you’ve dealt with Li Qiushui, you still need to help Azhu find her parents. It’s not too late to go to sea after everything is settled.”

Wu Xingyun nodded: "I will keep a close eye on A Zhu's matter."

"Thank you very much then." Ling Chi smiled slightly and said, "If possible, it would be even better if you could help me find some more ingredients."

"Alright," Wu Xingyun said, "What are you looking for?"

“There are too many. I’ll make a list for you later,” Ling Chi said. “These things are in all sorts of dangerous places. If you don’t have enough ability, it’s best not to go. If you find them but can’t harvest them, send me a message and I’ll go get them myself.”

Wu Xingyun nodded: "Okay."

Ling Chi blinked and said, "You seem to be in a much better mood now."

"Is that so?" Wu Xingyun's expression turned cold.

"..." Okay! It's just an illusion.

……