Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

The atmosphere became somewhat somber for a moment. Seeing that Shan Meixian and Shan Wanjing had lost their interest in talking, Ling Chi got up to leave temporarily, walked through the corridor, and returned to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Huang Rong was making fruitwood-roasted duck. Seeing Ling Chi walk in, she smiled and asked, "Sister Meixian and Sister Wanjing, have you finished eating?"

Ling Chi nodded with a smile: "We've eaten well. Xiao Wanjing even praised the braised pork."

Huang Rong immediately laughed, because that braised pork was her masterpiece.

In the world of Tianlong, she secluded herself in the Chef God Space for over forty years, finally elevating her culinary skills to the top blue level. Now, while Ling Chi is focused on studying purple recipes, she has taken on the responsibility of head chef of Peach Blossom Island, making clear arrangements for all the diners, who all praise her.

"Rong'er, the fruitwood is ready." Just then, a young girl walked in carrying a bundle of fruitwood.

This girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old. Her hair was styled in two buns, her eyebrows and eyes were like paintings, and her pupils were like stars. She wore a bright yellow dress, was a little over 1.6 meters tall, and was exquisitely beautiful. She was incredibly charming and lovely.

She was Shuang'er, who had grown up to be three years older.

Chapter Two: The Mysterious Man

"Thank you for your trouble, Sister Shuang'er." Huang Rong said with a smile, "Just put it aside! I'll take it later."

Shuang'er nodded with a smile, placed the fruitwood beside the stove, patted the dust off her hands and clothes, and smiled at Ling Chi: "Brother, wait a little longer, dinner will be served soon."

Ling Chi smiled and nodded, patting the dust off Shuang'er's clothes, saying, "Let the maids do this rough work. Look at you, your clothes are all dirty."

Shuang'er's face was rosy, and her round eyes were full of smiles: "They have to take care of everything on the island, which is very hard work for them."

"I knew you cared about them." Ling Chi smiled slightly, smoothed her hair, and said, "Then you can go through the trouble a little more and tell them to prepare hot water for their baths. Sister Meixian and Xiao Wanjing will be taking a bath later."

"Hmm." Shuang'er nodded and asked, "Brother, would you like to take a bath?"

"Let's talk about it tonight!" Ling Chi said. "It's raining today and the weather is chilly. I'll make some ginger soup later so they can all have a bowl and not catch a cold."

“Brother says I dote on them, but actually it’s brother who does!” Shuang’er laughed. “They’ll definitely be so touched they won’t be able to sleep.”

"My main concern is the money," Ling Chi said, sounding like a miser. "I bought them all at a high price. If anything happens to them, I'll suffer a huge loss."

"whee."

……

After a simple lunch, Huang Rong and Shuang'er didn't have time to rest and immediately began preparing for the grand feast that afternoon.

Meanwhile, in a deluxe room on Peach Blossom Island, Shan Meixian and Shan Wanjing were soaking in a steaming hot bath. The water was at a comfortable temperature, and the mother and daughter breathed a sigh of relief, their whole bodies relaxing.

"Mother," Shan Wanjing called out.

"Hmm?" Shan Meixian opened her eyes, turned her head to look at her, but did not speak.

"I don't want to marry Shang Ming," Shan Wanjing said. "I don't like him."

"..." Shan Meixian sighed softly and said, "Silly child, how many women and men are together because they like each other? I am one of them..." As she said this, a trace of pain flashed in Shan Wanjing's eyes.

"Mother, are you alright?" Shan Wanjing's expression changed. She gripped Shan Meixian's hand tightly and said hatefully, "I will definitely kill Bian Bufu."

Shan Meixian closed her eyes and shook her head: "Mother is fine. Don't mention killing Bian Bufu again. I can't do it."

"Just because we can't do it doesn't mean others can't." Shan Wanjing gritted her teeth and said, "Brother Ling can do it!"

"..." Shan Meixian seemed to be deep in thought.

Ling Chi, Shuang'er, and Huang Rong built the island ten years ago, and Peach Blossom Island's reputation for being the best food in the world has spread far and wide. Over the years, many martial arts practitioners have come here to try the delicacies, and at the same time, many underworld experts have come to do some business without any investment.

It's no wonder they act this way; the food on Peach Blossom Island is both incredibly delicious and incredibly expensive. A high-class meal can cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, and even a regular meal costs over a thousand taels. Anything under a hundred taels is only for beggars.

Some people have calculated that the monthly income on Peach Blossom Island is at least 50,000 taels of silver, and the annual income is definitely no less than 600,000 taels.

Six hundred thousand taels of silver is equivalent to two to three years' worth of fiscal revenue for a prefecture. Who wouldn't be envious of such a large sum of money?

For this reason, countless notorious bandits and martial arts masters have taken risks over the years to commit murder for money.

But the ending was extremely cruel; none of these people made it back alive. They were all killed by Ling Chi and their bodies were used to fill the sea. Among them were many experts from the Six Paths of the Demonic Sect.

Some might argue that these individuals were outnumbered or acted alone, which is why they were defeated by Ling Chi. However, the "pirates" from Japan and Goguryeo visited at least ten times, each time with a scale of no less than a hundred people, and the largest number even reaching a thousand.

But what about the results?

All I know is that passing fishing boats saw many pieces of ship planks floating on the sea, and the seawater was stained red, which was quite terrifying.

Since the second half of last year, no pirates have come to the vicinity of Peach Blossom Island. However, many spies from various forces have appeared, posing as diners to sample the food on Peach Blossom Island and gather information.

After more than half a year of observation, it was found that in addition to the three chefs Ling Chi, Shuang'er, and Huang Rong, there were more than a dozen beautiful maids aged between thirteen and twenty on Peach Blossom Island, who were responsible for all the miscellaneous tasks on Peach Blossom Island and for receiving diners.

The only certainty was that these maids, though varying in build, moved with light steps and controlled movements, clearly indicating they had martial arts training. However, in the eyes of some experts, these maids' martial arts skills were at most those of second-rate martial artists, still quite remarkable, but insufficient to withstand a pirate force of over a thousand.

The problem lies with Ling Chi, Shuang'er, and Huang Rong.

Even to those experts, Ling Chi and her two companions seemed no different from ordinary people. There were only two possibilities: either they were genuinely ordinary people who knew no martial arts, or could ordinary people control the maids of a dozen second-rate experts?

So there is another possibility.

These three people are all masters.

In the martial arts world, masters are divided into five levels, from lowest to highest: third-rate master, second-rate master, first-rate master, grandmaster, and the grandmaster above grandmaster.

In the world today, there are only three supreme masters at the Grandmaster level: Ning Daoqi, the number one Taoist master in the Central Plains; Fu Cailin, the martial arts master of Goguryeo; and Bi Xuan, the martial arts master of the northern frontier.

The title of "Three Grandmasters" was not self-proclaimed, but earned through their exceptional martial arts skills. Although the three never fought each other, they were all undefeated in their respective countries and had defeated many grandmaster-level masters, which is why they were revered as the Three Grandmasters of Martial Arts.

Below the three Grandmasters lie the Grandmaster level. While Grandmasters cannot compare to the three Grandmasters, they are still powerful enough to command respect and are feared by all. There are definitely no more than twenty Grandmasters in the entire world.

There are three grandmaster-level experts on this tiny Peach Blossom Island? Are you kidding me!

But if they weren't grandmaster-level experts, how did those thousand-strong 'pirates' all get wiped out?

Mist! To others, the entire Peach Blossom Island is shrouded in mist.

But for Shan Meixian and Shan Wanjing, they had witnessed firsthand how Ling Chi had wiped out those 'pirates'.

That day, having nothing to do, they suddenly decided to go to Peach Blossom Island for a delicious meal. Since it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, the mother and daughter did not bring any servants with them, but instead sailed to Peach Blossom Island in a small boat.

Just a few miles away from Peach Blossom Island, they saw that the island was surrounded by more than ten huge pirate ships, with at least a thousand strong 'pirates' on board.

They were extremely anxious, fearing that the people on the island would be harmed, but then a scene they would never forget appeared.

The tall, thin boy who always wore a smile was now floating high in the sky, his entire body shimmering with golden light, like a war god descending to earth. A huge golden dragon soared into the sky, letting out a roar that shook the heavens for miles around, before transforming into eighteen smaller golden dragons that swooped down and smashed through the dozen or so massive pirate ships.

The pirate ship sank, and the more than a thousand strong pirates were unable to escape. Ling Chi then played a tune on the flute, and all the pirates who heard it coughed up blood and sank into the sea. Soon after, the seawater was dyed red, which was clearly visible to people several miles away.

Ling Chi seemed to glance in their direction at that moment, but it couldn't be confirmed because he then flew back to the island and ignored them.

Shan Meixian originally intended to return to Ryukyu, but she couldn't resist Shan Wanjing's pleas, so she took a risk and headed straight for Peach Blossom Island.

Upon arriving on the island, they were greeted by the same tall, thin boy in white, wearing a top hat, with a gentle smile, who welcomed them as warmly as ever. He did not poison them or attempt to silence them.

They were confused; were all the things that had happened before just an illusion?

But as they left, seeing the shipwreck debris on the sea and smelling a faint scent of blood, they knew it was all real.

From then on, the mother and daughter knew that Ling Chi was a reclusive master, and that his age was definitely not as young as he appeared.

They had been dining on Peach Blossom Island for over seven years, yet Ling Chi's appearance remained unchanged. Not only him, but Shuang'er and Huang Rong's appearances were also completely unchanged; their ages seemed frozen, and they were shrouded in mystery.

At this moment, Shan Wanjing suddenly said these words, and Shan Meixian could not help but consider their feasibility.

She hated Bian Bufu. If it weren't for Bian Bufu forcing her back then... how could she have left the Yin Gui Sect and ended up in Ryukyu, this godforsaken place, struggling to make ends meet?

What's even more infuriating is that Bian Bufeng keeps harassing her, and in the past two years, he's even started to have designs on Shan Wanjing.

Shan Wanjing is his own daughter! How could he...

That's why Shan Wanjing was determined to kill Bian Bufu to eliminate any future trouble.

Firstly, they were no match for Bian Bufu, and secondly, Bian Bufu hadn't come for a long time after they realized his motives were impure. But a scoundrel is always a scoundrel; just because he's not here now doesn't mean he won't come later. If Bian Bufu comes again, how will they resist?

If Ling Chi can help them...

Shan Meixian said, "After finishing our business this afternoon, we'll stay on Peach Blossom Island tonight."

A look of joy flashed in Shan Wanjing's eyes, and she nodded repeatedly, "Yes."

……

The afternoon business negotiations went smoothly, and the client promised to deliver the goods five days ahead of schedule. Shan Meixian and Shan Wanjing also enjoyed the unparalleled cuisine once again. Of all the dishes served that afternoon, Shan Wanjing's favorite was the fruitwood-roasted duck. Slices of roasted duck, along with scallions and cucumber strips, were rolled up in thin pancakes, spread with a little sweet bean sauce, and then eaten.

The deliciousness was so good that even after you finished eating, you still felt like you wanted more and the aftertaste was endless.

If it weren't for the high price of roasted duck made from fruitwood, which costs five thousand taels of silver per duck, Shan Wanjing would definitely have ordered another one.

Shan Meixian was both amused and exasperated, because more than half of the duck had ended up in Shan Wanjing's stomach, while she and the two customers opposite her had each only eaten two rolls.

After seeing off the clients, it was still early before nightfall, so Shan Meixian instructed her men waiting on the shore to take her message back to Ryukyu, ordering the blacksmiths there to expedite the work and deliver the two batches of military equipment ahead of schedule and in the required quantity and quality. They would stay there for the night and return to Ryukyu the next day.

After watching her subordinates leave by boat, Shan Meixian walked through the peach blossom forest and returned to her superior room. She said to the beautiful maid in the room, "Susu, please go and inform Xiaochi that I want to talk to him about something."

Su Su bowed and said, "Please wait a moment, Madam. I will go right away."

Chapter Three: The Secret to Immortality

Soon, Ling Chi carried a tray of tea and snacks into the deluxe room. Seeing that Shan Meixian and Shan Wanjing were both there, he smiled and said, "I thought it would only be Sister Meixian alone. I didn't bring enough." He turned to Su Su and said, "Go and get some more tea and snacks."

"No need," Shan Meixian said. "We just finished eating not long ago, and we can't eat anything else."

"Oh?" Ling Chi nodded. "Then never mind, Su Su, you must be tired too, go and rest first!"

"Yes." Su Su bowed, left the guest room, and closed the door behind her.

Ling Chi sat down opposite the two, put down the tea and snacks, took off his tall hat, and asked, "What does Sister Meixian want with me?"

"Although it's a little embarrassing to say, but..." Shan Meixian pursed her lips, her expression slightly conflicted.

"Oh! Let me speak!" Shan Wanjing, annoyed by her mother's dawdling, interjected, "Brother Ling, can you help us kill someone?"

"Murder?" Ling Chi was stunned.

“Hmm.” Shan Wanjing nodded and said, “As long as you can help us kill this beast, we will choose Peach Blossom Island as the negotiation location for all our Dongming Sect’s business in the future.”

"Oh." Ling Chi smiled. "These conditions are quite tempting."

“Then…” Shan Wanjing’s face lit up with joy.

“However…” Ling Chi said, “Xiao Wanjing, are you mistaken? I’m a chef, not an assassin. Killing chickens, fish, cows, and sheep is no problem for me, but killing people… makes me a bad person, doesn’t it?”

The final turn caught Shan Wanjing off guard, nearly causing her to twist her slender waist. She rolled her eyes: "He's the worst person in the world! No! He's not human! He's a beast!"

"Oh?" Ling Chi stroked his chin and asked, "Who is it?"