Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

This is how misunderstandings often arise.

"Ahem!" Seeing Fan Qinghui's devout expression, Ling Chi coughed twice and said, "In short, this mirror is not difficult to make and is not a magic weapon."

"Hmm." Fan Qinghui nodded, she believed her: It really isn't difficult for you.

“…” Ling Chi scratched his head and said, “If Qinghui likes it, this mirror is yours.”

“No!” Fan Qinghui shook her head repeatedly: “Such a precious item is something I am ashamed to accept.”

"No, it's not valuable at all," Ling Chi said. "These kinds of mirrors can be made anytime, so please don't refuse, Qinghui, accept it!"

"..." Seeing that Ling Chi really didn't care about the mirror, Fan Qinghui took a deep breath and nodded: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Ling Chi smiled slightly and said, "Sister Qinghui, now that you've become younger, you have no reason to refuse me anymore!"

"..." Fan Qinghui was very flustered. If she could use her age as an excuse before, how could she make excuses now that she was younger?

"Give me some time." After much consideration, Fan Qinghui could only come up with this reason, after all, she really wasn't ready.

"Alright." Ling Chi smiled slightly. Time was of the essence; he had plenty of it. Besides, Fan Qinghui had already witnessed his magic, mirror, and the miraculous food that made her younger. If she could withstand all of that, he would truly admire her.

I see you as a cursed lone star reincarnated, destined to grow old alone and live a solitary life.

……

"After you leave, will you go and avenge Fei Xuan?" Fan Qinghui put the mirror away and then got down to business.

“Yes.” Ling Chi nodded: “Don’t worry, even ten Grandmasters are no match for me. Wanwan is doomed.”

Fan Qinghui gasped.

Ten grandmasters are no match for you? You... truly are a celestial being descended to earth.

Fan Qinghui sighed softly, "Even if we avenge Fei Xuan, she will never come back."

As her only successor, Shi Feixuan's death caused her unbearable pain. In her mind, Shi Feixuan was always the key to the righteous path overpowering the demonic path. But she never dreamed that Shi Feixuan would be killed by Wanwan as soon as she became a Grandmaster and left Peach Blossom Island.

Of all the outstanding disciples of Cihang Jingzhai, only Shi Feixuan's talent was in a class of its own. Even in the next ten years, it would be difficult to find a successor with such talent as Shi Feixuan. Her death still makes Fan Qinghui unable to calm down.

"Hehe." Ling Chi chuckled. "That's not necessarily true."

"!?!?!?!"

Chapter 45 Another World

The straight-line distance from Chang'an to Luoyang is about 700 li, which would take even a thousand-mile horse a day to reach. However, Ling Chi disregarded the consumption of spiritual energy and used the Free and Easy Wind Riding technique to fly from Emperor's Peak to the outskirts of Luoyang City in less than a minute.

At that time, Fan Qinghui and many Jingzhai disciples witnessed Ling Chi soaring into the sky and disappearing into the void, causing an uproar.

It was evening when they arrived in Luoyang. After Ling Chi concealed himself, he entered the city and followed Wanwan's aura. He quickly found Wanwan sitting in an inconspicuous merchant's residence, seemingly lost in thought.

There wasn't a single person in sight around Wanwan; they must have been chased away by her.

Ling Chi deactivated his invisibility and walked towards her.

"Brother Ling, you're here!" Wanwan turned her head and smiled when she heard Ling Chi's footsteps.

Ling Chi walked to the well, sat down next to her, and said, "Why aren't you sleeping at this hour? What are you looking at here for?"

"Look at the moon." Wanwan smiled slightly, nestled on his shoulder, and gazed at the waning moon in the sky, whispering, "The moon is always like this, sometimes full, sometimes waning, I wonder why?"

"Oh, that's simple, because... well, let me first tell you about the most basic astronomical knowledge!" Ling Chi stomped his foot, and the ground surged and condensed into a sphere.

Seeing this, Wanwan's pupils shrank slightly, and she asked, "Brother Ling, is this magic?"

"Guess," Ling Chi said with a smile.

Wanwan looked into his eyes. They were beautiful eyes when he smiled, bright eyes like stars in the night sky, which could make people fall in without them even realizing it.

"I won't guess." Wanwan smiled slightly, looked at the ball of dirt on the ground, and asked, "Brother Ling, why did you conjure this ball of dirt?"

"I'll show you the shape of the world beneath our feet," Ling Chi said with a smile.

What shape is the world beneath our feet?

Wanwan was slightly taken aback. She looked at the ground, then at the ball of earth, and said, "The world beneath our feet is a sphere!?"

“Yes.” Ling Chi nodded and said, “To be precise, it is an irregular sphere that is slightly flattened at both ends.”

"..." Wanwan gathered her hair: "What does 'slightly flattened at both ends' mean?"

"The slightly flattened shape at the poles means that when viewed vertically, it looks a bit flat, with the North and South Poles as the two points." Ling Chi changed the shape of the earthen ball to make it roughly similar to the Earth, giving Wanwan the most intuitive feeling and giving her a geography lesson in the process.

The earthen ball continued to rotate, and Lingchi gradually marked the overall extent of the land and sea in this world. When Wanwan saw that Luoyang was only the size of a fingernail on Earth, she couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "Is Luoyang really that small?"

“Yes, it’s only this small.” Ling Chi nodded and said, “The entire area of ​​the Tang Dynasty is only this one region, and my Peach Blossom Island looks smaller than an ant here.”

"That's incredible." Wanwan looked at the irregularly shaped sphere and asked, "But won't people who live on the other side of the Earth fall down?"

"This involves gravity, which I will explain in detail later. For now, I can only tell you that the Earth has gravity, which can attract all objects. So when a person jumps up, they don't go straight into the sky, but land on the ground. This is the effect of gravity, which pulls you and prevents you from flying away."

Wanwan pondered for a moment: "I see, it's similar to the aura of a celestial demon, isn't it?"

“Hmm, your understanding isn’t entirely wrong.” Ling Chi nodded and said, “So don’t worry, no matter where people live, they won’t fall down.”

Wanwan nodded.

"Then..." Ling Chi condensed into a sun and a moon, scaling down the Earth by several tens of times, and made these three earthen spheres rotate according to the rotation directions of stars, planets and satellites.

"Look, the Earth actually revolves around the Sun, and the Moon revolves around the Earth. It's just that because we live on Earth, from our perspective, the Sun appears to revolve around the Earth." Ling Chi explained the relationship between the three, once again overturning Wanwan's understanding of the world.

"Then let's talk about why the moon has its phases?" Ling Chi made the sun emit golden light, which made Wanwan raise her hand to shield her eyes from the glare.

"You see, the moon is not a star, so it cannot emit light itself. It only receives sunlight and then reflects the sunlight back to Earth."

Therefore, what we see of the moon is only the part that is illuminated by sunlight. As the moon revolves around the Earth, its position relative to the Earth and the sun changes, resulting in the moon's phases, sometimes full and sometimes crescent.

Furthermore, although only one half of the moon is illuminated by the sun, its position constantly changes as it revolves around the Earth. Therefore, the hemisphere facing the Earth sometimes completely overlaps with the illuminated hemisphere, sometimes they don't, sometimes they only partially overlap and mostly don't, and sometimes they mostly overlap and only partially don't. This is how the moon exhibits its phases of waxing and waning.

Ling Chi continuously demonstrated the changing positions of the sun, earth, and moon. Sure enough, every day, with the unknown changes, the moon also showed the phenomenon of waxing and waning, exactly the same as in reality.

"So, the sun is the real center." Wanwan's worldview was completely overturned: "People on Earth are nothing but frogs in a well."

"Don't look down on people too much," Ling Chi said. "After all, we are all human beings. To belittle humanity is to belittle ourselves."

“That’s not what they meant!” Wanwan smiled.

“I know, but please watch your words!” Ling Chi said. “Actually, many misfortunes are caused by a small misunderstanding. On a small scale, it might lead to people cursing at each other; on a large scale, it could even cause a war.”

Ling Chi extinguished the 'sun's' light, returned the three earthen balls to the ground, and said, "Alright, your question has been answered. Is there anything else you don't understand?"

Wanwan shook her head and smiled, "Brother Ling is truly omniscient, Wanwan admires him very much!"

"It's nothing, I've just studied it. If you've studied it too, you can do it too," Ling Chi said.

“But it seems no one in the world teaches these things!” Wanwan smiled and said, “Perhaps only immortals would know how the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are structured. How could ordinary people standing on the ground possibly see it?”

"No." Ling Chi shook his head and said, "Humans will discover these things sooner or later, it just will take a long time." He paused, then added, "Let's not talk about that anymore, let's get down to business!"

"Hmm." Wanwan looked at him and said, "Brother Ling... are you here to avenge Shi Feixuan?"

Wanwan appeared calm, but her heart was actually beating much faster than usual.

"Yes and no." Ling Chi smiled slightly: "I came here this time to take you away."

"Where to?" Wanwan asked.

“Another world,” Ling Chi said.

"..." A hint of sadness flashed in Wanwan's eyes: "Is that so!" Then she chuckled: "In the end, no one can escape death!"

“Although I said I wouldn’t interfere in your affairs, you shouldn’t have killed Fei Xuan,” Ling Chi said. “She was, after all, half my disciple. Did you consider me when you killed her?”

Wanwan shook her head: "When she killed her, all she could think about was the thrill of revenge, and she forgot about her relationship with Brother Ling. By the time she remembered, it was too late."

"A Grandmaster for another Grandmaster," Ling Chi said. "Is that fair?"

"That's not fair!" Wanwan said. "There are different levels among Grandmasters. She's much stronger than her! And she's far more important to the Demonic Sect than she is to Cihang Jingzhai."

“That’s true.” Ling Chi said thoughtfully.

Just then, a seductive voice rang out: "Wanwan, who are you talking to?"

Chapter Forty-Six: This hatred will last forever

"Master." Wanwan immediately stood up to greet him.

The only one Wanwan could call "Master" was her. The Underworld Empress—Zhu Yuyan.

Ling Chi didn't move, but simply turned his head to look over.

Upon seeing this, I was slightly taken aback.

This was a tall, slender woman whose face seemed untouched by time. She appeared youthful and vibrant, several years older than Wanwan. With her face half-veiled, he could only see most of her face, but even that portion was captivating and alluring.

Her delicate eyebrows slanted upwards towards her temples, and her eyes, as black as lacquer, were incredibly captivating, capable of enchanting any man with a single glance. Combined with her flawless, fair skin, as if sculpted from pure white jade, she was stunningly beautiful.

In terms of looks, she was no less beautiful than Wanwan, and she bore a striking resemblance to Shan Meixian, leading him to believe that the two were indeed mother and daughter.

Her temperament was exceptionally refined, making it impossible for anyone to associate her with the evil Yin Gui sect.

Although he knew that Zhu Yuyan had a knack for preserving her youthful appearance, he was still surprised that Zhu Yuyan, who was over seventy years old, was so good at maintaining her youthful appearance.

His gaze was involuntarily drawn to Zhu Yuyan's delicate hand and forearm that emerged from her sleeve, and an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart.

Under the twinkling stars and moon, Zhu Yuyan's flawless hands shone with an otherworldly brilliance. Every shape and movement of her hands embodied the most exquisite beauty in the world, containing an unspeakable secret of the universe.

Ling Chi seemed to be deep in thought. Zhu Yuyan's skin was too white, making her look like a Caucasian. Moreover, Zhu Yuyan's eyebrows, eyes, and nose also had some Caucasian features. In this era, Zhu Yuyan must be of mixed race.

"What is your ethnicity?" Ling Chi suddenly asked.

Zhu Yuyan was taken aback. When she saw the ordinary-looking young man sitting by the well, she was moved and smiled, "I didn't expect Island Master Ling to grace us with his presence. It is truly an honor to have you here."

"What is your ethnicity?" Ling Chi asked again.

"..." Zhu Yuyan took a deep breath. This was the first time she had met a man who didn't take her beauty seriously.

They're definitely skilled.

"I am of Han ethnicity, but I have some Xianbei blood," Zhu Yuyan said.

Xianbei?

Ling Chi seemed to be deep in thought. Historically, the Xianbei people seemed to be Caucasian. For example, Emperor Ming of Jin, Sima Shao, the second emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, had a Xianbei mother and looked like a Caucasian. Wang Dun, a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even called Emperor Ming a "yellow-bearded Xianbei slave."