Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

"Master, what's wrong?" Zhao Ling'er asked.

"It seems like there's a fight going on up ahead," Ling Chi said.

"Really?" Zhao Ling'er listened for a moment, then said blankly, "Ling'er can't hear anything."

"Don't listen with your ears, feel with your breath," Ling Chi said. "Everything in the world fluctuates; by feeling its breath, you can know what's happening in the distance."

Zhao Ling'er nodded and tried to sense the fluctuations ahead using her aura, but after a long time, she couldn't sense anything.

"Master, Ling'er is too stupid." Zhao Ling'er was very frustrated.

Ling Chi said, "It would be a miracle if you succeeded on your first try. You'll get better with more practice."

"Okay." Zhao Ling'er nodded. "Master, let's go take a look ahead!"

"it is good."

The two people and the fox traveled on their swords and soon entered a cave full of poisonous insects. At the end of the cave, they saw the two sides fighting. Upon seeing this, Zhao Ling'er immediately exclaimed, "Ah! It's Sister Lin!"

Ling Chi was quite surprised, because the two sides fighting were Lin Yueru and the woman in yellow he had seen a few days ago. Beside the woman in yellow was a huge toad, and half of the woman in yellow's face was also exposed. It was a corroded face, which was very terrifying.

Hearing Zhao Ling'er's call, Lin Yueru was stunned for a moment. This moment of surprise was originally a perfect opportunity, but the woman in yellow also thought that Lin Yueru had come to help because of the exclamation. She immediately took a defensive stance and looked at the newcomer warily. When she saw what was coming, she was also stunned.

"It's you!?"

She recognized Ling Chi; after all, the little fox in his arms had left a deep impression on her.

"Miss, we meet again." Ling Chi nodded, then looked at Lin Yueru and said, "Miss Lin, what are you doing here?"

"Senior!" Lin Yueru was very excited to meet Ling Chi here. She clasped her hands in a fist and bowed and said, "I had some conflicts with my father and ran away from home."

"Uh..." Lin Yueru is really fierce to talk about running away from home so confidently.

"Why did they start fighting?"

"You'll have to ask this young lady," Lin Yueru said coldly. "I just wanted to pass through to the capital, but she blocked my way. I wanted to reason with her, but she attacked me instead."

"Hmph!" the woman in yellow said, "Now that you've seen my face, I can't let you live."

"This is absurd!" Lin Yueru exclaimed angrily, "You'd kill someone just because you saw my face? How can you be so barbaric!"

The woman in yellow raised her eyebrows sharply: "That's just how I am, what are you going to do about it!?"

"you--"

"Alright." Ling Chi waved his hand and said to the woman in yellow, "Miss, I can see that you are doing evil."

The woman in yellow remained silent.

“I can feel the hatred, sadness, and loneliness in your heart.” Ling Chi’s eyes held a hint of sympathy as he said, “You must have gone through something terrible to become who you are now.”

"..." The woman in yellow pursed her lips tightly, enunciating each word clearly: "It has nothing to do with you!"

“If I hadn’t encountered her, it would indeed be none of my business, but since I have encountered her, it is now related to me.” Ling Chi channeled a yang-type magical power into the woman in yellow.

The woman in yellow, unable to dodge in time, cried out in alarm, "What did you do to me?!"

"It's nothing, just healing the boils on your face," Ling Chi said.

As soon as she finished speaking, the woman in yellow felt a tingling itch on her left cheek and instinctively reached out to scratch it.

"Don't move!" Ling Chi stopped her. "Don't move if you don't want to be disfigured!"

The woman in yellow paused, enduring the tingling and itching on her left cheek, but because it was so uncomfortable, she had to sit on the ground, hugging her legs tightly with both hands, gritting her teeth and bearing it.

Perhaps the poison was too strong, because it took a full quarter of an hour for the poisonous sores on the woman in yellow's face to be completely removed, by which time she was already exhausted.

Ling Chi looked at the woman in yellow's smooth, jade-like left cheek and smiled slightly: "Miss, you can touch it now."

The woman in yellow took a few deep breaths, raised her hands, and touched her face.

"My...my face..."

The woman in yellow was overjoyed: "It's done!"

Lin Yueru was amazed by the woman in yellow: What a beautiful woman.

Zhao Ling'er exclaimed softly, "Ah! Sister is so beautiful!"

A few days ago, Ling Chi saw a woman with only half her face at the inn and thought she was extremely beautiful. Now that he saw her whole face, his prediction was confirmed: "The girl is indeed very beautiful."

The fact that this Golden Toad Demon Mother could leave a large avatar in the Legend of Sword and Fairy game shows that she truly possesses stunning beauty.

A cold and aloof beauty.

Thump—

The Golden Toad Demon Mother knelt before Ling Chi and kowtowed three times: "Thank you, benefactor."

"Please rise." Ling Chi offered a helping hand, and the Golden Toad Ghost Mother felt her body being grasped by an invisible force, which gently helped her up.

The Golden Toad Demon Mother was startled, realizing that she had encountered a master, and also understood why Lin Yueru had called him "senior" before. It turned out that he really was a senior master.

She just looked too young, seemingly a few years younger than me.

Ling Chi asked, "Young lady, what is your name? Why are you committing evil deeds here?"

Hearing Ling Chi's question, even the most aloof woman dared not remain silent. Recalling her past experiences, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, and said, "Reporting to Senior, this humble woman is Liu Meiniang..."

After hearing her story, Zhao Ling'er and Lin Yueru clenched their fists in anger, and even the little fox barked twice.

The Golden Toad Demon Mother, named Liu Meiniang, was originally a well-bred young lady from a prominent family in Yangzhou. She met a down-on-his-luck scholar, and the two fell in love. At this time, the scholar's entire family was wiped out, leaving him the sole survivor. The scholar then asked Liu Meiniang to help him avenge his family.

Liu Meiniang's family possessed an ancestral manual called the Golden Toad Manual, which, once mastered, granted immense power. However, its side effect was disfigurement. Unable to resist the scholar's persistent pleas, and deeply in love with him, Liu Meiniang began practicing the manual. After several months, she mastered it and avenged the scholar. Unexpectedly, the scholar, dismayed by the disfigurement of half her face, left her for another lover.

Unable to withstand such a blow, Liu Meiniang's personality changed drastically. Several days later, one night, she found the scholar and his wife and killed them both. From then on, she lived in seclusion in a cave in Toad Valley, keeping company with the golden toad.

"Good riddance!" Lin Yueru gritted her teeth. "This heartless and treacherous bastard deserves to be killed and fed to the dogs!"

Although Zhao Ling'er also felt that the killing was justified, she said very rationally, "That scholar deserved to die, but that woman should not have been killed. She did not know about her husband and you, sister, in the past. She was also deceived. You, sister, killed an innocent person by mistake."

If anyone else had said this, Liu Meiniang would have definitely cursed them out, but Zhao Ling'er was part of Ling Chi's group, so she could only swallow her anger and said, "The affair between him and me is known to almost everyone in Yangzhou City. That woman must know it too, but she still married him. How can I tolerate this!"

Zhao Ling'er opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment.

Ling Chi patted Zhao Ling'er on the shoulder and said, "Ling'er is right, but in this unfair world, what justice is there? Everything is just cause and effect, retribution. Liu Meiniang."

“Senior.” Liu Meiniang stood respectfully at attention.

"Your plight is pitiful, but your actions after being harmed were extremely inappropriate. As the Buddhist saying goes, 'Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.' This shows that human life is of paramount importance. You unjustly took a life, and you will surely go to hell after death."

Liu Meiniang remained silent.

If she hadn't been disfigured, she certainly wouldn't have cared about going to hell after death, but now that she has regained her angelic beauty, she naturally doesn't want to go to hell after death.

Having figured this out, Liu Meiniang knelt down again: "Senior, save me."

“Saving you isn’t difficult,” Ling Chi said. “The difficult part is, what are you willing to give in return?”

"Pay back?" Liu Meiniang was taken aback.

“You don’t think that just because I’m capable, I deserve to save people, do you?” Ling Chi said. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Healing your disfigured face is just a way to make a good connection. But if you’re going to push your luck, you can’t expect to get away with it without paying a price.”

"What you say is true, senior." After a moment of silence, Liu Meiniang had to admit that Ling Chi was right. Apart from one's own parents, how could anyone in this world help someone overcome a calamity for no reason?

When you give someone a gift, you always expect something in return; the same applies to helping others.

“But I have nothing, and I don’t know what I can give back to you, senior,” Liu Meiniang said.

“It’s very simple,” Ling Chi said. “Be a chivalrous person, accumulate virtue and do good deeds to erase your karma.”

Liu Meiniang was stunned, while Lin Yueru looked at him with admiration: Senior, you are indeed a role model for us.

"Just like that?" Liu Meiniang couldn't believe it.

"Otherwise what?" Ling Chi smiled slightly: "You said yourself that you have nothing and nothing to repay me with. Then repay the world!"

His sunny and approachable smile, along with his handsome words, captivated Liu Meiniang. She lowered her head and knelt on the ground, saying, "Liu Meiniang will remember your words, senior, and will repay the world with this crippled body."

"That's good." Ling Chi nodded and said, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. In the future, please help more of those poor and helpless people! With your abilities, it shouldn't be difficult!"

“It’s not difficult.” Liu Meiniang touched her forehead to the ground and said, “This junior will do her best.”

"Okay, get up!" Ling Chi said.

Liu Meiniang kowtowed again before getting up.

"Repair the mountain paths and plank roads, and let those poisonous toads disperse so they don't harm people," Ling Chi said.

"Yes." Liu Meiniang bowed in agreement, whispered a few words to the golden toad beside her, and the huge golden toad croaked twice and hopped away.

"Being able to communicate with toads is quite impressive," Ling Chi said with a smile.

"It's just a trivial skill; I'm afraid I'll make a fool of myself in front of you, senior," Liu Meiniang said.

"No, toads are excellent medicinal materials, and frogs are also very delicious. If you could set up a frog farm and sell them to inns and restaurants, you'd be guaranteed to make a fortune."

Liu Meiniang: "..."

"You don't believe me?" Ling Chi asked.

"This junior dares not," Liu Meiniang shook her head repeatedly.

"How can you eat frogs? It's disgusting." Lin Yueru had nothing to fear, and her words of disgust came out without hesitation.

Ling Chi turned to look at her, smiling without saying a word.

"What...what are you doing?" Lin Yueru asked, feeling very uncomfortable.

"You have no right to speak if you haven't eaten it," Ling Chi said. "The frog I cook is delicious. Its meat is similar to chicken, very tender. Once you've eaten it, you'll want to eat it a second time, a third time, and countless times."

"I don't believe it." Lin Yueru shook her head repeatedly: "Frogs are disgusting just to look at, how can you eat them?"

"If it's edible, and delicious, what would you do?" Ling Chi asked.

“If it’s really delicious, I will present the Yue Maiden Sword to you, senior,” Lin Yueru said firmly as she drew the sword from her back.

Ling Chi shook his head: "It's just an ordinary sword, I wouldn't even look at it."

Lin Yueru: "..."

"Forget it, I won't argue with you," Ling Chi said. "You said you're going to the capital?"

"Hmm." Lin Yueru silently slung her sword over her shoulder and said, "My uncle is Minister Liu of the current court. Every time I quarrel with my father, I go to my uncle's house in the capital to play."

"You're really something," Ling Chi laughed. "Your father is the leader of the Southern Martial Arts Alliance, and your uncle is the current Minister of the Imperial Court. As long as we don't go to the borderlands, we can do whatever we want in the world."

“No way,” Lin Yueru said. “The highest-ranking sects in the world today are the immortal cultivation sects led by the Kunlun Eight Strike. Although my family is a martial arts family and I have an uncle who is a minister in the current court, we are ultimately just mortal forces and not worth mentioning.”