Chef God of the Wuxia and Fantasy World

"I..." Zhang Wuji hesitated, unsure whether he should tell the truth.

"Master, don't frighten him." Ling Chi gently pushed away Abbess Miejue's longsword and said, "Don't you think he looks a lot like Zhang Wuxia?"

"Him?" Abbess Miejue stared intently at Zhang Wuji's face. Although he had a full beard, his features gradually began to resemble Zhang Cuishan's.

"Could it be?" Abbess Miejue asked in surprise and doubt, "He is Zhang Cuishan's son?"

They look alike and are about the same age. Could they really be the illegitimate child of Zhang Cuishan and that demonic witch?

"Only he himself knows." Ling Chi looked at Zhang Wuji, a half-smile on his face, and said, "Isn't that right, Zeng Aniu?"

"You...you're not called Zeng Aniu?" Yin Li looked at Zhang Wuji with a complicated expression.

Although Zhang Wuji hasn't admitted it yet, she already believes Ling Chi's guess. Her "Brother A Niu" is her cousin—Zhang Wuji.

Zhang Wuji remained silent for a moment, but ultimately did not admit it: "I am Zeng Aniu, not someone else."

“You…” Yin Li looked at him, her eyes filled with disappointment.

Zhang Wuji simply lowered his head, not daring to look at her.

"..." Since Zhang Wuji didn't want to reveal his identity, Ling Chi didn't press him. She patted Yin Li's shoulder: "Zhu'er, let's go!"

Yin Li nodded, didn't look at Zhang Wuji again, and left with him.

Before leaving, Ling Chi said to Abbess Miejue, "Abbess, since he is unwilling to admit it, then let him go!"

Although Abbess Miejue did not understand his intention, she nodded and said, "Okay."

He paused, then continued, "Zhiruo, she..."

"It's alright." Ling Chi smiled slightly: "Ignorance is no excuse."

Abbess Miejue breathed a sigh of relief.

……

In front of the small cart, Zhou Zhiruo and Xiao Zhao had already eaten lunch and were each practicing their internal energy to regulate their breathing. Footsteps approached, and the two of them stopped practicing and opened their eyes, only to see Ling Chi walking over with the little village girl.

"Father, why did you bring her here?" Seeing this little village girl, Xiao Zhao felt both hatred and pity, and didn't really want to see her.

Zhou Zhiruo was also very puzzled and looked up at him.

"I'll explain it to you slowly later." Ling Chi smiled as he saw that Xiao Zhao had already packed up the stroller. "Now, let's go to the nearby town first."

……

Not long after, Ling Chi pushed Xiao Zhao and Yin Li back to the town where the stinky tofu was sold. They booked a room at the best inn and had Xiao Zhao help Yin Li bathe and change.

Yin Li was slightly slimmer than Xiao Zhao, but they were about the same height, so she could wear Xiao Zhao's clothes.

Xiao Zhao didn't quite understand Ling Chi's intentions, but she would do her best to fulfill Ling Chi's orders.

Yin Li hadn't taken a bath in many days, and Xiao Zhao used two large buckets of hot water to clean her up.

After changing her clothes and combing her hair, Xiao Zhao looked her over, her eyes filled with sympathy: "What a pity."

Because of practicing the Thousand Spider Poison Hand technique, Yin Li's once beautiful face had been tainted by the poison, turning it dark, swollen, and uneven, making her quite ugly. Xiao Zhao felt sympathy for her, but also somewhat understood her situation.

If I looked like her, I might become even more sinister than her.

"I don't need your pity." Yin Li knew why Xiao Zhao said she was a pity, but she had been strong since childhood and would not accept anyone's pity. Besides, this was the path she had chosen herself, and even if her appearance was ruined, she would continue to walk it.

Xiao Zhao shook her head and said, "Let's go see Father!"

"..."

……

In the next room, Ling Chi had just picked out several foods that could strengthen muscles and bones from the Chef's Space. There was milk, minced meat and tofu, stir-fried dried shrimp, and so on. These were all ordinary white recipes, but they were the highest-level recipes he had discovered so far that could strengthen muscles and bones.

Although the effect was only so-so, eating these foods together should help Yin Li's fracture heal by about 70-80%. After the ten-day cooling-off period, eating them again would complete the full recovery.

Just as they placed the food on the table, Xiao Zhao knocked on the door: "Daddy, can we come in?"

Ling Chi said, "Come in!"

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and Xiao Zhao and Yin Li walked in one after the other.

Seeing Yin Li looking refreshed, Ling Chi smiled slightly: "Not bad, you look quite energetic."

Yin Li smiled, looked at the food on the table, and asked, "Did Uncle Ling make this?"

"Hmm." Ling Chi said, "You haven't eaten anything since last night! Sit down, I'll feed you."

Yin Li's wrists are both broken, and for the time being, she can only be fed by others.

"No need to trouble Father." Xiao Zhao slapped the table and gave a 'kind' smile: "I'll take care of it."

"..."

Ling Chi nodded: "Then I'll have to trouble Xiao Zhao."

"No trouble at all." Xiao Zhao chuckled, turned to look at Yin Li, and smiled, "Sister Zhu'er, sit still. Don't move around too much, or you'll poke the dents and bumps on your face."

Yin Li: "..."

Chapter Thirty: Twisted

Although she was a little worried at first, Xiao Zhao still fed Yin Li very calmly and didn't slap her face.

Ling Chi breathed a sigh of relief.

After Yin Li finished eating the food, her wrist felt numb and itchy, but the pain was gone.

Ling Chi asked, "How are you feeling?"

“It’s delicious.” Yin Li nodded.

Ling Chi chuckled lightly: "That's not what I was asking you."

"Oh?" Yin Li understood and said, "I'm full."

"..."

This kid must have been kicked in the head by a donkey; his thought process is always so uniquely unconventional.

"I was asking how your wrist feels?" Ling Chi sighed. "These are all things that strengthen bones and muscles, and they will be very helpful for your recovery."

Yin Li's face flushed red, and she said, "I...I thought..."

"It's alright," Ling Chi said with a smile. "I didn't explain myself clearly. How are you feeling now?"

"It felt numb and itchy at first, and it's still a little numb and itchy now, but it's much better."

"Hmm." Ling Chi nodded and said, "These foods need to be prepared several days in advance. We can eat them again in ten days, and that should be enough."

A simple sentence brought tears to Yin Li's eyes. She asked, "Uncle Ling, why are you so good to me?"

"What are you saying?" Ling Chi looked at her. "Isn't it only right that I treat you well?"

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Xiao Zhao broke her chopsticks.

"..."

Ling Chi coughed lightly and said, "Xiao Zhao, you may not remember, but Zhu'er was the child your parents brought back back then. She was just placed on Spirit Snake Island. If your parents had left her on Peach Blossom Island to keep you company, you would have been sisters who grew up together."

"..." Xiao Zhao frowned: "How come I don't remember ever seeing her before?"

“You were only three years old then, what could you possibly remember?” Ling Chi smiled slightly and said, “In any case, Zhu’er has a deep connection with your parents. Now that something has happened to her, we have an obligation to take care of her, right?”

Xiao Zhao really wanted to say 'no,' but her kind heart prevented her from saying it.

Ling Chi smiled slightly, turned to look at Yin Li, and said, "I haven't asked you yet, weren't you on Spirit Serpent Island? How did you end up here?" He paused, then added, "And you even cultivated the Thousand Spider Venomous Hand, ruining your appearance?"

Yin Li was silent for a moment, then said, "I heard that the six major sects were going to besiege Bright Peak, so I came to take a look."

"How could you have heard the news while you were on Spirit Serpent Island?" Ling Chi pressed.

“I heard it when I was searching for the spotted venomous spider,” Yin Li said.

The Thousand Spider Venomous Hand technique requires a variegated venomous spider to cultivate, and since there are no such spiders on Spirit Serpent Island, one must come to the Central Plains to find them. This explains why she heard the news and came here.

"I see." Ling Chi nodded, then asked, "Why cultivate the Thousand Spider Poison Hand? There should be other martial arts on Spirit Serpent Island."

"Martial arts?" Yin Li sneered.

Ling Chi frowned: "No one taught you martial arts?"

“How could anyone teach me?” Yin Li gritted her teeth. “They just want to turn me into a useless person so that I won’t harm others.”

"..."

"Hey! How can you say that!?" Xiao Zhao couldn't stand it anymore: "Someone kindly adopted you, and you're still being picky. You have no gratitude at all."

"Gratitude?" Yin Li sneered: "Your mother stopped teaching me martial arts because she saw that I killed my second mother, and then abandoned me on Spirit Snake Island without a care in the world. Why should I be grateful?"

"You...you actually killed your own mother?" Xiao Zhao was incredulous and utterly shocked.

"It's Second Sister, a vile woman who seduced my father and bullied my mother!" Yin Li said in a deep voice.

"..." Xiao Zhao was speechless.

How can there be such a person in the world?!

Ling Chi sighed inwardly, thinking that Yin Li was truly psychologically twisted.

No wonder, since she was little, her stepmother and brother had bullied her mother. At such a young age, she didn't know right from wrong and killed her stepmother, which angered her biological father, who wished he could kill her as soon as possible. If it weren't for Dai Qisi saving her, she would have died at the hands of Yin Yewang long ago.

However, Yin Li's twisted personality had already taken shape. Later, Dai Qisi entrusted her to the care of Ling Snake Island, probably because she didn't want her to corrupt Xiao Zhao. And not teaching her martial arts might have been to prevent her from harming others in the future. Or perhaps it was simply because Han Qianye suddenly passed away six months later, causing her to lose interest in caring for Yin Li.

In any case, Yin Li's transformation is due to both the influence of her childhood environment and the cognitive errors she later experienced on Ling Snake Island without guidance.

Pitiful, and terrifying.

“It’s not that they didn’t want to take care of you, but they died six months after they adopted you,” Ling Chi explained softly.

"!?!" Yin Li's eyes widened.

“It’s also my fault. If I had gone to Spirit Serpent Island to see you back then, perhaps you wouldn’t be in this state now.” Ling Chi looked at her face and said, “The Thousand Spider Poison Hand is too vicious. Don’t practice it anymore. I will teach you a more advanced martial art.”

"So you want me to lose my cultivation?!" Yin Li's emotions were intense: "I can't lose my cultivation! Mother was bullied because she lost her cultivation, I don't want to be bullied, absolutely not!"

"No one will bully you," Ling Chi reassured her. "With me here, no one will bully you."