How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

"Tch, anyone with hands can do it..."

"Then, over here, boil a pot of water..."

"Well, there's no need to emphasize this basic level over and over again, is there..."

Hongli yawned and couldn't help but urge, "Let's get to the point!"

"Then, you can also stir the vegetables over and add salt and seasonings, along with ginger slices, shiitake mushrooms, scallion segments, meat, alcohol, and salt..."

Hongling's speech suddenly quickened, and she swiftly shifted her position in front of several pots, leaving afterimages in her wake...

"Hey, wait, wait, slow down!"

Hong Li hadn't even finished yawning when she suddenly widened her eyes and looked around. The ingredients suddenly seemed to have changed, looking both familiar and strange...

It wasn't that she couldn't see Hongling's movements; it's just that she was watching one pot when another pot underwent a strange change, and then the strange reaction in this pot just ended. She was still trying to figure out what had happened in the previous step...

Perhaps it's like bending down to pick up a pen in math class?

"Alright! Xiao Li, come and serve the dishes! Did you learn how?"

Hongling smiled and turned her head, encouragingly saying, "Isn't it simple?"

"No! This is completely wrong!"

Hongli's eyes were glazed over when she suddenly snapped back to reality, shaking her head and waving her hands frantically: "This isn't how you cook! This is not how I do it!"

"Eh?"

Hongling tilted her head: "But that's how cooking is..."

"No, no, it should be like this..."

Hongli said, about to demonstrate for you: "Let me show you..."

"Hey, no, no, no, let's eat first!"

……

"Do you see my soup, Grandma?"

Meng Po continued, "Although I don't know what this soup tastes like, I'm certain of its effects. That girl's cooking must be like this..."

"You mean..."

Hei Yang frowned, trying to understand, "You mean Hong Li's cooking skills are as bad as yours? Hmm, no, thinking about it this way, Hong Li's soup is much less potent than yours, which proves she's not beyond redemption..."

"Since you managed to climb to this position by sheer seniority, my little Li might just be able to do the same in the future..."

Meng Po: "?"

"Do you really want Grandma to do something that violates the rules for public officials?"

Meng Po remained expressionless, but Hei Yang was horrified to discover that the handle of the soup spoon in his grandmother's hand was deforming...

"Haha, I was definitely joking, please continue, please continue..."

Hei Yang pulled his mouth shut, indicating that he should be quiet: "Mmm!"

"Hmph, if you keep talking nonsense, Grandma will put on a show of an old woman beating up a child in front of all these dead souls on the Bridge of Helplessness today."

Meng Po sneered, "When the time comes, you will be just like your grandmother, becoming a legend that will likely never be repeated, passed down through the three thousand worlds."

Well, but the people in those stories are usually deceased too!

Hei Yang: "..."

Shivering.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 159 He said, "In the midst of wind and rain, what is this little pain? Wipe away your tears, don't be afraid..."

"Well, strictly speaking, it's less like cooking and more like medicinal cuisine..."

Meng Po nodded and affirmed, "The food we prepare not only fills our stomachs but also emphasizes the functionality of the food."

Just like Grandma's Meng Po soup, because it completely washes away all the sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty memories of the past life, leaving not a single trace, the taste might be a bit hard to accept. It's even possible that this pot is sweet, but it will turn bitter as soon as it's put in the pot..."

"This pan smells burnt; if you put it in, it'll just taste charred..."

Hei Yang muttered under his breath, "I've read a lot of books, you can't fool me."

"Their medicinal cuisine is a feast for the eyes, nose, and palate; it's delicious and has therapeutic effects, so it's not like the taste will get worse..."

"..."

Several tic-tac-toe characters popped up above Meng Po's head, and the bent spoon handle was straightened again: "Ours is a step up, sacrificing taste for enhanced efficacy. Any problems? Hmm?"

"If we dare not have it, who would?!"

Please continue, please continue…

"Hmph, I think you can guess what's going on now."

Meng Po gave a soft snort, then used a finger to freeze another soul that was trying to escape, forcibly forcing it to drink the medicine.

"Your girlfriend probably wanted to fully utilize the specific effects of those ingredients, which is why she used that cooking method."

First of all, the heat is different. Her heat is much stronger than that of ordinary cooking. Moreover, she subconsciously injects spiritual energy to catalyze the process, and at the same time, she adds seasonings to complement each other.

However, this cooking method requires constant experimentation to achieve the desired result, and the quality of the cooking utensils must also be guaranteed.

Take a kitchen knife, for example. If we're dealing with high-level or tough ingredients, are we just going to stand by and watch it break without taking precautions?

"And that pot, with spiritual energy catalyzing and medicinal power activating it, will explode when the reaction reaches a certain point if the pot is of poor quality. These are all normal phenomena..."

"Well……"

Hei Yang frowned: "Why does it feel so familiar..."

Meng Po: "Hmm?"

Hei Yang suddenly remembered the alchemy furnace he had encountered in the capital that couldn't be opened from the inside, and then he thought of Hong Li's pot explosion accident, and fell silent.

"This...this is alchemy?!"

Hei Yang's eyes widened: "So, after all that, that guy wasn't cooking! So what kind of medicinal effect was she trying to achieve?"

Want to make the poison work to kill her boyfriend? She's almost there!

"I already told you, it's a failed product."

Meng Po stretched out her hand, floated up slightly, and tapped Hei Yang's head: "Listen carefully to what Grandma has to say."

Because it is a failed product, not only will the medicinal effect be wasted, but it will also generate various toxic substances under rapid catalytic reaction. Just like you said, failed alchemy produces waste pills.

Not only did it fail to have any medicinal effect, but quite the opposite, it consumed all the useful nutrients, leaving only impurities, turning it into a pot of soup!

"Oh, so I drank something highly poisonous...?"

Hei Yang patted his chest: "Thank goodness, so Xiao Li didn't have a grudge against me or try to poison me or anything..."

"Well..."

Meng Po glanced at Hei Yang, clicked her tongue, and shook her head: "Hard to say..."

Hei Yang: "???"

"Hey, that's hard to say!"

"Because Grandma thinks that with your mischievous personality, the girls who are with you might actually develop murderous intentions over time."

"Ha, you're underestimating our relationship!"

Hei Yang patted his chest confidently: "To be honest, over the past ten years, she has planned no less than a hundred assassination attempts, all of which I have thwarted without incident. Now she has resigned herself to her fate, hahahaha!"

Meng Po: "..."

This kid's comment...

He doesn't sound like a good person!

"No matter how you look at it..."

Meng Po glanced at Hei Yang: "You two don't seem like a normal couple. I really don't know how long you two can stay together..."

"forever and ever!"

Hei Yang flashed a bright smile: "We promised we wouldn't separate!"

"I still don't understand..."

Looking at Hei Yang's smiling face, Meng Po paused, sighed, and shook her head, saying, "Isn't the love between men and women just a simple matter of hormones?"

Aren't those stories in folk tales, like "I'm willing to give everything for you," a bit too idealistic?

"That's really too ideal!"

Hei Yang nodded in agreement, saying, "Why should I give up everything? If it really came to that, I would have died before her by now!"

"Hmm, I don't understand, I don't understand."

Meng Po shook her head: "Grandma isn't without feelings, she just simply doesn't understand this so-called love!"

I've seen far too many examples of people making vows of eternal love one second, promising never to part, only to turn and leave the next.