The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

When we walked into the dragon lizard's cave, the imagined dirt and fishy smell did not appear. The cave was very clean. Except for the thick hay laid on the place where the dragon lizard rested, there was no dirt at all in the entire cave.

Seeing Zeng Wenyu's surprised expression, Long Xi rolled his eyes at him: "Why? You can't believe that the place I live in is so clean?"

"It's not that I can't believe it, it's that I really didn't expect that the place where you live doesn't even have a strange smell."

"The higher the level of a monster's cultivation, the higher its wisdom. With higher wisdom, it will naturally not make its living place so dirty. Even the laziest monsters are unwilling to live in a place full of fishy smells. Of course, those who have not yet awakened their spiritual wisdom or have just awakened their spiritual wisdom are not included. They still retain a large part of their primitive instincts."

Zeng Wenyu nodded. He knew that he had some stereotypes about monsters. The intelligence of truly powerful monsters was no worse than that of humans. Some monsters were even smarter than humans. He could no longer use that stereotype to describe the monsters in this world.

This cave is very good for monsters, but not so good for humans. However, Zeng Wenyu didn't mind this. He took out a cushion from his storage bag, placed it on the ground and sat cross-legged on it. Then he saw the dragon lizard wave its claws at the cave on its right, and a hole of neither size appeared in front of him.

Reaching its claws into the hole, the dragon lizard pulled out a pair of ribs from some unknown monster. The ribs were well preserved, and although they were a bit dried out, there was no mold on them and there seemed to be traces of being pickled with salt.

The dragon lizard tore the ribs into two halves with its claws, threw one half to Zeng Wenyu, and threw the other half into its own mouth. While chewing it in big mouthfuls, it said to Zeng Wenyu: "Your human food is still delicious. This kind of salted meat can be preserved for a long time and has a salty taste. It's delicious!"

Zeng Wenyu looked at the half of the ribs that the dragon lizard threw into his hands. He didn't know what to say. Although it was marinated meat, it was still raw meat. Maybe it was good for monsters, but for Zeng Wenyu, he was not used to eating raw meat.

Speaking of the half rib, he remembered that he saw from the map that there was a stream nearby. He planned to go to the stream to process the half rib and then light a fire to cook the rib.

"Where are you going? Aren't you going to eat here?" The dragon lizard was a little surprised when it saw Zeng Wenyu leaving, but when it thought about the human in front of it, it rolled its eyes again, "You humans are so troublesome. You have to cook them before eating. Unlike us monsters, we can eat and digest even blood food."

Zeng Wenyu did not argue with the dragon lizard. He walked out of the cave carrying half a rib, looked at the direction and headed towards the stream. As for the dragon lizard, it took out some pickled meat from the cave and followed Zeng Wenyu, chewing the pickled meat and letting Zeng Wenyu listen to the sound.

Shaking his head helplessly, Zeng Wenyu felt that this dragon lizard was a bit childish. He could actually have so much fun playing something that only children could do.

Carrying the half ribs, he walked to the stream, chopped the ribs into small pieces, then Zeng Wenyu took out an iron pot from his storage bag and filled it with stream water. He put the chopped ribs in the pot, started a fire using local materials from the forest, placed the iron pot on top and began to cook.

Soon the water in the pot boiled. Zeng Wenyu took out the seasoning from the storage bag and threw it into the pot. Then he covered the pot and slowly began to stew the ribs.

After a while, the ribs stewed in the pot began to emit an aroma. Zeng Wenyu opened the lid of the pot and added some spices. As he opened the lid, an even richer meat aroma filled the air. The dragon lizard, which was lying by the stream chewing the meat in its mouth, smelled the aroma and slowed down its chewing. It looked at the marinated meat in its hand and then at the pot in front of Zeng Wenyu, and suddenly felt that the meat in its hand had no taste at all.

After a while, Zeng Wenyu opened the lid of the pot and took the pot off the fire. He glanced at the dragon lizard that was staring at the pot of broth, took out a bowl and chopsticks from the storage bag, scooped a bowl of broth and ribs, and began to feast on it.

The dragon lizard moved its body slowly to the side of the pot. It looked at the broth in the pot, smelled the aroma of the broth, and kept swallowing its saliva.

"Do you want to eat?" Zeng Wenyu suddenly asked the dragon lizard.

When Long Xi heard Zeng Wenyu's question, he nodded subconsciously, then immediately reacted and shook his head: "No... I don't want to eat, isn't it just a pot of hot water!"

Looking at the dragon lizard's appearance, if it hadn't stared at the pot with its eyes wide open and swallowed its saliva, he would have believed it. Unfortunately, the dragon lizard's acting skills were just that.

Taking out a large basin from the storage bag, Zeng Wenyu poured out some of the soup and pork ribs in the pot and placed them in front of the dragon lizard. He did not say anything, but continued to eat the food in his bowl.

"You...what are you doing? I don't want to eat! I think mine is delicious too!" The dragon lizard gently pushed away the basin that Zeng Wenyu had placed in front of it, picked out a piece of pickled meat it had brought with it and put it in its mouth, chewing with a painful expression. Only when Zeng Wenyu looked at it did it make its expression look better.

"Eat it. This is the meat you provided. I just cooked it in a different way."

"Yes! This is the meat I provided, so there's nothing wrong with me eating the meat I provided!"

Zeng Wenyu gave the dragon lizard a step, and the dragon lizard walked down the step. It brought the basin of broth and ribs in front of itself, and drank the broth and ate the meat in big gulps.

"Smells! It smells so good!"

Soon the man and the beast finished the pot of ribs. The dragon lizard looked at Zeng Wenyu with an unsatisfied look, but it was too embarrassed to say that it wanted to eat more.

Zeng Wenyu saw what the dragon lizard was thinking: "This little bit of food is not even enough for a body cultivator to use as a base. Do you have any meat left?"

"Yes, yes, yes! I have more here!" The dragon lizard handed all the meat it brought to Zeng Wenyu, "Oh, I still have a lot in the cave, I'll go get it now!"

The dragon lizard left in a hurry. Zeng Wenyu looked at the pickled meat all over the ground and suddenly had a bad feeling. Judging from the appetite of the monster, he might have to deal with a lot of pickled meat in this meal.

Sure enough, after a while, the dragon lizard came over with a pile of pickled meat and placed it in front of Zeng Wenyu. It looked at Zeng Wenyu with anticipation in its eyes.

Looking at the pile of pickled meat that was much taller than him, he said, "You're not going to let me handle all of it, are you? If you don't help and just handle the pickled meat, you won't be able to eat it again today."