Filial piety: the supreme emperor

In the distant future interstellar era, even the cosmic life form Yangmei Daxian has developed a keen interest in a unique skill - that is the "interstellar cooking" technology that players have carefully studied.

In fact, there is a helpless reality behind this. In the starry sea with scarce resources, mastering advanced cooking skills is no different from refining interstellar elixirs, both of which consume extremely rare materials. Without enough raw materials, it is naturally impossible to create a delicious dish. However, players who specialize in interstellar cooking have reduced their contribution value due to the reduced time spent on alien planets and missions. Therefore, they must find a way to make money to ensure the improvement of their cultivation and cooking skills.

Therefore, they decided to temporarily focus on improving the taste of the dishes to distinguish them from interstellar elixirs. After all, in the short term, the practicality of interstellar cooking is unlikely to surpass the efficacy of elixirs. But they believe that as long as they continue to improve the taste of the dishes, there will always be a group of interstellar residents willing to pay for it. As long as there is market demand, they can continue to research and practice.

In this way, a group of players specializing in interstellar cooking gradually deviated from the conventional path. They even established a cross-galaxy food delivery network!

Even the Styx Emperor, who had witnessed the development of the players, was surprised by this. He did not stop it from happening, because in the multiverse there is a saying that "every profession has its own master", so in the vast universe, "every profession has its own extraordinary existence" is also reasonable. The Styx Emperor privately admitted that even he himself could not resist the temptation of the delicacies made by the players, although eating them could not directly improve his cultivation.

However, this is only a temporary phenomenon. As players become more skilled, perhaps one day they will trigger the cosmic laws related to food, such as the "power of food." At that time, even if they cannot refine delicacies that can benefit extraordinary beings, the Styx Emperor himself can do it.

Thinking of this, the Styx Emperor couldn't help but feel that it was interesting, and it could also satisfy his taste buds. Although practitioners can sustain their lives by absorbing cosmic energy, it doesn't mean that they can't taste delicious food. Once they encounter truly delicious food, even extraordinary beings will salivate.

Today, after more than 100,000 years of dedicated research by the players, they are no longer ordinary interstellar explorers, but cosmic monks with Xuanxian cultivation. If we look at it purely from the perspective of taste, the dishes they make may indeed make extraordinary beings fall in love with them.

Historically, the reason why such a situation did not occur in the prehistoric universe is very simple: everyone was busy practicing, and precious resources were used for alchemy and weapons manufacturing. Where were there any extra materials to satisfy the desire for food?

At this moment, Yang Mei Daxian was also attracted by the charm of this delicacy. At first, he tried to resist this temptation. After all, as an extraordinary being, how could he be swayed by external things? However, he changed his mind and thought that since this happened in his private domain and no one could detect or infer it, why not give it a try?

"Maybe..."

"Try it."

Once this idea sprouted, it spread like wildfire. Soon, Yang Mei Daxian made a decision, used the law of space to quietly leave the original place, and teleported all the players and their delicacies to a new unknown area.

At the same time, he quietly appeared in front of a top-notch delicacy called "Extraordinary Set Meal". He used his fingers, which were condensed with magical power, to gently pick up a piece of rabbit-shaped pastry that was shining with strange light and seemed to be alive, and put it into his mouth. He did not eat it with relish, but rather absorbed the essence. The pastry instantly shrank to an invisible level and disappeared in his mouth.

Then, he finished the "Extraordinary Set Meal" and the table was empty. After tasting it, a subtle expression flashed across Yang Mei Daxian's face. After a moment, he slowly exhaled and whispered to himself:

“It’s quite charming.”

Then, he began to deduce the secret. He knew that it was not appropriate to discuss the topic of space laws in depth, after all, time was short. In comparison, explaining how to obtain better quality ingredients seemed more practical.

At this time, he developed a real interest in the delicacies made by the players. At least he thought they were very delicious, but lacked nutritional value. The food that Yang Mei Daxian ate did not increase his spiritual energy at all, but instead made him spit out turbid air containing impurities. Obviously, for an extraordinary being like him, the food made by the players was of no use other than being delicious.

The key to the problem lies in cooking skills and the quality of ingredients. First, the players' cooking skills have not yet reached an extraordinary level; second, and more importantly, the quality of the ingredients they use is not up to standard.

It turns out that the raw materials of these delicacies mostly come from low-level spiritual roots and spiritual plants planted by players themselves, among which there are many low-grade spiritual roots, and medium-grade spiritual roots are rare. The so-called "superb set meal" is nothing more than using high-grade spiritual roots with a small amount of top-grade spiritual roots and adding some spiritual beast meat. Even the highest-grade ingredients have never seen the presence of low-grade innate spiritual roots.

The reason is that most high-quality ingredients are used for alchemy and refining, and no one uses them to cook. In desperation, the player Beibi, who is learning interstellar cooking, can only purchase ingredients from players who specialize in "interstellar farming". However, the ingredients currently available are limited to spiritual roots and spiritual plants. As for spiritual beasts, because the spiritual beasts in the prehistoric universe develop intelligence very quickly, players have not yet accepted intelligent creatures as a source of food.

However, no matter what, the problem of ingredients always troubled Yang Mei Daxian. So he decided to teach the players how to cultivate better ingredients. In order to make them understand better, he used the power of space law to transfer 480 million players to hundreds of different universes, allowing them to observe the whole picture of each world at the same time and experience an unprecedented high-dimensional perspective.

This ability can only be possessed by those who have been promoted to the Golden Immortal level, or like Yang Mei Daxian, who relies on the strength of the peak of Quasi-Sage and the mastery of the laws of space to forcibly pull all beings below the Golden Immortal level into this realm. Of course, if it were just an ordinary Golden Immortal, it would be impossible for 480 million players to collectively enter the pseudo-Golden Immortal state.

Yang Mei Daxian did this not to show off his power, but to give players the opportunity to compare the characteristics and changes of different worlds, so as to better understand how to cultivate high-quality spiritual roots. Otherwise, the dishes they make can only be called "space junk food."

In the following time, Yang Mei Daxian talked about the theme of food ingredients, including which types of cosmic environments are more suitable for the growth of spiritual roots, how to create such an environment, how different types of spiritual roots should be treated differently, and the impact of factors such as spiritual fire and black ice on the growth of spiritual roots, how to reduce these unfavorable factors, and the principles of matching between spiritual roots, etc.

In addition, he also mentioned some content related to the laws of space, although he did not elaborate in depth. In addition, he also shared a lot of practical knowledge about interstellar farming, interstellar cooking, interstellar alchemy and interstellar refining, which will greatly help players make progress in their respective secondary career paths.

A thousand years passed by, and Yang Mei Daxian finished his sermon. When he finished, every player had a new understanding of him: "It turns out that Yang Mei Daxian is a sub-professional master!"