My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

Ruan Chayan rolled up her sleeves and made up a story: "I learned this from a food cultivator when Xiaoxue and I were traveling. Unfortunately, we lost touch with her afterward and don't know how she is now."

She said to Luo Hanying, "I went shopping a couple of days ago and finished half of it in my spare time."

"You continue processing the medicinal herbs and making seasonings, I'll go cut the monster meat into skewers."

In the Fragrant Secret Realm, to train them, Xiange had them chop firewood. Later, they were even chopping the firewood into even pieces. Since both of them had storage space in their storage rings, they could store firewood, wooden skewers, or building materials—

Keep everything you think you might need later; this made it easier for the two of them to do barbecues.

The four of them shared three stoves, but Luo Hanying asked everyone to make room for her. She took out a stone barbecue grill from her storage ring, which stunned everyone.

Wen Chenrui looked at the barbecue grill with curiosity: "Fellow Daoist Luo, I wonder what kind of magic artifact this is? It doesn't seem to contain any spiritual power."

Luo Hanying: "Uh... is it possible that it's just a barbecue grill and not a magical artifact?"

Its mission is to make barbecue and fill people's stomachs.

The food cultivators were all talking about it, and it was normal for them to be surprised, because the pots, pans, and other utensils used by the food cultivators were all magical artifacts rich in spiritual energy.

Only with such magical tools and the techniques of food cultivation can one create dishes rich in spiritual energy that benefit the user. Without any spiritual energy, it's just a strangely shaped... barbecue grill? Can it lock in the spiritual energy of the ingredients?

The group began to take the raw materials they needed and process them.

Lan Suxin's "Tang Yunhua" is made by slicing the most edible and spiritually rich part of the Yunti sheep into thin slices, then blanching it in boiling spiritual spring water. The thin slices of meat are cooked in a quick boil, then quickly scooped out, arranged on a plate, drizzled with spiritual spring water, and sprinkled with salt before serving.

The essence of Tangyunhua lies in preserving the spiritual energy of Yunti mutton itself, and using meat slices to carry the minerals and spiritual energy from the spiritual spring water. An excellent food cultivator can ensure that the loss of spiritual energy is minimal when slicing.

Tangchaxian's Longhu Shrimp uses Longhu grass and cold-water shrimp as ingredients. The medicinal liquid boiled from the roots of Longhu grass is placed on the lower layer of the steamer, and the prepared shrimp is placed on the upper layer of the steamer. Double bell hanging silk wood is used as firewood to increase the fire spirit.

The difficulty in making Longhu shrimp lies in mastering the heat. Only when the heat is just right can the Longhu herbal liquid slowly evaporate and be absorbed by the shrimp. If the heat is too low, the Longhu herbal liquid will not change, and if the heat is too high, the shrimp will be scalded by the heat.

Lan Suxin and Tang Chaxian both used their best skills to deal with Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying, but unexpectedly Ruan Chayan announced a dish name that no one had ever heard of.

Not only were the names of the dishes unheard of, but Ruan Luo and her companion's handling of the ingredients was also astonishing, making everyone want to scold them for wasting such a precious resource.

Luo Hanying would take the medicinal herbs handed to her by Ruan Chayan, roast them, grind them into powder, or boil them into a medicinal liquid and add other medicinal herb powders and wine to make a sauce, without caring about how the medicinal effects of the herbs would be exerted or whether the two herbs would be incompatible.

Ruan Chayan took out various fresh monster meats she had collected in the Yaoxiang Secret Realm from her Qiankun bag, cut them into small pieces, mixed them with sauce and marinated them. She then used spiritual energy to squeeze the meat to make it quickly absorb the flavors, skewered it, and placed it on a wooden plate for later use.

Ji Ying and Song Ying, who rushed over to see what was going on, shook their heads at Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying's handling of the situation. The two of them had not considered preserving the spiritual energy to the greatest extent possible in processing the spiritual herbs and ingredients, which was undoubtedly disrespectful to the spiritual herbs and ingredients.

Both those who cultivate food and those who cultivate alchemy can see through the tricks of the trade, and they scoff at Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying's previous words and actions.

Wen Chenrui noticed Ji Ying and the others' disdain, as they all focused on Lan Suxin and Tang Chaxian's preparations.

The praise from their senior brothers and sisters made Lan Suxin and Tang Chaxian less nervous, and Ji Ying's satisfied expression made the two, who were sweating, beam with joy.

However, after Ruan Luo and her companion finished preparing, they set up the fire and placed the meat skewers on the table. The aroma of the layers of sauces was so strong that even the food cultivator couldn't help but sniff and look at them.

"It smells so good! How come their elixirs smell so wonderful?"

"Those two seem to have some real talent; the smell of their barbecue makes me want to eat it."

"Before I entered the Dao, I smelled a similar fragrance in the restaurants of Zhonghan Shenzhou, but it was not quite the same as this. I never thought that the cultivation world could also have that kind of earthly scent."

The hushed whispers reached the ears of every cultivator, and Lan Suxin and Tang Chaxian couldn't help but feel nervous.

At this moment, the hot cloud flower was ready to be served. The cultivators near the stove each received a slice of meat. It tasted delicious, and its rich spiritual energy was beyond compare. Everyone who had eaten it praised it. However, the spicy aroma of barbecue wafted over, and everyone's thoughts unconsciously drifted away.

Ruan Chayan deftly flipped the skewers with a wooden skewer, spread the sauce, and sprinkled rice flower seeds, which looked like sesame seeds, on top before taking them out of the pan. She then placed the finished skewers on a tray, and Luo Hanying carried the plate around to distribute them.

Aside from monks who claim to abstain from grains to maintain bodily purity, Ruan Chayan's barbecue is guaranteed to be enjoyed by most people.

Although Wen Chenrui and Song Yingshi did not wolf down their food like the other cultivators, their eyes lit up for a moment.

Wen Chenrui's mood suddenly became complicated. When Ruan Luo and the other person first said that the dishes at Shansi Garden didn't taste good, they all thought that the two of them were just being arrogant. They didn't expect that the other person could actually make spiritual food that tasted better than Shansi Garden.

Ji Ying took a bite of the barbecue, sighed, and said, "If we're just talking about taste, Xiao Tang and Xiao Lan, we food enthusiasts have lost."

The expressions on everyone's faces were quite varied. Tang Chaxian sadly controlled the heat, and the Longhu shrimp took longer to cook than the others.

Tang Chaxian trusted her master's judgment, but even knowing that she had lost, she could not simply give up what she was doing, because wasting food due to her emotions was not something that should happen to food cultivators.

Lan Suxin retorted, "Master, I admit that our Shansi Garden doesn't yet have dishes that are so delicious and visually appealing, but you can't judge spiritual food made by food cultivators by just these few points."

Ruan Chayan did not pay attention to the flow of spiritual energy when processing the monster meat, wasting the fresh meat in her hands. Wouldn't the impurities generated when monster meat lacking spiritual energy enters a cultivator's body be disproportionate to the spiritual energy gained?

I observed the reddish-brown sauce that Luo Hanying made; she put argan mushrooms and galangal together, which are incompatible ingredients.

Under such circumstances, the dishes prepared would require the cultivator to spend time meticulously refining and extracting their medicinal properties and spiritual energy. Even if the color, aroma, and taste were excellent, they wouldn't be the spiritual food the cultivator needed.

Jiang Meiya calmed the agitated Lan Suxin down and looked at Ji Ying, waiting for her to speak.

Ruan Chayan kept a close eye on the barbecue, glancing at Ji Ying as she brushed on the sauce.