Beast World: The Ferocious God Xiang Liu is So Gentle

As expected, Lu Yao woke up from the cold while sleeping that night.

Lu Yao: "Xiang Liu, I'm so cold. Let's heat up the kang (heated brick bed)."

Xiang Liu: "Okay, I'll go get the firewood now."

As Xiang Liu passed by Niannian and Granny Wu's stone chamber, he heard Niannian sneezing inside.

Back in the room, Xiang Liu added firewood to the kang (heated brick bed) and said to Lu Yao, "I just heard Niannian sneeze. I'll expand their stone room and make a kang there too!"

Lu Yao took out several thicker pieces of animal hide from her spatial storage, which Xiang Liu and Tian Wu had kneaded in the last two days.

Lu Yao: "Take these animal hides to them in a bit and tell them to hold on for two days."

Xiang Liu: "Okay!"

After the kang (heated brick bed) was lit, the temperature in the stone chamber slowly rose.

After Xiang Liu delivered the animal skins to Granny Wu and Niannian, he returned to Lu Yao's side and found her already fast asleep.

This heated kang (traditional brick bed) is really nice, but it's a bit too hot for Xiang Liu. However, he couldn't bear to leave the person in his arms, so he closed his eyes and continued sleeping.

Because the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) was so comfortable, Lu Yao got up later than usual.

Tianwu brought back a lot of prey, which he piled up at the entrance of the cave.

After breakfast, Tianwu and Xiangliu processed the game together.

The processed prey was piled up at the cave entrance. Lu Yao noticed a lot of fatty meat discarded to the side, so she asked, "Aren't you going to take all this fatty meat?"

Tianwu: "It's too greasy, I can't eat it, that's why I was planning to throw it away."

Lu Yao: "I want to render oil from this fatty meat. Please clean it for me, cut it into small pieces, and bring it in."

Although Tianwu didn't understand how oil refining worked, he was sure that Yaoyao was right, so he busied himself processing the fatty meat.

Before long, Tianwu arrived at the cave carrying a bucket of grease.

Xiang Liu also followed in, wanting to see how Lu Yao refined oil.

Lu Yao found a large seashell, placed it on the fire, and then put all the fatty meat inside.

The snow-white fat had all piled up together. In order to make it release oil faster, Lu Yao took out some spiritual spring water from her space and added it to the fatty meat.

Lu Yao said to the old witch beside her, "Give me some salt."

Granny Wu brought a small half-bucket of salt to Lu Yao. Although most of the salt was in chunks, there was still quite a bit after breaking it up.

After adding some salt, Lu Yao asked, "When did you make so much salt?"

Granny Wu: "I have nothing to do in the cave, so I boil some salt whenever I have time to use for curing meat."

Soon, the fat gradually shrank in size, and the liquid inside the shell increased, bubbling up.

After all the fat had been rendered into cracklings, Lu Yao found a wooden bucket, cleaned it, dried it with clean fish skin, and then began to scoop oil into the bucket with a large wooden ladle.

System notification: "Congratulations, host, you have successfully refined oil. You are rewarded with one gold coin."

Xiang Liu: "Is it done already?"

Lu Yao: "Yes, isn't it simple!"

Tianwu: "It's very simple, but how do you eat it?"

Lu Yao: "You can stir-fry it! I'll stir-fry mushrooms for you guys for lunch."

Xiang Liu: "Teach me how to do it, and I can do it."

After Lu Yao poured all the oil into the wooden bucket, she used a plate to scoop out the oil residue.

Lu Yao carried the plate and let everyone have a taste.

Lu Yao: "This is pork crackling, is it tasty?"

Tianwu: "It's so delicious! I wish I hadn't thrown away the fatty meat. It's such a waste."

Xiang Liu: "I'll go out this afternoon and hunt some more plump game, then we'll make some more pork cracklings to eat."

Niannian: "It's so delicious, I want more!"

The witch said, "It's crispy and smells delicious."

At noon, Lu Yao instructed Xiang Liu to stir-fry a large plate of mushrooms in oil, and everyone ate it with great relish.

Niannian: "This tastes even better than meat!"

Lu Yao: "It's a pity that the cold season is coming soon, otherwise I could have found more wild vegetables and cooked them for everyone."

Tianwu: "It's okay. After the cold season, we'll go to Chaoyang Valley. There are plenty of plants there that we can stir-fry."

Over the next two days, Tianwu and Xiangliu took turns going out hunting, leaving the cave entrance overflowing with prey that they couldn't even process in time.

Lu Yao gazed at the snowflakes falling from the sky and murmured softly, "The cold season has truly arrived."