After transmigrating, I made a name for myself through my culinary skills.

Yang Wei thanked Ye Lan before starting to eat.

This person, with his refined appearance, ate very elegantly, while Yang Chao watched from the side, constantly swallowing his saliva.

Jiang Nan was grilling his own portion of fish on the side. The fire wasn't big, so he was fanning it, and the aroma spread everywhere.

Ye Lan has stopped cooking for Jiang Nan and the others. After teaching Jiang Nan how to grill fish, he lent them the stone plate. Now he only cooks Xiao Bai's portion.

"Brother, you should try some too." Yang Wei wanted to share some with his brother, but his brother quickly waved his hand, "No, I've already stopped eating, I don't need to eat."

Yang Wei highly recommended: "Try it, it tastes even better than your mother's, and it can even restore your spiritual power."

"Really?" Yang Chao was skeptical. He had never seen anyone in the Southern Continent cook fish better than his mother.

"Really, you'll know once you try it."

"Then I'll just try a little bit." Yang Chao stopped refusing and took the bowl and chopsticks from his hands. This "little bit" turned out to be a bit too much. When he returned the bowl and chopsticks to Yang Wei, half of the fish was gone.

Yang Chao wiped his mouth, still feeling a bit unsatisfied. His taste buds were satisfied, and the spiritual energy contained in the fish soothed his fatigue. "It tastes even better than what my mother makes."

The main reason is that the ingredients themselves are much better than what they eat outside.

"Is the fish your mother makes delicious?" Jiang Nan was still grilling fish and had overheard their conversation.

Yang Chao got excited when this was mentioned: "To tell you the truth, my mother's maternal grandmother's family is from Beizhou. My mother's cooking skills are a family tradition from their ancestral home in Beizhou. When it comes to which place makes the best fish, Beizhou is second to none."

"Your ancestors had this kind of relationship?" Jiang Nan asked in surprise.

“Then it’s settled. My brother and I will both follow our mother’s side; we both have wind spirit roots.”

"Oh? Have you ever heard of a spiritual plant called the Extreme Immortal Grass in the Northern Continent?" Ye Lan inquired about the Extreme Immortal Grass from them.

Yang Chao and Yang Wei both shook their heads: "Never heard of it."

"What about the extremely cold places in the Northern Continent? Have you heard of them?" Ye Lan asked, changing the subject.

Yang Chao shook his head again. Yang Wei did not answer immediately. He thought for a moment before saying, "When I was a child, I heard my mother say that there was a small island in the North Continent that was entirely covered by glaciers. The ice and snow never melted all year round. Around the middle of each year, a dazzling array of colorful lights would appear in the sky, like a miracle. I wonder if this is the extremely cold place you are looking for."

It does sound somewhat similar.

"Yes, I remember now. My mother also said that there was a fairy on that island with long white hair. She was so beautiful." Yang Chao recalled that he had always wanted to go to Beizhou to see this fairy when he was a child.

"Mother was lying to you, but you've always believed it." Yang Wei later asked his mother, and she said that the fairy was just a fabrication, but this island did exist. "Brother Ye, are you looking for this supreme immortal herb?"

"I've only heard of it and wanted to know more about it." Ye Lan felt that they weren't close enough to talk about it directly.

“If you know anything about Beizhou, why don’t you just ask Su Bo? If he doesn’t know, let him ask his father.” Jiang Nan said nonchalantly, this little matter was not as important as his fish.

“That makes sense.” If Jiang Nan hadn’t mentioned it, Ye Lan would have almost forgotten about Su Bo’s family’s presence in Beizhou. Since they met, Su Bo had never gone back.

Jiang Nan's fish was cooked by then. He picked it up, blew on it a couple of times, and started eating, not caring at all that it was hot.

For the next few days, they did not go out and ate whatever they caught in the water. The number of fish and shrimp downstream of the waterfall decreased drastically.

It was at this time that Ye Lan truly began to abstain from grains, and even Xiao Bai didn't love eating as much anymore. Jiang Nan, on the other hand, still ate with great relish every day. In his words, he could eat these fish for as long as he wanted without getting tired of them.

But Ye Lan is different. He's eaten so many delicious things, why would he want to keep eating these things?

He's craving spicy hot pot, crayfish, Peking duck, fried chicken, stewed pig's trotters, milk tea, and so on. He hasn't had these things in ages, and he's decided that once he gets out, he'll ask Jiang Ning to make him a few more pots so he can have them all!

Ten days later, Nangong Yue began to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Before the advancement, she prepared a lot of pills just in case.

When thunderclouds gathered, the others surrounded her outside the range of the lightning tribulation, protecting her.

"The color of this lightning tribulation looks rather peculiar."

The lightning bolt that struck Nangong Yue shimmered with a purple hue.

"Because she used too many pills, she relied on pills to improve her cultivation. Heaven has never liked these things, so she'll probably suffer a lot from this heavenly lightning." Gu Yu glanced at it and knew the reason. Heavenly lightning turns purple when you use too many pills, and most medicine cultivators have experienced it.

One can use pills to improve one's cultivation, but if one uses too many, the Heavenly Dao will consider it cheating. It can only be said that Nangong Yue was too eager for quick success.

"What should we do?" Su Bo asked anxiously, fearing that Nangong Yue would perish under the lightning tribulation.

"Just wait." Gu Yu didn't take these heavenly lightning bolts seriously at all. His previous methods of improving his cultivation were somewhat bloody, and Heaven didn't like him. When he advanced, the heavenly lightning was black and struck him hard, and he almost didn't survive.

"Young Master, something terrible has happened! The entire Medicine Sect is flying this way!" The outermost senior brother suddenly sent a message.

Jiang Ning and the others looked in the direction of the sound and sure enough, they saw the people from the Medicine Sect. Their gray-blue disciple robes were particularly easy to recognize, but they looked somewhat disheveled and there were few of them.

"Oh no, those silver wolves are following them!" Yang Chao exclaimed. As the Medicine Sect members approached, Yang Chao also saw the silver wolves closely following behind them, and their level looked higher than the two that had chased them before.

"Young Master Jiang."

The remaining ten disciples of the Medicine Sect flew to them. The leader bowed and greeted Jiang Ning. Meanwhile, Nangong Yue's tribulation was still ongoing.

Seeing the sudden appearance of more than a dozen people, the wolves did not continue to advance rashly. Instead, they stopped a short distance away and paced back and forth. They could sense that these people's cultivation levels were higher than those of the people they were chasing.

"Lin Xiong, what is your intention in leading the demonic beasts to our Green Mountain Sect?" Jiang Ning naturally saw the Azure Wolf following behind them, took a step forward, and shielded Ye Lan behind him.

"The leaders of the Green Mountain Sect have all held the position of the Southern Continent Alliance Leader. Now that we are in danger, we naturally need to seek help from the Green Mountain Sect. Young Master Jiang wouldn't just stand by and watch us die, would he?"

The disciple named Lin Xiong was the leader of the Medicine Sect's team this time, and the surname Lin also proved that he belonged to the main branch of the Medicine Clan.

Lin Xiong was full of confidence for this training exercise and volunteered to lead the team. In fact, they had been doing well until they encountered such a ferocious monster in this secret realm, which killed more than ten disciples of his Medicine Sect and relentlessly pursued them.

When he saw the heavenly lightning, he knew that Nangong Yue was undergoing tribulation, so he rushed over to ask the Green Mountain Sect for help, because they were no match for those wolves.

"How despicable! They don't share the good times, but they'll share the bad times."

Jiang Nan's voice wasn't loud, but everyone present heard it.

"you!"

"Lin Yao!"

A disciple of the Medicine Sect was unconvinced, but Lin Xiong stopped him, saying, "Young Master Jiang, I am willing to offer a Profound God Pill and ten bottles of Five Elements Pills as a reward in exchange for Young Master Jiang saving our lives."

The Profound God Pill is an excellent pill for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage. It was once auctioned for a thousand high-grade spirit stones. Lin Xiong's spending spree is indeed generous.

"This mere Profound God Pill isn't enough to save the lives of ten of you, is it?" Jiang Ning feigned difficulty. "The people of my Green Mountain Sect can still escape in time."

"Then I, Lin, am willing to add another Mystic God Pill."

"Senior brother, this is clearly extortion!" Lin Yao said angrily.

"Shut up, I'm still in charge here." Lin Xiong was furious, but he still said to Lin Yao in his mind, "Where there's life, there's hope."

“Alright.” Jiang Ning pretended to think for a moment before agreeing. “But I have one more condition: after I protect you, you are not allowed to harm Nangong Yue again before leaving Cloud Cave.”

"I understand." Lin Xiong assumed that Jiang Ning was blinded by Nangong Yue's beauty and had made such a request.

But Jiang Ning didn't think that way. He only knew that it was a fool not to make money when there was opportunity. Besides, if he didn't help, the Green Mountain Sect wouldn't escape this battle either.

Because he saw the Wolf Emperor pacing in place, his eyes suddenly filled with excitement, and disregarding their superior numbers, he led the wolf pack forward, aiming straight for his back.

It must have found Ye Lan!

Jiang Ning guessed correctly. The Wolf Emperor was so excited because it sensed Bai Wu's aura. It was pacing back and forth, trying to find out where that person was.

It was injured by Bai Wu's self-destruction of its spirit core. It thought that after Bai Wu and his people escaped from the secret realm, it would have no chance to seize the demon core again. Unexpectedly, this person actually delivered himself to its door!

It saw it; it was right behind the man, and launched a direct attack.

"Protect Ye Lan, set up the formation!"

Without hesitation, Jiang Ning gave the order, and the nine people formed a Bagua formation. This was the Nine Palaces Heavenly Punishment Formation, a unique creation of their Green Mountain Sect. Ye Lan stepped back and stood outside the formation.

The first palace is Kan, located in the north; the second palace is Kun, located in the southwest; the third palace is Zhen, located in the east; the fourth palace is Xun, located in the southeast; the fifth palace is in the center; the sixth palace is Qian, located in the northwest; the seventh palace is Dui, located in the west; the eighth palace is Gen, located in the northeast; and the ninth palace is Li, located in the south.

The nine individuals are indispensable, and they summon eight natural phenomena: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, and marsh.

As soon as the formation was complete, dark clouds filled the sky and a strong wind arose.

"It's actually the Nine Palaces Heavenly Punishment Formation!" Lin Xiong exclaimed in surprise. Jiang Ning and the others had actually used their Green Mountain Sect's strongest formation right from the start.

The successive leaders of the Green Mountain Sect have secured their positions as alliance leaders not by using eloquence to win over the masses, but by relying on their formations.

There were once people who were dissatisfied with the hereditary leadership of the Green Mountain Sect and launched an attack on it. At that time, the nine elders of the Green Mountain Sect used the offensive formation "Nine Palaces Heavenly Punishment" to defeat all the enemy attacks without any chance to fight back. By the end, they hadn't even had to make a move before the sect leader made a move. From then on, the position of the Green Mountain Sect became unshakable.

Jiang Ning and his group are currently using the Nine Palaces Heavenly Punishment formation, which borrows the power of heaven and earth and has extremely strong destructive power.

Nangong Yue, who was undergoing her tribulation nearby, instantly felt much less pressure, as a significant portion of the heavenly lightning she was using for her tribulation had been borrowed.

"Boom!"

Amidst flying stones and swirling sand, thunder and gale-force winds assaulted the charging wolf pack. The lightning was no weak bolt; its strikes caused numbness and pain.

"Roar--"

Screams rang out as wolves fell to the ground, some running away from the attack range with their tails tucked behind them. Those unable to get up were struck dead by lightning. The Wolf Emperor also stopped and retreated.

Lin Xiong was shocked. He hadn't expected that Jiang Ning could unleash such power from the formation with just one Nascent Soul and a few Nascent Soul cultivators. Luckily, they hadn't gone to cause trouble for the Green Mountain Sect because of Nangong Yue.

This situation didn't last long. The Wolf Emperor discovered that these strange phenomena were caused by those humans. Ignoring the lightning strike, it charged over, determined to tear them apart.

The Wolf Emperor's level is comparable to that of a peak Nascent Soul stage expert. It is extremely agile, and these lightning strikes only damaged some of its fur.

"Roar!"

At the critical moment, Xiaobai stepped forward and stood in front of Jiang Ning. Xiaobai's true form was as tall as the Wolf Emperor. Although its cultivation level was not high enough, it was still uncertain who would win in terms of physical strength.

The wolf's howl and the lion's roar rang out at the same time, and the two bodies collided. Little White managed to block the attack.

"Retreat." Jiang Ning was the absolute leader on this battlefield, and the disciples of the Green Mountain Sect scattered instantly.

Ye Lan, Jiang Ning, Gu Yu, Su Bo, and Xiao Bai worked together to fight the Wolf Emperor. The others also took out their longswords and fought the remaining wolves, which had been injured by the heavenly lightning and were no longer as difficult to fight as before.

"Senior brother, are we really going to go?"

"Nonsense, even if they die, we won't escape. Attack!" The people from the Medicine Sect didn't abandon the people from the Green Mountain Sect to save their own lives. If they ran away now, they would develop inner demons and could forget about improving their cultivation.

The scene was extremely chaotic, with all sorts of tactics being used. In the midst of this melee, several wolves were hit by swords and crossbow bolts, falling to the ground and dying, and the situation gradually turned around.

Jiang Ning had also used the Rakshasa Crossbow to ambush the Wolf Emperor, but it reacted too quickly and was difficult to hit. Moreover, the Wolf Emperor seemed to be protected by something, and the swords and crossbows could not penetrate its flesh. However, Xiao Bai's fireball hit it, but only caused some scratches.

Surrounded by a group of humans and witnessing its fellow humans being poisoned to death, the Wolf Emperor flew into a rage. Its eyes suddenly turned blood red, and its body swelled up as it tried to kill all the ants.

"Oh no, a blood sacrifice!"

Ye Lan heard Xiao Bai's voice in his consciousness, and he quickly told the others to step back.

Blood sacrifice is a high-level demon beast that sacrifices its lifespan to raise its status by one level, and this status can last for twelve hours.

The Wolf Emperor is now like a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.

"boom!"

Little White was thrown to the ground, rolled over before standing up. Its size was now inferior to that of the Wolf Emperor, and its strength had also fallen behind.

"Little White!" Ye Lan was a little anxious. Blood was flowing from the corner of its mouth, staining its white fur red.

Fortunately, the Wolf Emperor did not continue to attack Xiaobai, but turned to look at Ye Lan.

This human has something it desires.