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

In such a romantic atmosphere, there are always some unromantic people, like Jiang Nan, who is more concerned about when the pork belly will be cooked. It seems that they have been on the table for a while and are now starting to smell delicious.

He anxiously reminded her, "Ye Lan, quickly flip this pork belly over, it looks like it's going to burn."

"Oh, good."

Ye Lan immediately snapped out of his daze and helped turn the pork belly over, the warmth between him and Jiang Ning completely gone.

Xiao Bai was still sitting in Ye Lan's lap. Because he was afraid of oil splattering on Xiao Bai, Ye Lan sat a little far away from the baking tray. Seeing that he was having some difficulty moving around, Jiang Ning took the serving chopsticks from his hand and helped him.

After spending so much time together, Jiang Ning had already mastered the art of grilling meat, which doesn't require much skill. The most important thing about grilling meat is the seasoning, so Ye Lan only needed to help sprinkle the seasoning.

Since he hadn't expected so many people to come to eat, and felt that he hadn't prepared enough meat, Ye Lan had to take out the side dishes he had gotten from Feng Lao: round lettuce leaves and perilla leaves. These two things are basically round lettuce and perilla leaves. These two things go well with the grilled meat, making it less greasy and more filling.

Moreover, Ye Lan planted these two vegetables in flowerpots in her space. After cutting off their branches and leaves, she could use spiritual power to encourage their growth, ensuring a continuous supply so that they wouldn't run out.

Looking at the vegetable leaves Ye Lan had taken out, Jiang Nan asked somewhat uncertainly, "Can these two vegetables really be eaten raw?"

"Yes, they can. In fact, raw vegetables have the highest spiritual energy content. Haven't you seen those spirit beasts eat raw spiritual plants and meat, and their cultivation levels rise faster than ours?"

Although Ye Lan's words contained a bit of deception, there was actually some truth to them, though only some: raw food does indeed have the highest spiritual energy content.

However, the reason why spirit beasts can cultivate so quickly is because of the favor of the Heavenly Dao. For example, Xiaobai eats the same food as them, but it can cultivate simply by eating and sleeping. As a human, after reaching the conditions for abstaining from grains, he can replenish his spiritual power and improve his cultivation level by meditating.

Eating doesn't have the same noticeable effect on them as it did when they were in the Golden Core stage, unless they eat food with a particularly high amount of spiritual energy. Of course, this change is because their cultivation level is now higher.

The spiritual energy provided by the food is still the same, but it's like his body is a storage tank. Before, it was a bucket, which could be filled with water quickly with a ladle. Now it's like a pond, which needs streams to fill it quickly. It's that simple.

I don't know if it's because this vegetable was grown in a spatial dimension or because it was eaten raw, but this lettuce leaf has a much richer spiritual energy than the ones I've eaten before.

Ye Lan demonstrated for them, placing the crispy roasted pork belly on a lettuce leaf, rolling it up and eating it. The roasted pork belly was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and when wrapped in the sweet and crisp lettuce leaf, it was both satisfying and refreshing.

After Jiang Nan took a bite, she couldn't help but exclaim, "It smells amazing!"

After trying it, Su Ye, who was sitting next to me, couldn't help but agree wholeheartedly: "I think it's delicious too!"

Before Su Ye could finish speaking, Su Bo stuffed a piece of pork belly wrapped in osmanthus into his hands: "Try this osmanthus-wrapped roasted pork."

This osmanthus has a unique aroma that pairs well with grilled meat, leaving a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth. It received unanimous praise from everyone except Sang Yu, who genuinely couldn't get used to this special aroma and preferred lettuce leaves.

Nangong Yue even mixed the osmanthus and lettuce leaves together, wrapped them around roasted pork belly, and ate them, stuffing her cheeks bulging like a little hamster. Her appetite was no less than that of the men.

Eating roasted meat alone can be a bit dry, so when Ye Lan took out two more jugs of wine from her spatial storage and warmed them by the stove, everyone followed suit. After eating in this cold weather, taking a sip of their own warm wine was indeed the most comforting thing to do.

Because Jiang Ning was in charge of grilling the meat there, Ye Lan only needed to feed Xiao Bai, which freed up his hands to eat. Occasionally, he could even wrap a piece of pork belly for Jiang Ning.

They enjoyed the beautiful scenery in the sky and drank warm wine. Overall, they had a very pleasant meal. By the end, there wasn't even a piece of pork belly left. Ye Lan was worried that Xiao Bai wouldn't have anything to eat in the future, so she didn't take out the leftover beef.

After finishing their meal, they didn't leave immediately. Instead, they gathered around the stove, sat together, and looked at the beautiful lights in the sky.

They were constantly changing there, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, sometimes like a wisp of smoke on the horizon, full of dreamlike colors.

Su Ye couldn't help but exclaim, "I've lived in Wuya City for so many years, and I've never seen such a captivating sight."

Jiang Nan, who was closest to him, also said, "Yes, we've never seen this before in the Southern Continent. This trip to Iceland was really worthwhile."

Whether it was because they hadn't used much spiritual energy and were full today, or because of the miracles in the sky, they felt that their spiritual energy was abundant and they felt relaxed and comfortable.

Su Bo added, "I have a feeling that I'm about to advance."

"Really?" Su Ye looked at his brother excitedly. Su Ye was even happier than Su Bo himself for Su Bo's advancement to the Nascent Soul stage, because his brother was still very young. His advancement to the Nascent Soul stage meant that his brother's future cultivation level would not be low.

"It's just a feeling," Su Bo said, not entirely certain, as he felt it would take quite some time.

Despite this, the others were still happy for him, and Ye Lan and the others even picked up their wine jugs and clinked them together with him.

After they came out, Sang Yu set up a barrier so that the cold wind didn't reach where they were sitting. It was warm sitting by the stove, and now that they had eaten and drunk their fill, everyone was feeling a little drowsy.

Fortunately, the baking pan and dishes could be cleaned with a cleaning spell, so everyone could quickly pack up and go inside the cabin to rest.

Before going in, they used cleansing spells to remove the dirt and smell from their bodies so as not to offend the people inside.

But once inside, they still saw the resentful looks from everyone, because these mercenary group members had also smelled the fragrance before Sang Yu set up the barrier.

Knowing that the others were eating barbecue outside, the mercenary group members couldn't concentrate on their cultivation, but they were too embarrassed to go out and eat with the grandson of their Su family head, so they could only stay quietly in the cabin.

The others had all cultivated since childhood and didn't like sleeping that much. Once inside the cabin, they sat cross-legged on the soft cushions to absorb spiritual energy.

Ye Lan was used to this method and was about to meditate when Jiang Ning asked him, "There's only a soft cushion here, do you want to lean against me and sleep for a while?"

Hearing his words, Ye Lan felt that it might not be a bad idea, especially when she saw Xiao Bai enter the space and sleep like a king on the soft cushion. Ye Lan felt that she also wanted to sleep.

Jiang Ning said to him in his mind, "If you want, we can sit in the corner and you can sleep on my shoulder."

Ye Lan asked him using her divine sense, "And what about you?"

“I can absorb spiritual energy even while sitting.”

Jiang Ning's cultivation method does not require meditation to absorb spiritual energy, a fact that Ye Lan had forgotten.

Since that was the case, he didn't hesitate any longer. He and Jiang Ning found a corner away from everyone else, leaned against the wall of the boat, and rested their heads on Jiang Ning's shoulder to sleep.

Jiang Ning was taller and had broader shoulders than him, and leaning against him gave Ye Lan an inexplicable sense of security, so Ye Lan quickly fell asleep.

After seeing that he had fallen asleep, Jiang Ning leaned her head close to him, and the two rested together with their eyes closed.

Outside, the wind howled, but inside it was very quiet, and time passed quickly when you were asleep.

Ye Lan thought he had slept with Jiang Ning by his side all night, but when he woke up, he found that he had unknowingly put his head on Jiang Ning's lap.

He nervously touched the corner of his mouth, thankfully no drool was coming out. Jiang Ning saw this little gesture and chuckled softly.

When everyone stepped out of the cabin, they found that it was another beautiful day, with clear skies and a blanket of white snow under a blue sky.

Everyone stretched and loosened their muscles. After the night, everyone's physical and spiritual energy had recovered well.

Based on his memory of Iceland, Sang Yu led them to find Star Lake Island. He vaguely remembered that it was in a relatively central location. In order to find the direction faster, Sang Yu flew into the air. People with the Nascent Soul stage cultivation could fly without using swords, and they could see further from above.

Ye Lan and the others followed Xiao Bai below, searching the ground for any rare immortal herbs or other precious spiritual plants.

Little White was also quite fast at finding things. Since it didn't rely on its eyes to see, it ran forward, and Ye Lan and the others could only keep up with its speed by flying on their swords. The two little red foxes were left far behind, picked up by their mother, and carried away with her.

After running for a while, Xiaobai stopped, and everyone else also braked suddenly. It stood in front of a large rock and gestured to Ye Lan in its mind: "Dig it open."

Based on past experience, anything that a novice would value so highly must be a good thing.

Ye Lan inserted the scabbard under the large rock and infused it with spiritual energy, intending to use leverage to lift the rock. However, it didn't budge. You should know that a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage can easily lift a boulder weighing over a thousand pounds.

Seeing that he couldn't lift it, Jiang Ning also came to help, but even with two people at the Nascent Soul stage working together, the big rock only loosened a little.

"let me!"

The voice came from behind them. It was the mercenary leader. He thought that the two young men were thinner than them and therefore lacked the strength to lift the stone, so he told them to step aside and let him try.

The mercenaries were all very strong, and the leader was as big as a bear. As he rubbed his hands together, the other mercenaries cheered him on.

"Boss, let's get it!"

Encouraged by everyone, he walked up to the stone with two quick steps and placed his hand directly on it.

The team leader gave it a hard push, but the stone remained firmly in place, even less so than the two men from Jiang Ning's group had managed to move it a little. Only then did the team leader realize that the stone was indeed quite heavy and he had to take it seriously.

He changed his position and pushed a second time.

"Hey!"

He gathered all his spiritual power into his hands, but his feet sank into the snow and his face turned red, yet the stone still wouldn't budge.

Seeing that he didn't move, the other mercenaries came to help, but it was only slightly better than before. They couldn't help but examine it closely. "How strange, what kind of strange stone is this?"

Someone suggested, "Why don't we try smashing it?"

Seeing that they weren't moving, Sang Yu flew down and asked, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Nan said to him, "Senior, could you try to move this stone for us?"

He didn't agree immediately, but instead asked, "Is there something down there?"

"Yes, there should be," Ye Lan replied from the side, although he didn't know what it was either.

"Alright, then all of you move aside."

After everyone made way, Sang Yu gathered his spiritual power in his hands and began to move the stone. He was now at the Nascent Soul stage, and the stone was finally slowly moved.

When the stone was moved to a certain position, it suddenly became very light, and everyone could see some golden liquid through the small cracks under the stone.

After completely removing the stone, everyone discovered a small pit underneath, filled with a considerable amount of Fire Dew. This Fire Dew possesses extremely pure spiritual energy, which is of great benefit to cultivators, and even more so to spirit beasts.

This made everyone very envious, but since it was Ye Lan's spirit pet that discovered it, they couldn't say much, only blaming themselves for not having such good luck.

After Xiaobai saw the Fire Dew appear, he asked Ye Lan to bring out a jade bottle to hold it. Ye Lan poured the golden liquid into the jade bottle, filling three bottles to the brim. There was still some left, which he then had the others share.

Senior Sang Yu had put in the most effort, so he was naturally the first to take some, but there wasn't much left. He only took a small half-bottle, and the others got even less, each only getting a sip. But even so, they were very happy. After all, it was Xiao Bai who discovered it, and Ye Lan and the other two had spent a little more time to move the stone. There was nothing to complain about if Ye Lan didn't share with them.

There was still a little bit left in the pit, and the two little red foxes went down and licked it clean. The big red fox just watched from the side without moving. When the two little red foxes licked the Fire Dew, they were so happy that their little tails wagged.

Ye Lan left one bottle of Fire Dew for Jiang Ning. He kept one of the remaining two bottles and gave the other to Xiao Bai to drink on the spot. Seeing that it could drink so much Fire Dew, the two little red foxes next to it were extremely envious and stared longingly.

When Xiaobai drank the bottle of Fire Dew, Ye Lan seemed to see some patterns light up on its head, but they quickly disappeared, and it returned to its snow-white appearance.

Seeing how much it enjoyed drinking it, the others simply drank the Fire Dew themselves and then sat down to absorb it.

After drinking the Fire Dew, it traveled throughout their bodies, clearing their meridians. They absorbed it with their eyes closed, unaware that some black energy was being expelled from each of them.

This Fire Dew is indeed a good thing. After everyone absorbed it, they felt that their meridians were much more relaxed, and they could absorb spiritual energy more smoothly. They also felt that their physical strength had improved.

"Come on, let's keep going."

Seeing that everyone was alright, Sang Yu spoke up. He moved the stone back and then let everyone continue their journey. He wanted to find Xinghu Island before dark.