I long to return home!

The Land of Earth.

"Your Highness, a powerful cultivator with a lightning spiritual root has appeared in the Water Domain." A soldier in armor hurriedly ran to the Second Princess and knelt down to report.

"Lightning Spirit Root? There's actually a cultivator who, despite not being a member of our royal family, can cultivate such a powerful lightning element. Yunzhou has produced a genius disciple." The Second Princess looked at Xue Wu's location with disdain in her beautiful eyes.

She stood on the ground, a dying third-tier Iron Rhinoceros beast, its body resembling a blue ox, covered in scales on its back, its hooves a pale silver. Her eyes were indifferent, her expression numb, and purple lightning flashed from beneath her feet, instantly turning the Iron Rhinoceros beast into ashes.

By now, it was getting dark. Xue Wu was staring greedily at the dead Azure Water Python, and after clicking his tongue, he asked Xu Tao, "Brother Xu, was this Azure Water Python poisonous?"

"No," Xu Tao said calmly, then realized something was wrong and his expression froze as he said, "You're not going to eat it, are you?"

"We can't waste such a big chunk of meat if we don't eat it," Xue Wu said, patting the Azure Water Python's muscular physique.

"No, you don't have any cooking utensils either. Besides, this python swallowed a person before. Can you really bring yourself to eat it?" Xu Tao thought back to the thought of Xue Wu wanting to eat the snake meat that had swallowed a person, and he kept feeling nauseous.

So, Brother Xu, aren't you going to eat?

"Don't eat."

"What about you, Senior Brother Su?"

"I won't eat it either." Su Changfeng looked at the round belly of the Azure Water Python, turned his head away, and couldn't help but feel nauseous.

"You said you wouldn't eat it, so you can't go back on your word." Xue Wu sighed. Helplessly, he suddenly wanted to eat stir-fried eel with onions, but there was no eel. This python could be used as a substitute, but there were no onions either. He thought for a moment, looked at the dark sky, and realized that he definitely had to have a late-night snack. He thought that barbecue was the best late-night snack.

He took out a sharp kitchen knife from his storage bag. He had thought about this situation before entering the valley, so he had taken a few kitchen knives and ingredients from the canteen.

With a flash of light, a gash was torn open in the abdomen of the Azure Water Python, its organs and entrails falling to the ground. This bloody scene caused Xu Tao and Su Changfeng to retreat repeatedly, their faces pale, and they couldn't help but vomit, as if the air itself was filled with a nauseating stench.

Xue Wu forced himself to endure the nausea and cut off the fattest piece of meat from the Azure Water Python. It was so big that he couldn't hold it in one hand. He carried the snake meat to the riverbank and washed it repeatedly until the bloodstains on the meat were washed away.

He then cut the large piece of snake meat into smaller pieces. In addition, he took out a few green peppers from his storage bag, sliced ​​them, went to the fire, found a few thin sticks, whittled them into bamboo skewers, skewered a piece of meat and a green pepper together, and placed them by the fire to roast over medium heat.

Meat roasted over a pure fire will burn away all impurities, resulting in a crispy exterior and tender interior, making it safe and delicious to eat.

"Can he really do it this way?" Su Changfeng asked, looking at Xue Wu with a puzzled expression.

"I trust my junior brother's cooking skills, but I still can't bring myself to eat this." Xu Tao looked at the skewers of snake meat, feeling uneasy and his stomach churning.

"Although I've heard that his culinary skills are superb, causing the entire sect to crowd the dining hall, I regretted not having tasted it while I was in seclusion refining pills. But now that I've seen it, I've instantly dismissed that thought," Su Changfeng said.

Time passed second by second, and the roasted snake meat slowly released its aroma. The green peppers on the outside were coated with the juices that overflowed from the snake meat under the heat of the flames, elevating the flavor to another level. Seeing that the juices were about to overflow, Xue Wu quickly turned up the heat to reduce the sauce, and finally sprinkled on the essential seasonings, making the delicious barbecue a perfect match.

"What smells so good? Could it be roasted snake meat?" Su Changfeng swallowed hard, smelling the aroma of roasted meat in the air.

"Yes, but I'm sticking to my principles." Xu Tao crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and concentrated. He had to stick to his principles; he had just said he wouldn't eat, and now going to eat would obviously be a bit of a loss of face.

"But it smells so good." Su Changfeng looked at the plump roasted meat with golden juices flowing from its surface, and his mouth watered.

"It will definitely smell good, but you have to resist. Have you forgotten what we said?" Xu Tao turned his back and swallowed.

"He picked up the barbecue, he ate it, his mouth was dripping with oil..." Su Changfeng looked at the barbecue in Xue Wu's hand with envy and licked his lips.

"Hold on," Xu Tao said decisively.

Xue Wu chewed on the roasted meat in his mouth, a satisfied expression on his face. This was the taste, the taste of home. It was a pity that there was only meat and no enoki mushrooms or bacon, which was a bit monotonous. Indeed, when you are away from home, you have to rely on yourself to be well-fed and clothed.

He quickly showed off a string of items, glanced at Xu Tao, and a smug smile appeared on his lips. In the end, he softened a little and said, "Come and eat. I used the meat from the snake's back, not the belly."

"Brother Xu, he invited us to eat. What should we do? Should we go or not?" Su Changfeng wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth and tugged at Xu Tao's sleeve.

“Since Junior Brother has spoken, I’ll give him face and let him try it.” Xu Tao said calmly, so softly that only Su Changfeng could hear him, afraid that Xue Wu would hear him. He then turned around and steadily led Su Changfeng to the fire to sit down, picking up a skewer of roasted meat and eating it.

The unique aroma of the barbecue explodes in the air, as if it is flying freely and unrestrained.

After tasting a skewer, Xu Tao and Su Changfeng both showed satisfied expressions, forgetting their previous composed demeanor, and picked up another skewer to take a bite, their eating manners extremely unseemly.

Xue Wu smiled silently and took out the skewers that hadn't been grilled yet, and started grilling them by the fire.

What's that smell? It smells so good! Gu Qingcheng opened her beautiful eyes, smelled the sudden fragrance, and was stunned. It smelled better than any she knew. Following the scent, she saw Xu Tao and the others eating and drinking heartily. She slowly stood up, wrapped the white silk she had subdued around her waist, and walked towards the fire.

Perhaps it smelled too good, because Xu Tao and his companion were so engrossed in their meal that they didn't notice Gu Qingcheng at all. Fortunately, Xue Wu, who was grilling the meat, noticed and asked with a smile, "Senior Sister Gu, would you like some?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Qingcheng was about to politely decline when her stomach inexplicably growled, causing her to blush and shyly sit down, picking up a skewer and savoring it.

"This is... snake meat?" Gu Qingcheng asked in surprise after taking a bite.

"That's right, does Senior Sister Gu have any dietary restrictions?" Xue Wu asked, frowning.

"It's nothing, it's quite delicious. It just reminded me of some things." Gu Qingcheng looked at the snake meat in her hand and fell into childhood memories. When she was a child, her family was poor and her mother passed away early. Only her father raised her. At that time, there was a famine and no food. Her father risked his life to go deep into the mountains to find food and almost lost his life to bring back a snake from the deep mountains... That was the best meal she had ever eaten. In the end, she was chosen by Ye Yingfeng and brought back to Luoyun Sect.