[v]Laugh at me for being a loser? You'll all kneel down after you awaken your talent!

The sound of the bell startled Wang Po and his fellow recruits for a moment.

Wang Po immediately put down the soup in his hand. He was about to leave with a stiff face, but then suddenly turned back, remembering something. "Bai Huang, what are you still standing there for?"

Bai Huang, carrying her large bucket of vegetables, was about to walk towards the back kitchen.

"Back to the kitchen?" Bai Huang frowned. "Why?"

"Why are you going back to the kitchen at a time like this!" Wang Po was utterly exasperated. "Enemy attack! Why aren't you going out to help?"

I thought Bai Huang would surely realize her mistake and feel incredibly ashamed.

Unexpectedly, she just frowned and looked at Wang Po with the same gaze one would give a fool. After a pause, she said, "What are you talking about? I'm just a weak cook."

She coldly put away the large iron ladle, glanced at the three kitchen masters who had leisurely walked into the back kitchen, shrugged and said, "You go ahead."

Wang Po choked, unable to utter a word, until the old soldier's reprimand rang out, at which point he gritted his teeth and ran out.

As soon as Bai Huang entered the kitchen, the cook shoved all the plates together with a clatter. "Don't you want to go out and see what's going on?" He raised an eyebrow in surprise, thinking that Bai Huang would definitely rush out. Aren't kids this age all full of enthusiasm?

"What's the point of a cook like me getting involved?" Bai Huang said indifferently. "I can't even wash vegetables properly."

Chef Ertui coughed and thought for a moment before saying, "Don't worry too much. It's just a level three alarm. I guess it's the spirit beasts returning to their nests."

Bai Huang blinked, showing some interest.

"You don't usually see spirit beasts around here, that's because they go out to find mates at fixed times. When the time comes, they return to their nests and come back here."

Bai Huang looked at Chef Er's legs and asked, puzzled, "Isn't that a good thing? Why do we need to sound the alarm?"

Chef Ertui sighed and continued, "But each time they return, their numbers are three times or even more than when they left. There is simply not enough food here to feed all those spirit beasts."

Bai Huang understood and followed up, "So they attack people? They treat people as food?"

Some ferocious spirit beasts are indistinguishable from demonic beasts, and every year there are many reports of people being devoured by spirit beasts.

As for why they didn't move away, Bai Huang didn't ask. Just think about it, and you'll know that this was also a training exercise for the Feather Fiend Army.

After finding out the details, Bai Huang really wanted to go and take a look.

After all, she still wanted to find a suitable body for the little green python.

"Tsk!" The cook frowned and tapped the big pot. "Stop nagging and get to work."

His head was throbbing badly today, and he had no desire to be kind to Bai Huang.

Bai Huang silently went to wash the cabbage they would use that night. Everyone hadn't eaten much today, having been busy dealing with spirit beasts. Bai Huang knew that Chef Yibi would definitely prepare an extra meal for them that evening.

Seeing her turn to leave, Chef Er Tui turned to Chef Yi Bi and asked, "Brother, did you agree to Old Gu's request? But this child is cold-hearted by nature. We can teach her to become a strong person, but we can't force her to like the entire Feather Fiend Army, can we?"

The chef was chopping a thick monster bone, preparing to make soup for Bai Huang that evening. Hearing this, he grinned and said, "I've been thinking about this too, and now... the opportunity has come."

The beast tide didn't arrive all at once; the winged soldiers could only watch helplessly as the once empty snow-capped mountaintop was suddenly occupied by all sorts of spirit beasts and demon beasts.

In their struggle for better territory, the spirit beasts would often engage in life-or-death battles, and even a simple bowl of soup would cause the earth to tremble.

However, the Feather Fiend Army didn't just stand by and watch these spirit beasts run rampant on their territory. They had turned their daily training routine into outdoor spirit beast killing.

However, this only applies to the Feather Soldiers; the Fiend Army is not involved. Therefore, Bai Huang can now see that group of Feather Soldiers walking out like proud roosters in the morning, and then crawling back like drowned dogs in the evening, begging for food with trembling hands.

However, none of this concerned Bai Huang. Pu Pu and the others could go out for a feast every day, and their strength had even improved. Bai Huang was too lazy to care about them and quietly washed her vegetables every day.

The only downside is that one of the temporary instructors seems a bit too idle; he always seems to wander into the kitchen.

He did nothing but quietly watch Bai Huang wash vegetables, occasionally letting out a slightly mocking laugh.

"I didn't expect you to be not only incompetent, but also unable to wash vegetables." Luo Jing leaned against the door, a smile playing on his lips.

He's been sparring with Bai Huang every night for the past two days, and he also keeps bothering her during the day.

She felt an unbearable headache.

But the thought of him sparring with her actually improved her control over the mystical techniques, and the fifth mystical star was beginning to take shape. She took two deep breaths and endured it.

"You didn't wash any vegetables with bugs, did you?" Luo Jing smiled and pinched a cabbage leaf, wiping away some dirt with her fingertips. "Huang Huang..."

Bai Huang finally lost her temper and raised a wisp of ice mist, smashing it down on his head.

Luo Jing easily dodged the attack and said with a smile, "Your method is wrong. Don't try to control the fog ice. Just like you drink water with your hands or sleep with your eyes closed, controlling Xuan power is as natural as breathing for us. The more you try to do it deliberately, the worse you will do it."

Bai Huang was taken aback.

Is he giving me pointers?

She wasn't ungrateful, and with a straight face, she said thank you.

Hearing this, the chef, who was chopping bones nearby, glanced sideways and his gaze fell on Luo Jing.

Luo Jing raised his eyes, revealing a pair of deep, dark eyes like a still pool. In fact, when Bai Huang first met him, she remembered that he had rare heterochromatic eyes, one black and one red, but when she saw him again later, both of his eyes were black.

Don't know what's going on.

The cook held a celery stalk in his mouth with one arm, crunching and chewing.

"Alright, get out." He waved the bone-chopping knife at Luo Jing, "No unauthorized personnel allowed in the kitchen." Although that's what he said, it had been a full month since the start of the beast tide, and Luo Jing had come every day. The kitchen staff had let him in, only letting him leave after he finished instructing Bai Huang.

The beast tide continued to migrate, and their killing speed could not keep up with the migration speed. It looked like those spirit beasts were about to turn their claws towards the Feather Fiend Army because of food shortages.

"What should I do?" Wang Po, who had buried himself in the snow, didn't dare to move. Several fierce spirit beasts circled in the sky, and Zuo Yin was lying next to him.

"Break through!" Zuo Yin gritted his teeth and uttered these words.

Wang Po thought about it and realized he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it. The seniors were all far away and couldn't save them.

Just as he was about to charge out, he suddenly saw a crimson shadow leaping towards him at lightning speed, its entire body wreathed in flames.

With a few swift movements of its claws, it dispatched all the ferocious beasts.

The corpse crashed down, nearly crushing Wang Po's head.

Encased in a thick blanket of feathers, he heard a little girl's voice coming from outside.

"Little green python, did you see it? Does it have a body you're satisfied with?" The girl patted her chest loudly. "If not, I'll go and make another one for you!"