Chapter 461 - 435: Cooking Demon

[You sold three pounds and nine ounces of human desires—the tension, fury, and anticipation of a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator. Consuming 20,000 Primordial Pearls for a designated trade, you obtained the first three layers of the Celestial Level Lightweight Body Technique, Cloud Sea Stepping Waves.]

Cloud Sea Stepping Waves: A Celestial Level Lightweight Body Technique. When cultivated to its highest level, one can cross thirty thousand miles of cloud sea in a single step.

Song Ciwan strode across the waves, arriving on the other side of the Jing River.

She had acquired this Lightweight Body Technique by selling Steward Luo’s human desires.

Song Ciwan was not lacking in Body Techniques. Her Void Shifting art had already surpassed the scope of ordinary Body Techniques, reaching a realm where skill bordered on the Dao itself.

However, she did lack a Martial Technique-style Body Technique. After all, her old Lightweight Grasshopper Skill could no longer keep up with her level of Cultivation.

The current Song Ciwan was not Song Zhao the Celestial Pride, but Lu Bell the Blade Master. Thus, she had long planned to use a designated trade to learn a new Lightweight Body Technique.

One could only say that Steward Luo had arrived at the perfect time; he was a veritable god of wealth, delivering treasures right to her doorstep.

Whether it was tangible resources like Magical Treasures, Elixirs, and Primordial Pearls, or emotional resources like human desires, he had provided no small amount, directly replenishing Song Ciwan’s supplies in a huge way.

Later, during her nightly rests over the past few days, Song Ciwan had sold more of Steward Luo’s human desires to trade for a large amount of Cultivation Time.

With this Cultivation Time, Song Ciwan’s experience with Cloud Sea Stepping Waves increased rapidly. She had already cultivated the Third Layer to the level of Masterful Skill and was only waiting for a moment of deep insight to break through to the Mastery Realm.

Steward Luo truly deserved the title of "Great Kind Man Luo."

After crossing the Jing River, Song Ciwan maintained her original pace, traveling and practicing her Cultivation at the same time.

Every night, she would release the Han Guang Glaze Residence and activate its Duality Dust Array and Earth Demon Star Array. With the support of these two great Arrays, the concentration of Vitality inside the Han Guang Glaze Residence was, one, stronger than the outside world, and two, its Invisibility effect was superb.

Even if a living creature were to pass right through it, they would be unable to detect the existence of this Treasure Residence.

As the saying goes, "to contain a macrocosm in a microcosm." This was the wondrous effect of the Duality Dust Array. Compared to ordinary invisibility and concealment techniques, it was undoubtedly on a higher level; the two weren’t even comparable.

Inside the Han Guang Glaze Residence, Song Ciwan would also let out the Big White Goose to play and relax for a while. She would teach it the Celestial Demon Suppression Record, explain the Dao to it, and help it with its Cultivation.

While the Big White Goose cultivated, Song Ciwan cultivated as well.

Only when it was time to travel during the day would Song Ciwan put the Big White Goose back into the Spirit Beast Bag.

The new Earth Level Spirit Beast Bag had an outstanding Nourishing Spirit effect. While a Spirit Beast was inside, as long as it was fed a large number of Primordial Pearls or other cultivation resources, its Power could increase rapidly to a certain degree.

However, unlike her previous habit of just forging ahead, after crossing the Jing River this time, Song Ciwan would enter the cities she passed every now and then.

She wouldn’t stay for long, but she would listen for the latest news and current events in the city.

For instance, just as the Fish Demon had said, a massive Primordial Stone mine had seemingly appeared out of thin air in the Wind Mist Plain. There were rumors of this in the Mortal World as well.

However, ordinary mortals were not as well-informed as the Fish Demon. It was also possible the Great Zhou Court had deliberately controlled the information. In any case, while some people in the cities discussed the appearance of the great mine in the Wind Mist Plain, most of them were Cultivators—

the common folk, for the most part, were oblivious to it.

This was unlike the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List, where every single change was a major event for the entire populace. From nobles and generals down to commoners, everyone could say a thing or two about the Celestial Prides on the list.

During this time, Song Ciwan also discovered that her alias, Lu Bell, had made it onto the list.

Although it was only eighty-second place, this held a special significance for Song Ciwan.

Making the list proved, at the very least, that the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List truly couldn’t detect Fetal Transformation and Shape-shifting!

’I’ve succeeded in deceiving the Celestial Secret! The Transformation Technique of Fetal Transformation and Shape-shifting can even fool the Ten Thousand Spirits Celestial Pride List. Is there anywhere in this world I can’t go now?’

Of course, Song Ciwan’s original plan was to first acquire the Thousand-Year Thunderstruck Li Wood, then refine the Peach and Plum Puppet, and finally go to the Four Great Demon Passes. For now, she wouldn’t change this plan.

She would go to the Four Great Demon Passes not for the Wind Mist Plain, but for the hearts, bodies, blood, and bones of the Demon Race!

Speaking of the bodies of the Demon Race, Song Ciwan had slain the Twelve Great Demons earlier and collected quite a few Demon Corpses. She hadn’t put these Demon Corpses directly into the Heaven and Earth Scale, but had stored them in her Vast Sea Grotto Heaven. She already had a plan for them back then.

’These demon bodies... I’m going to cook them!’

’Back then, just one plate of Pork Demon intestines sold to the Heaven and Earth Scale could be exchanged for a Strengthening Pill. And now, not a single one of these Great Demon corpses I’ve obtained is below the Demon King Stage.’

’If I sold such top-tier ingredients to the Heaven and Earth Scale whole, wouldn’t that be a colossal waste?’

’A waste, such a waste!’

’If I don’t use a hundred different cooking methods and come up with all sorts of ways to prepare them before selling them, I’d be letting myself down.’

And so, while traveling, whenever Song Ciwan released the Han Guang Glaze Residence, she now had one more task to do: butchering and Cooking Demons inside!

The Big White Goose showed immense enthusiasm for this endeavor.

The first thing Song Ciwan took out was the corpse of the Ant-eating Demon.

Among the Twelve Great Demons, the Ant-eating Demon had the lowest Cultivation. Song Ciwan chose this demon first purely for practice.

The Ant-eating Demon was skinned, deboned, and its tendons and membranes removed. Then, with Spiritual Cornelian Cherry and Alpinia, it was placed into a Magical Treasure Pill Furnace, first stir-fried over a Martial Fire, then slowly stewed over a Mild Fire.

The Samadhi True Fire heated the furnace while the Ganlin Spell provided water, causing a Spirit Rain to fall with a gentle patter. This went on for a full two hours.

During this time, the aroma was contained within the furnace. Song Ciwan controlled the Fire while explaining the Dao to the Big White Goose.

She explained, "The root of Demonic Qi lies in the bloodline. The root of a living being lies in the spirit."

The Big White Goose: "HONK HONK HONK!"

It seemed to understand, but in reality, it only half-understood.

But it didn’t matter. It just listened in a daze, and whatever it understood was a bonus. Even grasping just a superficial fragment was enough to advance its Cultivation, and that was sufficient.

Even if it didn’t understand today, there would come a day when it would.

Song Ciwan continued, "Demons imitate Humans, learning their speech. But they only learn the form, not the fundamental essence..."

The Big White Goose: "GACK GACK GACK!"

It squawked while shaking its head, reciting scriptures in its own goose language.

Song Ciwan smiled faintly. "Humans practice the Dual Cultivation of Life and Spirit, and so should demons. When the soul and body advance together, that is the supreme Dao."

The Big White Goose: "GAH GAH GAH!"

It suddenly became excited, flapping its wings and kicking its webbed feet about as if it had an epiphany.

Song Ciwan gently stroked the goose’s back, then suddenly slapped the Pill Furnace beside her.

The lid flew off, and an aroma so fragrant it seemed to rush straight to the heavens burst forth.

The Big White Goose was stunned. It stood frozen in place, its beak agape, drool flowing down in a torrent that nearly submerged its feet.

Song Ciwan ladled out some of the broth, mixed it with Spirit Grain Rice, and served it to the Big White Goose.

’I can’t give it too much, or it won’t be able to handle it.’

The rest, she placed into the Heaven and Earth Scale in batches to be sold.

[You have sold one bowl of Demon King Stage Ant-eating Demon stew and obtained three Five-star Elixirs: Golden Cocoon Pills.]

’Three Five-star Elixirs, just from a single bowl of stew.’

’And that Pill Furnace can hold at least a hundred bowls of this stew!’

’Cooking Demons is, indeed, the best way to sell off members of the Demon Race.’