Chapter 468 - 467: A Vegetable-Chopping Contest?

After the event started, no one was particularly excited.

Many people were only concerned with whether they could find their other half.

However, they also knew that this wasn't something everyone could figure out at a glance.

Sometimes, it took time and required a specific trigger, like a stimulating event.

Su Qi and Jiang Zuo, however, weren't concerned. They couldn't care less about matchmaking since they were already Dao-companions. All they had to do was enjoy the competition.

"Are they that desperate for Dao-companions?" Su Qi asked curiously.

She didn't understand. 'Are Dao-companions that hard to find?'

She had found hers when she was just a teenager. 'Others must be so envious, right?'

"What are you giggling about?" Jiang Zuo asked.

Su Qi looked at Jiang Zuo and smiled. "Don't you think I was lucky? I found a Dao-companion when I was just a teenager."

Jiang Zuo shook his head. 'That was bad luck. And your Dao-companion was just an ordinary person.'

'It was the absolute worst luck.'

'On the other hand, the other person was the one with impossibly good luck.'

Su Qi didn't seem to care. She looped her arm through Jiang Zuo's and said, "I still think it was good luck. Otherwise, I might have ended up single forever, because no one else could have possibly won me over."

Jiang Zuo remained silent. 'Su Qi's whole way of thinking operates on the assumption that I'm the only one for her.'

'Without him, who knows who she would have ended up marrying.'

'But that didn't matter. What mattered was that now, Su Qi belonged only to him.'

"Let's go and see what there is to do," Jiang Zuo said.

"Okay."

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"Should we have even come out? Let's just go eat hot pot," Chen Yi said.

At this point, Liu Yiyi and her group had also arrived, but they weren't interested in the Divine Transformation Pill matchmaking event.

They weren't interested in the matchmaking, but they bought the Divine Transformation Pills anyway. It was a good item to have; no one below Tier Five could see through its disguise, so it was bound to come in handy eventually.

Liu Yiyi took out a Divine Transformation Pill. "Chi Xue Child would love this, wouldn't he? It's easy to find love just around the corner at a place like this.

Too bad he couldn't make it."

Xiao Xiaomo said, "You guys don't know? They're here. All three of them."

Liu Yiyi was surprised. "Demon Cultivator Mo Yan is here too? Wasn't she severely injured?"

Liu Yiyi wasn't fond of Demon Cultivator Mo Yan. After all, the woman had a Nightmare Specialization. 'What if I start having nightmares again?'

'She hadn't had any nightmares lately, but there was no telling if this peaceful period would end just because Demon Cultivator Mo Yan showed up.'

'And who knew, Demon Cultivator Mo Yan might even try to scare her for fun.'

'A Demon Cultivator wouldn't feel the slightest guilt about doing something like that.'

"I heard it was a Celestial Spiritual Medicine. To be blunt, someone pulled some strings to make it happen. I don't know why, but they definitely didn't have good intentions," Chen Yi said.

Knowing the way Chi Xue Child and his people operated, they would never do something like this at a loss to themselves.

The idea of them secretly helping their juniors? Unheard of.

It wasn't a life-or-death crisis, after all.

Chi Xue Child, of course, knew this as well. But since they wanted him to come, he wouldn't refuse. He still needed to get his hands on the Stone of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

With Po Xiao's help, he could accomplish a lot. Even if he couldn't get Mo Yan to renounce her evil ways, he could at least get rich.

Zhong Yiyang couldn't be bothered with all that. As long as it didn't affect him, he was fine.

Besides, since he was already here, it would be a huge waste not to participate in the Sword Skill competition.

"You guys can take your time talking. I'm going to go compete and see if I can win a prize and make some money," Zhong Yiyang said.

Liu Yiyi chimed in, "I'm going too. I'm the one who got you to come, so you have to give me a cut."

"Sister Liu, you want a share of my hard-earned prize money?" Zhong Yiyang felt this was a huge rip-off.

"But if I hadn't called you here, you wouldn't be winning anything, would you?" Liu Yiyi said with a smile.

Zhong Yiyang didn't say anything. 'Forget it,' he thought. 'There's no use arguing with a spoiled young lady like her.'

After that, they headed for the Sword Skill competition venue.

Xiao Xiaomo and her friends naturally tagged along to watch the excitement.

There were six of them in total.

It was Liu Yiyi and Zhong Yiyang, plus the Perception trio and Yang Mu.

Soon, Zhong Yiyang and his group arrived at the venue for the Sword Skill competition.

"It's really a vegetable-chopping contest? Why not just compete in cooking directly?" Zhong Yiyang asked, baffled.

Chen Yi replied, "Probably because that would be too much of a hassle. It's like how eating hot pot is simpler than eating stir-fry."

Zhong Yiyang didn't know what to say about them. 'All they ever think about is hot pot.'

'These people use Sister Liu's name every day to get discounts. As far as he knew, even Sister Liu was getting embarrassed by it.'

'It wasn't that he cared about the discounts. It was that these people were obsessed with hot pot. Couldn't they try something else for a change?'

'His own culinary skills were superb. What a bunch of unappreciative fools.'

'Fellow Daoist Po Xiao was so much better. At least he ate food that challenged a chef's skill.'

Just then, Jiang Zuo and Su Qi also arrived at the spot. He found it truly bizarre that they were holding a vegetable-chopping competition.

'They could have at least competed with Sword Intent. That would be classier.'

Su Qi laughed and said, "Well, think about it. People who are good at chopping are usually good at cooking, and Cultivators who are good at cooking are usually Immortal Chefs.

That's a huge plus when you're looking for a Dao-companion, for men and women alike."

Before Jiang Zuo could respond, Su Qi added, "Of course, someone like my husband, who can only chop vegetables and is a disastrous cook, is a rare sight indeed."

Jiang Zuo was speechless. "..."

'And whose fault is that?'

'He wanted to be a good cook too, but fate just wasn't on his side. He really had tried.'

'Even at the peak of his power, he had tried and failed. It was simply an unsolvable problem.'

So he had given up long ago. He'd given up in his past life, and he wasn't about to take it up again in this one.

'Besides, he had Su Qi in this life, and it wasn't as if she minded cooking.'

"Hey, I'll do the cooking from now on, but you can't complain if I lose my looks and turn into a frumpy housewife," Su Qi said to Jiang Zuo.

'With Su Qi's monstrous Cultivation speed, that was a far, far distant possibility.'

'But even if she did, Jiang Zuo wouldn't care.'

'Having lived through a past life, what he truly cared about was just Su Qi—or rather, her soul.'

'An interesting soul is one in a million, completely unique.'

"Do you hear me?" Seeing that Jiang Zuo hadn't responded, Su Qi demanded unhappily.

Jiang Zuo nodded. "I hear you."

"Can you answer a little faster next time? Your hesitation makes it seem like I'm forcing you." Su Qi huffed, then lowered her voice. "If there weren't so many people around, you and I would be having a talk."

Jiang Zuo pinched her cheek and said, "Su Qi will always be Su Qi, and she will always be the most beautiful. No exceptions.

After all, you're my wife."

Su Qi was about to say something but then exclaimed in surprise, "Xiaomo? Why are they here too?"

Jiang Zuo turned his head and saw that it was, indeed, Xiao Xiaomo and her friends.

He wasn't surprised to see them, though. They were an ambitious group of young people.

'They just had a tendency to run a little wild.'

Jiang Zuo didn't dislike them. In fact, he was quite optimistic about their potential.

"That thin, cool-looking one who looks kind of like a punk is my friend, Xiao Xiaomo.

She helped me out when I first joined the Tianhe Group.

We've kept in touch ever since.

Oh, and that one is Fairy Liu Yiyi. She's gorgeous, isn't she?

She saved Yiruo, so she's practically a lifesaver," Su Qi explained to Jiang Zuo.

"Do you want to go say hello?" Jiang Zuo asked.

"No. This outing is just for the two of us. I don't want anyone else involved," Su Qi told him.