Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 223 - Yaomu Shou’s Breakthrough

“I found this within the realm.” He didn’t expound on this particular point and instead looked to Long Di.

“Dear benefactor, for the request and favour of feeding a starving monk, I offer you this knife.”

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Long Di accepted and brandished it with a few swings. He had to admit that spiritual artefacts had a different air about them than secular weapons. It was one thing to read about them in books, but it was another thing to experience them.

Even though it was a knife, Long Di was sure that were he to imbue this knife with tribulation lightning, it would fare much better than the bronze sabre.

Though the latter was of extraordinary quality, it was still only a secular weapon. Whoever that bronze seat was, he was of a low rank in the Iron Body Forge Sect.

After getting a few practice swings in, Long Di felt much better handling the knife.

Suddenly, his aura changed as he prepared to cut the ‘turkey.’ Untethered Monk’s smiling expression didn’t change, but he opened his eyes a crack to observe Long Di deeply.

Shing! Shing! Shing! Shing! Shing!

Several knife lights flashed for an instant, sending five pieces of meat flying. These were all from a leg and they filled the plates they fell on.

Long Di didn’t have any plates, but he did have some metal rods that he used as shish kabob spikes.

He gave one spike to Yaomu Shou, who took it with a smile and the other to Mina who surprisingly thanked him. Though it was one leg, everyone received a sizeable portion. The Monarch Gale Crow was a massive beast and as a result, just one leg was enough for everyone here and there was still more than half of the leg remaining.

Long Di didn’t start eating and just observed everyone else to see their expressions when they took a bite.

He never received any sort of acknowledgement from his uncle. Then again, the old man was the embodiment of the term ‘toxic fam.’

Putting the abuse aside, he never smiled once when eating the meals he ordered Long Di to cook.

Because of this, Long Di likened his cooking skills to crap. This was one of the reasons why he never cooked or offered to cook anything while he travelled with Shen Ling, Feng Yu, and the others.

Of course, this was also why he failed to understand why when he sat here with Yaomu Shou, a wave of nostalgia hit him.

Now he didn’t want anything to remember his uncle by, however, the rare moments of peace he remembered in his past life were those he had with Pebbles and the times he curled up in the corner eating his food.

Pebbles wasn’t here, but his cooking, he could bring it here himself. This was why he felt possessed to suddenly start cooking.

Still, he didn’t look forward to their reaction, only an inexplicable curiosity to see how much of it they would spit out.

Untethered Monk didn’t stand on ceremony, and took up the large slab of roast meat before him and bit into it.

Crunch!

A satisfying crunch echoed out as the monk’s teeth tore through the skin of the Monarch Gale Crow’s leg.

The minute his teeth dug into the meat itself, his eyes widened in shock as an explosion of flavour erupted in his mouth.

The pure flavour of the meat came in full force as the succulent and juicy nature of it overwhelmed him. The natural oils trapped in the meat splashed in his mouth and even dribbled down the side of his mouth.

“Mmhhmmmm…”

Untethered Monk couldn’t help himself from moaning as he lost himself in the richness of the taste.

Mina was even worse as she was already slaughtering the meat with reckless abandon. Her small mouth moved as fast as it would allow her. It didn’t seem like she could get enough of it.

She tore herself away from the meat and said to Long Di. “Once I finish eating this, I’m gonna kick your ass for keeping this skill away from me!”

As soon as she finished saying this, she went back to the meat with all the ferocity of a rabid dog.

Yaomu Shou and the overly bombastic brawler rabbit’s eyes grew red when they saw the state of Mina and the monk and they forgot themselves as they took a bite of the leg meat as well.

“Mhm!”

“Squeak!”

The girl and the rabbit went through the same thing as the two before them, as they were lost in ecstasy.

Yaomu Shou, in particular, was amazed at how much of the spiritual energy was trapped in the meat.

She could actually feel her cultivation rising at a steady pace as the spiritual energy converted to somatic essence as she consumed the meat!

She looked at Long Di in shock, wondering how he crafted such a wonderful meal with such wondrous effects! Though she didn’t have chefs under her who cultivated the dao of cooking, they were still highly skilled chefs. Yet not even they could prepare such a sumptuous and effective repast!

The monk naturally felt the spiritual energy of the meat as well, but he couldn’t care less about that!

The only thing he cared about was the taste, and it was even more than what he imagined!

For the love of god! It was WAY more than he imagined!

The Overly Bombastic Brawler Rabbit was ravenous as it devoured the meat on the plate before it.

It didn’t possess the intelligence to truly enjoy the nuances and peculiarities in the meat.

It tasted good. That was all it understood, and all it needed to know.

“Mhhhhmmm…”

“Squeeeeaaaaakkk…”

Long Di was surrounded by several emissions of moans and squeaks. He didn’t know what to make of this and shrugged his shoulders.

He took a bite of the meat on his kebab spike and savoured the taste for a bit before swallowing it.

“Meh…” was his only response after tasting it. Though the meat was of much better quality than what he was used to, he still couldn’t use his spiritual force as well as he could his hands. This, in turn, didn’t allow him to bring the meat to a much higher standard.

In short, the better quality meat with the subpar techniques made this meal only slightly better than what he was used to in his previous world, hence his bland reaction.

“So sad…” he whispered to himself.

If any chef heard what Long Di just said to himself, they would beat him to death with a stick, and then commit suicide by bashing their heads against a block of tofu.

What did he mean!?

He used mortal ingredients and was able to create something that nearly rivalled the taste of an overlord class rank 5 magical beast!?

What were they living for!? They were all failures compared to him!

Whoosh!

A powerful surge of energy swept from Yaomu Shou’s direction.

Everyone looked over toward her to see her staring at herself in shock. She was experiencing a breakthrough!