7 Meeting an Antagonist?
Various smells drifting through the wind. Numerous mix and combination of spices are tested. Ye Xinghan tried different temperatures to cook the meat, while recalling all the recipe he learnt throughout the years on earth and One Piece World.
Demonized beast's meat was harder and more complicated to cook as it contains spiritual energy. It needs more time and higher temperature to tenderize, as well as the techniques to retain the energy as much as possible.
If Ye Xinghan directly roast the meat on fire, almost all the energy would be lost.
But according to the information he gathers from the family chef. There is certain ironware especially used to cook the meat. Even so, only 10% of spiritual energy would remain. And the metal to make the ironware are of course a scarcity.
(As u would expect from the smallest town, in the smallest region, in the smallest world, in the smallest realm of xianxia novel.)
You would expect 10% would be quite a boost right? But demonized meats contain a lot of impurities, and thus, the energy would be further purified inside human being. Finally, the total amount of spiritual energy received from eating demonized meat would be almost negligible.
Still, that doesn't make cultivators dispirited, cz even mosquitoes leg have meat.
That's why, Dishes that used demonized beast's meat are in high demand. And could fetch a way higher price than regular food.
As Ye Xinghan experimenting with the meats, he heard growls coming from behind.
"Eh, I don't expect that they still dare to come at me eventhough there's still sheep corpse beside me." Ye Xinghan slowly stood up and put out the flame. He saw there are 2 horned sheeps preparing to charge at him. He readied his sword and dashed at them. Not giving them chance to do the first attack.
"Solar FLARE"
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Ye Xinghan spent the night inside the training ground, he hunted around 15 horned sheeps before decided to go back to the clan.
He saved all of his hunting spoils inside an interspatial ring. This is very convenient item, if it were used on earth, he will became a legendary robber. Because anything that he stole couldn't be tracked down to him.
As Ye Xinghan walking through the street, he noticed there are a lot of people gathering at the sides of the main street. So, he asked one of the commoner.
"Excuse me, can you tell me what happened here?" Ye Xinghan asked. Mr. Commoner who was surprised earlier because of the sudden sound, turned around and sized up the kid. He spotted that the kid has a purple hair, trademark of the strongest family in the city 'Snow Wind Family'.
So he answered amicably, "Greetings to young master, apparently the city lord has returned from the subjugation of high ranked beasts and exploration of an ancient tomb."
Then, Ye Xinghan thanked Mr. Commoner and squeezed his way through the sea of people. After using some underhanded tricks, he managed to stand in front of the crowd.
Ye Xinghan saw a group of people walking down on the main street, with a burly figure leading in front of the group.
'He must be Ye Zong.'
Ye Zong, the city lord of Glory City, patriarch of the Snow Wind Family, and the most important part, he is the father of main female lead.
He emitted incredible aura of confidence, unique to a capable leader. And the way he gazes subconsciously made the impression of a sheathed sword waiting to be unleashed.
The people behind him as well, radiated numerous strong auras. Making the crowd trembled.
'Their killing intent is still pouring out, i guess they did some battle before going back to the city.' Ye Xinghan concluded.
Ye Zong who was still deep in the thinking at the moment, realized that someone staring intently at him. So he turned his head and noticed a purple haired little kid narrowing at him.
'Ye Xinghan?' Ye Zong mused as he raised one of his eyebrow. He knew the kid because the kid said to be quite talented and primarily because he is the son of his dearest brother.
"Xinghan, come follow us" Ye Zong said loudly at Ye Xinghan who was still standing in front of the crowd.
Ye Xinghan twitched his mouth, because he planned to sneak back to his room before anybody realized. But, so be it.
Ye Xinghan trotted towards Ye Zong, and joining the group as they made their way to the clan.
"Hi uncle, how is your day? Did you managed to get satisfying result yesterday?" Ye Xinghan curiously asked.
"Hahahaha, we managed to kill several Black- Gold ranked beasts. And actually one of them dropped a demon spirit." Ye Zong laughed loudly, making Ye Xinghan ears hurt.
'Black Gold ranked demon spirit!' Ye Xinghan widened his eyes.
Demon Spirit was found in the brain area of demon beast, it has a very rare chance of appearing. Only one or two in tens of thousands will have one. This is what demon spiritualist absorb into their soul realms in order to merge with the demon beast's power. They are very valuable, with even a silver rank demon spirit being valued in the hundreds of thousands DSC.
Black gold ranked demon spirit. Whoever gets it, will become a prominent powerhouse in the future.
"Congratulation uncle, we can expect to see another black gold demon spiritualist in the near future." Ye Xinghan cupped his hands. With this demon spirit, the Snow Wind family power will be elevated again. The stronger the family, the better for him. Since his fate was tightly tied into this family.
"Um, don't you dare to slack off as well. If you managed to reach Gold rank spiritualist, I will personally grant you black gold demon spirit." Ye Zong grinned and patted his nephew's shoulder.
"That is a matter of course"
And then, both uncle and nephew, big and small, continued their walk towards the family while chattering along the way.
Right in front of the direct line houseyard, Ye Zong dispersed the group. Only Ye Zong, Ye Xinghan, and a boy remained.
"Uncle, he is....??" Ye Xinghan pointed to the boy, he only realized now because earlier he thought the boy was just another orphaned kid rescued by the team.
The boy is very skinny, and wearing ordinary clothes. Dirt and mud plastered on the skin as well as the shirt. He has dark hair and brown eyes. But, although his appearance was a mess, he will surely stand out among ordinary people in terms of appearance. His height was somewhat similar to Ye Xinghan
"He will be your cousin too from now on. Alright, get back to your house. I will announce the details later in the family meeting" Ye Zong grabbed the boy's hand and proceed to enter the main family courtyard.
'Cousin? Adopted?' Ye Xinghan mulled, as he searched the similar situation inside the original novel. Before long, he realized that the boy most likely was the main character's love rival.
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