Food System in Cultivation World-Chapter 438 - 404: Shouldn’t It Be This Way?

Second question?

Chen Xu was momentarily stunned, then he realized.

The so-called second question referred to the earlier inquiry by Zhou Hou:

He asked Chen Xu, how did you make the spiritual drink both warm and coexist with ice?

Chen Xu hadn’t had the chance to answer before, but now Ge Xing asked again, so he thought for a moment.

Then he answered seriously:

"Yin-Yang balance ought to be so, shouldn’t it?"

What?

At that moment, everyone was bewildered.

What does it mean by ’ought to be so’?

No one thought Chen Xu was being perfunctory, but the simple phrase sounded different and had distinct effects to everyone who heard it.

Ji Yang, being the simplest, nodded vigorously holding his glass, cheering in his heart.

Yes, it ought to be this way.

This question shouldn’t even be asked, what a waste of words.

You’re not spirit chefs, what do you know?

Only the seniors understand!

It’s a matter of course, a natural law.

To insist on asking such a fundamental question is indeed somewhat redundant.

Meanwhile, still suppressed by Ge Xing with magic, bent over and unable to straighten up, Zhou Hou’s mind was in turmoil.

"Yin-Yang balance ought to be so?"

A short phrase of eight characters, yet the more he pondered, the more profound it seemed.

He had been cultivating in artifact refining, focusing on tools and methods as primary cultivation.

The most distressing part was forging day and night, the Yang fire being too intense, making it difficult to control the timing of magic tool quenching.

Magic tool quenching is all about subtlety.

Even a little too much, it becomes too hard and easily breaks; too little, it lacks the heat.

Not only does one need to consider timing but also temperature, quantity, the type of quenching liquid, and even the true yuan operation of the refiner.

Zhou Hou was actually quite talented.

At least, at the beginning of learning artifact refinement, everyone around him said so.

Though he was short, he actually had innate divine power.

Especially with a strong fire pulse, he had an innate advantage in controlling the heat of the refining furnace.

At first, when he started as a fireboy in the sect, all the refiners wanted him under their tutelage to tend the fire.

After long learning, he later could even control flames to form micro-needles to carve patterns on the magic tools.

When he first showed this talent, the mentors in the sect were amazed at his genius.

Zhou Hou quite enjoyed a period of being under "close observation" and tailor-made guidance.

However, before he could feel troubled by such excessive guidance, the mentors soon discovered his overly intense Yang fire led to Yin-Yang imbalance.

This made it very difficult for him to subtly sense all Yin-attribute energies in the world.

The biggest problem this created was that he could become a very good "fireboy" or a "pattern assistant".

But, he was unable to fully complete a true artifact refinement!

He couldn’t achieve Yin-Yang balance.

Every magic tool he handled could form a tool embryo but rarely became a true finished product.

In the end, if not for the exploding tool embryo, the Dharma Seal would fail to form.

The once highly regarded Zhou Hou in artifact refining skills became a mediocre successor unable to complete a full refinement.

The mentors tried everything but still couldn’t help him overcome this hurdle.

After all, it was a matter of personal enlightenment; if you can’t comprehend it, others can’t help.

In the endless failure, Zhou Hou finally accepted this reality.

He abandoned the path of artifact refinement, turning to body refining and sword cultivation, following the footsteps of his senior sister, intending to carve a different path in Shenji Sect, a sect focused on artifact refinement.

The sect needed war cultivators too; not everyone could refine artifacts.

When Zhou Hou gave up, he had once convinced himself this way.

But who knew?

Deep inside, he could never forget the initial moments of himself holding a hammer, day after day in the refining room, forging tool embryos.

For this reason, when discovering Chen Xu’s spiritual drink could contain both warmth and ice, his reaction was particularly agitated.

The Yin-Yang balance he couldn’t attain, some could manage so effortlessly and naturally.

Could it be that ’insight’ is indeed the most elusive thing in the world?

Zhou Hou felt like crying, but also wanted to laugh.

He wished to ask in detail, but when the words reached his mouth, they all jammed up, and he couldn’t utter a single word.

Chen Xu had already answered: it ought to be so, it ought to be so!

His calm voice resounded like a drum continuously echoed in Zhou Hou’s ears.

Causing his mind to buzz, as if in the dark and chaotic realm of his mind, a certain light was stirring.

Yet the light was extremely faint, flickering in and out.

Ultimately lacked the crucial bit of aid, hence unable to break through.

Zhou Hou was unwilling to give up, he kept mulling over those eight characters: "Yin-Yang balance, ought to be so, ought to be so..."

In the dark, those eight large characters surged ever more.

Like clouds gathering, like spring thunder rolling.

Zhou Hou’s heart was in turmoil, but others knew not.

Ye Ning truly held the glass in her hands, sipping carefully with bright eyes.

So delicious, truly like spring wind melting snow, there was not a shred of error in Ji Yang’s description.

Ye Ning was exceedingly pleased, already starting to ponder if Chen Xu would place this spiritual drink in the sect’s trade, how much profit it would bring to the sect.

And Chen Xu himself, how much would he be able to earn?

With such thoughts, Ye Ning increasingly felt she had found a treasure.

The Chen Xu before her, how is he some newly admitted junior brother?

This is clearly an emerging god of wealth!

But wait...

This Spring Wind Melting Snow drink, can it be transported, can it be preserved?

In today’s Immortal City, competition in various aspects is extremely fierce.

Even if the Spring Wind Melting Snow drink is such a new delightful spiritual drink, can it truly carve its path amidst the fierce competition?

Alas, living in Immortal City is no easy feat.

The survival of the sect is likewise.

Thinking about this, Ye Ning’s heated emotions had to be temporarily suppressed.

Fortunately, the spiritual drink played its role, although Ye Ning’s divine thought was soaring, her mind was still able to remain calm.

She stood there holding the glass, appearing to be present, but her mind seemed to be traversing somewhere far and wide.

Until that moment when Ge Xing truly stepped out of the spirit dining building’s door.

In the square outside, he encountered Liu Chang, who had somehow returned.

Liu Chang stood stiffly in place, his whole demeanor like someone suffering an immense blow, lost and disheartened.

Logically, Liu Chang shouldn’t be like this, so disheartened.

Even though he lost the previous bet and would have to voluntarily leave the sect.

But he is a spirit chef, even leaving Shenji Sect, it won’t be hard to find another sect outside.

It might be a bit tough to join the Sixth Grade sects, but Seventh Grade sects shouldn’t be a problem.

As long as there is another place to go, it’s not the end of the road.

Thus leaving the sect, though a huge blow, shouldn’t leave Liu Chang so soulless standing there, nearly breaking into pieces.

Besides, even though Ge Xing didn’t retain Liu Chang, Ge Xing also didn’t let go of Zhang Song.

Zhang Song being punished made Liu Chang feel his leaving the sect wasn’t much of a hardship.

He felt greatly relieved and his thoughts became clear.

He even felt grateful to Ge Xing back then.

Zhang Song’s plan backfiring made Liu Chang feel quite pleased.

Thereafter, he went to the reception hall to remove his identity as a sect disciple.

As he was about to descend the mountain, Liu Chang felt he should return to the spirit dining building to express his gratitude to Ge Xing once again.

So, he leisurely turned back.

Finally, Liu Chang stood outside the spirit dining building, witnessing the emergence of Spring Wind Melting Snow drink.

He stood there stiff, without words to speak.

Until Ge Xing asked him: "Nephew Liu, is there anything unfinished?"