After Gu Zheng left Qingfeng City, he immediately flew towards the north, where Chaoyang City was located.
Mentioning Chaoyang City, Gu Zheng also had some doubts in his heart. Chaoyang City was considered the neighboring city of Qingfeng City. They were so close to each other, but there was a big gap in the quality of the ingredients.
Over in Chaoyang City, the quality of ingredients for things like poultry and the like is quite average, and this situation is considered normal in today's wilderness. But here in Qingfeng City, the quality of ingredients for things like poultry and the like is next to average.
It is lower than the normal level, which is also an important reason for Gu Zheng to go out to find ingredients.
Why is there such a gap in the grade of ingredients? In Gu Zheng's opinion, it should be because some demon cultivators in Qingfeng City have practiced some evil magic, which has affected the Feng Shui of the entire Qingfeng City. However, this matter has nothing to do with Gu Zheng.
Therefore, he did not intend to be troublesome.
By flying, Gu Zheng arrived in Chaoyang City in the shortest time, and then entered the vegetable market to start shopping.
Ordinary-grade pork, ordinary-grade chicken, ordinary-quality fish and shrimp, these ingredients can be found everywhere in Chaoyang City's wet market.
There is no prehistoric space in ancient times, so the only way to store food is to use space artifacts such as storage belts. Although this kind of space artifact is inferior to the prehistoric space by several levels, it is not feasible to store some meat and the like.
What problem.
Specially inspect and select ingredients with better quality, whether fresh or dried, as long as they meet the ingredient standards, we will accept them.
After half an hour, there was no longer the ingredients Gu Zheng wanted in the entire vegetable market, and one-third of the money Bai Li gave him had been used up. Who knows how much he had purchased.
"The ingredients purchased now, combined with those from Qingfeng City, can supply Jixiang Xiaozhu for five days without any problem. The money given by this guy Bai Li is still a little short!"
When he came, Gu Zheng knew that the silver given by Bai Li was short, but he did not ask Bai Li for it again. After all, whether in Bai Li's eyes or in the eyes of ordinary people, five hundred silver was used for purchasing.
, that's really a lot, Bai Li also thought about giving more, so he gave this amount.
In any case, Gu Zheng was naturally very happy to receive these ingredients, and the vendors in the market were also very happy. They even sold their long-standing inventory at once, and the prices were not low.
"Does any of you here have ingredients similar to the ones I bought, or other better ingredients that can be used in restaurants? I want them now!" Gu Zhengxiang said to the vendors who were still looking at him.
Open your mouth.
"Daxian, I still have some vegetables at home, and they are growing very well!"
"Daxian, I still have some useful stuff at home!"
"Daxian, I still have a few pigs in my family. If you still want pork, I will kill them now!"
Gu Zheng purchased so many ingredients and naturally used the space magic weapon in public, so these vendors concluded that he was not an ordinary person.
"If you think there are any good ingredients that I would like, bring them to the market tomorrow morning, and I will purchase them all together."
Gu Zheng paused for a moment, then took out some of the ingredients he purchased and told the vendors how to tell whether similar ingredients met the requirements.
After letting the vendors understand how to select ingredients, Gu Zheng left the market and walked towards the next market. After all, Chaoyang Village is larger than Qingfeng City, and there are more than three markets here.
Gu Zheng spent a whole morning shopping around the market in Qingfeng City. Not only did he spend all the five hundred taels of silver given by Bai Li, but he also began to put money into his own pocket. However, for Gu Zheng, money
This kind of thing doesn't have much use, and he doesn't care about it.
There was still time in the afternoon. After Gu Zheng left Chaoyang City, he flew towards the mountains. He still had to go to the mountains to find some better ingredients.
In fact, Gu Zheng himself collected some ingredients, but these ingredients are his private goods. He does not intend to use them in Jixiang Xiaozhu. If he finds ingredients in the mountains this time, he will use all the ingredients below medium level.
Confiscated, and then make several special delicacies to attract customers.
The mountain outside Chaoyang City is very big, and it is part of a huge mountain range.
Gu Zheng flew to an inaccessible place before landing, and then walked deeper into the mountain forest.
This unknown mountain can be regarded as a beautiful place. The immortal energy in the mountain is very strong, and it will definitely breed some good-quality ingredients.
Not far away, Gu Zheng bent down and picked a mushroom from the grass with a cap that was cracked like bark.
Although the mushroom doesn't look good, the quality of its ingredients is very close to medium, and its name is "Camellia Mushroom". This is an ingredient that is not available in Jixiang Xiaozhu today.
After picking mushrooms and walking forward for a while, Gu Zheng flew to a tree and picked a long green vine from the vines wrapped around the trunk.
Although the ivy is long, it is very fresh and tender, and milky white juice flows out from the part where it was cut off by Gu Zheng.
Gu Zheng first put away the ivy he picked, then took out a small bottle and drank all the milky white juice.
The name of Ivy is ‘Raotian Fern’. The tender part of the ingredients is of average grade, and the juice can flow out from the cut parts. After processing, the grade of the ingredients can reach medium, and it will be very delicious when used to make soup.
After collecting the sap from the 'Ruantian Fern', Gu Zheng walked forward not far again, when he suddenly bent his finger and flicked into the distance. Immediately there was a strange phenomenon in the grass. It was a rabbit that looked like a rabbit, but it was
Something with two tails.
"The two-tailed rabbit is a medium-grade ingredient, suitable for barbecue!"
Gu Zheng smiled and put the two-tailed rabbit into the space fairy weapon, and then continued walking deep into the forest.
Gu Zheng didn't walk very fast, because there were really too many ingredients in the mountains and forests. He stopped and collected, and his mood followed the harvest of the ingredients, becoming more and more relaxed and happy.
Unknowingly, Gu Zheng had been walking in the deep mountains for an hour. During this period, he collected more than a hundred ingredients. The lowest grade was ordinary and the highest grade was medium. Although the environment in the mountains was very good, ingredients above the fine grade were still available.
It's not easy to encounter. After all, immortal cultivators will come here occasionally. Even if no immortal cultivators come, there will still be some ghosts and the like, who may be interested in those high-grade ingredients.
Continuing to walk forward, Gu Zheng raised his head under a cliff with a smile on his face.
"Lilac, a high-quality ingredient, finally came across such a plant!"
Gu Zheng flew towards the cliff, where a plant like a spider plant grew in the rock crevice, with an orchid as big as the mouth of a bowl blooming on it.
"Whoosh!"
A ray of red light flew towards Gu Zheng from the gap in the stone. Gu Zheng stretched out his hand and took the red light into his hand.
The red light is a strange snake with a fleshy crown on its head, and Gu Zheng is pinching its seven-inch part.
The strange snake seemed to be only three feet long, but it was very fierce. It was pinched by Gu Zheng by seven inches. It was still fiercely wrapped around Gu Zheng's wrist, and the scales on its body were also raised at this time.
It looks like a sharp blade.
Gu Zheng shook his hand, and the bones of the strange snake shook. It turned out that the joints all over the body had been dislocated by Gu Zheng.
Even though the joints all over its body had been dislocated, the strange snake was still very fierce. It opened its mouth and sprayed misty poisonous gas towards Gu Zheng.
Gu Zheng blew out a breath, and the poisonous mist was immediately dispersed.
"The Red Dragon-Blooded Snake is a kind of strange beast from the ancient world. Although you are only in the early stage of the spirit demon now, you will definitely reach the level of the demon king when you grow up. I already discovered this when I took a fancy to this lilac orchid.
You, as long as you don't show up, I have the intention of letting you go. Unfortunately, although you are a prehistoric alien species, your nature is more vicious than spiritual. You don't even know if you are my opponent, so you dare to go out and die.
, then I don’t mind accommodating you, after all, you are considered to be a high-quality ingredient!”
Gu Zheng smiled at the Red-trained Dragon-Blooded Snake, and then exerted slight force on its seven inches. The Red-trained Dragon-Blooded Snake immediately dropped its head and stopped moving.
Now that the Red Dragon Blood Snake has been killed, its blood must be released as soon as possible. Its blood is a good thing.
The blood of the Red Dragon Blood Snake had a medicinal scent, so Gu Zheng put it in a jade vase and then picked the lilac flowers.
"When I say there are no high-quality ingredients, there isn't even one. Sometimes I say there are two at once, and they are two high-quality ingredients grown together. This is a rare delicacy!"
Gu Zheng was in a happy mood, and it was already getting late. He was going to find a place to cook something delicious to reward himself.
After searching for a while in the mountains and forests, Gu Zheng landed in front of a waterfall. The scenery here is beautiful and it is very suitable for cooking delicious food.
Taking out the kitchen utensils and ingredients, Gu Zheng was not only a little emotional, but the kitchen utensils he used now were just ordinary objects, and they were not comparable to the fairy kitchen utensils in the past. The effect of using them to cook food was worse than the fairy kitchen utensils.
Up some.
"It seems that if you have the chance, you should get to know a few masters of weapon refining. It would be easier to use fairy kitchen utensils."
Gu Zheng shook his head and smiled, and began to process the ingredients.
Gu Zheng plans to make soup with red dragon blood snake and lilac orchids today. These are two ingredients that go well together. Even if Gu Zheng’s cooking skills are not as good as before, the soup made with these two high-quality ingredients will definitely taste different.
Give high-level ingredients! This is because the lilac orchid is originally the companion flower of the alien beast. It lives with the red dragon-blooded snake day and night. There is already a very wonderful connection between the two, so the special substance produced
, will make the soup cooked at that time very delicious.
The skin of the Red Dragon Blood Snake is a spiritual resource and can be used to refine weapons. Its inner elixir is also a spiritual resource and can be used to refine elixirs and can also be used for animal spiritual food cultivation.
After cutting off the skin of the Red Dragon Blood Snake and washing it, Gu Zheng first pickled it with salt and spices.
Boil water in a pot, and when the water temperature is right, Gu Zheng pours the blood of the Red Dragon Blood Snake into the bowl, and then places the bowl in the hot water.
In addition to the stimulation of the Fire Control Technique, the blood of the Red Dragon Blood Snake in the bowl solidified quickly, and then Gu Zheng took it out, poured it on the eucalyptus board, and cut it into long strips of suitable size.
During this period of time in Jixiang Xiaozhu, Gu Zheng did not use magic techniques such as fire control. The reason was naturally that he did not want to expose his identity as an immortal cultivator. However, during this period of time, he also worked hard to cultivate the source of the five elements of his life. Although
I haven’t yet been able to cultivate the hidden source of the five elements of my life, but when I use the Fire Control Technique or the Water Control Technique to cook food, I won’t feel like I was carving a carrot with a big knife like before.
Not used to it anymore.
After dealing with the blood of the Red Dragon Blood Snake, Gu Zheng began to deal with the Lilac Orchid.
After Gu Zheng cleaned the lilac flowers, he put the lilac flowers into a pot of cold water, and then began to boil the water using the Fire Control Technique.
As the water temperature in the pot rises, the color of the soup turns into a dull purple. High-quality lilac flowers do not soften in high temperatures like ordinary ingredients. On the contrary, they bloom especially well in boiling water.
tender and beautiful.
An elegant orchid fragrance emerges from the pot, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Ignoring the lilacs in the pot, Gu Zheng began to heat the pot with oil. When the oil temperature was right, he poured the cut snake segments into the pot.
"Sizzling la la..."
The sound of cooking sounded, and under the control of Gu Zhengxian's power, the snake segments rolled happily in the pot and were heated evenly.
As the cooking process continues, an indescribable aroma wafts out of the pot, making people drool.
The quality of the ingredients is relatively high, which is not comparable to the low-grade ingredients that Gu Zheng cooks in Jixiang Xiaozhu. The snake segments are just stir-fried, and the aroma is already very rich.
After a while, the originally white snake meat turned slightly brown, and Gu Zheng poured it into the lilac soup that was simmering on the side.
The Water Control Jue and Water Control Jue were activated together, and a strange aroma suddenly wafted out of the pot, which made people feel hungry. Even though Gu Zheng cooked the soup himself, he couldn't help but want it.
My mouth is watering. After all, Gu Zheng hasn't cooked such a decent dish for himself for a long time.
As time went by, the fragrance became stronger and stronger. Gu Zheng, who was in the process of igniting the fire, looked up and saw a black bear squatting above the waterfall, turning around anxiously.
Before Gu Zheng prepared to make soup here, he had already placed a ban, because he knew that if there were no ban, the smell of lilac stewed with chilian would definitely attract many things in the mountains. However, even if
The existence of the restriction still attracted a black bear.
Gu Zheng discovered the black bear, but he couldn't be distracted too much. After all, his current spiritual skills were not able to use both distraction and distraction.
Finally, Gu Zheng stopped igniting the fire. Now the fragrance in the air is very strong, and a large amount of white mist condenses on the clay pot. This time, because of the use of high-quality ingredients and the proper cooking by Gu Zheng, etc.
When the lilac stew is really cooked, it will definitely have a very fragrant aroma.
Now that it has entered the process of simmering over low heat, Gu Zheng doesn't need to pay too much attention anymore. Gu Zheng can just distract himself and take a good look at his surroundings.
Except for the black bear, there was nothing else around, and the restriction was intact, and the smell of cooking could not spread. However, the black bear looked anxiously at this side, and was obviously attracted by the smell of food.
Gu Zheng was not surprised by this situation. After all, when he cooked delicious food in the outside world, he also used prohibitions to protect the aroma, but he still alarmed an eyeless monkey in the outside world, and thus made
He successfully comprehended the intermediate space magical power 'Meteor Catches the Moon'.
Gu Zheng couldn't tell anything unusual about the black bear from its appearance. He looked just like an ordinary black bear. But when Gu Zheng looked at the black bear carefully, the black bear actually worshiped Gu Zheng very spiritually.
Gu Zheng's heart moved, and he raised his hand to lift the restriction. The black bear on the waterfall seemed to have immediately sensed it, and he raised his hand to touch it forward, as if a blind man was testing whether there were any obstacles ahead.
After confirming that the invisible barrier that originally blocked it had disappeared, the black bear howled excitedly and then jumped straight down from the waterfall.
"thump!"
The black bear jumped into the pool under the waterfall and splashed into high waves.
"Ouch!"
The black bear crawled out of the pool and ran towards Guzheng howling excitedly.
It seemed reckless, but the black bear was actually very spiritual. When he was a few feet away from Gu Zheng, he stopped again and worshiped Gu Zheng again.
"You want to eat what I cook?"
Gu Zheng couldn't help but laugh when he saw the black bear looking at the clay pot from time to time while bowing.
"Ouch!"
The sound of the black bear's bark is not loud, but has a pleasing sound.
Seeing that the black bear was so spiritual, Gu Zheng deliberately said with a straight face: "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Woo!"
The black bear barked again, conveying its plea to Gu Zheng with its eyes.
"You can understand such difficult words. It seems that you are really not an ordinary black bear. I rest assured that not only will I not kill you, but I will also give you some of the things I made, but I need to know who you are.
, I want to explore your body!"
Gu Zheng's heart moved, and a spiritual point of light appeared.
The black bear was still a little confused at first, but when he saw the light spots in the sky, he nodded immediately.
Gu Zheng was no longer surprised by the black bear's abnormality, he directly invaded the black bear's body with his spiritual thoughts.
The black bear is indeed a wild beast. There is nothing abnormal about its blood, and there is no inner elixir in its body. However, when Guzheng's divine sense probed the black bear's brain, he actually found small pink beads in the black bear's brain.
"this,"
Gu Zheng's eyes widened instantly. This kind of small bead hidden in the brain is equivalent to the inner elixir of the spirit beast. It is something that the spirit beast conceived after absorbing the immortal essence. The spirit beast with the inner elixir,
You can truly breathe in the immortal energy to practice, but there are also some more ferocious spirit beasts who still don't know how to practice, but rely on the absorption of the automatic operation of the inner elixir to improve their own strength.
The inner alchemy in the black bear's brain is still in a special state that has not been activated. The black bear itself does not know how to use it, and it does not operate automatically. Therefore, before Gu Zheng explored its body, he felt that it was just a
Just an ordinary beast.
It is a very extraordinary thing to have the inner alchemy in the mind, but this is not what shocked Gu Zheng. What really shocked him was that he felt a familiar breath on the inner alchemy, a breath that belonged to him.
