He asked Gao Yan to find some spiritual fish with sufficient spiritual energy for him, but he did not tell him to go to the colorful lotus pond of the Golden Spirit Mother to steal fish.
Jin'ao Island is so big, it's not like we can't find other spiritual fish. Besides, if that doesn't work, there's still the East China Sea.
The East China Sea is vast and boundless. As long as you spend a little more effort, you can find a few suitable spiritual fish to come back.
"What are you going to do this time?"
Gao Yan couldn't help but become curious when he saw that Qi Yuan had prepared a lot of things, as well as more than a dozen kinds of elixirs.
Qi Yuan put the spices and elixirs into categories and said: "Qi Yi has made rapid progress recently and has reached a bottleneck. According to the normal progress, it will take several years of accumulation before he can advance.
I recently got some inspiration from the Barrier-Breaking Pill and planned to make a dish that could break his current cultivation bottleneck. However, my previous attempts basically failed. The only time I came close to success was when I was making a fish.
It's a pity that the fish didn't have enough energy and failed in the end, so I decided to get a few more to give it a try."
Gao Yan took a breath when he heard this.
The idea of breaking the bottleneck with just one dish is really incredible.
No wonder this nephew can gain merit by virtue of his cooking skills, but the food he has eaten for tens of thousands of years can only be used to maintain body fat.
But if you think about it carefully, there is indeed a possibility of success.
In the past, no one thought about this. Just like in the ancient years, when the world was first created, when the first creatures were fighting, except for a few who had innate spiritual treasures, most of them just relied on their innate magical powers to fight.
It was not until later that Taoist ancestors preached in the Zixiao Palace, and the three thousand great powers realized the path that suited them. Then there was a practice world where a hundred flowers bloomed, and various magic weapons were sacrificed and used in battles.
How many Qigong practitioners are there today who can fight with bare hands?
Even the monsters, as long as they transform, will usually refine one or two magic weapons for use in fighting. Only those monsters with shallow cultivation and who have not even transformed like to fight with bare hands.
He Ling'er's explanation is that she turned into a human form in advance because she took the Transformation Fruit.
However, this little girl also gained a lot of benefits from following Qi Yuan. She learned many Taoist and magical powers. There is no shortage of heavenly materials and earthly treasures on Jin'ao Island. Recently, she is also thinking about what kind of magic weapon she should refine.
"It is said that a single elixir from the Supreme Patriarch can make a person immortal. Of course, my ability cannot be compared with that of the Supreme Patriarch.
But I just plan to make a pill that can help Qi Yi break through to the realm of god transformation. Although it is difficult, it is not impossible, so I want to give it a try."
As Qi Yuan spoke, he kept moving his hands and swung his knife to cut off a portion from several elixir plants. The amount was just enough to cook a spiritual fish.
Even when refining an elixir, it is not necessary to put in the entire elixir, but it is determined based on the medicinal properties and quantity of other elixirs.
Qi Yuan took out a spiritual fish from the small earthen jar Gao Yan brought.
This kind of spiritual fish is very beautiful, its whole body is colorful, and its spiritual energy is amazingly abundant. Qi Yuan can clearly detect that every bit of its flesh and blood contains huge spiritual energy.
He grabbed the spiritual fish in his hand and immediately realized that this spiritual fish had a very powerful power. Its body kept fluttering. If he hadn't quickly used magic power to confine it in his hand, he would have almost been freed by it.
He tapped the fish's head lightly with the back of the knife, and the spirit fish stiffened, and then there was no movement.
Then Qi Yuan did not rush to scrape the scales and disembowel the fish, but gently slapped the fish with the back of the knife.
He saw the spiritual light on the back of the knife in his hand flashing continuously, completely mobilizing the spiritual energy in the spiritual fish, and the colorful spiritual light on the fish became more and more intense.
One hundred and eight times later, Qi Yuan reached out and slapped the table, causing the fish to fly three feet high, and then its colorful scales fell off automatically.
Qi Yuan flashed the knife in his hand, and the fish's belly was cut open. The internal organs and other contents were directly pulled aside by him. At the same time, before the fish fell, Qi Yuan had already marked it with knife flowers.
The blood of this fish turned out to be jade-colored, with a faint fragrance that hit the nostrils. Even without the fish scales, there was still a faint colorful aura shining on the fish's body.
Qi Yuan brought a stream of spiritual spring water to rinse the fish body, then put it in the seasonings and marinated it for a while. Since there was no fishy smell at all, there was no need to remove the fishy smell, and he applied the prepared seasonings to the fish body.
Go up and put most of the selected elixir into the belly of the fish.
Cut the Ganoderma lucidum into shreds, spread it on the bottom of a jade plate, put the fish on top, and cover the fish with a few pieces of Fusion Spirit flower petals.
At this time, the water taken from the spiritual spring in the dragon-patterned Ruyi pot was already filled with water. Qi Yuan quickly put the jade plate into the steamer and started steaming it on the Ruyi pot.
This method is relatively simpler. Unlike other methods that require adding seasonings and other ingredients halfway, he can focus all his energy on controlling the fusion of spiritual energy.
Generally speaking, steaming fish does not take long, but this time the spiritual fish used by Qi Yuan was full of spiritual power, so it took a lot of time to steam it.
This was exactly what he wanted, otherwise he would not be sure to combine the elixir with the spiritual energy in the fish due to the short time.
To be honest, the dishes made in this way are indeed delicious, but when I started to delve into various methods, a lot of elixirs and ingredients were wasted. Compared with the elixirs wasted by many alchemists who were new to alchemy.
More to come.
But once you make it and gain experience, it will be relatively simple to make similar dishes in the future.
Someone with advanced cultivation like Gao Yan can learn faster.
However, an immortal like him who has reached the pinnacle of Taiyi Xuanxian realm, instead of practicing hard in order to break through to the Golden Immortal realm, actually wastes a lot of time learning cooking skills from a junior. This situation can only be regarded as a special case.
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Since there was a fire dragon spirit sitting in the Dragon Pattern Ruyi Pot, which was connected to Qi Yuan's mind, he could control the heat more easily, so he put most of his energy into the steamer.
As the spiritual light of magic formulas penetrated into it, he finally put his hand directly on the steamer, carefully mobilizing the various elixirs and the spiritual energy of the spiritual fish to merge with each other.
Gradually, a strange fragrance came out along with the billowing steam. Gao Yan's eyes suddenly lit up and his mouth seemed to be salivating.
It was completely different from the fragrance of the elixir when it was released when he was refining elixirs in the past. This was the unique fragrance of delicacies, which could seduce people's appetite.
After a while, Qi Yuan's spiritual consciousness noticed that the spiritual energy in the fish meat had been perfectly integrated with the elixir, and he quickly opened the steamer.
Immediately, in the rising heat, a spiritual fish faintly evolved and jumped up, as if it had jumped some kind of shackles, swimming back and forth flexibly in the steam, until the heat gradually dissipated, and then it became invisible.
Qi Yuan did not expect that such a strange phenomenon would occur, and was stunned for a moment.
Gao Yan was shocked and said: "Generally, only pills with a relatively high level of refining will cause strange phenomena. I didn't expect that this dish would be like this."
Qi Yihe, Ling'er, Deng Chanyu and others who had been watching for a long time also opened their eyes wide and looked at the scene in front of them in surprise.
Qi Yuan reached out and took out the jade plate and placed it on the jade case. He saw that the meat of this colorful spiritual fish was crystal clear, slightly translucent, and emitted bursts of strange fragrance.
With a grunt, Gao Yan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and eagerly moved closer to look at the dish.