This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 43: Isn’t it Great to be a Spirit Chef?

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Isn’t it Great to be a Spirit Chef?

The room was simply decorated, with everything that should be there but nothing particularly special. It was clean and tidy, a few potted plants placed on the window sill, filled with the breath of life, as if the owner of the house had just gone on a long trip.

Liang Yi stood in front of the desk and found that there were quite a few books arranged neatly on it, mostly travelogues, some histories of sect development, and even one or two cookbooks.

"Can a life without cultivation only be passed by reading books?"

Looking through them one by one, these books all appeared to be read many times, no longer brand new, with some wear and tear at the edges.

"The previous owner seems kind of like myself," Liang Yi thought secretly. He himself liked to read a lot of books aside from playing games, and even had a room at home specifically for storing his books. The most comfortable moment of the day was when cats and dogs snuggled next to him while he absorbed knowledge from books under the not-too-intense sunlight.

After looking around, he didn’t find anything like a diary. It seemed that "his" dislike for writing diaries hadn’t changed.

After familiarizing himself with every part of the room, Liang Yi, feeling somewhat tired, sat on the bed and casually flipped through a biography on the desk, which was about the life of a Sixth Realm cultivator.

After a quick skim, it seemed more likely to have been fabricated by later generations. There were many misunderstandings about the Sixth Realm cultivator in the book, written purely from the author’s rich imagination.

As he turned to a new page, Liang Yi’s wandering gaze suddenly sharpened—the book had a sentence prominently marked by "himself."

"He felt something was missing inside his body, but couldn’t tell what it was."

The book mentioned that the Sixth Realm cultivator had been plotted against, with a small part of his Divine Soul covertly cut off by his enemy.

Liang Yi looked at that sentence, feeling that "he" didn’t emphasize it because of the character in the book, but for some other unknown reason.

After pondering without success, Liang Yi flipped further but didn’t see any other similar markings.

"Ah, it’s so strange," Liang Yi muttered, placing the book aside and sighing softly.

"Big brother~"

The familiar voice came from outside the door, it was Su Youyi.

"Come in," Liang Yi called out cheerfully.

Su Youyi pushed the door open, saw her senior brother sitting on the bed, surrounded by books he had bought a while ago, apparently just finished reading.

"Are you awake? Feeling better?" Liang Yi stood up with concern and went over to his junior sister, pulling her to sit on the bed, while he pulled up a chair to sit across from her.

"Mm, just a bit drained and mentally exhausted from the breakthrough, but thanks to the necklace you gave me, I recovered quickly." Su Youyi lifted the necklace from her neckline to show it had been a great help.

"That’s good, as long as it was useful," Liang Yi said with a smile, after all, wasn’t that the reason he gave the Willow Wood Stone to his junior sister.

"But..." Su Youyi lowered her head, her voice fading.

"Eh? What’s wrong?" Liang Yi leaned in a bit and asked with concern.

"Gurgle~"

"I’m hungry!" Su Youyi pouted, telling Liang Yi her plight. She had eaten all the snacks she bought while accompanying Yuan Hua and Yuan Jiaming, the two kids, and didn’t restock in Luoyang City due to the rush to return to the mountain.

"Hahahahaha," Liang Yi burst into laughter, amused by his junior sister’s cuteness.

"Wait here, I’ll go make you something to eat. How about porridge?"

"Mmm, mmm, mmm, I like anything made by big brother!" Su Youyi’s eyes sparkled, nodding her head like a chick pecking at grains of rice.

Liang Yi left the courtyard to find that it was completely dark outside. He turned and headed to the nearby kitchen. With a flick of his fingers, several lamps in the kitchen lit up simultaneously.

"Wow, there’s quite a lot of ingredients!" Liang Yi was a bit surprised. The kitchen’s selection of ingredients was unexpectedly vast, covering everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, swims in the water, meat and vegetables alike.

There was even a special Array to keep the ingredients fresh. Pretty cool!

But looking at the ingredients in his hand, Liang Yi felt a bit troubled. In the game, he could just open a panel and click to start the progress bar, and once the bar was done, the food was ready. But what now? He did cook porridge and such when living alone, but the cooking methods in this world are entirely different.

Just when Liang Yi couldn’t figure out what to do, System Daddy came to the rescue!

[Ding! Player qualifies, would you like to change your secondary profession to Spirit Chef?]

"Yes!"

Liang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. System Daddy was reliable after all. Spirit Chef was a rather versatile secondary profession, though many players chose Fisherman as their first secondary profession change because, honestly, fishing has style!

However, Liang Yi didn’t see it that way. Becoming a Spirit Chef would at least keep you from starving early on, and you could earn some money. Even if you ended up poor and had to retreat into the mountains, you could live quite comfortably, so why wouldn’t he be delighted to become a Spirit Chef?

But where did this qualification come from? Liang Yi was puzzled. After pondering for a while, he reached into his backpack and pulled out a rolling pin.

"Could it be this thing?" Liang Yi was a bit flabbergasted. He was doing the Spirit Chef profession change assessment in his alt account before crossing over. Once he reached the required proficiency, he could complete the mission and change professions.

Whatever, as long as it works! Liang Yi didn’t care how it came; as long as it’s useful, that’s all that matters!

He checked his character panel and saw [Secondary Profession: Spirit Chef Level 1] added below his Level.

It’s the familiar feeling again, just like when leveling up Cultivation Techniques. A flood of culinary knowledge entered his mind, and his body adapted as if he’d been cooking for years.

The transfer of knowledge happened in an instant. When Liang Yi opened his eyes and looked at the ingredients again, countless methods of handling them and possible dishes to make naturally appeared in his mind.

Picking out rice, shrimp, and local vegetables, Liang Yi decided to make a bowl of fresh vegetable and shrimp congee.

With practiced moves, he rinsed the rice, chopped the vegetables, and started cooking the congee. In less than half an hour, a tasty and nutritious bowl of fresh vegetable and shrimp congee was ready, and Liang Yi took the first sip himself.

"Not bad at all, it tastes fantastic!"

[Ding! Experience +1500]

"The experience given at level one is quite decent!" Liang Yi nodded without surprise. In the game, the later the stage, the more astronomical the amount of experience required. Simply relying on missions or killing monsters was not enough to satisfy players’ needs, so there were actually many ways to acquire experience.

For example, Fisherman, who can train and fish at the same time, getting double the experience. And more importantly, it looks cool!

You could even see players who, after accepting a mission, would simultaneously kill monsters, fish, and cook, achieving four gains in one stroke. Some high-level Spirit Chefs could make dishes with their own buffs and sell them directly to the Divine Wind Commerce, earning money and leveling up at the same time.

However, this was usually the prerogative of those who paid a huge price to get their second secondary profession qualification. Not something ordinary people could do.

Holding the freshly made shrimp congee, Liang Yi leisurely returned to his room, only to be shocked the moment he stepped through the door. He stood there dumbfounded, not sure whether to go in or not.

Because his junior fellow sister was unexpectedly lying on his bed!

All Liang Yi wanted to do was to open the player’s forum and post:

"Cute junior sister sneaked into my room at night and is lying in my bed, what should I do? Online waiting! Urgent!!"

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