Chapter 571 Dragon and Phoenix

"Kong has all these ingredients here, but it's only 22%. Isn't it a bit too little?"

In Kong Ying's view, Gu Zheng thought highly of him and did not ask for excessive prices, but asking him to pay only 22% of the total value of the ingredients made him feel that he was treating Gu Zheng too badly. After all, as long as Gu Zheng can cure this disease, let alone spending 22% of the total value of resources as compensation, even if it is ten times more, he feels it is worth it, because this is life-saving!

"The rules are what they are. I can't take the opportunity to raise the price just because fellow Taoist Kong is eager to treat his illness."

Gu Zheng smiled slightly, and then said: "Fellow Daoist Kong, let me get the introduction, right? After getting the introduction, I can give you this dietary therapy."

The so-called primer in Gu Zheng's mouth was some of Kong Ying's blood. Although bleeding Kong Ying would cause him great pain, there was nothing that could be done about it.

"Come on, Master Gu!" Kong Ying gritted his teeth and said.

Gu Zheng nodded, then took out a jade bottle, reached out and scratched Kong Ying's palm, and Kong Ying's blood immediately flowed out.

"Well..."

As soon as the blood flowed out, Kong Ying immediately groaned, then his body trembled, and he gritted his teeth and tried not to make any sound. However, the time it took to hold on was no more than three seconds, and Kong Ying couldn't help but scream.

Fortunately, Kong Ying's bloodletting only lasted five seconds. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be unimaginable that an immortal cultivator at the peak of returning to the void would scream like that because of a small amount of blood loss in five seconds. .

"Master Gu, please!"

Kong Ying looked at Gu Zheng with pain, and his voice made people feel uncomfortable. Only a person suffering from a terminal illness would have such a complicated voice when asking someone for help!

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Kong, wait a moment!"

Gu Zheng immediately entered the kitchen and took out the ingredients given by Kong Ying.

In addition to the introduction, there are six kinds of ingredients in the dietary therapy that Gu Zheng will do. They are: fire phoenix orchid, phoenix blood wood, squid, ambergris, chicken blood fruit, and the petals of swallowing fairy flower.

Every ingredient has its indispensable role when it comes to treating 'blood worm Gu'. Only by cooking these ingredients well can Gu Zheng feel that Kong Ying's chronic illness can be cured.

Gu Zheng used magic to keep the jade bottle containing Kong Ying's blood at a suitable temperature. This temperature prevents the blood from coagulating and also prevents the 'blood worm Gu' inside from dying.

Light the ambergris, put the ashes into the water, then throw in all the parts of the fire phoenix orchid except the stamens, and simmer slowly over low heat.

Phoenix Blood Wood was used by Gu Zheng to repair the Chaos Tower, but the juice in it is not only rich in immortality, but also has medicinal properties. Squeeze the juice from the phoenix tree and use the water control method to remove unnecessary components, and set it aside for later use.

After completely pouring the juice squeezed from the chicken blood fruit onto the meat, Gu Zheng used his magic power to knead the meat several times, put it in a cage and steamed it.

The Immortal Swallowing Flower is a strange flower that existed in ancient times. It is a combination of animals and plants. It can hunt down immortal cultivators with lower cultivation levels, hence its name.

The petals of the swallowing fairy flower are like the leaves of succulent plants. They contain a lot of weird-tasting juice. After Gu Zheng squeezed out the juice, he set it aside for later use.

The preparations were done. Gu Zheng poured the water used to stew the fire phoenix orchid into another pot, then threw the steamed pork into it, and used the Water Control Technique and the Fire Control Technique at the same time to control the food in the pot. Cooking is going on.

A minute later, Gu Zheng took out the meat from the pot, poured the juice from the immortal flower on it, steamed it again for about a minute.

The meat was already out of the pot. Gu Zheng put the lid on the plate and walked out of the kitchen with it.

"Fellow Daoist Ancient, what a fast pace!"

Although Kong Ying was already impatient with waiting, Gu Zheng only took a few minutes to complete the dietary therapy, which was faster than he imagined.

"I know you're eager to see what's going on, so I'm trying not to waste any time." Gu Zheng said with a smile.

"Let me see how good fellow Taoist Gu is at cooking."

Kong Ying opened the lid of the plate excitedly, his eyes widened suddenly, and he stammered: "This, this,"

Kong Ying had imagined various forms of dietary therapy, but he never expected that the dietary therapy Gu Zheng performed would be a piece of meat that looked like an inkstone.

When he was in the prehistoric times, Kong Ying was also a frequent visitor to the Xianchu shop, so he knew a lot about some things about the Xianchu shop. In his imagination, he thought that this dietary therapy would be extremely fragrant, but he did not expect that not only would it not be extremely fragrant, but it would also taste very weird. While the smell of blood was strong, it also had a faint smell. The fragrance.

"What's wrong?" Gu Zheng asked.

"fine!"

Kong Ying answered and picked up the chopsticks on the table to eat.

"Fellow Daoist Kong has misunderstood! The dietary therapy for you is not to make you eat, but to treat your illness through food and induce the 'blood worm Gu' in your body!" Gu Zheng said.

"Oh? Can this piece of meat lure out the 'blood worm Gu'?"

Even though Kong Ying was well-informed, he couldn't help but be surprised. This was really a unique treatment method.

"Okay! When I tell you to bleed later, you just bleed. This dietary treatment for the 'blood worm Gu' is still the last step!" Gu Zheng said.

"good!"

Kong Ying stretched out her arms excitedly and put them on top of the plate in preparation.

Gu Zheng poured Kong Ying's blood that he had received earlier into the depression of the inkstone-like pork pie, and then took out the stamens of the Fire Phoenix Orchid that had not been used.

The stamens of the fire phoenix orchid were filamentous and looked like the tail feathers of a phoenix. Gu Zheng's heart moved. After the flames from his fingertips ignited it, he loosened his fingers and let it fall into Kong Ying's blood.

When the stamen of the Fire Phoenix Orchid fell into Kong Ying's blood, it had turned into pink ashes. As soon as it entered Kong Ying's blood, it immediately made the blood boil.

Not only that, the fragrant smell of blood was extremely strong at this moment. A lot of blood-red mist floated out of the food and condensed, and finally turned into the shape of a fire phoenix, circling and dancing around the food.

"Now!"

In fact, there was no need for Gu Zheng to remind Kong Ying that it was time, because he felt an unprecedented restlessness in his blood, as if the 'blood worm Gu' was eager to go out but could not find an outlet.

Immortal power penetrated from the fingertips, Kong Ying opened a cut in his wrist, and blood immediately flowed into the plate.

It wasn't like before when bleeding caused terrible pain. Now Kong Ying not only didn't feel that kind of pain, but also felt an indescribable sense of relief! In his eyes, the 'blood worm Gu' in the blood was rushing towards him.

"Fellow Taoist Ancient, this, this is really magical!"

Kong Ying's voice trembled with excitement, but Gu Zheng just smiled and didn't say anything.

Gu Zheng regarded 'blood worm Gu' as an ingredient. Which ingredients go well with which ingredients, and which ingredients resonate with the taste of which ingredients. For ordinary people, these mysteries can only rely on experience. But for Gu Zheng, these are all clear at a glance, and the answer comes from his existing experience! Even when he was inexperienced, he knew roughly what was needed for the integration of ingredients.

It didn't take long for the 'blood worm Gu' that had troubled Kong Ying for more than a hundred years to flow out of his blood. During his inner inspection, not a single one could be found.

Turning into a ray of light, Kong Ying flew out of the window of Jixiang Xiaozhu. Standing in the void, he looked up to the sky and let out a long roar.

More than a hundred years of torture, more than a hundred years of trouble, and more than a hundred years of frustration are finally over today.

When Kong Ying flew back to Jixiang Xiaozhu again, his expression had become much calmer. Although he was still very thin after his stubborn illness was removed, he not only looked full of energy, but also had the arrogance of a cultivator at the peak of returning to the void, which naturally appeared on his face.

"Fellow Taoist, thank you!"

Kong Ying bowed and saluted Gu Zheng, his voice was slow and serious, and even his title changed slightly.

"You're welcome. Congratulations to my fellow Taoist for getting rid of his stubborn illness!"

Gu Zheng did not stop Kong Ying's courtesy. While accepting it calmly, he also changed his name.

"This is all the credit of fellow Taoists!"

Kong Ying sighed with emotion, then smiled and said: "Fellow Taoist has cured my stubborn illness. I would like to thank you deeply, and please don't refuse. This is a vow that has already existed in my heart!"

Kong Ying finished speaking. Seeing that Gu Zheng seemed to be about to refuse, he immediately spoke again: "Fellow Taoist, I don't want to see me sorry for my conscience. I will die in the inner demon realm when I attack the Golden Immortal, right?"

"Since it involves the oath that Taoist friend once made, it is better for Gu to be respectful than to obey."

Gu Zheng was not hypocritical. Since Kong Ying insisted on giving it, he accepted it with peace of mind.

"About my oath, there are two types of rewards! If it is for you, fellow Taoist, I will designate these two rewards as a large number of high-grade ingredients, or a very high-grade ingredient "Which one should I choose, fellow Taoist?" Kong Ying asked.

"I'll choose the one with a high grade!"

After listening to Kong Ying's words, Gu Zheng felt a little excited. Kong Ying was a frequent customer of Xianchu shop, and his own cultivation was at the peak of returning to the void. The high-grade ingredients he mentioned were definitely not high-quality! So, what are the ingredients that are higher than fine? The answer is ready to come out!

"Although Kong has collected a lot of ingredients, including some treasures, there is only one of the best! It can not only make elixirs, but can also be used to make weapons! If it weren't for you, the ancient leader, it would have been someone else who saved me. , I won’t regard it as a reward for the oath!”

Kong Ying took out what he was talking about. It was a tail, which looked a bit like an ox tail, but the quality of its ingredients had indeed reached a high level.

"Is this the unicorn's tail?" Gu Zheng said with wide eyes.

According to legend, Qilin has a head like a lion, antlers like a deer, eyes like a tiger, a body like an elk, scales like a dragon, and a tail like an ox.

"Yes, this is exactly the tail of a unicorn!" Kong Ying said.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist."

Gu Zheng lowered the unicorn's tail and felt happy in his heart.

With this unicorn tail, Gu Zheng already has three types of high-end ingredients in reserve.

Kong Ying had just recovered from his serious illness, and he still had a lot to do. He chatted with Gu Zheng for a while, and left without even bothering to eat.

However, Kong Ying also told Gu Zheng that after he finished some things at hand, he would come back to Jixiang Xiaozhu to have a good taste of Gu Zheng's craftsmanship.

During the conversation between Gu Zheng and Kong Ying, Gu Zheng naturally asked Kong Ying whether he had fairy wind grass and Moyun beast bones, two urgently needed resources for repairing the Chaos Tower.

Unfortunately, like the vast majority of people's answers, Kong Ying felt that these two resources were not of sufficient quality, so she did not collect them.

Not long after Kong Ying left, near noon, Jixiang Xiaozhu became busy again.

"Business is good today. Counting the next table, this is already the fourth table of customers!"

Miao Miao glanced at the shining gems in the kitchen and prepared to go out to greet the guests.

"Yes, business is really good today. Go pick people up!"

Gu Zheng smiled slightly, there were only five orders left, but now it was only noon, and another order was about to come to his door.

Miao Miao took the order and left, while Gu Zheng was still cooking. However, after the island-protecting immortal formation was activated, he allowed the spiritual thoughts of the weapon spirit to attach to his spiritual thoughts to detect the visitors.

The guests who came this time were two men and one woman. They came here for the first time and met the criteria to enter Jixiang Xiaozhu for dining.

However, among these three people, the man is an immortal cultivator in the middle stage of returning to the void. As for the other two women, they have no cultivation at all. They are just two ordinary people. As for the appearance of these three people, the men are somewhat dark, fat and rough, while the women are very beautiful.

“Boss, bring over all your signature dishes!”

The man walked into the Xianchu restaurant with two beauties in his arms, and started shouting loudly before he even sat down.

A loud voice always attracts the attention of others, and guests in other private rooms turn their attention to you! You must know that this is a Xianchu restaurant, there are no low-grade ingredients at all, they will feel a pain in their stomachs after eating a meal here, and the new customers actually order the signature dishes here.

"hehe."

"Has this person never been to Xianchu Restaurant?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm trying to make a fool of myself!"

"You even brought two mortals to the Xianchu restaurant. It's a unique style!"

Guests in other private rooms were smiling and talking in low voices.

The fact is similar to what the guests guessed. This man's name is Wang Letian. Not long after he came out of the ancient world, he heard someone talking about the fairy kitchen shop on earth, so he brought his two most satisfying stoves and came here to grow it. Long experience.

“What the guests want to eat, let’s see the menu first and then tell them!”

Miaomiao was only responsible for leading people into Jixiang Xiaozhu, and the person responsible for receiving Wang Letian was the girl from the Yang family.

The girl from the Yang family felt contempt for this noisy immortal cultivator.

As a member of the Yang family, the girls of the Yang family also have the same special bloodline as Yang Zhenling and the great elder, that is, they can vaguely sense the level of a person's cultivation level.

In the eyes of the Yang family girls, Jixiang Xiaozhu has received many people with higher cultivation levels than Wang Letian, but none of them have been very cheerful! And the new guests who make a deal with them don't look like immortal cultivators at all, but instead look like nouveau riche from the outside world!

The menu of Jixiang Xiaozhu is very detailed. What can be used for each dish, which payment method can be used, and how much compensation needs to be paid, all these things are clear at a glance.

Wang Letian only looked at one page of the menu, and his eyes were already opening wider and wider.

"Is there any mistake? The lowest-level ingredients on the menu are equivalent to fourth-grade resources!"

As soon as Wang Letian stood up in surprise, he realized that his reaction was a bit excessive, especially in front of the furnace that he was satisfied with! Therefore, Wang Letian looked dissatisfied and added: "When I was in the ancient Xianchu shop, all the food I ate was made with fifth-grade or even special-grade resources. The food made with these low-grade resources, I don’t usually take it with me!”

Fourth-grade resources are equivalent to inferior-level ingredients, fifth-grade resources are equivalent to ordinary-level ingredients, and special-grade resources are equivalent to mid-level ingredients.

Not all Jixiang Xiaozhu has high-end dishes. On the first page of its menu, there are dishes made with inferior ingredients, but that's just one page.

"Except for the first page, in the pages behind the menu, the lowest level of ingredients is equivalent to fifth-grade resources." The girl from the Yang family said.

"That's it!"

Wang Letian said something in hindsight, and then looked through the menu seemingly casually.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it. Wang Letian’s heart clenched tightly when he saw it. This is not ordinary expensive!

"Master, what are fourth-grade resources? What are fifth-grade resources and special-grade resources? How are these things divided into three, six, and nine grades?"

The woman in white next to Wang Letian looked at him in confusion, which inadvertently relieved Wang Letian's embarrassment.

Putting down the menu, Wang Letian patiently introduced the woman next to him.

After introducing the grades of resources and the approximate value of resources at each level, Wang Letian introduced the grades of ingredients to the two women and compared them with resources.

"Resources are divided into three, six or nine grades. The food materials are also divided into three, six or nine grades. The worst is poisonous, followed by garbage, low grade, second grade, ordinary, medium, excellent and high grade. Second grade is equivalent to fourth grade resources. Normal is equivalent to fifth-grade resources, medium is equivalent to special-grade resources, and so on.”

Listening to Wang Letian's talk, the two women looked at him with admiration. However, little did they know that Wang Letian only had a relatively systematic understanding of the ingredients after reading the menu.

"Master is so powerful, he actually knows so many things, but these things should all look similar, right? How to distinguish which ones are normal level and which ones are medium level?"

The woman in black next to Wang Letian asked the question in her heart.

"Well, of course it depends on the experience of the immortal chefs. People like you with naked eyes can't tell the grade of the ingredients."

After saying this, Wang Letian had a strong sense of superiority. He glanced at the two women, and a bastard spirit was blowing in the wind.

However, Wang Letian's momentum only affected the two women around her. The girl from the Yang family standing aside was not only unaffected, but the contempt in her heart became even stronger.

"Guest, what have you decided to order?"

There was a hint of urging in the tone of the Yang family's sister. She had lost her original patience after seeing Wang Letian pretending to be a big-tailed wolf for a long time.

Wang Letian pretended that he had enough, threw the menu to the woman beside him, waved his hand and said, "Anything you want!"

"The name 'dragon and phoenix present auspiciousness' sounds nice, but I don't know how it tastes. I want this and this!"

The woman in white spoke first and ordered two dishes that she thought should be good.

The woman in black looked at the woman in white with disdain, and then said: "What a dragon or a phoenix, it sounds so vulgar! I want these two dishes, 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Sea and Sky'!"

The two cauldrons were so rude that Wang Letian broke out in cold sweat.

"You prodigal bitches! Do you really think that I am taking you out to eat steak? Do you want me to eat whatever you want? This is a special Xianchu restaurant! The things you ordered are at least average. The ingredients are used for cooking, and there are even high-quality ingredients. It really doesn’t hurt your back at all just to sit and order!” Wang Letian cursed secretly.

"I have already written down the dishes ordered by the guests. Is there anything else you need to order?"

Regardless of the cold sweat on Wang Letian's face, the girls from the Yang family are particularly 'responsible'.

Wang Letian's eyes lit up and he said very boldly: "They ordered exactly four dishes, so let's have another soup!"

"What kind of soup does the guest want? Our 'Bazhen Soup', 'Blue Leaf Lotus Soup', and 'Golden Honey Snow Soup' are all very famous!"

The girl from the Yang family recommended it 'enthusiastically', while Wang Letian's mouth twitched slightly because the soups she recommended were very expensive!

"I want……"

The woman in white spoke first again, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Wang Letian raising her hand.

"Take me to the kitchen. I want to customize a beautifying soup from the boss and give it to my two women." Wang Letian said.

When the two women heard what Wang Letian said, their faces suddenly burst into smiles. Their big, eloquent eyes blinked at Wang Letian, seeming to say: "Go back quickly."

"The kitchen..."

Just when the girl from the Yang family was about to tell Wang Letian that the kitchen was an important place and ordinary people were not allowed to enter, Wang Letian's message had already sounded in her mind.

"Girl, I have something to see your boss!" Wang Letian said.

"Come with me!"

The Yang family girl frowned and brought Wang Letian to the kitchen.

Gu Zheng was making the last dish for the previous guest. He quickly poured the contents of the pot into a plate, then covered it with a lid and handed it to Miao Miao who was waiting aside.

"What's the matter?"

Gu Zheng looked at the girl from the Yang family, and also glanced at Wang Letian beside her.

"Young Master, this guest said that he wants to see you for something." The Yang family girl said.

"Okay, get out!"

Gu Zheng asked the Yang family girl to go outside to do some work, and then he took a serious look at Wang Letian.

Wang Letian, who was dark and fat, was really ugly. His face looked like the skin of a toad. If someone saw him at night, he would really scare people.

"This man must have been poisoned by some strange poison in his early years. Although he is no longer affected now, the damage caused by the poison to his appearance is irreparable. Gee, such a man deserves two beauties like that. He was making a fuss when he came in, he really looked like one of the nouveau riche on earth!"

The voice of the weapon spirit sounded in Gu Zheng's mind.

"Ahem!"

Seeing Gu Zheng just looking at him without saying anything, Wang Letian coughed dryly and said with a slight embarrassment: "That's right, I, I want to ask Boss Gu, if the four dishes I ordered don't have the corresponding ingredients, Can I use other ingredients instead?”

Wang Letian was a little nervous, not entirely because of the demands he made, but partly because of the pressure Gu Zheng had brought to him.