Chapter 851
Half a month has passed. Although Gu Zheng is also very curious about the desert, he has no plans to explore the desert anymore.
Gu Zheng only had fifty days to stay in this world, and Gu Zheng would need another fifteen days to fly back to the cave. He planned to meditate in the cave for the rest of the time.
In this world, nine suns can be seen during the day, and nine moons can be seen at night. Lying on the ground on the edge of the desert, Gu Zheng seemed to be staring at the nine moons in the sky in a daze, but in fact he was deducing this time in his heart. What kind of characteristic changes will occur after the obtained ingredients outside the circle collide with each other.
Ever since I left the cave, I have had a wish, and that is to be able to cook a food that allows me to absorb the special energy in this world. Now, the ingredients Gu Zheng obtained in this world have reached a level in his heart, which means it is time to deduce it and see if he can realize his wish.
Gu Zheng was deducing a new food repair formula. The light of the nine moons in the sky dimmed, and the cold fog appeared in the sky. The temperature dropped to an extremely low level in an instant. The restrictions that Gu Zheng had arranged in advance immediately created a barrier to prevent him from suffering. The invasion of cold fog.
The environment in the world outside the circle is very strange. If one day is regarded as twelve hours, then every two hours the environment will be affected by the sun or the moon, causing a relatively large change. For example, during the day, when the temperature suddenly rises, the pressure on the space will also increase, and some animals or plants that survive in such conditions will appear. When the temperature drops suddenly during the day, there will even be holes on the ground. Rivers appear quickly and disappear when the temperature changes again. Just like this time, the cold fog came and the temperature dropped to the point where even Daluo Jinxian had to take protection. Some animals unique to this environment would also appear.
The reason why Gu Zheng chose to deduce food repair recipes at the edge of the desert was not because the scenery of Yuexia Desert was good, but because he wanted to wait for a special ingredient here.
At this time yesterday, Gu Zheng had just arrived at the edge of the desert. He saw with his own eyes that after the cold fog fell, a large group of jade-like scorpions crawled out of the sand. The food grade of these scorpions reached an excellent level. This happened in Gu Zheng's half month. In my experience, it is a very rare ingredient. Moreover, the special substances contained in these scorpion meats, according to Gu Zheng at the time, were probably what was lacking in the new food cultivation he wanted to create.
Unfortunately, when Gu Zheng wanted to get these jade scorpions, the frightened jade scorpions all dived into the sand. And when Gu Zheng separated the sand, he discovered that these jade-like scorpions had really turned into jade, and their flesh turned into stone in an instant. It was really strange!
Gu Zheng didn't believe that these jade scorpions really turned into jade. He was waiting for the resurrection of these strange guys.
"You really need them!"
After finishing the detailed deduction, Gu Zheng murmured in his heart that his feeling yesterday was not wrong. Some special substances in the jade scorpion meat were exactly the ingredients he lacked in cooking new food.
Glancing at the sand dune where the Jade Scorpion was buried in the distance, Gu Zheng did not use his spiritual mind to explore the specific situation. He did not want to disturb the Jade Scorpion and cause him to wait here for an extra day.
"The cold fog from the sky is about to end, shouldn't those jade scorpions have recovered and run away long ago?" The weapon spirit, who couldn't wait any longer, asked.
"Don't worry! I have checked the state of them turning into jade. It will take about a minute to end this state. If they don't appear after one minute, then I will use my spiritual mind to check the situation." Gu Zheng road.
"How about I check it out now? They are in jade state anyway."
When Gu Zheng inspected the jade scorpion yesterday, the weapon spirit was in the state of cultivation, so she, who had never inspected the jade scorpion, was so curious now.
"Forget it! To satisfy your curiosity, if the jade scorpions are really alarmed and they prolong the time of turning into jade, then we will not only waste a day, but also the quality of the jade scorpions' ingredients will be reduced!" Gu Zhengdao.
"Will the quality of Jade Scorpion's ingredients be reduced as a result?" The weapon spirit became even more curious.
"Yes, entering the jade state one after another in a short period of time will not only degrade the quality of their ingredients, but may even completely turn them into jade."
When Gu Zheng finished speaking, his eyes lit up and he said, "Come out!"
"Crash..."
The sand on the dune turned and made a soft sound, and jade scorpions as big as fists crawled out of the sand. There were more than a hundred of them densely packed.
Within a day of turning into jade, the jade scorpions must be thirsty and hungry. They couldn't wait to raise their tails. While the light flickered on them, the cold fog from the sky formed ice beads the size of grapes on their tails. Then they put it into their mouths and chewed it, making a series of crisp sounds.
Seeing the jade scorpions eating and having fun, Gu Zheng had a thought in his mind, and the finger gestures on his hands changed. The prohibition placed at the bottom of the hill moved accordingly, and a white light enveloped the entire sand dune.
The reason why Gu Zheng used restrictions to deal with jade scorpions was because they had a keen sense of living creatures. Gu Zheng was worried that being too close would prolong the time for them to turn into jade.
Facts proved that Gu Zheng was right. These jade scorpions not only had a very keen sense of living things, but also reacted very quickly. Even though the forbidden light curtain was only created in an instant, more than half of the hundreds of jade scorpions still reacted in time and dived into the sand dunes. As for the remaining half, they were temporarily fixed by the forbidden effect and could not drill into the sand dunes or transform into jade.
The forbidden effect could not hold the jade scorpions for too long. After Gu Zheng hurriedly flew over, he used his divine thoughts to pierce the brains of those jade scorpions and destroyed their brains, so there was no need to worry about their ability to transform into jade.
Although most of the jade scorpions escaped, the remaining half was enough for Gu Zheng. After he was happy, he put away the jade scorpions and immediately prepared to find a place to start cooking food.
Gu Zheng found a place nearby and set up the forbidden effect. He didn't want the aroma of cooking food to spread out and cause unnecessary trouble.
The food repairs needed for this cooking require a total of 16 kinds of ingredients, all of which are ingredients from outside the circle, ranging in quality from ordinary to excellent. According to Gu Zheng's estimation, if there are no variables in this food repair, the medicinal effect itself will not be particularly outstanding, that is, it can barely reach the threshold of a high-grade Danyuan food repair. However, the key to food repair is not the medicinal effect itself, but the energy intake after the characteristics are produced! Therefore, it is not easy to say what the comprehensive effect of this food repair will be. After all, Gu Zheng has not yet taken in the energy of this world, and he is not clear about the specific situation of the energy intake conversion in this world.
"Have you thought of a name for this food repair?"
The spirit of the instrument asked Gu Zheng who was processing the ingredients.
"Name?"
Gu Zheng only considered the issue of ingredients, but ignored the name of the food repair.
"Different outside worlds, the energy that can be produced between heaven and earth must be different. This food repair can be used here, but it may not be used in other outside worlds, so forget about the troublesome thing of naming it!" Gu Zheng smiled.
"That being said, this is your food repair innovation after all, so you should give it a name." Qi Ling said again.
"Okay!"
Gu Zheng looked up at the nine moons in the sky, and then said, "Let's call it 'Nine-month Food Repair'!"
"You are so casual!"
Qi Ling laughed, and the processing of the ingredients was quickly completed while she and Gu Zheng were talking and laughing.
Gu Zheng began to cook, and he put the ingredients into the pot one by one. The characteristics of the ingredients were constantly blended in his stir-frying, and a special fragrance also floated up.
Fragrance is a general description. Many ingredients have their own unique fragrance. When these fragrances blend with each other, the mixed fragrance is ever-changing. However, the sense of smell of ordinary people is not developed enough, and their experience is not rich enough. In their perception, the fragrance is presented in a general form. They only know that it is very fragrant, but they can't tell the difference.
There is a big difference between the ingredients outside the circle and the ingredients inside the circle, that is, the fragrance is very unique. This unique fragrance is very charming, and it is not an olfactory experience that the ingredients inside the circle can give. But this does not mean that the ingredients in the circle are inferior to those outside the circle. It is just that Gu Zheng is used to the fragrance of the ingredients in the circle, and the fragrance of the ingredients outside the circle is more fresh to him.
Smelling the mouth-watering fragrance in the air, fourteen of the sixteen ingredients in a food repair have been put into the pot, and only the last two ingredients are missing.
The last two ingredients, one comes from the cactus plant that Gu Zheng first saw, and the other is a berry like grapes. Both ingredients have been squeezed into juice by Gu Zheng and have undergone preliminary processing.
Now it is time to pour the juice of the last two ingredients into the pot, but this is also the step that Gu Zheng is most worried about! Because once the juice of the two ingredients is poured into the pot, the "Momentary Beauty" in the way of diet will soon appear!
"Momentary Beauty" is a medium-high-level variable in the way of diet. The immortal chef with the heart of Tao can know it in advance, but the situation after "Momentary Beauty" is not within the scope of deduction! So Gu Zheng does not know whether the hundreds of ingredients in the pot can cope with "Momentary Beauty". Once it can deal with the "Momentary Fragrance", its effect on a food repair will be sublimated, and the original food repair's efficacy will also be improved because of it. Once it is not enough to deal with the "Momentary Fragrance", its effect on a food repair will be destruction, and it would not be strange if a food repair was scrapped.
The juice of the two ingredients was poured into the pot, and the mist rose with a strange fragrance. With Gu Zheng's several turns, the precursor of the "Momentary Fragrance" was captured by Gu Zheng's Tao Heart.
"It's over!" Gu Zheng murmured in his heart.
Through the precursor, Gu Zheng could understand how to restrain the "Momentary Fragrance", but there was a lack of material in the ingredients in the pot, which could not be solved by cooking alone.
The "Momentary Fragrance" appeared, and the fragrance of the food repair in the pot was improved by more than one degree at this moment, but what followed was that the food repair quickly turned black, and a burnt smell also emerged.
Seeing Gu Zheng staring at the completely destroyed food repair in silence, the spirit of the weapon said, "This is not unexpected anyway, don't be too depressed. It's not that easy to create a new food repair!"
Faced with the comfort of the spirit of the weapon, Gu Zheng said nothing.
After a while, Gu Zheng, who originally seemed to be in a depressed state, suddenly became energetic, and even his eyes flashed with light.
"I didn't say anything before, not because I was depressed."
Gu Zheng paused, then smiled and said: "Although this time's food cultivation was destroyed by the 'Momentary Fragrance', I also saw in the precursor what the substance that can restrain the 'Momentary Fragrance' is! Remember the twelve-winged butterfly we saw the day after leaving the cave?"
"Remember, the food grade of that butterfly is inferior, but there is a nectar gland on its chest, and the butterfly honey in it is of ordinary food grade. You wanted to hunt the twelve-winged butterfly at that time, but failed because the environment was too chaotic!"
The spirit of the weapon's eyes lit up, and immediately said: "You mentioned the twelve-winged butterfly now, does that mean that there is a substance in the butterfly honey that restrains the 'Momentary Fragrance'?"
"That's right!"
Gu Zheng began to lift the restrictions he had set before, as if he was going to set out immediately to find the twelve-winged butterfly.
"In half a month, we have only seen one twelve-winged butterfly in this world. Where are you going to find it?" The spirit of the weapon said worriedly.
"The environment where we encountered the twelve-winged butterfly at that time was quite special. In half a month, we have seen such an environment in three places. I think we can meet twelve butterflies in those three places!" Gu Zheng said.
Five days later, Gu Zheng arrived at the first place where he might meet the twelve-winged butterfly.
The environment looked like a deep canyon, with no grass growing on both sides.
However, everything we see now is just an appearance. When evening comes, the desolation will become noisy.
Gu Zheng waited patiently. When the nine suns in the sky were about to set, the light dimmed in an instant, and the temperature suddenly dropped a lot.
"Hua La La..."
There was only the sound of water flowing at the bottom of the canyon, and the water seeping from the ground was rapidly raising the water level in the canyon.
About five minutes later, a rushing river appeared in the originally dry canyon, and some bubbles also floated up from the river at this time. At the same time, the red soil on both sides of the canyon was rapidly turning green, and some strange plants were sprouting at an exaggerated speed. In just two minutes, the originally barren canyon became red and green with flowers and grass.
"Hua La La..."
The sound of soil falling into the river sounded, and countless one-foot-long things that looked like mosquitoes emerged from the soil layers on both sides of the canyon. They chased more and more bubbles on the river surface like leeches chasing blood.
A few minutes later, the canyon became completely noisy, and some monsters and plants that were not seen before appeared one after another. The seemingly dreamlike scene turned into a place where the strong preyed on the weak, and the plants were desperately growing and the monsters were desperately hunting.
Gu Zheng hid in the void, watching the scene of the strong preying on the weak, waiting for the appearance of the twelve-winged butterfly.
Waiting is not without a deadline, at most one hour. When the river in the canyon began to disappear, the plants would also begin to decay, and the monsters would gradually leave, and finally everything would be dry and barren again.
In this hour, more and more monsters will appear near the canyon, and the pattern is from weak to strong. Just like the mosquito monster at the beginning, although it will actively attack other monsters, its single combat power can only be regarded as the level of a cultivator! And the twelve-winged butterfly that will appear in about half an hour is already equivalent to the cultivator of the Golden Immortal Realm. Even after the twelve-winged butterfly disappeared last time, Gu Zheng saw a monster that suddenly jumped out of the river. It looked a bit like a seahorse, but its strength had reached the quasi-saint level!
Half an hour passed unknowingly, and the situation near the canyon was like a group of demons dancing wildly. Some plants even grew into big trees, and there were no less than fifteen kinds of monsters.
The twelve-winged butterfly that Gu Zheng had been looking forward to appeared from the void on time, which surprised Gu Zheng. After all, he didn't dare to have great hopes in the first place.
After the twelve-winged butterfly appeared, it immediately flew to a big tree with lantern-shaped flowers, where it was going to suck nectar.
The tree that looked like it was full of flowers was actually a monster that was hard to tell whether it was a plant or an animal. Its destructive power was also at the level of a Golden Immortal. With the attraction of the nectar on its body, it had already preyed on many stupid monsters.
The twelve-winged butterfly approached a lantern flower, and something like a tongue quickly shot into the stamen of the lantern flower.
"Swish, swish..."
Two vines on the flower tree suddenly shot out, trying to capture the twelve-winged butterfly with a domineering momentum. The speed and strength revealed a frightening speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness. Even a cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Immortal would not have such momentum when waving a soft whip.
The twelve-winged butterfly was good at spatial magical powers, which was the reason why it could suddenly appear, and it was also the reason why it escaped from Gu Zheng's capture last time.
Faced with the vines shooting out from the flower tree, the twelve-winged butterfly, which had been prepared, disappeared out of thin air and appeared in another location in an instant. It successfully pierced its tongue-like thing into the interior of a lantern flower, took a mouthful of sweet nectar, and escaped before the vines hit it again.
Watching the performance of the twelve-winged butterfly, Gu Zheng did not take action immediately. He needed the twelve-winged butterfly to perform for a while. Because the nectar in the twelve-winged butterfly's nectar gland that was useful to him was the nectar of this lantern flower! However, the original nectar of the lantern flower was useless to Gu Zheng's food cultivation. It must be converted by the twelve-winged butterfly's nectar gland.
Gu Zheng knew that the flower tree monster could not deal with the twelve-winged butterfly. The last time the twelve-winged butterfly used this guerrilla method, it ate a lot.
Suddenly, Gu Zheng frowned. He felt a fluctuation in space, which came from not far away from him. This was a sign that something was about to appear from the void.
"It turned out to be it!"
Seeing the hunched body of the thing that appeared from the space, Gu Zheng's heart moved. This thing was the eyeless monkey he saw on the first day he left the cave.
The eyeless monkey appeared in the void, and its head first "looked" in the direction of Gu Zheng, which made Gu Zheng understand that his hiding had been exposed. However, the eyeless monkey did not attack Gu Zheng. Instead, it flew towards the twelve-winged butterfly as fast as lightning!