Chapter 1142: Great Harvest

Lu Yang could state with high confidence that his understanding of ancient knowledge already rivaled that of old scholars who had studied it their entire lives.

Moreover, unlike the jumbled knowledge of those old scholars, the information Lu Yang possessed was all related to the ancient immortals—knowledge that those old scholars desperately yearned for.

Previously, Lu Yang’s knowledge of ancient times had been zero, so he simply listened to whatever the Immortal Fairy said, finding it very easy to accept.

But for someone like the Eldest Senior Sister, who had her own unique insights into the ancient era, listening to the Immortal Fairy’s stories and accepting them proved to be somewhat difficult.

This was the advantage of ignorance.

Lu Yang stopped agonizing over the discrepancy between legend and truth, asking curiously instead about what was stored in the underwater space.

"What is this beast meat that exudes such vibrant vitality?"

The Immortal Fairy stroked her chin, trying hard to recall what this meat had looked like when it was alive: "It’s Bi Fang meat... no, it’s Chaos meat... no, what was it again?"

"Fairy, you can't remember what kind of meat this is? Then how do you usually cook?" Lu Yang was quite astonished.

Although the Immortal Fairy belonged to three hundred thousand years ago, looking at it from her perspective.

It was equivalent to her being taken out three hundred thousand years ago, falling into a deep slumber, and upon waking up, being lectured by the Eldest Senior Sister, after which she stayed in his spiritual space for three months.

In other words, for the Immortal Fairy, she had merely not been to her kitchen for three months, yet she had completely forgotten what kind of beast meat it was?

"Why do I need to know what meat it is?" the Immortal Fairy countered, leaving Lu Yang speechless.

"Meeting is fate, and eating also values fate. Whichever piece of meat I choose means that piece of meat shares a fate with today’s meal." Clearly, the Immortal Fairy had her own unique philosophy on cooking.

"What about this flower? Is it also an ingredient?" Lu Yang pointed to a flower breathing out five-colored celestial light, frozen in time.

"No, that’s a decoration for plating, though you can eat it if you want. The taste isn't bad, quite refreshing." The Immortal Fairy knew well that cooking must attend to color, aroma, and taste.

This five-colored celestial flower was the embodiment of "color."

"What is this stone, a whetstone?" Lu Yang noticed a fairly regular spherical stone, unable to fathom why a stone was placed in an underwater space meant for storing food.

Even the Eldest Senior Sister frowned; she could feel the bizarre power contained within this stone, a power comparable to the Void Refining stage or even the Body Integration stage.

But she could not recognize what kind of stone it was. "What is this star core used for?"

"This is a star core, the core of a planet. I pulled it out from a massive, uninhabited planet. You don't recognize it? Oh right, there are no planets left in the universe now."

Lu Yang was greatly shocked: "This thing can be eaten?!"

The Immortal Fairy waved her hand, thinking Lu Yang lacked exposure: "What a thing to say. If it couldn't be eaten, would I put it here?"

"Normal people naturally can't eat it. For instance, a little guy like you who has just formed his core would snap off a mouth full of teeth if you took a bite."

"But immortals are different. Immortals possess an immortal body, the hardest body in the world. As teeth are the hardest substance in the body, how could they fail to chew even a tiny star core?"

"Besides, haven't you heard of the pill recipe 'Gold and Stone Powder'? If stones can be used in medicine, they can certainly be eaten as a meal."

"Don't you know the principle that the higher the energy contained in an ingredient, the more delicious the flavor? A star core is a top-tier ingredient in my eyes!"

Lu Yang felt the Immortal Fairy's words held some shred of logic—an immortal gnawing on a star core was probably as simple as crunching a biscuit—but it still felt incredibly strange.

Could it be that he had always misunderstood the Five Ancient Immortals, and that the five of them crunched on stones every day, never tiring of it?

"What about this fruit then?" Lu Yang pointed to a highly conspicuous fruit, roughly the size of an apple, pure white, with three faint halos of light swirling around its body. The halos emitted a brilliance that scattered into the air, and due to the stillness of time, the brilliance that should have dissipated remained suspended.

"An Eternal Immortal Fruit? What does it do? Does it grant longevity without aging?" The moment Lu Yang heard it, he felt the value of that immortal fruit must be staggering.

A single immortal fruit could grant longevity; that was a temptation not even those in the Tribulation Transmutation stage could resist. "An ingredient."

"That one, that’s the Eternal Immortal Fruit I planted." Why did it sound so destitute?

The Immortal Fairy nodded solemnly, matching what he had guessed: "The person who consumes this immortal fruit will have a corpse that remains forever immortal."

Does that have even half a connection to what I guessed? Lu Yang: "....."

"Senior, is this one a Green Wood Immortal Fruit?"

Yun Zhi pointed to another dark green fruit and asked. She felt it strongly resembled the Green Wood Immortal Fruit that Jin Qinqin, a disciple recruited in this term, had swallowed during her childhood.

A single Green Wood Immortal Fruit had given Jin Qinqin a constitution rivaling that of top-tier dual spiritual roots.

"Yes, that’s the Green Wood Immortal Fruit planted by the Age Immortal. I asked him for a few, and the taste was decent. Now, after being eaten by me, only this single one is left."

The three of them toured the kitchen, and the journey left both Lu Yang and Yun Zhi greatly enlightened.

Seeing the Fairy leave the kitchen reluctantly, Yun Zhi asked, "Is the Fairy loath to leave the kitchen?"

"Not really, it’s just rare to see familiar things, so I feel a bit nostalgic," the Immortal Fairy giggled, looking a little embarrassed.

Yun Zhi nodded: "No matter, this was originally Senior’s property anyway. Once we go out, I will find the Great Xia Emperor and ask for Senior’s kitchen back."

The Immortal Fairy’s eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Really?"

"Really."

The Immortal Fairy consciously entered Lu Yang’s spiritual space.

Yun Zhi worried slightly. She felt that with the Immortal Fairy constantly living in Lu Yang’s spiritual space, wouldn't she lead Lu Yang astray?

The three of them made one more round through the Immortal Ruin, and finding no new discoveries, they left the ruin.

The old general had been guarding the entrance of the ruin all along. Seeing the two emerge, he voiced his question: "Was there any harvest from this journey into the ruin?"

"A great harvest. I will inform His Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia about the situation of the ruin." Yun Zhi’s voice was as calm as ever, not sounding at all like someone who had reaped a great harvest.

"It is well that there is a harvest." The old general saw the two of them off.

On the way back, Lu Yang thought of the question regarding the ruin and asked, "Eldest Senior Sister, how exactly did the Immortal Ruin form?"

Yun Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I believe it was created by the mastermind behind the scenes. Let us first assume the Fire-Passing Dynasty truly existed, and that the Fire-Passing Dynasty worshiped the Immortal Fairy; that accounts for the origin of the eighteen floating stones in the ruin."

"As for Senior’s kitchen, I surmise that when the ancient Shaman Clan refined the stars, they caused Senior’s cave dwelling to break apart into several pieces, and the kitchen was one of them."

"The mastermind behind the scenes refined the sacrificial grounds of the Fire-Passing Dynasty into the main body of the Immortal Ruin, and refined Senior’s kitchen into the statue of the Immortal Fairy. In this way, the first Sect Master not only learned of the Immortal Fairy’s existence and established the Immortal Sect, but could also, with the secret help of the mastermind, obtain immortal treasures from Senior’s kitchen, ensuring the Immortal Sect would not perish in its infancy."

"So that's how it is."

Lu Yang had walked halfway before he realized the Eldest Senior Sister had no intention of returning to the Qianguo Sect, but was instead leading him to continue rushing toward Dayan County.

"Eldest Senior Sister, is there still a need for us to return to Dayan County?"

The Eldest Senior Sister said faintly, "Master is currently locked up in the great prison of Dayan County. By both reason and emotion, we should go and pay him a visit."