“Sigh… after all this, the whole room smells like this. I’d better clean it up.”
Thinking this, Yun Fei sent out two bursts of Demonic Power, interrupting the two Swift-Running Rabbits that were still casting spells and knocking them unconscious.
“Breeze Technique!”
Demonic Power flickered on Yun Fei’s fingers, and a breeze carrying a heatwave swept the smell out of the room.
“Now that’s better~”
Yun Fei felt her nasal passages finally freed.
*Knock knock knock!*
At that moment, the door to Yun Fei’s Refining Room was rhythmically knocked.
“Who is it?”
She asked subconsciously, extending her Spiritual Power outward, only to see the person she least wanted to see—Mu Lingxi.
What was she doing here?
What bad luck!
Yun Fei had learned her lesson; she knew that whenever she encountered Mu Lingxi, nothing good would happen.
In all the recent misfortunes, Mu Lingxi had been present.
Who else could she blame but her?
Could it be her own doing?
Well, even if she thought about it carefully and realized the misfortunes were indeed of her own making, who doesn’t know how to shift the blame?
For the sake of her own vanity, it was only right to blame everything on the person she hated.
Opening the door, Yun Fei gave a disgruntled look at Mu Lingxi standing at the entrance, but she froze for a moment.
Compared to this morning, the young girl before her had changed into a water-blue dress with a pure white belt tied around her waist.
The belt hugged her waist tightly, making it look so slender it could be held in one hand.
The dress was slightly tight, showcasing the budding fullness of a young girl’s chest.
Her clean, short white boots had a bit of mud on them, and above them were smooth calves.
“Wait! What am I doing?”
Yun Fei immediately snapped back to her senses after noticing a small section of Mu Lingxi’s exposed calf.
Bloody hell!
It must be the side effect of that Beast Passion Incense from earlier making her head a bit fuzzy.
How could she think Mu Lingxi looked pleasing to the eye?
Yun Fei stepped back, suppressing her restless thoughts, and her expression turned unfriendly.
“What are you here for? Did you think you could just walk in and out of my room as you please just because you kicked the door down?”
Yun Fei put her hands on her hips angrily, accusing Mu Lingxi of her unreasonable behavior.
“Ah… I… I had nothing to do, so I went for a walk. I saw your door was open and subconsciously came in to take a look.”
Mu Lingxi dodged Yun Fei’s gaze, but kept trying to peek at the things inside the room behind her.
The door was open?!
Yun Fei was also angered by her nonchalant words.
Who was the reason the door was open?
There isn’t even a door anymore, and you say it’s open?
Yun Fei felt this woman was bored and came over just to annoy her.
“Nothing to do? What a lame excuse! We’re meeting in the arena in a month. Aren’t you worried I’ll beat you? After my transformation, I immediately broke through to the Void Shattering Realm. I’m already at the First Level of the Void Shattering Realm. Are you really not afraid of tripping up in a month?”
Yun Fei crossed her arms, focusing entirely on Mu Lingxi’s expression.
Her previous intel on Mu Lingxi’s strength had been wrong, and she’d been fooled by that news for several years.
No wonder she always failed when targeting Mu Lingxi. She wanted to see just how strong Mu Lingxi really was.
To Yun Fei’s dismay, when Mu Lingxi heard her revelation, she had almost no reaction, still maintaining a completely indifferent look.
“Ah… I see. You’ve worked hard. But I’m already at the Eighth Level of the Void Shattering Realm, so I’m… not… afraid… of… you~”
As if realizing late, Mu Lingxi blinked her round eyes before leaning in close to Yun Fei’s face to say those words in an incredibly annoying manner.
Yun Fei unusually didn’t reply because she was speechless.
A deep sense of powerlessness lingered in her heart.
After all her years of hard work—cultivating, training, causing trouble for Mu Lingxi—perhaps in her eyes, Yun Fei was just a clown.
No!
I can’t give up!
Things are different now.
She had fully fused with the Nether Realm Purple Fire.
With its help, she would step on Mu Lingxi sooner or later! Setting her resolve, Yun Fei straightened her face.
“So what exactly is your business? I don’t believe you came here just because you had nothing to do.”
Yun Fei refused to back down, insisting on forcing Mu Lingxi to state her purpose clearly.
Being tough was the style a Young Master should have!
“Hmph! As you are my cook for the next week, I am naturally here to inspect your work! Let me see what ingredients you’ve prepared~”
Saying this, Mu Lingxi rubbed her hands together and, without waiting for permission, impatiently squeezed past Yun Fei.
How could Yun Fei, with her small body still adapting to its new form, stop the monstrously strong Saintess?
Squeezed back a step, Yun Fei’s eyes, filled with anger, glared directly at Mu Lingxi, only to see that she had already opened the cage containing the Swift-Running Rabbits and picked up the two unconscious rabbits by their ears.
“Eh? They’re still breathing? It’s almost dark. Prepared ingredients should be processed quickly!”
Mu Lingxi acted very dissatisfied with Yun Fei’s efficiency.
“Take them and deal with them. This young lady is a bit hungry!”
Mu Lingxi had a screw loose somewhere, changing her self-address to “this young lady” and using a commanding tone toward Yun Fei, the future Demon Sovereign.
Yun Fei wanted to snap again but restrained herself since she still needed a favor from her.
But this wouldn’t end like this!
Yun Fei felt ruthless and silently noted this shameful moment, waiting to pay it back in the future.
“Tch!”
Yun Fei snatched the rabbits and walked toward the courtyard with a dark face.
***
Mu Lingxi watched Yun Fei storm out, the smile in the corners of her eyes never fading.
“But what’s going on here? I’ve only been here a moment, so why does it feel so hot?”
Mu Lingxi scratched her head and looked at the furnace in the Refining Room.
There were no signs of recent use. How strange!
In the courtyard, Yun Fei placed a bucket of water on the ground.
The two rabbits at her feet slowly woke up from their stupor.
As if sensing something terrifying, they both tried to flee, only to find that at some point, their limbs had been frozen in a layer of ice, making them unable to move.
Mu Lingxi walked out of the house, and as Yun Fei turned to look, she saw the ice-blue Spiritual Power just dissipating from Mu Lingxi’s hand.
Wow! That protective over food?
Sigh… little bunnies, I gave you a chance, but you were useless… so you can’t blame me!
Although she had promised them during the experiment not to turn them into roasted rabbits, now that the big financier Mu Lingxi had spoken, she could only settle for the next best thing—making spicy rabbit meat!
Yun Fei’s devilish little hands became the death warrant for the two Swift-Running Rabbits. She grabbed one in each hand and pressed her small hands against their nearly invisible necks.
“Crack!”
The sound of breaking bones followed, and their struggling bodies went still.
Their eyes slowly closed, and they were gone.
Next, she plucked the fur, bled them, washed them, and then removed the heads separately.
She diced the rest of the meat and threw it into the bucket along with the heads.
Yun Fei often lived outdoors and naturally carried some ingredients, but they were all products of the Demon Realm.
She didn’t know if the Saintess would be used to the taste.
Yun Fei didn’t bother to ask.
If she liked it, Yun Fei lost nothing; if she didn’t, Yun Fei would be happy.
Cooking wine, Magic Ginger, Far North Sea Salt, soy sauce, and Fire Honey Powder.
After mixing them, she poured them into the bucket and covered it.
This was the necessary process to remove the gamey smell, something she had learned from a farmwoman.
Before that, she had to force down unpalatable wild meat; it was a lesson learned from hardship.
Marinating usually takes about an hour, but that’s for farmwomen who aren’t skilled in using Demonic Power.
She had Demonic Power, so there was no need to wait that long.
Using Demonic Power to catalyze the process, she could reduce the time to one-sixth.
During this time, Yun Fei took a pot out of her storage space, set it on the ground, controlled the temperature, poured in Qianhua Oil, and started heating it.
Once the oil surface began to emit yellowish-green smoke, the rabbit meat was almost done marinating.
“Splash!”
Yun Fei picked up the bucket, used Demonic Power to seal the water flow, and then directly dumped the rabbit cubes in, causing a loud crackling sound in the oil.
Finally came the normal procedure of stir-frying with spices.
Since she was making it spicy, the chili commonly eaten by the northern tribes in the territory of the Demon Race was essential—the Demon-Suppressing Chili, known as the spiciest in both realms!
Her history with this chili went deep.
A few years ago, when the Old Nobles were rampant, they held a banquet in the territory of an old noble in the north.
That was the time she, in her male form, had disguised herself as a female to get in.
That year, Yun Ming gave her this task and arranged for her to be the daughter of a local minor noble.
To avoid suspicion, Yun Fei lived there as a woman for a while to adapt to the local customs, which naturally included this Demon-Suppressing Chili.
According to that minor noble, their family genetics made them exceptionally good at eating spicy food, and that included his daughter, whom Yun Fei was temporarily replacing.
Consequently, she suffered greatly during those few days, but she got used to it.
Eventually, she successfully blended into the group of the Old Nobles’ children and worked with the people she had arranged with to wipe out a large number of the Old Nobles’ remnants in one fell swoop.
Her intention for adding this chili didn’t need further explanation.
In short, she was very much looking forward to seeing Mu Lingxi’s face when she ate it later. Ha~ha~ha!
With excitement, Yun Fei’s knife moved rapidly, dicing several Demon-Suppressing Chilies into fine bits and throwing them into the pot, stir-frying them a few more times.
A few minutes later, it was done!
Yun Fei brought out a large plate of spicy rabbit meat and two spicy rabbit heads, placing them on the stone table under the old locust tree.
“Saintess~ Dinner is served~”
Yun Fei said sweetly to Mu Lingxi, who was resting in the shade of the tree.
“Mm~ smells so good~ As expected of this young lady’s virtuous cook~”
Heh… virtuous?
Yun Fei never imagined that those words would one day be applied to her.
The veins on Yun Fei’s forehead throbbed, but she didn’t explode because she believed that Mu Lingxi wouldn’t be smiling for much longer.