Little Cooking Saint – 0216 – Sweet & Sour Pork with Pineapple (h)

Chapter 216 Sweet & Sour Pork with Pineapple (h)

Translated by Gumihou

Edited by Gumihou

 

The six of them rarely returned to the Villa nowadays.

If the Dean had not forbidden them from overdoing their meditation, they would have probably made a nest there and not leave at all.

“We’re awake,” Xuan Yin opened her eyes.

She and Dong-Fang Zhen had been Cultivating non-stop since last night. Three days ago, she declared that she would break into Core Condensation Realm in three days. Three days later, she had achieved this promise. Even Dong-Fang Zhen had gone up another level.

Shiyu explicitly told them to never tell her how they did it. Don’t abuse the single dogs, please.

The other three also opened their eyes at Xuan Yin’s remark. Shiyu happily squeezed in between them and placed a food box down. The others all turned and sat in a circle facing each other.

“I thought of calling everyone in for breakfast, but since we don’t have much time, I thought I’ll just bring the food to you.” As she spoke, she [1] opened the two-tier food box, revealing six plates of brilliant Vermillion Meat. The fragrance emitted from the meat was exquisite and powerful, faint light lingered on the dazzling red meat.

These Vermillion Meat dishes were the result of her hard work yesterday. She had even worked through the night to prepare this. Though she had had a few failures, she still managed to produce six pieces in the end. One for each person.

Lin Fan eyed the glowing meat. This was obviously very different from what Shiyu had made in the past, spiritual food included. “Is this something new?”

“No, just some new wine in an old bottle,” she said modestly.

Xuan Yin’s nose twitched as she inhaled the thick fragrance of meat. Before anyone could do stop her, she grabbed one of the dishes, opened her mouth and gulped down the Vermillion Meat whole. Shiyu’s cry of warning barely left her lips when she saw [2] Xuan Yin’s throat worked as the gluttonous woman swallowed and licked her lips.

[2] “Xuan Yin…” Shiyu yelped.

Suddenly, a majestic burst of Spiritual power exploded from Xuan Yin’s body. Everyone had to lean back from the sudden impact of Spiritual wind blowing against their faces. Fortunately, the unexpected explosion of power was quickly over and they all stared at Xuan Yin in shock.

As for Xuan Yin, she had a hand over her mouth, her eyes very wide as she stared at Shiyu.

“D-don’t say anything, just… digest first,” Shiyu had no idea whether she should laugh or cry. This little greedy cat! She had forgotten Xuan Yin’s tendency to devour food she likes.

Xuan Yin did not try to speak anymore. She settled into a lotus position and closed her eyes, sinking her consciousness into her Dantian to quickly refine the Spiritual powers that were currently running rampant inside her body.

The others staring at Xuan Yin had more or less understood what must have happened.

This dish must be the thing that Shiyu had been preparing to help them improve their Cultivation. They had trusted her word but was unsure how effective her methods would be.

Nevertheless, each reached for their share of the Vermillion Meat. With Xuan Yin’s reaction as a deterrent, they all chewed their meat properly before swallowing. Even Dong-Zhang Feng. He might felt distressed by Xuan Yin’s suffering, but not enough to want to experience it himself.

Still, when the entire plate of Vermillion Meat was eaten and converged in their bellies, their reaction was no different from Xuan Yin’s. Energy burst forth from their bodies and they had to cover their mouths to prevent excess energies from leaking out.

“Come on! You can do it!” Shiyu encouraged. [3] The disbelief in their eyes made her feel very smug. Taste the result of her hard work!

One after another, her friends closed their eyes and began refining the Spiritual powers inside their bodies. Shiyu got ready to go back when she suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to put the food box back into her space ring. The eyes of the people meditating around the platform had opened and their gazes were… erm…

“… …” Shiyu shrugged and was about to leave when a sudden energy fluctuation caught her attention.

She turned around and saw that it came from Lin Fan. He was… about to breakthrough! Shiyu glanced around. They were surrounded by other students and the rest of her friends were in the middle of refining the excess Spiritual energy…

Shiyu decided to stay behind and keep a look out for her friends.

Envious eyes seemed to bore holes into Lin Fan.

This young man came to the College last year at Core Transformation 6. Barely a year later they now witnessed the moment he entered Core Condensation 6. How could they even bear to compare themselves with this kind of heavenly talent, ah?

While Shiyu was watching over her friends, the Dean and the elders stood not far away. [4] They had been attracted by the sudden energy fluctuations from Xuan Yin and were treated to the sight of the College’s most promising student on the verge of breaking through. While it was unlikely that something would happen to interrupt the breakthrough, it was still better for them to observe the process.

The Dean stroked his beard, feeling very pleased. The rest of the elders were also very satisfied with the result of their efforts.

“How old is Lin Fan now? 17? Someone once bet that he would reach Divine Transformation before he’s 30. From the current situation, if his luck holds, he might even reach it before he is 20.”

“Back then it was very difficult to go up each level of the Core Condensation stage. This child… aih, if only I can catch up to them…” said another elder with some envy.

“Are we not catching up to them now? Whether it’s early or late, we will all arrive at the same place,” said the previous elder.

It did not take long for Lin Fan to properly breakthrough. A quarter of an hour later, the fluctuating energies settled and the Spiritual energies reabsorbed themselves into his body. When he opened his eyes, they could see that he looked calmer. More… settled.

The Dean smiled and was about to come over to congratulate him when another energy fluctuation flared up. His eyes flashed around the group and settled on Qi Chuyun.

This new student was a [5] personal recommendation of that Shiyu girl. The Dean had no reason not to accept a Core Condensation student, especially not one that was introduced by Shiyu who seems to attract powerful people to her. The young woman had not managed to land any decisive blows at the last competition against those bandits. [5] However, she was daring and tenacious enough that it took four bandits to throw her out of the ring, giving her teammates time to take out the leader. Someone who could work well as support could grow into someone incredible in the future. Moreover, she’s still young.

Shiyu and Lin Fan looked over at Qi Chuyun and exchanged a smile with each other. Although they could not credit this entirely to the Vermillion Meat, it must have helped a lot.

Qi Chuyun’s breakthrough was also uneventful and she safely reached Core Condensation 2.

Seeing two people breaking through one after another was really annoying, ah! The other students suddenly felt irritated, how could they fall behind these people!

Just as they were seething over this, there was yet another energy fluctuation. Right in the middle of the raised plaza. Everyone looked over, a single line of thought flashing across their minds.

No way… them again!!?

Yes. In fact, this time there were two energy fluctuations. Xuan Yin and Dong-Fang Zhen, that romantic pair just had to breakthrough together. However, didn’t they just had a breakthrough like, earlier that day?!!

Shiyu was thinking bemusedly to herself, more annoyed by their breaking through together than them actually breaking through. What kind of dog food are you trying to scatter, ah?

However, the rest of the people could only feel incensed by the idea of more people in the Champion’s team breaking through.

Just what is going on?

[6] Don’t you know that breaking through should be as difficult as a snake ascending the heavens?

[6] Why are these people leaping out of the water so quickly?

[6] Are they deliberately being annoying?

[6] They are being deliberately annoying, right?!

The successive breakthroughs were making the Dean grin from ear to ear. After the third energy fluctuation settled, he returned to his room, perfectly happy with the world.

The elders had personally seen Lin Fan and the rest breakthrough. However, they had not seen Shiyu with her food box earlier, otherwise, they might have made the connections. Nevertheless, though this little detail escaped the elders’ eyes, it did not escape the eyes of schoolmates who had been staring at the little group since Xuan Yin’s sudden energy increase.

It did not take much brain work to connect the food box with the sudden burst of Spiritual energies.

Surely those two things are connected?

But, what could be in that food box?

Could it really contain food?

More likely, the box had contained some kind of panacea or elixir of some kind.

Once again, all eyes were staring at the food box in Shiyu’s hand.

 

[Food Box: Kyaa! Don’t look!]

 

Gumihou is keeping track so that you don’t have to ~

 

凝氣	Condensation Stage	Stage 1
化丹	Core Transformation	Stage 2
凝丹(46)	Core Condensation	Stage 3
化神(52)	Divine Transformation	Stage 4
成嬰	Nascent Formation	Stage 5
合體	Unification	Stage 6
返墟	Revert Decay	Stage 7
歸真	Original Purity	Stage 8
成仙	Become immortal	Stage 9

 

[1] Added Details for Logistics: How many tiers does your food box have? Details please.

[2] Added Details for Dramatic Reason: Xuan Yin meat swallowing technique, lol.

[3] Added Details for Character Reinforcement: Shiyu had always been oddly timid before suddenly exploding into bouts of aggressiveness. Added a little detail about some smugness about her own abilities here.

[4] Added Details for Logistics: Like why are you there in the first place you creepy old men?

[5] Additional Details for Plot Reason: Shiyu did not mention how she got Qi Chuyun in. Also, there’s the detail where Qi Chuyun ‘did not perform well’ in the last ring but the Dean was ‘personally satisfied’?

Ahhhh, Gumi already made sure that Qi Chuyun gave a satisfactory performance. Which better explains the ‘personally satisfied’ feeling the Dean has for this newest student. In short, Gumi’s interference helped with the plot.

[6] Creative Licence Taken: Instead of describing how annoyed the other students were, just described their teeth gnashing thoughts

 

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