My Taoist buddy has practiced surrogacy

Chapter 1363 Jinghe
Around Ling Xue's neck hung half of Zhou Xing's jade pendant, while around Zhou Xing's waist hung Ling Xue's Ice Soul Bell.

"It seems that we are destined to go through these disasters together." Zhou Xing said.

Ling Xue nodded, "Yes, we are from the same sect, and we will ascend to the upper realm together."

As time went by, the thunderbolts around them gradually subsided. After experiencing countless hardships, they finally ushered in a new beginning. And all this is just the beginning of their 9,999 tribulations, and there are more challenges waiting for them in the future. They will join hands on the road to ascension, and write their own legend in this long tribulation. Zhou Xing only felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, followed by a foul smell. He opened his eyes suddenly and found himself in a small and greasy kitchen. The surroundings were full of smelly ingredients, and the iron pot on the stove exuded a burnt smell. He subconsciously wanted to circulate his spiritual power, but was horrified to find that his spiritual power was sealed by an invisible force.

At this moment, a voice sounded in his mind: "Welcome to the 1,800th calamity. You need to use your cooking skills to break through." Zhou Xing frowned, his heart full of doubts and confusion, but he knew that since he was in this calamity, he could only try his best to deal with it.

In the cold storage room not far away, Ling Xue was also teleported here. As soon as she showed up, the store manager asked her to try on the salesperson's uniform. Ling Xue looked at the tight uniform and felt a little unhappy. She had never worn such tight and revealing clothes. When she reached out to take the uniform, her fingertips touched the plastic packaging, but it was like an electric shock, and a strange feeling spread throughout her body.

Zhou Xing fumbled around in the kitchen, trying to find a way to solve the current dilemma. He looked at the ordinary ingredients and suddenly had an idea. He decided to use the secret technique of spiritual fire to refine the oil pan. He secretly circulated the remaining spiritual power in his body and injected the flame into the oil pan. In an instant, the oil in the oil pan began to roll violently, and golden bubbles emerged. At this time, the store manager came in and saw the strange phenomenon in the oil pan. He thought it was the newly developed "Golden Soup Fried Chicken" process. His eyes lit up and ordered Zhou Xing to make fried chicken according to this method in the future.

Ling Xue was serving customers at the front desk when she suddenly encountered an irritable customer who started to yell at her. Ling Xue was furious, but she couldn't expose her strength. At this moment, she saw Zhou Xing cutting vegetables in the kitchen. A kitchen knife turned into a shadow in his hand and he was cutting onions quickly. The onion fragments flew into the air and magically formed a formation. Ling Xue was shocked and realized that this chef was definitely not a simple person.

The store launched an activity, where customers could get a free "Mysterious Ice and Jade Fire Drink" when they ordered a certain amount of food. In fact, this was a drink that Ling Xue had frozen with ice magic to create a special effect. After drinking it, customers praised it for being delicious, but they didn't know that Ling Xue's magic was hidden behind it.

Zhou Xing's baked pancakes also showed strange phenomena. The cracks on the pancakes actually formed a congenital Bagua diagram, which surprised everyone in the store. The store manager thought that this was Zhou Xing's unique skill and valued him even more.

Late at night, after finishing work in the store, Ling Xue and Zhou Xing met in the cold storage. Ling Xue found that the magic pattern on Zhou Xing's body resonated with her own fairy bone. The two looked at each other and understood that the other's identity was not simple.

However, the peaceful days did not last long. The Health Bureau suddenly conducted a surprise inspection and found expired ingredients in the refrigerator. Zhou Xing remained calm in the face of danger. He used the art of shrinking objects into inches and compressed the rotten vegetables into dehydrated dry ingredients. At this time, the store manager walked in and saw the "magic dry ingredients" in Zhou Xing's hand. He thought it was new material and used it to make employee meals.

On a rainy night, the store suddenly lost power. The cash register system was also paralyzed. Ling Xue acted quickly and used blood beads to carve a pattern on the POS machine to try to repair the system. But as soon as her blood beads dripped on it, the alarm was triggered. It turned out that she had type O negative blood, which was very rare in this world.

A mysterious customer came to the restaurant and ate ninety-nine baskets of crab roe buns in a row. Zhou Xing saw at a glance that there was an evil spell that devoured spiritual energy. He hurriedly took out the soul-suppressing chopping board to suppress the evil energy in the crab roe buns. Ling Xue assisted from the side, but accidentally burned her wrist. They both discovered at the same time that the other's fire marks could actually melt each other.

The store manager asked the two to participate in a couple cooking competition. In the competition, Zhou Xing used fire to refine the pot, and Ling Xue used ice to carve the plate. They worked well together, and the seemingly ordinary dishes actually contained the recipe of the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill. When the judges tasted their dishes, they were all amazed, but they didn't know the powerful spiritual power contained in the dishes.

However, the competition was not smooth sailing. Suddenly, a group of evil spirits disguised as food critics broke into the competition venue. These evil spirits exuded Yin Qi, and the chopsticks in their hands turned into bone spears and shot at Zhou Xing and Ling Xue. Ling Xue reacted quickly, she used the art of condensing dew into needles to freeze those bone spears. Zhou Xing took the opportunity to mix the demon blood into curry and made a "soul-calming curry rice". The evil spirits tasted it and howled in pain, hurt by Zhou Xing and Ling Xue's cooking.

The refrigerator in the store suddenly broke down, causing the century-old vinegar to mutate. Zhou Xing and Ling Xue discovered that the acid in the vinegar had corroded the talisman that sealed their spiritual power. Their cultivation began to recover slowly, but they also understood that this was just the beginning, and greater challenges were still to come.

Ling Xue used rouge to draw a spirit gathering array on the cash register, while Zhou Xing began to refine the "Nine-grid Hot Pot". Each base of this hot pot corresponds to a different law of the small world. When they put the ingredients into the hot pot, something wonderful happened. The ingredients in the hot pot seemed to come alive, emitting powerful spiritual fluctuations.

At this moment, the store manager revealed his true form, which turned out to be the incarnation of Taotie. It opened its bloody mouth and devoured the entire food street. For a moment, the ground shook and the shops collapsed one after another. Seeing this, Zhou Xing immediately threw out the dragon beard noodles, which instantly turned into a rope in the air, binding part of Taotie's body. Ling Xue detonated the mint candy array, and the Seven Star Breaking Array Diagram exploded in the air. Taotie was injured by this sudden attack and roared angrily.

Thunderstorms fell from the sky, a sign of tribulation. Zhou Xing and Ling Xue knew that the real test had come. Zhou Xing made a golden crispy roast duck with his bare hands, and the fat of the roast duck condensed into a protective golden bell in the thunderstorm, resisting the attack of lightning. Ling Xue used morning dew to brew tea, and the tea mist rose up and turned into a defensive barrier to protect them.

However, three thousand hungry ghosts emerged from the cracks in the void, and they cried out shrilly and rushed towards Zhou Xing and Ling Xue. The two fought back to back, Zhou Xing refined his life-defining magic weapon into a mandarin duck pot, and Ling Xue attracted the moonlight to form the Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire. They fought fiercely with the hungry ghosts, and each attack was accompanied by a powerful spiritual power fluctuation.

At the critical moment of the battle, the store manager handed over the bloody menu. Zhou Xing and Ling Xue took a closer look and found that each dish corresponded to their past life memories. When they finished the "White Jade Tofu Pudding", they finally remembered each other's true identities - the chief of Haoqing Sect and the chief of Yaofeng.

The decisive battle unfolded in the dish of stir-fried galaxy. Zhou Xing and Ling Xue put all their strength into this dish. The spatula hit the wok, and the sound of the great way burst out. The ingredients in their hands turned into a galaxy vortex, trapping the Taotie spirit. Ling Xue bit her fingertips and dripped her blood into the pot, instantly triggering a culinary version of the catastrophe.

In the fire of catastrophe, the two's minds became clear. They understood that the tribulation in this life was not only to break through the realm, but also to experience the atmosphere of fireworks in this world. Finally, after going through many difficulties, they successfully broke through the realm.

Before ascending, Zhou Xing sealed his ice-fire kitchen heart into a pressure cooker, leaving it to future kitchen practitioners. Ling Xue carved a modern version of the cultivation motto "Only those who endure the most hardships can become immortals in heaven" on the cash register. Then, the two ascended together, leaving behind only this wonderful legend of their experience in the fast food restaurant.

Zhou Xing felt a flash of white light before his eyes, and when he came back to his senses, he was already in an unfamiliar room. The room was simply furnished, with a calendar hanging on the wall. The date displayed on it made him a little dazed. He walked to the window. There was a lot of traffic outside, tall buildings, and pedestrians on the street wearing strange clothes. He himself was also wearing modern work clothes. At this moment, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in his mind: "Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine tribulations system activated." Zhou Xing was startled, and before he could ask, a light screen appeared in the air in front of him, showing the number of remaining tribulations: 1.

At the same time, Ling Xue also received a reminder from the Heavenly Dao. She was sitting in a delivery truck, which was filled with compressed spiritual rice. In the rearview mirror, her eyes glowed with an icy blue halo, but soon disappeared.

Zhou Xing's supermarket chain is holding an opening ceremony today. The store entrance is filled with flower baskets, and employees are busy greeting customers. Zhou Xing stands at the store entrance with a smile on his face, but he is a little confused.

At this time, a truck slowly stopped in front of the supermarket. The door opened and a woman jumped out of the car. She was wearing a neat work suit, her long hair was tied up, and her eyes were bright. Ling Xue walked in front of Zhou Xing, stretched out her hand and said, "Ling Xue, the grain and oil supplier. I heard that your supermarket is in urgent need of a batch of special rice, so I will deliver it directly to you."

Zhou Xing was stunned for a moment, then he held her hand and said, "Zhou Xing, the supermarket owner. Thank you, Miss Ling, for the timely delivery." The moment they shook hands, a strange feeling spread throughout their bodies, as if an electric current was passing through them, but the feeling was fleeting.

Ling Xue began to direct the workers to move the goods, while Zhou Xing assisted. During the process, the runes that occasionally flashed on Ling Xue's sleeves caught Zhou Xing's attention, but he did not make a sound.

In the evening, when all the employees had gone off work, Zhou Xing was still sorting out the accounts in the office. Suddenly, an unusual sound came from the direction of the warehouse. His heart tightened, and he picked up a flashlight and walked towards the warehouse.

Pushing open the warehouse door, Zhou Xing shone a flashlight around. In the dim light, he discovered that the goods could actually move on their own. Bags of rice seemed to have life, floating slowly in the warehouse. Zhou Xing's eyes widened, and at this moment, a figure appeared at the door of the warehouse. It was Ling Xue.

Ling Xue looked at Zhou Xing, smiled slightly, and said, "It seems that we have all discovered the secret." As she spoke, a ball of ice mist appeared in her hand, freezing a bag of rice that was trying to escape.

Zhou Xing looked at Ling Xue in surprise, and then he used the spiritual power he had just sensed, condensed a flame in his hand, and burned another bag of rice. The two looked at each other and said at the same time: "Pretending to be mortals?"

At three o'clock in the morning, Ling Xue received a call from Zhou Xing. On the other end of the phone, Zhou Xing's voice was a little anxious: "Ling Xue, the supermarket was robbed, come quickly!"

Ling Xue immediately put on her clothes and rushed to the supermarket. In the monitoring room, Zhou Xing and Ling Xue were watching the surveillance footage, where three masked robbers were prying open the safe. Ling Xue's eyes flashed with a cold light, and with a wave of her hands, ice cones shot out from her hands, instantly sealing the doors and windows.

At this moment, the robber leader turned around, revealing strange blue lines on his face. Zhou Xing was startled, as these blue lines were similar to the corpse puppet technique in the fairy world. He quickly performed the fire technique and burned the corpse puppet to ashes.

However, a ghost money was found in the cash register. The two looked at each other and realized that this matter was not simple.

In order to investigate the supplier's problem, the two decided to go to the granary in the suburbs. After arriving at the granary, they found that it was shrouded in a layer of evil spirit. Ling Xue summoned the Xuanbing Mirror, which emitted a dazzling light, reflecting the truth in the granary. It turned out that the grain transportation channel was implanted with soul-eating vines, which would devour people's souls.

As they were checking, Zhou Xing's hand was scratched by the vines, and black blood oozed from the wound. Ling Xue immediately used the spiritual rice to heal Zhou Xing. During the contact, the two people's consciousness briefly merged, and some memory fragments flashed in their minds.

Not long after, the supermarket held a chamber of commerce cocktail party. Zhou Xing and Ling Xue were talking in a corner when they suddenly found that the red wine contained the Corrupted Heart Powder commonly used by demon cultivators. At this moment, Ling Xue's refrigerated truck suddenly lost control and rushed towards the crowd.

Zhou Xing reacted quickly and immediately cast a fire spell to build a wall of fire in front of the refrigerated truck. The refrigerated truck was forced to stop, but a bloody spell appeared on the body of the truck. The two realized that someone was targeting them.

One day, the supermarket suddenly lost power and the cold storage was about to thaw. Once the cold storage thawed, the food and goods inside would be affected. Zhou Xing acted decisively and lit the emergency light with his true fire.

Ling Xue watched Zhou Xing's actions and was moved. She inserted the cold jade hairpin into the distribution box and tried to repair the circuit. However, the ice crystals condensed on the hair tip burned her hand. It turned out that Zhou Xing's fire conflicted with her ice attribute.

At this moment, a baby cried from deep inside the shelf. The two followed the sound and found a ghost baby appeared on the shelf. The ghost baby exuded a strong resentment, and the air around it became cold.

Zhou Xing and Ling Xue looked at each other and attacked at the same time. Zhou Xing used supermarket promotional flyers as talisman paper, and Ling Xue used plastic wrap to condense into a soul-locking chain. The two of them worked together to drag the resentful baby into the microwave. The microwave emitted a burst of light, and the resentful baby was purified.

Afterwards, the two went to the rooftop to check for abnormal energy fluctuations. Ling Xue used liquid nitrogen to freeze a mutant crow and found a tracking Gu in the crow's body. Zhou Xing recognized that this was the secret technique of the Hehuan Sect, and his face turned very ugly.

Just then, exclamations from employees downstairs were heard.