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Chapter 93: The Spiritual Food Duel Begins

In mid-June, the date for the spiritual meal duel set by Zhu Daochang for Mu Yunsheng and Tai Hongfei arrived.

"Xixi~" A misty drizzle was floating on the calm surface of the Yuqian River. White mist and smoke rose from the green mountains on both sides of the river, and various boats were sailing on the river.

Mu Yunsheng got off the merchant ship of Xuanshoumen and passed through the Qihefang Market Pier. Without looking for Mu Qinghu, he used the Lanxingyuan's jade pass to enter and exit the market without having to pay for the spirit stones.

"Pitter-patter~" There was also drizzle falling from the sky in the market town, but the defensive formation of Qihe Market Town failed to intercept the drizzle.

However, this did add a bit of rainy charm to the Qihe Market. Among the monks coming and going, there were also many monks who, like ordinary people, held oil-paper umbrellas of various colors and walked through the streets of the market.

Mu Yunsheng's true energy covered his entire body to avoid being wet by the drizzle, and he walked towards the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju. However, before he had walked far, he heard bursts of screams coming from the front.

"Rain~ Master, it's rain!"

"If only our Huangyuanzhou also had this much rain, then the elderly mortals in our oasis wouldn't have to walk into the desert to seek death."

Mu Yunsheng looked over when he heard the voice and saw two foreign cultivators, one old and one young, whose dress and appearance were very different from the local people of Qianyuan Prefecture.

The young man looked a little older than Mu Yunsheng, but probably no more than thirty years old. His face was full of excitement. He stretched out his hand to catch the drizzle falling from the sky without using his true energy to resist.

It was as if the rainwater that could be seen everywhere in Qianyuanzhou was a rare treasure to him.

"A cultivator from Huang Yuanzhou?" Mu Yunsheng whispered in his heart. After taking a look, he continued to walk towards the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju.

It took less than a cup of tea to get there, but before he reached the general affairs building of Xiankeju, Mu Yunsheng saw two more acquaintances.

However, they were Gu Luoping and Wu Zhiyuan, whom he met when he attended the disciple recruitment and affinity test meeting at Xiankeju.

"Fellow cultivator!" Wu Zhiyuan and Gu Luoping also saw Mu Yunsheng. Their eyes lit up and they hurried over, saluted and said with a smile.

"It's fate, it's fate. I didn't have the chance to ask you your name when we last met. I never thought we would meet again today."

"Fellow cultivator, you've come to the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju today to watch the spiritual food duel convened by Master Zhu, right? May I ask your name?"

"My name is Mu Yunsheng, nice to meet Fellow Daoist Wu from Xiling Sect and Fellow Daoist Gu from the Gu family." Mu Yunsheng said with a smile on his face as he returned the greeting, then thought for a moment in his mind and continued with a smile.

"Mu is indeed here today for the spiritual food duel. I came to the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju. Could it be that Fellow Daoist Wu and Fellow Daoist Gu are here for the duel as well?"

"Haha~ Fellow Daoist Mu is really well-informed." Gu Luoping said with a smile, looking at Mu Yunsheng with a deep expression in his eyes, and continued.

"This matter is only circulated among the small number of cultivators in our Yuqian Mountain Range. Master Zhu has arranged a spiritual meal duel for Tai Hongfei of the Tai Family Restaurant."

"I don't know who the other spiritual chef monk in the spiritual food duel is, so today, Brother Wu and I followed our family elders to come and watch the excitement."

Having said that, Gu Luoping looked at Mu Yunsheng and suddenly asked.

"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Mu knows who the cultivator who had the spiritual duel with Tai Hongfei of the Tai family is. Brother Wu and I have asked many times, but we still don't know anything.

"We'll know when the Lingshan duel comes." Mu Yunsheng said with a smile.

"Friend Mu is right. We will know when the Lingshan duel begins." Wu Zhiyuan said, shaking the magic fan in his hand, and then continued.

"It's hard to say. Master Zhu is building momentum for Tai Hongfei. Once Tai Hongfei wins this spiritual food duel, he will accept him as his disciple."

"Otherwise, how could we not even get information about the other cultivator who participated in the spiritual food duel? In Qianyuan Province, apart from his Tai family, there are no other spiritual chefs."

"And Master Zhu also invited monks from seven families."

As Wu Zhiyuan spoke, he waved the magic fan in his hand and looked at Mu Yunsheng and Gu Luoping. In order to strengthen the credibility of his analysis, he continued.

"That's what my father did. In order to allow me to better inherit the Xiling Sect in the future, he arranged for many famous cultivators to come to Xiling Sect to challenge me and then lose to me."

"Some time ago, they arranged for me to marry a female cultivator from an unknown small family as my Taoist partner. Fortunately, I heard that she refused. Otherwise, whether I could come out with Brother Gu today is uncertain."

"It shouldn't be like this. If Master Zhu wanted to accept Tai Hongfei as his disciple, why would he go through so many detours to help Tai Hongfei build up his reputation?" Gu Luoping thought and whispered, then looked at Mu Yunsheng and Wu Zhiyuan and said with a smile.

"However, Brother Wu and Fellow Daoist Mu are right about one thing. During the spiritual duel, we will naturally see who the cultivator is who is engaging in a spiritual duel with Tai Hongfei."

"Perhaps the monk is already in the General Affairs Building of Xianke Residence. We can see him once we go in. Fellow Daoist Mu, Brother Wu, please come in!"

Gu Luoping invited Mu Yunsheng and Wu Zhiyuan to walk into the general affairs building of Xiankeju together.

"Fellow Daoist Gu, please come in." Mu Yunsheng bowed with a smile, then walked into the gate of Xiankeju together with Gu Luoping and Wu Zhiyuan.

After a while, Xiankeju arrived on the second floor of the General Affairs Building.

Mu Yunsheng, Gu Luoping and Wu Zhiyuan each took their own jade cards for entering and exiting Lanxingyuan and passed through the magic circle restriction on the third floor of the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju.

He walked up to an elegant room on the top floor and knocked softly on the door.

"Dong~dong~dong~"

"Swish~" The barrier of the elegant house opened, and a calm voice came from the elegant house, "Come in."

This is Zhu Daochang's voice.

"Yes, Senior Zhu." Mu Yunsheng bowed respectfully outside the house, tidied his clothes and appearance, then pushed open the door of the elegant house and walked in.

This elegant house is restricted by a magic array and cannot be opened by the entrance and exit jade token of Lanxingyuan. It is not open to the public. Only the core cultivators and distinguished guests of the seven families can enter.

The elegant house is lit with the spiritual incense provided by the Qu family.

After Mu Yunsheng walked into the elegant house, he saw that in addition to Zhu Daochang, there were seven other people in the house, each of whom had an extraordinary aura and great power.

Yun possesses the sharpness and momentum of someone who has been in a high position for a long time.

But at this moment, the seven of them were sitting quietly in the elegant room, facing Zhu Daochang, but they did not dare to do anything disrespectful.

Even when Mu Yunsheng walked into the elegant room, the seven of them did not make any big movements to look at him, and even the expressions on their faces did not change.

"Okay, you guys go out first." Zhu Daochang looked at Mu Yunsheng who walked in and said to the seven people in the elegant room.

"Yes, Master Zhu!" The seven people quickly stood up and saluted Zhu Daochang, then respectfully left the elegant room.

Mu Yunsheng bowed and saw them off. When he saw the clothes they were wearing, he knew that they were the top leaders of the seven major families in Qianyuan Prefecture.

Zhu Daochang also came to serve as a judge for his spiritual duel with Tai Hongfei.

"After the spiritual food duel is over, come back to Lanxingyuan with me." Zhu Daochang said to Mu Yunsheng after the seven high-level monks from the seven families who served as judges left the elegant house and closed the door.

His tone remained calm, and he didn't ask Mu Yunsheng how his spiritual cooking skills had been progressing, or whether he was confident he could surpass Tai Hongfei. "Yes, Senior Zhu," Mu Yunsheng replied, his heart pounding, and he quickly saluted.

"Yes." Zhu Daochang nodded slightly, then pointed to a chair in the elegant room and said, "Sit down. Your spiritual duel with that kid from the Tai family won't begin for a while. The Qu family's Xuanxinjingshen spiritual incense is quite good. It can calm the mind, and long-term use can increase spiritual awareness."

"Yes, Senior Zhu." Mu Yunsheng bowed again and replied, then sat down on the guest chair in the elegant room.

They sat there for more than half an hour, and arrived at the second floor of the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju.

"Master Wu, you are here too. I have heard a lot about you."

"Senior Dong, I heard that you have been tracking down the whereabouts of Tian Yaozi recently. With your perfect Qi training and your profound pupils that can see through all obstacles, you are a great helper."

"I think it should be quick to track down the whereabouts of Tian Yaozi and eliminate this evil for our Qianyuanzhou cultivator community."

“Thank you, Mr. Chief! …”

At this time, in the hall on the second floor of the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju, there were already many monks who knew each other coming and going, chatting and laughing, or greeting each other.

It seems that most of them are in the late stage of Qi Refining, and there are even cultivators in the perfect stage of Qi Refining. They are accompanied by the younger generations of various families. They are all well-known cultivator forces in the Yuqian Mountains.

Although Old Man Kushe is also a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage of the seventh level and has founded the Chensha Gang, he is far from being able to break into the circle of these cultivators.

"Senior Zhu, Yun Sheng will go first."

Mu Yunsheng followed Zhu Daochang and walked down from the top floor of the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju. Looking at the spiritual food duel venue that had been set up in the hall on the second floor, he saluted Zhu Daochang and said.

"Go ahead." Zhu Daochang replied softly, then walked towards the judges' table that had already been set up in the hall on the second floor.

"Yes, Master Zhu!" Mu Yunsheng saluted again, and then started walking towards the spiritual food duel venue located in the center of the hall on the second floor.

Tai Hongfei had already been waiting in the spiritual food duel arena, wearing a fiery red spiritual chef robe. When he saw Mu Yunsheng coming, a ferocious and complacent smile appeared on his face, and he said sarcastically.

"I thought you, a coward, wouldn't dare to come today. I didn't expect you to be so courageous. You don't think I can only make the Kuling Qi-recovering Noodles, do you?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you that the Bitter Spirit Recovery Noodles are just the worst spiritual food I made. Today, I will let you, a villain, know."

"The way of the Spiritual Chef is far beyond the reach of a lowly casual cultivator like you to comprehend and practice."

After saying this, Tai Hongfei shook his sleeves, and a powerful and vigorous fire spirit energy emanated from the fiery red spiritual chef robe he was wearing.

"Really? Then why not add this robe you're wearing as a bet?"

Mu Yunsheng said this with a smile on his face, his mind not affected by Tai Hongfei's words at all.

"Brother Mu!" At this moment, a shout of surprise and joy rang out from the judges' podium.

Mu Yunsheng looked up and saw that it was the girl from Longsai, Long Liyou, who had given him the method of refining the Heavenly Dragon, so he bowed to her.

Sitting next to Long Liyou was a woman who looked to be no more than thirty years old, with a beautiful face and a plump figure. She was one of the seven high-level cultivators who had previously visited Zhu Daochang in the elegant room on the top floor of the General Affairs Building of Xiankeju.

The third elder of Longsai, a cultivator who has reached the perfect stage of Qi Refining, is Chi Shujiao.

"Long'er, do you know this handsome young man?"

When Chi Shujiao saw Long Liyou, she shouted to Mu Yunsheng happily, her eyes flashed slightly, and she asked, her mind focused on the surroundings.

But the strange thing was that Zhu Daochang was sitting behind them, but Chi Shujiao could not sense him no matter what. Even Mu Yunsheng, who saluted Long Liyu, could not see Zhu Daochang.

"Well, Grandma Jiao, the last time Long Er and Uncle Xiong came to Qihe Market, they met Brother Mu. Grandma Jiao, isn't Brother Mu very good-looking and handsome?"

Long Liyou replied happily, waved to Mu Yunsheng, then looked at Tai Hongfei and asked Chi Shujiao.

"Granny Jiao, can Brother Mu win a spiritual food duel with that ugly guy?"

"This young man Mu that Long'er knows is indeed handsome and extraordinary."

Chi Shujiao replied with a smile, and then continued to speak to Long Liyou with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

"The Tai family is a family of spiritual chefs that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Qianyuan Prefecture. The boy from the Tai family has been following Tai Fuan since he was a child, practicing the art of spiritual cooking."

"It will be difficult for your little brother Mu to win, but it depends on whether you want him to win or not."

Having said that, Chi Shujiao stopped talking and withdrew her mind from sensing the surroundings.

"let's start!"

Zhu Daochang's voice was heard, but Chi Shujiao and the others still could not sense the figure sitting on the judges' podium.

"Yes, Master Zhu!"

Chi Shujiao and the other six or seven high-level cultivators who came as judges, focused their minds and quickly stood up, bowing respectfully in response.

Then Liu Jiangya, the law enforcement elder of the Lingdan Liu family and a cultivator in the perfect stage of Qi training, spoke to Mu Yunsheng and Tai Hongfei.

"According to the order of the Master of Devotion, the spiritual food duel between you two officially begins now."

"You two will each prepare three spiritual meals. You can use the spiritual materials you bring with you, or you can tell the Xiankeju manager what spiritual materials you need, and Xiankeju will provide them free of charge."

"The three spiritual meals you two each prepared will be tasted by the seven of us. We will give fair scores based on the difficulty of making the spiritual meals, their quality, and the auxiliary effects they provide to the monks after consuming them. The one with the highest score will win."

"Now, do you two have any questions?"

"Replying to Senior, there is nothing I don't understand."

Mu Yunsheng listened to what Liu Jiangya said, that the rules of the spiritual food duel were no different from those set by Zhu Daochang, and he saluted respectfully in response.

The only extra thing is that Xiankeju can provide it for free. This time he and Tai Hongfei are dueling over the spiritual food, and they need the spiritual materials needed to make the spiritual food.

"Replying to the previous owner of the spiritual elixir Liu family, the words of senior Liu Jiangya, the junior Tai family Tai Hongfei are also understandable."

Tai Hongfei had a big smile on his face and bowed respectfully to Liu Jiangya. Then he looked at Mu Yunsheng with a smile and walked towards the stove he had chosen for making the spiritual food.

After Mu Yunsheng finished his ceremony, he also walked towards another spiritual food preparation stove in the spiritual food duel venue.

Liu Jiangya stood on the judges' podium, looking at Mu Yunsheng and Tai Hongfei, both of whom were ready. He nodded and continued speaking.

"In that case, you two should get started."

(End of this chapter)