My Demonic Cult's Holy Maiden

Xu Shuqin didn't care about any of that; she was more interested in food, which was why she found Qi Yu increasingly pleasing to the eye.

Foodies all over the world are one family!

Qi Yu used his inner energy to arrange the sliced ​​fish pieces on a large plate made of ice, and then walked towards the kitchen.

Xu Shuqin followed closely behind, wanting to see how Qi Yu would do it.

Behind noon, the world's first clear broth hot pot was born.

Besides fish, Qi Yu also sliced ​​some mutton and vegetables. To his disappointment, the people here don't eat tripe.

"Give it a try!" Qi Yu said to the three people sitting around the table.

As he spoke, Qi Yu took the lead and put a piece of fish into the iron pot filled with thick soup. Underneath the iron pot was a stove with charcoal burning.

After the fish slices turned white from being poached, Qi Yu placed them into Su Yue's bowl.

"My wife, give it a try!"

Su Yue picked up her chopsticks, dipped them lightly in the sauce, parted her red lips slightly, took a small bite, and savored it.

"It's delicious!" Su Yue commented.

Xu Shuqin and Su Chengying followed Qi Yu's example and started eating hot pot, and then discovered that this way of eating really had a unique flavor.

……

After finishing the meal, Su Chengying handed Qi Yu a square, fist-sized object that looked like a seal.

This is the supreme Taoist treasure, a sacred relic, passed down to Su Chengying by the head of the Supreme One Sect, who was also Su Chengying's master and Qi Yu's grandmaster.

Shrinking Earth Seal!

The relic belonged to the Yin-Yang School, but the Yin-Yang School has since been destroyed.

Because the Yin-Yang school and Taoism have a connection, this sacred relic eventually came into the possession of Taoism.

The Heavenly Sword was given to the previous leader, while the Shrinking Earth Seal was given to Su Chengying.

The subspace inherent in the Shrinking Earth Seal is larger than that inherent in the Confucian classics.

The subspace of the Heavenly Sword is not as wide as the Shrinking Earth Seal.

"What do you want with the Shrinking Earth Seal?" Su Chengying asked Qingming calmly, "You don't mean to use the Shrinking Earth Seal's subspace as a warehouse, do you?"

Dealing with so many demonic beasts is indeed troublesome. If we use the subspace of the Shrinking Earth Seal, we can indeed move these demonic beast corpses away in a short time.

Qi Yu nodded, then shook his head, and said, "It's meant to be a warehouse, but it's not just a warehouse!"

"What do you want to do?"

Qi Yu did not answer, but looked eastward.

He has already requested assistance from the Confucian school; he has asked them for a person.

Zhou Zixun!

Besides writing erotic novels, Qi Yu discovered that this guy's drawing skills were indeed quite good, although still a bit worse than his own.

But if I were to paint thousands of paintings myself, I'd rather not; such a task would require conscripting able-bodied men to do it for me.

Zhou Zixun was one of the conscripts!

……

The next day, Zhou Zixun arrived, looking travel-worn and injured, clearly having encountered a monster on the way.

Zhou Zixun bowed to Qi Yu and said, "Wen Zun, is there something you need that you urgently summoned your student here?"

Qi Yu chuckled, then patted Zhou Zixun on the shoulder, revealing a warm smile.

"Brother Zhou, I'm planning to publish a few books and I need you to ghostwrite them for me!"

Zhou Zixun looked puzzled. "Why don't you just write the book yourself? Why do you have to outsource it?"

Does writing it down count as my own or yours?

And that smile looks rather sinister no matter how you look at it!

In the evening, Qin Xiu arrived and handed Qi Yu the Shrinking Earth Seal to him.

Inside the Shrinking Earth Seal were frozen sea monster corpses, which were essentially a pile of seafood.

That evening, Qi Yu summoned Zhen Qing, a medical expert, to help with the hard labor.

Qi Yu handed Zhen Qing a book of Taoist-drawn monster illustrations and asked her to identify which monsters could be used in medicine.

Even if something can't be used as medicine, they'll still fabricate a bunch of effects for it, like adding benefits such as promoting blood circulation, prolonging life, and tonifying the kidneys and enhancing male virility.

Zhou Zixun's job was to write on the side and then draw the picture of the monster on it.

Qi Yu focused on drawing the sea monster, letting Zhen Qing make up her own story, while Zhou Zixun wrote it down as best he could.

In one night, Zhen Qing selected 131 kinds of sea monsters, and each of them was used as medicine!

Then the world's first "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was published!

There are 131 kinds of demonic beasts, 100 of which are sea demonic beasts and the remaining 31 are land demonic beasts.

Zhou Zixun followed suit, drawing the monsters from Taoist picture books onto them.

The left page contains text, while the right page contains illustrations of monsters.

Qi Yu handed over the manuscript from that night to Su Chengying, instructing him to find the Lulutong Trading Company to print it and then distribute it to the academy for sale.

Su Chengying read the book herself, and her expression became quite strange.

He understood Qi Yu's idea: Qi Yu wanted to change the mainland people's perception of demonic beasts!

To this day, monsters have not set foot on the continent for nearly three thousand years. Many people's knowledge of monsters is limited to scattered records in books or folk legends.

Qi Yu's book, "Classic of Mountains and Seas," provides a detailed account of mythical beasts and their medicinal value.

Qi Yu even added many strange and unusual settings to it!

For example, there is a kind of monster called Shanhou, which is just a low-level monster that is no different from ordinary wild animals.

However, the Classic of Mountains and Seas describes it as a rare and precious beast that absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon. It is said that if one takes it, one can open one's ears and eyes, making one's hearing and vision sharp.

There are even demonic beasts among them that can accelerate the condensation of true qi, which is clearly written for martial artists.

Looking at this book, Su Chengying couldn't help but admire Qi Yu.

Wow, that's a really fast mind!

It is foreseeable that if this book is published, countless martial artists and ordinary people will hunt monsters for the so-called benefits of longevity, improved blood circulation, and enhanced virility.

Moreover, what Qi Yu wrote wasn't entirely fabricated, because many of the demonic beasts did indeed have useful value, which Zhen Qing had identified.

While some monsters might not benefit much from eating it, it wouldn't cause any major problems either.

Moreover, Qi Yu chose to publish the book at this time, so even if the doctors knew that the effects were somewhat exaggerated, they would most likely just turn a blind eye.

Even with those who voiced their doubts, it still wasn't enough!

Because this book was published by Taoism!

Moreover, Qi Yu was not lying to them; most of the demonic beasts really do have similar effects.

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Chapter Sixty-Three: Reversal

During the intense resistance against the demonic beasts, Taoism began to distribute a book across the continent, centered around the Great Qing Dynasty.

The book is called the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which records all the monsters and beasts that Taoism has encountered over thousands of years.

The first volume, which was released, recorded 131 kinds of monsters, with pictures and text descriptions. Although the pictures were somewhat rough, they captured the spirit of the monsters.

Monsters are attacking everywhere, causing widespread panic. As a result, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" sold out very quickly, and we had to speed up the printing process.

Driven by curiosity about new things, many people want to read this book.

Qi Yu chose to cooperate with the Western Regions' Lulutong Trading Association to sell his products on the mainland.

This wave has made them incredibly wealthy!

Those who have read the Classic of Mountains and Seas have gained some understanding of those mythical beasts, especially their supposed value as described in the book.

In an instant, a craze for 'tasting' swept across the mainland.

Many wealthy people spent large sums of money to buy the corpses of those monsters, and martial artists who originally wanted to stay out of it also joined the army of hunting down and selling monsters.

The craze for the Classic of Mountains and Seas didn't last long before Taoism released another book, but it wasn't the second volume of the Classic of Mountains and Seas; instead, it was a cookbook.

This cookbook details the recipes for over fifty dishes, all made with mythical beasts as ingredients.

This cookbook is a recipe book for medicinal cuisine, and it was written by the contemporary master himself.

As soon as this cookbook was published, it sparked a craze across the mainland, with major restaurants demanding that their chefs learn to read and cook the dishes in this cookbook.

Those high-ranking officials and nobles, having heard that this was a way to maintain health and prolong life, also joined the ranks of gourmets.

Soon, people in various places tried it and followed the steps in the recipe.

Then many chefs suddenly became isolated. They had worked their whole lives but never knew that there were all sorts of cooking methods.

The health benefits are still unknown, but the delicious taste alone has made them linger.

In the Great Qing Dynasty, where Taoism was located, the academy distributed sea monster meat after releasing the recipe.

Many people were astonished to see the monsters piled up like a small mountain, as it was the first time they had ever seen monsters.

The empress of the Great Qing Dynasty dispatched troops to help distribute the monster meat to the people of the Han capital.

The meat from these demonic beasts was frozen, ensuring its freshness, and Qi Yu had already used his true energy to cut the meat into pieces beforehand.

One piece weighs ten pounds!

Many people were seeing a sea monster for the first time, so everyone was initially skeptical.

This will not be difficult for Qin Xiu!

Qin Xiu hired several chefs from the capital of Han to prepare a long row of seafood dishes according to the recipes.

Some people's eyes lit up after eating it. It's different from beef, mutton, chicken and duck. It has a unique flavor!