Inside the Gathering Fortune Pavilion nearby, Chen Zhou was checking the rewards after the battle at the provincial capital.
Since returning from the Western Region, he had handed the special building blueprints to Lu Cheng.
【Building Blueprint: Dingnai Hall】
【Grade: Earth Grade】
【Special Building】
【Harmonizing the cauldron, governing a great nation like cooking a small fish. Master of the five flavors, conduit of Yin and Yang. Refining true nature with mortal fire, proving the divine path through the culinary arts.】
【Five-Flavor Primordial Return: Able to harmonize various energies (death qi, vitality, spiritual rhythm, sinful karma, merit, etc.) contained within ingredients through cooking. It removes impurities and retains the essence, transforming them into pure origin for absorption.】
【Note: If the ingredients contain broken divinity, there is a certain probability of transforming it into attribute-less divinity.】
【Pao Ding Carving an Ox: If a master chef skilled in the culinary path is in charge, they can decompose the bodies of high-level entities through cooking, extracting their bloodlines, destinies, talents, and other origin traits to create inheritance dishes.】
【Consumers have a certain probability of inheriting said traits (probability is affected by ingredient quality and the consumer's compatibility).】
【Construction Requirements: Omitted】
In short, Dingnai Hall was a building that could purify various energies from ingredients and had a chance to strip special traits from ingredients to transfer them to others.
It was quite useful.
Chen Zhou was most concerned with the attribute-less divinity mentioned in the Five-Flavor Primordial Return function.
Chen Zhou currently had seven pieces of broken divinity sitting idle.
The fused divinity of resentment was only broken, and the venomous divinity was only condensed, requiring eight and six more pieces respectively to become complete divinities.
During his earlier encounter with the black-spot monsters, Chen Zhou had discovered that when facing enemies with properties similar to divinity, the more complete the divinity, the higher the lethality.
The defense-ignoring property of Hatred Fire was very useful, and Chen Zhou looked forward to its next upgrade.
He just was not sure what the exact success rate was for transforming seven pieces of broken divinity into attribute-less divinity.
He also did not know how much attribute-less divinity would be needed to complete the broken divinities he had already fused.
As Chen Zhou pondered, he looked at the young child beside him.
The child was clean and handsome, with delicate features, but his expression was far too steady, making him look nothing like a child.
He held a small knife, gesturing toward the squirming flesh on the table.
The flesh was golden, with a faint luster flowing over its surface, looking quite tempting.
But at this moment, it was shivering and squealing in terror.
The child remained unmoved as his knife fell steadily.
"Puchi—"
Golden juice splashed out as the Golden Buddha let out a scream, chopped cleanly in half.
The child expressionlessly sliced the severed meat into thin pieces and placed them on a nearby plate.
Then he looked up at Chen Zhou in the main seat.
"Lord, this thing is indeed very strange."
Chen Zhou walked over and sat beside him.
"In what way?"
Yu He used the knife to poke at the meat slices on the plate.
"Logically, any living being will be injured, bleed, and weaken when cut."
"But this thing is different."
"When I cut it, it feels pain and screams, but it does not seem to be injured."
"Carving its meat is like an ordinary person cutting hair or clipping nails."
He pointed to the spot on the Golden Buddha where he had just cut.
Sure enough, the wound had already disappeared, leaving only a faint trace.
"Have you found anything else?"
Yu He nodded.
"Yes."
"I have been studying the addictiveness of the Golden Buddha for two days, and I have some leads."
"If I can successfully remove it, then it will be a true supreme delicacy."
"Eating it will boost cultivation and purify death qi without causing addiction."
Chen Zhou nodded.
"Are you confident?"
Yu He thought for a moment.
"Seventy percent."
"The remaining thirty percent depends on the effectiveness of the Dingnai Hall once it is built."
"I have also studied that blueprint of yours, Lord."
"Five-Flavor Primordial Return can be used to process the meat of the Golden Buddha, harmonizing the cauldron to remove impurities and separate the pure essence from the addictive properties."
"If that can be achieved, the Golden Buddha will no longer be a poison, but a true tonic."
Chen Zhou nodded and pulled several glowing spheres from his robe.
They varied in size and color, but all emitted a faint aura.
"What about these?"
"These are the broken divinity pieces I collected earlier."
"Seven in total."
Yu He leaned in and looked closely.
His eyes brightened slightly.
"Good stuff."
"Even though they are broken, the laws inside are still intact."
He picked one up and held it against the light.
"Does Lord wish to add these seasonings in as well?"
Chen Zhou raised an eyebrow.
"How confident are you?"
Yu He pondered.
"This is harder, thirty percent at most."
"These things are not ordinary ingredients and cannot be handled with conventional cooking techniques."
"But I can try."
He carefully placed the broken divinity pieces into his robe.
"Lord, I want to wait until the Dingnai Hall is finished to practice with the Golden Buddha's meat first."
"Once I am proficient, I will handle these things."
Chen Zhou nodded.
"No rush, take your time."
He glanced at the shivering half-piece of the Golden Buddha in the corner.
"What about that thing? How do you plan to handle it?"
Yu He looked over as well.
The Golden Buddha felt their gazes and shook even harder.
Yu He walked over, knelt before it, and patted it.
"Your regenerative ability is very strong, right?"
The Golden Buddha trembled and nodded.
Yu He smiled.
To Chen Zhou, that smile had nothing to do with a four-year-old child and even felt a bit chilling.
"That is good."
He turned back to Chen Zhou.
"Lord, you can keep it locked up and raise it from now on."
"I have experimented with it. Although the Golden Buddha is strange, its regenerative ability is extremely powerful."
"As long as the core is not damaged, the meat that is cut off will quickly grow back."
"After a period of time, it will be fully restored."
Chen Zhou nodded. Turning the Golden Buddha into a sustainable resource was a good option.
"What exactly is it?" Chen Zhou suddenly asked.
Yu He paused. "Lord, you mean..."
Chen Zhou thought for a moment.
"I once heard of something called Shiron."
"Also known as Tai Sui or Flesh Lingzhi."
"A mass of flesh like a cow's liver with two eyes."
"Eating it is endless, for it regrows as before."
The Shiron recorded in the legends of his previous life was indeed very similar to the current nature of the Golden Buddha.
Yu He nodded thoughtfully.
"Eating it is endless, for it regrows as before..."
"That description is quite apt."
He reached out and poked the Golden Buddha.
The Golden Buddha trembled, not daring to move.
"I do not know what he is either. He has a soul and intelligence, yet he does not seem like a normal living being."
"Normal beings, no matter how weak, have a complete life cycle."
"They need to eat, drink, breathe, and excrete."
"Even demons or cultivators who do not need food or water must absorb worldly spiritual energy, death qi, resentment, or some other energy to maintain their vitality."
"But this thing is different."
He pried open a corner of the Golden Buddha, revealing the cross-section inside.
"Look, it has no internal organs, no blood vessels, and no meridians."
"It is just a lump of meat."
"But inside this lump of meat, there is a consciousness, a soul, and it can even speak."
Yu He made a cut on the Golden Buddha with his small knife.
The Golden Buddha screamed, and the wound healed quickly.
"You see, it feels pain and screams when hurt, which means it has a sense of pain."
"But it does not need to eat, drink, or even breathe."
"Then what does it rely on to stay alive?"
Yu He set the knife down.
"I have studied it for these two days and found that its only source of energy is being eaten."
"When someone eats its meat and the meat is cut, it consumes a certain origin to regenerate."
"But if no one eats it for a long time, it falls into a deep sleep, and its metabolism almost stops."
"Lord, I suspect this thing was not born of heaven and earth, nor is it a naturally evolved creature."
"It seems more like it was artificially created."
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