Chapter 568: New Side Occupation (2/2)

”However, a Spiritual Chef's food doesn't have any side effects after eating. Not to mention that compared to pills, Spiritual Food has taste! Isn't it infinitely better to eat Spiritual Food than a pill for cultivation? When we talk about benefits, Spiritual Food doesn't lose to Alchemists' Pills in any regard.”

”Of course, Spiritual Food is mostly used for cultivation. Very few dishes have any other use than that. In that case, Healing Pills, Breakthrough Pills, Forbidden Pills, etc., are still necessary and highly sought out. That's also why Alchemists and Spiritual Chefs never had many problems with each other. Other than cultivation, our fields are quite different.”

Krune drank his soup as Oclo spoke. When the Godly Energy finished being absorbed, Krune noticed that he saved at least one day of the Transformation of his Wisp Core and Foundation. He was deeply awed by the power of Spiritual Food.

Right after, his eyes shined as he asked Oclo.

”Head Chef, how can I become a Spiritual Chef?”

Oclo didn't seem surprised by Krune's question. As a Spiritual Chef himself, he could at least tell who had a talent for the field and who didn't. All the Spiritual Food chefs agreed about one point. One can not become a Spiritual Chef is he or she doesn't love cooking. In Oclo's eyes, Krune's passion wasn't the least bit inferior to his own.

”We obviously have a Spiritual Chef Guild branch in our city. You can go there and apply to become a member. However, the Spiritual Chef guild works differently from the other guilds. The chefs rarely stay there to cook anything. All of them are travelers or manage their own restaurants. Also, don't expect to have anyone teaching you anything. A chef might use others' dishes for learning, but they must ultimately create their own.”

”Furthermore, the categorization of our levels is different from the other guilds. To the other occupations, each level is separated by nine stars. So you often hear things like a Nine Stars Path Alchemist or Three Stars View Blacksmith, etc. However, Spiritual Chefs don't have sub-levels like the Nine Stars. We only have the levels themselves. For example, I'm a Semi-Divinity Star Chef. If I go up one level, I'll directly become a Divinity Star Chef.”

Krune couldn't help but ask.

”Is the separation of a Spiritual Chef's levels done through the level of the ingredients they can cook?”

Oclo smiled and nodded.

”Exactly. Although I'm at the Divine View Realm, I can cook dishes made of Semi-Divinity meat or plants. Obviously, I'm talking about Demon Beast, Humans, or Plants that reached the Semi-Divinity Level. I can only be considered a Divinity Star Chef after cooking a dish that uses at least one ingredient at the Divinity Level. To be considered successful, you must be able to transform at least 90% of the ingredients' energies. Any less than that and the cultivators or demon beasts who eat it later might suffer side effects due to the remaining berserk energy.”

”To prove your Star Rank, you just need to cook one successful dish with an ingredient of that specific level in the Spiritual Chef Guild.”

Krune found it quite simple. But that was also good.

”Great! I'll put my all into it during the next month.”

However, Krune remembered one thing.

”Oh, right! You said that we can't have an aversion to any type of food. But how come I haven't seen a single dish made with human ingredients?”

Oclo shrugged his shoulders.

”That's because I'm a human myself. So it feels uncomfortable for me to cook my own race. In fact, any Spiritual Chef Demon Beast usually would not cook their own races either. Of course, this is not a life rule. If there comes a day where I need to do it, I will cook the best dish possible.”

”However, you won't really find many places with human dishes. That's because almost all demon beasts think that it tastes horrible! Humans are too skinny, and their bodies don't gather as many nutrients as other demon beast races. Simply put, there isn't much of a use to eat them.”

Krune nodded. Back in the Mortal Realm, everyone also followed the same logic. If humans can kill demon beasts for their meat, then so can demon beasts. Still, Krune rarely saw a restaurant back there selling it. Not that they couldn't, but because it simply didn't sell either. Even the demon beasts back there didn't like it.

”Well, whether you want to cook it or not, I won't stop you.”

Krune shook his head.

”I was just curious. I also haven't cooked human meat before.”

His wife is human, so he never cooked one. In fact, Krune didn't cook any meat of the same race as his friends either.