1413 The Bandits Who Abduct Chefs (1/2)

The dreadful crisis brought by the blood-colored monster in the void traveling passage was gone, but the latter still weighed on Bu Fang like a nightmare. A creature that could imitate its opponent's fighting techniques and could not be killed was utterly disgusting.

Bu Fang had no idea how long he had been drifting, but suddenly, his body rushed out of the passage and began to fall rapidly like a cannonball. In the blink of an eye, he hit the ground and created a large pit. The impact was so strong that he thought all his bones were falling apart.

He slowly climbed out of the pit. Whitey stood beside him,  its mechanical eyes flashing. Bu Fang envied its tough metal body,  which suffered no damage at all from the fall. The bright light in the surroundings made him narrow his eyes, and it took him a few moments to get used to it.

Glancing around, Bu Fang found that he had landed in a wheat field. There was no doubt that these were all spirit wheat, for he could sense vast energy in them.

”These are excellent wheat,   about the same quality as those in my Heaven and Earth Farmland…” He pulled out a stalk from the ground and studied it. Then,  with a thought,  he sent it into the farmland and gave it to Niu Hansan, who was known as the father of hybridization. He thought the latter could produce something even better from it.

Bu Fang did not know where he was. He swept the dust and dirt off his Vermilion Robe, then turned and walked toward the west, where his divine sense had found the auras of living beings. Whitey followed him.

Perhaps because there was a problem with the void traveling passage,    Bu Fang and Lord Dog were separated. There was a good chance that they were thousands of miles apart. He wasn't too worried about Nethery and the others,   though,  because they were with Lord Dog. Of course, he still needed to think of a way to regroup with them.

He walked at a steady pace. Soon,   Bu Fang saw a small village in the distance. He hastened his steps,  and in a flash, he and Whitey had arrived in front of the village.

Many experts gathered at the gates,  full of vigilance. When they sensed Bu Fang, they all raised their weapons and looked coldly at him.

Their attitude gave Bu Fang pause. Were the people outside the Netherworld all so cruel and violent? In any case,  he wasn't worried or threatened at all, for the strongest experts among them were merely Nine-revolution Great Saints.

He didn't want to cause trouble as well. He just wanted to ask the way to the capital of the Xiayi Divine Dynasty. After that, he would leave immediately.

The men on dragon-scaled horses and the villagers confronted each other with Bu Fang in the middle. For a moment, the atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

Whitey's mechanical eyes flashed as it touched its round head. Bu Fang glanced at the villagers, then at the fierce-looking men behind him. He could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth. It seemed to him that the people outside the Netherworld were really not friendly.

The cultivation bases of the men on dragon-scaled horses were clearly much stronger than that of the villagers. They were led by a Demigod, the man with the huge hammer, and he was staring disdainfully at the group of villagers who seemed ready to fight back.

As for Bu Fang, he was classified as one of the villagers because in the Demigod's divine sense, his cultivation base was too weak. Perhaps it was because his aura was not stable at the moment. The energy in him had been completely drained by the void storms when he traveled through the void. He was empty inside, so it was normal for the burly man to sense that he was weak.

Suddenly, a young man bolted out from among the villagers and pulled Bu Fang back into the village. That confused Bu Fang, and he did not know what was going on.

”Those guys are the bandits from Misty Mountain! They want to abduct the remaining few chefs in our village!” said the young man.

”Abduct chefs?” Bu Fang's face grew stranger. Why did bandits today seek neither wealth nor girls? Instead, they were abducting chefs? Were chefs so popular outside the Netherworld? He wondered if he had returned to the Immortal Cooking Realm?

”You don't know, do you? The Divine Dynasty has established the Divine Chef Temple and is recruiting chefs. Any powers who send talented chefs to the temple will be richly rewarded! And the rewards are source stones!” the young man quickly explained when he saw Bu Fang's confused face. When he had finished, the way he looked at Bu Fang became more and more strange. How could anyone not know the news? The whole Xiayi Divine Dynasty was shaken when the announcement was made by the court!

Since then, the nearby great worlds were constantly sending outstanding chefs to the Divine Chef Temple. Bandits smelled the profits in it, too, and they began to visit one village after another, abducting talented chefs and sending them to the temple.

They did not need the chef from every village to be accepted by the Divine Chef Temple. As long as one was accepted, the rewards would be enough to recover their costs because the rewards were source stones! With just one source stone, a One-revolution Great Saint could cultivate himself to a Nine-revolution Great Saint!

”Well… It is springtime for chefs,” Bu Fang said expressionlessly, twitching the corner of his mouth.

”You are a passerby, aren't you? There are often passersby in front of our village, but you are really unlucky… You've come at the wrong time when the bandits are here to raid us,” the young man said with a sigh. ”All the chefs in our village had been abducted… But this group of bandits is still forcing us to give them a chef. Where are we going to find a chef for them? And they said they will slaughter the whole village if we can't give them a chef… We have no choice but to fight them back.”

Bu Fang was somewhat speechless. It seemed to him that these bandits were asking for the impossible. Cooking was about talent, and not everyone could become a chef.