14 Ming Ren Style Cooking Ar (1/2)

Spirit Beasts were powerful and dangerous as enemies, but often extremely loyal and brave as allies. Beast Tamers ranked among the most useful professions, and also among the hardest to learn and master.

Taming beasts required winning their trust enough to make a contract with them. Methods varied from winning loyalty through gifts to brute force, since spirit beasts possessed intelligence and also had their own tradition and values.

However, what many didn't know is that, aside from Beast Tamers, there were also two other professions related to Spirit Beasts. The first one was Beast Summoner, that relied on Mystic Arts to create and project powerful Spirit Beasts, and sometimes even demons.

Those were only copies of the original monsters, but capable of carrying their might, fueled by the Spirit Energy or Rare Energies of the cultivator. They wouldn't be able to last forever, usually having a short time limit before disappearing.

The third, most mystical and rarest, was the Spiritual Beast Oracle. On the lower realms, only a handful of people knew of them, and those probably all came from the Upper Realms. Anybody else would mistake the Oracle for a Beast Summoner.

Oracles were in truth a mix between Tamers and Summoners. They were able to communicate directly not only with Spirit Beasts, regardless of their natural language, but also with Spirit Beasts Souls, tearing apart the bridge between heaven and earth.

Aside from behaving like a Beast Tamer and being capable of summoning beasts like a true summoner, the Oracle was able to activate special treasures called [Jade Spirit Beast Tokens].

When the bond between a Spirit Beast and another being reached the apex an superior connection was formed. It was a true bond of friendship and love, capable of transcending time and defying the heavens. When such a Spirit Beast dies, its soul is bound to the cultivator, even though he is unable to sense it in normal cases.

A Spiritual Beast Oracle is capable of taking that soul and transferring it to the Jade Spirit Beast Token. The token then becomes a Jade Guardian, a spirit capable of protecting its owner from harm.

However, Ming Ren knew that wasn't the true capability of the Oracle. When he reached greater heights, he was capable of summoning out the soul of the spirit beast in its true form and body. It wasn't merely the soul or a temporary invocation, but the true spirit beast itself revived!

Spiritual Beasts Oracles were already extremely rare. There wasn't a special bloodline or talent to it. It was truly a power gifted by the heavens, known as the [Beast God's Blessing] in the Upper Realms. Not only that, the Jade Token itself needed an extremely skilled refiner to be created. It wasn't a simple process, and the stronger the beast, the stronger the container had to be.

At the Lower Realms, it was a power with way too many unreachable requirements. But at the Upper Realms, it was a power that could dominate an era. If the body of the Spirit Beast residing in the token was destroyed, along as the token itself was fine, it could be remolded. If the token was destroyed, as long as the soul of the beast itself remained, it could be bound again.

How could Ming Ren not be surprised when this girl pulled out a Jade Spirit Beast Token and summoned its [True Spirit And Body]? Not its soul, but the true Spirit Beast. This was beyond the Beast God's Blessing!

But this group merely thought of it as a common summoning treasure with merely a spirit beast pet. It was only valuable to those low-ranked clans, so they weren't afraid of showing it to outsiders. Also, only that girl could activate it. If anyone else tried, it would be merely a common jade. If they knew its real value, would they even carry it around?

”Little Red,” the green-haired girl shouted, and the White Rabbit raised its ears and opened its eyes wide. At the same time, its Divine Sense spread around.

Ming Ren wanted to faint. This wasn't a mere spirit beast… it was a Divine Beast! What it spread wasn't Spirit Sense, but Divine Sense. An inborn Divine Beast that died at the Spirit Realm, or somehow lost power until it stayed in that lower realm.

Divine Beasts surpassed the Heavenly Palace realm, beings that were extremely rare even in the Upper Realms. How in the heavens did he find one here?!

The Elder watched Ming Ren with curiosity. This young man was very stable before, extremely composed. Why is he looking like he is going to faint right now? Is he that hungry?

Little Red finished scanning the surroundings then shook its head and went back into the Jade Spirit Beast Token. The token that had crumbled before reconstructed itself.

”There, are you happy, Little Fu? Little Red is never wrong!” The green-haired girl said with a smile.

”Don't call me Little Fu! Fine, he can stay a bit. Lin Shu, you give him some spices, bowl, and a cooking pot.” Little Fu then pointed at Ming Ren, ”But we won't eat with you! Who knows what you might do to the food! And you eat over there!”

Everyone looked at the Elder, who sighed and nodded. This Little Fu, must he always be this rude?

The other girl, much smaller in stature, took out some things from the bag such as spices, a bowl, and a cooking pot, then passed them on to Ming Ren with a smile.

”Thank you,” Ming Ren smiled and bowed, and the girl slightly blushed. He was quite handsome after all.

Since they didn't object to Little Fu, Ming Ren also didn't insist. He took the Scaled Green Beast and moved further. Even if he wanted to inquire about the girl and the Spirit Beast Jade Token, it would only give birth to suspicion.

Before, inside the Bright Scripture, Ming Ren didn't really need to eat, so he skipped it completely. However, cooking was also one of the things he studied. He once fed thousands of troops that were going to battle. At a Royal Banquet of some obscure nation, he was the royal cook. He read thousands of books on the subject, and fed thousands of people!

'Do I Really need to finish this all by myself?' Once he prepared the dishes, it would be a waste to put them back into his Space Ring. Cultivators ate a lot more than common people, and although the Space Ring was an amazing treasure, at this level it still had flaws. It wouldn't preserve the taste and purity of things forever.

Ming Ren went into the woods, took out his unranked peak sword, and made a huge fire, a medium fire, a support for the meat, and a very large pointed stake. It was dangerous to make such a big fire, but he had his Spirit Sense up, why would he be afraid?

The Elder wanted to remind him about it at first but didn't. The boy was extremely confident to walk around The Wandering Wood by himself, so he probably had a few tricks up his sleeve. In any case, Little Red already scanned the surroundings.