Awakening The Gluttony Talent: I Become Stronger By Eating

162 Good Luck Spiritual Elixir

“City Lord Hou, you seemed a little nervous?” Lu Yu walked over and asked with an ambiguous and mysterious expression.

Hou Tianlai collected himself and said, “I am afraid I’m not used to Mr. Lu visiting the City Lord’s Office, so I am a little nervous.”

Lu Yu narrowed his eyes and carefully scrutinized Hou Tianlai once. Then he said with a smile, “So I have made you worry, City Lord Hou. I have nothing else here for the time being. You may go.”

“Then I will take my leave. If there is anything else, please don’t hesitate to call me, Mr. Lu. I will definitely cooperate fully,” Hou Tianlai said respectfully. Compared to his previous antagonistic attitude toward Lu Yu, he was practically fawning now.

When Hou Tianlai excused himself, Song Yu, Qin Yong and Li Tieniu came out from behind the screen, and gave a scornful snort.

“Do you guys have any findings?” Lu Yu inquired. When he saw all three of them shaking their heads in unison, he frowned slightly before speaking, “Then what do you think of this guy Hou Tianlai?”

Song Yu’s impression of Hou Tianlai was very bad. She said with a sneer, “This guy has hidden himself extremely deep. He is a smiling tiger with daggers hidden behind his smile. He is seemingly respectful to you, but who knows when he will stab you in the back one day.”

Lu Yu smiled without disputing her views. The Ying family would never send him to tiny Lunan City to be an acting city lord if that guy was not of such a character.

As soon as Yan Hong died, the Ying family immediately leveraged on their connections and dispatched someone they backed to Lunan City to take over the City Lord’s position. And the speed with which they accomplished this feat was so fast that Lu Yu found it hard to believe that there was nothing fishy in this whole incident.

It seemed that before he came this time, this guy Hou Tianlai had cleaned out the City Lord’s Office thoroughly, removing all traces of clues.

“Let’s have our meal. Tieniu, you take that remaining carcass of the Black Striped Demonic Bull and process it again to cook a simple meal,” Lu Yu said.

Li Tieniu’s eyes suddenly lit up, almost drooling from the corners of his mouth. He immediately went to the back kitchen and started cooking up a storm. After having tasted the meat of Fearsome Beast cooked with the Sky Valley Culinary Method, he simply could not forget the taste.

“Can you squeeze some time out and ask your dad whether there is a second volume to this ‘Sky Valley Culinary Method’?” Lu Yu said to Song Yu.

Although the meat of Fearsome Beasts cooked with the Sky Valley Culinary Method tasted so much better, there were only two cooking methods after all, and the variety was quite bland.

Song Yu rolled her eyes and said, “This ‘Sky Valley Culinary Method’ is the method recorded in the ancient scrolls. Our Song family only got the upper scroll by coincidence. If you want the lower scroll, our Song family wants it even more.”

When the military zone’s forces took over the City Lord’s Office, the entire Lunan city seemed very peaceful, but in reality, a dark undercurrent was stirring.

By contrast, the people of Lunan City erupted into cheers and joyful celebration. However, the powerful families of Lunan City were on tenterhooks all day long.

Lu Yu had returned to Lunan City with a flourish in his capacity as the Advisor to the military zone. The powerful families were worried about when Lu Yu would settle old accounts with them. They were almost driven crazy these few days.

However, Lu Yu seemed to have forgotten about them. The first thing he did was to rebuild the Central Dojo. He assigned Qin Yong to take charge of the reconstruction project. For a while, more and more cultivators in Lunan City came forward to join the dojo.

At the same time, Zhang Yu came forward with a request. He asked for a few powerful experts from the 1st platoon to help him search for Zhang Huaian.

It turned out that the Zhang family had planted several agents inside the City Lord’s Office. After many explorations, they found that there was an underground hidden river underneath the dungeon. Zhang Yu coordinated with these few inside agents and took advantage of that night to smuggle Zhang Huaian out via the underground hidden river after getting him drunk.

After probing, the end point that the underground hidden river flowed to was Lake Ice Abyss, located deep in the blood-sucking wasteland. Even Lu Yu was astounded.

Zhang Yu brought these few powerful experts from the 1st platoon, then went down the underground hidden river to look for Zhang Huaian.

Lu Yu also went down to check out this underground hidden river. He realized that its location was very well-concealed, and Yan Hong probably wasn’t even aware of its existence.

The entire underground river emitted an extremely freezing cold chilliness. The ceiling of the rocky cliffs of the river were covered with all kinds of stalactites. Milky white liquid had gathered and was dripping on Lu Yu’s hands. The drops were instantly absorbed by the skin.

“Absorbed instantly upon contact with flesh? This is the legendary Good Luck Spiritual Elixir!” Lu Yu looked at the milky white liquid that kept dripping down with astonishment. He hurriedly took out a metal box from his interspatial ring to collect this liquid.

This kind of stuff was one of the most excellent materials for concocting pills. It was very hard to come by!

After leaving the underground hidden river, Lu Yu instructed Song Yu and the others to continue to search for clues in the City Lord’s Office while he concentrated on cultivating.

During this period, although Lu Yu did not break through to a new realm, his strength, health vitality and mental power increased substantially.

The Black Jade Token had cracked open to reveal a fissure ever since it repelled Ying Qu’s full force strike. The cooling aura that seeped out from it was constantly being absorbed by Lu Yu.

[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed the Black Jade Token’s aura. Received: Energy +1500, Ice Heart (S-class).]

[Ice Heart]

[Level: S-class]

[Introduction: After absorbing the Black Jade Token’s aura, it evolved and can now protect against mental-type attacks. It is effective for half an hour and cool-down period is 3 hours.]

This pleasant surprise made Lu Yu very happy. After the skill Ice Heart advanced to S-class, he now had more time to control the Demonic Armor.

“I must find a suitable time to check with Uncle Qinglin what’s the origin of this Black Jade Token,” Lu Yu said. Yesterday, he had gone to the old district to look for Chu Qinglin.

However, he found that the blacksmith shop was securely locked. Chu Qinglin’s whereabouts was unknown and it was not known when he would be back.

At this point, Zhang Wu came to look for Lu Yu, saying that he wished to join the Gamma Military Zone. Lu Yu was quite shocked, and he spoke at length in earnest to him, “Zhang Wu, you must think this through carefully. Once you join the military zone, you have to go to the front line often to battle Fearsome Beasts. There is a risk of you losing your life any time.”

“Grandpa Lu, I am well aware of this. I have also discussed this with Grandpa and obtained his approval.”

With a look of determination in his eyes, Zhang Wu said firmly, “I know with my talent, I do not have any chance of qualifying for the top ten martial arts academies. But I want to become stronger. I want to protect Grandpa, so I am also prepared to pay the price for becoming stronger.”

Everything that happened over the recent past left the seed of desire to become stronger in Zhang Wu’s heart. Only when he was stronger could he and his Grandpa control their destinies with their own hands.

“Alright. Then you can join the 4th squadron, and Song Yu will be your captain in the future.” Lu Yu patted Zhang Wu’s shoulder. “Work hard. As long as your performance is good enough, promotion is not a problem.”

He was really surprised. Zhang Hong, who had only wished to live out the rest of his life praying that his grandson would be safe and sound for life, had undergone such a drastic about-turn. Lu Yu could only do his best to support them.