Chapter 37 - Dumpling Cooking and the Girl Dragon
Chapter 37 Dumpling Cooking and the Girl Dragon
The battle has ended. With an unstoppable momentum, Li Yang killed the Twelve Kizuki, causing the ordinary demons to lose all composure in fear. They were left with only one thought to flee from Li Yang, the God of Death!
Naturally, the Demon Slayer Corps couldn’t let this golden opportunity slip by. Under the leadership of the Nine Pillars, they wiped out all the demons!
Although Kibutsuji Muzan, the progenitor demon, did not appear, the entire Demon Slayer Corps was still in high spirits. This was the greatest victory the Demon Slayer Corps had achieved in over a thousand years.
All Twelve Kizuki had been slain!
It was an unprecedented triumph!
And all of this every member of the Demon Slayer Corps knew full well. It was all thanks to Lord Li Yang!
For a moment, all the swordfighters of the Demon Slayer Corps looked at Li Yang with adoring eyes. This was the kind of gaze filled with worship, one that even the leader of the Corps, Ubuyashiki Yōya, had never experienced.
It was a look of reverence, almost as if they were gazing at a god!
As for Li Yang?
After a chaotic slaughter, he was exhausted, breathing heavily, and had to activate his golden patterns and release the light of culinary mastery, a burden too heavy to bear. It took him ten more Spirit Crystal Coins to recover.
If we were to say what made Li Yang so unstoppable in this battle, it would be thanks to his enlightenment of the Illusionary Golden Fried Rice. The golden light, like the sun, was the nemesis of demons!
Kokushibo, the uppermost of the Twelve Kizuki, died in a most humiliating way, completely restrained by Li Yang’s culinary light. His full potential could not be fully unleashed, and he met a tragic death!
To celebrate this great victory, a victory banquet was naturally in order. The banquet was held at the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Corps, in a remote mountain deep away from human settlements.
At the banquet, Li Yang displayed his culinary skills, not only cooking the extraordinary Golden Fried Rice but also preparing the Magical Mapo Tofu, Grand Panda Mapo Tofu, and Phoenix Crystal, all to perfection.
During the process of cooking the Phoenix Crystal, Li Yang finally achieved perfection in shaping and made the *perfect* Phoenix Crystal.
[Congratulations, Master! The Phoenix Crystal you created has reached 100 points!]
[Reward: Glowing Culinary Creation – Dumpling Dishes ×2 (Flying Dragon Dumplings, Rising Dragon Dumplings)]
Two more similar dishes? Li Yang thought.
He had seen these two dumplings in the anime Chinese Masterchef, which were part of a dumpling competition. The Flying Dragon Dumplings were made by the Dumpling Brothers, while the Rising Dragon Dumplings were made by Liu Mángxīng, the Little Masterchef.
The difference between the two lies in the filling. Though both use shrimp meat, Liu Mángxīng’s Flying Dragon Dumplings also included shrimp brains, which added a unique sweet flavor to the Rising Dragon Dumplings.
Additionally, Liu Mángxīng’s Rising Dragon Dumplings even move on their own. It was quite amusing!
In the morning, among the dishes Li Yang had prepared, the Golden Fried Rice was the most popular, followed by the Magical Mapo Tofu. The swordfighters of the Demon Slayer Corps, who mastered the Breath of Fire, loved the Magical Mapo Tofu so much that they even preferred it over the Golden Fried Rice.
Especially Rengoku Kyojuro, the Flame Hashira, who couldn’t help but wish Li Yang could stay at the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters permanently.
When he found out that Li Yang would soon return to his homeland, Kyojuro could only regretfully express that he hoped to visit China once a month to taste Li Yang’s Magical Mapo Tofu.
In an instant, this suggestion was supported by many members of the Demon Slayer Corps. They decided that from now on, they would fly to China every month to visit Li Yang’s Midnight Restaurant and enjoy his delicious cuisine. Li Yang naturally agreed.
After all, these people were bringing money to him, so how could he not welcome them?
At the banquet, Li Yang, as the most honored guest, was enthusiastically made to drink by the members of the Demon Slayer Corps, especially the female swordfighters led by Love Hashira Mitsuri Kanroji and Insect Hashira Shinobu Kocho, who were eager to get him drunk and drag him into their rooms late at night.
Eri Na and Hishako, in an effort to protect Li Yang’s chastity, resisted, but unfortunately, their efforts were no match for the sheer number of opponents.
Seizing the opportunity amidst the chaos, Eri Na hid the half-drunk Li Yang and returned to the banquet to join Hishako in fending off the female swordfighters from the Demon Slayer Corps.
Li Yang, half-awake and half-drunk, suddenly felt the urge to urinate. He tried to find a toilet but, unknowingly, wandered into the mountains. A refreshing mountain breeze blew, and the alcohol-induced haze lifted slightly, allowing Li Yang to barely regain his senses. He squinted and looked around with blurry eyes.
Hmm… it’s an unfamiliar place.
Looking back, he saw that there were only scattered rocks and overgrown grass. There was no real path; he had basically forced his way through the bushes.
Looking up again, the moon was bright and the stars sparse. It seemed like a good evening weather. Li Yang decided to sit down, intending to enjoy the mountain breeze and sober up before heading back.
Then, he saw a magic circle suddenly appear in the sky, followed by a meteor falling from the heavens. The meteor, glowing with fiery light, grew larger in Li Yang’s view.
“Shit!”
Li Yang was startled awake from his drunken stupor, immediately activating the Sun Breathing technique and running for his life.
Are you kidding me?
That meteor was more than ten meters in diameter!
If it crashed down, the shockwave would probably be like a nuclear bomb, right?
Li Yang didn’t know how far he had run, but when he looked back, the meteor had already fallen. However, there was no massive shockwave or explosion as he had imagined.
As he recalled the magic circle he had seen earlier, Li Yang grew curious about the meteor’s identity and turned around, running back to the site.
When he arrived at what seemed to be the original spot, he saw that the surrounding trees had been completely scorched by the fire, and lying on the scorched earth was a massive creature.
It was a dark green dragon with wings on its back, horns on its head, and a fierce expression…
It was the legendary dragon from Western myths!
But…
This dragon looked strangely familiar!
Because Li Yang was still a bit drunk, his reactions were slower than usual. He stared at the dragon, trying hard to recall it from his memory.
The dragon, upon noticing Li Yang, a human, entering its territory, became immediately alert. It had just suffered a heavy blow, and now, a human appeared…
Was this person trying to kill it and earn the title of “Dragon Slayer”?
But as the dragon saw Li Yang more clearly, it suddenly felt its guard lower.
“This handsome human… must be kind-hearted, right?” The dragon mused to itself.
Li Yang, unaware of the mysterious effect of the reward “Yuki Onna’s Gift,” wondered why the dragon had such a reaction. After all, dragons could be considered part of the demon race, right? And the Dragon Maiden could also be considered a demoness. So, the dragon didn’t have a bad first impression of Li Yang.
In fact, it thought that the drunk Li Yang was quite adorable. If not for the fact that its current form was too large and that there was a sword sticking out of its body, the dragon might have even licked Li Yang with its tongue.
Hmm, to mark him as its own property with dragon saliva!
Li Yang still couldn’t figure out who the dragon was, but he had decided to try and talk to it.
“Hey, big dragon, why are you here? I see you’ve got a big sword sticking out of your back, does it hurt?”
The dragon rolled its eyes.
This human man must be an idiot.
I’ve bled so much, how could it not hurt?
Before the dragon could respond, Li Yang jumped onto its back.
“Let me pull it out for you!”
The dragon was shocked.
“Don’t touch it! That’s the Sword of the Gods, your mind will be shattered…”
Before it could finish its warning, Li Yang scoffed.
“The Sword of the Gods? Is it really that impressive?”
Li Yang’s Illusionary Golden Fried Rice technique activated once again, and its light shone on the Sword of the Gods, causing the massive blade to disintegrate into stardust. The dragon stared blankly at Li Yang, glowing. At this moment, the dragon felt that Li Yang’s light had pierced into her heart.