DEM Chapter 24: The Most Depraved!

After school in the afternoon, Su Yuan, clutching the delivery package, excitedly led Chen Nuoyi to report to the cafeteria’s back kitchen.

“The dragonscale geese are kept in the courtyard behind the kitchen. You two can handle them yourselves.”

Chef Li, with a friendly smile, handed each of them an apron.

Su Yuan thanked him, and together with Chen Nuoyi, they headed to the courtyard. The square yard, roughly three hundred square meters, was filled with all sorts of ingredients.

There were Iron Mountain pigs, weighing two thousand pounds but only the size of a regular pig, with astonishingly dense bodies; chicken dragons with sharp, gleaming teeth and vibrant feathers; and dry hemp fish, able to survive on land, covered in prickly scales, and about the size of a basketball.

Without exception, all these ingredients were Qi Refining-stage spirit beasts.

Their flesh either aided students’ cultivation or enhanced physical strength, making dishes made from them the most expensive in the school cafeteria.

Turning these spirit beasts into gourmet dishes was a formidable challenge for any chef.

One common difficulty was that chefs might not be able to overpower their own ingredients.

Su Yuan’s gaze fell on a large iron cage in the corner of the courtyard, housing four geese as tall as a person. Each goose’s feathers shimmered with a silvery-gray glow under the sunlight, resembling tightly arranged dragon scales.

Hence the name: dragonscale geese.

The aura emanating from these geese was at least at the sixth layer of Qi Refining, with the largest and most ferocious one exuding fluctuations at the late stage of Qi Refining.

Su Yuan mentally assessed the gap between himself and the geese, arriving at a very honest conclusion.

His combat strength was inferior to a goose.

Fortunately, he had planned ahead and brought backup.

“Class monitor, it’s your time to shine! Grab the fiercest goose from the cage for me! But be careful not to kill it directly, I need to handle it myself!”

Su Yuan said to the tense girl beside him.

“Alright.”

Chen Nuoyi nodded solemnly, her demeanor shifting as if she were a predatory tigress. She strode swiftly toward the cage holding the dragonscale geese.

Crack!

The iron cage opened, and the four geese, as if seeing the light of freedom, stretched their necks, eager to rush out.

However, a slender figure blocked their path, reaching for the strongest among them.

Seeing the delicate hand coming toward it, the lead goose’s eyes flashed with a sharp gleam. It opened its beak, revealing shark-like teeth, and bit down fiercely on the hand.

The seemingly fragile, fair hand didn’t flinch or dodge, letting the goose’s beak clamp down and tear at it.

Yet, no matter how desperately the goose bit, it couldn’t leave even a faint mark on the hand.

“Quack!”

Chen Nuoyi’s hand shot out like lightning, seizing the goose’s neck. The beast let out a strangled cry and, under the horrified gazes of its three companions, was dragged out of the cage.

The remaining three geese immediately shrank back, trembling like quails, their earlier arrogance nowhere to be seen.

Chen Nuoyi, dragging the goose that was larger than her, came to Su Yuan and asked softly, “Coach, what should I do next?”

Su Yuan didn’t respond immediately, instead carefully studying the goose as if it were a work of art.

After a while, he snapped back to reality, smiling as he opened the delivery package and pulled out several long, icy-cold nails, each about twenty centimeters long.

The design of these nails faintly resembled coffin nails.

The girl curiously examined the nails, clearly unaware that hell lay just ahead.

Su Yuan said in a low, eerie tone, “Class monitor, please hold the goose’s head firmly. Next, I’ll use my family’s secret… roasted goose technique to preprocess the ingredient.”

“Alright.”

Chen Nuoyi obediently pinned the goose’s head to the ground. No matter how the seventh-layer Qi Refining dragonscale goose thrashed, its head couldn’t budge an inch.

Su Yuan aimed a nail at the goose’s crown, pulling a hammer from the package. He focused his energy, channeling the strength of every muscle into a single force, transmitting it through his palm, and drove the nail in with one swing!
Boom!

With a muffled thud, the twenty-centimeter nail was hammered into the goose’s head, vanishing into its feathers.

Strangely, after this strike, not a single drop of blood flowed from the goose. Though its thrashing gradually ceased, its eyes still gleamed with an eerie light, as if it hadn’t fully died.

This was to be expected. In the cultivation world, death was defined as the soul leaving the body, but while this goose’s head had been pierced, its soul hadn’t departed.

That was because the nail Su Yuan had just used was a secret technique from the Ancient Corpse Refining Technique: the Soul-Suppressing Nail!

By using the Soul-Suppressing Nail method, a nail driven into the target’s body could lock its soul, preventing it from leaving. This was the first step in corpse refining!
Indeed, this was Su Yuan’s plan to lead Chen Nuoyi into absolute depravity!

To have her learn the sinister art within the sinister art of Ancient Corpse Refining.

But the question was, how could he get Chen Nuoyi, the righteous saintess, to learn corpse refining?

Su Yuan’s inspiration came from the char siu shop he saw last night!

When he saw those roasted geese, ducks, and suckling pigs, he realized that the preparation methods for char siu overlapped significantly with Ancient Corpse Refining!
Having fully mastered Ancient Corpse Refining and become a master of the art, he could easily pass himself off as a master of char siu!
So, he chose to apply for a job at the school cafeteria. Once hired, he could naturally teach the righteous saintess to refine corpses… ahem, to make char siu!

The saintess learns corpse refining,
Crafts a goose that wafts for miles,
Counts money till her hands go numb—
The most depraved!

Not only would the saintess learn a demonic technique, but she’d also become a slave to money. No wonder Chen Nuoyi’s fate today was [Eternal Fall into the Abyss]!
It’d be a miracle if she didn’t fall!

Su Yuan let out a heavy breath and said slowly, “Class monitor, next comes bleeding, plucking, and gutting. You’re not squeamish about blood, are you?”

Chen Nuoyi shook her head slightly, “I scored full marks in a 99% realistic simulated slaughter training.”

Su Yuan nodded with satisfaction, “In that case, class monitor, you’ll be fully involved in the ingredient preparation from now on.”

“Great!” Chen Nuoyi’s pretty face lit up with a thirst for knowledge. “Coach, please guide me thoroughly. I’ll watch and learn carefully to avoid holding you back.”

Su Yuan: “…”

Actively asking to learn Ancient Corpse Refining? Class monitor, you’re something else!
But this suited him perfectly.

Half an hour later, the dragonscale goose’s feathers were fully plucked, and its innards were removed. The entire goose was clean and white, lying as if in a peaceful slumber.

The materials were prepared, and it was time for the next step: formal corpse refining… ahem, char siu preparation!

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