Demon hunter's Cooking Manual

Secret Medicine?!

When Jason heard this term, his first instinct was to think of 'food'.

After all, for Jason, most of the Mystical Side's offerings are 'food'.

Not to mention, 'secret medicine' is something that sounds ingestible right from the start.

As for 'mystical knowledge'?

Jason values it highly as well.

You need to be able to read the 'menu' if you want to 'eat' better, right?

Just like at this moment.

Jason is very curious about what this so-called 'secret medicine' might be.

However, despite his inner interest, Jason remained calm and seated, showing no emotion.

How should one engage in conversation.

Or more precisely, how should one 'negotiate business', his life in Nightless City had long engraved this skill into his bones.

Initiative!

One must grasp the initiative!

Only by controlling the initiative can one balance the scales for victory and consume more chips.

And now, he clearly holds the initiative, otherwise, the other party wouldn't have offered the 'secret medicine'.

Watching Jason remain unaffected, Li Deshang sighed quietly in his heart.

As one of the officials of Mountain City, he had access to information far beyond what Jia Youcai, the arrest officer, could touch, and therefore, when Jia Youcai reported that he had invited Mu Bai, the master of Mu-style Martial Arts School, this official sought detailed information about Mu Bai.

Although it wasn't detailed at first, everything since arriving at Mountain City was thoroughly documented.

This includes records of Dou Bao buying vegetables and meat daily.

From these records, Li Deshang deduced that Jason was truly a martial artist who had completed the 'muscle training' stage and had entered 'bone tempering', otherwise one person couldn't eat so much.

This equally indicates that Jason has a 'clean background', a grassroots origin, not from some large sect or hidden power.

Figures from those forces wouldn't use such crude methods; 'secret medicine' is their optimal choice.

Not only does it save time and effort, but it also doesn't leave much residue in the stomach, allowing faster entry into 'bone tempering'.

But that doesn't mean Jason isn't strong.

A martial artist who completes 'muscle training' is already one in a hundred.

And reaching 'bone tempering'?

Even more rare, one might not be one in ten.

It's not just about talent, but also heritage.

The technique of 'muscle training' counts as a secret technique in ordinary martial arts schools.

Having a 'bone tempering' secret technique?

One could remain stable in a corner, continue their legacy, become a hundred-year family.

As for 'skin training' secret techniques?

Even in a flourishing area, they are the powerful elite.

Li Deshang's 'secret medicine' came from such elite hands, specifically his main family in Northern Capital, granted as an award when he passed the provincial exam, but unfortunately he was born physically weak, unable to practice martial arts, let alone bone tempering or skin training, not even the 'muscle training' stage unless spending an exorbitant price with various secret medicines to assist him, or else practicing martial arts would be suicidal.

However, a dose of secret medicine is rarely attainable, even his main family doesn't offer more than ten doses a year, hardly enough for daily consumption.

Secret medicine wasn't possible, but his main family did tell him some martial artist secrets.

For example: a martial artist who completes 'muscle training', can face ten opponents effortlessly.

And those who complete 'bone tempering', become ever stronger, with the strength to drag bulls.

If adorned in heavy armor, wielding a long spear, they become military warriors.

Those who achieve 'skin training' have abundant qi-blood, skin tough as cowhide, easily resisting heavy punches and kicks, and most ordinary weapons struggle to harm them slightly.

Yet, martial artists of such caliber are extremely rare.

Indeed, the martial artists themselves are scarce.

In the entire Martial Arts Street of Mountain City, those qualifying as martial artists number only five or six.

In his own office, only the head arrest officer in Eastern City could be called a martial artist.

Perhaps hidden martial artists exist in the city, but even combined, they likely wouldn't exceed twenty.

After all, Mountain City is not exactly a flourishing area.

But because of this, Mountain City remains relatively stable.

However, everything changed with the arrival of the 'flying thief'.

Following the deaths of the four head arrest officers and over a dozen skilled hands, Li Deshang knew if he wanted to remain an official in Mountain City, he absolutely needed to catch this 'flying thief'.

Otherwise, not only his position but his life would be endangered.

Thus, he spent heavily to invite the masters from Martial Arts Street to assist.

Yet the masters he usually had good relations with all became turtles hiding in their shells, only Mu Bai, with whom he had a shallow connection, agreed.

It's not that Li Deshang disregarded Mu Bai.

But Mu Bai had just arrived, and he hadn't yet thoroughly understood Mu Bai's true background, originally planning to wait until after the martial arts competition, yet this led to no close relationship between them.

"If only I had known earlier..."

Such a thought inexplicably rose in Li Deshang's mind.

Then, Li Deshang shook his head.

Money couldn't buy foresight.

At this moment, all that remained was to do his best to make up and deepen the relationship.

"This 'secret medicine' is called 'Tiger Blood Strong Yuan Powder', one of the secret medicines of the Li Family from Northern Capital, possessing miraculous effects for martial artists in 'muscle training' and 'bone tempering'. Although I only have one dose here, being a branch of the Li Family, if I apply, I can obtain another dose—as long as Master Mu agrees, this dose will serve as the deposit, and the subsequent dose as the subsequent reward, what do you say?"