After confirming the food was working for Elder Guo, everyone finally allowed themselves to indulge. The tension that had gripped them dissolved, replaced by the simple pleasure of enjoying an extraordinary meal.
Elder Huang eagerly scooped up a generous spoonful, her eyes gleaming with anticipation. "You have no idea how much I've missed this," she declared. "It's been exactly one hundred hours, fifty minutes, and twenty seconds since I last had Xiang Yu's cooking. If not for my high mind level, I would have gone into withdrawal and suffered qi deviation."
When the first morsel touched her tongue, she froze. She had expected improvement, certainly, but this? This was an entirely different realm of culinary mastery. The flavors cascaded through her senses like a waterfall of pure spiritual energy. She wanted to ask how he had achieved such profound advancement in his cooking, but her hand moved with a will of its own, continuously delivering more food to her eager mouth.
