Chapter 151 Sharing

It took about half an hour to use up all thirty-plus spiritual bait fish, and Yun Qing processed them all into neatly prepared pieces of small silver fish meat.

While marinating the small silver fish, the little black feather eagle specifically instructed: add scallions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers.

The spiritual wood charcoal had already been burned and prepared. Lighting it still required a certain amount of effort, needing ordinary fire combined with spiritual power to ignite. Moreover, because the spiritual wood charcoal might generate an intensity of heat too strong for a regular grill to withstand, the barbecue stove was improvised on the spot, changing from ordinary metal materials to an earth-and-clay construction.

Despite making numerous preparations, she still found some issues while grilling the fish. While the spiritual wood charcoal could indeed roast the meat inside the small silver fish thoroughly, it also damaged her grilling skewers, requiring her to constantly monitor with her spiritual sense and frequently flip them to save the skewers.

Under Yun Qing's careful tending, the first small silver fish grilled to a golden hue triggered a system notification:

Crafting Experience +100;
Obtained Grilled Small Silver Fish;
'Grilled Small Silver Fish: Deliciousness value 2, restores 45 satiety, restores 10 health, restores 20 spiritual power.'

This was her first successful cooking of a Tier-1 food item. Although the food was very small, its stats were the best among all the food she had ever made. Furthermore, this palm-sized small silver fish, which could be consumed in just a few bites, restored 45 points of satiety. Truly, superior ingredients yielded superior attributes.

The little black feather eagle had already flown down from the tree. Yun Qing was very eager to know its stats, especially its hunger value, so that eating food would not be wasted.

Having always assumed that the hunger value was only 100, she found that upon reaching level 41, her hunger value had increased to 150. Therefore, the giant eagle's hunger value was likely 200 or 250; after all, given how much it could eat, it had to be at least 250.

At 250, eating five or six grilled small silver fish would be sufficient, and eating any more than that would be a waste.

Seeing the giant eagle consume the first small silver fish, Yun Qing said, "Big Eagle, you are in such great shape, especially majestic and imposing."

The little black feather eagle did not speak, simply lifting its head: At least you have an eye for it, I am indeed majestic and imposing.

"Are any of your black feather eagles fat? Do fat black feather eagles look round and cute? I wonder if a fat black feather eagle's flight is affected." As Yun Qing spoke, she gestured with her hands toward the little black feather eagle, sizing up its volume if it were three times fatter.

Round and cute, fat to the point of being unable to fly, what kind of nonsense is that!

The little black feather eagle recalled a few days ago when it had eaten too much fish and almost crushed a tree branch. Its dark face darkened—this human wasn't praising it for being majestic and imposing at all. Then why would she say such a thing?

While grilling fish in the morning, she had said that she needed to eat as well.

Oh! So she was hinting that it shouldn't hog all the food and that she wanted to eat too.

Hmph! If you want to eat, just say so. It despised people who spoke in a roundabout way most of all, and it wasn't a bird that wanted to starve its chef.

"The next grilled fish is for you."

Yun Qing thought to herself: I didn't mean that at all, is there any eagle that would believe me?

Whether it believed her or not was not important. What mattered was that her giant eagle was actually willing to share. Having such good food to eat, how could she refuse? Only that picky dog, Liu Liu, would refuse to eat grilled small silver fish.

"Many thanks, Big Eagle."

The chef's attitude was good, and her posture was correct. She had made everything herself, yet she still thanked it for bestowing fish upon her. The little black feather eagle nodded slightly; a giant eagle does not harbor grudges against petty people, so it would forgive what she had just said.

After Yun Qing ate three small silver fish, her satiety had reached 145.

Checking her internal spiritual sense to repair her body, Tier-1 food was indeed much better than unranked food. After all, it contained spiritual Qi, and its attribute of restoring health worked wonderfully to heal the hidden injuries formed within the body by the battle between spiritual Qi and dark poisons.

The grilled small silver fish restored satiety differently compared to unearned ones. After eating five, the little black feather eagle also felt somewhat full.

However, what should be done about the twenty-plus small silver fish left uneaten? Combined, these didn't amount to much meat, and eating them all probably wouldn't cause her to burst.

Yet, yet—a sense of grievance welled up in the little black feather eagle's heart: Will I grow fat, turning round and round to the point where I can't even fly?

Sensing the little black feather eagle's grievance, Yun Qing said, "Big Eagle, do you have a place to store things, like a stomach pouch?"

The little black feather eagle's grievance deepened. It did not! It did not!

From the little black feather eagle's emotions, Yun Qing guessed the answer. She smiled and said, "Then I'll grill the remaining small silver fish and keep them in my storage pouch. Whenever you want to eat, just let me know, and I'll take them out of the storage pouch for you. They'll taste just like they were freshly grilled."

"Really!" Grilling them and putting them away, then taking them out to eat whenever desired—this perfectly resolved the dilemma of what to do with the twenty-plus uneaten small silver fish and the issue of gaining weight.

"Of course it's true! Look at the fish I caught before; weren't they taken out and grilled several days later?"

"Alright! Grill them and put them away. I'm keeping count, you aren't allowed to sneakily eat them."

"Alright, we'll eat them together."

The little black feather eagle flew up to a tree branch to rest. Judging from the subtle swaying of the branch, it hadn't gained any weight from this meal.

Before dark, Yun Qing finished grilling all the small silver fish, cleaned up the site, and began cultivating.

While the system cultivated automatically, Yun Qing began to plan. The giant eagle's cultivation level was extremely high; how could she make such a high-level giant eagle work for her?

Tie their interests together. The little black feather eagle was easy to fool: it loved eating delicious food, was willing to try new things, and when problems arose that she couldn't solve, it would proactively help her solve them, such as cutting down trees or using its bird claws.

And as for what she wanted, she wanted far too much.

Energy, spiritual medicines, trees, ores, fierce beasts, spirit stones, magical artifacts, defensive gear, spell jades, favorability ratings, hatred values, higher cultivation realms, and so on—too many to count with both hands.

The little black feather eagle only wanted to eat fish, and Liu Liu only wanted to eat meat. Their demands were so simple. Yun Qing asked, "Liu Liu, am I being too greedy?"

"No, you're just too poor."

Yun Qing: You heart-piercing dog.

By the pool, Yun Qing, whose spiritual Qi was fully replenished, executed body-refining techniques using her spiritual power. She wanted too many things, so her martial prowess and combat strength needed to be built up.

After completing a set of body-refining techniques, her spiritual power was completely exhausted, netting her several dozen points of combat experience.

Continuing to refill her spiritual power through cultivation, making spiritual fish bait, and then refilling her spiritual power to practice body-refining—she repeated this cycle until she was utterly exhausted, entering her cave dwelling to rest for two hours to fully recover her vigor.

There was not much light spiritual Qi outside, and the cultivation effect was inferior to daytime. In the artifact-refinement room, Yun Qing took out profound iron ore and spiritual wood charcoal, simply forging a few new barbecue skewers.

After a series of tests, the new barbecue skewers could withstand being roasted for half an hour without issue when kept at a certain height away from the spiritual wood charcoal.

Next, using the profound iron ore, she took one of the claws the giant eagle had given her and forged a small dagger, which she used to dissect small animals.

When all this was done, as dawn broke outside, it was breakfast time once again.

The human and the eagle dined. Forging the small dagger had taken her a very long time; that claw possessed a quality far superior to profound iron ore. She wondered what condition the claw's original owner was in now.

Seeing that the giant eagle seemed to be in a good mood and their relationship had progressed another step, Yun Qing asked, "Big Eagle, where did yesterday's claw come from?"

"From a Tier-4 hawk."