Dragon Capital, Celestial Principle Academy.
In the canteen's private kitchen, four big pots were cooking at the same time. Ma Liu's hands were moving so fast they were almost leaving afterimages. Before Li Xin returned, he had no intention of leaving Dragon Capital, especially now that Xueyin had inherited Principal Mordo's Celestial Principle Sword and her strength was skyrocketing. Her advancement was too fast, her foundations unstable; at this time she very much needed a Gourmet like Ma Liu to assist her.
Kung Pao chicken, sweet and sour ribs, twice-cooked pork, stir‑fried blood duck, and on the other side of the stove a special steamed egg custard in the steamer. Ma Liu controlled the heat precisely, his cookware flipping nonstop. Under the Gourmet's special cooking methods, an invisible power seeped thread by thread into the still half‑cooked ingredients, bound together through taste and locked into the food itself.
