Chapter 473: Chapter 166: The Art of Sorcery and Gu! Are you eating a pig? You’re eating a Taoist! (A 10,000-word Chapter asking for subscriptions)_4
Xing Fengzi said, "This was also something Daoist Fan Wu reminded me of just now, which made me realize that something was seriously off about this place."
Daoist Priest Fan reminded him?
Oh!
Then there’s no problem!
Yun Jiuqing had just harbored some slight doubts, wondering if Xing Fengzi was a tad too sensitive? Perhaps this was all a coincidence, and there was nothing amiss here.
But once Xing Fengzi mentioned it was Daoist Priest Fan who reminded him,
Yun Jiuqing immediately changed her thought—there must be something wrong with this place! What a deep cover, indeed!
Her thoughts switched seamlessly.
In Yun Jiuqing’s mind, if it was something said by Daoist Priest Fan, then it must be right.
There is only one sun in the sky!
The sun in her heart, Yun Jiuqing’s sun,
was none other than Daoist Priest Fan!
"Daoist Priest Fan, what should we do now?" Yun Jiuqing couldn’t help feeling nervous as she turned to look at Fan Wu beside her.
"Wait," Fan Wu said calmly.
It didn’t take long.
Suddenly, the Shop Assistant who had accepted the silver note earlier hurried over with a large platter. Light white smoke wafted from the dish, and the alluring aroma that slowly spread seemed to instantly provoke everyone’s appetite.
The Shop Assistant carefully placed the big platter on the table before Yun Jiuqing and the others. With an enthusiastic and eager face, he introduced, "This is our signature roast meat. The rest of the dishes will be served shortly. Please enjoy this in the meantime."
Yun Jiuqing gave the Shop Assistant a suspicious glance. Ever since she found out that something was off about this tavern, she felt a pervasive sense of wrongness from every corner, including this Shop Assistant.
Yet she could not detect anything amiss from the Shop Assistant, who seemed somewhat uncomfortable under her scrutiny.
The Shop Assistant swallowed nervously and asked weakly, "May I ask if you need anything else?"
Being stared at by such a beautiful woman didn’t bring the Shop Assistant the slightest bit of joy—only fear.
Because when Yun Jiuqing gazed at him, her eyes flickered with a hint of murderous intent!
How could the Shop Assistant not be scared!
"It’s fine, go about your business," Yun Jiuqing said, shifting her gaze away from the Shop Assistant and onto the large platter he had brought over.
It was a copper platter.
Exquisitely arranged on it were slices of cut meat, surrounded by an abundance of greens to cleanse the palate.
There was no denying,
She was tempted.
Yun Jiuqing involuntarily swallowed her saliva. Reason told her there could be something wrong with the meat, but an unexpected longing bubbling up inside her made her fingers itch to grab a piece and stuff it into her mouth right away.
To be honest,
Xing Fengzi at Yun Jiuqing’s side felt the same way. Xing Fengzi also had a strong desire for the meat, and if he hadn’t firmly restrained himself...he likely would have reached for it already.
Then they watched in disbelief as Daoist Priest Fan, who had first noticed something off about the tavern, picked up a pair of chopsticks from the table and grabbed a piece of meat from the platter.
His smooth, flowing movements left them both dumbfounded.
So much so that they couldn’t help but suspect Daoist Fan Wu might have been playing tricks on them just now.
However, they quickly realized that Daoist Priest Fan hadn’t eaten the piece of meat but was scrutinizing it with narrowed eyes.
Then,
they heard Fan Wu’s voice say, "In your eyes, what kind of meat is this piece?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Jiuqing blurted out, "It looks like delicious roast meat..."
"Pah!"
Yun Jiuqing hastily shook her head to clear her thoughts and conjectured, "Should be wild boar meat, right? The scent has a pork smell but less gamey than usual pork, suggesting it’s from a wild boar."
"Huh?" Xing Fengzi paused, looked at Yun Jiuqing suspiciously, and said, "Doesn’t this smell like mutton to you?"
"Huh?" Yun Jiuqing was taken aback. "I don’t smell any mutton odor!"
"...I smell it," Xing Fengzi said.
The two fell into a dead silence, suddenly realizing something was very wrong with this dish of meat.
Afterward,
they heard Daoist Priest Fan’s voice rise again, "In your eyes, it’s wild boar meat, in your eyes, it’s mutton, but in my eyes...this is not wild boar or mutton, but a piece of meat you both would rather not know about."
Boom!!!
As the calm voice of Fan Wu fell, it struck like lightning in the minds of Yun Jiuqing and Xing Fengzi.
What kind of meat was it that they would rather not know?
Wait!!
Could it be...
Hiss!!
"Could this be an illusion?" Xing Fengzi exclaimed in shock. He immediately took out a talisman, and after muttering an incantation, the talisman burst into flames.
A fleeting golden light flickered in his eyes.
"But..." Xing Fengzi said in astonishment, "It seems there has been no change from before."
Yet he knew Daoist Fan Wu wouldn’t shoot an arrow without a target.
Was it because his own cultivation was too low?
It must be so! Something Daoist Fan Wu could see at a glance, yet undetectable even with the use of a Delusion Breaking Talisman, the disparity between them was not small at all!
