Chapter 892 – Gurgling Meat Mushroom Fortifying Soup

“I recall that many of the Earth-series gourmet cards include cooking steps in their descriptions, right?” Mo Lan asked curiously. “Have they tried making the dishes themselves?”

“Of course they have!” Sylph’s tone carried a hint of exasperation mixed with barely concealed amusement. “Thanks to those Earth gourmet cards of yours with their recipes, the young witches’ private enthusiasm for culinary magic has reached an all-time high. Back when Flora and Tiana were first-years, they’d eat breadfruit every day while poring over gourmet cards. Once they started learning culinary magic, they began trying to recreate dishes from the recipes included on the Earth gourmet cards. By now, they can make most common Earth home-cooked dishes.”

“I’ve heard about this too!” Vasida cut in excitedly. “On Gourmet Island, I heard several dragons saying that we witches are actually a race that descended upon Valen from an otherworld called ‘Earth’ during the Primordial Era! Their reasoning was that practically every witch knows how to cook at least a few ‘Earth’ dishes!”

Hearing this absurd rumor, the Sorceresses were stunned for a moment before bursting into cheerful laughter.

Speaking of good food, they couldn’t help but feel a bit peckish.

Mo Lan and Lilith simultaneously turned their expectant gazes toward Vasida, who had just returned from the Gourmet World, and said in unison, “Vasida, it’s time for you to show us what you’ve got!”

Sylph produced a spatial planting pot. Inside, several plump, full-bodied gurgling meat mushrooms with a warm, jade-like luster were quietly growing. “These are the best-quality gurgling meat mushrooms I’ve successfully cultivated so far!”

She gently pushed the planting pot toward Vasida. “The rest is up to your culinary magic!”

“Hehe, leave it to me!” Vasida rolled up her nonexistent sleeves with full confidence, cracking her knuckles in anticipation.

But she didn’t rush to take them all. Instead, she first carefully used a specially made jade spatula to harvest from the planting pot the most perfectly shaped gurgling meat mushroom — its cap thick and plump, its flesh firm and dense — and gently pressed it against her Management Card.

A flash of light rippled across the card’s surface, and the gurgling meat mushroom vanished.

“Taking one first as card-crafting material!” Vasida proudly waved the card in her hand, her face beaming with satisfaction. “This way, we’ll have an endless supply of the finest gurgling meat mushrooms to eat from now on! Hehe~”

Her greatest regret from the Gurgling Gurgling Gourmet World was that when she’d first drunk that bowl of gurgling meat mushroom fortifying soup, she hadn’t recognized its value and failed to use it as card-crafting material first. As a result, for all these years afterward, she’d been haunted by the memory of that exquisitely delicious flavor and its miraculous nourishing effects, yet never had the chance to taste it a second time.

Now, that regret could finally be remedied!

She cradled the remaining gurgling meat mushrooms and looked toward the grass outside the window. “It’s more spacious out there — perfect for what I need to do. Let’s go outside!”

The group made their way onto the soft grass outdoors.

Vasida didn’t take out any cooking utensils. She simply spread a picnic blanket on the ground and sat down cross-legged.

Her expression became intensely focused, and a strange energy fluctuation slowly radiated outward from her body, converging upon the gurgling meat mushrooms in the planting pot.

The gurgling meat mushrooms slowly rose into the air.

Mo Lan, Lilith, and Sylph simultaneously sniffed and swallowed involuntarily.

It wasn’t their fault for losing composure — Vasida’s entire being was now radiating an incredibly “appetizing” aroma.

The source was the type of magical energy she was currently using. Through Witch Sight, this magical energy appeared as a harmonious blend of warm gold, emerald green, and deep red. Most crucially, this energy carried the fragrance of food.

It was impossible to say exactly what food it smelled like, but it was simply mouthwatering, making one salivate uncontrollably.

Mo Lan had read some materials about the Gurgling Gurgling Gourmet World and guessed that this must be the Power of Cuisine unique to that world.

Vasida extended both hands, palms facing the ingredients, and began chanting a melodious incantation.

As she chanted, more and more Power of Cuisine enveloped the gurgling meat mushrooms.

Then Vasida’s eyes began to glow with a warm golden light. She held her fingers together like a blade, the Power of Cuisine swirling around her fingertips condensing into a fine edge that danced nimbly through the air, precisely slicing the meat mushrooms into perfectly even, paper-thin slices — each one exactly the same thickness, without the slightest deviation.

The sliced meat mushroom pieces continued to hover in midair.

Vasida brought her hands together before her chest, then slowly drew them apart.

Following her movements, natural elements from all around joyfully converged — clear water elemental energy, passionate fire elemental energy, rich earth elemental energy, and nimble Wind Elemental Magic interwove and merged with the Power of Cuisine, ultimately forming a continuously spinning, faintly glowing energy liquid that gently enveloped all the meat mushroom slices within it.

“Let the heart be the furnace, let will be the flame — harmonize all things, and supreme flavor shall emerge!”

Vasida formed complex hand seals, and the energy liquid wrapping the meat mushrooms began to radiate gentle heat from within.

The meat mushroom slices trembled slightly within this extraordinary energy liquid as the immense life energy and supreme umami substances contained within them were perfectly stimulated and extracted, blending seamlessly with the surrounding energy liquid.

The mixture gradually transformed into a warm, rich amber-gold color, releasing an increasingly enticing aroma.

At the same time, Vasida snapped her fingers lightly, sending three cards flying out. First, she sprinkled in a pinch of rainbow-colored particles, then added several slightly curled silvery-white dried slices, and finally dripped in three drops of liquid as thick as amber.

Consulting the descriptions in the Card Shop, Mo Lan and the other two identified all three cards as specialty products from the Gurgling Gurgling Gourmet World. The rainbow particles were Cloud Dream Salt — a salt that perfectly draws out the natural flavor of ingredients. The silvery-white dried slices were dried Moonlight Shiitake, which releases deep, complex aromatics when simmered in liquid. The amber liquid was Earth’s Honey, commonly used to balance flavors and make the broth more rounded and full-bodied.

Under the influence of the Power of Cuisine, these supplementary ingredients instantly broke down into their most fundamental energy particles, perfectly dissolving into the soup.

When the amber-gold sphere of soup floating in the air radiated a complete and harmonious energy fluctuation, Vasida gently pressed both hands downward and whispered, “Congeal!”

All the Power of Cuisine instantly converged, infusing itself into the soup.

With a beckoning gesture, four exquisite soup bowls — instantly crystallized from pure water elemental energy — appeared on the grass. The soup sphere divided into four equal portions, settling evenly into each bowl. The broth took on a glistening, gelatinous consistency, with golden halos slowly flowing within it. The meat mushroom slices suspended inside looked like transparent pieces of amber, radiating a soft glow.

“Here we go,” Vasida said with an exhausted but utterly exhilarated smile. “Give it a try! I’d suggest using a Dietary Fortification Card first, though — otherwise, you might feel full after just one sip.”