Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 70

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When Namgung Yeonhwa startled and denied it, Jegal Lin glared at her with disbelief.

“Really?”

“Of course. The more allies we have, the better. Why would I do that? I’m already dying from the difficulty since Peng Guyeon and Ak Yeonbi are out.”

Jegal Lin’s momentum softened by half at Namgung Yeonhwa’s logically sound response.

“I, I see…”

“Of course. And you seem to have forgotten, but Riser is my benefactor before being your friend! I’d rather exclude you instead. As if I’d be crazy enough to do that to Riser… Oops!”

Namgung Yeonhwa, more shocked by her own carelessly revealed true feelings, quickly shut her mouth.

“Now that I hear it, you’re right. I must have misunderstood.”

Fortunately, Jegal Lin showed no particular reaction to the phrase “I’d rather exclude you instead.” Namgung Yeonhwa let out a sigh of relief.

“But saying you only have one friend is a bit hurtful. What am I then?”

“Dad’s friend’s daughter…”

“Tch. How honest.”

Namgung Yeonhwa grumbled as if hurt, but Jegal Lin didn’t mind.

After all, Namgung Yeonhwa probably didn’t have many people she truly considered friends either, and she herself wouldn’t be included among them. (Though this was just Jegal Lin’s assumption.)

“Then what’s the real reason you’re not asking Riser for help?”

“Because she’s not here right now. Trust me a little. I told you she went to Cheonryeon Palace.”

Jegal Lin readily nodded her head.

“Okay… I’ll trust you.”

At that moment, Namgung Yeonhwa’s eyes sparkled like a fisherman reeling in a caught fish as she clapped her hands.

Clap!

“Since it’s come to this, you can just perform well enough for Riser’s share too!”

“Me?”

“Who else but you? Aren’t you Riser’s best friend?”

At the mention of being Riser’s best friend, Jegal Lin’s eyes widened slightly and came alive.

“That’s right…!”

“I knew it would be like this. Wow, Riser is so lucky! Having such a capable formation master as her ‘one and only’ best friend!”

Before she knew it, Namgung Yeonhwa’s arm was draped over Jegal Lin’s shoulder.

Jegal Lin had already taken on a blank expression, saying things like “Hehe, it’s not that much. What kind of formation did you say you needed?” as she was dragged along by Namgung Yeonhwa’s lead.

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At the same time.

Riser was making dumplings in her mental world.

“Good. One cycle complete!”

Calling 60 dumplings one cycle was amusing, but since the essence was one cycle of internal power, it wasn’t wrong either.

‘Now I just need to wait.’

Riser hummed happily as she transferred the completed meat dumplings to a bamboo steamer and placed it over the mouth of a vigorously boiling cauldron.

The work of digesting the elixir’s energy gathered in her dantian and converting it into usable internal power was complete.

Of course, there was still work left to do.

“The leftover ingredients from making dumplings are essentially impurities… so I need to recycle these to make them devour the poison energy spread through my blood vessels…”

Riser sat on the counter and fell into thought while looking at the remaining ingredients.

Fermented flour dough, well-kneaded dumpling filling.

A situation where she had to think of a different result using ingredients that anyone would say were “for making dumplings?”

Fortunately, since flour and meat mixture were versatile ingredients, this itself wasn’t an insurmountable challenge.

‘But can the finished dish (poison energy made from impurities) mix well with completely different food (poison energy spread through blood vessels)?’

For using poison to counter poison to work, different types of poison energy had to mix completely.

The problem was that it wasn’t easy to combine already completed dishes with other foods.

At best, pairing compatible menus like curry + pork cutlet or ribs + cold noodles, or changing the flavor of seasonings or sauces wouldn’t be nearly enough.

“…Kimchi pizza sweet and sour pork?”

An extremely rare example came to mind.

Kimchi pizza sweet and sour pork. A menu that perfectly met the condition of completely mixing individual completed dishes to create new food… though it was.

‘When would I finish making all that?’

Riser groaned and crossed her arms.

Just making kimchi alone involved complex processes, and thinking about making pizza and sweet and sour pork on top of that felt overwhelmingly daunting.

Most importantly, it strayed too far from “leftover ingredients from making dumplings.” The cure would be worse than the disease.

“Again. Let me think from the beginning again.”

Riser lightly shook her head to dispel the image of kimchi pizza sweet and sour pork and returned her thinking to the start.

‘For good mixing even in completed state, liquid would be more advantageous than solid.’

Riser imagined scattering the dumpling filling without forming it and boiling it into soup, and with the remaining flour dough… well, maybe making something like flower bread.

‘No good. That wouldn’t be one dish.’

Unless it was food that came as a complete set like spicy stir-fried vegetables and flower bread.

A set?

Riser felt like she’d been hit in the head with a hammer.

Wasn’t there food that paired liquid like soup or stew with bread made from flour dough as a set meal?

Crash!

Riser jumped up from her seat and rushed to the cooking counter.

Opening the pantry revealed exactly the seasoning Riser needed.

It was curry powder, representing the Five Poison Circulation Technique that converted elixir impurities into poison energy.

‘This is it. Definitely this!’

Sizzle!

The dumpling filling already contained meat along with onions, garlic, and chives, so no other process was necessary. Just stir-fry it in oil, then add tomato sauce and curry powder and simmer it down like gravy.

The flour dough that had already completed fermentation could be rolled out with a rolling pin, shaped, and baked crispy in an oil-free frying pan.

“Done…!”

On the round metal tray lay reddish keema curry and tear-shaped baked naan.

All ingredients were used without waste.

With this, all impurities remaining inside Riser would have converted to poison energy form.

‘Finally, the poison energy that had seeped into my blood vessels…’

Riser closed her eyes and concentrated all her nerves.

She visualized the poison energy that the mysterious poison master had scattered spreading throughout her body, then gathered all that poison energy to one point and materialized it right here, on the cooking counter.

Slowly opening her eyes, she found a bowl of plain yogurt placed on the cooking counter.

“This is exactly it.”

It came to mind immediately when she decided to make curry.

An ingredient that was a completed dish as is, yet also mixed perfectly when combined with curry. Yogurt was the food that perfectly met the conditions!

‘Excellent.’

Riser smiled with satisfaction and drizzled a spoonful of yogurt in a circle over the curry.

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