Lu Yu took a deep breath, adjusted his mindset, and began his final fishing attempt.
After so many failures, Lu Yu's heart had calmed down considerably.
He had also realized that the Eight Great Culinary Delights' fortune power was too low, which was why he had been repeatedly blanking.
Catching a fish would be pure luck, and not catching one was no big deal.
After understanding this, Lu Yu didn't care so much anymore, instead focusing on cultivating his Divine Wind Force, only leaving a sliver of his attention on the fishing rod.
A night of cultivation had further increased his cultivation level.
Although he didn't break through to the peak of the Second-Rate realm again, he was not far from that level.
“Tomorrow, when Huang Rong sees me break through to the late Second-Rate realm, she'll probably be shocked again,”
Lu Yu thought to himself.
Just then, the fishing line moved!
Seeing this, Lu Yu instantly woke up, his face full of joy.
Something had taken the bait!
The familiar process followed.
Reeling in the fish!
After a brief struggle, a yellow fish was pulled out of the Martial Arts Cloud Sea and merged into Lu Yu's body.
The next moment, a swordsmanship secret manual appeared in his mind.
“Xuan-Rank Superior, Butchering Ox Swordsmanship?”
Lu Yu murmured, seeing the complete picture of the secret manual.
The Butchering Ox Swordsmanship, a divine skill.
The Butchering Ox Swordsmanship was created by this chef named Ding.
While its power wasn't top-tier, the complexity of its swordsmanship techniques was definitely at the highest level.
As long as one mastered this swordsmanship, achieving the level of seeing the entire ox without a single part, any ingredient in their hands could be easily handled.
After glancing at the swordsmanship secret manual, Lu Yu laughed, “It wasn't a wasted night after all. This swordsmanship also comes with a bunch of recipes, truly a fish and two meals, a blood profit.”
Lu Yu exited the fishing space and, seeing that the sky was slightly bright, went straight to the kitchen.
There wasn't much meat left in the kitchen, so Lu Yu grabbed a large radish and picked up a kitchen knife with his right hand, his mind replaying the various techniques of the Butchering Ox Swordsmanship.
Moments later, Lu Yu moved.
He picked up the kitchen knife and began to wave it at the large radish.
The blade flashed, and the radish's fragments flew everywhere.
Soon, the white radish transformed into the shape of a bright and beautiful young woman.
If Huang Rong were here, she would recognize that the young woman looked about eight points similar to her.
“First time practicing, it's impossible to achieve perfection. But this Butchering Ox Swordsmanship is truly amazing, truly deserving of the words 'divine skill',”
Lu Yu uttered a sigh of admiration, casually placing the white radish on the chopping board.
Seeing that it was almost dawn, Lu Yu had no thoughts of resting and prepared to go out fishing.
Fortunately, after cultivating his inner strength all night, even though he hadn't slept, he didn't feel particularly tired.
However, just then, a young woman in a green dress had already reached the kitchen door.
“Lu Yu!”
Lu Yu was stunned, looked up, and saw those bright eyes.
It was Huang Rong.
He didn't expect her to come here directly.
“How did you get here?”
“I just guessed you were still at home, so I came directly. Yesterday, you won because my fishing rod was too bad, right?
So I got up early today, found some materials, and made myself a fishing rod.
Look, isn't this fishing rod much better than yours yesterday?”
Huang Rong held up her newly crafted fishing rod, as if showing it off, and waved it in front of Lu Yu.
Seeing this, Lu Yu smiled, unexpectedly, Huang Rong's competitive spirit was quite strong.
“Indeed, it's not bad.”
“Hehe, I'm definitely winning you today!”
“Then I wish you success.”
Lu Yu chuckled.
“What's with the lackluster response? Do you think I'll lose again?”
Huang Rong complained, then her gaze fell on the white radish on the chopping board.
Upon seeing it, she was stunned.
“You got up early to carve a radish? This radish is carved into…”
When she saw the face of the girl carved on the white radish, Huang Rong couldn't help but blush.
Lu Yu also smiled awkwardly and quickly put the radish away.
“That... I've been practicing carving lately, so I tried it out with a white radish. I've already carved everyone else, so I used your image for practice, it's okay, right?”
Seeing Lu Yu's guilty expression, Huang Rong burst into laughter.
“Haha! Lu Yu, haven't you heard? You're not good at lying, it's too easy to see through you.”
“Ah? Really?”
“No. Once you said that, it proves you were lying just now.”
“Um…”
Lu Yu was even more embarrassed.
Huang Rong was Huang Rong, she saw through him in just a few words.
Seeing this, Huang Rong didn't press further, instead, she picked up the white radish and said, “Well, the carving is about eight points similar, but it's still far from perfect.
If you say it's me, I wouldn't recognize it.
Since you used my image to carve, you can't just let it go.
How about this, when you carve it ten points similar, you give me one.
But I don't want it carved out of radish, it has to be at least wood.”
Seeing that Huang Rong didn't mind, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and immediately smiled, “Alright, no problem.”
“Let's go, let's go fishing! I'm going to win you today.”
With this sentence, Huang Rong directly brushed the matter aside.
“Okay!”
The second round of the fishing competition was about to begin.
“Wait! Did you break through again?”
Seeing that Lu Yu's aura was different from yesterday, Huang Rong exclaimed in surprise.
“Um... I was lucky enough to break through.”
Huang Rong felt numb.
Goodness, he breaks through a small realm every day?
If this continues, wouldn't he catch up to her soon?
No, no, cultivation gets harder the further you go, how could it be a small realm every day.
Many people get stuck at a bottleneck for years, even a lifetime.
But would Lu Yu have bottlenecks?
Huang Rong wasn't sure.
Because she had never seen anyone cultivate so quickly.
“Forget it, let's not talk about this. Otherwise, I'm going to get a complex.”
Seeing Huang Rong's complaining expression, Lu Yu chuckled, “Everyone has their own strengths, there's no need to make a fuss. Are we still fishing?”
“Of course! I'm going to win today! This time, you're treating me to dinner.”
“Then it depends on your skills.”
“Hmph! I'm quite skilled! Yesterday was all because of the fishing rod.”
One hour later.
The facts proved that yesterday wasn't about the fishing rod.
“I caught six, you only caught five, I still won.”
“Ahhhhh! How is this possible! It must be the location. Next time, I'm going to sit in your spot.”
“Alright.”
Lu Yu chuckled.
Fishing, it's really quite mystical.
Skills are important, but luck is also important.
Lu Yu even felt that luck was a bigger factor.
Of course, luck is temporary, only sufficient skills are the long-term solution.
But it's hard to stop someone with incredible luck, just starting fishing and beating experienced anglers.
“So I owe you another meal. Tomorrow morning, I'll bring you breakfast, how about that?”
Huang Rong suddenly said.
“Breakfast? Okay.”
Lu Yu was stunned, then responded.
This was the first time in this life, or any life, that a girl had brought him breakfast.
He couldn't help but feel a little excited about it.