Chapter 317: The Barbecue Shop Reopens

After Lu Yang woke up, Li Haoran and Qin Yanyan successively regained consciousness. The father and daughter looked around, confused about their situation.

"Everyone's awake?" the Fifth Elder asked, sitting calmly on a bench.

Qin Yanyan remembered the moment before she fainted: the Fifth Elder had waved his sleeve, and everything went black. When they regained consciousness, they were already here.

It was just like the legendary "Sleeve of the Universe."

"I know! What you just performed was the Sleeve of the Universe, right?" Qin Yanyan exclaimed excitedly. She couldn't believe she had personally experienced such a legendary divine ability.

As expected of an elder from the Dao-Seeking Sect!

The Fifth Elder gave a faint smile, implying everything without needing words.

Li Haoran looked thoughtful; he hadn't heard that his master knew the Sleeve of the Universe.

Meng Jingzhou, who had been observing the entire time, raised an eyebrow. He was the only one of the four who hadn't fainted.

After knocking out Lu Yang and the other two, the Fifth Elder had explained to Meng Jingzhou that he was concerned they might be afraid of heights or lack flying experience. Taking them directly by jumping down might be too much for them, so knocking them out and carrying them was more convenient.

Then the Fifth Elder pulled out three sacks and put them over the three. His movements were so skilled it was clear he had done it many times before.

"Is this the 'One More Time BBQ' restaurant you mentioned?" The Fifth Elder had done his homework before departing, asking Dai Bufan for Lu Yang's mission report and learning what had happened in Yanjiang County.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou looked at the familiar furnishings with nostalgic expressions.

Time flew by, circumstances changed, people were different. Years had passed in a blink, the Undying Cult had been annihilated, and yet they found themselves back here.

The Fifth Elder brushed his hand across a table, stirring a thick layer of dust. "Three months have passed; it's time for a cleanup."

Just as Lu Yang and the three juniors were about to start, the Fifth Elder waved his hand. "No need for such trouble."

His lips trembled slightly as he chanted an inaudible incantation, and a mark appeared.

The mark landed on the ground, and the space seemed to tremble, sending out invisible ripples, circle after circle.

The dust on the tables, chairs, and floor vibrated with the spatial ripples, detaching from the objects and spreading outwards.

Even the dust on Lu Yang and the other three lightly trembled, leaving them.

When all the dust, grease, and other grime had spread to the corners, a suction force appeared in the Fifth Elder's palm, drawing the dirt inward to form a vortex.

Finally, the dirt condensed into a spherical shape. The Fifth Elder clenched his fist, and the sphere of grime vanished without a trace.

The entire BBQ restaurant felt completely new, as if everything was sparkling fresh.

"This is the Dust-Cleansing Charm," the Fifth Elder introduced. "It's often used for cleaning. You can practice these practical small spells in your spare time."

"If you dislike someone, you can also use the Dust-Cleansing Charm to gather dirt into a ball and throw it at them."

This was the Fifth Elder's original intention for learning the Dust-Cleansing Charm.

"Reopening!"

Lu Yang pulled out various seasonings, skewers, an automatic skewering array, and other items from his identity jade token. The BBQ grills were already at the restaurant; they hadn't taken them when they left before.

"This automatic skewering array is quite interesting, very creative," the Fifth Elder remarked. He glanced at the array and immediately deduced its function.

Lu Yang thought to himself that this was the latest achievement of the Undying Cult's high-ranking members, combining the wisdom of four Integration stage cultivators.

The Fifth Elder asked, "Are there any arrays or magical artifacts for automatic grilling?"

Lu Yang shook his head; they hadn't designed one yet.

"In that case, I'll design one. However, I've never grilled skewers before, so I lack experience. I'll need to grill for a couple of days to practice and understand how to design an automatic grilling artifact."

The Fifth Elder's favorite thing to do was forge magical artifacts that had never existed before.

Lu Yang's spirits lifted. He had been wondering if he should capture a couple of changgui for the task, but now it seemed unnecessary.

Lu Yang mixed the seasonings in specific proportions, quickly preparing a jar of reddish, barbarian-style BBQ sauce.

"I'll go out and buy some ingredients first," Lu Yang said, allowing the Fifth Elder to try his hand at grilling.

"Go on, go on."

Lu Yang pushed open the door, drawing surprised glances from passersby on the street.

"Manager Lu!"

"What? Is that Manager Lu?"

"Is the BBQ restaurant reopening?"

"I heard Manager Lu went out to start a business. Did he fail and come back to run the BBQ restaurant again?"

"Didn't they say Manager Lu went home to inherit his family business? Why is he back?"

"There's that rumor too?"

"Haven't you heard? Manager Lu got lost from his parents when he was little, and the BBQ recipe is a childhood memory of his. A powerful figure came here to eat skewers, and after finishing, tears streamed down his face. He said only his family could make such a taste and asked who made it. Then the father and son reunited, and the BBQ restaurant closed."

"I heard that Manager Lu has a very rich fiancée, and she took him away?"

Passersby were buzzing with discussion. The "One More Time BBQ" restaurant was the most popular establishment in Yanjiang County, famous even in surrounding counties.

Unfortunately, after the Spring Festival, the BBQ restaurant closed, and people missed its food terribly.

People made all sorts of guesses about Lu Yang's departure.

As for the death of the county governor at that time, no one would connect it to the BBQ restaurant, let alone one adorned with so many banners of appreciation.

"Manager Lu, is the BBQ restaurant reopening?"

"Yeah, if we don't eat your skewers at night, it just feels like something's missing!"

Facing the enthusiastic crowd, Lu Yang raised his hand and loudly announced, "Everyone, please be quiet! We've returned this time to reopen the BBQ restaurant. Please rest assured; our preliminary plan is to open tomorrow!"

"Hooray!"

After Lu Yang finally managed to break free from the crowd, he was surrounded again at the market. By the time he returned to the BBQ restaurant, he was panting, feeling more exhausted from this outing than from a battle.

"I'm back!"

Lu Yang tossed the meat and vegetables onto the automatic skewering array. The array automatically cut them into small pieces, and wooden skewers floated up to thread them. The process was remarkably smooth.

The Fifth Elder took the skewered items to the grill, then turned and asked, "Do you have any special flames for grilling?"

As a grandmaster of artifact forging, the Fifth Elder commanded seven types of True Flames. However, they were all fierce and potent flames, suitable for forging but not for grilling.

"I have Samadhi True Fire!" Lu Yang volunteered. His True Fire was ideal for grilling.

"I have True Fire too," Meng Jingzhou said, as a scorching flame rose from his palm.

"Pure Yang True Fire?" The Fifth Elder recognized the origin of the flame in Meng Jingzhou's palm. Every cultivator with a solitary spiritual root who formed a solitary Golden Core would automatically master this type of True Fire.

"But your flame isn't as good for grilling as Lu Yang's Samadhi True Fire, is it?"

Meng Jingzhou showed a confident smile. "No, my Pure Yang True Fire is the product of a 'dual solitary spiritual root,' and it has effects that ordinary Pure Yang True Fire doesn't."

The Fifth Elder asked curiously, "What is it?"

"It can invigorate yang energy."

"Any ingredient cooked with Pure Yang True Fire can invigorate yang energy!"