Chapter 294 - 282: We Hit It Off, So Why Not Give It a Try?
Chapter 294: Chapter 282: We Hit It Off, So Why Not Give It a Try?
"Slow down, no one’s going to steal it from you!"
Once Lin Yi sat down, he completely disregarded his table manners, grabbing the Demon Beast Meat and stuffing it into his mouth.
Although Yi Nanshan and the Elder Celestial Master were experienced men and understood the need to eat immediately after a breakthrough, they couldn’t help but laugh when they saw the way Lin Yi was devouring his food.
Zhong Yan leaned against the doorframe, chuckled, and said, "So, what do you think? The Spirit Chefs on Dragon Tiger Mountain are pretty good, right?"
Lin Yi nodded. "Do all Daoists eat meat?"
"Who told you Daoists have to be vegetarian?"
"We believe in a balanced diet of meat and vegetables for good nutrition. If we ate nothing but vegetables, our faces would turn green, wouldn’t they? Except for certain special days when we choose to eat vegetarian, we have meat with every meal!"
Lin Yi: "..."
He looked up at Zhong Yan.
"Then why have I been eating nothing but vegetarian food for the past two days I’ve been on the mountain?"
Zhong Yan: "..."
The Elder Celestial Master glanced back at him.
"What’s this? The meals you’ve been bringing Lin Yi every day have all been vegetarian?"
Zhong Yan scratched his head, smiling awkwardly. "I was just thinking that eating vegetarian once in a while is good for your health!"
"Eating meat every day just fills your body with fat. That’s no good for us martial artists!"
"Nonsense!"
The Elder Celestial Master flew into a rage. "How old are you? Still pulling stunts like this?"
"If we hadn’t come over today, we would’ve never known you were feeding Lin Yi nothing but vegetables!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yi Nanshan, who was suppressing his own anger, said with a light chuckle, "There’s no need to be angry with him. Since he says a vegetarian diet is so good for the body, let’s just punish him with a month of vegetarian meals!"
"He can take this opportunity to properly improve his health!"
"Huh? Elder Yi..." Zhong Yan’s face was a picture of horror.
The Elder Celestial Master laughed. "Hm, not a bad idea. Starting today, you’ll be on a vegetarian diet for one month!"
"Master, Elder Yi, I was wrong! I was really wrong!"
Zhong Yan pleaded desperately.
However, Yi Nanshan and the Elder Celestial Master completely ignored him, acting as if they hadn’t heard a thing.
Lin Yi, on the other hand, was all smiles.
’So that’s how it is. How could the Daoists of Dragon Tiger Mountain and the students of Dragon Tiger University possibly eat vegetarian every day? They aren’t monks. While Daoists do have precepts, they aren’t nearly as strict, and they certainly don’t forbid meat. Only certain Daoist Sects have dietary restrictions on meat; not every sect is like that.’
’It’s a good thing this was discovered in time. Otherwise, by the time I returned to the university, my face really would have been green.’
A little over half an hour later, Lin Yi had devoured every last piece of Demon Beast Meat.
Not even a drop of broth was left on any of the plates.
Only then did Lin Yi feel like he had come back to life.
The gnawing hunger in his stomach was gone, and his Qi and Blood were slowly rising as his body broke down the Demon Beast Meat.
It would still take some time to fully replenish his Qi and Blood, but it was far better than the depleted state he had been in.
"Grandpa, it’s so late. Why did you come all the way up the mountain?"
The sky outside had long since grown dark.
Lin Yi had only just now thought to ask.
Hearing this, Yi Nanshan smiled. "I missed you, so Grandpa came up the mountain to see you."
"How have you been these past two days? Are you adjusting well here?"
"I think it’s great. The environment is quiet and peaceful, and no one bothers me. For the past two days, I’ve been focusing on visualizing the Blood Prison Map and I’ve had some insights!"
"Oh, right! My recent breakthrough—it happened inexplicably while I was comprehending things inside the Blood Prison Map!"
When Lin Yi finished speaking, the Elder Celestial Master and Yi Nanshan exchanged a shocked glance.
The main purpose of a Visualization Image was to cultivate the mind—to elevate and strengthen one’s mental state.
How could someone break through to a new realm inside a Visualization Image? This was completely unheard of.
The Elder Celestial Master quickly asked, "What did you visualize in that Blood Prison Map?"
"Uh... a purgatory, with countless demon beasts—too many to count!" Lin Yi answered directly.
"Demon beasts? A purgatory?"
The Elder Celestial Master was dumbfounded.
Yi Nanshan was also quite surprised.
This Blood Prison Map was actually left behind by the previous Martial God.
And the "fated person" he spoke of was, naturally, the next Martial God.
Only a Martial God could use a Visualization Method to visualize this Blood Prison Map.
In fact, before the Blood Prison Map fell into Lin Yi’s hands, many people had attempted to visualize it.
All of them wanted to see what secrets were hidden within the map.
As it turned out, everyone who tried saw something completely different.
Every person who attempted to visualize it saw a completely different scene.
A century ago, there was a man renowned for his powerful mental fortitude who tried to unlock the secrets of the Blood Prison Map.
As a result, he went into seclusion for three whole months and didn’t come out.
When he finally emerged, he had descended into a state of madness.
He raved about Blood Crows, endless Blood Crows filling the sky, simply innumerable.
He finally passed away more than a year later.
During that time, no one knew what he had seen inside the Blood Prison Map.
Afterward, one after another, others with strong mental fortitude also tried to probe its secrets.
The result was always the same: they either died suddenly or, like that man, descended into madness.
This continued until over twenty years ago, when an old monk also visualized the Blood Prison Map.
But this time, he only visualized it for three days before stopping.
He wrote down the Visualization Heart Returning Technique and then left.
He didn’t end up like the others before him—he neither died suddenly nor went mad.
Just before he departed, he entrusted the Blood Prison Map to Yi Nanshan.