Chapter 133: The Foodie Jiang Xincheng

After resting for a bit, Jiang Xincheng started training his Azure Jade Iron Body again. One by one, Golden Body Stones turned into waste in his hands, and Jiang Xincheng’s body strength and flexibility rose as fast as lightning.

He tempered his muscles, forged his bones, infused his organs, and strengthened his legs… At every moment, Jiang Xincheng could feel his power growing. At every moment, he enjoyed the happiness of slowly taking control of his fate.

In his past life, his low strength caused his family, friends, and brothers to suffer terribly because of him. His talent was ruined, his family died, and his sister went missing. These events changed Jiang Xincheng’s personality. He became mean and angry, like a collection of bad feelings.

He was crazy, full of anger, reckless, bossy, and sharp-tongued… This caused Jiang Xincheng’s life to become more and more miserable. He made more and more enemies, and in turn, suffered more and more harm.

But much of this harm was actually taken by the people around him. Sister Anan, who cared for him greatly, his dorm brothers who protected him, his close female friends who felt sorry for him… These closest people endured too much pain for him. They died one after another in terrible ways. In his past life, he was like a cursed star. Besides bringing disaster, he hardly let those around him live a single peaceful day.

The more his friends and family died, the crazier he became, and the worse his temper grew. He never changed his ways. Yet perhaps he was like a cockroaster in his past life. Despite making so many enemies and facing so many dangers, he never died. Instead, the people beside him died one by one. But the one who lived did not feel lucky or happy.

On the contrary, regret and pain clung to him like worms eating his bones. They haunted him all his life, preventing him from ever being at peace or feeling happy. He never married a single woman.

He did not deserve it!

Because so many had died for him—Sister Anan who took such good care of him, Sister Yun’er who loved him deeply… Every night when Jiang Xincheng closed his eyes, he saw Sister Anan’s hopeless eyes and Sister Yun’er’s expression of living death… So he dared not marry, and he would not marry. He wanted to spend his whole life mourning and remembering Sister Anan and Sister Yun’er, who died for him.

So much pain, so much regret, so much despair… Each memory flowed through his mind. Therefore, Jiang Xincheng dared not relax. He had to seize every minute and every second to train hard. He needed to become the strongest Practitioner on the planet as fast as possible, to protect those around him, to have the happiness he never had in his past life, and also… to get revenge on all the enemies who caused him pain in his past life.

To achieve all this, he needed strong enough power, power that could destroy heaven and earth. Only then could he let everyone around him live good lives and eliminate all his enemies.

Jiang Xincheng dared not waste any time. He could not afford to waste it. The lesson of a lifetime echoed in his mind constantly. If Jiang Xincheng failed to learn from it, he would be wasting the chance of rebirth that heaven gave him for nothing.

A single minute or second might be ordinary to others, but to Jiang Xincheng, it was the power that would let him have everything.

“Boom…”

At one point, a loud noise shook his whole body, and a bright smile crossed Jiang Xincheng’s face.

All over his body—his Meridians, bones, organs… every part—shone with a deep azure light. This meant Jiang Xincheng’s Azure Jade Iron Body had reached the Great Completion stage. At this moment, his body’s defense was so strong it could withstand hits from ordinary rocket launchers. Regular guns and bullets no longer had any effect on Jiang Xincheng.

An ordinary Primordial Warrior of the same level, even using full strength to hit Jiang Xincheng, could not harm Jiang Xincheng in the slightest. At this moment, Jiang Xincheng’s overall strength was even strong enough to dominate the Bone Training Realm, even though he was only a mid-level Bone Training Realm Primordial Warrior.

Perfect peak Mountain-Shaking Fist, Great Completion Butterfly Sword Art, Great Completion Five Elements Steps, and now Great Completion Azure Jade Iron Body, plus decades of combat experience and mid-level General Realm Spiritual Sense support—among Bone Training Realm Primordial Warriors, who could be Jiang Xincheng’s match?

Looking at the two remaining Golden Body Stones, Jiang Xincheng smiled slightly and continued to circulate his Azure Jade Iron Body. He absorbed and digested these two Golden Body Stones too. His Great Completion Azure Jade Iron Body became stable and improved a bit more, coming very close to the perfect peak stage.

If not for the lack of Golden Body Stones, Jiang Xincheng would have liked to train his Azure Jade Iron Body directly to the peak perfect stage and then try to impact the Black Fiend Copper Body stage.

A few hours later, Jiang Xincheng appeared in the hotel restaurant. He ordered some local specialty foods of Liangnian City and enjoyed them thoroughly.

Chen Mapo Tofu was originally named after an old shop from the Hua Nation called “China Time-Honored Brand.” It started during the early years of the Qing dynasty’s Tongzhi era, opening at Wanfu Bridge in the northern suburbs of Liangnian City. It was formerly called Chen Xingsheng Restaurant. After several name changes and going through the Fourth World War, it was now called Ping’an Mapo Tofu.

Ping’an Mapo Tofu’s cooked tofu had a bright red color, with crispy beef bits. It was numbingly spicy, fragrant, crispy, tender, hot, and kept its shape. Its fame spread far and wide, and people flocked to eat it. It was one of Liangnian City’s most famous snacks.

Jiang Xincheng picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. It melted on his tongue, with all kinds of flavors dancing, making his mouth water.

The second delicacy of Liangnian City was Maoxue Wang, the authentic Liangnian City Maoxue Wang.

About a hundred years ago, at the Shapingba Ciqikou water ferry, there was a butcher named Wang who sold leftover meat scraps at low prices every day. Wang’s wife, Mrs. Zhang, thought it was a waste, so she set up a small stall on the street selling offal soup. She boiled pig head meat and pork bones with peas to make a soup, adding pig lung slices and intestines, then simmering with old ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, and cooking wine over low heat. It tasted especially good.

By chance, Mrs. Zhang put fresh raw pork blood curd directly into the offal soup. She found the blood curd became more tender the longer it cooked, and the flavor was fresher. That was the origin of Maoxue Wang.

The Maoxue Wang Jiang Xincheng ate had lots of chili peppers added. It was aromatic and spicy, leaving a lasting delicious impression.

The final delicacy was a famous dish known to everyone in Liangnian City.

It was said that in the 1930s, near Shaocheng in Liangnian City, a man named Guo Chaohua and his wife made a living selling cold mixed beef lung slices. The couple handled everything themselves, walking through streets and alleys, carrying their basket and shouting their wares.

Because the cold mixed lung slices they sold were carefully made and had a unique flavor, people loved them. To distinguish their stall from ordinary lung slice shops, people called them “Husband and Wife Lung Slices.”

After they set up a shop, they became even more particular about ingredients, using beef, heart, tongue, tripe, head, etc., instead of just lung. The quality improved over time. To preserve the dish’s original flavor, the name Husband and Wife Lung Slices was kept until today, not even destroyed by war.

Jiang Xincheng ate heartily. The fatigue and frustration from half a month of bitter training slowly faded away with each delicious bite.