Chapter 75: The Hunt for Lost Taste

In the midst of the wilderness, under the thick leaves of the trees in the spirit forest, a fiery red wolf that looked like a giant Siberian husky was fighting a giant bird. The bird looked like an ostrich, but its long legs were covered in thorns, and its kicks were fast and lethal.

The giant red wolf quickly jumped back to retreat, avoiding the ostrich’s kick filled with long and sharp thorns. The fiery red wolf growled threateningly as it slowly circled its prey just outside the range of the kicks, trying to discern and catch an opportunity to strike.

Suddenly, the giant ostrich rushed toward the fiery red wolf and axe-kicked down from above like an expert taekwondo strike. The spur on its foot descended like a guillotine, but the red wolf quickly stepped aside as fire burst out of its fiery red fur.

Boom!

Fire burst forth and the wolf’s speed increased while the flames burned the steel-like legs. In a short time the burst of fire heated the ostrich’s leg until it glowed red like a metal rod fresh out of a steel furnace.

But instead of showing pain, the ostrich’s axe kick crashed into the ground. It quickly turned its head to look at the wolf that had just moved into its blind spot on the left.

Whoosh!

A sharp pain tore through the giant ostrich’s neck as blood splashed. Its neck had been bitten by the fiery red wolf. It wanted to cry out, but its windpipe was crushed, along with part of its lungs, as the fiery red wolf sank its claws into its chest full of muscle.

Its head was torn from its body, ending its life in a swift manner.

The wolf proudly roared into the sky after finishing off its prey. If Wei Chen were here, he would have recognized it. This wolf was the same Heavenly Fire Wolf he rode to the Sword Manor back then.

This giant fiery red wolf that looked like a Siberian husky was none other than Max.

After Max finished its prey, instead of eating on the spot, it swiftly dragged the carcass deep into the forest toward the distant mountain.

Within the large and vast cavern, there were mountains of bones. All of them came from various types of bird creatures, from normal chickens that could be found in any mortal village to large predator birds that ruled the skies.

Inside the cavern, a young man was sitting on a small rock, using his only arm to grill a large bird drumstick over the fire. Judging from his smooth and practiced movements, it seemed this young man had been doing this for quite some time.

“Ha… how long do I need to keep doing this?” The young man let out a long sigh as he complained to himself.

At that moment, the spirit of a fierce looking old man with only his left arm, the same as the young man, appeared beside him and began kicking the young man’s head in annoyance.

“Stupid disciple! Didn’t I tell you to run? And you were like… No, master, a favor of saving one life, I need to repay it!” The spirit spoke in a serious and righteous tone as he mocked the young man’s words.

“Ma… master, please, if you kick me, the drumstick might burnt and I will be the one in trouble,” the young man said with a wry smile while having his head kicked by the spirit and still grilling the drumstick.

If Ximen Hao were here, he would have recognized this young man. He was none other than Yun Feng, the man whose childhood sweetheart was stolen by him and who was later hunted by his lackeys.

At this time, a fiery wolf figure walked into the cavern from the entrance, its mouth dragging the bloodied, headless body of a giant ostrich. It was Max, who had just returned from the hunt.

Like the wind, the fierce old man’s spirit swiftly vanished into the ring Yun Feng was wearing the moment he sensed Max entering, leaving Yun Feng alone.

Whoosh! Sizzle!

The fire burst out from the fire pit on the ground as Yun Feng momentarily lost concentration while controlling the fiery qi, and a patch of the drumstick immediately burned dark.

“Ah! Brother Heavenly Fire Wolf!” Yun Feng called out with a smile.

Max dragged the giant ostrich and placed it in front of Yun Feng. Then it moved its head toward the headless corpse, signaling Yun Feng.

“The same thing as usual, right? Brother Heavenly Fire Wolf?” Yun Feng asked.

Max nodded and then walked toward the drumstick on the rack near the fire pit.

Yun Feng immediately started pulling out all the feathers from the giant ostrich. His left arm moved swiftly, and in a mere moment he had already plucked all the feathers from the giant ostrich’s left wing.

Max stopped at the rack near the fire pit and sniffed the drumstick. It quickly caught the smell of burnt meat. Its right foreleg slapped the drumstick off the rack, and its claw poked the meat as if it were the most disgusting thing in the world.

Its eyes stared at the drumstick in disdain, then shifted to Yun Feng, who was still plucking feathers.

Growl…

Max growled, pulling Yun Feng’s attention toward it. Yun Feng then noticed Max’s disdainful eyes and the claw pointing at the burnt drumstick lying on the ground as if it were the most revolting thing imaginable.

Seeing the disdain in the eyes of a wolf, Yun Feng wanted to cry but had no tears. He had spent more than an hour slowly grilling that drumstick over a low flame. He put his heart into it, yet because it was a little burnt, it was discarded like useless junk.

Anger rose in Yun Feng’s heart. He wanted to shout, You are just a beast! Don’t you usually eat things raw? It is only a little burnt!

But in the end, he decided not to throw a tantrum. This damn wolf was at the early stage of the Soul Formation Realm, and he was only at half-step Core Formation Realm.

“Err… you want me to do it again?” Yun Feng asked.

Max nodded, then snorted, the disdain in its eyes still apparent as if it were looking at the most useless human it had ever seen.

Yun Feng could only smile wryly and nod. “Yes, I will do it again, Brother Heavenly Fire Wolf.”

Snort!

Max snorted in disdain, then walked to the largest rock bed in the cavern and slowly lay down. It yawned and gradually closed its eyes, waiting for the newly grilled drumstick.

Its mind drifted back to the day it separated from the demon-like human. Why did it want to separate from him? Of course, it was a king beast, the great Heavenly Fire Wolf. It would never accept humiliation or being commanded by a mere human.

One could kill it, but to make it bend its will and serve? Never.

Or… that was what it believed in the beginning.

But after it tasted that heavenly meat, a perfect blend of spicy, sour, sweet, and savory in a golden ratio, the joy that filled its heart and tongue, the way its taste buds danced with delight the moment it tasted that drumstick…

It could not forget that heavenly meat.

After that, its entire palate changed. It loved hunting bird-like creatures and eating them. Not because of strength or cultivation like before, when it devoured other beasts to absorb their essence.

No, now it hunted purely for bliss and enjoyment, trying to chase that heavenly taste once again.

It thought it could easily hunt bird-like beasts anytime. It did not know that the drumstick part was the most delicious. If it had known, it would have eaten bird creatures long ago.

But after its festive hunts, after eating countless bird-like beasts, it never tasted that heavenly flavor again.

It hunted everything from weak chickens raised by mortals to kings of the sky, such as the Steel Beak Fierce Hawk, a Nascent Soul level sky beast. The fierce fight ended with the wolf killing its prey, and this hunt allowed it to meet its human servant.

This human servant somehow understood its intent better than that demon-like human who had made the heavenly meat. Yes… now it knew that the heavenly meat was created by that human.

Maybe… this human servant could also make that heavenly meat.

It forced this human servant to prepare the drumstick, but the best he could do was grill plain meat. The meat was well-cooked, but it lacked something, something it could not identify.

The meat did not have the golden ratio of spicy, sweet, sour, and savory flavors that could make its taste buds dance in joy.

It made this human servant remake it many times, until the bird bones piled up into a small mountain inside the vast cavern.

But after so many attempts, this useless human servant still could not recreate that heavenly meat.

Why?

Why can’t this human servant do it?

Must it really be that demon-like human!?

It never thought its human servant would be so useless. And now, the latest attempt was even burnt. Was this person a cook or an arsonist? It was burnt, black, completely disgusting.

So useless!!

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