Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday novel Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Sleeping Beauty

"Junior sister, why are you still here? Don’t you have other matters to attend to?" Xiang Yu asked, glancing over his shoulder as he organized the cooking ingredients for the massive feast ahead.

Li Yao, who had been sitting quietly on a wooden stool near the cooking area, looked up with innocent eyes. "No, I’ll just stay here and watch senior brother," she spoke.

"Okay," Xiang Yu replied with a slight shrug, turning back to focus on the preparations.

Inside Li Yao’s consciousness, however, [What do you mean "no"? You still have tons of paperwork to go through. You need to allocate budget for the reconstruction efforts, review the alliance agreements, assign patrol schedules for the outer disciples, evaluate the injured members for compensation...] The Empress’s voice carried a note of exasperation as she listed the piling up administrative responsibilities.

But Li Yao cut her off. "It’s okay, I can do it later. Can’t I just watch senior brother for a while?"

The Empress fell silent for a long moment. She wondered if this girl was more affected by what happened earlier than she was letting on. Although Li Yao didn’t show it outwardly, maintaining her usual confident demeanor, the Empress suspected she had been deeply shaken by the experience.

[Well, alright,] the Empress finally spoke, her tone gentler than before. She thought to herself that it was indeed important to let loose every once in a while. Looking back, maybe it was because she took her duties too seriously that she turned out like this. Still, if she were to go back in time, she knew she would still make the same choices. After all, she was different from her senior sister...

Li Yao settled more comfortably on her stool, her eyes bright and attentive as she watched Xiang Yu begin coordinating the cooking. There was something deeply soothing about observing him work.

"You, prepare the fire. You, get the herbs. You over there, prepare the meat," Xiang Yu called out rapid instructions to the ten new cooking school disciples.

He thought to himself that although this was his first time cooking on such a large scale with so many assistants, it wasn’t as difficult as he had anticipated. It was essentially like having extra hands. The key was clear communication and proper task delegation, skills he had developed during his college years’ group projects.

For tonight’s victory feast, Xiang Yu had planned a three-tier system that would showcase the sect’s capabilities while appropriately honoring their guests according to their status. For the regular disciples of each visiting sect, he would prepare seventh-grade spirit foods. This was beneficial for disciples of this level.

The higher-level disciples and elders would receive sixth-grade spiritual foods. This level would be considered precious even in larger sects. It should be able to offer meaningful assistance to their cultivation, and might even help some break through minor bottlenecks.

For the most honored guests—the sect masters—Xiang Yu planned to serve fifth-grade spiritual foods. These were meals that even Soul Formation experts would appreciate, containing enough concentrated spiritual energy to provide tangible benefits to their qi cultivation as well as soul energy to help in their soul cultivation.

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