Chapter 68 - Divine Sense (1/2)

'Did he really earn all that money just from selling monster cores? I cannot imagine how many monster cores one would need in order to earn hundreds of thousands of gold coins…' Yu Rou shook her head helplessly as Yuan, who didn't even know about selling the monsters' materials.

”Brother, we can either chop these pigs up like a butcher would and sell their materials separately or just sell the whole corpse at once. Which method would you rather choose? We'd earn more money from selling the materials individually, but it'll also require much more work,” Yu Rou said to him a moment later.

”Let me chop them up for you,” Yuan said to her.

”Do you know how to…?” Yu Rou looked at him with a doubting gaze. Butchering a whole monster is not something one can do without training and experience.

”Yes, I have this cooking technique called Thousand Knife Technique, and when I look at these corpses, my mind automatically tells me how to butcher it with my dagger, almost like it's only natural,” Yuan said to her.

”Really? But I am more interested in why you have a technique meant for cooking…” she said to him.

”I'm not sure since I have never done it, but I feel very confident when looking at it.”

Yuan approached the three Horned Pigs with the Starry Abyss still in his grasp. He then kneeled in front of the corpses and began cutting monster corpses with the dagger.

His movements were neither too slow nor too fast with each cut done in a single smooth motion, making all of his movement appear extremely natural, almost like he has years of experience already.

”Wow… And you learned that from a cooking technique?” Yu Rou mumbled in awe.

”Yes. Do you want to learn it, too? I still have the technique book with me,” Yuan asked her.

”You can share techniques with others?” Yu Rou raised her eyebrows.

”We'll know once we try it. Let me finish up butchering this pig, though.”

After completely butchering the first horned pig perfectly, Yuan began working on the second horned pig, and his movements appeared even cleaner than previously.

”As expected of Brother Tian, he's learning at an extremely fast pace.” Xiao Hua nodded her head in approval after seeing Yuan skillfully butcher the horned pigs.

”I'm not surprised, since my brother is a genius who learned to play nearly every instrument in the world professionally when he was only five years old, after all.” Yu Rou also nodded her head, agreeing with Xiao Hua.

”Brother Tian can play the instrument?” Xiao Hua looked at him with wide eyes. Is there something this guy can't do?

”Not only can he play the instrument but he can play them flawlessly! There used to be tens of millions of people who admire—”

”That's enough, Yu Rou. It's all in the past. There's no need to bring it up anymore…” Yuan suddenly interrupted her with a solemn expression on his face.

”Oh… I am sorry, brother. I got too excited and brought up something I shouldn't have again…” Yu Rou quickly realized her mistake and apologized to him.

Although Yuan used to play the instrument, because of his illness that crippled his sight, he was forced to adapt to playing the instruments while blind and until he can no longer physically move his body.

”...”

Seeing the depressing atmosphere around them, Xiao Hua decided to not ask any questions for now and silently watched Yuan butcher the last horned pig.

A few minutes later, once all three Horned Pigs were flawlessly butchered by Yuan, he tossed the materials into his spatial ring.

”I'm speechless, brother. Even though that was your first time butchering a pig— a monster, you didn't make a mess! Even your hands are clean! It's almost like you never did it!” Yu Rou expressed her admiration for him once again.