At noon the next day, by the creek, Chad Brooks had built a fire and was burning something.

Last night, he had worked through the night to finish smoothing out the other five breakpoints. At dawn, after making all the necessary preparations, he waited here quietly for the beautiful lady to arrive.

He didn’t know if it was because of the original owner of this body causing trouble, but at this moment, he was quite looking forward to meeting that beautiful girl again.

In the distance, the figure he had been longing for finally appeared.

Chad Brooks leapt to his feet. He didn’t go to greet her, but instead lifted his foot and swept away the fire in front of him.

“What are you doing?” Yvonne Sullivan approached him, seemingly slow but actually fast, and asked listlessly.

Chad Brooks looked at her a few times and said in surprise, “Miss Sullivan, you don’t look so well today.”

Yvonne Sullivan bit her lip, clearly annoyed by his words.

Yesterday, in order to practice the secret technique of smoothing out breakpoints, she had nearly exhausted all her true energy, and even her spirit was extremely fatigued. Not only that, because she practiced techniques beyond her level, she ended up getting scolded, which left her feeling indignant.

Moreover, her uncle had clearly said that in this world, it was impossible for someone at the first level of true energy to complete spirit pattern inscription, let alone master the technique of smoothing out spirit pattern breakpoints.

Yet, the person in front of her had actually done it.

In front of this freakish guy, she found herself at a loss for how to respond.

What made her even more frustrated and embarrassed was that he seemed completely oblivious, and the first thing he said upon seeing her was to comment on her complexion.

She shot him a fierce glare and said, “What does my complexion have to do with you?”

Chad Brooks blinked twice, thinking to himself, Why is this girl suddenly so irritable? Could it be that it’s that time of the month?

He chuckled and immediately changed the subject, saying, “Miss Sullivan, to thank you for your guidance, I made something good for you.”

“What is it?” Yvonne Sullivan asked sullenly.

She knew she shouldn’t treat others with such an attitude, but whenever she faced Chad Brooks, she just couldn’t keep calm.

Chad Brooks took out his longsword, dug at the ground a few times, and unearthed a beggar’s chicken wrapped in lotus leaves.

As he opened the lotus leaves, a rich aroma instantly filled the air, quickly spreading throughout the area.

Chapter 009: Spirit Infusion

“Mmm, that smells amazing! What is it?” Yvonne Sullivan twitched her delicate nose twice and asked in surprise.

“Hehe, this is beggar’s chicken, a local specialty of ours,” Chad Brooks said proudly.

Ancient China was vast and abundant, with a long history of food, clothing, housing, and travel, and its cuisine was especially renowned. Although he didn’t know many cooking techniques, this was more than enough to impress a young girl.

Yvonne Sullivan blinked her big eyes in confusion and asked, “Do we really have such a specialty around here?”

Chad Brooks was momentarily stunned, then quickly replied, “We didn’t before, but we do now.”

“Why?”

“Because I’m here.” Chad Brooks puffed out his chest and said proudly, “This delicacy will definitely become famous throughout the world with my name attached to it.”

“Hmph, so full of yourself.” Yvonne Sullivan couldn’t help but laugh, her mood inexplicably improving.

Seeing that he had successfully made the girl laugh, Chad Brooks also broke into a wide smile.

The two of them sat down, washed their hands in the creek, and tore into the beggar’s chicken.

Even though their mouths were covered in oil, Yvonne Sullivan’s mood was clearly much better.

“You smoothed out all the spirit pattern breakpoints?”

“Yeah, you can check for yourself in a bit.”

“Hmph, that’s nothing special.” Yvonne Sullivan said as she chewed, “I can even inscribe all the spirit patterns in one go.”

“Yeah.” Chad Brooks said sincerely, “Doing it all in one go is really difficult.”

Yvonne Sullivan grew frustrated again. Was doing it all in one go really harder than smoothing out the spirit pattern breakpoints?

The girl’s thoughts shifted, and she suddenly asked, “Have you ever seen spirit infusion?”

“Spirit infusion?” Chad Brooks’s eyes lit up. He shook his head and said, “I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen it.”

Spirit infusion was the process of infusing a mysterious thing called “spirit” into a weapon or armor that had spirit patterns inscribed on it.

It was said that once spirit infusion succeeded, the weapon or armor would gain all sorts of incredible abilities, its power greatly increasing—worlds apart from before the infusion.

However, not just anyone could perform spirit infusion.

Only those special individuals known as spirit practitioners could infuse weapons and armor with spirit.

Yvonne Sullivan narrowed her eyes into a beautiful crescent shape and said, “Do you want to see it?”

“Of course I do.” Chad Brooks replied without hesitation.

Yvonne Sullivan lifted her chin high, like a proud rooster.

“Alright, let me show you—”

“Chengfeng.”

Suddenly, a loud shout interrupted the girl’s slightly triumphant voice.

Chad Brooks was momentarily stunned and called out into the distance, “Third Senior Brother, what is it?”