Ye Yin chuckled and slowly pulled a bursting stinky tofu from his spirit tool. The smell instantly spread, causing everyone to frown.
"It smells so bad!" one person exclaimed.
"What is this thing?" another asked.
"Is it stinky tofu?"
"Brother Yin," someone begged, "before you have any good ideas, can you please put this thing away?"
The smell of the stinky tofu made everyone's eyes turn a little red, and they began to feel agitated. This agitation would attract other creatures, and naturally, Spirit Beasts.
"Can I have a bite of this stinky thing? I really want to eat a bite of this stinky thing."
Ye Yin took out two portions of stinky tofu. "One piece per person is enough," he instructed. "Don't eat too much, it's a waste."
Under Ye Yin's direction, everyone took a piece of stinky tofu, stuffing it into their mouths in one bite. This was the only way to avoid the juice from flying everywhere and to ensure it had the desired effect, a method Ye Yin had tested. Finally, everyone returned to normal.
"Was I a little abnormal just now?" Flender was the first to ask. "Why did I especially want to eat stinky tofu? If anyone didn't let me eat it, I felt like I would hit them."
Zhao Wuji nodded in agreement. "Me too. What's going on?"
Looking at their strange expressions, Ye Yin explained, "This is the ability of bursting stinky tofu. To be precise, it's not the stinky tofu itself, but the smell of the soup inside the stinky tofu. It attracts people, including other creatures, and of course, Spirit Beasts."
Yu Xiaogang was the first to react. "Ye Yin, you mean to use stinky tofu to attract Spirit Beasts so we can choose a suitable one for Tang San?"
Ye Yin nodded. "Exactly, that's it."
Their eyes lit up. "What a truly great idea!"
"But is the range of this stinky tofu's smell a bit small?" someone asked. "It feels like it disappears beyond a dozen meters."
Ye Yin chuckled and took out another can of surströmming. This was the enhanced, extra-large, extra-price kind. "What if we combine these two things? The surströmming's smell spreads extremely wide, penetrating everywhere!"
Instantly, several people couldn't help but slowly retreat a half step, trembling slightly in fear.
"Brother Yin, are you sure this is okay?" one person asked.
"Is this normal? It just feels a bit scary," another said. "One is already outrageous, and now you're mixing two."
Ye Yin waved his hand. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. It's just that the teachers will have to work hard, because many Spirit Beasts will come then. But most of them should be hundred-year Spirit Beasts."
Zhao Wuji smiled and puffed out his chest. "Don't worry, it's just a group of hundred-year Spirit Beasts. No matter how many come, I can handle them."
Ye Yin took out a large clay pot and poured ten cans of surströmming into it one by one.
"Ugh!"
As soon as Ye Yin opened the first one, he heard violent retching from behind him.
[Resentment from Shrek Academy teachers and students +… ]
"Quick... put on masks..."
Yu Xiaogang skillfully took out a bunch of masks. They were extra-thick ones specially prepared to deal with Luo San Pao's farts, but he didn't expect them to be used here. Everyone put on the extra-thick masks and felt much better. It was just unpleasant, but not enough to make them retch.
Ye Yin then added ten portions of bursting stinky tofu, covered the lid, and broke open each piece of stinky tofu inside, ensuring all the juice leaked out. Listening to the crackling sounds, everyone's gaze toward Ye Yin changed. For the first time, they felt that Ye Yin was so terrifying.
After adding all the ingredients, Ye Yin skillfully lit a fire under the clay pot. Under the crackling flames, the alluring aroma of the surströmming stinky tofu stew in the clay pot began to quickly spread outward. Ye Yin took a deep sniff. Fragrant, it was simply fragrant!
This was Ye Yin's secret clay pot! He almost couldn't resist taking a chopstick to taste it.
"Do you guys want to..."
Ye Yin turned his head, and before he could finish speaking, he saw the rest of Shrek Academy uniformly retreating five or six steps. And everyone wanted to hide behind someone else.
"What are you doing? It smells so good! Are you sure you don't want to try it?"
A dozen people uniformly shook their heads, without the slightest hesitation.
"Ye Yin is such a pervert!" Shao Xin couldn't help but say. As a top Food System Spirit Master, he was very passionate about food, but looking at Ye Yin's dark cuisine, he only felt fear.
Several people nodded in unison. "That's right, Ye Yin (Brother Yin) is simply too perverted!"
Even Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had to admit it was true.
"Alas, you guys won't have this blessing," Ye Yin said. "Let's quickly prepare our defenses. The Spirit Beast hordes will be here soon. Be extremely careful. If we're not careful, we'll be gone."
Ye Yin quickly ran back toward everyone. Shao Xin's spirit rings continuously flashed, and one colorful candy after another was summoned. Oscar's third spirit ring continuously flashed, preparing a Mushroom Sausage for each student. The two extra ones were given to Shao Xin and Yu Xiaogang. Besides the eight students, Shao Xin and Yu Xiaogang had the lowest combat power.
A few minutes later, the scent spread out little by little, and a large series of dense footsteps quickly approached their location.
"The Spirit Beasts are coming," Flender said. "Everyone, pay attention to dodging. Don't attack head-on yet; focus on defense. If it's really not working, go airborne!"
Seven spirit rings rose from under his feet, and a pressure from a Spirit Saint quickly spread outward. A series of Spirit Beasts quickly arrived from the surroundings.
"Ugh!"
"Ugh!"
...
Followed by dense retching sounds.
[Resentment from the Star Dou Great Forest Spirit Beast horde +… ]
Looking at the constantly refreshing resentment values, Ye Yin suddenly felt like he had discovered a new continent. Although each Spirit Beast provided little resentment, less than five points, the sheer number made up for it. Although the alluring surströmming stinky tofu stew aroma made the Spirit Beasts retch wildly, it still made them charge madly. The first to arrive was a five-hundred-year-old Vajra Rat. It bit through the clay pot in one go, and then took a bite of the surströmming.
"Ugh!"
This retch made it spit out the surströmming it had just eaten. Then it ate again, spit again, ate again, spit again, in a continuous loop.
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