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Chapter 125 You haven’t become an immortal yet, so you don’t want to?
"Do you like sweet drinks? Or sweet and sour? Or light or milky ones?"
Baili Shuang distributed the menu of the milk tea shop to several people and introduced it, "These are all milk teas, which are milk and tea. The ingredients are here. The ones above are fruit teas and fruit juices. This honey lemon tea is the best-selling one. Lemon is citron, and the name 'lemon' is... it came from somewhere else. And these are pure teas, bamboo rice tea, Yunding Golden Bud..."
A few people made their selections, and soon, one of them sat outside a nearby barbecue restaurant, holding a bamboo cup.
On the long stove are dozens of iron skewers with a variety of ingredients on them. The aroma of cumin and chili peppers conquers the surrounding air, and the spicy and pungent smell goes straight into people's nostrils.
"Senior Sister, it smells so good..."
The junior disciple from Taiyi Ziwei Sect gulped his saliva and pulled another disciple aside to whisper.
Monks often eat wind and drink dew. Sometimes they would sit in meditation or seek enlightenment for more than ten days, or even more than a month, eating very little.
After the practice of fasting, most monks have had the few formal meals at social occasions such as the banquets of major sects. In such occasions, the main purpose is not to eat enough, but to taste delicacies, fine wines and nectars. The common feature of these is that they are light and natural in taste. Barbecue, a domineering hodgepodge of various strong aromas mixed together, is something that has never been seen before.
The player who was flipping the skewers bravely greeted Baili Shuang with a smile, and asked unwillingly: "Big Sister, is it true that we don't have chili peppers like millet peppers in Guixu Realm? This golden finger pepper is spicy enough, but it's not fragrant enough!"
Jiao Xueling coughed a few times due to the spicy taste and asked, "Golden Finger Pepper? Isn't that a spicy spiritual material used for alchemy?"
"Hey, in our Taiyin Sect, these are all seasonings! There's also the dried tea seeds, which we call cumin, and they're all used for seasoning. Sigh, I don't know how you guys live. You have everything but don't know how to use it!"
As the player spoke, he smacked his lips with an expression of pity.
"My junior fellow disciple is cultivating the five flavors and is quite knowledgeable about food," Baili Shuang explained. "Sometimes he studies new dishes and lets everyone taste them here. If you are willing to stay in Taiyin Sect for a few more days, you can come and visit often."
As soon as Baili Shuang finished speaking, the player with the ID [Large Intestine Sashimi] was so excited that his face turned red - he was actually remembered by the senior sister! She even remembered his major... No, it was his inherited master! There are so many players in the server! Being remembered by the senior sister! If she told others about it, she would brag about it for days!
He wiped the oil on his hands on his clothes excitedly and said, "Big sister, come and eat. What are we waiting for? I will prepare some fancy dishes for you in a while! New products that have just been researched! Mr. Huang said they are delicious after eating them!"
"Thank you so much, Junior Brother!"
Baili Shuang thanked him casually, then turned to ask the two Taiyi Ziwei disciples beside Jiao Xueling: "I haven't asked for the names of these two Taoist friends yet?"
Jiao Xueling said, "Two useless people, one is called Chao Yan, the other is called Lv Wenyuan. One studies alchemy, the other practices swordsmanship. They are both at the foundation building stage, just one step away from the golden elixir stage. That's why I brought them out to train them. Who knows, maybe they will become successful."
Perhaps the noise around eased the tension and fear, and Junior Sister Chaoyan also relaxed a lot. She asked curiously, "Is this also the Taiyin Sect? Why do you allow disciples to do business in the sect?"
"It's the Taiyin Sect, but this is a city built by the Taiyin Sect's disciples themselves. The Taiyin Sect's disciples don't have a strong sense of belonging to their master's inheritance. Instead, they tend to stick together in the form of communities. This Chang'an City was built by the Taiyin disciples of the Chang'an Community."
Upon hearing this, Chao Yan and Lu Wenyuan looked around carefully, but became even more confused.
"City? But there are no city walls here?"
"It really doesn't look like a city!" Without waiting for Baili Shuang to reply, Dachang Sashimi, who had been listening to gossip, couldn't help but say, "City walls are only needed when there is insufficient firepower! Our Chang'an City has powerful firepower! We don't need city walls at all!"
"Firepower... not enough?"
"Sister, what does he mean by 'ga ga'?"
"I don't know. Why do I feel like the people from the Taiyin Sect speak so strangely?"
Jiao Xueling looked at the people coming and going not far away, and her doubts were no less than those of her fellow junior brothers and sisters: "Compared to the city wall, I am more curious, why there are so many mortals here, and why they can afford to eat 'immortal food'?"
The so-called "immortal food" refers to food cooked with spiritual ingredients, which is mostly sought after by cultivators who cultivate the five flavors, such as chefs and food cultivators.
The five flavors are sour, bitter, sweet, spicy, and salty. Cooking with spiritual materials, distinguishing the five flavors, and using food to replenish qi and spirit is also a way of cultivation. However, this way of cultivation is both expensive and really depends on talent. The effect is not ideal, so there are very few such cultivators in the major sects.
The large intestine sashimi casually flipped the skewer over, sprinkled some homemade barbecue powder, and scratched his head: "Why can't I afford it? It's not expensive!"
Jiao Xueling was choked by the large intestine sashimi's self-righteous words, and said tactfully: "I thought that most ordinary people had to farm and weave day and night to fill their stomachs."
"It would be too much work to rely on them to farm! We cultivators can just use spiritual energy to stimulate the birth, or find soil or wood spiritual roots to do something, and our efficiency can catch up with that of a hundred ordinary people!"
Chao Yan and Lv Wenyuan frowned: "How can a monk do such things?"
"Isn't this giving them something for nothing?"
Large Intestine Sashimi let out a disdainful sound from his nose and retorted, "How can you get something for nothing? I did work hard! For example, sowing, sorting after harvesting, and fine processing, these kinds of jobs are for NPs... uh, why should they be ordinary people! Besides, my barbecue restaurant employs only ordinary people, and they are cheap and good!"
Chao Yan and the others were even more shocked. Even Jiao Xueling couldn't help but say, "How can a person with incomplete five spirits practice the way of the five flavors?"
"What does it mean that the five spirits are incomplete?"
The large intestine sashimi hissed, and felt that he could not understand the logic of these NPCs: "No matter whether the five spirits are complete or not, there is no threshold for cooking. It doesn't matter what you use to cook. Whatever you use, it doesn't matter. As long as it tastes good, that's enough."
Lu Wenyuan was the first to get anxious: "You, what you said is simply heartbreaking! If the five spirits are incomplete, then the spiritual roots are broken, and the path to immortality is cut off. How can one practice cultivation?"
This statement made people understand - ever since the Guangcheng Sect disciples poured into Chang'an City, the players' ears were so tired of hearing the words that "residual spiritual roots" could not become immortals! However, this time, before Dachang Sashimi could refute, the mocking voice of the female cultivator sitting next to him came from the table of two cultivators, a man and a woman: "You talk as if you can become an immortal as long as your immortal path is intact!"
Immediately afterwards, the male cultivator added: "Your spiritual roots are intact, and your path to becoming an immortal is not broken, so why haven't you become an immortal? Don't you want to?"