Chen Feng was completely unaware that a danger was approaching him. Instead, he focused on cultivating his skills and making spiritual food to sell every day, improving his strength and making money at the same time.

"Chen Feng, I'm treating you to dinner tonight at Jiangzhou Grand Restaurant." On the afternoon of July 15, Chen Feng received a call from Teacher Su Qing, who invited him to dinner that evening.

"Teacher Su, could it be that you've made some progress on the money-making scheme?" Chen Feng thought to himself that the reason Teacher Su Qing would treat him to a meal must be because of the money-making scheme they had discussed before.

"Haha, you're a smart kid. Come over tonight to split the money, and I'll treat you to a spiritual feast," Teacher Su Qing said with a laugh.

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng's heart stirred. Jiangzhou Grand Restaurant was the most luxurious and high-end place in the entire Jiangzhou, and it had a special spiritual chef to prepare spiritual food for the guests. Each serving of spiritual food cost tens of thousands of yuan, and some even cost tens of thousands of yuan.

"Okay, Teacher Su, is it alright if I bring Zhou Ping along?" Chen Feng agreed and even planned to take Zhou Ping with him.

“No problem, it’s just one more person and one more pair of chopsticks,” Teacher Su Qing said generously.

In the evening, Chen Feng and Zhou Ping took a taxi to Jiangzhou Grand Hotel. After entering the lobby and inquiring about the room that Teacher Su had booked, a staff member smiled and led them there.

Jiangjing Pavilion is the name of the private room that Teacher Su booked.

"Teacher Su, you're here so early? We were saying we'd arrive twenty minutes early, but you're here even earlier," Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Hehe, how can we not split the profits sooner? I found a reputable media outlet and sold them a package of several videos, which can also be uploaded to my video account."

"Quick, give me your bank card number, I'll transfer the money to you right away. Let's split the money first before drinking, so we don't forget about it when we're drunk." Teacher Su said with a big laugh, urging Chen Feng to give her the bank card number.

"Ding-dong—"

A few minutes later, Chen Feng received a notification from online banking: Your card number... 3.5 million yuan has been deposited.

"Teacher Su, you made so much money?" Chen Feng was shocked when he saw the price. Three and a half million! Goodness, it would take him a whole month of hard work making spiritual food to earn that much.

“Yes, a full five million, split 30/70, I’ll make a small profit of 1.5 million following you, so I’m treating you all tonight to some spiritual food.” Teacher Su Qing was overjoyed.

"Five million, split 30/70? Brother Feng, doesn't that mean you have money to mortgage your house again?" Zhou Ping said in shock.

“That’s right, I have enough money now to mortgage another house. Teacher Su, if you want to eat spiritual food, why come here? Don’t you know that the spiritual food here is very expensive?” Chen Feng nodded and then said to Teacher Su.

“Teacher Su, if I need to eat spiritual food, I can just buy the ingredients and come to Brother Feng anytime. By the way, Teacher Su probably doesn’t know yet, but Brother Feng has already passed the spiritual chef certification exam,” Zhou Ping said to Teacher Su with a smile.

"What? Chen Feng, you're a spirit chef?" Teacher Su Qing was indeed extremely shocked.

“That’s right. The reason why my Qi and Blood value was able to reach the peak of the ninth rank so quickly is because I started making Qi and Blood Soup a month and a half before the college entrance examination. It can increase my Qi and Blood value by an extra 0.1 points every day.” Chen Feng nodded.

"So what kind of spiritual food can you make now? Do you have any bone-strengthening soup for eighth-grade martial artists?" Teacher Su asked hurriedly. He was an eighth-grade martial artist and couldn't afford bone-strengthening medicine. If he could have bone-strengthening soup to help him, he could complete the bone tempering process as soon as possible.

"Teacher Su, I am currently only a first-level spirit chef, and I can only make auxiliary spirit foods such as Qi and Blood Soup, Qi and Blood Rice Balls, Blood-Generating Essence, and Blood-Replenishing Powder. As for the Bone-Strengthening Soup and other things needed by eighth-level martial artists, I have not yet mastered them."

"However, if Teacher Su occasionally wishes to try some spiritual food, she can bring her own ingredients and come to me. I'll take care of making it for her, and I guarantee it won't taste any worse than the spiritual food at this Jiangzhou Grand Restaurant," Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Alright, it's settled then. But since we're already here, how about we try the spiritual food at the Sazhou Grand Restaurant?" Teacher Su Qing said with a smile.

Teacher Su Qing ordered three spiritual dishes: one wild beast meat dish, one spiritual plant vegetable dish, and one spiritual soup dish, along with some other ordinary delicacies.

The three then began to sample the food. It must be said that Jiangzhou Grand Restaurant truly lived up to its reputation as a famous place throughout Jiangzhou. The spiritual chefs here were exceptionally skilled, and the spiritual dishes they prepared were incredibly delicious.

Although these spiritual foods do not have the same strong auxiliary effects as supplementary spiritual foods, especially for eighth-rank martial artists like Teacher Su Qing and Chen Feng, they are still very effective for Zhou Ping, a ninth-rank martial artist.

That evening, after Zhou Ping finished practicing the standing meditation, he felt a significant increase in his Qi and blood. Now, a month after the college entrance examination, his Qi and blood value has increased from just over 20 to almost 30 points, which would allow him to enter the late stage of the ninth rank.

As for Chen Feng, he discovered during his evening meditation that although these spiritual foods could not help him increase his blood and qi, they did provide some benefit when he was refining his bones.

"Does eating spiritual food every day help accelerate the bone tempering process?" However, this gave Chen Feng a hint, leading him to a way to temper his bones even faster.

However, the ingredients for spiritual food are quite expensive, much more so than ordinary ingredients, and ordinary students certainly cannot afford them.

However, Chen Feng is a chef who can earn more than 100,000 yuan a day, and now he has about 9 million yuan in savings in his bank account.

That's right. He originally had around a million yuan. After the college entrance examination, he received a million yuan in awards from all walks of life in Jiangzhou. In the past month, he has earned more than four million yuan by selling Qi Xue rice balls and Qi Xue soup every day, plus the three and a half million yuan that Teacher Su Qing gave him.

The cost of purchasing spiritual food ingredients is about 20,000 yuan per day, which is equivalent to earning 20,000 yuan less for Chen Feng. He can still earn 100,000 yuan a day.

On July 16, Chen Feng purchased various materials, including food for two meals a day, and had Zhou Ping take them home. He then went to the Jiangzhou Housing Management Office to inquire about some matters.

"Excuse me, can martial artists get a mortgage for a third house?" Chen Feng asked the receptionist. The receptionist was taken aback; she had no knowledge of this topic and had never asked it before.

"Wait a moment, I'll have someone look into it for you." The young woman immediately found a middle-level manager in her workplace, a middle-aged man.

"Hello, what can I do for you? Is it about the mortgage?" The middle-aged man greeted Chen Feng politely, because he sensed the martial arts aura emanating from Chen Feng.

“Yes, I currently have mortgages on two houses, and I’d like to get one more. I heard from a real estate agent that ordinary people can only get mortgages on a maximum of two houses, while martial artists can get a third. So I wanted to ask if that’s true?” Chen Feng nodded and said.

"Our Great Xia does indeed have this regulation: martial artists who achieve merit in battle can enjoy various preferential policies from the state, including the ability to mortgage a third house," the other party nodded and said, but emphasized the merit in battle.

"Are there any requirements for battle merits? Is it a certain number of battle merits, or is it enough to just have battle merits?" Chen Feng continued to ask.