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After Qinghe Zhenren left, Nanqing led Tantai Bei to a room, took out many things from his Xingyun Palace, and arranged them.
"You'll be sleeping in this room from now on. See if there's anything else you need to buy?"
Tan looked around in Taipei and touched things here and there. He wondered if he was mistaken, but he felt that these things had the scent of his master.
He likes them all!
But he preferred to stay with his master.
"Master, everything is fine."
"Where does Master live?"
Nan Qing pointed with her finger: "It's right next to yours."
Tan Taipei carefully took her master's hand, tilted her little face up, and asked somewhat nervously:
"Can't I live with my master?"
Hmm? Living together?
"After my mother passed away, they made me sleep in the woodshed. It was so dark there, and big rats would bite me at night..."
The little boy lowered his head and spoke in a dejected tone, which suddenly softened Nan Qing's heart.
In this life, his birth did indeed cause him to suffer greatly from a young age. His birth mother was just a beautiful maid who was forced upon him by his father when he was drunk. The mistress was powerful, and the maid died less than two years after giving birth to Xiao Dan in Taipei.
Tan Taibei lived worse than a servant in that mansion, and he survived to the age of five entirely because of his precocious intelligence.
Of course, being a chosen one means enduring hardships; otherwise, how could one develop a more resilient mind than the average person?
Nan Qing squatted down and pulled him closer: "Alright, then sleep with me for now, but don't cry, or I won't want you anymore."
"I won't....."
"Really?" Nan Qing laughed when she saw his red eyes. "Okay, okay, it's fine as long as you don't know how."
"Let's go, I'll take you to get something to eat first. I could hear your stomach growling earlier."
Tan Taipei obediently followed, looking at the hand wrapped in Nan Qing's arms, then slowly raised his head to look at his master's back, a faint smile curving his lips.
His master was indeed the best to him.
Ha... there's no big rat there.
He had eaten every last mouse in the woodshed long ago...
Nan Qing led Tan Taibei directly to the Ling Shan Pavilion, a three-story building that was filled with enticing aromas and rich spiritual energy all day long. It was a place for inner disciples to eat and cultivate.
Although one should abstain from grains after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, spiritual cuisine is still a way to absorb spiritual energy. Spiritual chefs will remove the violent energy from the meat of spirit beasts and then add complementary spiritual plants to cook it into a delicious dish.
This method is just as effective as taking elixirs, and you don't have to worry about erysipelas.
That's right, the price of spiritual food is not low. Generally, inner disciples can't even afford two dishes with their limited spiritual stones.
"The... the Supreme Elder?!"
The disciples who were having their meal hurriedly stood up and bowed.
"Okay, you can continue."
She led Tan Taipei to the counter, pointed to the signs hanging above, and asked:
"Can you read the words written on it?"
"Master, there are some I don't recognize..."
Tan Taipei's voice was a little soft, and his little head was lowered. He was a little nervous, afraid that his master would think he was stupid.
Nan Qing reached out and cupped his chin, then patted the top of his head.
"Alright, you're still young, it's normal that you don't know them."
"I remember clearly, the first one is Steamed Jade Spirit Carp, the second one is Nine-Turned Spirit Ginseng Stewed Snow Pigeon, and the third one is Eight-Treasure Spirit Cloud Soup..."
Nan Qing read out the names of the delicacies one by one, her cool voice becoming a warm and comforting whisper in the little one's ears.
Tan Taipei unconsciously moved closer to his master, smelling the faint fragrance of flowers, and smiled.
The other inner disciples who were eating looked at each other in bewilderment, and their chopsticks unconsciously stopped moving.
Someone spread the rumor that their Supreme Elder, Master Lingxiao, had taken on a personal disciple, a person of exceptional talent.
They initially didn't believe it, since Master Lingxiao had never taken on any disciples and had a detached personality. They had just been discussing just how high one's talent must be to catch the eye of the Supreme Elder.
But now they had no choice but to believe it, except... the other party was actually just a four or five-year-old child?
"So, have you decided what you want to eat?"
"I will eat whatever my master eats."
Nan Qing stopped asking questions and simply recited a few names. That's just how this person is; he doesn't have any particular favorite or dislikes to eat. He can eat anything.
The dishes were served by the elder in charge, who, of course, kept secretly glancing at Tan Taipei sitting on the other side.
He was a disciple of the Second Elder and had just returned from his master's place, where his master was nearly driven mad.
He kept going on and on about how the Supreme Elder had taken in a peerless genius with the Heavenly Evolution Dao Body, a talent that only appears once in ten thousand years!
He didn't quite understand the Heavenly Evolution Dao Body that his master kept talking about, but he knew about the phrase "once in ten thousand years" and "peerless genius"—it just meant it was incredibly powerful.
So when he saw his grand-uncle bring a child to the Spirit Food Pavilion, he knew that it must be the peerless genius his master had spoken of, and he had to be the first to see it!
"Grandmaster Uncle, this spirit meat bun is filled with a Six-Eared Spirit Rabbit that we just hunted this morning. It has a thin skin and a generous filling; it's sure to burst with juice when you bite into it..."
"And this one, the Jade Spirit Carp is steamed alive and then steamed with spiritual dew for three quarters of an hour, so that its spiritual energy and flavor are preserved just right."
Nan Qing nodded, picked up a slice of fish as thin as a cicada's wing, with wisps of spiritual energy flowing over it, and placed it in Tan Taibei's bowl.
"Try it."
Upon seeing this, the elder in charge of law enforcement wanted to stop him. No matter how good the junior uncle's aptitude was, he was still just a four or five-year-old child and had certainly not yet begun to cultivate.
Although this jade spirit carp is known for its gentle spiritual energy, it is still beyond the capacity of ordinary people to withstand. One wrong move and it could explode and die!
I hope the once-in-a-millennium genius that his master spoke of doesn't fall into his hands...
"Grandmaster Uncle, this fish..."
But he froze halfway through his sentence.
Just now... there seemed to be spiritual energy fluctuations on Junior Uncle's body?
Something's not right, let me check again.
So he didn't leave. He brazenly stood next to Nan Qing's table, staring intently at Tan Taibei.
But watching him eat slices of fish, then steamed buns, spirit sparrow meat, and spirit soup...
Moreover, seeing that he was enjoying the food more and more in Taipei, he immediately fell silent.
Seeing the waves of spiritual energy emanating from his junior uncle, he was momentarily unsure whether to doubt his own eyes or his own mind...
No, he must be out of his mind! Yes, he's definitely out of his mind! He must have been beaten by his master!!
If he wasn't out of his mind, how could he sense the cultivation level of a Great Perfection Qi Refining stage cultivator in his four- or five-year-old junior uncle?!
If Junior Uncle had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining at the age of four or five, then what about those of us who take several years to go from Qi Induction to Foundation Establishment?
Is it a pig?!
"Knock, knock,"
Nanqing tapped the table a few times to remind the disciple whose head was almost stuck into Tantaibei's bowl.
What, you even want to snatch food from a child's bowl?
"cough,"
"Grandmaster Uncle, please forgive me, I have been disrespectful..."
He took his leave in a daze, his face showing utter despair, and his steps were somewhat unsteady and weak.
It's confirmed, he really is as stupid as a pig...
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