This dinner was prepared with the utmost skill by the chef. Both the taste and the effects were a level above the food served at the grand spiritual banquets outside.
Previously, Pao Jia had been mechanically cooking spiritual food without putting in much effort. However, cooking so much spiritual food still had its benefits.
Pao Jia's skill in cooking spiritual dishes has greatly improved. When he cooked this dinner for the Fourth Prince Rong Xi, he did it with his heart, which directly improved his spiritual cooking skills.
Once you get the hang of cooking, it's really difficult to improve your skills.
Pao Jia aspired to surpass Pao Ding, the patriarch of culinary arts, but originally had little hope. However, this recent improvement in his skills has given him hope.
With a grateful heart, Paojia cooked a delicious meal that even he himself hadn't expected.
"This tastes quite different!"
The Fourth Prince picked up a piece of Jade Horned Beef and chewed it; the taste was quite different.
Back in the capital, when Emperor Kangxi bestowed a special meal upon the Fourth Prince, he had tasted Jade Horned Beef. Jade Horned Beef was also served at grand banquets outside the capital. However, the taste was far inferior to what was served here.
"It's definitely different, much tastier!"
Rong Xi nodded repeatedly.
Then, I picked up the other spiritual dishes with my chopsticks, and the taste was really different; they were much better.
"It seems that Pao Jia's cooking skills have improved significantly!"
The Fourth Prince tasted all the dishes of the sacred meal and noticed the difference.
As a result, the Fourth Prince and Rong Xi ate until they were quite full after this meal.
After dinner, the Fourth Prince and Rong Xi left their room and went for a walk in the back garden of the Prince's Mansion to digest their food.
In fact, at their level of cultivation, even spiritual food wouldn't cause indigestion. Moreover, spreading such practices wouldn't aid digestion for cultivators.
Eating too much spiritual food actually means that the spiritual energy in the body is saturated. To alleviate this, one only needs to cultivate and absorb this saturated spiritual energy into the dantian (energy center), which will solve all the problems.
The reason the Fourth Prince accompanied Rong Xi for a stroll in the garden was because Rong Xi's dantian was shattered and her cultivation had been completely dissipated. Now, Rong Xi was just an ordinary person, so naturally she needed to take a walk to digest her food, just like an ordinary person.
However, even the clever Fourth Prince was confused by his concern.
An ordinary person has a very low tolerance for spiritual food.
Spiritual energy is not something that the more the better. Too much of it will exceed the limits that the physical body can withstand and will cause the body to explode.
However, Rong Xi not only did not explode, but also ate just as much as the Fourth Prince.
Spiritual energy explosion?
While others might have this possibility, Rong Xi has absolutely no need to worry. Right now, her only concern is insufficient spiritual energy. With the system acting as a bottomless pit for absorbing spiritual energy, whatever spiritual energy she takes in will be happily accepted by the system.
If it weren't for the win-win agreement reached between the system and Rong Xi, Rong Xi would probably never have had a chance to reach the Golden Core realm in her lifetime.
This is a truly awful system!
The two strolled around the back garden twice, and the Fourth Prince naturally noticed the changes Rong Xi had made to the garden's layout. Knowing that Rong Xi wanted to plant spiritual herbs, the Fourth Prince simply smiled and said, "How about we expand the garden a bit? This half-acre isn't enough space once the spiritual herbs sprout and grow!"
Elixir is not crop.
Even the cultivation of spirit grains is different from that of ordinary crops.
Crops are typically planted densely, but this isn't the case for medicinal herbs. If they're too close together, they'll compete for space, and only the strongest one will survive.
Every medicinal herb needs its own space to grow.
Only with a sufficiently large growing space can a spiritual herb obtain enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth to grow. Otherwise, the spiritual herb will not grow at all, or it will die halfway due to insufficient spiritual energy.
Between heaven and earth, all things have a spirit, and the fittest survive.
Even elixirs must follow this law of elimination.
"No rush, let's wait until the medicinal herb seeds sprout!"
Rong Xi was naturally aware of the rivalry between spiritual herbs, but she didn't really take it seriously. Firstly, this spiritual herb garden used spiritual soil; secondly, an ancient spirit-gathering array from the Yantian Sect was buried beneath it. The effect of this spirit-gathering array was far superior to the spirit-gathering arrays currently used in the cultivation world.
Moreover, she used top-grade spirit stones to make the array symbols.
The Spirit Gathering Array is even more powerful!
If, under such circumstances, there are still spiritual herbs that clash due to insufficient spiritual energy in the world, then it can only be said that these spiritual herbs have become sentient.
The two strolled around the garden for a while and were about to go back when they saw Consort Song and Consort Li coming together. They looked like they had just met by chance.
However, Rong Xi's lips curled up slightly. These two really went all out!
"Greetings to Your Highness, and best wishes to Your Highness!"
When Consort Song and Consort Li saw the Fourth Prince and Rong Xi, they immediately stepped forward to greet them with expressions of unexpected nervousness.
"No need for formalities!"
The Fourth Prince said calmly, "My wife and I are about to head back. You two can go and have some fun!"
When he encountered Consort Song and Consort Li by chance, the Fourth Prince had absolutely no interest in them and waved them away, leaving them standing aside.
"Madam, please slow down!"
The Fourth Prince held Rong Xi's arm as if she were a delicate woman.
Rong Xi wanted to shake off the Fourth Prince's hand. For the first time, she discovered that the Fourth Prince not only had the potential to play the bad cop, but also had such a dramatic side.
However, in order to make Consort Li and Consort Song face reality, she could only patiently play along with the Fourth Prince.
Consort Song and Consort Li stood respectfully to the side, watching the Fourth Prince and Rong Xi leave.
However, after the Fourth Prince helped Rong Xi away, both of their expressions turned extremely cold, even carrying a hint of hatred. These two certainly didn't dare hate the Fourth Prince, so the only person they could hate was Rong Xi!
"bite!"
"Sensing strong malice towards the host, please be careful!"
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"Mission failed. Surely the host wouldn't want to fail!"
After her battle with the system, Rong Xi really didn't expect that the system would issue her another task so quickly. Moreover, this task seemed quite interesting!
Is this considered a warning?
Reminding yourself of potential danger is a great feature! And even better, there's a bonus package included!
Rong Xi was very happy and praised the system quite a bit. This kind of system was really cute.
However, the damn 50-cent system continued to play dead after issuing the task, without giving Rong Xi a single word of response.
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