Aya Fried Chicken Shop
However, despite sacrificing so many mid-level cultivators, they lost their aim at the most crucial moment.
When Master Xu returned to the forest, he saw that the body-snatching talisman he had created with the lives of dozens of cultivators had been completely destroyed by an unknown person. What could possibly have such an ability?
It was a great opportunity that was wasted. On the surface, Master Xu still smiled like a nice guy, but in his heart he was already a little angry.
In the past few days, he has repeatedly reviewed in his mind where he went wrong.
It wasn't until he saw the black sand, visible only to those who cast the talisman, lingering on the hem of Xu Ya's clothes and spreading around her that Master Xu suddenly realized what was going on.
The Possession Talisman should be foolproof, as it becomes stronger when faced with a stronger opponent. However, it is one of the ways to break it, except for someone like Xu Ya who has no spiritual power. Could it be that she accidentally broke the talisman? Master Xu was annoyed that he had forgotten about this.
I underestimated this good-for-nothing.
Of course, Master Xu wouldn't actually be so kind as to open a shop for a good-for-nothing; that was just a backup plan.
Recently, rumors have been circulating in Xianze that Xu Ya has become involved with Shi Yuzhen. It was initially thought to be just a joke among cultivators, but it turns out that Shi Yuzhen is actually taking this little good-for-nothing Xu Ya with her on reinforcement missions. It seems that the rumors may not be false after all.
After observing, Master Xu was somewhat surprised that Yu Zhen actually had a taste for this. Xu Ya not only had low spiritual power, but also had a rustic appearance, with no aesthetic or practical value.
The reason he went out to relax was because... Master Xu's entire face was in shadow, and only Xu Ya could tell that he was in a bad mood.
But Shi Yuzhen had gotten involved with this kind of person. Master Xu thought gloomily, it seems that even precognitive dreams can be accurate sometimes...
This works too. This can be designed into the scheme. As long as we can successfully obtain Shi Yuzhen's body, Master Xu doesn't mind going through some trouble and having more backup plans.
His greatest skill is putting on a veneer of benevolence and virtue while doing dirty and despicable things.
Given Xu Ya's status within the Immortal Swamp, she could only obey orders and could not refuse the commands of any cultivator of a higher rank than her. In other words, she could not be ungrateful. On the surface, it was a great honor that Master Xu was willing to fund a fried chicken shop for a good-for-nothing like Xu Ya.
Master Xu asked verbally, but he didn't give her the right to refuse: "Xiaoya, what do you think? Of course, I won't do anything for nothing. I just need to take 100% of the spirit stones from the account book every month as a bonus."
"Thank you so much, Master Xu." Xu Ya quickly broke free from the hands that were held by the child and Shi Yuzhen, made a comical bowing gesture, and almost buried her head in the crack in the wall.
Wow, this villain seems to be plotting something.
Xu Ya secretly sighed. She should just agree first. Opening a shop was better than being chased around in Xianze. Shi Yuzhen didn't care about her image, which made her the target of those NPCs.
Master Xu smiled with satisfaction: "Haha, your return today is truly wonderful news. Now that Xiaoya has agreed to the suggestion of opening a shop, it's even more joyous! Good things keep happening one after another. Senior brother, why don't you go back to Xianze with Xiaoshi first? I'll take Xiaoya to see the shop."
Teacher Chen had no objection.
Xu Ya was taken by Master Xu to a relatively crowded street market. It was already evening, but the crowds were still bustling. In Xu Ya's world, it would definitely be a prime location for a shop!
Master Xu has indeed negotiated several times and is very familiar with the neighbors here.
When everyone saw that the immortal master had come to negotiate in person, they all wore kind smiles and welcomed the two into the shop.
The landlord, with a slightly hunched back, introduced his small shop, which was about two square meters, roughly equivalent to twenty square meters in modern terms.
This is more than enough for Xu Ya to demonstrate her abilities.
Two doors had already been installed at the back of the shop, and apart from the back door, there was another room that could be used for living.
Xu Ya was quite satisfied with the shop, her round eyes already sparkling.
Xu Ya felt full of energy at the thought of being able to live in the mortal world and not have to go back to the immortal realm to be chased by dogs!
As for what kind of conspiracy Master Xu had, she could roughly guess. Isn't that how it's always written in novels? Seeing that she was on good terms with the male lead, he must be looking for an opportunity to put a small amount of poison in the food so as to subtly change the male lead's constitution and then kill him in one blow.
Xu Ya wasn't too worried about that. She had already confirmed with the system several times that the fried chicken she made was "invulnerable to swords and spears." If her physique improved, she could even develop fried chicken with even greater effects on enhancing cultivation.
In this way, all she had to do was keep an eye on Master Xu's movements and prevent him from having any more opportunities to harm Shi Yuzhen!
Xu Ya felt refreshed and thought she was quite the clever little devil!
With Xu Ya's approval, Master Xu finalized the shop. Master Xu taught Xu Ya some pricing strategies on the spot, and the rest was left to Xu Ya to decide.
Xu Ya listened attentively. This feeling was no less satisfying than being the manager of Tading. She never imagined that she could achieve something great in the world of cultivation.
Xu Ya sincerely thanked Teacher Xu for this.
Master Xu still wore a smile, but ever since Xu Ya learned that Master Xu was the biggest villain in the incomplete book, she couldn't help but frequently observe Master Xu's micro-expressions.
I hadn't noticed before, but actually, Master Xu was just like an NPC in a AAA game that Xu Ya used to play. His face was sloppy with a smile, and if you looked closely, you could see some uncanny valley effects.
After experiencing that collision, Xu Ya regained her modern memories. In the current cultivation world, apart from the male protagonist Shi Yuzhen, whose "modeling" is touching, the impressions of everyone else are basically similar to those of her master.
She had asked the system why she had this feeling, and it was quite terrifying.
The system stammered that perhaps the novel's author hadn't poured their soul into creating them.
Xu Ya reluctantly believed this explanation, because the facts were right in front of her.
Now, the kind-hearted Master Xu, whom Xu Ya remembered, had taken care of the shop and some trivial matters for her, and was now wearing his fake skin, constantly pinching the back of Xu Ya's hand.
The blow was too forceful, and Xu Ya felt a dull pain, but she didn't utter a sound.
With a quick glance, Master Xu saw that he had wiped all the black talisman sand off Xu Ya's body. He breathed a sigh of relief, calmly put his hands behind his back, and still smiled.
Master Xu asked Xu Ya to go with him to the food shop to retrieve her luggage and stay there, so that she wouldn't have to run around so much while running the shop.
Many cultivators who practiced food cultivation had already tasted Xu Ya's fried chicken on the day they encountered the Immortal Terrace and fully understood the effects of fried chicken.
Before Xu Yaren even arrived at the Food Cultivation Sect, the news of her opening a shop had already spread throughout the entire Immortal Marsh. Many low-level cultivators had just begun their cultivation and still had a strong appetite. Naturally, they were already drooling over such a delicious crispy fried chicken that also came with powerful promotion effects.
Originally, Yuzhen and the others were unable to return in time during the reinforcement operation a few days ago, and a sad atmosphere permeated Xianze. Now, not only have they returned safely, but they have also opened a fried chicken shop.
Everyone was eager to come down the mountain and have a taste.
Thus, for the first time in her cultivation life, Xu Ya experienced treatment similar to that of a dragon soaring to the heavens. Those who usually treated her coldly were now greeting her with beaming smiles.
Xu Ya could only force a smile and politely greet them, but she only felt that they were hypocritical. In her heart, she was calculating the price of the fried chicken and preparing to rip them off.
Xu Ya didn't have much luggage, and this time she finally remembered to put her luggage in her magic bag, so she was able to leave Yunmeng Immortal Marsh in one trip.
She had never felt so free. Xu Ya took a deep breath of the free night breeze and skipped around, swinging the key with a crisp sound.
She was like a simple little girl who had found happiness, her joy evident on her face.
From now on, as long as she assists the male lead in becoming the so-called number one person in the immortal realm, the day she can truly return home will be just around the corner!
The system sighed in her mind: [This makes feeding the male lead very inconvenient. When will your mission be completed?]
Xu Ya's words of comfort were tinged with disdain: "Aren't you really not a male lead's simp? Why are you even more eager than me, someone who just wants to go home? Once I'm out of that situation where I'm being chased by a dog, I'll have spirit stones to use to nourish my body, and I'll soon be able to develop even more amazing fried chicken. Then I can feed the male lead that amazing fried chicken, and wouldn't that allow me to complete the mission even faster?"
The system is acting like it won't listen to a turtle's ramblings again.
Xu Ya completely ignored the system.
Xu Ya couldn't help but hum a song as she drew some water from the public well at the back door. She then cast a simple cleaning spell, causing the water to float and spread throughout the corners of the shop.
Xu Ya cleaned up the dirt immediately.
After lighting a candle, Xu Ya, as always, took out fried chicken and a special oil pot from her treasure bag.
Get ready to blast out tonight's stock.
This shop is a full 20 square meters, much larger than Xu Ya's former residence in Xianze.
There can be dozens of boxes of oil in a row.
Xu Ya coated each piece of fried chicken with special spices according to the recipe and threw them into the neatly arranged oil pot.
Xu Ya was already a skilled worker in modern times, with perfect control over the timing and intensity.
Before long, servings of fragrant, crispy, and piping hot fried chicken were served one after another.
Xu Ya quickly wrapped them one by one with plain paper.
She spent the entire night writing the signboard for her little shop on a canvas with an ink brush—Aya Fried Chicken; she wrote out the price list one by one, and based on the pricing of the food cultivators, plus the effect, she thought it was perfectly acceptable to price it a little higher.
Thinking about the exorbitant prices of high-grade ingredients and medicines used in food cultivation and alchemy, Xu Ya couldn't help but calculate how many chickens she would need to exchange for a single spiritual medicine to nourish her dantian.
Although the raw materials for fried chicken in the treasure bag are inexhaustible, they still need to be processed by Xu Ya. Isn't what's being sold just labor?
Since labor is involved, the price can't be low. Moreover, her fried chicken has different effects on different groups of people, which is also a very special selling point.
Typically, the ingredients and pills produced by food and pill cultivators have very limited effects and categories. Ingredients or medicines that can flexibly enhance cultivation, like Xu Ya's fried chicken, usually require more spirit stones to exchange for.
Xu Ya had a wild idea: she could make a satisfying deal with Dan Xiu. She would give him fried chicken, and they would exchange it for pills. That would be perfect.
Xu Ya held the ink brush to her nose, hesitated for a while, and then set a price.
After finishing all this, Xu Ya Cheng lay sprawled on the bed – she hadn't even had time to make the bed!
However, Xu Ya didn't care about any of that now. She lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, the familiar system announcement served as Xu Ya's alarm clock: today is the first day of business for Aya Fried Chicken.
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