klisemfg Chapter 316 It Can't Be Spirit Food
Chapter 316 It Can't Be Spirit Food
—The restaurant where a swordsman's career is staked—
A number of monks were waiting in front of a shop with an unsophisticated name and bare interior decoration.
Many cultivators were puzzled when they entered the street and passed by Jiang He's shop.
The shop's unsophisticated appearance, coupled with its shabby signboard, completely deterred any desire to enter and make a purchase.
Whenever they saw many monks squatting in front of the shop, they would curiously go in for a look, but when their eyes fell on the empty menu, their expressions changed from expectant to speechless.
After looking at the shop's decor and menu, many monks and ordinary interstellar residents unanimously concluded that the monks gathered in front of the shop were hired by the owner to promote the business, and they were quite disdainful of them.
In contrast, the cultivators who were lying in wait had a completely different attitude.
Once a cultivator has tasted the dishes at Jianghe Restaurant, they will never forget them.
The monks who gathered in front of the restaurant often came to wait for the restaurant to release new products.
When the restaurant launches new dishes, Jiang He usually announces them on Weibo.
Since there was a precedent of quietly launching new products, many scalpers and cultivators have chosen to stake out the area.
As a result, a group of cultivators often gathered in front of Jiang He's unfinished shop.
Jiang He was busy with the university competition and didn't have time to update the restaurant's menu.
The sounds of noisy conversations mingled together:
"No, where is the gambling shop owner? Is he busy? It's been so long and he still hasn't updated his inventory. If he doesn't update his inventory soon, he'll lose me, his most loyal customer."
"Haha, I can't be sure if you're the most loyal customer, but I'm sure if we don't have you, there will be others. We might not even be able to snatch you."
"The owner has disappeared again? Last time he disappeared for so long and the menu wasn't updated for a long time. This time he's disappeared for almost a month. What does the restaurant owner do? He looks like a student but he doesn't seem like one."
"Didn't someone speculate that the shop owner was a student? It seems that someone deduced that the period when the shop owner disappeared coincided with the time when high school seniors take the college entrance examination."
"The college entrance exam? Now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered something. The university competition has recently started and is being broadcast live throughout the entire empire. Could the shop owner be participating in the university competition? The timing makes sense."
"No way, I've never heard of such a person in the Academy Competition. These dishes look like they were made by a high-level alchemist."
"What?! The shop owner is an alchemist?"
"What's wrong? Aren't these dishes all spiritual foods? Only advanced alchemists can make spiritual foods. Novice alchemists are lucky if they can make low-grade pills, they can't make spiritual foods."
"Ah, I'm a little confused. What spiritual food? What pills? You're saying the dishes we bought are spiritual food? Really? Oh my god."
The cultivator who guessed the shop owner was an alchemist had only said two sentences when he noticed that the surrounding cultivators were all looking in his direction.
Suddenly realizing she had let something slip, Quan Qing silently shut her mouth, assuming everyone already knew.
As soon as Quan Qing said this, everyone present was stunned, either confused or surprised.
They always thought that the food they bought was ordinary food, just a bit expensive.
Those cultivators who have purchased dishes from Jiang He Restaurant know that their spiritual energy increases whenever they eat the food, which they initially attributed to coincidence.
It was only through Quan Qing's words that they discovered the magic of the dishes.
Thinking about it from another perspective, Quan Qing's statement is completely accurate and correct.
If it is spiritual food, then everything makes sense.
For example, the increase in spiritual energy and the fact that one's cultivation level increases after consuming it for a period of time.
Some cultivators believed and spread the post that Li Si made.
They only had a vague idea that the dishes in the "restaurant where sword cultivators risk their careers" could increase their cultivation level.
If it is truly a spiritual food, then the price would be much higher.
Quan Qing's words caused quite a stir in the hearts of all the cultivators.
Besides the monks gathered at the hotel entrance, the backstage area was also extremely lively, filled with messages urging Jiang He to upload new content.
[The shop owner must be rolling in money, still not adding new items. I feel like I'm waiting forever.]
Who says otherwise? Sigh, after eating at this shop once, I always felt that the other spiritual plants were lacking. Speaking of which, what exactly did the owner do? I even suspected he drugged me.
Haha, that's too exaggerated! I've never bought any. There's been a rumor lately that the dishes in the restaurant are "spiritual food." Is that true or false? I came here based on the rumor, but it seems a bit outrageous. Spiritual food shouldn't cost this much, right?
It's definitely fake. If it were truly spiritual food, why would it be sold on the Star Network? Judging by the nature of spiritual food, the shop owner must be at least a high-level alchemist. Her connections alone would guarantee that her refined spiritual food would sell without any trouble.
Yeah, this rumor is ridiculous. At first, someone said eating the restaurant's food could increase your cultivation level, which made it impossible for me to get any. It's been so long, and no one who actually ate it has come forward to confirm it. I seriously suspect this is just a publicity stunt.
Haha, that's right. If it were truly spiritual food, we wouldn't have the opportunity to buy it.
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The shop remained vacant for as long as Jiang He entered the academy's grand competition.
StarNet store managers regularly clean up stores that haven't been updated in a long time and are vacant in order to clear the holographic network data cache.
Jiang He's shop was among the recently vacant shops selected by manager Lin Qi.
After three days of data analysis, Jiang He's restaurant happened to be among the last batch of shops to be inspected.
Exhausted, Lin Qi rushed to the store to inspect it. He originally intended to take a quick look and then directly notify the store owner to return the deposit he had paid.
Before even entering the store, Lin Qi was already dizzy from the sight of the store's sign.
Restaurants and similar shops usually have samples temporarily stored inside. When Lin Qi arrived, he thought the shop would be deserted and almost empty.
But when Wang Qi approached the shop, a dense crowd had even blocked the road.
It's quite unusual for a shop that hasn't had any new products in a long time to have so many customers.
Thinking about his task, he quickly used his administrator privileges to send several samples from the restaurant to the food inspection department for testing.
Every time Jiang He introduces a new spiritual food, it is inspected by the Food Inspection Department. However, the Food Inspection Department and the entire holographic network of real people are not involved in the management. Basically, AI is used for integrated management.
The food inspection was quick. Lin Qi reviewed the shop's past inspection data, and his drowsiness vanished instantly when he saw the food categorization:
"Spiritual food? What the hell? An ordinary restaurant selling spiritual food? Could there be a mistake in the inspection?"
Lin Qi looked through all the test reports for the new dishes in disbelief.