Chapter 55: Regional Disputes, Looking Down on External Sects?
“What’s your specialty?”
Victor casually browsed through the menu and asked. To eat in a famous restaurant, one naturally had to eat specialty dishes.
The waiter said with a smile, “We have a lot of specialty dishes. For example, Tiger Bone Soup, which contains the bone marrow of a third-grade spirit beast, Gale Tiger. It was brewed with ten kinds of precious herbs and has a strong taste. After drinking it, it has the effect of strengthening one’s foundation. A pot of Tiger Bone Soup is sold for 20 low-grade spirit stones.”
Hearing about the Tiger Bone Soup, Victor could not help but think of the pot of Tiger Bone Soup in Qingyan Valley. He wondered if the Tiger Bone Soup here would smell better than the poisoned one?
Hearing the exact price, Song Qianqian was speechless.
20 low-grade spirit stones? 20,000 gold? They might as well rob her.
Song Qianqian let out a light sigh. Although she felt that it wasn’t worth it, she didn’t show any strange expression in front of the attendant.
The attendant said with a smile, “Young master and young miss are obviously cultivation geniuses from large sects. Cultivators consume their essence, energy, and spirit every day. If you don’t replenish them, it won’t be easy for you to advance to the foundation establishment realm in the future.”
A mere attendant in the second level of the spirit gathering realm talked about advancing in the foundation realm. His scope of vision was really high. The East Ocean Restaurant must have served many foundation realm cultivators.
“Let’s have a pot of Tiger Bone Soup, a few vegetables, two bowls of spirit rice, and a pot of tea.”
Even though Victor had gathered a lot of funds from the various elders, he could only eat such a luxurious banquet occasionally. If he ate too frequently, he wouldn’t be able to afford it.
The dishes were served quickly. The Tiger Bone Soup was pure white in color, and the soup was as thick. It made one’s appet.i.te increase.
When Victor saw the Tiger Bone Soup, he scooped a bowl for Song Qianqian and another for himself. The crystal clear jade bowl was filled with a thick white soup. It looked like a work of art.
Looking at the small bowl of soup, Song Qianqian said helplessly, “This small bowl is two to three low-grade spirit stones. It’s enough for half a month’s expenses.”
Victor smiled and picked up the jade bowl to take a sip. He felt that after the thick soup entered his mouth, it turned into a warm flow into his stomach. There seemed to be threads of heaven and earth spiritual energy flowing into his meridians, slowly nourishing his meridians.
Although this spiritual energy was very weak, it was extremely pure!
Although this Tiger Bone Soup contained very little heaven and earth spiritual energy, it was very gentle. If he drank it on a frequent basis, it would definitely be able to strengthen his foundation and his meridians. The most important thing was that it would not produce pill poison with pills.
Victor was a little stunned. Drinking one or two bowls did not have much effect. What if he drank it every month, every year, and acc.u.mulated it?
Then, he took a bite of the rice. It had the same effect. Even the pot of tea contained dense wood spiritual essence. After drinking it, he felt refreshed, and the soul power in his consciousness seemed to have been subtly nourished.
“How is it?” Song Qianqian asked curiously.
Victor closed his eyes and thought for a while. Then, he said helplessly, “No wonder their food is so expensive. If we ate these things every day, even if they don’t cultivate, we should be able to still improve our cultivation…”
At this time, a few brightly-dressed cultivators walked into the East Ocean Restaurant together. The leader of the group shouted, “Waiter! Bring us a table of good dishes and two jars of spirit snake wine!”
“Okay!” The waiter knew that a rich customer had come when he saw this. He greeted them with a smile on his face. The manner of this group of people while ordering dishes was completely different to Song Qianqian and Victor.
As one of the top restaurants in Heavenly Illusion City, East Ocean Restaurant was also a place frequented by young talents. Victor saw that the spiritual artifacts on the table were all upper-grade yellow-grade spiritual artifacts. It was obvious that they had extraordinary backgrounds.
“It’s been another five years. Finally, it’s here. I was young and didn’t have the chance to partic.i.p.ate in the last selection compet.i.tion. This time, I’ve finally won a spot. If I get a good ranking this time, my father will have nothing to say.”
The young cultivator who spoke was a half-step grandmaster. From the looks of it, he was only 17 or 18 years old. He wasn’t any weaker than Victor.
Furthermore, from the tone of this person, not only was his cultivation high, his battle prowess was also outstanding among cultivators of the same level.
“Haha, Brother Nangong is well-prepared. In this selection compet.i.tion, he will at least enter the top 30!”
“Stop boasting about me. The top 30 will at least be at the 12th level of spirit gathering realm. If I gave it my all, I may still have a chance of entering the top 50.”
“Brother Nangong is too modest. Who doesn’t know that brother Nangong has outstanding talent and dual spirit roots of fire and earth?”.
“Moreover, his strength has reached the eighth level of the spirit gathering realm, and he has already cultivated the Molten Spirit technique to the fourth level. Many disciples of the ninth level of the spirit gathering realm are still cultivating at the third level.”
“In terms of actual combat strength, Brother Nangong’s strength is at least equivalent to the ninth level of the spirit gathering realm. If compared to those rural cultivators from the outside world, their ninth level of the spirit gathering realm cultivators are absolutely no match for Brother Nangong!”
The young man surnamed Nangong drank a cup of wine and said with a smile, “Compared to those rural cultivators from the outside world, they are simply insulting me. They are inferior to the people from the ten great cultivation families.
“Some of the ten great families have been around for a thousand years, and have some heritage. There were even a few prodigies from the last compet.i.tion.”
“You mean Zhang Zetian from the Zhang family, right? He only entered the top 20. Although he is in the top 20, he is far inferior to the personal disciples of our Heavenly Sword Mountain.”.
“Let alone Brother Nangong, even if we were to go to the sects and the ten great cultivation families in the outside world, we would be able to sweep away 99% of their geniuses.”
“Hahaha…”
A burst of laughter came from the wine table. Song Qianqian was so angry that her brows were tightly knitted. She subconsciously clenched her jade bowl and said coldly, “These people are looking down on us too much!”
Although Song Qianqian had grown a lot in the past two years and was no longer as unruly and willful as she was two years ago, she was still in the outside world after all. Wherever she went, there would be people supporting her. Naturally, she had not heard any bad words.
“Strength determines status. These local disciples of the Heavenly Sword Mountain Mystic Realm looked down on other sects and other distinguished families out of the mystic realm. It’s normal.
“However, they are talking too loudly and don’t put others in their eyes. It seems that the disciples of the Heavenly Sword Mountain are not the only ones who can come to the East Ocean Restaurant.”
Victor pointed in a direction as Song Qianqian spoke.
She saw three young men and a young girl standing up and walking toward the table where the disciples of the Heavenly Sword Mountain were sitting.
Nangong naturally noticed the movements of the four people. There was a white phoenix embroidered on the chest of their clothes. They were obviously from the same family.
He examined at their cultivation level. The young man in the lead had just entered the eighth level of the spirit gathering realm, while the other three were at the sixth level.
Seeing the cultivation of these people, Nangong smiled. Cultivators with such strength were far from being able to defeat him.
“Alright, I’ll defeat your spirit and let you, the affiliated families of the Heavenly Sword Mountain, know the difference between you and the disciples of the Heavenly Sword Mountain!”
With this thought in mind, Nangong’s smile became even wider.
“You want to defeat the ten great cultivation families? Fine, I, Feng Chen, will stand here today. You can try and defeat them!”
The older disciple of the distinguished family glared at him and said.