"Here, breakfast."
Gu Cai Yi handed Luo Chen a leaf-wrapped rice cake, then sat down beside him.
Luo Chen accepted the steaming rice cake and took a delighted bite.
"Authentic!"
"I never knew rice cakes made from spirit rice could be this delicious."
Watching Luo Chen eat with great relish, Gu Cai Yi smiled softly. "Wasn't this inspired by your popcorn? Those people copying you started putting thought into the most ordinary spirit rice."
Luo Chen chuckled and enjoyed his breakfast, which contained spiritual qi.
Once humans entered Qi Refining, their bodies began undergoing a passive transformation.
During this process, aside from cultivation, replenishing oneself with food was also crucial.
What cultivators called fasting was usually something high-level cultivators actively did only when entering seclusion.
In truth, low-level cultivators should avoid fasting whenever possible. During the Qi Refining stage, besides refining external spiritual qi, they also refined the essence and qi of their own flesh.
If their essence and qi were insufficient, it would damage their foundation.
It was common enough for people to cultivate Qi Refining until their bodies were riddled with ailments.
But eating also had its rules. Ordinary grains and coarse food were not cultivators' first choice.
Eating too much of that stuff would instead fill the body with impurities and affect the process of Refining Essence into Qi.
Spirit rice, spirit vegetables, demon beast meat, spirit wine, and spirit tea naturally became popular.
Even when Luo Chen had been at his poorest, he had gritted his teeth and bought the lowest-grade spirit rice, all so his body would not hold back his cultivation.
Now, Great River Market's spirit food industry was flourishing like a raging fire.
There had originally been regular places such as Spirit Source Studio and Zhong Ding Restaurant.
Later, Luo Chen had tinkered