"Mom, today's meal looks really different!"
At the Liang household, Liang Ji looked at the celebratory dinner his parents had prepared and noticed that it was quite different from the spirit cuisine they usually ate.
There were only five dishes on the table—four dishes and a soup. It wasn't much, but every dish seemed to shimmer with spiritual light, making his mouth water just to look at them. He could almost feel the spiritual energy and spirit essence contained within.
"Of course!" his mother said with a smile. "Tonight's meal is all premium spirit cuisine, made with spirit grain, spirit vegetables, and spirit beast meat grown on the Main Star."
"It's nothing like the spirit cuisine we usually eat, made from inferior spirit grain, spirit vegetables, and spirit beast meat produced on a Star Lord's Natal Star!"
The Main Stars of the Star Alliance all contained ninth-tier Spirit Veins and had been cleansed by the Daoist resonance of the upper realm when a Celestial Immortal ascended. Their origins were extraordinary; only places like these could serve as habitats where humanity could live, settle, and flourish within the Star Alliance.
For that reason, Spirit Plants, Spirit Medicines, spirit beasts, and the like raised on a Main Star surpassed those cultivated on a Star Lord's Natal Star in taste, value, quality, and efficacy.
In the Star Alliance, many cultivators called the spirit goods grown on a Star Lord's Natal Star "Sub-grade Spirit Items," while those cultivated on a Main Star were called "premium spirit items."
The difference between the two was enormous.
On the Star Alliance market, low-tier spirit goods cultivated on a Star Lord's Natal Star could only be traded for Star Coins. But even first-tier spirit goods grown on a Main Star had to be bought with Spirit Stones.
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