Uncle, It's Delicious to the Point of Explosion

"Do you think it's too little, young friend? Hmm... It's true that it isn't easy for an outer court disciple to enter the inner court. How about this? I haven't eaten either. Aside from one portion of food therapy, why don't we have lunch together?"

Speaking of which, there was still half a portion of Earth Dragon Soup left in the pot. Ye Tian had originally planned to keep it for himself.

How did that saying go? A chef who never steals won't keep the granary full.

Fortunately, the two old professors in the private room did not know, or they would at least have cursed, "That kid Ye doesn't know how to behave."

"Wouldn't that be too much trouble?"

Beibei was clearly a little embarrassed.

Tang Ya, on the other hand, had no idea how precious the dishes Ye Tian made were, so she nodded and said, "We happen to be a little hungry too. Uncle, what tasty food did you make for lunch?"

Uncle?

Hearing that form of address, Ye Tian looked at the little girl in front of him in some surprise.

Sigh—fair enough. In the blink of an eye, he was almost forty. In a few more years, he would be pushing fifty.

If soul masters did not have longer lifespans than ordinary people, then he, Ye Tian, would already be a middle-aged uncle.

"Xiao Ya..."

Beibei could not help covering his forehead with his hand. This little girlfriend of his really spoke without a filter.

A few minutes later.

At a certain dining table in the hall of the inner court cafeteria.

It was just a simple meal, so naturally there was no need to open a private room separately.

Besides, even inner court disciples only ate in the first-floor hall. Only when important figures in the inner court had important matters to discuss, or when they did not want others to see their embarrassing drunken state, would they go to the private rooms on the second floor.

"Try it, you two. This is a meat soup made from ten-thousand-year earth dragon meat. It works best after being eaten by men, especially male soul masters with dragon-type martial souls, and there's even a certain chance it can improve the quality of their martial soul. Of course, from what I can sense of your martial soul aura, young friend, yours should be an extremely top-tier dragon-type martial soul. This Earth Dragon Soup probably won't be able to help improve your martial soul's quality."

Trying to improve the quality of a martial soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon by relying on the flesh and blood of a ten-thousand-year dragon-type soul beast was utterly impossible, even if it were ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old.

Perhaps only the flesh and blood of a dragon-type soul beast over one hundred thousand years old could have an effect.

It was just that, with Ye Tian's current realm, completely preserving the energy within the flesh and blood of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was still extremely difficult. At the very least, he would have to break through to Titled Douluo before he could do it.

Moreover, according to the agreement between the Star Dou Great Forest and humanity, soul beasts over one hundred thousand years old could not be slaughtered without cause. Unless a member of Shrek Academy needed to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's soul ring, they basically could not obtain soul beast meat over one hundred thousand years old.

"Improve martial soul quality? Uncle, isn't that something only the legendary immortal herbs can do?"

Hearing Ye Tian's description, Tang Ya nearly failed to keep her grip on her chopsticks.

"Little girl, immortal herbs are only things born and nurtured by heaven and earth. The effects that immortal herbs can achieve may not necessarily be impossible to replace by combining other rare items. Besides, I also said that this Earth Dragon Soup can only improve the quality of ordinary dragon-type martial souls, and the probability isn't high either."

Sitting beside Ye Tian, Bai Ran could not help freezing for a moment as he listened to his uncle.

This uncle of his was simply a genius. If he were placed in a cultivation world, he would definitely end up creating the path of the "spirit chef."

Come to think of it, in the original plot, Shrek did not seem to have such a deeply cultivated food-type soul master appear.

In truth, if Bai Ran had not appeared, Ye Tian, whose Dao heart had shattered, would have been stuck at the bottleneck of rank 79 for the rest of his life, unable to break through.

Wasn't the reason he had transmigrated that the child back then had already died?

No one had taken care of him for three days. If Bai Ran had not transmigrated over, the entire room probably would have already started to stink.

"You little brat, what are you doing?"

Seeing Bai Ran pick up a small spoon and prepare to eat the Earth Dragon Soup in the bowl, Ye Tian hurriedly stopped him.

"Uncle, I want to eat meat."

Bai Ran protested outright.

"Be good. That's for the guests."

"Uncle, let the child eat. There's still plenty in the bowl."

Because Tang Ya had not eaten any yet, she naturally did not know just how delicious this portion of Earth Dragon Soup was. Otherwise, she would not have said such a thing.

Beibei beside her, however, kept his head lowered and said nothing, only eating the Earth Dragon Soup nonstop.

"Hey, Beibei, were you a starving ghost in your last life?"

Seeing that Beibei was not saying a word and was only burying his head in the food, Tang Ya quickly slapped him hard on the back.

"You two should eat. Oh, right, little girl, eat a little less. Since you've only just broken through to rank thirty, the energy in ten-thousand-year earth dragon meat will still place a burden on your body."

As for why Bai Ran could not eat it?

Even soul masters above rank thirty could only eat a small amount of ten-thousand-year soul beast meat. A little child like him, who had only just awakened his martial soul, would probably find it so delicious he exploded on the spot with just one bite—and yes, he really would explode.

"Ten-thousand-year Earth Dragon meat?"

Tang Ya suddenly realized something was off.

She had originally thought this middle-aged uncle was, at most, treating them to thousand-year soul beast meat. She had not expected it to be ten-thousand-year.

One had to know that even thousand-year soul beast meat was hard to come by in Shrek's outer courtyard cafeteria.

No wonder Beibei had been so shocked earlier. So this uncle really did have the goods.

Ten-thousand-year soul beast meat, when it came from his mouth, seemed to be something still a little too shabby to bring out.

Of course, once Tang Ya took her first bite of Earth Dragon meat soup, she was even more unable to say a single word.

Aside from burying her head and eating like mad, all she did was keep reaching out and smacking Beibei on the back several more times.

Tang Ya: You jerk, it was this delicious and you didn't say a word? You only cared about eating it yourself.

Beibei felt deeply wronged and expressed: I clearly warned you just now that this Ye Tian, Master Ye, was anything but simple. You were the one who was too slow.