"Do you think that's too little?
Hmm... It certainly isn't easy for Outer Academy disciples to enter the Inner Academy. How about this? I haven't eaten either. Besides the medicinal meal, how about we have lunch together?"
As it happened, there was still half a serving of Earth Dragon Soup left in the pot. Ye Tian had originally planned to save it for himself.
How did that saying go again? If the cook didn't sneak a bite, the grain harvest wouldn't prosper.
Fortunately, the two old professors in the private room didn't know about it. Otherwise, they would definitely have scolded him for being thoughtless.
"Wouldn't that be too much trouble?"
Beibei was clearly a little embarrassed.
Tang Ya, on the other hand, had no idea how precious Ye Tian's cooking was. She nodded and said, "We were getting a little hungry too. Uncle, what delicious food did you make for lunch?"
Uncle?
Hearing that form of address, Ye Tian looked at the young girl before him in surprise.
Ah... right. In the blink of an eye, he was nearly forty already. In a few more years, he would be pushing fifty.
If soul masters did not live longer than ordinary people, Ye Tian should already have been a middle-aged uncle.
"Tang Ya..."
Beibei could not help covering his forehead with one hand. His little girlfriend truly had no filter.
A few minutes later.
At a dining table in the Inner Academy cafeteria hall.
It was only a simple meal, so there was naturally no need to open a private room.
Besides, even Inner Academy disciples ate in the first-floor hall. Only when important figures of the Inner Academy needed to discuss serious matters, 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 this, you two. It's a meat soup made from Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Meat.
It works best for men, especially male soul masters with dragon-type martial souls. There is even a certain chance that it can improve the quality of one's martial soul.
Of course, judging from the aura of your martial soul, little friend, it should be an exceptionally top-tier dragon-type martial soul. This Earth Dragon Meat soup probably won't be able to improve its quality."
To improve the quality of a martial soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon with the flesh and blood of a ten-thousand-year dragon-type soul beast was utterly impossible, even if it were a ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year soul beast.
Perhaps only the flesh and blood of a dragon-type soul beast over a hundred thousand years old could have an effect.
However, with Ye Tian's current cultivation, it was still very difficult for him to completely preserve the energy within the flesh and blood of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. At the very least, he would have to break through to become a Title Douluo before he could do so.
Moreover, according to the agreement between the Star Dou Great Forest and humanity, soul beasts over a hundred thousand years old could not be slaughtered without cause. Unless a member of Shrek Academy needed to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, it was basically impossible to obtain meat from a soul beast over a hundred thousand years old.
"Improve the quality of a martial soul? Uncle, isn't that something only legendary immortal herbs can do?"
Hearing Ye Tian's description, Tang Ya nearly failed to hold her chopsticks steady.
"Little girl, immortal herbs are merely things born of heaven and earth. What immortal herbs can accomplish may not be impossible to replicate by combining other precious materials.
Besides, I already said that this Earth Dragon Soup can only improve the quality of ordinary dragon-type martial souls, and the chance is not high."
Bai Ran, who was sitting beside Ye Tian, froze slightly as he listened to his uncle.
His uncle was practically a genius. In the cultivation world, he would surely have pioneered an entire path of spirit chefs.
Come to think of it, there did not seem to be such a highly cultivated food-system soul master in Shrek Academy in the original plot.
In truth, if Bai Ran had not appeared, Ye Tian, whose Dao heart had shattered, would have remained stuck at the bottleneck of Rank 79 for the rest of his life, unable to break through.
Wasn't the reason he had transmigrated because that child had already died at the time?
After three days without anyone caring for him, if Bai Ran had not transmigrated over, the entire room would probably have already reeked.
"Brat, what are you doing?"
Seeing Bai Ran raise a small spoon, preparing to eat the Earth Dragon Soup in the bowl, Ye Tian hurriedly stopped him.
"Uncle, I want to eat meat."
Bai Ran immediately protested.
"Be good. That's for the guests."
"Uncle, let the child have some. There's still plenty in the bowl."
Since Tang Ya had not tasted it yet, she naturally had no idea just how delicious this Earth Dragon Soup was. Otherwise, she would not have said such a thing.
Beibei beside her, however, lowered his head without saying a word and simply kept eating the Earth Dragon Soup.
"Hey, Beibei, were you reincarnated from a starving ghost?"
Seeing Beibei say nothing and only bury his head in the food, Tang Ya promptly gave his back a hard slap.
"Go ahead and eat, you two. Oh, and little girl, eat a little less. Since you've only just broken through to Rank 30, the energy in Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Meat will still burden your body."
As for why Bai Ran could not eat it?
Even soul masters above Rank 30 could only consume a small amount of ten-thousand-year soul beast meat. If a little child who had only just awakened his martial soul took one bite, he might very well be deliciously blown to pieces on the spot. Literally blown up.
"Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Meat?"
Tang Ya suddenly realized that something was wrong.
She had originally thought this middle-aged uncle was at most treating them to thousand-year soul beast meat. She had never expected it to be ten-thousand-year meat.
One had to know that even thousand-year soul beast meat was rarely seen in Shrek Academy's Outer Academy cafeteria.
No wonder Beibei had been so shocked earlier. This uncle really did have the means.
When Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast meat came from his mouth, it somehow sounded like something unworthy of being served.
Of course, after Tang Ya took her first bite of Earth Dragon Soup, she became even more speechless.
Aside from burying her head in the food, she reached out and gave Beibei's back several more hard slaps.
Tang Ya: You jerk, it's so delicious, yet you didn't say a word and only cared about eating it yourself.
Beibei felt wronged and protested: I clearly warned you just now that Master Ye, Ye Tian, was no ordinary person. You were simply too slow.
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