"Let your uncle have a taste."
Picking up the Luckin Iced Americano, Ye Tian examined it carefully first.
Judging from the ingredients used to make this drink, there was definitely water in it, but what exactly was this black liquid?
It wasn't as though there were no black fruits or vegetables, but even if they were juiced, they wouldn't give off such a faint nutty aroma.
Chocolate cocoa? It wasn't that thin.
If he had to compare it to something, it was a little like freshly boiled medicinal broth.
He had heard that in a certain town in the south, every summer, the locals gathered cooling, heat-relieving herbs and brewed them into a sacred summer drink called "herbal tea."
As for coffee beans? There was no such thing on the Douluo Continent. Only Bai Ran, as a transmigrator, could bring them out.
Bai Ran: Uphold the will of the God of Luckin and spread Luckin Coffee across the entire Douluo Continent. (Mixue Ice Cream & Tea: Hello.)
The instant the Iced Americano entered his mouth, Ye Tian tasted only bitterness.
Especially with such pure coffee liquid, the taste was never good to begin with. If it weren't for its refreshing effects, exhausted office drones wouldn't spend over ten yuan forcing themselves to drink something bitter.
Under normal circumstances, Ye Tian would not touch strongly stimulating foods, since they could damage his taste buds and affect his cooking skills.
But this was something his grandnephew had handed him. Seeing the expectant look in the other's eyes, Ye Tian braced himself and drank the entire cup of Iced Americano.
"Huh?"
After finishing a whole cup of Luckin Iced Americano, Ye Tian immediately felt refreshed and clear-headed. Even the exhaustion from staying up all night vanished without a trace.
Such a tiny drink could actually refresh the mind and ward off fatigue. It was truly unbelievable.
More importantly, his grandnephew had yet to absorb even a single Soul Ring, which meant the mind-refreshing effect was an inherent trait of his Martial Soul.
An innate trait?
What kind of top-tier food-type Martial Soul was this?
Unlike other types of Martial Souls, food-type Martial Souls had no domain-type skills.
However, a food-type Martial Soul with an innate trait was equivalent to other Martial Souls being born with a domain.
For example, foods made by other food-type Martial Souls using different Soul Rings came with different effects. Some restored Soul Power, while others could provide other types of buffs.
But a food-type Martial Soul with an innate trait, in addition to the buffs provided by its Soul Rings, also carried the food's own properties.
Thus creating a situation where one plus one was greater than two.
Bai Ran: Coffee refreshes the mind, so what if I add sleeping pills to it?
God of Luckin: From now on, just say you were trained by Little Snow. Don't ever mention my name. I'd be too embarrassed.
"Uncle, how is this Luckin Coffee?"
Seeing his uncle finish the entire cup of Luckin Iced Americano in one go, Bai Ran assumed his uncle liked the taste of coffee, so he used Soul Power to make another cup of Iced Americano.
"Not bad. It's just a little bitter."
Looking at the Iced Americano his grandnephew handed over again, Ye Tian appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly he was miserable.
Only because it was his grandnephew. If it had been anyone else, Ye Tian would have thrown this bitter junk straight into the trash.
"A little bitter?"
Hearing his uncle say that, Bai Ran decided that the first Soul Ring he obtained should preferably be related to some kind of fruit.
For example, one of Luckin's most classic products, the Orange C Americano.
Bai Ran: There should be orange trees over a hundred years old in the Star Dou Great Forest, right? Plant-type Soul Beasts.
"Oh, right, grandnephew. Why are there so many ice cubes in your cup?"
After drinking a cup of Iced Americano, Ye Tian noticed that more than half a cup of ice cubes remained.
Without exaggeration, if the Americano had not tasted so bitter, Ye Tian could have finished it in one gulp.
"To give the coffee a better taste."
Coffee tasted rich and mellow when hot, refreshing when chilled, but at room temperature? Wasn't that just traditional medicine?
Even a dog wouldn't spare it a glance.
"Wait, isn't the temperature of these ice cubes a little too low?"
Holding the cup containing only ice cubes, Ye Tian sensed that something was wrong.
Ordinary ice cubes were only around ten degrees below zero, but these ice cubes were at least seventy or eighty degrees below zero.
Moreover, their hardness was such that even an ordinary Soul Grandmaster could not crush them.
If the cup had not been made of special material, an ordinary person's fingers would have been frostbitten the moment they touched these ice cubes.
They probably did not yet qualify as Ultimate Ice, but they exceeded the ice-element attributes contained in most ice-element Martial Souls.
"Well, that's not particularly strange."
After recalling that his sister possessed the Extreme Cold Ice Bird, a top-tier ice-attribute Martial Soul, Ye Tian stopped dwelling on the matter.
Bai Ran had inherited part of his sister's Martial Soul as well.
As for what Bai Ran had inherited from his father?
Wasn't that obvious? His looks, of course. Bai Ran and his father looked as though they had been carved from the same mold.
Seeing that face, Ye Tian's teeth itched with anger. If his brother-in-law had not been so handsome, his sister would not have fallen for him at first sight during the Sea God Fate Blind Date Assembly.
From beginning to end, Ye Tian had felt that his brother-in-law was merely a pretty-faced weakling.
Until that incident, when Ye Tian alone became the "coward."
Meanwhile, the brother-in-law he had always looked down on stepped forward and became the first to hold back the enemy, buying time for the others in the team to escape.
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