Refreshing and Invigorating Food-Type Martial Souls with Innate Traits

"Let your uncle have a taste and see what it's like."

Picking up the Luckin Iced Americano, Ye Tian first examined it carefully.

Judging from the ingredients used to make this drink, there was definitely water in it, but what exactly was this pitch-black liquid?

It wasn't as if black fruits and vegetables didn't exist, but even after juicing them, they wouldn't give off this faint nutty aroma.

Chocolate cocoa? It wouldn't be that thin.

If he had to describe it, it was somewhat like freshly brewed medicinal juice.

He had heard that in a certain town to the south, every summer, the locals would gather cooling, heat-clearing herbs and brew them into a sacred summer drink, calling it "Herbal Tea."

As for coffee beans? Douluo Continent had no such thing. Only Bai Ran, as a transmigrator, could bring them out.

Bai Ran: Upholding the will of the God of Luckin, I will 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 a pure coffee liquid like this. The taste was bad to begin with. If it weren't for its refreshing effect, overworked wage slaves would never spend more than ten yuan just to force down bitterness for no reason.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Tian would not touch strongly stimulating foods, because they would damage his taste buds and affect his cooking skills.

But this was something his dear nephew had handed him. Looking at the expectant gaze on Bai Ran's face, Ye Tian steeled himself and drank the entire cup of iced Americano.

"Hm?"

After finishing the whole cup of Luckin Iced Americano, Ye Tian immediately felt refreshed and clear-headed. Even the exhaustion from staying up all night was swept away.

For such a small drink to actually refresh the mind was truly incredible.

More importantly, his nephew had yet to absorb even a single spirit ring, which meant this mind-refreshing effect came with the martial soul itself.

An innate characteristic?

What kind of top-tier food-type martial soul was this?

Unlike other types of martial souls, food-type martial souls did not have domain-type skills.

However, food-type martial souls that were born with innate characteristics were equivalent to other martial souls being born with innate domains.

For example, with other food-type martial souls, the foods created using different spirit rings had different functions. Some restored spirit power, while others might provide other types of buffs.

But a food-type martial soul with an innate characteristic would, in addition to the buffs provided by the spirit ring, also carry the food's own inherent property.

Thus creating a situation where one plus one was greater than two.

Bai Ran: The effect of coffee is to refresh the mind, so what if I add sleeping pills to the coffee?

God of Luckin: From now on, when you go out, just say you were trained by Little Xue. Whatever you do, don't mention my name. I'm afraid of losing face.

"Uncle, how is this Luckin Coffee?"

Seeing his uncle finish the entire cup of Luckin Iced Americano in one breath, Bai Ran thought his uncle liked the taste of coffee, so he used his spirit power to make another iced Americano.

"It's not bad. Just a little bitter."

Looking at the iced Americano his nephew handed over again, Ye Tian pretended nothing was wrong on the surface, but inwardly, his heart was bitter.

If it weren't his nephew, if it had been anyone else, Ye Tian would have long since thrown this bitter-as-hell thing straight into the trash.

"A little bitter?"

Hearing his uncle say this, Bai Ran decided that the first spirit ring he obtained had best be related to some kind of fruit.

For example, one of Luckin's most classic products, the "Orange C Americano."

Bai Ran: Speaking of which, there should be orange trees over a hundred years old in the Star Dou Great Forest, right? Plant-type spirit beasts and all.

"By the way, dear nephew, why are there so many ice cubes in your cup?"

After finishing the iced Americano, Ye Tian discovered that more than half a cup of ice cubes still remained inside.

It was no exaggeration to say that if the Americano had not tasted so bitter, Ye Tian could have finished it in one gulp.

"To make the coffee taste better."

Coffee was the kind of thing that tasted rich and mellow when hot, refreshing when iced, but at room temperature? At room temperature, wasn't that just traditional Chinese medicine?

Even if you gave it to a dog, the dog wouldn't spare it a glance.

"Wait, isn't the temperature of these ice cubes a little too low?"

Holding the cup that had only ice cubes left in it, Ye Tian sensed something was off.

Normal ice cubes were only around a dozen degrees below zero, but these ice cubes were at least seventy or eighty degrees below zero.

And the hardness of these ice cubes was such that even an ordinary Great Spirit Master would not be able to crush them.

If not for the special material of the cup, the moment an ordinary person touched these ice cubes, their fingers would be frostbitten.

It probably still could not be considered Ultimate Ice, but it already surpassed the ice-elemental attributes contained in most ice-element martial souls.

"All right, there's nothing strange about it."

After Ye Tian remembered that his sister's martial soul was the top-tier ice-attribute martial soul, Extreme Cold Ice Bird, he stopped worrying about the matter.

The other party could also be considered to have partly inherited his sister's martial soul.

As for what Bai Ran had inherited from his father?

Did that even need to be said? His looks, of course. Bai Ran and his father looked as if they had been carved from the same mold.

Seeing that face, Ye Tian was so angry for a moment that his teeth itched. If his brother-in-law had not been so handsome, his sister would not have picked him out at first sight at the Sea God Fate Blind Date Assembly.

From beginning to end, Ye Tian had only ever thought of that brother-in-law of his as nothing more than a pretty-faced boy toy.

Until after that incident, when he, Ye Tian, was the only one who became a "coward."

And the brother-in-law he had always looked down on in daily life had stepped forward instead, the first to hold off the enemy and buy the others in the squad time to escape.