"What? You want to open a coffee shop inside the academy?"
The moment Ye Tian heard what his nephew Bai Ran had said, he was ready to refuse without a second thought.
Setting aside Bai Ran's age, the coffee he made might have refreshing, mind-clearing effects, but its taste was simply too strange. There probably would not be many customers.
When the time came, unable to bear seeing his nephew disappointed, Ye Tian would probably have to tearfully arrange for someone to secretly buy and pack up all the coffee he failed to sell that day.
"Can't I, Uncle?"
Bai Ran had given this matter serious thought.
Since he had awakened Luckin Coffee as his martial soul, he had to make the name Luckin Coffee resound throughout Douluo Continent.
What if his martial soul suddenly experienced "Machine Soul Joy" and automatically raised his Soul Power Level?
Besides, opening a coffee shop and using Soul Power to make coffee every day counted as part of his cultivation.
Compared to combat-type Soul Masters, Food-type Soul Masters improved in a more straightforward manner. As long as they continuously used Soul Power to make food, they could slowly grow stronger.
Of course, the process was also extremely tedious.
If he were alone, treating it like completing a task would be fine for a day or two, but over time, he would inevitably grow sick of it.
Opening a coffee shop, on the other hand, would be far more interesting, and he could use it to meet Shrek Academy's upperclassmen.
"It's not impossible, but with the taste of your coffee, the academy students might not be able to get used to it."
Ye Tian had put it rather mildly. Later on, aside from Huo Yuhao, who needed the bitterness of an Iced Americano to temper his Spiritual Sea, few customers who had ordered one ever chose to order it again. There was no helping it—sweet drinks simply tasted better.
"Uncle."
Bai Ran said nothing, merely looking at his elder with pitiful, pleading eyes.
"Alright, alright. There happens to be an empty stall in the Outer Academy Cafeteria. Once the renovations are done, you can open your whatever-coffee-shop there."
Thinking about how his nephew probably would not stay settled at home either,
Ye Tian had been worrying over how to arrange for his nephew, who was still unable to enroll at Shrek Academy.
Hmm, perhaps having him open a coffee shop in the Outer Academy Cafeteria would be a pretty good choice.
At the very least, under Ye Tian's watchful eye, nothing could possibly happen to a six-year-old child. And since they would both be in the academy, he could look after him easily enough.
If he wanted to see him, he could simply fly out from the Inner Academy.
In comparison, leaving Shrek Academy to go home was rather troublesome, especially when certain important figures in Sea God Pavilion wanted to satisfy their appetites.
One certain decrepit old man did not count. That old bastard was just shameless, and he never paid for his meals either. Ye Tian had already blacklisted him. (Xuan Zi: He can't possibly mean this old man, right?)
As for why there was an empty stall in the Outer Academy Cafeteria?
Ye Tian: Comrade, please do not say things that harm unity.
As the person in charge of the Inner Academy Cafeteria, and currently the highest mountain and longest river among Shrek Academy's Food-type Soul Masters, if arranging for a six-year-old child to work in the Inner Academy Cafeteria had not been too absurd, Ye Tian would even have considered placing his nephew there.
Even so, arranging for a six-year-old child to work in the Outer Academy Cafeteria was still utterly unbelievable.
Especially after the Luckin Coffee Shop officially opened, when they saw the little boy needing to stand on a small stool just to reach the counter,
the Outer Academy disciples who came to visit all remarked, "Hiring child labor? That's criminal—and highly interrogatable."
"What? This kid is the coffee shop owner? No way, bro!"
"Uncle, you're the best."
Seeing that he was about to open the first Luckin Coffee Shop in Shrek Academy, Bai Ran happily threw his arms around his uncle.
This thigh was so thick. He liked it so much.
"By the way, dear nephew, have you given any thought to your first Soul Ring?"
Because Bai Ran had awakened a Food-type martial soul, Ye Tian's plans for his future training had been completely thrown into disarray.
To the point that even Ye Tian, an Soul Douluo-level Soul Master, had begun asking for his opinion.
"Uncle, are there any fruit-type plant Soul Beasts?"
Unlike other Food-type Soul Masters, Bai Ran cared more about improving the taste of his coffee than the effects granted by a Soul Beast's Soul Ring.
If there were no fruit-type plant Soul Beasts, then he would have to set his sights on animal Soul Beasts that could provide milk.
"Fruit-type plant Soul Beasts?"
Ye Tian had not expected his nephew to ask such a question.
Normally, shouldn't he be asking what kind of enhancement effects a Soul Beast could provide?
For example, he could absorb a Scale Armor Beast with exceptionally high defense as his first Soul Ring, then make a cup of coffee capable of increasing defensive attributes.
Ye Tian: "Food-type Soul Masters should honestly focus on the support effects of food. Why are you, little glutton, so focused on how it tastes?"
Bai Ran: "But Uncle, doesn't your ability seem to be making food taste good?"
Ye Tian: "Uh, I'm not an ordinary Food-type Soul Master. You can't judge your uncle by ordinary standards."
Bai Ran: "I'm not an ordinary Food-type Soul Master either."
Neither Ye Tian nor Bai Ran had much combat ability, so when word spread that Master Ye, Ye Tian, was taking his nephew to Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts,
an elder at the Titled Douluo level in the Inner Academy immediately declared that he would accompany them.
Ye Tian: "Elder Wang, this isn't necessary, is it? I'm only taking a stroll around the edge of Star Dou Great Forest. You..."
The outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest were home only to ten-year and hundred-year Soul Beasts. You could not even find thousand-year Soul Beasts there.
Even if Ye Tian was weak in combat as a Food-type Soul Master, he was still at Soul Power Level 87.
Moreover, with the development of Soul Tool technology, even if he was weak, he could still rely on Soul Tools to deal with ordinary ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
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