Opening a Coffee Shop? The Benefits of Connections

"What? You want to open a coffee shop inside the academy?"

The moment Ye Tian heard what his nephew Bai Ran said, he was ready to refuse without even thinking.

Putting Bai Ran's age aside, the coffee he made did have a refreshing effect, but the flavor was far too strange. There probably would not be much of a market for it.

When the time came, Ye Tian, unable to bear seeing his nephew disappointed, would probably have to hold back tears while secretly having people buy up and pack away all the coffee he failed to sell that day.

"I can't, Uncle?"

Bai Ran had thought this through very carefully.

Since he had awakened Luckin Coffee as his martial soul, he had to make the name of Luckin Coffee resound across the entire Douluo Continent.

Who knew? Maybe his martial soul might go straight into "Machine Soul Joy" mode and automatically raise his soul power level.

Besides, opening a coffee shop and using soul power to make coffee every day counted as part of cultivation too.

Compared with combat-type soul masters, food-type soul masters improved in a much purer way. As long as they continuously used soul power to make food, they could slowly advance.

Of course, the process was also extremely dull.

If he were alone, carrying it out like some task to be completed, one or two days would be fine, but over time, he would inevitably grow sick of it.

By contrast, opening a coffee shop would be much more interesting, and he could also use the opportunity to get to know the senior students of Shrek Academy.

"It's not that you can't, but with the flavor of your coffee, the students at the academy may not be used to drinking it."

Ye Tian was still being rather conservative. Later on, aside from that fellow Huo Yuhao, who needed the bitterness of Iced Americano to temper his spiritual sea, the other customers rarely chose to order another Iced Americano after trying it once. There was no helping it. Sweet little drinks just tasted better.

"Uncle."

Bai Ran said nothing, only looking at this elder with pitiful eyes.

"Oh, fine, fine. As it happens, there's an empty stall over by the outer courtyard cafeteria. Once the renovations are done, you can go there and open that coffee shop of yours."

Thinking about how his nephew was probably restless even when staying at home on ordinary days...

He had been worrying about how to arrange things for this nephew of his, who still could not enter Shrek to study for the time being.

Mm. Perhaps letting him open a coffee shop in the outer courtyard cafeteria was quite a good choice.

At the very least, with Ye Tian watching him right under his nose, nothing could really happen to a six-year-old child. And since they were both within the academy, he could take care of him too.

If he wanted to see him, he could just fly out from the inner courtyard.

By comparison, leaving Shrek Academy to go home was rather troublesome, especially when one happened to run into some big shot in Sea God Pavilion who wanted to satisfy their appetite.

A certain rotten old man did not count. That old bastard was just asking for it through and through, and he never paid when he ate. Ye Tian had already blacklisted him. (Elder Xuan: He can't be talking about this old man, right?)

As for why there was an empty stall in the outer courtyard cafeteria?

Ye Tian: Young comrade, please don't say things that are detrimental to unity.

As the person in charge of the inner courtyard cafeteria, the current highest mountain and longest river among Shrek Academy's food-type soul masters, Ye Tian would even have considered arranging for his nephew to work in the inner courtyard cafeteria if it were not too absurd to let a six-year-old child work there.

Even so, arranging a six-year-old child into the outer courtyard cafeteria was still utterly unbelievable.

Especially after the Luckin Coffee shop officially opened, and people saw the little boy who had to stand on a small stool just to reach the counter.

The outer courtyard disciples who came to patronize the shop all expressed: Hiring child labor? How very punishable and interrogatable.

What? This kid was the owner of the coffee shop? No, bro!

"Uncle is the best."

Seeing that he was about to open the first Luckin Coffee shop inside Shrek Academy, Bai Ran happily hugged his uncle.

This thigh was so thick. He liked it so much.

"Right, my dear nephew, do you have any thoughts about your first soul ring?"

Because Bai Ran had awakened a food-type martial soul, it had completely disrupted Ye Tian's plans for his future training.

So much so that even Ye Tian, a 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, compared with the effects provided by a soul beast's soul ring, Bai Ran cared more about improving the taste of the coffee.

If there were no fruit-type plant soul beasts, then he could only 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 speaking, should he not be asking what kind of enhancement the soul beast could provide?

For example, for the first soul ring, absorbing from a Scale Armor Beast with extremely high defensive power, thereby making a cup of coffee that could increase defensive attributes.

Ye Tian: "Food-type soul masters should properly focus on the auxiliary effects of their food. Why is it that only you, you little glutton, care about the food's flavor?"

Bai Ran: "But Uncle, your ability seems to be making dishes taste good."

Ye Tian: "Uh, I'm not a conventional food-type soul master. You can't judge your uncle by common sense."

Bai Ran: "I'm not exactly a conventional food-type soul master either."

Neither Ye Tian nor Bai Ran had much combat ability, so when word spread that Master Ye Tian was going to take his nephew to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts...

In the inner academy, an elder at the Titled Douluo level immediately declared that he would go along.

Ye Tian said, "Elder Wang, this doesn't seem right. I'm just going to wander around the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest. For someone of your seniority to..."

The outer reaches of the Star Dou Great Forest were filled with ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts. You could not even find thousand-year soul beasts there.

As a food-type soul master, Ye Tian's combat strength was poor, but he still possessed a soul power rank of eighty-seven.

And with the development of soul tool technology, even if he was weak, he could rely on soul tools to deal with ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beasts.