First Phase (3)

It has been seven day since I arrived in this world and got myself a daughter. It has also been seven day since I got a gift from God in a form of pocket dimension that let me hunt beasts and gather herbs for cooking.

I hunt many beasts inside the Hunting Ground and I also gather a massive amount of herbs from the forest biome. The reason why I gather this much meat and herbs is because I want to open up a small restaurant.

While I have a good amount of money in my possession, it is not enough if I want to support Mei in her cultivation journey. Right now, Mei Mei is Five years old and not too long from now on she will form her spiritual core inside her body.

Yesterday, I bought the tools I needed to open up a family restaurant like table, chair and tableware from the local market.

"Papa~"

I snap from my thoughts when I hear Mei's voice. I look at my back and see Mei coming from the second floor wearing a yellow dress with an apron in front of the dress. It makes her cuteness fly throughout the roof.

"Oh! Look how cute my daughter really is!!!"

"Papa! Your beard tickles!"

"Really? Here comes papa tickle beard technique!"

"Hahahaha~ Stop~"

I stopped tickling Mei and let her take a breath.

"Papa, Meany!"

"Hahahaha. Sorry Mei Mei but I cannot help it when I see how cute you are."

"Hmph"

I smile at her pouty face before I open up the door and hang up the board with the name of my restaurant.

Golden Dragon Restaurant.

That is the name I choose for my restaurant. While it sounds arrogant, I don't really care about it. I like that name so I choose it, simple as that.

Now the only thing we can do is wait.

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I look around the crowded street of Black Iron City. It has been a while since I walked around the city. I usually stay in the Long family mansion in the west side of the city. My name is Long Yi, the daughter of the current head of the Long family and the heir to the Long family.

We are one of three big families in the Black Iron city. The only one that can match us in power, either it be Cultivation power, economic or political power, are the Hao and Cheng families.

I have a title of One of the Heavenly Trio from the Black Iron City. The reason is that I already reached the Condensation stage at the age of Fifteen. Right now I have a bottleneck where I can't punch through the Mid phase of Condensation stage.

*Grumble*

I rub my stomach after I hear it grumble demanding some food. I too focused on absorbing spiritual energy from the pill my father gave me and forgot to eat some food.

While there is a well known spirit restaurant that serves a spiritual meal to a cultivator, I didn't come inside because I don't want the other to swarm me and flirt with me. I want some peace time when I'm eating.

When I arrive at a more isolated location of the city, I look at the building in front of me and see a sign hanging on top of the building.

"Golden Dragon Restaurant. Quite an arrogant name isn't it?"

I shrug a little before walking toward the building. When I open up the door and step inside my nose gets attacked by a delicious aroma. I also feel a shooting aura around the restaurant.

The only people inside the building are a man with an age around Thirty years old and a five almost six years old little girl eating some food with gusto.

The man in front of me has light blue hair with green eyes. He is a rather tall man with a slim yet firm body. He has a handsome face that can make many women swoon at his smile. However, what makes me interested in this man is his Spiritual Energy around him. He has a secondary spiritual core inside his body but there is something wrong with it. My spiritual sense can feel that his Celestial energy feels wrong. It did not flow like water but rather flowed like a hurricane.

The reason I know about this is that my grandfather had the same situation once. He says that someone using poison so his Cultivation needs time to recover. This man has the same Cultivation as my grandfather, Spiritual Lord but because of his poison he only can release the power of Spiritual master.

That only makes me more shocked as the Spiritual Lord can be considered a monster among Cultivators. If a Spiritual Master can be considered an elite elder in a well known sect in the Northern Continent, then a Spiritual Lord can be considered a Core Elder of a Top Ten Sect in the Northern Continent.

Just how could this monster be hiding inside Black Iron City without many people knowing?!?

"Ah! Welcome to Golden Dragon Restaurant! Please pick a seat you want and I will go to your table in a second."

I take the nearest table to the door and see the man pat the little girls (I think that little girl is his daughter) before walking to the kitchen. A few seconds later, the man came back with what looked like a menu in his hand.

"Here is the menu. Sorry if the menu is short, we are just opening up and not yet creating many dishes."

I nod at his word and look at the menu. It was a simple menu with five different dishes that I could choose from. There is Egg-Meat-Fried-Rice, Stir-Fried Vegetables, Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs and Sour Spicy Soup. What catches my attention is the price. For a simple Fried Rice with egg and meat it cost me Ten silver coins. Stir-Fried Vegetables Five silver coins. Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs Twenty silver coins. Lastly, Sour Spicy Soup Ten silver coins.

The currency in this world is divided into six.

There is Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Jade and Spirit Coin.

One Spirit coin = 100 Jade coins

One Jade coin = 100 Platinum coins

One Platinum = 100 Gold coins

One Gold = 100 Silver coins

One Silver = 100 Bronze coins

A silver coin can give an average human comfortable life for two days and this restaurant charges its customers with that price? I don't know if the owner wants to fool me with that price or he is just ignorant. I guess, I can eat one dish and if it is not worthy of its price, I will never go back to this place.

"I will that your Fried Rice and Stir-Fried Vegetable and some soup"

"Of course. Please wait for a minute."

I nod at him and wait for my food. I look at the man who walked inside the kitchen once again and the little girl playing with a little white bunny. I wait for a few minutes for my food to come out and when I suddenly smell a heavenly aroma coming from the kitchen. A few seconds later, the owner came out of the kitchen bringing my food.

"Here you go, please enjoy"

I unconsciously take a deep breath when I see the food in front of me. I don't know how but somehow the food in front of me is glowing a little. When I scoop some of the rice with my spoon and put it inside my mouth, I widen my eyes in shock.

A sudden rush of spiritual energy from the food that I just ate begins to spread all across my body. I can feel my body begin to absorb the spiritual energy from the food.

I don't know what to say. Not only does the food taste heavenly, it is also a spiritual food that nourishes my body with Spiritual energy. By the amount of spiritual energy inside this food, I can say that the owner must be using a high quality beast meat with at least a Spiritual Master Cultivation stage. Not only that, the owner also uses some herbs that make my body absorb the Spiritual energy inside the food faster and not leaving any waste.

Usually, we can only get maximum fifty percent of spiritual energy from the food but here? I absorb all of it.

I continue to eat all the food in front of me and feel that my body is getting stronger by each bite of the food. After finishing all the food, I can feel I'm ready for the Condensation Stage Peak phase.

As someone born with the ability to sense spiritual energy in detail I can see the real Cultivation stage of someone even though they are wearing a concealment talisman. With this ability I also know when I'm ready to step into the next phase without destroying the foundation.

After eating my food, I get up from my chair and pay for my food to the owner and say my thanks to him. While I know that I'm not giving him enough face even after he helps me get through my bottleneck, I want to immediately get into the Peak phase of Condensation stage.

I promise to myself that I will pay his service in the near future. I promise in the name of Long Yi.