First Phase (4)

What a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. On days like these, it is the perfect time for a picnic.

"Papa~ Papa~ Here! Here! This is the perfect place for our picnic!"

"Coming! Coming! Mei Mei, you are so energetic today. Papa is getting old, you know? I can't catch up with you anymore"

"What are you saying, papa? Papa is still strong! Yesterday, Mei Mei saw papa training! Papa be like, Boom Paw Kabloom! It was awesome!"

Argh! Will I die like this? Will I die from diabetes? How can someone be this cute? As expected of my daughter!

"Awwww!"

"Papa your beard! It tickles me! Hahahaha~"

"Ahh sorry sorry. So Mei Mei what should we do now? Do you want to eat first or play first?"

"Play!"

"Okay but remember don't go too far away from me, okay?"

"En"

What a beautiful day indeed. My business has had a steady increase in customers and now I can see my daughter playing with her pet white rabbit with such a happy face. I won't ask for more.

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"Master, Are you sure you will take this job? That man has a cultivation of the Spiritual Lord Peak Phase. Not only that, I can sense that he almost stepped inside the Spiritual King stage not long from now on."

"No, we will not. That bastard from Immortal Lotus Restaurant dares to give us false information."

"Yes, they only say that our target is a crippled man with a low-level cultivation."

"Those bastards cannot see his cultivation and can only guess. He carefully hides his real cultivation from the other and only the Spiritual Master and someone with spiritual bloodline can see his cultivation."

"I see, so that is why our men say that he is only in the Condensation stage."

"Yes. Now call a full retreat even with all our numbers, we can't beat or even kill him."

"Understood."

"Also called the four General to come to the meeting hall. We will visit the Immortal Lotus Restaurant."

"Yes, Master"

We Violet Wing's assassin group known to be professional. We will fulfill all our contracts even if many of us are dead. However, we also demand correct information from our contractor. The stronger our target the higher their price is. However, when someone gives us false information we will not let it slide. We will make them pay for lying to us.

While our target is already in the Spiritual Lord stage, we also have a few Grandmaster assassins that step inside the Spiritual King stage but they demand a huge amount of money for their service and sometimes they demand an artifact instead of money.

That is why only a few people dare to hire them and seeing our current target, I know that our branch group cannot kill him and only one of the grandmasters can fulfill the contract.

But even though our contract is canceled, I Chang Bao will continue the hunt.

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*Next day*

"Boss! Another Fried Rice for me!"

"Coming right up!"

I continue to cook another batch of Fried Rice for my customer. My restaurant suddenly got an influx of customers out of nowhere. I don't know how but I heard it was because the other restaurant called the Immortal Lotus is closed down.

Meh, I don't really care about it.

"Boss another one!"

"Oi! You already ate three bowls of Fried Rice! No more for you today!"

"Wait, I already ate three bowls?!?"

"Yes, Now get out of here and absorb all the spiritual energy inside your body!"

"Thank you, boss!"

I sigh a little before sitting down on the chair to take a break.

There is a rule if you want to eat in my restaurant. If the chef told you to stop eating then you should listen. If not then you will get a spiritual poisoning from eating too much spiritual food. Your core cannot proceed with all the spiritual energy from the food and begin to poison your body instead of improving it.

There is a limit to who can eat my cooking. For example, that fatty from before can only eat three dishes because he is still in the Foundation stage. He also cannot eat anything but my fried rice for now because of the difference in the ingredients I use to cook that dish.

The first customer I had had a cultivation of Condensation Stage Mid Phase. So she can eat all my dishes but only once.

"Excuse me"

I snap from my thoughts when I hear someone call me.

"Ah! I'm sorry about that. What can I do for you?"

"We want all your dishes here. Can you do that for us?"

I look at the people behind this man and see that they have the appropriate Cultivation to eat all my dishes.

"Of course. Please take a seat, I will be back in a minute."

Welp, it looks like my break time is over.

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What a powerful aura. Even if his cultivation in the Spiritual Lord stage, his Celestial energy, and Spiritual energy can be compared to the Spiritual King. What an interesting young man indeed. Now let's see how good his cooking is that makes my Granddaughter come here every single day.

"Thank you for waiting. Here is your food."

Hmmm. Not bad. By the aroma alone, I can see that the dishes in front of me will taste delicious.

Slowly I take the spoon and scoop the fried rice in front of me before eating it.

"Oh?!?"

This is… What amazing spiritual energy coming from these dishes. The rice itself is nothing special, it was just ordinary rice but the egg and meat is something else entirely. Usually, the spiritual beast that people killed will retain its spiritual energy but slowly it will lose the spiritual energy.

There are only two reasons why these meat and eggs retain their quality: either this young man kills a Spiritual King beast or uses a secret cooking technique. However, I doubt this young man can kill a Spiritual King Beast, so the only thing is that he can use secret cooking techniques.

I continue to eat my meal and when the meal is done, my guardian and I walk toward the owner of this restaurant and place the money I owe him.

"We are here to pay for our meal."

"Thank you and please come again."

"Young man, can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"Do you want to become my personal chef?"

"I'm sorry, old man but I'm content with the life I'm currently in and do not have an intention to change it anytime soon."

Before I could say anything, one of my guards shouted at the owner.

"How dare you! How can you refuse his offer? Don't you know who he is?!?"

I place my hand down on my guard shoulder and give him a glare before looking at the owner and saying.

"I'm sorry for his behavior. Let me introduce myself. My name is Long Dong. Can I have your name, young man?"

"Tian Li, Nice to meet you."

"I see, Tian Li, huh? If you change your mind please go to the Long mansion near the Feudal Lord palace."

After saying that, My guard and I walk away from the restaurant and go back home. I guess I can spare some of my time eating in this place.