Hundred Phoenix Inn

After that, Shi Hua suddenly lowered her voice and whispered softly as though she had a sore throat. "Let's go and have a meal."

"It's just eating a meal, what's wrong with you?"

"Move your ear closer."

"Huai Kong is here."

"Huai Kong?!" Wen Ping and Yun Liao both cried out in surprise simultaneously.

Shi Hua glanced around helplessly. After that, she glared at the two of them. "Why are you guys shouting?"

She didn't want others to know about this. This was why she did her best to lower her voice. But now, these two actually shouted out loud. However, she also knew that she wouldn't be able to conceal the news about Huai Kong coming to Cangwu City. This news would surely circulate within the entire city by today.

A short while later, the Hundred Phoenix Inn would no longer have empty seats.

At this moment, the image of a ferocious beast appeared in Wen Ping's mind. It was the body of a goat and the face of a human. Its eyes were beneath its armpits. Moreover, it had tiger fangs and claws, and its voice was like a baby. Being extremely gluttonous, it would eat everything as far as the eye could see. And if everything in the world was eaten, it would eat itself.

It was one of the most special beings that could roam freely in the 108 lakes.

Demon, Taotie!

Because it was really fond of eating, it loved to research about food the most.

Its culinary skills were said to be the best in the entire Skyearth Lake. Everywhere it went, it was unknown how many people were willing to spend thousands of gold to get it to cook.

Hence, Wen Ping didn't expect this roaming legend to actually come to Cangwu City.

"Let's go, I will treat you."

Shi Hua spoke about Huai Kong with a yearning look in her eyes, like how a child would hope its father would bring it toys after returning home from work.

Before Wen Ping could nod in agreement, Shi Hua already hastened her steps and walked forward. Her strides were very large, covering two steps for each one she would have usually covered. Most probably, she was really filled with yearning to eat the dishes cooked by the taotie.

Indeed, no matter how good-looking or slim women were, they were all basically foodies. Although they might suppress the desire, they were innately born with a gluttonous mouth. The only difference between them and a taotie was that one could eat itself, while the other could not.

When the three of them arrived at the Hundred Phoenix Inn, they were stopped outside. At this moment, Wen Ping merely cast a quick glance at the road in front of the inn and already saw over ten horse carriages. If they were ordinary carriages pulled by ordinary horses, he wouldn't look at them because they were from normal families.

However, those that were driving toward the Hundred Phoenix Inn were all top-graded fengliu horses pulling on luxurious gold-leaf carriages.

It was expensive to paste gold leaf foil all over a horse carriage, but the fengliu horses were even more impressive. A single one could temporarily block a two-meter-wide stream and if it stomped down with one hoof, it would be as though there was an extra sluice gate. Moreover, its speed was even faster than leopards.

With the two factors combined, Wen Ping dared to be sure that they were all core members of major clans.

The previous time they had gathered was when the Immortal Sect got 'ravaged'. They had wanted to watch how the Immortal Sect would decline. But as for today, all of them came here for the demon chef, Huai Kong.

It was already afternoon and the sun was high up in the sky. The heat from the floor soon traveled to their soles.

The heat was like a barrel of oil that completely 'ignited' the guests of the Hundred Phoenix Inn today. This inn was packed to the brim, and even the runners whose job was to welcome the guests were being squeezed to the streets.

Just when Shi Hua wanted to enter the Hundred Phoenix Inn, she was stopped by a waiter.

"Sorry, there are too many guests today. If the three of you want to eat a meal, please queue up. You guys can only enter if there are people coming out."

Feeling helpless, Shi Hua could only obediently join the queue.

The black robes of the Reliance Sect.

The uniform with the style of mountains and rivers of the Immortal Sect.

At this moment, they were no different compared to ordinary people.

Only those people who came down from the fengliu horses could enter the Hundred Phoenix Inn and directly went to the private rooms on the second and third levels.

"Sorry, this is my friend."

At this moment, a person stretched her head out of a window on the second floor, shouting at the waiter who told Shi Hua to queue up.

"Little Ye."

"Shi Hua, quickly come up."

The two of them exchanged greetings, and Shi Hua hurriedly pulled the two of them and squeezed through the crowd, heading to the second level.

The inn seemed to be different from before. In the past when they walked here, they would feel that it was extremely spacious. But right now, they were almost squeezed to death!

It wasn't an easy thing, but they finally reached the second level. Shi Hua then saw that the entire corridor was filled with tables and chairs as people sat in small groups of three to five, armed with chopsticks as they were eating.

All the food was full of color and fragrance!

As they ate, they were praising the food, "It's truly worthwhile for us to come today."

This scene caused the mouths of the three of them to be filled with drool.

After that, they pushed open a door and entered a private room. It was actually not that large and could only contain five to six people. There were flower terraces and bogu shelves placed here, which caused the place to look even smaller. However, when compared to the extremely packed area outside, this place was like a soccer field.

Right now, three people in black robes were sitting inside, and Wen Ping had never seen them before. As for whether they had been people in the Immortal Sect in the past, he couldn't be sure.

However, from their expressions when they looked at his robes, he could tell that they were very shocked.

"The mountain and river uniform?"

"These two are?"

They asked the question at the same time, causing Shi Hua to not know who to reply to. She could only do an introduction. "This is Wen Ping, an old friend of mine. As for him, his surname is Yun, and he is an elder of the Immortal Sect."

"The Immortal Sect still has members?"

The person who spoke was a girl roughly the same age as Wen Ping. Seeing her reaction, he dared to guarantee that this girl was originally from the Reliance Sect.

Because those who had left the Immortal Sect knew that the Immortal Sect were recruiting. After all, it was the place that they had stayed in, so they would surely check things out thoroughly if there was any news regarding it. Naturally, it wasn't because they were concerned. They purely wanted to see the Immortal Sect make a fool out of themselves.

It was the same logic as hoping your ex-boss would become bankrupt after you resigned.

However, the three of them didn't say anything much after that. "Sit then, since you guys are Shi Hua's friends, it's fine."

All of them had long since hoped that they would be able to eat the dishes cooked by Huai Kong, so they weren't in the mood to discuss two people from a declined sect.

"The food is here!"

When the door was pushed over, the three girls stood up at the same time.

Before the waiter that was carrying the dishes entered the room, they could already smell a fragrance gushing over. How to put it? This smell made those who smelled it feel like they had become taoties.

However, it was a pity that although the three girls had a private room, they couldn't be that casual when it came to ordering the dishes.

Three dishes and a soup. That was the most they could order.

Although this room currently had six people, they could only order this.

This made Wen Ping feel bad.

There wasn't much food, so even if he just ate two pieces of meat, the remaining pieces would look pathetically few. Luckily, Yun Liao was smart and found an excuse to sneak out. Wen Ping guaranteed that this was because Yun Liao couldn't stand the agony of not being able to eat such delicious meals despite him having the money.

As for Wen Ping, he wasn't in a hurry to leave. If he headed out now, he wouldn't have a place to go, and it was also agonizing to watch groups of people eating outside. Hence, he could only chat with Shi Hua and the others about her martial dojo in this private room.

The other girls naturally weren't interested in this. However, there was too little food and it would be gone very quickly if they focused on eating.