I open a restaurant in Xiujie

Che Yunwen's idea was the upcoming Qingzhou Rookie Competition.

This big competition is mainly aimed at the new disciples who joined the Longmen sect last year. After a year of practice, among them the most talented ones have already reached the foundation building, but the penance of staying behind closed doors can only increase their cultivation, but cannot increase their strength. Disciple's experience.

In order to test their actual combat level, and to let them have a basic understanding of the general trend of the Qixia Realm and the cruelty of the Cultivation Realm, on a certain day in May or June every year, Qingzhou will be led by several large sects to hold a Rookie contest.

Participants are limited to newly promoted monks who have practiced for less than two years. People with advanced cultivation bases look down on this kind of competition, thinking it is "children's fight", so there are few powerful people present, which is safe for Yu Xiaotan .

"How about it, is it a good opportunity?" Che Yunwen clapped his hands, "We can spread the reputation of the restaurant among the young disciples of various sects, and when they bring the news back and spread it among their respective sects, the restaurant in Xiaotan will definitely It can be recognized by more people."

Ji Chuchen was thoughtful: "The rookie contest in Qingzhou..."

He had heard of it a little before.

From the height of Ji Chuchen's vision as a young suzerain, it is natural to see something that Che Yunwen doesn't know.

This kind of activity is nominally open to all sects to participate in. In fact, it is a secret move by large sects to understand the strength of other sects in the area under their jurisdiction. Disciples of small sects are limited by their cultivation resources, so it is difficult for them to excel in the competition , and once a peerless genius really emerges among them, in addition to the rewards, after the end of the competition, there will be ensuing recruitment, bribery, rebellion... assassination.

There was such a thing before, a certain small sect devoted all their efforts to cultivating a genius, but on the second day after the big competition, the genius was attracted by Xuanshengzong's abundant cultivation resources, and even brought the big competition with him. together with the rewards obtained.

The small sect lost its wife and lost its soldiers, but it is dumb and eats coptis, unable to explain its suffering.

Such a variety is by no means an exception.

Che Yunwen said again: "I went to this big competition the year before last. In addition to the competition, there will also be a market next to it, which is convenient for the disciples of various sects to barter. Xiaotan can set up a YUXI in the market. The stall, The selling point..."

He wanted to talk about selling some potatoes, but when the words came to his mouth, he hesitated again.

The matter of the stele of futility is vivid, and Che Yunwen knows the beauty of potatoes and soy sauce. It's not that he is narrow-minded, it's just that if these things are exposed, what if they fall into the hands of the elders of some sect and cause turmoil? manage?

Just at this moment, Yu Xiaotan came out of the house with a tray and shouted from a distance: "The tea is here."

Drinking tea immediately after meals affects digestion. Although this has little effect on the monks, Yu Xiaotan still abides by the knowledge he learned in his previous life, and only served the tea half an hour later.

The tea is black tea bought in the market, somewhat similar to the Lapsang Souchong that Yu Xiaotan knew. The slender tea leaves are fat and firm. After repeated brewing with boiling water for several times, the tea has a bright orange-yellow color, and the black is swaying. , exuding a refreshing floral and fruity aroma.

Several people in the courtyard happily took the teacups.

Take a sip, the lips and teeth are fragrant.

The mellow taste reverberates in the mouth and throat, washes away the residual hotness of the hot pot, and warms the stomach after entering the stomach. Even the cool wind at night seems to have softened a lot.

Holding the teacup, Yu Xiaotan also sat down on the chair, while drinking tea happily, he said casually: "What were you talking about just now?"

Ji Chuchen said with a smile: "I'm talking about how to open up sales for the restaurant. Brother Yunwen came up with a good idea. Qingzhou's rookie Dabi, Xiaotan, what do you think?"

Rookie contest?

It's new, but it's not new either.

What's new is that there is no description of this in the original text, because Yunzhou does not have the tradition of Qingzhou, they will throw new students into the hunting team of Luoyue Mountains, and use the fight and slaughter with mysterious beasts to baptize the new students.

In the eyes of Yunzhou people, the competition in the arena is really weak, and the competition under the supervision of the referee can't sharpen people, it's just like playing a house.

The middle-grade mysterious beast that shreds the human rank is the real man!

But Yu Xiaotan spent the first ten years of his life in Qingzhou after all, and he still has some understanding of this annual "big event".

And... when he joined the sect, everyone thought that Yu Xiaotan would shine brightly, and winning the first place in the rookie competition was easy... As a result, a year later, two years later, Yu Xiaotan did not appear on the competition stage at all .

The "genius" who climbed the ladder of heaven and entered the sect fell headfirst on the ridge of introducing energy into the body, and it lasted ten years.

...It can be regarded as another kind of shocking everyone's attention.

The rookie contest brought up Yu Xiaotan's sadness, but after a moment of silence, he still decided, "Go."

This is indeed a good opportunity.

In an era without the Internet and electromagnetic waves, spreading the news basically depended on word of mouth. The New Talent Competition was a gathering place for Qingzhou's new disciples, and it was worth a visit for them.

As for the ingredients for sale, Yu Xiaotan also had a general idea in mind.

But before that, he had an idea he wanted to test.

Yu Xiaotan turned around and looked at the dryad boy who was drinking tea comfortably: "Senior Qiongqing, can I trouble you to do an experiment with me?"

"experiment?"

Qiongqing raised her head, her black eyes were clear: "Okay, but I will accompany you to do the experiment, can you give me some of this tea?"

"No problem." Yu Xiaotan said with a smile, "I bought this tea at the market and it's not worth a lot. In summer, I'll dry the skin of the maple spirit fruit and expose it to the sun to make some tangerine peels, and then invite you to drink tea. "

Qiongqing's eyes lit up: "Then it's settled."

He has been isolated from the world for thousands of years in the secret realm, and now when he wakes up, he is quickly fed foodie attributes by Yu Xiaotan.

Pausing for a moment, Qiongqing said again: "If it is an experiment, I can do it now."

In Qiongqing's heart, the experiment is nothing more than some of his blood essence or vines.Essence and blood are very important things, if others ask for them, Qiong Qing will definitely not give them, but Yu Xiaotan is a friend of Che Yunwen, and he can cook a lot of delicious food, so it can be an exception.

But Yu Xiaotan said: "Senior, you are full today, so there is no rush to test again tomorrow."

Qiongqing was slightly taken aback.

Not asking for blood.

But... an experiment related to eating? !

Immediately, everyone's eyes were attracted, and Bai Junda jumped up half of his body from the seat: "I, I, I, I can also do experiments!"

"You can't," Yu Xiaotan said relentlessly, "You are too weak."

Bai Junda: "..."

Seeing this, Qiongqing smiled with eyebrows and eyes crooked, and her already delicate face became more and more beautiful in the candlelight.

……

After a delicious dinner and refreshments, Yu Xiaotan invited Che Yunwen and Qiongqing to stay overnight in the restaurant.

It's also fortunate that his restaurant has just been expanded, otherwise Yu Xiaotan would be too embarrassed to ask for customers given the few remote earthen huts before.

Before falling asleep, Che Yunwen quietly found Yu Xiaotan, and took out a snow-white lotus from the storage ring.

"Thanks to the things you gave me, I have gained a lot from this retreat."

There was a gentle smile on the young man's face, and his eyes were soft: "I don't know what to thank you, this is the mysterious ice lotus that my master rewarded me after the breakthrough, when you reach the peak of foundation establishment, take off one petal and swallow it, It can strengthen the foundation and cultivate the talents.”

Yu Xiaotan refused to take it: "This is something your master gave you. It must be good for your practice. Brother Che, you should keep it for yourself."

Che Yunwen's hands flickered, and the lotus flower was stuffed into Yu Xiaotan's arms in an instant.

The aura of Jin Dan Qi was under his feet, and before Yu Xiaotan could react, the young man had already jumped out of the eaves: "Xiaotan, friends are only friends if you come and go, we are friends, right?"

The warm laughter floated in the night, Yu Xiaotan was holding the lotus flower dumbfounded, but there was some warmth in his heart.

He lowered his head and looked carefully at the lotus in his hand. It was in full bloom, and its roots were dyed with a blue color like ice crystals, but gradually faded outwards until the tips of the petals were as white as snow.

It's a pity that the flower has not fully bloomed yet, there are small bones in the middle, Yu Xiaotan counted, there are five petals.

Yu Xiaotan whispered in his heart: "System, help me identify it?"

After a moment of hesitation, the familiar electronic voice sounded slowly:

[It has been detected that the genius Dibao Xuanbing Qilian is a middle-grade earth-grade, which has the effect of washing essence and cutting marrow and improving aptitude. 】

Seeing the promotion of aptitude, Yu Xiaotan's eyes lit up.

But after a while, the system belatedly said:

[If you advance to the Heaven Rank Xuanbing Qilian, you can reshape the spiritual root meridian, expand the dantian, and have a very small probability of obtaining the ice-type spiritual root qualification. 】

Yu Xiaotan: "!!!"

Without hesitation, the boy took out the upgrade coupon he had drawn before, and slapped it on.

The golden light bursts out, the cold fragrance overflows, and the lotus flower is surrounded by azure blue ice crystals, like broken snow, or like a misty peak.

It actually opened into nine petals.

The petals are all in full bloom, and the aura of the whole lotus has also undergone earth-shaking changes. There is a bitter chill in the air, and a night wind suddenly blows in the small courtyard, like the arrival of midwinter.

Yu Xiaotan hurriedly put the things into the storage ring - he waited for a while, and his small restaurant was going to be snowing in June, so it would be bad for other people in the town to misunderstand.

But even if it was installed in the storage ring, Yu Xiaotan could still feel a little bit of chill. On his storage ring, the jade ring surface was "clicking", and it might not last long before it would be scrapped.

And the clear night sky was also covered with dark clouds, thunder bursts, from far to near.

... A strange thing that has been promoted to the heavenly rank will suffer a catastrophe when it is born, how can it be bound by a small storage ring.

No, can't wait.

Clutching the ring, Yu Xiaotan rushed towards the room where Ji Chuchen was, shouting as he rushed: "Brother Ji, come out quickly, Fatty Bai!"

Ji Chuchen had just put on his clothes and lay down, and when he heard the shouting, he hurriedly put on a coat and ran out. He had never heard Yu Xiaotan screaming in such a panic, and his heart gripped violently for a moment: "Xiaotan, I'm here! What's the matter?" !"

Did someone break into the restaurant?

In the panic, Ji Chuchen forgot that Che Yunwen and Qiongqing were still there.

He subconsciously made a gesture of drawing his sword, frantically urging the circulation of his body according to the previous trajectory of spiritual power, the dry meridian was tense to the extreme, and the broken spiritual root had just been reborn, but its owner didn't know it and didn't care about it. Overwhelmed in a panic——

What came oncoming was not the shadow of swords, lights and swords, but a strong fragrance.

Under the night, Yu Xiaotan ran from the corridor, raised his hand and stuffed something like a moonlight into his mouth.

The cool juice flows down the throat into the bones of the limbs, and the cracked spiritual roots are reshaped by the power of ice and snow. The dry meridians are like the riverbed in spring, and the snowmelt turns into streams and flows, nourishing thousands of rivers and mountains...

Ji Chuchen heard the sound of snow falling in a trance.

Light and floating, but as heavy as mountains and seas, there was a rustling sound like smoke in his body.

The heavy snow falls all over the mountain, filling the cracks and gullies, and comforting the lonely people.

Then, in the cool breath of ice and snow, life was born.

... His heart trembled suddenly.

The long-lost feeling filled his body, and the spiritual power flowed happily like a stream, and Ji Chuchen's ears exploded. Only then did he realize that it was not an intruder, but a elixir, a rare treasure in thousands of years. Yu Xiaotan gave it to him without hesitation!

With the spiritual wind entrenched, Ji Chuchen suddenly raised his hand and waved it towards the sky.

The young man's eyes were filled with flames, more dazzling than anything Yu Xiaotan had ever seen before. The white robe draped over his shoulders was fluttering, and the wind and snow in the courtyard were still condensed. The long sword, the sword body is clear, the cold light is shimmering, and the tip of the sword is pointing directly at the thunderclouds in the sky!

The sky was heavy and heavy, and thunder was flying.

Leiyun came here because of the advancement of the Xuanbing Qilian, and was attracted by Ji Chuchen's complete recovery, because the rebirth of the Tianlinggen is also a journey against the sky. If you want to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, you must go through the baptism of thunder and fire.

Yu Xiaotan was stunned, he had never seen such a posture before.

Even though there are ninety-nine and eighty-one ways of fire and thunder in the novel, but in the face of the real power of heaven and earth, the words sometimes seem so pale and powerless.

Yu Xiaotan couldn't find any words to describe the sky at this moment, he felt weak all over, but his chest was thumping, the cold current slowed down his steps, but turned into a fire, burning hot in Yu Xiaotan's heart.

Until Ji Chuchen pushed him to the eaves, the gentle wind lifted him up, and a vine came up behind him, supporting Yu Xiaotan to prevent him from falling.

Qiongqing didn't know when she stood behind.

Although the ancient tree demon knew nothing about fireworks in the human world, he was familiar with such things as thunder calamity, but his expression was a little serious at the moment: "Jiujiu Tianhuolei, what is your little boyfriend?"

Yu Xiaotan: "???"

Yu Xiaotan's face suddenly burned up: "What, what a little boyfriend, don't talk nonsense, Brother Ji is my friend. Then what is Jiujiu Tian Huo Lei, is it very powerful?"

Qiongqing stared at him with strange eyes for a moment, then said softly: "Lei Jie who split the golden elixir, now come and chop him a "mortal" who has just rebuilt his bones and hasn't re-cultivated, do you think he is powerful? "

Yu Xiaotan's heart sank immediately.

Qiongqing said again: "Don't worry, if he can't hold on, I can help him block the next few thunderstorms. But in that case, the remodeling of his roots will also fail, and it will be even more difficult to remodel him in the future." It’s difficult, you have to think about it.”

After a moment of silence, Yu Xiaotan thanked him softly.

The boy turned around and stared at Ji Chuchen in the center of the whirlwind.

The strong wind whipped up the youth's black hair like sandalwood, and the large white robe was filled with the wind. The heavy rain fell down, and soon wet Ji Chuchen's whole body, but he looked slightly embarrassed, but his eyes were extremely bright. Like a long sword about to be quenched.

so dazzling.

Like the scorching sun.

"...Senior Qiongqing, I think Brother Ji can do it himself." Yu Xiaotan murmured.

Inexplicably, a strong sense of faith spontaneously arose in his heart. The figure of the young man in the storm, thunder and thunder was like a strong pine, with a straight back and a jade tree, and he never retreated half a step despite thousands of blows.

The thunder rumbled, and the first catastrophe was already being conceived.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?"

Bai Junda, who came late, ran in a hurry, the rain splashed all over his body: "Yu Xiaotan, the vegetables in the back mountain have not been confiscated yet, why is there a thunderstorm!"

Yu Xiaotan hurriedly pulled him under the eaves: "Don't disturb him."

Just chop the vegetables, talent is the most important thing.

Bai Junda wanted to say something, but Yu Xiaotan blocked his mouth with a lotus petal: "Uh, uh..."

The heavenly fetish melted in Bai Junda's body and turned into vigorous spiritual power, breaking through his veins and widening his dantian.

Bai Junda's whole body was in pain like tears, and he couldn't care about the vegetable garden in the back mountain immediately: "What is this, Yu Xiaotan, what did you give me, my dantian is so hot, it hurts so much..."

Yu Xiaotan said with a straight face, "It's poison."

Bai Junda: "..."

Yu Xiaotan: "If you eat, you can't talk, you can't walk half a step, and you can't smile, otherwise your whole body will burst and you will die."

Bai Junda: "!!!"

Bai Junda cried and mourned, nestled under the eaves and did not move.

It's not that he really thinks that Yu Xiaotan gave him poison, but he understands that Yu Xiaotan wants him to talk less and stop running around.

Qiongqing stared blankly at the lotus in Yu Xiaotan's hand, and muttered to herself: "Nine petals, there are actually nine petals..."

He has been following Che Yunwen's side, but watched helplessly as the master sent the Qilian to Yu Xiaotan, the lotus was still five petals at that time.

The difference between the four petals is far more than the difference between heaven and earth?

Qiongqing's blood boiled with greed for a moment, Yaozhi's tyrannical nature stirred back and forth in his chest, and his instinct frantically urged: He grabs it, grab it quickly, this will be of great benefit to you!But reason firmly suppressed him in place: how could he beg for the gift given by the master himself with a calm face?

Isn't that embarrassing to Che Yunwen?

Moreover, Qiongqing couldn't figure out how Yu Xiaotan raised the lotus to nine petals.

The reason why Qi Lian was picked off when it had five petals was not that the monks in Yushuimen were impatient and did not want to wait until it fully bloomed, but that the limit of this kind of spiritual plant was five petals, just like some bones in the world were destined not to bloom, and the limitation Theirs is not fertility or rain and sunshine, but to some extent... destiny.

If Yu Xiaotan were to talk about it, it might be called genes.

In short, the nine-petal Xuanbing Qilian can no longer be called Qilian, it should be called Tianlian, because this is the lucky one favored by heaven and earth, and it is a strange thing that has gathered the luck of the tens of thousands of years. Even the treasure house of Yushuimen Among them, there are only a few treasures that can be compared with it.

The thunder was getting closer, Che Yunwen rushed over, and Uncle Wang also walked over on crutches—after a few months of eating and drinking, Uncle Wang's legs and feet were obviously much more agile than before.

Facing the thunder light flying all over the sky, several people also showed solemn expressions on their faces.

Yu Xiaotan thought for a moment, then tore off a few petals from the Xuanbing Tianlian, and returned the rest to Che Yunwen: "Brother Che, this is for you and Senior Qiongqing."

Cha Yunwen: "..."

Although he didn't know much about the preciousness of the nine-petal lotus, he could tell a thing or two from the face of the lotus, especially at this moment when Qiongqing was shrinking back and secretly poking at his sleeve. Wen could almost hear the voice of the dryad boy looking forward to it.

"I..." Che Yunwen's Adam's apple rolled a few times, "Xiaotan, you..."

Yu Xiaotan couldn't help but put Tianlian into his hands: "Friends are supposed to keep in touch, you said it."

Che Yunwen gave him a deep look.

He meant that there are exchanges and comings and goings, but it does not refer to this kind of exchange method. Five petals are given out, and nine petals are returned when they are returned. Yunwen felt that he would soon be unable to face Yu Xiaotan, so what's the point of taking advantage of others again and again?

Yu Xiaotan could vaguely see the other party's thoughts from the young man's reddish face.

His thoughts turned, and he said softly: "Brother Che, people respect me one foot, I respect others ten feet, and those who respect others also respect them. This is my principle of doing things."

"You and senior Qiongqing have helped me a lot, please don't be polite to me for such a small matter."

Before Che Yunwen could speak, Qiongqing suddenly said, "Yu Xiaotan, do you know what the meaning of Tianji Lingzhi is?"

"I only know that it means that it is very useful to you," Yu Xiaotan smiled, "Isn't that enough?"

Qiongqing looked at him fixedly.

The strange lines protruded from the young man's neck, and climbed up his cheeks like flower vines. At that moment, Yu Xiaotan vaguely saw something flashing in the other party's eyes, but the next second the thunder was deafening, and everyone turned around and looked up. Shushua gathered on the sky.

The thunder cloud that had been brewing for a long time finally found an exit, and a thunder arc as thick as a forearm flickered for a moment, striking Ji Chuchen in the middle of the yard!

The first thunder is the momentum of Wanjun!

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I mistyped a word when typing today, and I typed it as sponsorship for a night of temporary stay hahaha Fortunately, I found it in time and corrected it