The Spirit of Gourmet

Chapter 11: Guardian of the Stars
"The scientific introduction to spirit-eating is all in the booklet." Chen Yu pointed to the booklet he had just given to Qin Lang.

"Because you don't have a food spirit now, it won't be too late to slowly understand these things after you have a food spirit."

"Now, I'm going to teach you a skill that's unique to the Royal Spirit Chef."

"Okay." Qin Lang put away the booklet and nodded seriously.

Could it be that Yu Lingchu’s ability is the super power of flying and hiding in the ground in his previous life?

In his expectant gaze, Chen Yu gently tapped his brows, and a ray of light lit up there, and a fluffy food spirit flew out from it.

"This is the location of the second star vein Tianxuan. My second food spirit will demonstrate with me next." Chen Yu explained casually.

"The ability I'm going to teach you, the Imperial Spirit Chef, can be used alone or together with the Food Spirit. The effects will be different in different situations."

"This ability is called Star Guardian."

"You only need to open the first star vein, Tianshu, to master it."

"Its principle is very simple. It uses the star veins as a guide, gathering energy to form a shield to protect itself."

"Alright!"

Chen Yu shouted, "Tianshu borrows strength, defend!"

A gust of energy wind swept up, and in Qin Lang's vision, the star power in the surrounding space seemed to become restless at this moment.

Countless light spots quickly gathered outside Chen Yu's body, and finally turned into a transparent white ellipsoidal light film, completely wrapping him up.

After finishing his presentation, Chen Yu smiled and spoke to Qin Lang.

"Come on, give it a try with a strong punch!"

"Here it comes!" Qin Lang looked at this strange scene with his eyes shining. He rushed forward quickly and punched the light film with all his strength.

The next moment, he only felt that his fist hit cotton, all the strength was quietly dissipated, and the light film did not move at all.

"Star Spirit Guardian can easily withstand the aftermath of the battle between the Spirit Eaters. It is the divine skill that the Spirit Chef uses to protect himself during battle."

"In addition, Star Spirit Guardian can also allow the Royal Spirit Chef and the Food Spirit to share their senses, allowing the Royal Spirit Chef to command his own Food Spirit to fight better."

As he spoke, seven-star patterns appeared in the pupils of Chen Yu and the spirit-eating creature he summoned, as if there was a mysterious connection that made the two of them become more and more compatible, almost merging into one.

"Of course, this ability requires a food spirit to take effect." After adding this, Chen Yu looked at the excited Qin Lang and asked, "Do you want to learn?"

"I do!" Qin Lang nodded vigorously.

Chen Yu smiled without surprise.

As a new instructor of the Royal Spirit Chef Association, the new Royal Spirit Chefs he has coached basically have this reaction after seeing his performance.

"If you want to learn, I'll teach you~"
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"Tianshu borrows strength and defend!"

Qin Lang let out a rather childish cry and felt indescribably excited as he watched the light film quickly forming on the surface of his body.

"The shield is still a little unstable, but you've already learned how to use it." Chen Yu calmly commented, "Just practice more and it will be fine."

"Thank you Brother Chen for your guidance." Qin Lang said gratefully.

"It's my duty." Chen Yu smiled. "This concludes the guidance for the new Royal Spirit Chefs. Later, you can go to the association hall to get a food spirit scanning device. It's a benefit given by the association to the new Royal Spirit Chefs."

"With the Soul Eater Scanning Device, once you have a Soul Eater, you can use the scan to learn some basic information about the Soul Eater."

"I understand." Qin Lang nodded seriously.

After saying goodbye to Chen Yu, he successfully received a small device that looked a bit like a mobile phone camera. This device was directly connected to the phone, and after pairing, it was as easy to use as taking pictures.

Although Chen Yu called Qin Lang a new Imperial Spirit Chef, the Imperial Spirit Chef level in the Imperial Spirit Chef Association did not actually include this level.

Only after owning the first food spirit can one be considered a formal Royal Spirit Chef and enjoy some of the preferential treatment provided by the Royal Spirit Chef Association. Strictly speaking, Qin Lang was still just an ordinary chef at this moment.

Without any hesitation, he left the Yuling Chef Association and turned to the nearest vegetable market.

To create a food spirit, one needs to cook dishes, and this is what he is best at.

"According to the tips in the teaching brochure, the taste of cooked dishes has a lot to do with the potential of the food spirit itself." Walking in the vegetable market, Qin Lang's eyes were full of thought.

"If I understand correctly, the more delicious the dish, the more powerful the food spirit that will be born."

"We must not be careless with this first food spirit."

"At least we have to have a famous dish from the state banquet."

Dishes flashed through Qin Lang's mind as he passed by a stall selling live chickens. He stopped after catching a glimpse of the live chickens in the cage.

The cock's comb is bright red and straight, the eyes are round and bright, the wings are tightly covered and neat, the color is bright, the chicken claws are strong and powerful, and the scales are smooth.

You can tell at a glance that this is a chicken of excellent quality.

“How much is this chicken?”

"Eight thousand per jin."

"How much did you say?!" Qin Lang's eyes suddenly widened.

"Eight thousand." The vendor pointed to his live chickens with vibrant, brightly colored feathers. "The highest quality Wuhe free-range chickens are priced this high everywhere."

Qin Lang: "...Excuse me."

Without any hesitation, Qin Lang turned and left.

Watching Qin Lang's departing figure, the vendor couldn't help but murmur, "After entering this vegetable market, do we still expect to buy cheap ingredients?"

He couldn't help but shook his head, and then concentrated on attracting other customers.

After leaving the live chicken stall, Qin Lang quickly came to the second stall he liked and asked the price.

Then, the third, the fourth...

The more he asked, the more silent Qin Lang became.

In the vegetable market where he bought vegetables in the morning, the prices of ingredients were not much different from his previous life, which gave him the illusion that the ingredients here were not too expensive.

But he forgot that this is an extraordinary world.

The abundant star power makes the top ingredients here have a quality far superior to that of the previous life, and even the ordinary ingredients are comparable to the top ingredients of the previous life.

The most common ingredients are indeed not expensive, not much different from the previous life.

But in this world, the prices of the same ingredients of different qualities vary greatly, so really good ingredients are very expensive.

The vegetable market he came to at this moment was an officially certified vegetable market by the Yuling Chef Association. The quality of the ingredients here was the best in the entire Dongxia City.

Because of the certification by the Yuling Chef Association, the quality of the ingredients here is absolutely guaranteed, and there will be no possibility of selling inferior products as good ones.

But because of this, the price of ingredients is naturally not cheap.

After Qin Lang bought beef and other ingredients in the morning, the balance on hand had increased from four digits to three digits.

The only ingredients he could afford here were some vegetables.

Standing at the entrance of the vegetable market, Qin Lang took a deep look at the sign of the vegetable market, then sighed and turned back home without hesitation.

Why bother making famous state banquet dishes? Just figure out how to make money first.

(End of this chapter)