Kurota, standing beside him, was utterly dumbfounded!
He couldn't comprehend how so many things had entered Ye Fan's stomach.
Was Ye Fan's body a spatial ring?
...
"Grumble..."
As he was pondering, its stomach growled.
Its attention had been completely captivated by Ye Fan earlier. Now that it was over, its stomach finally protested.
Ye Fan had no choice but to take out another piece of meat and start roasting it.
Fortunately, Kurota didn't eat much, which greatly reduced his workload.
"Watch carefully and learn well," Ye Fan reminded him while roasting the meat. "You're a mature goblin now. You need to learn to cook for yourself from now on."
Ye Fan suspected that today's anomaly wouldn't be the last. He figured he'd be troubled by cooking for half the day every day, leaving him no mood to cater to this goblin...
"Okay..." Kurota replied weakly.
It had to be said, Ye Fan's intuition was spot on.
He finished breakfast around 9:30 AM.
By noon, he was hungry again...
After instructing Kurota to pilot their flying boat towards a nearby city, Ye Fan had to prepare lunch again.
This meal was no less substantial than breakfast!
By the time he finally ate his fill, it was already 2 PM...
Finding a clear spot to stow away the flying boat, Ye Fan led Kurota into the city.
Considering Kurota's appearance, Ye Fan specifically fashioned a large, loose cloak for it.
This way, at first glance, people would only think Ye Fan was accompanying a child.
After all, the cultivation world was full of people with all sorts of peculiar attire, so a cloak wasn't particularly strange.
Upon entering the city, Ye Fan headed straight for the nearest restaurant.
"Welcome, honored guest!" a waiter eagerly greeted them.
Seeing Ye Fan's Taoist robe, he naturally assumed Ye Fan was a cultivator.
As a mortal, he felt obligated to serve such esteemed cultivators with the utmost respect.
After all, if he accidentally offended one of these great cultivators, his life could be forfeit!
This wasn't due to excessive timidity, but because there were bloody lessons right before his eyes.
Something similar had happened in the city not long ago.
A restaurant owner inadvertently said the wrong thing and was directly killed by a cultivator who came to dine!
This...
This was the greatest sorrow of mortals like them...
In the eyes of these esteemed cultivators, they were no different from ants!
If they were killed by others, perhaps there would be the authorities to turn to.
But if they were killed by a cultivator, their deaths would be in vain...
Speaking of which, this was also related to the system of cultivation nations.
Although the royal family did impose some restrictions on cultivators, preventing them from indiscriminately killing innocents, the enforcement wasn't very strict.
Anyone with some talent joined a sect to become a cultivator.
Those who remained were ordinary people destined for no cultivation.
These ordinary people, apart from procreating, held no significance to the country.
If they died, they died...
Of course, this didn't mean the country would allow cultivators to slaughter innocents at will.
Cultivators who killed indiscriminately like that were, after all, a minority.
After all, accumulating too much negative karma through such acts was detrimental to a cultivator's true heart.
If the killing karma became too heavy, it could even draw down terrifying heavenly retribution!
The cultivator who killed the restaurant owner previously did compensate his family with some wealth.
It could only be said that the royal family did intervene, but the consequences were trivial.
After all, worldly wealth was no different from scrap metal to cultivators...
"From now on, I'm booking your entire restaurant!" Ye Fan stated directly, producing a low-grade spirit stone. "I have only one request: that you quickly prepare all your restaurant's ingredients into food for me!"
At these words, the waiter was stunned...
He hadn't encountered anyone booking a restaurant before, but those were always young masters of certain status for specific purposes.
Such as discussing business with others or fostering relationships, but never solely for the food.
This was the first time he had encountered someone who booked the entire place just to eat...
However, the low-grade spirit stone in front of him was undeniable. He had to believe it, whether he wanted to or not.
Although low-grade spirit stones were useless to mortals like them, they could be exchanged for money.
As for whether one stone was enough...
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that the money exchanged for this single stone could cover their restaurant's income for an entire month!
"Please wait a moment, honored guest..." the waiter stammered and then bolted towards the counter.
This was a major matter, and he, a mere waiter, couldn't make the decision.
Soon, the waiter returned with the manager.
The manager, naturally, dared not delay and nervously led Ye Fan to a private room.
"Please wait a moment, honored guest... the food will be here shortly..."
"Manager, wait a moment." Ye Fan took out a few more low-grade spirit stones and handed them over. "Please do me a favor and go around the city, booking all the restaurants. Remember, no matter what kind of food it is, get it as quickly as possible!"
Thus, the manager, bewildered, left with the spirit stones.
Before long, a rumor spread throughout the city.
A strange cultivator had arrived and was frantically buying food...
Not only were all the restaurants emptied, but even the food stalls and small vendors had their wares bought out!
When some young masters who had intended to dine found there was nothing to eat, they were initially displeased. However, upon hearing that it was a cultivator buying everything, they immediately resigned themselves to the situation...
Unprovokable, truly unprovokable...
And so...
By the time evening arrived, nearly all the food in the entire city had been bought out by Ye Fan...
Upon hearing that someone was selling food at a high price, many citizens immediately butchered the pigs they had raised at home...
After storing the last bits of food into his ring, Ye Fan finally left with Kurota.
Fortunately, he had some money.
Otherwise, if he had to cook meals like this every day, he wouldn't be able to do anything else...
He took out the flying boat outside the city, and Ye Fan set off again.
As soon as he returned to his room, Ye Fan's stomach began to revolt again!
Ye Fan quickly took out the food he had bought and wolfed it down!
Then he met his doom...
Because he discovered that no matter how much he ate, it had no effect whatsoever!
After several catties of food, his stomach felt like it was about to explode!
Yet, that terrifying sense of hunger had not diminished in the slightest!
Looking at the food on the table, Ye Fan was completely dumbfounded!
What the hell?
He had managed to eat hundreds of catties before, so how could he not eat even this much now?
Could it be...
After scanning the food on the table, Ye Fan finally found the problem!
What he had eaten before was monster beast meat.
But what he had bought in the city was ordinary wild beast meat...
Monster beasts strengthened their bodies through cultivation every day, so their meat was naturally incomparable to ordinary wild beast meat.
The energy contained within it was incredibly potent!
If an ordinary person were to eat monster beast meat, they might even lose their life!
Could this be the problem?
Did he have to eat monster beast meat containing energy to satisfy his hunger?
With no other choice, Ye Fan had to take out monster beast meat and roast it again...
By the time he finished eating, it was already eight or nine in the evening...
Eating itself didn't take much time; the time was entirely consumed by the roasting process...
Ye Fan patted his stomach, feeling a deep sense of frustration.
This couldn't continue like this.
He couldn't possibly spend all his time cooking every day from now on, could he?
He patted the ring on his left hand, and an idea sparked in Ye Fan's mind.
Since he had money, it seemed he could find someone to do it for him...
He figured those cultivators would be very interested in his spirit stones!
Besides the materials from his previous expedition to the ruins, Ye Fan had also harvested a considerable amount of spirit stones.
He had tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones alone!
The number of mid-grade and low-grade spirit stones was countless.
On this continent, the exchange rate between different grades of spirit stones was one hundred.
One high-grade spirit stone was equivalent to ten thousand low-grade spirit stones!
Judging by this, his current net worth was already in the hundreds of millions.
A veritable tycoon.
...
However, for the time being, he still had to fill his own stomach...
Just as Ye Fan was contemplating, that familiar feeling returned!
Ye Fan stiffened...
Cold and hard...
Ye Fan: Son of a bitch!
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