Chapter 184: This dog... Is No Ordinary Dog! (2/2)

”The price is very fair. See how, even though its costly, everyone here is happily enjoying their meals?” Ouyang Xiaoyi responded.

The elder was lost for words, he glanced at Fatty Jin and others stuffing their faces with food, and his countenance suddenly turned peculiar. He had just checked out the price of the Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs, one plate of ribs, fifty crystals…

A dog just ate a dish worth fifty crystals…

The elder felt a serious case of ”a man's life is worse than that of a dog's” after stepping into the store.

”Please give this old fellow an order of the Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs.” The elder pondered for a while, but still ordered the Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs at the end. He saw that Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs was the first dish on the menu, was already completely subdued by its fragrance, and thus decided to give the Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs a good try. So what if it was fifty crystals?

As the Ghost Chef, the elder was not short of money.

”Take a seat first,” Ouyang Xiaoyi said, then turned around, headed to the window of the kitchen, and shouted at Bu Fang an order of Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs.

Bu Fang nodded his head and continued to cook the dish he was working on.

The elder sized up the environment within the store. The atmosphere here was completely different from that of the restaurant he built in Qingyang Town. The former was mystifyingly secluded, generating an magnificently enchanting ambience. Yet the latter, because of its fervent and adventurous customers, could not compare in terms of its atmosphere.

”This is?!” The elder's gaze froze, as if he saw something exceptional.

With a few quick and hurried strides, the elder reached the place where the earthen-yellow flower pot stood, and squatted down before the pot, with his face filled with solemnity and gravity.

He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. The new leaves on the branches emitted a light wisp of spirit energy. This spirit energy, albeit not rich, unconsciously kept the elder enraptured.

”This… this couldn't be the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree? But… didn't Ah Wei say, this store owner had just received this prize? What's the deal with this small, burgeoning branch of the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree?” The elder was flabbergasted. He suddenly felt like he could no longer understand this world.

Owner Bu should have only received a seed of the Path-Understanding Fruit Tree a few days ago. But having been plotted in this grotesque flower pot for a few days, the seed had germinated and sprouted out a branch, on which there were leaves imprinted with the Five Stripes Spirit Nets.

”He… he actually found a way to grow the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree? This Owner Bu… what kind of immortal being is he!”

The elder had exhausted the level of bewilderment he could reach, suddenly feeling urgent to meet Bu Fang.

”The successful growing of the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree is not a small feat. Emperor Changfeng had obtained the seed of this spirit tree for multiple years, tried to nurture it for so many years, yet never witnessed it germinating. Bu Fang had only planted it in this store for a span of couple days, but burgeoning Five Stripes Path Understanding leaves have already sprung out of the soil.”

The elder took a deep breath to calm himself down. Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree, if this name promulgated, it would once again push this store to the cusp of public opinion.

And much more perilous this time around.

The Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree would bear fruit, and the ordinary Three Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit simply could not compare with the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit. Eating this Three Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit could bestow upon one the likely chance of achieving Path-Understanding epiphany.

What was unique was that as the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree grew, it would disseminate a mystifying energy, and those enveloped by this mystifying energy were more likely to achieve breakthroughs.

That was why nearly all cultivators understood clearly the preciousness of the Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit.

Here's an easy example. The Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit is the sensational spirit herb that can help a seventh grade Battle-Saint arrive at the barrier to eighth grade War-God. All others aside, its capability of bringing a seventh grade Battle-Saint close to the barrier to eighth grade Battle-God alone is enough to drive plenty of people crazy.

As the elder fixated on this Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree, a tickling sense of avarice even shot through his heart.

He was also a seventh grade Battle-Saint. How badly he yearned to touch the barrier to eighth grade…

There were countless seventh grade Battle-Saints in this realm, stuck at the transition between seventh to eighth grade. At this moment in time, a Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit could practically shine light on their desperate grasp for hope, and would naturally attract numerous pairs of greedy eyes.

”Within the Imperial City, a small store actually plants a growing Five Stripes Path-Understanding Fruit Tree… as the saying goes, the precious stone may land its possessor in jail… this little store, probably won't be here much longer,” The elder muttered.

Bu Fang had finished cooking the Sweet 'n' Sour Ribs, wiped off the drops of water from his hands, and sauntered out of the kitchen only to see a gray-robed elder squatting before the earthen-yellow flower and gawking at the burgeoning bud.

This scene caught him by surprise.

This old man… what was he doing gaping at the store's plant? Could it be that the elder was familiar with the breed of this burgeoning bud?

Bu Fang was always curious about the breed of this sapling, and if the elder had answers, then Bu Fang had some questions to ask.