Observations in Yuanling City (Part 4)

Seeing this, Liao Pantu hurriedly floated out from his chest, sat down in the seat next to him, picked up the tea on the table, and took a huge gulp.

"Tsk, the free spirit tea at this Immortal Fragrance Pavilion is still just tea dregs."

Turning his head to see Lin Xiao staring unblinkingly at him, he gave a light cough and said:

"A youngster like you coming to the most expensive Immortal Fragrance Pavilion in Yuanling City and spending so generously will definitely attract attention. If you didn't order a pot of wine, they would surely think you're exactly what you look like—a teenager—and look for trouble once you leave."

Hearing these words, Lin Xiao felt that although it made a bit of sense, it definitely wasn't the main reason.

"I'm afraid it's just that you wanted to drink, old man, so you made me order it."

Being exposed, Liao Pantu gave a light snort and said:

"So what if I did? I've been trapped for decades, my mouth has been completely deprived of flavor!"

Looking at the translucent Senior Liao, Lin Xiao suddenly thought of something:

"Senior, is it really okay for you to eat and drink in this soul state? Can you actually taste anything?"

Liao Pantu wore an expression of 'who are you looking down on, kid', stroking his beard as he said:

"Naturally. What I cultivate is the Soul Refining Incantation. The capabilities of my soul body are far greater than those of an ordinary person's soul."

Meanwhile, after the waiter collected the spirit stones and relayed the private room's order to the kitchen, he went over to the shopkeeper on the first floor and muttered softly:

"Shopkeeper, Shopkeeper, did you see that just now? The guest I just served looks like a young teenager, but he actually knows Chef Luo. He's been dead for over two years now."

The shopkeeper, who was putting away the spirit stones the waiter had handed over, immediately shot him a warning glare to shut him up, then said:

"Watch your mouth! What's the big deal? You've only been a waiter here for a couple of years, so you don't know this, but many seniors like to disguise themselves. Let me tell you," at this point, the shopkeeper looked around to make sure no one was paying attention to them before whispering to the waiter:

"I've heard people say before that the older the seniors are, the more they like to disguise themselves as being young..."

"Why is that?" The waiter was puzzled. As someone whose cultivation had always been struggling at the first level of Qi Condensation, he thought that if he could attain profound cultivation and live that long, he would happily go out every day to let everyone see how long he had lived!

Why did these seniors with truly profound cultivation prefer to make others think they were young and easy to bully?

He didn't understand, but the shopkeeper, who had barely managed to push his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment realm using the resources he had earned over the years, understood. He gently patted the waiter's shoulder and said:

"You'll understand in the future. This is why I had you come work as a waiter, to save you from just burying your head in cultivation at home all day without even understanding the ways of the world."

The Jiang Family Livestock Firm's delivery service was extremely fast. Almost immediately after Lin Xiao and the others arrived at the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion, Lin Xiao's spirit pig was delivered.

The kitchen of the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion was clearly highly efficient as well. Not long after Lin Xiao had been chatting with Liao Pantu in the private room, he heard a knock on the door signaling the arrival of the food.

Liao Pantu immediately shrank back into the Soul Nourishing Pendant, which rested on the chair.

Lin Xiao temporarily deactivated the isolation array and called out "Come in" to the outside.

The waiter walked in, holding a large platter of a roasted suckling pig with an enticing, reddish hue in one hand, and a dish of Eight-Crisp Silver-Tailed Fish in the other. After gently placing the dishes on the table, he took out a pot of wine from his storage bag at his waist and placed it on the table as well. Then, he quietly excused himself, retreated outside, and closed the door for Lin Xiao.

Throughout the whole process, he didn't dare to look up or glance around, acting like a completely different person compared to when he had guided Lin Xiao upstairs to the private room.

However, Lin Xiao no longer cared about these details. After reactivating the isolation array to shield the room's activities from the outside, his eyes were solely focused on the whole, mouth-watering roasted suckling pig on the table!

Liao Pantu also quickly emerged from the Soul Nourishing Pendant, sat back down on the chair, grabbed a pair of chopsticks nearby, and aimed straight for the chest and abdomen of the roasted suckling pig!

Seeing this, Lin Xiao immediately picked up his chopsticks with lightning speed and reached over, snatching the most delicious tenderloin meat from the pig's waist and abdomen right before Senior Liao's chopsticks could!

He smugly wiggled his eyebrows at Liao Pantu, then popped the meat into his mouth, looking thoroughly satisfied.

Hampered by the fact that this portion of his soul body only possessed the strength of the ninth level of Qi Condensation, Liao Pantu, despite making the first move, still failed to outspeed Lin Xiao. Looking at Lin Xiao's punchable expression, he indignantly shifted his chopsticks to another spot, viciously tore off a large chunk of meat, and began to gorge himself.

Once he fully recovered and dealt with his mortal enemy, he would come back to eat all by himself! He would order ten roasted suckling pigs just for himself! He had plenty of spirit stones!

Although Lin Xiao had eaten his fair share of roasted suckling pig in his previous life, tasting it again after more than a decade, he still found it incredibly delicious.

Furthermore, this roasted suckling pig was truly worthy of being made from a spirit pig of the cultivation world! Prepared by the hands of a professional chef who was also a cultivator, it was so good that Lin Xiao almost couldn't bear to swallow it!

As they chewed the soft and tender meat, sweet honey juices slowly seeped out from within. The fresh, sweet, and savory flavors bloomed on their tongues. This delicacy made Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu, who had originally planned to wolf down the meat, involuntarily close their eyes to savor it carefully.

Only after the meat dissolved between their teeth and the juices fully dispersed in their mouths to be absorbed by their throats and tongues did they open their eyes and reach their chopsticks toward the next piece of roasted pork.

The Eight-Crisp Silver-Tailed Fish and the premium spirit wine off to the side seemed to be temporarily forgotten.

Just as the two were eating enthusiastically, they suddenly heard a commotion coming from the first-floor lobby below.

Lin Xiao picked up a carving knife nearby and split the remaining roasted suckling pig into two, then pulled one half in front of himself.

"This portion is mine, Senior, you're not allowed to touch it!"

With that said, he ran to the window of the private room, opened it, and began watching the spectacle of the cultivation world.

One of the windows in this private room faced inward, and this was the one Lin Xiao opened. He stuck his head halfway out to look down at the noisy area below.

He saw a lean, rather plainly dressed middle-aged cultivator standing in the middle of the lobby, glaring angrily as he confronted a well-dressed, smiling, yet rather contemptuous-looking plump middle-aged cultivator opposite him.

The lean middle-aged cultivator appeared to be at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. He stared resentfully at the plump middle-aged cultivator in front of him and said full of anger:

"Back then, your Wu family personally promised me that as long as I crafted talismans for the Wu family for ten years, you would give me a quota for the Sky Profound Sect. I never expected you to go back on your word now! It truly infuriates me to death!"