A Bite of Douluo Continent

Qin Yao glanced at the bewildered Fuya, then at Ying Shuangshuang who looked expectant, and a strange smile appeared on her face.

She was more perceptive and had long sensed that something was wrong with Ying Shuangshuang.

The idea that Fuya had something to say to him was probably just a pretense.

Shuangshuang definitely has feelings for that boy named Ye Lingqing.

"Okay, let's switch." Changing seats was no big deal for Qin Yao; on the contrary, she felt a subtle sense of pleasure in doing someone a favor.

Come to think of it... this isn't the first time I've done something like this?

Qin Yao suddenly fell into deep thought.

It seems that not long ago, I also created opportunities for my younger sister and Keke in the same way.

"Yueyue, you and Shuangshuang sit together, Fuya and I will sit together."

"Ah! Okay, okay." Qin Yue responded twice, then turned her gaze back to Keke.

Alas, a sister grows up and leaves home.

Qin Yao and Fuya shook their heads gently, smiled at each other, and sat down together.

Soon, Qi Han and Gulu brought out everyone's work meals. In a harmonious atmosphere, everyone enjoyed their meals together and then prepared for their work.

Ye Lingqing's culinary training will begin tomorrow, but he has already packed his belongings and is feeling a bit bored. Seeing everyone's enthusiastic demeanor, he hesitated for a moment before asking if he could help Qi Han with some chores in the kitchen.

Qi Han naturally had no objection to Ye Lingqing's request; on the contrary, he felt quite gratified.

And so, the evening business began.

...

Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Including the previous two weeks, it took Qi Han about a month to return to Shrek City from Xingluo City.

The Gu Qin sisters and Ke Ke did not stay in the shop any longer. About a week after the food festival, the out-of-town diners who had stayed in Shrek City gradually dispersed, the lingering heat gradually subsided, and the business of Hanshi (a type of cold food) began to return to normal.

Although there was some reluctance, the diners of Xingluo City still needed the three of them. The hot pot restaurant had been closed for ten days, and the diners of Xingluo City had been longing for it, hoping day and night that the Xingluo branch of Hanshi would open soon.

After seeing the three people off, the Hanshi (Cold Food Festival) shop continued to do business.

A week was enough time for Hanshi's glory at the food festival to spread throughout the entire Douluo Continent. Because Xuan Ye felt guilty, he secretly increased the publicity. In addition, Hanshi's eight dishes occupied the top eight spots, which was enough to generate buzz. The name of Hanshi spread even faster than expected.

Perhaps many people have already started traveling from all over the mainland, intending to come here to taste the magical dishes of Hanshi (Cold Food Festival).

However, this will not have a significant impact on the business of Hanshi (a traditional Chinese festival).

Even if they come, they won't all come at once, but will arrive in Shrek City in batches, so they won't cause much of a ripple in Hanshi's business.

The business is still booming as the Cold Food Festival returns to normal, but it's not as good as during the previous food festival. The four staff members in the store are enough to handle the business.

After Keke left, Ye Lingqing took over his job, responsible for recording and compiling the recommendation vote data.

Over the course of two weeks, the referral system remained unchanged, but the menu hanging on the wall was changed twice based on the diners' wishes.

As expected, the three-star dishes did not rank very high in either ranking. In the first ranking, they were mostly at the bottom of the top 20, while in the second ranking, two three-star dishes even made it into the top 20.

As per the previous decision, Qi Han adopted a policy of treating all cases equally and did not show any favoritism to the three-star dishes.

In the past two weeks, Ye Lingqing has also made rapid progress.

After careful consideration, Qi Han decided to synchronize Ye Lingqing's schedule with his own. Every morning, he would wake Ye Lingqing up and let her practice the method of making xiaolongbao that he had taught her. The same would be done during the afternoon business breaks, and at night she would go to bed early like him.

Although Ye Lingqing's training in the shop uses real ingredients, unlike Qi Han's training space where he uses virtual ingredients, there is no waste because Ruyi is responsible for recycling them.

With a little processing, it can be used as feed for various livestock in the system's mini-world.

Ye Lingqing himself was quite apprehensive, because he was unaware of Ruyi's existence and felt that he had made a great waste.

Qi Han couldn't explain it, especially after discovering that Ye Lingqing would carefully reflect on her mistakes after each failure because she was afraid of wasting resources. Qi Han was even less inclined to explain.

Perhaps this will even push Ye Lingqing to improve further?

While Ye Lingqing practiced alone, Qi Han naturally couldn't just stand by and do nothing. Every time Ye Lingqing understood his explanation and started practicing freely, he would find an excuse to slip back to his room, then quickly disappear into the training space to continue his training at Dinghu Shangsu.

Half a month has passed, and Dinghu Shangsu is still not finished.

There are two main reasons. First, Dinghu vegetarian dishes are expensive and the ingredients are quite precious. All vegetarian dishes are made from rare and precious ingredients, which are very difficult to prepare. Second, Qi Han also has to take time to teach Ye Lingqing noodle-making skills, so the time he can spend in the training space is reduced accordingly.

However, Qi Han was not overly anxious because of this.

Having trained in the dark and dreary system space for a long time, Qi Han's personality has become increasingly refined and easygoing.

Over the past two weeks, the progress of the main quest seven has been steadily increasing.

For the first few days, Qi Han would take a look with great interest, calculating when he could complete the task, but now he's too lazy to look anymore.

Anyway, Ruyi will remind you after you complete the seventh main quest.

That's life; if everything were predictable, there would be far fewer surprises.

For example, right now.

Main Quest Seven: Follow the Scent (Completed)

Mission Rewards: 2 x 3-star random recipes (claimable), 4 x 3-star selectable recipe fragments (claimable), +2 Soul Power Level (claimable).

Because he hadn't checked the mission progress in a long time, Qi Han was pleasantly surprised when the mission panel suddenly popped up.

Surprisingly, even Ye Lingqing, who was standing next to Qi Han, sensed that her teacher was somewhat different from usual.

"Teacher, what's wrong?" Ye Lingqing turned her head and looked at Qi Han with some confusion.

The lunch break had just ended, and the four employees had just left. Qi Han's sudden expression of surprise made Ye Lingqing feel a little strange.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered some happy things." Qi Han coughed lightly, his smile slowly fading. "I'll go back to my room first, you can continue practicing."

"Okay." Ye Lingqing nodded and continued kneading the dough.

After practicing diligently for half a month, my teacher said I had made great progress and was not far from the "three lights" realm described by the teacher.

This made Ye Lingqing look forward to it, because after finishing the dough kneading practice, she could move on to the rolling out of dough, and then she could use her martial spirit, the rolling pin.

Thinking of this, Ye Lingqing couldn't help but show a hint of anticipation on her face.

After leaving those words, Qi Han rushed to his room on the second floor and, with trembling hands, received his soul power level reward.

The warm current flowed along Qi Han's meridians again, and his soul power continued to grow stronger. Qi Han could clearly feel that his soul power seemed to have hit some kind of limit and could not grow any further. The warm current continued for half its duration and then receded like the tide.

My soul power level is now level 40.

Half of the reward has been used; the other level of reward will be added after you obtain a Soul Ring and break through the limit.

The task interface popped up again, and two brand new tasks appeared before Qi Han's eyes.

Limited-time task: Obtaining ingredients

Please travel to the far north snowfield within five days and independently kill the thousand-year-old soul beast, the Snowfield Ice Pheasant.

Task Description: It's time to get the ingredients you've all been waiting for! I bet you're already itching to get them!

Task Rewards: System Soul Ring x1, Three-Star Recipe: Eggplant Chicken Slices.

Promotion Task: Innovation and Renewal

Having already completed the junior chef promotion, the host must have grasped the importance of innovation. So please keep up the good work and take the intermediate chef promotion assessment! Please go to the Soul Beast Gathering Area: Star Dou Great Forest, freely search for ingredients, and create a brand new recipe. Once the recipe passes the system's two-star rating, the mission is considered complete.

Note: There is no time limit for this promotion mission. Once the host's original recipes are rated by the system's star rating, the host will have pricing power. There are no fixed rewards for this promotion mission; the rewards vary depending on the rating of the host's original recipes.

It's finally here?

Qi Han grinned.

I've been waiting for this day, but it's been far too long!

Chapter 328 The Dragon Clan Targeted by Qi Han (Seeking Recommendation Votes)

Although the ingredient acquisition quest and the intermediate promotion quest excited him greatly, Qi Han patiently accepted the other two rewards from the main quest seven first.

Two 3-star random recipes and four 3-star custom recipe fragments.

Qi Han did not immediately start drawing three-star random recipes, but instead focused on three-star selectable recipe fragments.

When Qi Han first obtained his first three-star selectable recipe fragment, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Because you need a total of nine fragments to redeem a selectable three-star recipe, it is much more difficult to collect them than a two-star recipe.

But now... the four fragments he obtained at once made him feel that he was not far from collecting all nine.

How many fragments do I have now?

Qi Han checked and found that there were already seven fragments.

Apart from the four fragments I just obtained, the other three fragments were obtained from missions in Star Luo City.

Just two more fragments are needed to redeem it once, which makes Qi Han feel a little excited.

It feels like it should be soon.

Suppressing his turbulent emotions, Qi Han turned to look at the two three-star random recipes.

Hmm... I'll go wash my hands first.

After quickly washing his hands, Qi Han started the lucky draw.

Soon, within the system space, under the tense gazes of Ruyi and Qi Han, the results of the two lotteries were revealed.

Samsung recipe: Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken.

Three-star recipe: Peking duck.

The sudden appearance of a chicken and a duck was something Qi Han hadn't expected.

If Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken, a Cantonese dish, is relatively niche, then Yanjing Roast Duck is truly renowned.

Moreover, Qi Han hadn't had Peking duck in a long time, which made him especially looking forward to this dish.

Qi Han now has a larger number of recipes.

The Dinghu Shangsu dish I'm currently working on is not far from completion. Once this intermediate advancement and all the ingredients are acquired, it will probably take another day or two to finish making this dish.

In addition, Qi Han has two two-star recipes: Mapo Tofu and Guo Bao Rou, as well as three three-star recipes: Jiangnan Hundred Flower Chicken, Yanjing Roast Duck and Jixi Yipin Hot Pot. Of course, there is also a four-star recipe that cannot be unlocked: Peony Fish Slices.