A Bite of Douluo Continent

Ah this...

Feeling somewhat strange, Ye Changhong was still grateful for the minister's gesture of letting him go in first.

"Thank you then." With that, Ye Changhong switched places with the minister.

Before he could even settle into his new position, another minister spoke up, "Commander Ye, let's switch places too."

"Yes, yes, I'll switch with you. You can stand here with me."

"No, no, no, I'm further ahead here."

"... "

In the end, Ye Changhong stood blankly at the front of the line, with his colleagues looking at him expectantly behind him.

You guys really did a great job.

Soon, a minister left the already full dining area, and it was Ye Changhong's turn to enter.

Before Ye Changhong could even enter, the minister who had come out approached him and whispered, "Commander Ye, I made sure to finish my meal quickly to make room for you. You must keep up the good work!"

After speaking, the minister did not leave, but stood beside the group, looking at Ye Changhong with an expectant expression.

That strange feeling grew even stronger in Ye Changhong's heart.

Mr. Gu felt... something was off?

Forget it, forget it.

It was already the Cold Food Festival, so Ye Changhong focused his mind and sat down in the only empty seat in the dining area.

"Welcome! Please take a look at the menu first, and just tell me what you'd like to eat." Qi Han came out carrying the dishes from the previous customer, noticed Ye Changhong who had just sat down, and immediately came over to greet him.

Ye Changhong picked up the menu placed in front of her, but instead of opening it immediately, she glared at Qi Han.

As the commander of an army and a person of high position and great power, Ye Changhong's gaze carried a strong aura. Even Qi Han couldn't help but feel uneasy when faced with his somewhat fierce gaze.

What's up with this guy?

Ye Changhong didn't care about all that. Based on his years of experience in fighting, he knew that it was important to intimidate the opponent with his aura before a battle. So after sitting down, he took the lead in launching an aura attack on Qi Han.

Seeing the stunned expression on the young man's face, Ye Changhong began to look through the restaurant's menu, trying to find a problem that could provoke conflict.

After quickly flipping through all the dishes for the Cold Food Festival, a hint of joy flashed in Ye Changhong's eyes.

He already had a general idea of ​​how to provoke the restaurant.

The problem with this restaurant is so obvious: every dish is ridiculously expensive.

Ye Changhong had eaten at other restaurants before, and even at the best restaurants on Sun Moon Avenue, a hundred gold soul coins would be enough to entertain a dozen or so guests.

But here, some dishes cost as much as 100 gold soul coins.

How outrageous is such a price?

It's a total rip-off.

If he hadn't known that Qi Han was unaware of the situation, he would have even thought that this guy was deliberately trying to extort money from them, the court officials.

If you want to stir up trouble, use this price as a starting point!

Immediately, Ye Changhong made a decision.

However, even if a breakthrough is found, how to provoke conflict is an art in itself.

If Zhao Zhiyuan, that simpleton from the Terrorclaw Soul Master Corps, were to do this, he would probably slam his fist on the table right now and say that the food in this shop is so expensive that it's practically a rip-off.

But such a provocative approach is incredibly foolish and mindless, and it also seems deliberate.

Ye Changhong, who considered himself a smart man, would naturally not do such a thing.

Looking at Qi Han, who was still standing beside her waiting for her to order, Ye Changhong cleared her throat. "Why are the dishes in your restaurant so expensive?"

First, lay out the problem clearly and let the other party explain it. Then, look for a breakthrough in their explanation!

Since the opening of Hanshi Restaurant, Qi Han has encountered too many such questions. At this moment, he skillfully explained, "Our restaurant uses more precious ingredients, so although the prices are higher, they are worth the money."

"Okay." Ye Changhong's eyes showed even more joy.

What a great deal! In that case, once the dishes are served, if they don't match the price, he'll have a legitimate reason to start a fight.

What if the dishes are truly worth the price... Ye Changhong didn't consider this possibility at all.

Are you kidding me? Such expensive dishes, do you really think they're worth the price?

It must be the shopkeeper of Hanshi Restaurant boasting.

"Give me an Dongpo pork knuckle, a Ginkgo biloba with a poetic and refined style, and a brocade dragon totem!"

After glancing at the prices on the menu, Ye Changhong ordered without hesitation.

These three dishes are the only ones on the menu priced at 100 gold soul coins. Since there are no three-star or four-star dishes in Mingdu Hanshi Restaurant, these three dishes are the most expensive.

In Ye Changhong's view, the more expensive the price, the more flashy and impractical it is.

Why nitpick over this dish?

Isn't that something you can do with your hands?

Chapter 483 Ye Changhong's Horrified Revelation

After noting down Ye Changhong's order, Qi Han turned and went into the kitchen to prepare the food for this somewhat strange new customer.

Ye Changhong kept her eyes fixed on Qi Han until he entered the kitchen. Only then did she slowly withdraw her gaze, which then wandered among the diners before finally settling on Zhou Yuan.

Now that it was the Cold Food Festival, he naturally wouldn't go up to Zhou Yuan to greet him and expose himself. He just nodded in acknowledgment from afar, then turned his gaze to another place, landing on a burly man with broad shoulders and a thick waist.

The man, who was much younger than Ye Changhong, noticed the gaze directed at him. He turned around and glared at Ye Changhong before turning away with a cold snort and continuing to devour the food in front of him.

That simpleton, all he knows is eating.

After expressing his disdain for Zhao Zhiyuan, Ye Changhong slowly closed his eyes, seemingly intending to take a nap while waiting.

Only a few powerful individuals in the arena, whose strength had also reached the ninth level of Soul Master, noticed that as Ye Changhong closed his eyes, a faint spiritual fluctuation began to slowly spread outwards from him.

Spiritual Martial Soul: Dream Eater!

On the Sun and Moon Continent, a continent dominated by soul tools and soul masters, the role and effect of martial souls have been largely replaced. Some extreme individuals even rarely use their martial souls and soul skills, simply using soul power as an energy source for their soul tools.

Although the overall strength of the martial souls of the inhabitants of this continent has even shown signs of decline due to the neglect over the past ten thousand years, there are still some relatively powerful martial souls that occasionally appear. For example, Ye Changhong's martial soul, the Dream Eater, is a spiritual martial soul that is quite rare even on the Douluo Continent.

With this martial soul, Ye Changhong is able to use various mental soul skills, including many disguise-type soul skills.

This is also why he offered to impersonate a level 5 Soul Master when he volunteered for the task.

Ordinary Soul Masters simply cannot do this, unless they completely avoid using Soul Rings, otherwise the Soul Rings will inevitably reveal their true strength.

However, Ye Changhong has a soul skill that allows him to disguise everything about himself as he desires, easily changing his soul rings without arousing suspicion.

As a spirit-type spirit, the Dream Eater spirit naturally has a similar detection effect. Moreover, the detection fluctuations of this spirit skill are extremely subtle. Even strong individuals at the same level can only vaguely detect it, while weak individuals will not be able to detect it at all.

The fluctuations of a soul guide detector are easy to detect, but his soul skill detection is completely different.

At this moment, Ye Changhong was using this soul skill and completely concealing his soul ring with disguise.

The world of mental power is exceptionally wondrous. It is completely different from the world seen by the naked eye. In the world seen by the naked eye, any wall can completely block one's view, but in the world of mental power, all material obstacles are ineffective... Hmm?

Ye Changhong suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with horror.

The once invincible spirit detection soul skill encountered a situation that Ye Changhong had never faced before.

The mental energy detection, which should have been able to penetrate the walls of Hanshi Temple directly, was now blocked by the four walls of Hanshi Temple, just like the naked eye. It could not extend outward at all, and his mental energy detection soul skill, which had a detection range of over a thousand meters, was tightly trapped in the cage of Hanshi Temple, which was only about a hundred square meters in size.

The only outlet for his spiritual power was the open shop door at Hanshi. Apart from this door, Ye Changhong could not project even a trace of spiritual power in any other direction.

If this situation was already bizarre enough, then the results of the probe into the kitchen where Qi Han was currently located were even more incomprehensible to him.

During the Cold Food Festival, there was only a semi-open partition between the dining area and the kitchen. Even if the wall would block Ye Changhong's spiritual power, how could such an open partition possibly stop his detection?

However, in reality, all the spiritual energy projected into the kitchen from above the partition is absorbed into a bottomless pit without any response, and simply disappears completely!

A bead of cold sweat dripped from Ye Changhong's forehead, but his expression grew increasingly grave.

He had heard of a rare metal called Boundless Gold that could block mental detection. It could be used to make special soul tools that resist mental attacks. However, this rare metal did not exist in a fixed ore. It could only be found in small amounts in another equally rare metal.

Could it be that the entire wall of the Cold Food Festival was made of boundless gold?

If that's the case, the boundless gold used to build just one restaurant is already equivalent to the boundless gold that the entire Sun Moon Empire could collect in five years.

Even so, it still cannot explain why the kitchen where Qi Han was located absorbed his spiritual energy like a bottomless pit without giving anything back.

This restaurant... has a big problem!

With such power, the person behind him is definitely not just a seventh-ring expert skilled in concealment!

Zhou Yuan had a general idea of ​​Ye Changhong's abilities, so when he saw Ye Changhong close his eyes, he knew what Ye Changhong was planning. Seeing that Ye Changhong's expression was different, he immediately looked over to ask.

Ye Changhong noticed this, but only shook his head slightly, not even daring to transmit his voice.

Soul power and spiritual power are completely different forces. The power in the kitchen that can absorb one's spiritual power must also be spiritual power, and its source is no weaker than one's own.

In other words, there is at least one mental-type nine-ring... or titled Douluo behind Hanshi.

The mental system is inherently mysterious; if the other party wanted to eavesdrop on our secret conversations, they might be able to do so.

Let's be careful.

Seeing that Ye Changhong only shook his head slightly and did not speak, Zhou Yuan quickly realized something and also turned his gaze in that direction.

Ye Changhong's behavior suggests he's discovered a major problem, so serious that he's even worried about being detected by the other party when he tries to communicate telepathically...

After a brief analysis and speculation, Zhou Yuan felt his heart beat a beat slower.

This time, at least one Title Douluo has arrived from Douluo Continent, and he is currently lying in ambush somewhere in Hanshi.

"Clang!"

With a crisp sound, Zhou Yuan discreetly picked up the water glass that had just fallen to the ground and put it back on the table.

As Zhou Yuan made this move, the expressions of all the ministers in the dining area changed slightly. Their previously unrestrained gazes as they ate and watched the melons instantly returned, and they tried their best to keep their eating movements natural.

This was one of the signals that the ministers had agreed upon beforehand. Once Zhou Yuan knocked the cup to the ground and then picked it up again, it meant that everyone should be on high alert, as there was a powerful figure lurking within the Cold Food Festival.

As Zhou Yuan pushed the cup down, Ye Changhong's expression softened slightly.