I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chapter 446 The canteen begins serving spiritual food

[Yes, besides her, who else is named Hua Lanzheng?]

Compared to Hua Lanzheng, those so-called geniuses and chosen ones are indeed lacking. After all, Hua Lanzheng not only possesses an extremely rare light spiritual root, but she has also reached the Nascent Soul stage at the age of twenty. Only someone like her deserves to be called a genius.

Hua Lanzheng was already at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm when she emerged from the secret realm.

Holy crap, leveling up this fast? So many people died at Ying Fengyi's cave! Not only did we not get any magic weapons, but the cave itself didn't even have a proper stash of high-grade magic weapons. There were S-rank monsters, of course, but we couldn't beat them. Could Hua Lanzheng have gotten some kind of fortuitous encounter? Otherwise, how could she suddenly level up from the early to mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm?

Possibly

Hua Lanzheng is going to the Black Nest, and she'll most likely be on the front lines. You won't be able to see her even if you want to, unless you're on the same starship or you have the opportunity to go to the front lines. At the front lines, unless you're at least a Nascent Soul cultivator, they won't let you go. At most, you'll be doing odd jobs in logistics and participating in military training with the army.

Oh, I see.

[…]

"Take over the cafeteria and regularly introduce new dishes?"

After Dugu Junli went into seclusion, Qi Xun took over most of the academy's affairs.

"Yes, the dishes are prepared by the alchemy academy's cultivators. The academy's cultivators can purchase a limited amount, and the alchemy cultivators will receive a percentage of the profits."

"Do you have a plan or scheme?"

"some."

Jiang He sent the document to Qi Xun.

Nowadays, the canteen of Wanjue Academy offers inexpensive boiled spiritual plants, which are provided by the Planting Academy.

Boiled medicinal plants are beneficial to the body, but the effects are not significant.

This time, out of 10,000 servings of spiritual food, she has to make 5,000 servings herself, netting 100,000 spirit stones.

Even after deducting the share given to the academy, there's still a profit from contracting the cafeteria. Now that she has the skeleton to prepare the ingredients, she only needs to stir-fry the spiritual food herself.

Qi Xun readily agreed after reviewing Jiang He's proposal.

Jiang He's move benefited all three parties, so he had no reason to refuse.

After Jiang He left, Qi Xun continued to handle affairs.

Qi Xun is not only an imperial official, but also a sword cultivation teacher at the Wanjue Academy. Now he has also taken over Dugu Junli's work, working three jobs a day and even staying up all night to cultivate.

Thinking of this, Jiang He couldn't help but sigh that Qi Xun had truly realized the saying that he was working like a perpetual motion machine.

Speaking of Qi Xun's daily routine, Jiang He had no free time at all in the days that followed.

Five thousand servings of stir-fried cabbage with vinegar had to be made, and new spiritual manuals had to be taught. Besides these two things, Jiang He, who was in charge of preparing the canteen, assigned tasks to individuals in the alchemy class.

These days, the monks of the Danxiu Academy are experiencing both sweetness and pain.

The sweetness lies in the fact that you can get a share of the money as long as you deliver the stir-fried cabbage with vinegar. As for the reason for the suffering, it's also very simple.

In order to deliver the stir-fried cabbage with vinegar on time, the spatula was almost smoking from being shoveled around. After finishing one dish, it turned out there was another one to make.

Distributing five thousand portions to each alchemist was exhausting.

Moreover, the actual number was far more than five thousand. After learning how to make "braised radish" in class, they received the message from Jiang He.

"Contract out the cafeteria? For us?"

"Isn't there a chef in the cafeteria? What are we going there for?"

"Or will the spiritual food we make be sold in the canteen? I feel like my arms have gotten stronger from carrying the pill pot every day."

"Me too. I used to be a little unskilled at cooking, oops, I mean making spiritual food, but now I can do it all in reverse."

Stir-fried cabbage with vinegar is delicious, but after smelling it for several days, I feel like I've lost my sense of taste.

"You're clearly not into it. Foodies like us can eat it for several meals without getting tired of it. Stir-fried cabbage with vinegar is so delicious, how can you already be tired of it?"

"No, I just can't eat much."

"If you can't eat anymore, it's because you're tired of it..."

……

Hearing the whispers from below the stage, Jiang He pressed down on her arm, and immediately the audience fell silent.

"If you're interested in earning some spirit stones, you can sign up to become a resident alchemist in the cafeteria. There's a commission, split 50/50."

After Jiang He finished speaking, Dan Xiu, who had just been complaining about not being able to eat the cabbage, quickly opened his personal computer and began filling out the shared registration document.

Among the alchemists present, some came from wealthy families and others from humble backgrounds; regardless of their origins, only a minority were not short of money.

Family resources are skewed, and many cultivators cannot live entirely on the star coins given by their families. If they have extra income, it would be best to save money to buy more advanced alchemy furnaces or rare spiritual plants.

Alchemists without a background need star coins even more.

Almost all the monks in the audience were filling out registration forms.

After a slight hesitation, Zhang Wan also turned on his personal terminal. Just considering his resume, becoming a resident alchemist in the Wanjue Academy's cafeteria was proof that he had the ability to refine pills independently, which could be included in his job application.

There are many cultivators who think like Zhang Wan.

The final registration deadline arrived, and the names of all the cultivators from the Danxiu Academy were neatly filled out, not a single one missing.

Qi Xun submitted his plan to contract the cafeteria to the Education Bureau. After a day, the procedures for contracting the cafeteria were completed and the approval was granted.

Three days after Jiang He proposed the plan, a special, inconspicuous window was added to the Wanjue Academy cafeteria.

Many sword cultivators emerged from the Trial Tower and Sword Arena without noticing it, but Ye Yinqiu, who had been thinking about it every day, spotted this special window at a glance:

"When did a self-service machine appear?"

As soon as Ye Yinqiu stepped forward to check, the machine in front of the window automatically recognized the presence of a living being and then opened the menu.

"Stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, braised radish, pickled cucumber..."

"There are quite a lot of varieties."

Upon seeing the stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, Ye Yinqiu's gaze automatically locked onto it.

Isn't this the spiritual food I ate during the last public lecture?

The canteen usually only provides free boiled spiritual plants. As for elixirs and spiritual foods, the academy did not have an alchemy department before, so there was no relevant window for them.

But now, Ye Yinqiu glanced at the window suspiciously, somewhat uncertain.

The stir-fried cabbage with vinegar is priced at 100,000 Star Coins per plate, but students can get a 20% discount when they buy it with a student account.

Ye Yinqiu looked left and right for a long time before finally making up her mind.

Never mind, I'll just buy it first.

She hadn't managed to buy any of the pre-orders last time. Although Ye Yinqiu hadn't received any news about the canteen starting to serve spirit food, the fact that the window was inside the canteen meant it must be true.

With this in mind, he bought five portions of each type of spiritual food and shared the news in the Trial Tower's team group chat.

The moment Ye Yinqiu finished speaking, several sword cultivators in the cafeteria also came to the window.

Ye Yinqiu did not linger after receiving the spiritual food.

It wasn't until the window's spiritual food was sold out and only pre-orders remained that a message popped up on Ye Yinqiu's personal computer.

[Good news! Good news! Starting today, the canteen will officially begin serving spiritual food and elixirs. All cultivators can purchase them at the newly added self-service food selection machine in the canteen.]

"It has to be me."

Ye Yinqiu was secretly delighted when she saw the message.

Perhaps due to a delay in the news, by the time everyone came to buy the spiritual food, all the stock had been sold out, and long queues had formed in front of the machines.

[Wanjue Academy Sword Cultivator Mutual Aid Group]

[Ten sword cultivators, and it has to be you! First-hand information, even faster than the academy's announcement.]

Haha, thanks to you I managed to snag one this time!

Actually, I don't believe it's spiritual food, but since I was already there, I bought a few portions, and I've already started eating them—they're delicious!