Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1213: Chapter 653: Spirit Chef

Li Shiming then arrived at the Book Collection Pavilion and used the Guest Official Jade Plate to gain permission to peruse some of the texts.

He spent six hours in the Book Collection Pavilion and perused over a thousand Jade Scrolls in total. Thanks to his life-bound artifact, IBMz15, he could easily scan the contents of the Jade Scrolls. The reason it still took him six hours was because the Book Collection Pavilion needed some time to retrieve the Jade Scrolls.

After leaving the Book Collection Pavilion, he deployed dozens of brains into IBMz15 for analysis and assimilation of the knowledge he had exchanged using 1.2 million contribution points.

This process would take a very long time, requiring significant time to fully integrate this knowledge into his own knowledge system.

He checked the time; it was about the appointment time. He took out the Guest Official Jade Plate to check the location of the Yuntian Pavilion.

Yuntian Pavilion is a restaurant located at the headquarters of Central State Commerce, an unusual occurrence of a top-tier force in the Cultivation World establishing a restaurant, which only this purely commercial force would do.

Yuntian Pavilion is the highest-grade restaurant at the headquarters of Central State Commerce, located on the edge of the core area and not far from the Book Collection Pavilion.

Li Shiming stood in front of Yuntian Pavilion, which itself was a complete magical artifact.

Entering the hall of Yuntian Pavilion, the space suddenly opened up. A spatial formation was used here, making the hall’s space vast, with a radius of ten miles and a height of several hundred meters.

This space was arranged with mountains and water, waterfalls and Spiritual Springs, spirit trees and spirit flowers, and various adorable spirit beasts frolicking among the natural scenery.

And the guests here sat together in mid-air, in small groups.

”Master Li, Master Wang is waiting for you, please follow me!” At that moment, a female cultivator dressed in a colorful dress approached him and bowed, greeting him.

Li Shiming was not surprised that she recognized him, as he had sensed a reaction from the Guest Official Jade Plate upon entering. There should be a formation here capable of recognizing Identity Jade Discs.

He nodded and followed the colorful-dress female cultivator to a location.

Wang Changdong was waiting with a smile beside a floating dining table. Upon seeing Li Shiming, he waved to him.

”Senior Wang, I’m terribly sorry for being late!” Li Shiming stepped forward and bowed, greeting him.

”The timing is just right, I came early!” Wang Changdong waved his hand and smiled.

He invited Li Shiming to sit; the dining table was large enough to accommodate twenty people.

Li Shiming was quite curious, as it was rare for cultivators in the Cultivation World to dine. Why would there be such a place at the headquarters of Central State Commerce?

Furthermore, he observed that there were not a few cultivators coming here to dine, most of them were Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.

Even those who were not Nascent Soul Stage cultivators were brought by Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.

”Master Li, you probably haven’t had the chance to taste spirit meals on the Dongqi Continent, have you?” Wang Changdong turned and asked with a smile after signaling to the colorful-dress female cultivator.

”Yes, this is my first time!” Li Shiming replied, without any embarrassment.

”In the Central State Continent, there is a unique profession called Spirit Chef, and Yuntian Pavilion has a master Spirit Chef. A Spirit Chef can cook spiritual ingredients into exquisite dishes. I won’t spoil the effects for you, try them yourself later!” Wang Changdong introduced with a smile.

”If Senior Wang hadn’t mentioned it, I truly wouldn’t have known about these!” Li Shiming said with a smile.

The food arrived quickly, a total of six dishes, three meat dishes cooked from unknown meats, two vegetarian dishes, and a soup.

Li Shiming, without tasting, observed the extraordinary nature of these six dishes through ’Divine Eye’.

The energy in the six dishes was in a peculiar balanced state, with a spiritual power level almost at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak.

If he hadn’t misjudged, the spiritual ingredients used in these six dishes were very likely sourced from Fourth Grade Middle Stage Peak spirit beasts and spirit plants.

Fourth Grade Middle Stage spirit plants were nothing much, simply equivalent to the level of Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicine for Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, but Fourth Grade Middle Stage Peak spirit beasts were different, a terrifying entity with true Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak strength.

Although a superpower might have Mahayana Realm great powers existing, and numerous Great Cultivators, the most common main combat force in any superpower is still Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.

The Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak exists close to the pinnacle of the Cultivation World.

Yet Yuntian Pavilion actually uses Fourth Grade Middle Stage Peak spirit beast meat to make dishes, which broadened his knowledge.

”Try the Lotus Leaf Steamed Meat, it’s a specialty dish of Yuntian Pavilion. We were lucky to order it a day in advance; the last time, I waited over a month for it!” Wang Changdong invited, pointing to one of the meat dishes.

Li Shiming did not hesitate, taking a piece of meat from the Lotus Leaf Steamed Meat and putting it into his mouth.

The lotus leaf is a Fourth Grade Spiritual Plant, and the meat is from a Fourth Grade Middle Stage Peak spirit beast. Combined with the unique cooking methods of a master Spirit Chef, he found that one bite of this meat matched the effect of a Fourth Grade Cultivation Assistance Spirit Pill.

Compared to a Fourth Grade Cultivation Assistance Spirit Pill, which requires cultivation to absorb the energy within, this spirit dish, once ingested, rapidly transforms into energy absorbable by the Nascent Soul without the need for cultivation.

With Wang Changdong’s enthusiastic hospitality, more than half of the dishes on this table ended up in Li Shiming’s stomach.

A table full of spirit dishes is almost equivalent to a month’s worth of his cultivation, which greatly astonished Li Shiming.