22: Fireworks of the world

In reality, Long Yuan had underestimated one thing: his powerful Soul Power. How could others see the internal condition of their bodies when they first Cultivate? All Cultivation Techniques required careful, cautious exploration to Cultivate, fearing that a slight mistake could harm them, leading to Qi Deviation. However, he could directly observe the Meridians, vital acupoints, and Qi Sea within his body to circulate Profound Qi. This made the operation of Cultivation Techniques as simple as drinking plain water; it was harder to fail than to succeed!

Just as the Heavenly Dao Eye showed, Long Yuan now possessed Divine Sense power at the Late Stage Golden Core level. This made his Cultivate during the Xuan Practitioner stage incredibly easy and fast.

"I feel like I have endless energy... But Martial Apprentice is only the most basic stage of martial arts. Although this power level would be considered superhuman on Earth, it's still very weak in this Otherworld. Perhaps I should rest first. Food should be eaten bite by bite, and Cultivation Techniques should be practiced step by step. I shouldn't be too eager for quick success..."

With this thought, Long Yuan suddenly felt a strong sense of hunger, and he was almost on the verge of hypoglycemia and dizziness!

"Here it comes again, here it comes again. I should have stocked up on food before Cultivating..."

Long Yuan truly wanted to cry but had no tears. Cultivating consumed too much physical energy. He hadn't noticed it before with the xuan stone supporting him, but now that he stopped, he realized that his internal energy reserves had long been depleted.

"It seems there's still some food I bought this morning!"

He remembered that this morning, in order to fill the refrigerator in his small school apartment, he had specifically bought a lot of food. After filling the refrigerator, the remaining items were placed in the Heavenly Dao Space. So, he quickly took them out and rushed to the kitchen to cook. He also swallowed some instant food first, as he was truly hungry. He felt like he could eat an entire cow right now...

He quickly finished off all the food, conveniently recycling the leftover trash into the Devouring Mouth. Long Yuan found that he was still very hungry. Checking the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. He simply put on casual clothes and went out. He planned to have a late-night snack first, and then go to the supermarket to buy food...

The Hengbi Garden area belongs to the high-end district of Fengyang County's Mortal area, and it is also one of the more famous commercial districts in the county. Not far from the community, there is a bustling commercial area, and a pedestrian street next to the commercial area is a well-known food street. It doesn't look like much during the day, but at night, people come and go, making it very lively!

When Long Yuan arrived here, he felt that he finally experienced the worldly life of this Great Ming Empire in another world. As expected, it was this worldly flavor that most comforted the Mortal heart. He immediately felt a sense of belonging to this Great Ming Empire, so he enthusiastically strolled around. After a while, he had several steaming hot skewers of grilled meat in his hand, eating as he walked, feeling very content.

According to the stall owners, these meats were all from artificially raised poultry and livestock, as well as river and lake seafood. Since they were all artificially raised, the taste seemed to be slightly inferior, but for Mortals, it was already excellent. After all, in today's world, Mortals are already very satisfied if they have something to eat; how could they dare to ask for more?

As for seafood, since the fish in the sea are the most mutated and ferocious, no Mortal dares to engage in artificial aquaculture in the sea. That would be no different from seeking death.

Even Xuan Practitioners wouldn't dare to do this. No matter how strong their power, they probably couldn't withstand the high-density, continuous attacks of mutated sea beasts. It can be said that most sea areas have now become no-go zones for humans. Of course, this doesn't mean that humans have completely abandoned the sea. There are still some maritime routes, but these maritime routes are opened up by various countries concentrating their military power, in order to ensure this relatively convenient and comparatively cheap channel for sea transport. This is because if many large items were all to be transported by plane, not only would the cost be too high, but the transport volume could also not be guaranteed. Compared to that, sea transport is still the best method.

In fact, not to mention artificial aquaculture of seafood, even artificial aquaculture of river and lake seafood carries risks. Mutated beasts often suddenly appear in these places, causing serious casualties to Mortals. Therefore, these farms also need Xuan Practitioners to guard them.

Especially in some larger rivers and lakes, there are more Strange Beast, and generally no one dares to engage in aquaculture in these places. At most, they go fishing or angling...

Long Yuan ate these grilled meat skewers and found the taste very delicious. Perhaps it was because he was hungry now, he even felt that they were much tastier than those so-called natural wild meats on Earth. There were certainly no additives, preservatives, formaldehyde, arsenides, or other toxic substances in them; they just tasted very good.

Another thing that satisfied him was that people here didn't use plastic packaging, but rather wood, bamboo, paper, and other Materials for packaging, which was very environmentally friendly and good for health. On Earth, those takeout boxes and food packaging are often plastic products. Studies show that due to heating, a large number of microplastic nanoparticles from plastic packaging enter food, and can reach the brain within two hours of ingestion. If a person eats one such takeout meal every day, it's equivalent to eating a plastic credit card in a week. A large number of microplastic nanoparticles enter the human blood, brain, and organs, greatly increasing the number of blood clots in various organs, leading to a large increase in diseases like cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction. So, eating plastic is actually not much different from chronic suicide...

Long Yuan chewed the meat in big mouthfuls. Food without 'tech-heavy' additives and plastic packaging was delicious. However, wouldn't it be even more satisfying to have seafood barbecue?

This is the southeast coast of the Great Ming Empire. The ancestors of the coastal residents were accustomed to delicious seafood. Now, due to mutated sea beasts, there is no seafood to eat, and they must miss the days when they could eat seafood freely.

Of course, this mainly refers to Mortals and a large number of low-level Xuan Practitioners. As for some strong individuals, if they want to eat seafood, they can completely go to sea themselves to hunt sea beasts. The meat of these mutated sea beasts would undoubtedly be even more delicious.

"Huh? I remember that seafood can also be farmed on land on Earth?" Long Yuan suddenly thought of this point.

That's right, in Huaguo on Earth, people can even farm seafood in saline-alkali lands in inland deserts, and the output is not small. If this model were replicated in the Great Ming Empire, wouldn't he have seafood to eat?

Perhaps this could even be a path to wealth.

Long Yuan thought about it carefully and decided against it for now. After all, he was currently alone and hadn't established himself yet. He shouldn't have too many ideas for now; stability was the most crucial thing. However, he really needed to start making money, because the later stages of Cultivating would likely require more resources. He not only had to Cultivate martial arts but also had to charge the Heavenly Dao Space. For now, he must fully focus on martial arts, quickly improve his cultivation, and then he would have the ability to go out and find a large amount of waste Materials, thereby laying the foundation for the great undertaking of immortal cultivation.

However, Cultivating martial arts requires xuan stone, and preferably Medium Grade or higher xuan stone, to ensure abundant Profound Qi. He currently had no blessed lands; good Cultivating locations were certainly occupied by large powers, leaving very few opportunities for Loose Cultivators.

"Right, Lu Shijie said there would be rewards from the county, and the Ye family also offered a generous reward. I wonder if these two sums of money can provide me with the first pot of gold for making money?"

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