"Here, breakfast." Gu Caiyi sat beside Luo Chen as she handed over a leaf-wrapped rice cake to him.0

Luo Chen took the steaming rice cake and happily took a bite. "Authentic! I never knew rice cakes made from spirit rice could be this delicious."0

As Luo Chen ate with delight, Gu Caiyi chuckled softly. "It all started with your popcorn idea, didn't it? Now those imitators are finding ways to innovate with even the simplest spirit rice."0

Luo Chen chuckled, savoring the spirit energy filled breakfast. 0

Once a person begins Qi-Refining, their body enters a state of passive transformation. During this process, besides cultivation, dietary supplementation became crucial. The so-called fasting of cultivators was typically something high-tier cultivators undertook during seclusion.0

In reality, lower-tier cultivators avoided fasting as much as possible because, during the Qi-Refining Realm, apart from refining external spirit energy, the body also refined its vital energy.0

If vital energy was insufficient, it could damage one's essence. It wasn't uncommon for Qi-Refining to leave cultivators with severe physical injuries. However, there were guidelines for eating; ordinary grains were not the preferred choice for cultivators. Consuming too much of those would fill the body with impurities, which hindered the process of refining essence into qi.0

Naturally, spirit rice, spirit vegetables, demonic beast meat, spirit wine, and spirit tea became popular. Even at his lowest, Luo Chen would grit...0