Chapter 8: Shi Qingyu Awakens

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Cheng Shuangshuang first took Shi Qingyu back to room 201, hesitating over whether to leave her sister alone there.

“Boss Qin is so formidable. If he had ill intentions, he would have acted by now. So, it should be fine,” Cheng Shuangshuang quickly dismissed her concerns, then went downstairs again to find Qin Yueran.

“Boss Qin, I saw that there’s a restaurant here offering food, but I can’t place an order.”

Cheng Shuangshuang said this, having been hungry for two days. She was thrilled to see food available but then realized she couldn’t order any.

“The restaurant just opened, there aren’t many dishes yet, and currently no delivery—only dine-in. As for business hours, it’s from 8 AM to 8 PM,” Qin Yueran explained, fearing she might not understand. “That means the time shown at the top right of the screen.”

“Alright, I’ll come back tomorrow,” Cheng Shuangshuang said, looking quite disappointed, then added, “I know the time you mentioned; a sudden notification just popped into my mind, along with some knowledge unfamiliar to the cultivation world.”

Notification: Within the Immortal Island, spiritual energy can be restored, but it cannot be used. Fighting or damaging anything on the island is forbidden. Violators will receive one warning; repeated offenses will result in being blacklisted and banned from the island. Serious offenders will be blacklisted immediately. Please, all visitors, help build a harmonious Immortal Island. Remember, remember! — Boss Qin, Huhu Liu.

Only then did she realize the boss’s surname was Qin.

Besides this basic notice, some tutorials and information on exchanging points also appeared.

Qin Yueran recalled there were still plenty of unlocked food options, so she called out to Cheng Shuangshuang.

“The restaurant still has soy milk, steamed buns, and tea eggs—do you want any?”

“Yes!” Cheng Shuangshuang and Gu Yuanyuan, who had just come downstairs, answered in unison.

Gu Yuanyuan had just learned how to operate the room facilities by following the information that appeared in his mind.

The hot water in the bathroom would flow as soon as the heater or tap was turned on; the light bulbs illuminated when switched. It was all quite novel.

This convenience was significant for those who could not use spiritual energy and for ordinary people.

After exploring, he knocked on Cheng Shuangshuang’s door, found no one, guessed she had gone downstairs, so he followed and heard the good news about food!

Of course, they had to have it!

The two of them followed Qin Yueran to the restaurant.

“The food costs points,” Qin Yueran warned in advance. “Everything in the inn requires points.”

“We know, Boss Qin,” they nodded.

“By the way, nine steamed buns, nine tea eggs, and five cups of soy milk—you want all of these?” Qin Yueran suddenly asked.

“All of them,” they answered together once more.

“Alright,” Qin Yueran nodded.

Entering the kitchen, Qin Yueran saw the food looking freshly made. “Wow!”

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Huhu puffed up his chest again: “Impressive, right? And once Xiao Ran makes it, as long as there are enough ingredients, it can produce automatically, freeing our hands!”

“That’s great! I was worried about what to do when more people come,” Qin Yueran smiled.

“When the business level reaches two, you can even hire employees. Don’t worry, Xiao Ran,” Huhu continued to share.

“Even better,” Qin Yueran was delighted. “Then I can be a hands-off manager.”

She put the food into her bag, then took it out again without needing to make multiple trips. Qin Yueran felt like a genius.

With a wave of her hand, the remaining food appeared on the table.

“Soy milk is 3 points per cup, steamed bun 3 points each, tea egg 5 points each, totaling 87 points. Who will pay?”

Gu Yuanyuan raised his hand.

“Points have been automatically deducted. Please enjoy,” Qin Yueran nodded.

“Huhu,” Qin Yueran called, “let’s go back.”

“Okay.” Huhu ran over and jumped into Qin Yueran’s arms.

Qin Yueran told Cheng Shuangshuang and the others, “You can leave directly after this. We’re leaving now.”

It was already so late; she had to get off work!

“Thank you very much, Boss Qin,” Cheng Shuangshuang expressed gratitude.

After Qin Yueran left, Cheng Shuangshuang took a sip of soy milk.

It was a bit hot, but the small taste was quite good.

However, the hunger she had been deliberately ignoring finally erupted; she just wanted to eat heartily.

Gu Yuanyuan was about the same. His cultivation was even lower than Cheng Shuangshuang’s, so becoming an ordinary person made him hungrier.

He started eating the steamed buns in big bites.

Cheng Shuangshuang was surprised by a sudden change she felt.

Afraid it was an illusion, she took another sip of soy milk.

This time, she calmed down and focused on the sensation. Though faint, she did feel spiritual energy replenishing—and...

She looked at the scrape on the back of her hand; it had completely disappeared!

“Junior Brother Gu!” Cheng Shuangshuang called out with calm surprise.

Gu Yuanyuan, still eating vigorously, looked up blankly. “Senior Sister Cheng, what’s wrong?”

“Didn’t you feel it?” Cheng Shuangshuang looked at his injured shoulder. “The food here can heal wounds and restore spiritual energy.”

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Gu Yuanyuan looked at his shoulder and some lighter injuries; they were indeed healing.

But to be sure, he summoned the so-called personal information panel.

“Senior Sister Cheng!” Gu Yuanyuan told her to open her panel as well. “Look at the personal information panel—it’s definitely recovering!”

As soon as they entered this domain, they had this personal information panel. They knew its name and what the displays represented automatically.

So when the panel appeared and island information suddenly entered their minds, they didn’t find it too strange and accepted it readily.

This thing wasn’t very useful—just showing a red bar called health and a blue bar called spiritual energy.

Injuries would reduce the health bar; using spiritual energy would lower the blue bar. But they couldn’t use spiritual energy here, nor take medicine to recover it, so once it dropped, it was gone.

The health bar would rise if injuries improved, or keep falling if they worsened. It was straightforward enough to guess that if the health bar emptied, death would follow.

Cheng Shuangshuang wasn’t used to opening her panel often, so Gu Yuanyuan reminded her.

When she opened it, she saw both the red and blue bars slowly recovering.

“Senior Sister Qingyu can be saved!” Cheng Shuangshuang realized and stood up. “Are you eating here or taking it back to your room?”

“I’ll take it back,” Gu Yuanyuan scratched his head. “I want one cup of soy milk, I’ve eaten two buns already, so take one more, and three tea eggs. The rest you can take, Senior Sister.”

“Alright, I’ll go first,” Cheng Shuangshuang packed the food into her ring and ran back to her room.

Soy milk was the easiest to drink but still hot. Unfortunately, here it was the opposite of outside: outside, you could use spiritual energy but couldn’t replenish it; here, there was spiritual energy but no use for spiritual energy.

Otherwise, she could quickly cool it with magic.

Wait, Cheng Shuangshuang remembered she had a spoon in her ring.

She took out the spoon and cleaned it, then blew on the soy milk before feeding it to Shi Qingyu.

After one cup, Shi Qingyu’s complexion improved.

Even in unconsciousness, Shi Qingyu seemed to sense a faint sweetness and warmth spreading through her body.

If she could see the personal information panel, she would see her nearly depleted red health bar recovering, and the empty blue spiritual energy bar was also rising.

When the red bar passed halfway, Shi Qingyu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.

Cheng Shuangshuang, who had just fed her the second cup of soy milk, exclaimed with delight, “Senior Sister Qingyu!”