Zhang Yan responded with a smile, "How do you know that I came here the first time?"
"That's obvious, becasue you have no idea that the Ice Spiritual Fish is a unique creature living in the Huangquan Road. In fact, the road owns some species here, but much less than the outside, so the food here is more expensive. Take the Ice Spiritual Fish for example, it costs a hundred upper spiritual stones." explained the waiter.
Surprise overwhelmed Zhang Yan that it was too expensive! There were only a thousand upper spiritual stones left with him and he had to spend two hundred toady, which made him reluctant. He contemplated that he must save more spiritual stones when he got out, or he would be helpless when something urgent happened in the future.
He smirked, "Then give me a portion of the Ice Spiritual Fish please!", and handed a hundred upper spiritual stones to the waiter.
The latter took the stones and left. The fish was finished soon, because the guests now were limited. "Here is your Ice Spiritual Fish and hope you enjoy it! " The waiter placed the fish on the table, about to leave.
But Zhang Yan stopped him, "Excuse me! Would you like to eat with me? I have some doubts on this town."
"Alright, I haven't talked to people for so many days." The waiter sat down opposite to Zhang Yan.
With joy, Zhang Yan posed his question, "You seem to possess the cultivation at the fourth level of Martial Arts State, but why you work as a waiter here?"
The waiter revealed a sad smile, " It's a long story. I was a genius disciple of a holy place for martial arts outside who entered the Huangquan Road with the school elders to find the Life Stone for a doyen of our school.So young and arrogant, I didn't take the road seriously. But after we entered it, we were besieged by some fierce ghosts. In the end, the elders were all killed and only I got the fortune to flee."
"I know it's impossible for me, a Martial-Art-State warrior, to get out of road anymore, for I can't cultivate here. The natural gas in the road is not only thin, but mixed with a lot of Yin. So warriors in the Huangquan Road can only improve cultivation through absorbing the natural gas stored in the spiritual stones. After I ran out of my spiritual stones, I began to earn a living here as a waiter and have been used to such life for so many years."
"Can't cultivate?" Zhang Yan felt strange. Because after he entered here, his cultivating had been kept on all the time, so had the Asura Change, absorbing natural gas consistently and he didn't receive discomfort at all.
Yet, worried still lingered on his heart, "What if someone forces to cultivate?"
"Force?" The waiter replied, "Then the Yin will enter his Dantian and reject his spiritual energy. In the end, the warrior will explode to death."
"It is not easy to be realized in the beginning and when it is later, nothing can be done to make up! So all the warriors in the Huangquan Road dare not to absorb the natural gas here, but cultivate with spiritual stones, which makes such stones extremely precious here."
Zhang Yan inspected his Dantian immediately, but found no Yin. To be cautious, he absorbed a little natural gas and sensed some Yin indeed. However, to his surprise, it was transformed into spiritual energy instantly, stored in his Dantian.
Relieved, he finally knew the magic of the Asura Change.