Hearing his younger brother’s teasing and deeply suggestive “Oh~”, Wen Shaochuan could no longer hold back. He raised a fist and directly smacked Feng Qian on the head.
[Whisper] [Xianyun]: Restrain yourself. Newbies who have great luck, cook delicious food, and have a good personality like Chunri are a rare breed! If you scare him away, you can go mine on Planet M tomorrow!
Feng Qian felt incredibly wronged. As the actual younger brother, he hadn’t even been granted cohabitation permissions, yet his brother had given them to someone he had only known for a few days. How could he not let his mind wander?
Hearing his brother’s muttered defense, Wen Shaochuan felt incredibly exhausted. His brother was usually such a shrewd person; why was his brain failing to function right now?
[Whisper] [Feng Qian]: Brother, you are so fierce. You’ll never win someone over like this!
[Whisper] [Xianyun]: Are you out of your mind? Since he’s cooking at my place, aren’t we in the perfect position to leech free meals? And whenever he makes new dishes, won’t we be right there to help him taste-test?
Tch–you talk a big game about us leeching free meals, but why didn’t you give me permissions then? Without them, you’re the only one who gets to leech, Feng Qian grumbled inwardly, having thoroughly seen through his brother’s excuses.
However, he was actually misjudging Wen Shaochuan this time. At this moment, Wen Shaochuan’s mental math was genuinely just focused on getting delicious food. After all, the closest pavilion gets the moonlight first.
[Whisper] [Feng Qian]: Brother, Chunri’s level is too low. Let’s pull him into our guild and arrange for some people to boost him to max level first. If something like today happens again, he should at least be able to cast his skills.
[Whisper] [Xianyun]: I was planning to do just that. Let me ask him first.
Seeing that the two of them had fallen silent, Su Wenqi assumed they were discussing things in private chat, so he did not disturb them.
Sitting down, he took out his recipe book to think about what kind of dishes to prepare for Xianyun’s group. The recipes Granny Wang had taught him had been compiled by the system into a single book. After browsing through it, he finally settled on four dishes: two buff-oriented dishes and two auxiliary dishes.
Once he decided on the weekly menu, he put the recipe book away, just as the private conversation between the two brothers came to an end.
“Chunri, would you like to join our guild? You have amazing luck and have obtained great things, so there’s no guaranteeing that some blind fools won’t target you again. What if we happen to be offline when that happens? If you join us, you can call on other guild members for help even if we aren’t around,” Wen Shaochuan said as he sent over a guild invitation.
Su Wenqi had originally intended to decline, as Xianyun had already helped him multiple times. However, on second thought, the man’s words made perfect sense. His primary focus right now was providing the weekly meals for their guild, followed by leveling up.
Today’s incident had served as a wake-up call: an ordinary man incurs no guilt, but treasure-carrying does. The game did not forbid open-world PvP, so he needed to raise his strength as quickly as possible. At the very least, he couldn’t let himself be treated like a pushover.
“Sure, sorry for the trouble!” Su Wenqi gladly accepted their kindness. As for how to repay them, he already had an idea. Both brothers clearly loved his cooking, so he would simply make some extra portions for them in the future. (Wen Shaochuan: Free meal plan, success!)
Upon accepting Xianyun’s invitation, he officially joined the guild named [Bajiu Linfeng] (Drinking Wind and Wine).
Guild Chat
[Guild] [Feng Qian]: Welcome Chun Rici to our guild!
[Guild] [Eight Meals a Day]: Welcome, newcomer~ Wait, that name sounds a bit familiar.
[Guild] [Devon]: Welcome, newcomer~
[Guild] [Chun Rici]: Hello everyone, I’m very glad to join Bajiu Linfeng. Please take care of me.
[Guild] [Eight Meals a Day]: Holy crap, big boss! It’s the big boss who got the God of Cooking’s Legacy and made Gold-grade food!
[Guild] [Yuyang Xie]: Our Guild Leader is so capable, he actually recruited Boss Chunri!
[Guild] [Feng Qian]: Hmph, obviously. Let me tell you, the food Chunri makes is absolutely divine, a thousand times better than Qianli Chai!
[Guild] [Eight Days One Meal]: Waaaaah, but we can’t eat it! The boss doesn’t even have his friend requests open, and his whisper channel is turned off. We can’t add him at all!!!
[Guild] [Eight Meals a Day]: Exactly! I seriously want to try it so bad!
[Guild] [Feng Qian]: Hehehe, don’t worry. You’ll get to eat it in due time~
[Guild] [Yuyang Xie]: What’s going on? Vice Leader, elaborate!
[Guild] [Feng Qian]: Secret~
[Guild] [Xianyun]: Need a tank and a healer for the daily dungeon.
[Guild] [Eight Meals a Day]: I’m in, Guild Leader~
Very quickly, the couple [Eight Meals a Day] and [Eight Days One Meal] joined the party. One of them played a tank while the other was a dual-spec DPS/Healer. They spent every single day glued to each other.
Party Chat
[Party] [Xianyun]: Teleporting to the dungeon.
[Party] [Eight Meals a Day]: Whoa! It’s the big boss! Boss, can we add each other as friends? I really want to eat your food!
[Party] [Eight Days One Meal]: Stop squealing. Get into the dungeon first, we can talk after we clear it.
[Party] [Eight Meals a Day]: Yes, dear~
Once Xianyun set the party target, he directly summoned the party members into the dungeon.
Everyone quickly loaded in, and Su Wenqi got to meet the other two members. [Eight Meals a Day] played a Shaolin monk. Su Wenqi took one look and understood a classic tank! [Eight Days One Meal] belonged to the Taohua Island sect, her pink robes making her look highly delicate and cute. Standing next to each other, the two actually looked like a perfect match.
“Eight Days, pay close attention to Chunri’s health. He is low-level and has a very thin HP bar. The rest of us will dodge mechanics. Chunri, this dungeon isn’t hard. Dodge the ground circles when they appear, and just cast your skills when there are none. Do not stand in any red telegraphs on the ground,” Xianyun instructed.
Daily dungeons were relatively simple, making them perfect for a beginner like Su Wenqi to familiarize himself with his skills and controls.
“Alright~ Boss Chunri, don’t you worry! I guarantee you won’t lose a single drop of blood!” Eight Days One Meal patted her chest confidently, promising the group.
Wen Shaochuan glanced at her. Though she had a lively and bubbly personality, her mechanical skill and awareness were top-tier; leaving Chunri in her care was completely reassuring.
“Alright. Chunri, how about you?”
“I’ll make sure to dodge the mechanics. At my level, I can’t deal much damage anyway, so I’ll just use this time to get used to my skills.” Su Wenqi was highly self-aware of his current strength; his only goal for this run was to stay alive and dodge.
Hearing his response, Wen Shaochuan relaxed, and the group began moving toward the first boss.
[Story Dialogue] [Liu Chong]: Halt! Ignorant brats, how dare you break into the camp of the Sand Viper Gang? Taste my blade!
Eight Meals a Day took the lead, rushing up to the boss to draw aggro. Su Wenqi drew his weapon along with the others and began casting skills.
This was his first time seeing Xianyun’s weapon,ma brilliantly glowing, blue-aura-wrapped longsword that looked exceptionally beautiful. Checking the party icons, Su Wenqi noted that Xianyun played the Pure Yang sect (Sword), Feng Qian belonged to the Liuhe Gate (Dual Whips), and he himself was Guangling (Guqin).
Eight Meals a Day held the boss’s aggro very steadily without letting it run rampant. Keeping Xianyun’s advice in mind, Su Wenqi dodged whatever ground markers appeared and took virtually no damage.
Aside from Su Wenqi, the other four players were high-level and well-geared. They cleared the first boss in just three to four minutes. Since they had no need for the gear from this level of dungeon, Wen Shaochuan gestured for him to step up to the loot chest.
“Chunri, your luck is great. Come open the chest and see if you can pull some sect gear you need,” he said.
Since arriving in this world, his luck truly seemed to have turned around. Not only had he won a game cabin and opened rare items, but he had also obtained an incredibly rare culinary legacy, making him feel a little excited.
“Yeah, yeah! My brother says your luck is insane. Let us see what you can pull!” Feng Qian egged him on from behind.
He looked over at Eight Meals a Day and Eight Days One Meal, who both nodded in agreement. Thus, Su Wenqi walked up to the chest dropped by the boss and reached out to open it.
[System Loot Notification]
[Phoenix-Weeping Robe] (Recommended Sect: Guangling)
[Sorrow-Slumber Guqin] (Recommended Sect: Guangling)
[A Handkerchief] (Quest Item)
Both pieces of gear were usable by Su Wenqi. As the party leader, Xianyun directly allocated them to him.
“Wow! Chunri, your luck is seriously no joke. Out of so many sects, both dropped gear pieces are exactly what you need. That is incredible!” Feng Qian was finally witnessing his heaven-defying luck firsthand. There were nearly twenty sects in Huaxia. Usually, getting a single piece of usable gear in a run was considered lucky, let alone having two drop from a single boss.
Su Wenqi lowered his head with an embarrassed smile. It seemed his fortune really had turned.
Wen Shaochuan turned the dropped handkerchief over and over in his hands. It looked like an ordinary handkerchief with no description whatsoever.
He spoke up, “Look at this quest item. Do any of you have a quest that requires it?”
The four gathered to inspect it and shook their heads. After some thought, he allocated the handkerchief to Su Wenqi as well.
“Chunri, you keep it. We’ve run this dungeon countless times and have never seen this quest item drop. It must have appeared because of your luck. Although we don’t know what it’s for, it should be something good. There might be a follow-up quest for it later. After all, nobody else has ever seen this item.”
Wen Shaochuan knew his own luck and that of his party members very well. If an item hadn’t dropped in hundreds of runs, even if they kept it, they likely wouldn’t trigger the trigger conditions. It was better to let Chunri keep it; perhaps it would lead to a special encounter.
“…Alright, I’ll keep it then.” Su Wenqi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but he accepted the handkerchief and put it in his bag.
The group continued to the next boss. Unsurprisingly, it also dropped gear needed by Su Wenqi, though only one piece this time. Su Wenqi smilingly pocketed it. He couldn’t equip these pieces yet, as they required him to reach the maximum level of 100.
Soon, they reached the final boss. It was cleared in a few minutes, and the chest was once again left for Su Wenqi to open.
Familiar with the process, he opened the chest. Unlike the quiet openings of the first two chests, a bright golden light burst forth the moment the lid lifted.
Su Wenqi & Wen Shaochuan: Ah, a familiar sight.
[World Announcement] Congratulations to the party led by the hero “Xianyun” for obtaining the rare item [Tianxuan Ice]!
[World Chat]
[Water-Electricity Fee]: ???? Has the dark-skinned player’s luck turned around? I’m actually seeing the great god Xianyun get a rare item??
[Yuyang Xie]: Guild Leader, where did you go to pray for luck? Tell me quickly, I want to go too!!
Feng Qian and Eight Days One Meal crowded around Su Wenqi, circling him a few times before quietly reaching out to rub their hands against his clothes, muttering under their breaths: “Rubbing the lucky koi for good fortune, may my luck turn around and bless my gear refinement to succeed on the first try today!”
“You guys…” Just as Su Wenqi was about to complain to Xianyun about his brother’s behavior, he turned around only to see Xianyun secretly sneaking a hand to rub his sleeve as well.
Su Wenqi: “(Cough) that’s enough. Let’s see what else dropped?” He coughed lightly, gesturing for everyone to look at the rest of the loot.
Only then did the others shift their attention back. Unsurprisingly, two more pieces of Guangling gear had dropped, which went straight into Su Wenqi’s backpack.
But the star of the show was [Tianxuan Ice], a Gold-grade material used to upgrade divine weapons. Its drop rate was extremely low due to its random nature.
Feng Qian, Eight Days One Meal, and Eight Meals a Day all looked at Xianyun. Out of the five of them, only Xianyun was currently crafting a divine weapon. Without a doubt, this piece of ice belonged to him.
“Alright, I know what you guys are thinking. The current market price for [Tianxuan Ice] is 500,000 gold. I will deposit the gold directly into the party pool; everyone please click accept.” Wen Shaochuan indeed needed this material. He had originally needed ten more pieces, but now he only needed nine.
“Yay~ Thank you, Guild Leader~ And a huge thanks to our Boss Chunri! I really got to ride on your coattails today.” Eight Days One Meal spun around happily, walking up to Su Wenqi to say, “Chunri, tomorrow Eight Meals and I will take you to power level. I guarantee you’ll hit max level in a week!”
Su Wenqi smiled as he added them to his friends list, saying, “Sure, you said it. I’ll be sticking with the two of you tomorrow then.”
“Boss, I-” Eight Days One Meal was about to ask if she could have a taste of his cooking when Feng Qian grabbed her by the back collar.
[Whisper] [Feng Qian]: Shh, you won’t miss out on food later. Chunri didn’t cook today, don’t bother him.
[Whisper] [Eight Meals a Day]: Fine.
Dungeons provided a generous amount of experience. After clearing this run, Su Wenqi had already reached Level 15, which was indeed much faster than doing quests.
“Master! It is already 19:00 in the evening!! You are over an hour past your scheduled time! Lulu missed you.”
At this moment, Lulu’s message came through. Only then did Su Wenqi recall that he had been caught up in that trouble earlier, causing him to overlook Lulu’s reminder. After bidding farewell to the group, he hurriedly logged off the game.