Chapter 327 The Tower - [Mischievous Kitchen] (S-Rank)

After figuring out the environment, Yu Xunge released Tu Lan and had it disguise itself as a mini snake, hanging on her ear.

Li Zhou has a special recipe, and every time she cooks for Li Zhou, she secretly makes a portion for Tu Lan as well.

Today's dish is a bit like tempura, with fried fruit and vegetable slices. What's special is the crispy outer layer, made with dozens of dried fruit powders and seasonings. I heard it's a recipe that Song Gui specially collected for Li Zhou, and the chef spent several years improving it with ingredients from Sen Hai.

When the kitchen staff told her about this, she felt guilty and didn't dare to turn her head to look at Tu Lan's eyes.

Yu Xunge: "Is there anything different?"

Tu Lan smacked her lips: "It really is a bit different. I can't quite put my finger on it. It's just... delicious? But I don't know what's missing. It's like you love spicy food, but you've eaten a delicious non-spicy dish."

That can only be a matter of elemental affinity. Li Zhou is a fire elemental, while Tu Lan is an ice elemental. This recipe was specifically developed for fire-type dragons, and Tu Lan, being a dragon herself, would indeed like it, but the elements don't match.

As Yu Xunge was pondering how to adjust the ingredients, she heard Tu Lan sigh, "It's alright, you don't need to research a recipe specifically for me. I'm not like Li Zhou, I'm not that delicate and pretentious. You can just give me some leftovers, and Tu Lan will be very happy... No! I didn't choke up, you misheard! I... I absolutely didn't complain, and I wasn't sad..."

Yu Xunge: "…………"

Since Tu Lan had said so, how could she dare to neglect it... Yu Xunge settled down in this small kitchen to focus on dragon cuisine.

The cook, seeing that she specialized in dragon cuisine, felt much more at ease with her and began to slowly teach her Li Zhou's recipes. After observing her for two years, he handed over all of Li Zhou's meals to her.

Yu Xunge would sneak out during his monthly holiday to practice assassinating various alien races and steal Moon Sand along the way.

After figuring out the kitchen boy's daily routine, Tu Lan became much bolder. When it was just her and Yu Xunge in the kitchen, she would play games or tinker with the mahjong machine. After becoming obsessed with engineering, she vowed to create a mahjong machine that would never have to worry about missing a player again!

Yu Xunge didn't go to find Zhao Shuying and the others, but she vaguely heard that many of the Oak Owls had defected and split into two factions, forming two organizations.

It's so lively...

Two months before the end of the war, Yu Xunge killed the kitchen boy, stole all his treasured recipes, and defected.

Upon waking up in another cycle, Yu Xunge's identity remained unremarkable, and her divinely bestowed talent and luck were not particularly good. This time, she arrived in Maple Sugar's territory. After spending some time gathering information, she "borrowed" some good equipment from various sources to build connections and managed to get herself into Commander Wan Xiao's small kitchen.

She did want to go to the small kitchen that was specifically for Maple Syrup to cook for her, but after inquiring, she discovered that Maple Syrup didn't have a small kitchen and only ate the food cooked by her daughter.

Her previous experience following the Kitchen Boys made her realize that Oaks were actually very good at cooking, and many of Oaks' ingredients were extremely unique. Their cooking methods were sometimes even as artistic as magic potions.

She holed up in the kitchen and began practicing the recipes she had forcibly memorized at the end of her last reincarnation, while also continuing to learn cooking skills from the chefs here.

In the years that followed, she would occasionally take Tulan to the battlefield for training, and occasionally go to the kitchen. If she felt something was wrong, she would defect and live in seclusion with Tulan. When each cycle was about to end, she would do something big, such as stealing skills or recipes from the treasure vault or the kitchen.

Every time she goes into battle, she tries her best to find a divine skill similar to [Battle Recap] and equips it on herself using [Moment of Reversal].

Yu Xunge has lost count of how many reincarnations she has experienced.

All she knew was that the Moon Sand in her volatile Moon had accumulated to 18,800g. Every time she gave the volatile Moon Moon Moon Sand, she would receive 5 points of profound skill. Now, her profound skill had accumulated to 12,882 points!

Tu Lan's ultimate skill also reached 3067 points. If it weren't for the fact that she would use her ultimate skill to give Yu Xunge an expert boost every time he retrieved the Moon Sand, this number would have doubled. Unfortunately, Yu Xunge said it many times, but Tu Lan still insisted.

Unfortunately, she hasn't been able to steal Moon Sand since last month. She doesn't know if [Fate is unpredictable] has been depleted by her or if it's been protected by Oak Owl. The volatile Moon has been showing the suffix [Upgrading] for a long time, with the time being garbled. But thankfully, the skill still works.

This 18,800g of moon sand is the amount left after deducting the 10,000g of moon sand required for the upgrade. She can take it out of the raging moon at any time, but currently, it can only be taken away during reincarnation if it exists in the raging moon.

Yu Xunge sat on a big tree and used the "Master of Slacking Off" app to check the time for the first time. She exclaimed, "We've been here for 277 years."

She hadn't used a translator in a long time, and Oakowl's Common Language was so fluent to her that it was like her second mother tongue.

Moreover, when she and Tulan lived in seclusion, she would teach Tulan Chinese in her spare time, while Tulan would teach her the Dragon Language. Now, she and Tulan can chat without a translator at all, and she can even write some commonly used Dragon characters and some Dragon runes.

Over the years, her alchemy skills haven't improved much. After all, this is Senhai's home ground, and the origin of alchemical knowledge is in Zelan. Good alchemists never go to the battlefield. She has studied Hedgehog's notes countless times, and she can now concoct [Gold Medal Assassin] and [Springtime Never Ends] with her eyes closed.

As for her cooking, she is now not only extremely skilled at making dragon cuisine, but she has also learned more than 5,000 recipes since entering the tower. More importantly, she can now make dishes with a score of over 95 points, and there are 100 dishes that she can make with a score of over 97 points!

Even if we deduct the time she spent defecting and living in seclusion, and taking Tulan to the battlefield for training, she has spent at least 150 years honing her culinary skills, and that's 150 years of single-minded dedication to studying cooking. Yet, she is still not as good as Shen Yushi. She has never made a dish that scores above 98 points, and her current level is almost at her limit, which shows how poor her talent in cooking is...

Over the years, she hasn't stolen too many skills, but she has gained something in each cycle. Her favorite is an S-rank skill called "Mischievous Kitchen," which is also the skill she stole that suits her best. She even stole it from the Pine Treasure Vault. She doesn't know how she got such a skill. That time, Li Zhou was blown out, and in the end, they only managed to escape by having Tu Lan turn back into her original form and use the Face Fruit.

【Mischief in the Kitchen】(S-rank): After use, the Chef's Domain will be opened. In this kitchen domain, when you are making dishes, there will be a creature that is completely unskilled in cooking constantly causing trouble, which will stimulate your full potential. The dishes you make will be your highest level. The domain lasts for 6 hours and the skill cooldown time is 3 natural days.

With this skill, and the accumulation she made in the tower for so long, her long-dormant God of Cookery skills can finally be used.

Over the years, she also discovered something else: if she reincarnated, she should try not to change her personality too much and accept the social relationships of that character. She was very likely to get good things from the other person. Oak Owl was very generous to her relatives and close friends... However, even if she was found to be different, she did not encounter any danger for the time being.

Tu Lan is playing the engineering mahjong set he just made. It can be played even if you only need one player, let alone three.

Hearing Yu Xunge's sigh, she said, "Then are we about to leave?"

Yu Xunge said, "Yes, there are still 23 years left."