In a conference room on the ship, several mall employees sat around a small conference table.
In the middle of the table was a water mirror, very similar to the one in the Cloud Void Mirror, only smaller.
Yunze's magical power was higher, so he was naturally better at using the Bewitching Technique.
Yunze used magic to project the information he had just obtained from the old man's mind into the water mirror, and after a moment, images appeared in the water mirror.
After watching it, everyone expressed their feelings and comments.
Luo Zexuan: "This world is truly amazing! They are so happy with their food."
Wen Mingyue: "This world is truly amazing! This story is so melodramatic!"
Chu Zhou: "This world is truly amazing! But its technological development is somewhat lagging behind!"
Old Zhang said, "This world is truly amazing! But the martial arts moves are really crude!"
Jiang Shuran...
Lin Qianqian and Yun Ze did not express their opinions. They had just seen strange things on the island and were somewhat prepared.
But the others were very shocked. The world is full of wonders, and they never expected that they would travel to such a world.
This is a gourmet world called Qionglin, which truly lives up to its name, as it is a land of exquisite wines and succulents.
Everything people do here revolves around food.
This world consists of only one enormous central continent, on which most humans live.
The mainland is surrounded by endless oceans, with islands of all sizes, each rich in unique culinary ingredients.
This place, whether it's the air, the land, or the plants and animals, is rich in primordial energy, or spiritual power.
Animal and plant ingredients vary in the amount of elemental energy they contain; levels 1-30 are considered beginner level and constitute the food for most people in this world.
Levels 31-60 are considered intermediate and can only be consumed by those who have achieved significant cultivation, as they contain too much primordial energy (spiritual energy) for ordinary people to consume.
Levels 61-90 are considered high-level, meaning they are only for high-level cultivators and are very difficult to hunt. This is not only because they are rare, but also because they possess various special abilities.
Level 90 and above are considered Special Grade, and are rare and delicious creatures.
Starting from level one, the higher the level, the more difficult it is to capture, which is why professional gourmet hunters and gourmet explorers have emerged.
The highest authority on the central continent is called the Gourmet Alliance. The most desired professions are Gourmet Hunter, Gourmet Explorer, and Gourmet Maker, also known as Chef. These three professions are divided into ten levels from low to high.
This strange world reminded her of an anime called Toriko; they had many similarities.
Because the world revolves around food, the development of technology is quite strange.
While other industrial technologies in the Qionglin plane are underdeveloped, the shipbuilding industry is quite successful because people need ships to sail out to sea to find food islands, explore and discover new delicacies. Even though it is not as advanced as Earth, it still has steel ships weighing tens of thousands of tons.
However, this is the upper limit; only a few well-established shipyards can build it.
The two people they rescued were also quite distinguished. The young master was Lu Nanzhe, the eldest son of the Lu family in the eastern district of the Central Continent, and the old man was his butler.
Why did the two of them end up here?
The story is simple yet melodramatic.
The Lu family is a powerful clan with vast businesses in the Central Continent and a seat in the alliance.
However, the direct descendants were few. By the time of Lu Chengyin, the previous head of the Lu family, there was only one daughter, Lu Wanyun.
Lu Wanyun has a gentle name, but she is bright and heroic in appearance and skilled in both literature and martial arts. She has achieved great success in her cultivation at a young age and passed the rating assessment to become a formal Gourmet Hunter.
She just had bad taste; while traveling at sea in search of delicious food, she met the charming and handsome Si Yunian. Before long, the two fell in love and planned to get married.
Lu Wanyun's parents strongly opposed the relationship; they didn't think highly of Si Yunian.
However, Lu Wanyun felt that she had met her true love and insisted on getting married. Si Yunian also expressed his willingness to marry into Lu Wanyun's family. Lu Chengyin had no choice but to agree to their marriage.
At first, Si Yunian was gentle and considerate to Lu Wanyun, and even more submissive in front of Lu Chengyin and his wife.
He didn't interfere with the Lu family's business, but focused solely on taking care of his wife and being filial to the elderly. Lu Nanzhe was born in the third year of their marriage.
Si Yunian voluntarily married into the family, so Lu Nanzhe took his mother's surname and called Lu Chengyin "Grandpa" instead of "Maternal Grandpa".
Two years ago, Lu Chengyin and his wife passed away one after the other due to serious illnesses for unknown reasons.
Si Yunian gradually revealed his ambition, constantly trying to win people over within the Lu family's businesses and interfere in Lu family affairs.
Lu Wanyun preferred hunting for delicacies around the world to managing her family.
Seeing that Si Yunian was willing to manage the business, they were happy to hand over the family affairs to him.
After Lu Wanyun led her family out hunting for food, she was seriously injured and needed to rest in bed for a long time.
Si Yunian revealed his true colors, seizing power over the Lu family, taking over their assets, and imprisoning Lu Wanyun and the young Lu Nanzhe.
Later, he even brought his first love and illegitimate child back to the Lu family and presented them to Lu Wanyun and Lu Nanzhe.
He recounted with pride his years of forbearance and his current high spirits.
Looking at Si Yunian's disgusting face and his illegitimate son who was older than her own son, Lu Wanyun was so angry that she vomited blood and fainted.
Her already severely injured body was further weakened, but she was only holding on for her son's sake.
Despite her frail body, Lu Wanyun went through great lengths to contact Uncle Chen, the old housekeeper who had retired after her father's death.
Uncle Chen was a contingency plan left to her by her deceased father.
Before her death, her father instructed her to go to the old housekeeper, Uncle Chen, in case of any major changes, and to swear that she would not tell anyone about it.
Only after meeting the old housekeeper did Lu Wanyun realize how much of a way out her father had left for her and her son.
Her father never fully trusted Si Yunian; he always felt that one day Si Yunian would betray the Lu family and Lu Wanyun.
It has to be said, experience is the best teacher.
Before his death, Lu Chengyin entrusted the most important thing in the Lu family to the old butler, Uncle Chen.
He instructed Uncle Chen that if any unforeseen circumstances arise, the item should be handed over to Lu Wanyun; otherwise, it should be handed over to Lu Nanzhe when he comes of age.
It was a nautical chart, a chart that recorded all the private gourmet islands owned by the Lu family.
The islands recorded there are not the ones that the Lu family openly owns, but rather the gourmet islands that the Lu family has found over the centuries by sailing out to sea, and which have been certified by the alliance as belonging to the Lu family. They are home to high-level Qionglin gourmet creatures.
This nautical chart is known only to the direct descendants of the Lu family.
This nautical chart is the foundation upon which the Lu family stands in the Central Continent; it is the lifeblood of the family.
The reason why the Lu family, or rather the major families, can occupy a place in the alliance is because they each have a similar sea chart.
Si Yunian only learned of the existence of this nautical chart after he took control of the Lu family.
He had been searching for it, never expecting that the item was with the old butler, Uncle Chen, and now it had fallen into the hands of his hated son.
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