Foodie (Part 1)
"Hey, this month it's your turn, you little good-for-nothing." The man rudely shoved a food box into Xu Ya's hands, not caring whether she could take it or not, his eyes full of contempt. "I advise you to take good care of Senior Brother, or something might go wrong and you won't be able to explain it to Master."
“Yes…” Xu Ya nodded, tears welling in her eyes, resignedly carrying the oversized food box with both hands.
Xu Ya shakily carried the food box and climbed Xingyun Peak step by step, timidly praying that her senior brother's condition would improve. Thinking of the ferocious appearance of her senior brother when he was captured by the masters after going into qi deviation just last month, Xu Ya became even more afraid.
If it were any other disciple from the peak, they could easily ascend the mountain with a simple spell. However, Xu Ya was a useless person with five spiritual roots. Despite studying for most of her life, her spiritual power was extremely low, and she was still like an ordinary person. She only knew a few minor spells, which were not enough for self-defense.
Yunmeng Immortal Marsh has always been known for its dog-eat-dog cultivation style, and someone as useless as Xu Ya is not well-liked. If it weren't for Master Xu's efforts to fight for her, Xu Ya would probably have been expelled from the peak long ago.
Xu Ya climbed for several hours, finally reaching her destination.
The mountain peaks are shrouded in mist, obscuring the hidden realm within. Xu Ya knew that by bypassing these illusions, she could glimpse a handsome man imprisoned within layers of chains.
That person was none other than Shi Yuzhen, the only genius disciple of Yunmeng Immortal Marsh who had been hailed as the only one in the past hundred years to be able to enter the Nascent Soul stage.
Now, the senior brother, who was like a celestial being, was ambushed at the crucial time of forming his core. He has now gone mad and is being controlled by the elders of Yunmeng Immortal Marsh on the top of Xingyun Peak.
The once refined and cultured senior brother has now become a deranged and vicious monster who has harmed countless people. How could Xu Ya not be afraid?
After passing the large rock in front of you, you will find the place where Shi Yuzhen was imprisoned.
Xu Ya hid behind a large rock, peeking out with her furry head to look inside.
Before Xu Ya could see anything, she suddenly felt a surge of brute force burst forth from within. Her small frame was the first to be hit, and she and the box crashed into a large rock. The pain brought tears to her eyes, and she collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood.
Xu Ya felt like a weak ant, easily crushed by anyone.
Overwhelmed with grievance, Xu Ya lay on the ground and sobbed softly. Suddenly, a broken, otherworldly voice interrupted her.
Xu Ya inexplicably knew it was an electronic sound.
Its output was intermittent, making it difficult to hear the main points, but Xu Ya was extremely familiar with all of this.
A familiar memory flashed into Xu Ya's mind. A moment later, Xu Ya raised her head, her eyes blazing, no longer showing the timidity she had just displayed.
"What the heck is all this...?" Xu Ya muttered to herself.
Xu Ya grimaced as she got up from the ground, rubbing her sore limbs. She sat down with her legs spread apart, complaining, "Wow, what senior brother? What chosen male lead? He's just a serial killer. Is he going to kill me? Huh?"
Despite her complaints, Xu Ya remembered everything. She was originally a part-time clerk at a restaurant, a freshman in college, and hadn't been working there long when an oil fryer explosion landed her in this novel.
Yes, Xu Ya received a blessing and transmigrated into the book.
However, despite successfully transmigrating, an accident occurred. Her personal system malfunctioned upon its debut, caused by a childhood accident where she fell into water. It remained broken for over a decade, and she herself suffered amnesia, only recovering recently after a severe impact. Who could have imagined this?
The initial task given by the system was simply to help the male protagonist of a Qidian novel become a Celestial Dragon so that he could be reborn and return home.
Otherwise, you'll just have to die a meaningless death as cannon fodder in this godforsaken place.
Xu Ya refused. She hadn't forgotten her experiences over the past few decades, and being a useless person was incredibly frustrating.
She threw a tantrum in her mind, stalemate with the system, and tried to get compensation by citing laws and regulations. After much persuasion, she finally got the system to give her a little help.
【Host, calm down. We contacted you as soon as we recovered~】
Xu Ya remained unmoved and accepted the cheat code that the system transmitted to her with a stern face.
[Alright, alright, I finally managed to get three blind box cheat codes from the Supreme God. Please check them out, host~]
Xu Ya's eyebrows twitched, and she thought unhappily: This piece of junk is using the blind box gimmick?
As the golden light flashed in her palm, Xu Ya couldn't help but let her eyes sparkle with anticipation.
The first blind box opened contained—a recipe for fried chicken that Xu Ya knew all too well… Tatin’s.
She even stayed up all night memorizing this stuff when she first started the job...
What? Everyone else's cheat codes are all about making things happen with their words, but all you give me is a fried chicken recipe? What can I do with that?
[Calm down, calm down, host, this will definitely have a wonderful use~]
When the second blind box was opened, a flash of golden light revealed half a tattered booklet. Xu Ya calmly flipped through it for a moment, then her expression improved, and she tucked the tattered booklet into her clothes.
This item is the first half of the novel that Xu Ya transmigrated into. It records the crises that the male protagonist, Shi Yuzhen, encountered. This can be considered a half-cheat code, which is indeed very useful for a useless person like her to complete her mission.
The third blind box opened to reveal an ordinary drawstring bag.
Xu Ya had seen this item before; almost every senior brother and sister in Yunmeng Immortal Marsh had one. This should be called a Spirit Bag, seemingly ordinary yet capable of containing all things. Xu Ya's eyes lit up immediately, and she rubbed her hands together like a fly before opening the bag and reaching inside.
Xu Ya felt her hand penetrate into a huge space and touch a slippery object. Her fingers probed left and right, ignoring the goosebumps all over her body, and pulled the object out.
It is a fresh and well-marinated chicken root.
...
This...this treasure bag leads to the Taldin warehouse? Is this thing legal?
The system, sensing her thoughts, spoke in a flat, electronic voice, but Xu Ya could tell it was a problem: [Host, the three cheat codes you requested have arrived! Here are the instructions~ Please take a look~]
Xu Ya pulled her hand out of the air in an annoyed manner, and a piece of paper as thin as a cicada's wing appeared instantly. She didn't look at it carefully and put it in her pocket. Since that's the case, she hadn't had fried chicken in a long time, so she could make some to satisfy her craving.
Having been away from fried chicken for so long, Xu Ya had long forgotten about her mission to "take good care of her senior brother".
He casually picked up the food box that had almost broken along with her when it fell to the ground. This item was enhanced by the spiritual power of the cultivators in the Immortal Marsh, making it extremely tough and impervious to swords, spears, water, and fire. It was just a pity that it had run into the protagonist of a novel, so he had to break it first as a sign of respect!
She cleaned the food box with water magic, took a whole marinated chicken from her newly acquired treasure bag, wrapped it in the dressing from the bag, cast a fire spell on it, put it in hot oil, and started frying!
Xu Ya was completely unaware that as the vegetarian chicken was placed in the box, a strange golden light suddenly flashed around the chicken's body.
The whole chicken, wrapped in a secret dressing, was placed in the food box, immediately bursting with a crackling sound. Pearl-like bubbles rose around it, vying to coat the chicken's golden exterior.
Immediately afterward, a long-lost aroma filled the air, and Xu Ya regained her memories and her sense of taste. This taste! Perfect!
Xu Ya recited the incantation, took out the golden-brown fried whole chicken that was fried to perfection, and wrapped the chicken in a plain cloth.
Just as she was about to take a bite, dark clouds suddenly gathered behind the large rock, and eerie roars echoed from it. Xu Ya was startled, finally remembering her purpose.
Xu Ya casually ripped a wing off a chicken, stuffed it whole into her mouth, picked up a few clean pieces of food from the ground, and went around behind the boulder.
For some reason, Shi Yuzhen completely lost control. His arms, which were suspended by the giant chains, seemed to be unrestrained, and a thick black aura emanated from Shi Yuzhen's body and even his limbs.
The powerful spiritual energy blasted the rocks into the air, nearly hitting Xu Ya who had come to check on them.
Xu Ya regained her memories, and her state of mind was naturally different from before. Although she was no longer timid, seeing this scene still made her heart pound, and fear still filled her heart.
Shi Yuzhen lowered her head, her hair covering her once delicate face. Now she roared like a demon, breaking free from the giant chains that bound her!
The giant chain shattered with a crash, scattering its fragments across the ground.
On the summit of the giant mountain, a demon covered in black energy was locked in a stalemate with a frail woman who looked almost like an ordinary mortal.
In a moment of desperation, the frail woman swiftly made a spell with faint spiritual energy and channeled it into the spirit stone at the top, attempting to summon reinforcements.
Xu Ya was still thinking too simply. Halfway through the spiritual energy flight, the demon paced around the arena with bloodshot eyes. With a flick of its sleeve, it knocked Xu Ya down. Xu Ya watched helplessly as her lifeline vanished before her eyes.
【—Aaaaaaah, help! System, help!—The male lead is about to kill someone! Aaaaaah!—】
Xu Ya turned and retreated. Her strong will to survive made her immediately make a few more hand gestures, but to no avail. Shi Yuzhen was like a monster, blocking all attacks as they came.
The system was completely useless at this point, like it was dead.
Unseen by Xu Ya, faint spiritual energy clung to the spirit stone. However, to her utter surprise, this object not only summoned reinforcements but also immediately descended a giant cage to trap the imprisoned person there.
Therefore, Xu Ya tragically ended up locked up with Shi Yuzhen, the male protagonist of the online novel.
...
Xu Ya did not give up on survival, crying and screaming as she circled around the giant cage, and luckily managed to evade attacks several times.
Perhaps Shi Yuzhen was annoyed by this tedious cat-and-mouse game, she stretched out her large hand, clenched it slightly, and Xu Ya immediately took to the air and flew quickly toward Shi Yuzhen.
His Adam's apple was covered by a large hand, applied with great force.
This was the first time Xu Ya had ever looked into the eyes of the legendary senior brother of Yunmeng Immortal Marsh at such close range, but little did she know that it would be the last time she would see him!
Xu Ya struggled violently at first, frantically trying to pry open Shi Yuzhen's large hands and digging her fingernails into his fingertips. "Senior Brother...it's me, Senior...Brother..."
Although she was just a cannon fodder and an unknown junior sister in her senior brother's life, Xu Ya had no other choice but to pray that it would work.
Xu Ya felt herself getting lighter and lighter, as if she were a feather rising into the air, her toes getting further and further away from the ground. She had no strength left to struggle, and slowly lost her strength. Her arms fell down, and even the fried chicken that had just been fried and put into Xu Ya's sleeve fell to the ground.
The fried chicken was piping hot, and it was wrapped carefully in a plain cloth. It fell to the ground and rolled a few times before coming to rest right at Shi Yuzhen's feet.
Shi Yuzhen suddenly released her grip on the neck as if she had been burned.
Xu Ya fell to the ground with a thud. Her throat felt like it had been filled with hot, burning oil, and it was so sticky that she couldn't speak, only cough.
In Xu Ya's blurry vision, she saw Shi Yuzhen half-squatting on the ground, grabbing Xu Ya's large hand and picking up the fried chicken from the ground.
Xu Ya's eyes were seeing stars. She curled up defensively to the side, squinting warily at Shi Yuzhen.
Instead of attacking, Shi Yuzhen lifted the cloth covering the fried chicken and took a bite of it, both abruptly and elegantly.
Instantly, most of the black aura around Shi Yuzhen dissipated, and her terrifying red eyes returned to normal.
Shi Yuzhen, just like the hungry customers Xu Ya had seen during her part-time job, ate the fried chicken as usual.
But this scene is incredibly bizarre. This is the world of a book, this person is the Celestial Dragon protagonist, and this is even a cultivation novel! This isn't Tate Modern!
The chicken bones were cleaned by the man so thoroughly that every now and then a smooth, polished chicken bone could be seen falling to the ground.
This scene was very strange, and Xu Ya inexplicably noticed that Shi Yuzhen seemed to be in pretty good condition.
Before long, a strange noise came from outside the cage; the reinforcements had finally arrived.
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