"Good! Good! Good! Since you have such determination, little brother, I'll give it my all to create the perfect dish just for you!" Wang Renfeng said boldly.
He immediately pushed the door open again and strode back into the kitchen to start preparing.
As for the Crimson feather Chicken meat—he accepted that too.
The regular meat sold for one Sanctum Coin per portion, the rare kind for three, and the precious kind for ten.
In other words, even after enjoying this lavish meal and taking two extra servings to go, Bai Qiu didn't lose a single coin—and even earned over a thousand Sanctum Coins on top of that!
Wang Renfeng busied himself with ingredients in the kitchen, tossing in all sorts of mysterious things, including the precious chicken meat Bai Qiu had just sold him—after all, Bai Qiu had made it clear that he wanted the most potent effects possible!
When the large, steaming dish was finally placed before him, Bai Qiu's appetite flared.
He quickly devoured the entire plate and checked his status afterward.
"After eating the Delicious Medley, all attributes permanently increased!"
The boost was small, of course—but that only proved how valuable the dish really was.
Status Effects:
Full Stomach: All attributes +25%; stamina consumption −40%; stamina recovery speed +40%; mana recovery +10%; mental recovery +10%; wound healing speed +10%.
Duration: 12 hours.
(Note: Vigorous activity accelerates digestion and shortens duration.)
Blessing of Love: All attributes +10%; mana recovery speed +10%.
Even with such massive buffs, Bai Qiu's Strength and Agility attributes still didn't reach C-rank.
He guessed that even with his berserk skill active, it would still be difficult to reach that threshold.
"The three meals would've cost you 120 Sanctum Coins normally. I'll give you a discount—make it 100 this time. Go on, kid, do your best!" Wang Renfeng said, clapping Bai Qiu on the shoulder and handing him two packed servings of the same dish.
Bai Qiu nodded, left 100 Sanctum Coins on the counter, and dashed off toward the map marker showing the Dragonfang General's location.
The meal—forty times pricier than normal—filled him with unshakable confidence!
After Bai Qiu left, Onipur stepped inside with a smile. "Well? What do you think? That kid's a good seedling, isn't he?"
"Hmm… indeed," Wang Renfeng nodded thoughtfully.
"He's calm, mature, and carries a presence far beyond the average man. I didn't expect a new star of hope to emerge so soon."
Watching the direction Bai Qiu had left, he sighed with admiration.
Just from the speed of his departure alone, he could tell—the boy was already showing remarkable promise!
"By the way," Onipur suddenly added, changing the subject, "since you haven't closed yet, make me a meal too! The smell's made me hungry."
"Get lost! Stop using your top-tier profession as an excuse to freeload every day! Wash the dishes first, then we'll talk!"
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Under the pitch-black night, the once-brilliant main avenue—bright as day even at midnight—had lost its power supply and fallen into darkness.
But through the shadows, a silver figure flickered like a phantom, gliding effortlessly through the night!
The Dragonfang Soldiers only felt a sudden gust of wind and a faint noise rush past.
When they looked around for the source, they were completely baffled—there was no trace of a target anywhere!
With the aid of the Triple Arcane Crystallized Eyes, Bai Qiu's vision was now unbound by the limits of night and day.
Without the slightest pause, he sprinted straight toward the map marker indicating the Dragonfang General's location.
Unlike other elite monsters, the Dragonfang Generals—busy conducting their summoning rituals—would not actively attack humans or hunt prey.
They sought the highest, most concealed places to enter a semi-dormant state, meaning their actual combat capability was far below that of other elites of the same level.
Even an elite Crimson Feather Chicken could probably best them in a fight!
That also meant they would never step outside their designated territory.
Soon, Bai Qiu began climbing up a tall building.
But unlike ordinary climbers who would take several minutes per floor, he vaulted two floors with a single leap—scaling dozens of stories to the rooftop in just one minute!
Upon reaching the rooftop, Bai Qiu instantly locked onto the Dragonfang General's position.
Without hesitation, he lunged forward, slammed it to the ground, and pinned it beneath his foot.
Pulling out a handful of Darksteel arrows from his quiver, he drove them through its limbs one by one, nailing every joint firmly into the floor until not a single arrow remained.
Finally, he drew a pitch-black short sword from his storage card and stabbed it through the creature as well—though he deliberately avoided its torso, piercing only its wings and limbs.
As long as it didn't struggle, it could easily stay alive for two more days.
Soon after, the combination of King of Monster Grinding, Sword of Hatred, and the Dragonfang General's own summoning skill triggered a massive reaction—dozens of Dragonfang Soldiers came swarming toward him.
But Bai Qiu had already anticipated this.
He unslung his Darksteel longbow and began firing from his stored stock of arrows, one after another, without pause.
"Ding! …"
The system notifications had already been turned off.
Without the constant noisy alerts, Bai Qiu's shooting speed somehow became even faster!
Under the dark night sky, atop the towering skyscraper, a lone figure clad in silver-gray armor drew a jet-black longbow, releasing arrow after arrow into the darkness.
He should have been one with the shadows—but the moonlight spilling from above caught his weapon, glinting faintly on its polished surface.
Several kilometers away, atop another Sanctuary tower in a safe zone, a girl with cat ears and a long tail gazed in astonishment at the figure standing under the moonlight...
The combination of three monster-luring effects tangled together, attracting far more Dragonfang Soldiers than the night before.
The string of Bai Qiu's Darksteel longbow was nearly smoking from friction, yet the tide of monsters only grew denser and denser!
As the pressure mounted and his body repeated the same motions over and over, he didn't quite enter the same "enlightened" state he had during the daytime trial—but it was still a form of refinement through repetition.
A strange, exhilarating sensation surged through him.
Suddenly, Bai Qiu drew three arrows at once and let them fly simultaneously!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The three arrows shot out, two of them hitting their targets cleanly, instantly killing two Dragonfang Soldiers.
Since the distance was within a thousand meters, both arrows were retrieved as dropped items.
The third arrow, however, just barely missed—grazing a Dragonfang Soldier's wing before spinning off into the distance, resulting in the loss of one arrow.
Yet the half-shattered wing that had been grazed was instantly crushed by some unseen force, the creature flung ten meters through the air before plummeting to the ground, lifeless upon impact.
"Looks like I can only control two arrows at once for now… I still need more practice," Bai Qiu thought.
At this point, he could lock onto a target and fire in less than a second, his movements so fast they were a blur to the naked eye.
But he wouldn't dare use Darksteel arrows for practice—at this rate, a few missed shots would burn through his entire supply in less than ten minutes!