Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Chapter 42: He’s A Master Chef?

Ye Weiming was still 1 point of Enlightenment, 5 points of Intelligence, and 3 levels of expiration exercise away from the basic requirement of learning ‘Hunyuan Scripture’.

He hadn’t found a good way to increase his Intelligence yet. As for the expiration exercise, he just needed to practice it more, kill more monsters, collect more corpses, and bury more people. As for the Enlightenment, he was only 1 point away. Based on the price list in the private school, after reading the Book of Family Names, he would be able to increase Enlightenment by 1 point. This would allow him to reach the requirement to practice ‘Hunyuan Scripture’.

Compared to the classics that required thousands of Gold, 100 Gold was slightly more acceptable to him.

However, it being slightly more acceptable didn’t mean that he could learn it immediately. Before that, he needed to save money while increasing the level of his expiration exercise!

Now that he had a goal, Ye Weiming started to show an unprecedented enthusiasm towards leveling. For a certain amount of time, he started furiously accepting all kinds of warrant missions. He would calculate his route before he started on his journey while accepting a few more warrant missions on the way. Then he would complete them together.

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“Pfft!”

Ye Weiming pulled the bloodstained Green Bamboo Sword out of the chest of a level 20 boss, Liu Xueqiao. He shook his wrist and the fresh blood on the blade splattered onto the ground.

Ding! You have killed the notorious bandit who always snatched ladies, Live Monkey Liu Xueqiao. Rewards received: 2000 EXP, 200 Cultivation, 50 Silver.

By the time the notification sound from the system reached his ears, Ye Weiming had already started feeling up the corpses.

Just like what he expected, the boss called Liu Xueqiao didn’t contribute any martial arts scriptures to his repertoire. However, he did drop a few blue items. Although none of them were comparable to the Divine Constable Bureau uniform he was wearing, they were still worth some money in the market. When he reached Luoyang, he would go to Jiao Wolf’s Blue Fatty Items Shop and sell the items.

That immoral businessman was irritating but his shop was convenient to use.

More than ten days ago, Ye Weiming received a whole series of annihilating bandits missions from Zhan Zhao, who finally came back. His enemies could be found from the capital city to Luoyang. You could draw a straight line through them. Using this straight line as his route, he killed bandits all the way from the capital city to Luoyang. He had annihilated three mountain fortresses and slaughtered 12 criminals.

It had been a while since the game started, so naturally he couldn’t get all the first kill. Fortunately, these wanted criminals would refresh after they were killed so he didn’t have to worry about not completing his mission.

Among the three mountain fortresses that he annihilated, two of them had already been conquered before. Thus, the items the bosses dropped decreased in quality and quantity greatly but luckily, the rewards for the mission didn’t decrease.

After all the fighting, Ye Weiming’s ability had increased. Now, his level and attributes had changed to…

Ye Weiming

Level: 18

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Health: 970/970

Internal energy: 760/760

Physique: 81

Arm strength: 81

Movement: 206

Reaction: 81

Intelligence: 25

Enlightenment: 29

Expiration exercise (lackluster) level: 8

Proficiency: 11208/12800

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Health +400, Internal energy +400

Physique +40, Arm strength +40, Movement +40, Reaction +40

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Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular)

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Level: 8

Proficiency: 8636/12800

Power +80%, Accuracy +80%

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Dragon-Phoenix Sword (intermediate)

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Level: 4

Proficiency: 3578/4000

Defense +80%, Accuracy +80%, Dodge +40%

Special effects: Force removal (through the contact of weapons, you can remove the strength of your opponent’s attack and remain undefeatable)

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Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner)

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Level: 6

Proficiency: 1314/8000

Movement +120

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How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate)

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Level: 2

Proficiency: 1211/2000

Attack damage +20%, Critical Hit +20%, Critical Damage +20%

During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent’s move and break their moves!

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Equipment

(Not listing out everything)

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Money: 74 Gold, 60 Silver, 27 Bronze

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Whenever Ye Weiming saw the intermediate sword skill ‘Dragon-Phoenix Sword’ that Commander You gave him as his mission reward, he felt like complaining furiously.

It was a sword skill but look at what additional attributes it had?

Defense, Accuracy, Dodge, Force removal… It didn’t add any effects to his attack at all.

But if you just look at the defensive ability of this sword skill, he had nothing to complain about. Based on Ye Weiming’s current attributes, he felt that he would be able to defend himself with this sword skill even if he met a level 30 boss.

As for its offensive ability… this wasn’t about whether its offensive power was strong or weak. When he used this sword skill, there was no such thing as offensive power at all!

His intermediate sword skill wasn’t powerful enough for him, so for this period Ye Weiming still used his lackluster sword skill ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’ when he was killing monsters. This allowed the proficiency of ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’ to shoot up furiously. He was getting closer and closer to the level 9 requirements.

He wondered when would he be able to get an advanced sword skill that wouldn’t cheat his feelings?

It didn’t even have to be an advanced sword skill. Even if it was just an intermediate sword skill or a beginner sword skill, he would still accept it!

He took out the grass mat and wrapped Liu Xueqiao’s corpses up. He received ‘The Study of Lightness Kung Fu’ ×1.

He used the book, and the proficiency of his ‘Eight Step Chasing Toad’ increased by 1200 points.

At this moment, it was already dusk.

Ye Weiming confirmed the direction and immediately executed his ‘Eight Step Chasing Toad’. He rushed towards the direction of Luoyang City. He had completed all the missions he had accepted earlier so there was a huge pile of items on his back. If he threw them all into Jiao Wolf’s shop, he would be able to gather the 100 Gold needed for the Book of Family Names.

Along his journey, the sky turned dark. Ye Weiming suddenly felt very hungry. That was when he realized that his hunger had reached the 70% alarm mark. He wanted to eat some steamed buns to fill up his stomach, but he realized that all the steamed buns he bought when he left Bian Liang City had been eaten by him during lunch.

With his current speed, would he be able to reach Luoyang City before he died of hunger?

This was a good question!

Ye Weiming took out his map and did some simple calculations. He realized that this was indeed a concerning problem.

If he didn’t solve his hunger issue quickly, there was a 50% chance that he would die of hunger before he reached Luoyang City.

Miscalculation!

“Howl…”

Just as Ye Weiming was feeling frustrated, the wolf’s howl not far away caused his eyes to light up.

He flipped through his bag and changed his weapon into a blue fine steel sword. Then he charged towards the direction where the howl came from.

Why did he need to change his sword?

Remember that the Green Bamboo Sword was poisonous. The prey that it killed would be poisoned, meaning that their meat would become inedible.

Night wolves were normally around level 17. Ye Weiming had no trouble killing it with his current ability.

Ten minutes later, Ye Weiming had already built a campfire and was calmly barbecuing wolf meat.

Another 20 minutes passed…

Half-raw half-charred barbecued wolf meat: Quality: Failed. Eating it will decrease 50 points of hunger. You will drop 1 point of health every minute for the next hour.

This meat was still poisonous!

Ye Weiming used his sword to cut off the charred part of the meat. The attributes of the meat changed again…

Half-cooked meat: Quality: 0. Eating it will decrease 20 points of hunger.

Although more than half of the meat was gone, he wouldn’t need to worry about getting food poisoning. Ye Weiming stared at his ugly piece of work in his hand. Just as he was about to start eating, he suddenly noticed a young boy with ragged clothes who appeared from nowhere. He was looking at the barbecued meat in his hand while swallowing his saliva.

Why was there a little boy in the middle of nowhere?

The only thing he knew was that this child was an NPC. There was no such child at this age among the migrants.

He waved at the young boy. Ye Weiming smiled and asked, “Where are your parents?”

“Mom is gone. Ah Huang is gone too. I’m looking for them,” the young boy continued staring intently at the barbecued wolf meat in Ye Weiming’s hand as he replied.

Ye Weiming smiled. “Do you want to eat it?”

The young boy nodded.

“Go ahead.”

The young boy took the barbecued wolf meat and started devouring it. This was a piece of meat that Ye Weiming had a hard time convincing himself to eat. However, the young boy was eating it deliciously.

Looking at how happy the young boy was enjoying the food, Ye Weiming felt a sudden sense of achievement. He opened his mouth and asked unconsciously, “Is it delicious?”

“No,” the young boy replied in a muffled voice and continued eating.

Ye Weiming: …

This child was really honest. However, he couldn’t blame him. After all, even he didn’t have the face to say that this meat he barbecued was up to standard either.

But for his ego, Ye Weiming still tried to explain himself shamelessly, “We are in the wilderness so there’s no seasoning…”

But before Ye Weiming could finish his sentence, the young boy interrupted him. He had already finished the barbecued wolf meat. “It’s not about the seasoning. You didn’t get the duration and degree of heating right. When you’re barbecuing meat, you mustn’t put the meat directly over the burning fire. You must wait for the coal to turn red. Then…”

Ding! You received advice from a master chef. Your cooking skill increased by 1000EXP. Your cooking skill level has risen to level 4.

This young boy was a master chef?

“Young man, how do I address you?”