Food: Randomly set up stalls, even the little guy is drooling.

Lu Feng dragged his exhausted body home. He had been working on frying chicken cutlets for nearly three hours. If it weren't for his high level of skill, he wouldn't have been able to keep up.

Some might ask, "Others can sell for a whole day without any problems." It's like running. Someone can jog for an hour and maintain steady breathing, but if you ask them to sprint for half an hour, they might not be able to keep going for more than 10 minutes.

Of course, the rewards were plentiful.

The system panel has undergone significant changes.

【Master Chef System (Official Version)】

[Host: Lu Feng (23 years old)]

[Level: Beginner Apprentice (Experience Points: 268/1000)]

[Trait: Diligence Pays Off (Every bit of effort you put in will be recognized and transformed into the necessary experience and proficiency)]

[Basic Skills Panel]

Knife Skill Lv.0 (104/1000): You can only cut soft-boiled eggs and cucumbers, but you can also cut fried chicken cutlets. You're a real scumbag.

Heat control Lv.1 (156/2000): The sizzling oil in the pan is your most awesome skill.

Seasoning Lv.1 (374/2000): Still just copying recipes blindly, like two blue Neekos, that's you.

Spoon Skill Lv.0 (6/1000): No improvement whatsoever, it's just a basic skill.

Material Selection Lv.0 (0/1000): Completely ignorant, only knows how to live under someone else's roof and use the best materials given away as charity.

Pastry Lv.0 (0/1000): What? You don't know how yet? No problem, you can learn.

[Recipe Proficiency]

S-grade spicy chicken noodles are perfected, S-grade fried chicken cutlet is perfected.

The cooking temperature and seasoning have both reached Lv.1.

After mastering the art of controlling the heat, Lu Feng clearly felt a mysterious and profound control over the oil temperature when frying chicken cutlets. Even without looking at the numbers on the electronic temperature control display, he could clearly know the state of the oil temperature.

His seasoning is effortless. This is something that can't be measured with data; he can control the amount of sauce needed for every chicken cutlet simply by brushing on the sauce. This is probably his most proficient skill.

Most importantly, he leveled up.

[Congratulations, host! You have been promoted from Apprentice to Junior Apprentice.]

[New feature unlocked: Dream Training.]

Lu Feng couldn't wait to open it.

Good grief, the new features are listed alongside the system store, but they're completely empty.

He could only return to the interface and settle the weekly tasks first.

Weekly task completed.

[Rewards: 2 RMB cash and 3 mystery recipe gift boxes.]

[New weekly quests are being generated...]

Lu Feng rubbed his hands together, silently praying, "May the God of Luck bless me, may the God of Wealth possess me."

The lottery results are in!

[Gift Box Lucky Draw: 1 SS-level Wild Vegetable Steamed Bun Recipe, 1 S-level Vegetable Bun Recipe, 1 S-level Meat Bun Recipe, 1 Integrated Pastry Machine, Multi-functional Snack Cart Steamer Modification Part, 1 Pastry Dream Training Fragment.]

Lu Feng stared at the list of rewards and fell silent.

"What kind of business is this?!" He thought he would find a lot of new snacks, but all three items were steamed buns, and even the accessories were available!

S-grade vegetable buns and meat buns are fine, but what the heck is this SS-grade wild vegetable steamed bun?

"How can cornbread be rated SS? Is the unfilled kind ranked higher than the filled kind?"

The most amazing thing is that with these three recipes and their accompanying ingredients laid out like this, it's really hard to guess what the task for next week will be.

as predicted.

[New Weekly Tasks Released]

[Given that the host has been upgraded to a junior apprentice, the newcomer protection period is ending early.]

[Next week's task: Sell buns at the Fisherman's Wharf bar street every night from 10 PM to 1 AM. Monday's task is 200 buns (price to be determined), increasing by 50 buns each day thereafter.]

[Task Reward: 3 RMB in cash, 1 Mystery Recipe Gift Box.]

Hiss! Lu Feng gasped, feeling like he had endless things to complain about.

He doesn't even need to guess what selling buns is. The words "late night," "bar," and "buns" are all fine individually, but when read together... excuse me? Is this Chinese? Why can't I understand it all at once?

The spicy chicken noodles that are sold in the afternoon are sold in the morning? Fine, fine, but the steamed buns that are sold in the morning should be sold late at night?

Lu Feng had the opportunity to visit Fisherman's Wharf once, and his only impression was that it was a place filled with bars and barbecues.

So selling spicy chicken noodles was a beginner's task, while selling fried chicken cutlets was a newbie protection period. Only two weeks later, I was kicked out of the beginner village.

New employees have a three-month probationary period!

At this moment, Lu Feng really wanted to go back to being a new employee of the system.

For him, the most important thing to complete the mission is time!

The time he had to learn how to make buns was even shorter than the two and a half days it would take to make fried chicken cutlets—only two days, from Saturday night to Monday night.

But these buns are obviously more difficult to make than fried chicken cutlets.

"Wait!" Lu Feng's gaze finally fell on the last item on the reward list: a fragment of the Dream of Pastry Cultivation.

This thing sounds like it's related to a new feature.

Lu Feng quickly summoned the light screen again. The dream cultivation, which had been empty just moments before, now had an option to learn pastry making from a master.

[Dream Cultivation: Learning Pastry Making from a Master]

[Consumes fragments to initiate a deep dream-based apprenticeship. The time flow ratio in the dream is 100:1 (1 month in the dream equals 1 night in reality). The dream training lasts for 1 month. Currently, there is 1 remaining attempt.]

Lu Feng read it word by word, and his eyes lit up. "This means that I can learn to make pastries in my dreams, and I can cultivate for a month in just one night."

If you can learn to make buns just by dreaming, then this system is actually quite humane.

He thought to himself, "That's true. The spicy chicken noodles and fried chicken cutlets both use semi-finished products from the system's store. I'm just processing them. In today's terms, what I'm making, well, is pre-made food using cutting-edge technology."

The new recipes, whether they are steamed buns, vegetable buns or meat buns, all start with flour, kneading and fermenting.

He had seen his grandfather make it before; it requires real skill and is incomparably more difficult than making spicy noodles or fried chicken cutlets.

"But, I've just finished being a beast of burden, do I have to dream of being a beast of burden forever?" Lu Feng sighed. With the system's help, he had saved over 30,000 yuan in half a month, but compared to the cost of his grandmother's first surgery, he was still more than 10,000 yuan short.

He was just an unemployed college graduate who could only borrow 5000 yuan from Alipay.

Lu Feng no longer hesitated, lay down on the bed, and set his sights on learning pastry making from a master.

[Dream Training Begins]

As if his soul had been slammed down, Lu Feng's vision gradually blurred, as if he had fallen into darkness.

next second.

"Boom!"

He touched his head; it hurt!

it hurts!

Didn't I come here to cultivate in my dream? Why did I get hit on the head as soon as I came up?

My head is burning with pain!

Ignoring the pain, he quickly opened his eyes and found that he was no longer in bed.

There stood a little old man in front of me, wearing a Chinese-style chef's hat.

Seeing him awake, the old man angrily said, "How can you sleep at your age?"