The chicken task is done, only the mushrooms are left.

Chen Qing looked at the map and found a nearby village at the foot of the mountain. The mountains near this kind of village were relatively safe. After all, humans would not build villages in places that were too dangerous.

Of course, the village is also surrounded by high walls - just in case.

After wandering around the mountain forest several times, Chen Qing finally found some wild mushrooms under a few damp trees near a stream.

After picking them all, and seeing that [Step 2 Completed] was displayed on the system panel, he safely put the mushrooms into his backpack.

There is no need to identify what kind of mushroom this is. Anyway, the system says that the mission is completed, so it must be edible - because there are three words "edible" in the mission requirements, right?

Chen Qing, who was full of gains, took the bus back to the city with a backpack of loot, which only took half a day.

When he got home, his parents were both at work and no one disturbed him. Chen Qing went directly to the kitchen to clean the chicken and mushrooms.

Following the recipe he found online, and after a hurried operation, he brought a pot of chicken soup to the dining table.

Open the system interface:

【Food Hunting System】

[Main mission one: Completed]

[Task evaluation: The ingredients used are acceptable, but the cooking skills are extremely poor, barely passing. What are you waiting for? Make this pot of chicken soup and start your martial arts journey. More delicious food is waiting for you, rookie]

[Task reward: The key to the door of cultivation is in the chicken soup]

Chen Qing took one look at it, quickly picked up a spoon and scooped the chicken soup into the bowl, and drank the bowl eagerly without caring about scalding it.

Then the second bowl, the third bowl... Finally, I ate all the chicken and mushrooms, and even chewed up a few breast ribs and swallowed them - for fear that the "key" was hidden in the bone marrow.

Logically speaking, an ordinary person like him cannot drink a large pot of chicken soup, but under the magical effect of the system, Chen Qing drank the entire pot without feeling bloated in his stomach, but his head was a little dizzy...

"Snapped!"

Chen Qing hit his head on the table and passed out.

By the time he woke up, it was already past 4 p.m. and he had been asleep for four hours.

He stretched out his hand and kept pressing his temples to relieve the headache that was about to burst. He asked the system: "Did I succeed in getting started in martial arts? Why do I still have sequelae?"

[Of course you got started successfully. But your headache is not a sequelae caused by the system, but because the mushrooms you picked contain trace amounts of toxins, which can cause drowsiness and headaches in the human body]

"What the hell?" Chen Qing was stunned, and then shouted, "The mushrooms I picked meet the system requirements! The 'edible' item passed!"

[Trace amounts of toxins are not harmful, so the system determines that it is edible, and there is no error]

What the hell... forget it, my brain hurts, I won’t care about the mentally retarded system.

Chen Qing continued to massage various acupuncture points on his head. After the headache was relieved a lot, he assumed a strange standing posture in the living room - this was a stance method taught in school.

Talented students can use this Zhanzhuang method, combined with highly tonic ingredients or elixirs, to develop Qi and blood.

Once you have Qi and blood, you become a preparatory martial artist. You can take the martial arts exam in July every year, enter the martial arts university, and start the path of cultivation.

When Chen Qing was first taught this stance method in school, he practiced it assiduously, but his qualifications were so poor that he never got into it.

Until he was divided into civil and military classes in his second year of high school, he still failed to develop any vitality, so he had to transfer to the liberal arts class and live an ordinary life.

But now, after completing the first task of the system, he tried to stand again and found that there was indeed an indescribable strange energy in his body.

It's very subtle, but it does exist - it's the power of Qi and blood!

Chen Qing put away his stance, and the feeling disappeared. However, this could not eliminate the joy in his heart.

He asked the system with a smile on his face: "Haha, I'm getting started! Then can I practice martial arts normally in the future?"

[No, your qualifications are too poor. If you practice in the normal way, you will stop making progress in this life. You can only follow the system and take a special path]

Chen Qing almost breathed out after hearing the first half of the system's words. Fortunately, it didn't take a big breath and told himself that there was another hope.

"Then I don't need to be admitted to a martial arts university and can just form my own sect?" Chen Qing asked again.

[No. The system can only help you break through situations, it cannot teach you martial arts knowledge, nor can it provide you with combat skills. There is no future for your own sect]

Well, it seems that I still have to take the martial arts exam in July.

Chen Qing continued to ask: "It's the beginning of April now, and there are still three months left before the martial arts exam. Is it possible to make it in time this year?"

[Of course. The system has arranged a comprehensive plan for you, you can check it in the task panel]

As soon as the system's emotionless mechanical sound ended, Chen Qing immediately opened the system interface:

【Food Hunting System】

[Main mission two: Your talent is too poor, so you can only learn to cook from me. The most basic practice of cooking is repetition. From today on, the Sanhua chicken group will start to fear being dominated by you]

[Task step 1: Kill a Sanhua chicken alone, cook it in any way, and eat it whole (this time, not even the chicken butt is left)]

[Task step 2: Repeat step 1 within a month until completed 100 times]

[Task reward: Ignore talents and qualifications, quickly cultivate to a point of qi and blood fluctuation of 500 points (this reward will be distributed according to the progress of the task)]

The task description still left Chen Qing speechless, but he didn't care about these fancy words. The point was - 500 points of energy and blood fluctuations in one month!

Can you complete half of the warrior training in the preparatory stage just by eating chicken?

In those three months, it is estimated that the energy and blood fluctuations can reach 1,000 points, which is close to a first-level warrior. Passing the martial arts test is not a problem!

"System, how do you help me improve my strength?" Chen Qing couldn't help but ask.

[It’s very simple, humans cannot absorb the transformed magic energy. There is magic energy in the body of Warcraft, but the human body cannot absorb it, and even excessive amounts of it can be harmful to the body.

But the system can help the host absorb this energy and turn it into its own cultivation]

That’s it! Chen Qing suddenly realized.

Until now, except for magical beasts with low magic energy content such as Sanhua Chicken, which can be eaten directly, the magic energy can be naturally discharged;

Higher-level monsters, after being hunted by humans, must undergo special treatment to dispel the magic energy before they can be eaten.

Therefore, eating Warcraft meat is just a novelty for humans, and it does not improve any strength.

"Then can I just buy the meat of monsters hunted by others? Wouldn't this help improve my strength faster?"

After Chen Qing understood the nature of the system, his thinking suddenly became more relaxed.

The answer waiting for him is: [Please open the panel and read the system name carefully]
Chapter completed!