Chapter 667: Chapter 666: Title Collection!

If you’re busy, you have to find a direction to focus on; you can’t just run around aimlessly like a headless chicken, right?

The system tasks served as a guide, saving Xia Yu a tremendous amount of exploration effort.

Ding.

After receiving his command, a floating ripple task panel popped up.

“Wow, so many!”

The text filled up his retinas, and Xia Yu was greatly surprised. However, upon closer inspection, the text wasn’t chaotic at all; it was already categorized by the system, organized with clear entries.

Simply put, there were three fields of tasks that Xia Yu could currently claim:

First, cooking.

This was a major category, including tasks like recreating ancient recipes and achieving a certain completion of cooking research tasks, such as the cooking showdown tasks routinely received before each match in the Sapporo competition, and recipe improvements, among others.

Speaking of which, the “100% Completion of Great Magic Panda Tofu” task Xia Yu had was backlogged for a long time, which is why the system warned him to cautiously claim tasks from this category.

Second, management.

Management was further divided into personal management and business management.

In this field, Xia Yu also had 2 long-pending tasks—the series “Students All Over the World” and “Our Shopping Street.”

Currently, “Students All Over the World” was stuck on the third ring, which was task 3. This task required Xia Yu to guide any student to truly open their Heart of Cooking, rewarding 10 Talent Points.

As for “Our Shopping Street,” the second task, ‘Renewed and Refreshed,’ was already completed, and the store street decor item that automatically went to his backpack had been forgotten by Xia Yu in a corner for some time.

“Ah!”

Upon seeing this, Xia Yu’s eyes lit up. “‘Students All Over the World’ (III) can be submitted!”

Thinking about Eriina’s unexpected breakthrough, Xia Yu nodded his head in praise. That’s more like it!

“Submit!”

He immediately said to the system.

“Task completed, you have received 10 Talent Points as a reward.”

Hence, the number in the Talent Points section blurred from 24, jumping to 34, instantly adding 10 points, and Xia Yu felt as happy as if he’d just drunk a jar of honey.

This might just be a surprise.

“‘Students All Over the World’ (IV).”

“Explanation: Oh, applause is due here. You actually guided a student to open their Heart of Cooking, so the next step is to teach her hand by hand and guide her to sprint toward the special grade!”

“Requirement: The host must guide at least 1 student to break through to the special grade.”

“Reward: 15 Talent Points, Seven Stars Knife *2.”

Incredible!

Looking at the refreshed task, Xia Yu inhaled sharply. Wow, those 15 Talent Points were envy-inducing, plus the words “Seven Stars Knife *2″… The system god wanted him to focus solely on mentoring students?

He had already acquired three legit Seven Stars Knives: Po Jun, Wenqu, and Tanlang. He hadn’t forgotten the attribute boost from collecting all seven, and certainly, collecting the Seven Stars Knives had hidden achievements.

What help would the remaining four Seven Stars Knives provide to his cooking skills? Xia Yu’s heart itched.

Without saying more, as a motivated young man with a passion for collection, this task made Xia Yu eager to fight for it!

Lastly, the third type of task.

These could be collectively called battle, hunting, and ingredient-related, and would not be discussed for now.

“The first type of task, cooking, was rare after competitions. In daily life, the quickest method was to go around crazily challenging people, and trigger Food War tasks in a simple and brutal way, but that’s an insane act!”

Xia Yu pondered.

Given his current fame and culinary level, challenging low-level opponents would be self-destructive. And challenging real Lin Chefs that required crossing great gaps made Xia Yu incredibly nervous, so it was better to swiftly quash that small fancy and be down-to-earth.

The second category, management, had a task related to the farm that could be accepted, so Xia Yu, without blinking, accepted it:

“‘Money Pit’ (I).”

“Explanation: Your farm has been preliminarily established with profitability. Please enhance your property’s ranking in the Japanese agriculture and livestock industry. The current rank is over 10,000; please break through to the top 1,000.”

“Reward: Universal Intelligent Ingredient Storage Cabinet (Upgrade Project) *2, Super Soil Patch (Upgrade Project) *5.”

What, ranking?

Xia Yu looked befuddled, opened the real-time ranking system attached to the task, and immediately a list densely packed with company names popped out. On this list, the total number of agriculture and livestock companies was just over 20,000, with ‘Xia’s Agriculture and Livestock’ ranked at 18,891, practically at the bottom, which made Xia Yu’s eyebrows twitch—this was just terrible, almost as if the system was mocking him for being busy everywhere, and yet, in the end, the farm had no profitability at all!

Indeed!

This ranking viewed the company’s net profit, in simpler terms, its money-making ability!

Think about it, there was a reason for Xia’s Farm having such a rank; the last batch of fruits and vegetables was dumped and sold to the Takai Group. Although Xia Yu did not ask Ichise Hui about the specific sales numbers, a few million to tens of millions of yen was the most.

“A long way to go!” Xia Yu rubbed his forehead and stopped complaining.

He checked the farm named ‘Aoyama Agriculture and Livestock Co., Ltd.,’ a family farming enterprise ranked at 1,000, whose fluctuating quarterly revenue was around 1.2 billion yen. When calculated, the annual revenue was about 5 billion yen, equivalent to around 300 million RMB, which wasn’t considered big but merely a medium to small scale.

But further ahead of 1,000, those numbers made Xia Yu’s temple pop, and the further he looked, the more terrifying the revenue numbers became. The top 10 giants were all attached to names like ‘Far Moon’ and ‘Yuchuan,’ these consortiums, with annual revenues of hundreds of billions, and in US dollars!

“Not looking anymore!”

Xia Yu closed the system panel.

To drive ‘Xia’s Farm’ into the top 1,000, it needed a period of good operation, and to break into the top 10, that was much more long-term.

Besides, farm management tasks didn’t give Talent Points!

So, he decided to put the management tasks aside for now. Just as Xia Yu was scratching his chin, pondering how to urge a batch of outstanding students to sprint toward the special grade and quickly complete the “Students All Over the World” task, the system prompted:

“You have a fourth type of task available to accept.”

“Oh?”

He was greatly surprised. The fourth type, of all things, intrigued Xia Yu. Hearing it sounded very special!

He looked, then stood frozen with his mouth open.

“‘Name Collection—Food Manga King!’ (I)”

“Explanation: What? To become the most awesome manga star in the culinary world, and the most awesome chef in the manga world? That’s right. A truly well-rounded Chef God should develop in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and aesthetics!”

“Requirement: Create a manga work with popularity not lower than ‘Bleach’ (in this world), with the theme restricted to food-related, and the host can only publish serialized works under a pseudonym. If the real identity is revealed, the task fails.”

“Reward: 20 Talent Points, 1 Supreme Lucky Draw.”

Petrified for a long time.

20 Talent Points?

Xia Yu wiped his eyes and repeatedly checked several times before believing the reward.

He counted on his fingers: “I now have 34 Talent Points. If I obtain these 20, I’d instantly have 54 points, progress value 54/100… The [Heart of Cooking] golden frame isn’t far off!”

His eyes sparkled.

Today, when Mashiro Takumi, Takagi Shuutoku, and manga god Kubo Ryunosuke visited, did they unlock these tasks in the field with the system? By the same rule, what if a certain writer visited?

“Current titles of the host: ‘Flame Mage,’ ‘The Youngest Special Chef in the History of Japan’s Culinary World.'” The system dinged and popped out information.

In any case… Name collection, bring it on!

First and foremost, there’s nothing else to say; Xia Yu used the Fame Points collected from the Sapporo competition to shop around in the system store!