Chapter 46

After Wang Tian finished cooking, Dugu Yuntian had already tidied up and was sitting at the table waiting for the meal. He looked a bit like a middle-aged human in his thirties, and as the ruler of a country, he naturally exuded a certain aura. However, wearing Wang Tian's school uniform made him look a bit ridiculous.

Wang Tian prepared a dish of quality 6 sweet and sour ribs and other dishes. As soon as they were served, Dugu Yuntian couldn't wait to grab them with his hands and stuff them into his mouth without even looking. Crunch, crunch, he chewed the bones and swallowed them. "Delicious, delicious, I didn't expect you to learn life skills..." he mumbled with his mouth full.

"I made enough for three people, leave some for me," Wang Tian said anxiously. He had cooked for his sister as well. He didn't expect that in less than a minute, a plate of sweet and sour ribs would be completely devoured.

"I haven't eaten for a month, can't you show some consideration?" Dugu Yuntian gave Wang Tian a disdainful look and grabbed a plate of braised pork, pouring it directly into his mouth. Soon, his stomach bulged. After finishing the braised pork, he reached for another dish, the braised pork knuckle.

Wang Tian knew he was starving, so he had made extra, but he didn't expect it to be all eaten up.

"Be careful, you might burst!" Wang Tian saw his stomach swollen like a pregnant woman's and warned him. There were many historical cases of people dying from overeating. The poet Du Fu, for example, was once released from prison by an admiring county official who prepared a feast for him, but Du Fu ate so much that he died from overeating.

"I could eat a whole cow and not burst!" Dugu Yuntian said arrogantly. Indeed, as a shattered void martial god, his internal organs were as strong as diamond.

Seeing nothing left on the table, Dugu Yuntian picked up the last large bowl of soup and drank it all. He then wiped his lips and let out a satisfied burp.

"Not bad, not bad, better than the imperial chefs in our place. What level are your life skills?"

"Intermediate chef."

"You still have time to learn life skills while playing a game, no wonder you're only level 4." Dugu Yuntian looked down on him again.

"Do you think I'm a big-spending player like you? I learn life skills to make money." Wang Tian said, trying to convince him. Looking at the empty plates and bowls on the table, he felt very depressed. "This is enough for three people, and you've eaten it all. At least pay for the meal."

"Here." Dugu Yuntian tossed a piece of top-quality mystic crystal stone to Wang Tian. "More than enough to pay for this meal!"

"Ha, what use is this to me?" Wang Tian said, but still put the top-quality mystic crystal stone in his bag. He might not need it now, but it could be useful later. He had heard that one piece could buy a city. "Do you have anything else to pay for the meal?"

"You said you didn't want it, but you still put it in your bag. Hypocrite!" Dugu Yuntian gave him a dirty look.

"These are from another dimension, can't I keep them as collectibles? Anyway, your stuff can't even cover the cost of this meal!" Wang Tian said.

"You have a point..." Dugu Yuntian, upon arriving on Earth, found the elemental energy here so thin as to be negligible. The top-quality mystic crystal stone was just a decoration in this dimension. After hesitating, he produced several books and said, "Here, these are the top-tier cultivation techniques I bought. From the magic dimension, the cultivation dimension, the summoning dimension... even some that aren't suitable for me in the martial soul dimension. If I hadn't spent a lot of gold coins on them, I wouldn't have kept them in my bag. They're useless to me, so take them."

"Do you think I'm a garbage collector? I can't use any of these, what use are they to me!" Wang Tian exclaimed.

"Take them or leave them. I don't have any money anyway." Dugu Yuntian started to act stubborn.

"I give up!" Wang Tian put all the skill books in his bag. Even if he couldn't practice them, it was nice to look at them. After all, each one cost 100,000 gold coins.

Dugu Yuntian leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. After a full meal, he felt very comfortable.

"How do you turn on the TV here?" he asked, pointing to the TV in front of him.

Wang Tian picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

"Garbage, real garbage! On our planet, we just use our minds to turn on the TV, and look at this picture, it's like something from thousands of years ago."

"If you don't like it, level up and go back to the real world!" Wang Tian felt very annoyed by his comments about Earth.

"Go back to the real world? Not only am I far from max level, but even if I were max level, I wouldn't go back. I'm a martial god, almost invincible in this dimension, and a ruler. Why would I go back to such a good life?"

The TV was showing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," with intense fighting scenes. Although it wasn't as good as the TV on his planet, Dugu Yuntian watched it with great interest.

"Aren't you here to give me the identity card? Give it to me!" Wang Tian said.

"Not yet. You have to help me with something first," Dugu Yuntian said.

"What?" Wang Tian thought it would be a direct handover. He had played some online games before where tasks were linked. But Dugu Yuntian was a player, not a system NPC.

"Can't you check my information? Didn't you see my equipment? I only have a spatial ring left. Don't you find that strange?"

Dugu Yuntian reminded him, and Wang Tian remembered that this person indeed only had one piece of equipment, the divine artifact—Sumeru Ring. He said he had to cross the star tunnel to get to Earth, and it was impossible to cross without equipment.

"What happened to your equipment? Did it get dropped?" Wang Tian asked.

"How could a martial god like me have his equipment dropped?"

"Then what happened to your equipment?"

"It was taken by a group of NPC city management officers." Dugu Yuntian said irritably.

"Taken by city management officers!? What happened?" Wang Tian was speechless. The city management officers in China were really powerful, even taking a martial god's equipment.

"When I arrived in Jianghuai City, I was starving and had nowhere to stay. I was in a miserable state and came to a street, thinking that if the NPC vendors threw away any fruit, I could pick it up and eat it..." Dugu Yuntian recalled.

"Then the street got chaotic, and the vendors ran away as if they had seen a prehistoric beast. I thought, 'Is a powerful being coming, causing such pressure?' I wanted to see the strong beings on Earth. As the vendors ran, fruit scattered everywhere, and I ran over to pick it up and eat it. After a few bites, a group of NPC city management officers came. I checked their information, and they were like ants. Why were everyone so afraid of them? The city management officers saw the vendors run away and came to me, grabbing me without any explanation."

"You dared to ignore the city management officers!? You deserved it! They are the most mysterious force in China!" Wang Tian said seriously.

"The most mysterious force? But their strength is so weak!" Dugu Yuntian asked, puzzled.

"If their strength is so weak, how could they take your equipment?" Wang Tian gave him a look of disbelief.

"Could they be hiding their strength? Even a martial god like me couldn't see through them? If that's true, their strength can only be described as 'terrifying.'" Dugu Yuntian said seriously.

"Of course they hide their strength. There's a famous saying on Earth: 'Give me three thousand city management officers, and I will restore the great Chinese empire!' The Chinese empire is a vast and mysterious empire, several times larger than our planet, with countless powerful beings. If three thousand city management officers can restore it, imagine how terrifying their strength must be!" Wang Tian said.

"So powerful! I'm lucky I didn't resist. If I had, I wouldn't have waited for the system's punishment; they would have destroyed me with a single thought." Dugu Yuntian wiped the sweat from his forehead, relieved.

"What happened next?" Wang Tian asked, trying not to laugh.

"Then they took me to a sealed space where I felt very oppressed." Dugu Yuntian thought for a moment. "Given their terrifying strength, I think this space must be a small dimension they created... In this small dimension, they asked me for an ID card, residence permit, health certificate, family planning certificate... I don't have any of these high-level things. Later, they probably thought I wasn't a threat to them and decided to release me. They took off my clothes, pants, shoes, socks, necklace... everything, leaving me only a pair of underwear, and then threw me onto the street... If spatial equipment wasn't unremovable, I might have lost my ring..."

Hearing Dugu Yuntian's story, Wang Tian couldn't help but sigh: City management officers, you are truly invincible. To restore the great Chinese empire, do you really need three thousand? A small team would be enough. What kind of existence is a martial god? One who can destroy a city with a single move, and such a powerful being can't even fart in front of you. In comparison, who in the world can be your match?

But he said, "They left you a pair of underwear, so they showed some mercy. Many powerful beings from other dimensions who came to Earth were directly stripped of their divine souls and permanently destroyed."

"Ah!" Dugu Yuntian sighed deeply. "I originally wanted you to help me get my equipment back, but now it seems impossible. With your current strength, you're not even an ant to them. Without my equipment, how can I go back?"

"You can get your equipment back, it's not impossible..." Wang Tian said with a smile.

"They are so powerful, you have a way?" Dugu Yuntian stood up quickly, eager to ask.

"Of course. I've been on Earth for a long time and know some 'unspoken rules.' But the cost of getting your equipment back will be quite high!"

"I can imagine, I can imagine... As long as you help me get my equipment back, I'll give you whatever you want." Dugu Yuntian quickly promised, hoping to get his equipment back.

"Since you have a 10,000 gold coin reward for completing this task, we can split it 30-70." Wang Tian looked like he had achieved his goal.

"Fine, fine, 30 for me, 70 for you!" Dugu Yuntian quickly agreed, afraid Wang Tian would change his mind. Even if Wang Tian asked for everything, he would have agreed without hesitation. His entire set of equipment was from the martial soul dimension, and without it, he couldn't pass through the star tunnel, which was full of Sword Saints and Magic Emperors. Naked, he couldn't possibly defeat them.