Nanxu's Layered Tactics

Upon hearing Xiaoyao Suifeng's sigh, the players behind him immediately erupted in resentment.

They were already suffering from the overwhelming aroma, and this bastard Xiaoyao Suifeng not only took up space and wouldn't let them buy anything, but he was also complaining about it!

"Are you going to buy it or not? If not, get out of the way, we want to buy it too!" one player complained in the player channel.

"Oh, sorry, sorry." Xiaoyao Suifeng finally came to his senses. "Brother Nanxu, for the last few skewers, I want the meat ones to be sweet and sour, and the vegetarian ones to be spicy!"

Nan Xu silently noted down Xiaoyao Suifeng's choice and quickly prepared the skewers.

[Ding! Fire skill proficiency +131 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Seasoning proficiency +174 (Critical Hit!)]

This high-intensity cooking method can also efficiently hone one's skills in controlling the heat and seasoning.

In addition, he could also harvest experience points from the players, making this small beginner village a leveling paradise for him.

With the help of the Fire Refining Palm technique, Nan Xu quickly completed all the players' orders.

In reality, the players didn't spend much, not because they didn't want to, but because they simply didn't have the money.

"Damn it, there's not enough to eat at all..."

A player named "Red Dust Rolling" looked regretful. He had bought a brand new iron axe to improve his wood-chopping efficiency.

This meant that he didn't even have enough money left to buy three different flavored skewers of grilled meat.

He should have known better than to buy that iron axe. The axe wouldn't have run away if it was just sitting there, but Nanxu is leaving tomorrow!

Nan Xu had no idea about the inner thoughts of Hong Chen Gun Gun. He figured that there was nothing left to squeeze out of the players and villagers, so he decisively closed up shop.

"Sorry, we're closed." He said to the villagers who were starting to line up a second time to order another serving.

The villagers were greatly disappointed and left with sighs.

On the other side, the head of Tianfu's eyes lit up. He waited a while longer, until Nan Xu had packed everything up, before going to greet him.

"Master Nanxu, I have accumulated enough experience and would like to learn from you about knife skills!"

As he spoke, he took out a few mushrooms covered in dew: "A small gift, please don't refuse it."

Although Nan Xu didn't ask for payment, that doesn't mean he doesn't accept gifts!

It couldn't be more cost-effective to build a good relationship with Nanxu using just a few ingredients!

Nan Xu glanced at the panel and nodded to himself.

"It's an eighth-grade ingredient, with a quality score of just over eighty. You have a pretty good eye."

Although players can see the item's panel, the amount of information they can see depends on their own eyesight and knowledge.

If a novice player is faced with high-level ingredients, they may only be able to identify the name, or even not be able to identify the name at all.

"That's nice, you've put in a lot of effort." Nan Xu accepted it without hesitation.

He really needs to replenish more low-grade, high-quality ingredients, otherwise he'll run out of low-grade ingredients after setting up his stall a few more times.

And Tianfu's leader, as he wished, heard the notification tone again:

[Ding! "Nanxu" has decided to teach you "Basic Swordsmanship Explained". Do you wish to spend 1500 experience points to learn?]

"Yes!" The leader of Tianfu did not hesitate for a moment. In the next instant, he felt a certain knowledge filling his brain.

[Ding! Your knife skills proficiency has increased by 1785, and your knife skills level has been raised to LV4!]

[Ding! Your knife skills will gain 75% more proficiency before reaching LV10!]

"This is simply a divine skill!" The leader of Tianfu was excited. This buff can greatly increase the growth speed during the novice period, and its value to new players is immeasurable.

Seeing Tianfu's leader's actions, the other players also got excited and gathered around Nanxu.

"Nanxu, I want to learn this too!"

"Hmm..." Nan Xu pretended to ponder for a while before speaking, "It's not impossible, but then it wouldn't be free."

"If you want it, you'll have to trade it for ingredients."

Hearing this, the players' enthusiasm was completely ignited. They were not afraid of exchanging ingredients, but they were afraid of not having a way to do so.

"No problem! I've gathered these ingredients, take a look..."

Players showed off their inventory, but after looking around, Nanxu shook his head regretfully.

These players have really poor eyesight; they can't tell the quality score of most ingredients at all, and they know nothing about storing ingredients.

This resulted in their backpacks containing very few ingredients that would satisfy Nanxu.

"These, these, and these are either not fresh or infested with insects. I won't accept these kinds of ingredients."

"These items are acceptable, although their quality has declined slightly due to improper harvesting, they are still sufficient."

Nanxu picked and chose, and finally accepted some barely usable ingredients.

To the players' surprise, after Nanxu's guidance, all the question marks on the ingredient panels in their backpacks disappeared and were replaced by clear text!

"This... Nanxu can also identify ingredients?"

"No wonder so many ingredients had question marks on their panels; turns out you can have them appraised by NPCs!"

Immediately, the players looked at Nanxu with even greater fervor.

"So, have you decided what kind of cooking skill you want to exchange for?" Nan Xu asked, feigning ignorance.

In fact, other NPCs can also identify ingredients, but most of them charge a fee, and their skill level is not as high as Nanxu's.

He chose not to charge a fee in order to cultivate the habit of players coming to him for appraisal of rare ingredients, since he didn't need the money anyway.

But as the saying goes, what's free is often the most expensive.

With his high standing among players, if a player offers him a ingredient he likes, he can easily acquire it by paying a small price.

Moreover, when players see that the ingredients they have painstakingly collected have been identified as having multiple bumps and damages, thus reducing their value, they will definitely experience strong negative emotions. This is the concept of "loss aversion" in economics.

Fortunately, he had a culinary skill in his repertoire that could perfectly solve this problem.

"Ninth-grade culinary skill 'Unique Gathering Technique'... Huh, so cheap, only one ninth-grade ingredient?" Xiaoyao Suifeng showed a surprised expression.

These words immediately stirred up a frenzy among the players.

"Where? Where? Let me see!"

"Wow, that's really cheap!"

"It's just that learning it requires a lot of experience points..."

Thinking of this, some players even forgot to study the basic knife skills and quickly chose to learn this cooking skill.

The "ding-ding-ding" sound was incessant, and in the blink of an eye, Nan Xu gained a considerable amount of experience points.

Seeing this, Nanxu revealed a knowing smile.

This skill, though described as a culinary technique, is more like a set of tips for gathering ingredients that he has summarized from his own experience, which can greatly reduce damage to the ingredients.

Similar to the basic knife skills tutorial, the experience requirement for this skill has also been significantly increased.

In this way, players not only have to pay him a lot of experience to learn this cooking skill, but the higher quality ingredients they collect will also eventually come back to him, which can be described as a win-win situation—meaning he wins twice.

Nanxu stood still, waiting for the players to learn the skills.

In addition to their unique gathering techniques, one or two experienced players also learned the basic knife skills in detail.

Nan Xu was not surprised by this. In order to gain more experience, he specially set the price of this knowledge at only one serving of eighth-grade ingredients.

However, it was quite unexpected that another skill was being learned by someone else.

[Ding! The food seeker "Xiaoyao Suifeng" has delivered 300 experience points and 5 Grade 9 ingredients, and learned your skill "Minor Leap Technique"!]

On the first day of the game, someone actually spent the high price of five grade nine ingredients to buy a light-foot skill that was neither a cooking skill nor seemed to help with cooking.

But after seeing the buyer's name as Xiaoyao Suifeng, Nanxu felt relieved.

That's not surprising, that's not surprising at all.

Xiaoyao Suifeng is the kind of guy who chose not to enter the starting village on the first day of the closed beta just to see the scenery, so buying a light-foot skill is perfectly normal for him.

I guess this time, he's probably planning to use his lightness skill to explore the map again. If he happens to find some rare ingredients, it would be a good thing for Nanxu.

After the players had all purchased their skills, Nanxu left the square and prepared to stay overnight at a villager's house.

However, Xiaoyao Suifeng's thoughts at this moment were not at all what Nanxu had imagined.

"With this light-foot technique, I can go to the next village with Boss Nanxu!"

Xiaoyao Suifeng put all his experience points into his lightness skill, feeling extremely excited.

His thinking was very clear: cling to Nanxu's powerful backing!

As for whether Nanxu will only stay in this beginner village for one day?

Just kidding, what kind of obstacle is this? He can just switch to a different starting village too.

This is what they mean by, "If the mountain won't come to me, I'll go to see the mountain myself!"