Do you want to cultivate together from the start? Interesting!

"Even with my hand around your neck, you're going to swallow that last dragon fruit? Haqisu, you scoundrel!"

Chu Lanxi shook his head helplessly as he looked at Su Yuan, who seemed ready to face death.

"Forget it. It was just a small fruit after dinner anyway. Eat it if you want."

With that, Chu Lanxi released Su Yuan and went to the refrigerator to forage for food.

Su Yuan wiped his mouth, feeling a little embarrassed.

"You might not believe me, but I was actually conducting an experiment crucial to the future of the Cultivation World! Your takeout made an indelible contribution!"

"But don't worry, your takeout won't have died in vain. I'll compensate you in a couple of days."

Without turning his head, Chu Lanxi merely snorted, "So, my takeout died a rather meaningful death."

Seeing that Chu Lanxi wasn't going to press the issue further, Su Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and focused his attention on the system panel before him. His once dead heart reignited!

Good heavens, can stealing a single takeout meal be considered snatching someone's fortune? Haqi System, you rascal!

But something feels off here. Why is the system so casual about defining a Demon Lord?

Is it a bug?

Su Yuan pondered, unable to come up with a satisfactory explanation. He couldn't help but peek at Chu Lanxi, who was doing stretching exercises in the living room after finishing his milk, and asked, "Lanzi, what's your definition of fortune?"

"Fortune..."

Chu Lanxi pondered for a moment and replied, "The definition of fortune naturally varies among cultivators depending on the era. In our current era, Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Fruits are mass-produced, and even ordinary people can occasionally afford to eat them."

"Take that dragon fruit you ate earlier, for example. In the Ancient Cultivation World, it would have been at least a Low-grade Spiritual Fruit. In that ignorant and unproductive era, it would have been considered a significant fortune."

"If it were a more barren time, filled with widespread famine, even a single meal or a piece of meat would be enough to drive countless people to desperation."

After hearing this, Su Yuan understood.

Could it be that the system actually has a bug?

Did it mistake the era I'm in for the ancient times, an era now defined as Mafia Cultivation, where resources were scarce?

If that's the case, then snatching a box of Low-grade Spiritual Fruit could indeed be considered snatching someone's fortune.

Then, I could completely replicate the act of stealing Chu Lanxi's takeout again and max out my quest progress.

It's just...

Chu Lanxi mostly eats at the school cafeteria. Ordering takeout late at night is a rare occurrence. If I'm relying on Chu Lanxi to reach ten 'snatch fortune' quests, it might take until the end of the month.

No! The college entrance exam is in over two hundred days. If it takes me a month to complete the first system quest, how will I pass the exam?

Besides, every time Chu Lanxi orders takeout and I steal it, won't I get beaten to a pulp?

Su Yuan felt that he shouldn't keep exploiting the same sheep.

I need to expand the sheep pen.

After pondering for a while, Su Yuan suddenly had an idea. He immediately contacted the restaurant manager from the part-time job group and informed him that he had something to do tomorrow, thus resigning from his temporary waiter position.

Then, Su Yuan opened the Kangaroo Crowdsourcing APP on his phone. After studying the delivery driver terms, he smiled in satisfaction.

As I remembered, if food is accidentally spilled, lost, or delivered to the wrong address during delivery, the customer only needs to pay half the price of the meal, and the delivery fee will still be earned.

As long as I utilize this rule reasonably, I can easily complete the system tasks.

Spilling nine meals a day is a bit excessive and might lead to a platform warning, but spilling nine meals in three days seems perfectly reasonable, doesn't it?

After all, cultivators deliver food very quickly. Two to three hundred orders a day is a breeze. A 1% loss rate is reasonable! Very reasonable!

Coincidentally, because of the Spiritual Energy Revival Anniversary, we have three days off. I can deliver food for three consecutive days, and also take care of my own meals for those three days.

"I'm a genius! Who else can be the Demon Lord of the new era but me! Jie Jie Jie!"

Thinking about the system rewards he would soon receive, Su Yuan's mouth curled up uncontrollably, and he felt like humming.

In the living room, Chu Lanxi looked at Su Yuan's contorted expression and tilted his head strangely.

The next morning, Su Yuan didn't even eat breakfast. He went downstairs, scanned a Shared Flying Sword, and opened Kangaroo Crowdsourcing to start accepting orders.

He had a monthly pass for the Shared Flying Sword, valid for thirty days of free flight, with each flight lasting up to sixty minutes.

As long as he locked and unlocked the flying sword every sixty minutes, the Shared Flying Sword wouldn't charge him.

This was common knowledge for a poor high school student.

It was quite resourceful.

Thanks to this method, Su Yuan had been practicing his swordplay on a Shared Flying Sword for the past few days and had now become an elite delivery driver, faster than over seventy percent of security guards.

Five minutes later, just as dawn was breaking, Su Yuan received his first order.

It was a breakfast order, containing soy milk and two Spirit Meat Buns in the package. They were steaming hot and looked very appetizing.

Not long after leaving the breakfast shop, Su Yuan stared at the takeout in his hands, patted his rumbling stomach, and sneered:

"Want to see your master? Sorry, this is the day you die!"

[Demon Lord Mission: Seize Opportunities (In Progress)]

[Mission Progress: 2/10]

However, Su Yuan was very professional. After quickly finishing his delivery, he confirmed the mission progress had increased. He immediately contacted the customer to request a refund, reordered, and prioritized delivery for them, ensuring no delays.

When selecting 'damaged' deliveries later, he would do his best to pick those that could be prepared immediately, such as pre-made meals, fruits, or pre-cooked supermarket foods.

Lunch rush.

"Want to enter your master's belly? Sorry, this is the day you die!"

Dinner rush.

"Who should be my dinner tonight? It's so hard to choose. Whichever one the little rooster picks, I'll pick. It's you!"

Twelve midnight, Su Yuan dragged his exhausted body home.

He had been working since early morning, delivering over two hundred and seventy orders. To earn more money, he had expanded his delivery range to twenty kilometers. Even riding a flying sword to deliver food was exhausting by now!

Not to mention being chased and intercepted by security guards when entering certain high-end residential areas or office buildings – that was definitely a physically demanding task, like a race against death!

However, his earnings were also considerable.

The average delivery fee per order was about three yuan. Including customer tips, he earned nearly twelve hundred yuan in a day.

Even after deducting the fees for three damaged orders, he still made a net profit of eleven hundred!

In addition, the mission progress for seizing opportunities was already nearing completion. Two more days and he would receive the mission rewards!

Thinking of this, Su Yuan felt all his fatigue vanish. He could fight for another hundred deliveries!

What do you call the Innate Ox-Horse Saint Body! (Tactical lean-back)!

Chu Lanxi was watching TV on the sofa. Seeing Su Yuan return, he greeted him:

"Why are you working all day today? Don't you usually spend half the day working and half the day cultivating on holidays?"

Su Yuan casually replied:

"Just earning some extra money while I have the time off."

His immediate priority was to get the system rewards and test the effects of the so-called Pure Devil Heart. Everything else could wait.

Just as Su Yuan was about to go to his room to rest, a sound of something breaking through the air came from outside the window.

Su Yuan skillfully stepped forward and opened the window. He saw an obviously inexperienced delivery driver rushing over in a panic. After delivering the food, he was immediately apprehended by Uncle Wang, the security guard, before he could even say "Enjoy your meal."

"Uncle Wang, busy?"

Su Yuan greeted the diligent security guard.

Old Wang nodded at Su Yuan, then turned and left, carrying the delivery driver by the scruff of his neck. As he walked away, he rubbed his sore back and muttered:

"There are more and more of these unruly delivery drivers, I can't get any peace all night."

Su Yuan could only smile in response.

For communities or companies that didn't allow delivery drivers inside, there were usually delivery lockers at the entrance. In most cases, the delivery could be left in the locker and the driver could leave.

But some customers were too lazy to come downstairs, so they would leave a note asking the delivery driver to deliver to their door, promising a tip if it was delivered safely. If the driver got caught, it had nothing to do with the customer.

Otherwise, Su Yuan wouldn't have received so many customer tips.

Of course, getting caught wasn't a big deal. It usually just meant a scolding and a delay in delivering other orders.

It was a case of one willing to hit and one willing to be hit.

Besides, if delivery drivers weren't constantly coming over like the Calabash Brothers rescuing their grandpa, how could the importance of security guards be highlighted?

Just as Su Yuan was contemplating the symbiotic relationship between delivery drivers and security guards, a "ding-dong" sound suddenly rang in his ears, followed by the familiar mechanical voice of the system.

[You have come face-to-face with a Devilish Dao senior who once suppressed a region!]

Su Yuan: "???"

[That Devilish Dao senior suppressed a Demonic Domain for thirteen years, blocking the path of countless Righteous Path Prodigies who charged forward. His reputation was immense! Those talented cultivators adorned in yellow robes would tremble before him; this is a sign of Demonic Rise, Dao Decline!]

Su Yuan was silent for a long time, finally letting out a slow "Holy shit."

A Devilish Dao senior, my ass. Could the system be referring to Uncle Wang, the security guard? Blocking delivery drivers from entering could be considered blocking the path of Righteous Path Prodigies?

[But heroes eventually grow old. That Devilish Dao senior gradually felt his strength waning. He inadvertently expressed his desire to take on a disciple to you!]

[Demon Lord Mission has been triggered]

[Mission: Recognize Devil as Master (In Progress)]

[Your devil heart is hidden, and your appearance is pure and kind. You shall become a disciple of a Devilish Sect senior, showing outward respect while harboring malicious intent, extracting all their life's knowledge. Learn the Devilish Sect senior's methods of suppressing the Righteous Path!]

[Mission Progress: 10%]

[Mission Reward: Randomly upgrade one of your martial arts or Daoist techniques to the perfected stage]

Who's harboring malicious intent! Your whole family is harboring malicious intent!

Su Yuan complained madly to the system in his heart, but upon seeing the mission reward, his heart couldn't help but pound.

Compared to the 'Pure Devil Heart', a novice quest reward whose specific effects are unknown, the reward for this sudden quest is clear and easy to understand!

Skill upgrade!

It smells so good you can see it!

And judging by the 10% quest progress, the system having him learn the 'Path Blocking Technique' from Uncle Wang the security guard probably means that move he's so good at, the one he always uses to fork food delivery drivers.

He often sees Uncle Wang use this move, which is why he has a certain amount of quest progress.

As for the requirements for this apprenticeship quest...

Based on his understanding of the system, he probably doesn't need to formally become a disciple. Just learning the craft from Uncle Wang the security guard should suffice.

How can he get Uncle Wang the security guard to teach him everything he knows?

Well, that would obviously be by becoming a security guard at the property management's security department!

Thinking this, Su Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

He never imagined that at his young age, he would already be a powerhouse cultivating both food delivery and security guard skills!