If he had any doubts before that, it was erased completely by that welcoming smell. When they reached the border, the mercenary organization they had hired, parted ways with them upon the completion of their mission. The eighth stage qi refinement cultivator thanked them and even paid them a little extra for all that they had done for them, to get them here in one piece.
Who would have expected that the moment they parted ways with the mercenary organization, he'd get attacked a few minutes later? The high of reaching his dream place got ruthlessly smashed down. In that moment, when the bandit was about to cleave him in half with his axe, for a brief second he thought maybe he was wrong and being an alchemist would have been better for him. He was about to die along with his family because he couldn't let go of cooking.