The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 146 Lying down and gaining attention from the outside world (two chapters in one, 5K)

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Hell of Fire?

Xia An was full of question marks, staring at the new ability that had been recorded on the talent column on the panel.

He had noticed that [Inferno] was classified in the talent column rather than the skill column.

From Xia An’s understanding.

The two are easy to distinguish. The skill column is the active skill, and the talent column is the passive skill, with various stacked buffs.

Therefore, [Inferno] is a new talent of passive nature.

Xia An stared at the golden icon for two or three seconds.

Unexpectedly, the information frame that appeared only contained a huge question mark that was also glowing golden.

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Does this mean that I can test it myself and explore the passive effect of the talent?

Xia An rubbed his eyebrows, the excitement on his face had not yet dissipated.

He then clenched his fists tightly.

I've pushed the limit.

The [Ultimate Fire Level] icon, which was already coated with a faint golden light, was very eye-catching in the basic skills column.

But what was most beyond Xia An's expectations was that the derived extreme fire ability [Flame Prison] was actually also a pseudo-gold frame!
"It seems that the developed extreme abilities also depend on the chef's own condition."

Xia An couldn't help but think of the figure of the explosive chef Yakan who appeared from the air when he reached the limit of krypton. Across time and space, the opponent shot three beams of light at him...

This is almost the inheritance and unique skills of Yakan himself.

And it was obviously because of this that he naturally obtained the pseudo-golden ultimate ability [Inferno].

Everything seems to be well-prepared.

Build layer by layer.

"Luckily, I didn't get carried away and pushed myself to the limit, focusing on the basics of seasoning, plating, and flipping the pan."

Thinking of this, Xia An couldn't help but secretly exclaim that it was the right choice.

"Once we finish the third show, we'll be able to get another limit point."

"So, according to the current situation, I can only choose to spend money on knife skills or pastry?"

In terms of knife skills, Xia An has already mastered the Arhat Crystal Slash, and is also equipped with Xiang En's [Po Jun Knife], which allows him to stably perform the Seven-Star Po Jun Swift Cutting Technique with a small level of proficiency.

Then, there is Zhou's Food Carving Technique, which was recently upgraded to the Great Perfection Realm and cannot be upgraded any further.

On the pastry.

However, there is only the White Snake Chain Transformation which is also at the Great Accomplishment Realm.

This way.

Comparing the knife skills, Xia An found that his accumulation or foundation in the field of pastry making was gradually being left behind by his knife skills.

"Arhat Crystal Slash, plus Zhou's Food Carving Technique."

"If I can learn the 'Seven Stars Breaking Army Quick Cutting Technique' from an ancient recipe and record it on the panel."

"This second limit point must be achieved in the field of knife skills, so as to condense the ultimate knife skills!"

I can only put [Inferno] aside for now. The specific effect of this new pseudo-gold talent still needs to be tested through actual cooking.

In fact, the third episode of "The Chrysanthemum Goes Down the Hall Competition" is coming soon.

Tonight!

That's right, it's past midnight, it's four or five in the morning on Saturday. Xia An has already received the itinerary schedule sent by Lu Jiaxin on WeChat. He will take a nap and catch a flight to Shu after noon.

Before finishing the bath.

Xia An sorted out his harvest one last time.

The first wave of rewards is the completion of the stall setting up target at Shenzhen Station.

A total of 4 cooking experience points and 2 free attribute points were obtained.

Second wave of rewards.

It is a reward from the recipe illustration on "Ganges Fried Noodles".

Gained 3 free attribute points again.

Of course, the most important reward of this wave is that he has upgraded [City Fireworks·Chef's Heart] (white) to [City Fireworks·Food Ethics] (white) on the reward list of the 80% recipe stage!

The third wave of rewards.

Is to complete the remaining two Guangdong Conqueror mode goals.

Get 1 attribute point, 1 crucial limit point.

Not only did he successfully raise the level of perfection to the extreme level, but he also successfully unearthed the pseudo-gold-framed passive talent [Inferno].

Xia An did the math.

After three waves of rewards, there is no need to look closely at the cooking experience gains.

I gained 6 free attribute points at once!
Including the 2 that I had accumulated but didn’t use up.

on the panel.

The number of free attribute points available actually shows [8]!
"It's getting easier and easier to gain attribute points now."

Xia An sighed, as his cooking skills were officially promoted to the lower special grade in the panel rating.

The method of upgrading by paying for attribute points seems to be getting cheaper and cheaper to him. In contrast, limit points are becoming a new high-volume channel for paying for upgrades.

However, in Xia An's opinion.

This concludes the three-city night market stall parade in Guangdong.

In fact, there is a hidden "fourth wave" reward.

That is, after he was promoted to the special grade, he made the competition goal of "Chrysanthemum Downstairs Competition" invalid, triggering the new goal of the last dance on this competition stage...

After taking a bath and drying his hair with a hair dryer, Xia An lay on the bed in the hotel suite.

Looking at the panel, the latest text information replaced all the event goals.

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth:

"Once I wake up and fly to Shu, it will be my last dance."

"Can you bring this big stage to a perfect end with a dish that contains light and food meaning? Tsk tsk, I'll give you one limit point as a reward, and I must get it perfectly!"

tick.

Turn off the lights and Xia An closes his eyes.

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When Xia An fell asleep.

Many people, however, stayed awake all night because of his activities at the night market stall in Shenzhen.

Natalia, a YouTuber with millions of followers, worked overtime to edit videos after returning to the hotel with her family.

When Natalia finished post-production on the video and successfully posted it on YouTube, she stood up and stretched, and saw that the heavy blackout curtains in the room could not block out the bright sunlight.

When I opened the curtains, the sun outside was climbing towards the top of my head. I estimated that it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

"Have you made it this far?"

Natalia was still not sleepy at all. In fact, excitement could be seen on her face, and the scene at the night market stall was reflected in her eyes.

And in the room next to Natalia.

Compared to the big internet celebrities, Samira, who seems to be a transparent little Karami YouTuber, also edited and post-produced the materials very seriously and posted them on her personal YouTube account.

Samira posted it and refreshed the webpage.

Ding!
A new video just released a few minutes ago popped up on Natalia's YouTube account, which she had subscribed to.

"It's around ten o'clock in the morning in Shenzhou, and ten o'clock in the evening in North America."

Samira was mumbling.

I clicked on this new video and refreshed it a few times. As expected, the video data exploded visibly during these refreshes.

Number of views, number of replies and comments.

Over the next half hour, it expanded at a rate that Samira could not understand.

"Recently on YouTube, the videos related to China's travel experiences are really the traffic code!" Samira clicked on the comment section and then raised her eyebrows.

More spectators means more arguments.

What's more, the video is full of content that is enough to shatter the three views of foreign diners.

[English Username: Natalia. Weren't you still in Guangzhou yesterday? Why did you suddenly move to another city, Shenzhen, today?]

[English Username: Omg, what is this night market activity like? I suspect it is a concert, it feels like tens of thousands of people are crowded on one street!]

[English Username: WTF…What the hell is going on?! Why is that frying pan glowing!]

[English Username: I have studied it frame by frame many times, but I still can't figure out what technology this night market stall uses... I am confused and shocked now! Who can tell me the truth? ]

[Traditional Chinese Username: It's fluorescent powder! Boss Xia added a lot of fluorescent powder to the fried noodles! ]

[Japanese user replied to the previous post: What is 'fluorescent powder'? It is the legendary glowing food in the Chinese food world! ]

[Poster replied: I know, I am still a fan of Boss Xia, I was just joking.]

[English Username: Oh my god, Natalia, how much money did you get paid to shoot such a fake and unreal travel video! ]

[Reply to this comment: I saw that the poster's IP address was from India, so I was not surprised, did not get tangled, and left with satisfaction. ]

[Ah, yes, yes, yes, countless people at the night market stalls were paid extras who came specifically to cooperate with the performance.]

[Do you mean that the fact that the night market is still so lively and noisy at midnight is fake, or that the food is glowing is unreal? ]

Samira was having a headache reading the comments in the video and was in a state of confusion.

At this time, her video passed the review and was released.

The benefits of being a small transparent person have become apparent. The subscribed fans who flock to watch her videos have doubts from Western audiences, but they will not criticize or accuse her of cheating. They just have reasonable suspicions. However, Chinese audiences account for the majority of Samira's fan base, and the video comment area is full of spontaneous popularization of "luminous dishes".

Of course, Xia An, the contemporary luminous reproducer, inevitably became a name mentioned very frequently in the spontaneous popular science literacy campaigns among these Chinese user groups.

Ever since.

Right in Xia An's sleep.

He doesn't have to do anything.

It has already attracted a large number of curious people on YouTube. There is no doubt that if his cooking skills are good enough, a large number of these external network viewers will become his fans.

……

Neon, Tokyo.

Totsuki Academy.

The cooking room on weekend mornings.

Alice called Miyoko and Erina together and held a tea party with her fellow students.

"Have you guys watched the super popular video on YouTube?" Alice said excitedly when she saw the two of them, "Master is going to be very popular on the Internet!"

Erina nodded: "On the way here just now, Hisako reminded me to read it."

Miyoko was relieved and happy and said:
"Master has real skills. If he is so popular in the Chinese food industry, he can also be popular internationally!"

Alice tried to call WeChat, but after several attempts, no one answered. She could only mutter and give up:

"It seems that Master is catching up on his sleep!"

Nakiri Erina looked at Alice and said calmly:

"Don't forget, after waking up, Master will take a flight to Shu to participate in the third episode of the program tonight."

"So don't disturb Master, let him have a good rest."

Alice was startled and stuck out her tongue.

"Yeah, I forgot all that!"

"Hey, what's the theme of tonight's show?"

Hojo Miyoko replied:

"The official program team has announced it, it's Heroes of China!"

Alice was confused:? ?

Nakiri Erina glanced at her and said, "I think it means that famous chefs should use dishes to praise heroes."

Pause.

"By the way, you're facing Mimasaka Subaru in the first round of the knockout round of the qualifiers. If you don't play seriously, there's a high chance that you'll be eliminated by this guy."

Hearing this, Alice's expression turned serious.

"I certainly won't underestimate a guy who can score 91 points in the qualifiers!"

"As for this "Complete Tracker", I have collected some information about him."

"Hehehe, you are meticulous, take attention to detail as your motto, and have superb tracking skills?"

"Then I'll make a 'bento' dish that's like a full molecular cuisine feast. Can Subaru Misaki perfectly replicate it and make it exactly the same as mine?"

Erina and Miyoko looked at each other and fell into thought.

They had already heard about the deeds of the Spice Queen Mira from their master Xia An.

It is also known that Mira's trump card is actually her [Super Vision] talent, which allows her to copy her opponent's recipes and dishes exactly.

But this Mimasaka Subaru.

At Totsuki School.

It seems to mean a smaller version of Mira?
Perfectly copy and make the same dish as your opponent? Or maybe add your own interpretation to make it even better than the original?
"At a low-star cooking level, it's not difficult to copy dishes from students." Erina said slowly after a pause, "But when the dishes and cooking levels are higher, if he doesn't have a talent like 'super vision', how can he cross the cuisine, master cooking techniques instantly, and copy them perfectly?"

Alice clapped her hands and said with a smile:
"Right, right?"

"That's what I think. Hehe, Master has long said that my strongest weapon and trump card during my student stage is my skills and understanding in the field of molecular cuisine!"

talking.

Alice even winked at the two of them playfully.

"Subaru Misaki is also known as the perfect tracker, right?"

"In fact, I have already mobilized bodyguards these days to check for suspicious persons near the cooking room."

She raised her hand and pointed at the thick curtains drawn on the windows around her:

"Look, even if he is at a high point far away and uses a telescope in a shabby way, there is no chance of spying on him!"

Hojo Miyoko's eyebrows twitched, and deep down, she was already feeling sympathy and pity for Misaku Subaru.

Deploy bodyguards within the academy.

It also has its own private cooking room.

Subaru Misaku's methods were fine for bullying some Totsuki students, but it was bad luck for Subaru Misaku to run into the eldest daughter of the Nakiri family. No matter how meticulous he was, or how skilled he was in tracking and spying, it was difficult for him to penetrate such a wall of isolation.

Just when three fellow students were having a tea party.

Subaru Misaku found Eiyama Ezuya, the ninth member of this year's Top Ten.

"What should I do? I can't track Alice Nakiri, let alone copy and improve her dishes. Now I don't even know what dishes she prepared!"

Eizan Ezuya heard this and spread his hands:
"You already said that your opponent is Nakiri Alice. Her last name is Nakiri, do you understand?"

The ninth-ranked "alchemist" Eishan Ezuya might have some means and resources, but he would be fed up with living if he were to target the young lady named Nakiri in school.

I watched as Subaru Misaki left his office at the Ten Elite Council with a gloomy face.

Eishan Ezuya's gaze turned back to the tablet computer on the desk, where a popular YouTube video had just finished playing.

"Glowing cuisine? In the world of Chinese cuisine...there actually exists a man who can recreate such a culinary miracle!" Ruishan's face was filled with shock, but at the same time, his mind was busy thinking about how to get in touch with this strange man from China and learn a skill from him. If he returns after learning, wouldn't he be able to beat all the other top ten and compete for the top three spots?
Of course, Ruishan is not a member of the Pole Star Dormitory circle.

He was temporarily unaware of the information that the famous chef had already accepted the Nakiri sisters and Hojo Miyoko as his disciples.

……

About two o'clock in the afternoon.

On the flight to Jinguan City in Shu.

The stewardess was very enthusiastic and handed a blanket to Xia An who was resting with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, the stewardess whispered expectantly: "Boss Xia, can we take a picture? I want to take a picture together!"

Seeing Xia An nodding with a smile, the flight attendant immediately squatted down, raised her phone, made a scissors gesture, and successfully took a photo with Xia An, who was smiling in the seat.

"Thank you." The stewardess blushed and waved her fist at Xia An, "I know you will be participating in the third show tonight, come on!"

"I hope that Boss Xia can continue to defend the title with full marks this time!"

The flight attendant took the phone and left as if it were a treasure.

Xia An was just about to continue resting.

Meng Yulu, who was standing beside him, said with a strange look on her face, "Uh, Mr. Fan just sent me a message saying that he and Mr. Yang flew to Jinguan City this morning."

Xia An: ? ?

These two old naughty boys are really playing this.

……

Jinguan City, a side hall in the Juxialou Garden.

Liu Heng, the head of the Liu family, the chef of Juxialou, and the president of the Shu branch of the Shenzhou Gourmet Association.

In this private setting, we received Mr. Fan and Mr. Yang who came from afar.

"Why are you two here?" Liu Heng and they were obviously old acquaintances, and there were no other young people around, so he spoke in a sweet tone like an old friend, "And it was so sudden that you only notified me when you arrived!"

Mr. Fan said with a smile, "Hengzi, Lao Yang and I are here to be special guests for the show "Chrysanthemum Downstairs Contest" that I personally organized for you."

Mr. Yang laughed:

"Are you surprised or surprised?"

Liu Heng was speechless at first.

However, Liu Heng was an experienced man and he reacted instantly.

And I thought of the rumor on the Internet today that these two people had disregarded their moral principles and openly used their privileges to get into someone else's food cart at the Shenzhen Night Market last night. They stayed there the entire night and left in disappointment only after Mr. Xia, the other boss, closed his stall.

"Are you two here for Boss Xia?" Liu Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Wow, you react pretty quickly."

"What else do you think? With your old face, Hengzi, you can't invite us!"

Liu Heng ignored his old friend's insults, and secretly gave a thumbs up to himself for his wise decision to personally come forward and lure Boss Xia Anxia to participate in the event.

Check it out.

The new show is extremely popular.

In this third episode, two veteran chefs came uninvited and volunteered to be the surprise guests.

Liu Heng knew very well who he had benefited from and whose popularity he had taken advantage of.

"You two are most welcome." Liu Heng laughed.

"I'll call Gao Shengqi to arrange tonight's schedule."

"Okay, put that face of yours aside for a moment."

"Do you think we would be so embarrassed to be a guest on any show without Boss Xia?"

"Oh, that's right, yes, yes."

Liu Heng grinned as he called Gao Shengqi.

Not long after, Gao Shengqi came to this side hall from the studio, met the two big guys, and heard that they would participate in the third episode of tonight's program as parachuted guests. He was so shocked that his mouth opened wide for a long time.

(End of this chapter)