The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 67 White Snake Chain Transformation (First Update)
"Mr. Xia An, this is your international express."

It was the morning of the fifth day after my conversation with Nakiri Senzaemon.

After Xia An received the call, he went to the gate of the yard, took a cardboard box from the courier, opened it on the spot, and then took out an exquisite box that looked like a souvenir.

When I opened the box again, I saw a book lying quietly inside with yellowed pages and a cover. It was obvious that it was an ancient thread-bound book that was very old.

Holding it in his hands, Xia An suppressed his excitement and read it carefully from beginning to end.

Traditional Chinese characters, coupled with illustrations and annotations, are not difficult to understand.

But what the hell is this human figure picture?

The little man sat cross-legged and used vermilion ink to outline a trajectory that looked like the flow of energy.

Xia An: “!!”

You are really practicing magical skills here, right?

So, don’t blame these unique skills for being lost.

For example, if the real book in Xia An's hand were to be circulated, everyone would probably just watch it for fun, thinking it was some street vendor stuff, and then everyone would ask the stall owner if he really dared to sell it, and whether he marked these scarlet luck lines on a whim.

"What happened? It's not recorded on the panel?"

Xia An's mind turned, and he returned to the lobby on the first floor with the ancient book in his hands, and lay down next to his daughter who was laughing and watching cartoons.

I suppressed my restless emotions and read it from beginning to end three times again.

at last!

I heard a ding sound in my ear.

[Special Skill: White Snake Chain (100%)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Unable to learn! ]

[Learning condition ① has been assessed: You need to practice any rare purple skill to the 'great success' level to obtain enough energy of Qi]

[Learning condition ②: You need to master the basic pastry skills]

Xia An was not surprised at all to see the words "not allowed to learn".

Golden, a classic.

That's how it should be.

If we use the golden recipe "Phoenix Crystal" and deduce it to 100% completeness, I am afraid that the real learning threshold conditions will be evaluated.

"If it's condition ①, my [Arhat Crystal Slash] has already achieved a small success, so I can only rely on it."

Xia An glanced at the experience bar of [Arhat Crystal Slash].

[Arhat Crystal Slash (0/ exp) → Arhat Crystal Slash (Great Mastery)]

Need 50,000 cooking experience points?
He looked at the available cooking experience points he had accumulated from selling flame dumplings for three consecutive days:
23000 points.

“Halfway saved?”

Xia An is very active in thinking.

During these three days, we completed our business goals in a routine and ordinary manner, without triggering the super double reward of 10 times the loss.

If it is triggered once, the panel will give back a huge amount of experience of 20,000, and he will quickly collect the 50,000 experience!
"As for learning condition ②, to acquire perfect basic pastry skills, you need 100,000 experience points alone, which is not cost-effective."

Xia An was thinking about triggering a special panel target, preferably one that directly rewards attribute points.

With precious attribute points and krypton gold upgrades, wouldn’t it only take a few minutes to master the basic pastry making skills?

That's it.

Don’t worry about condition ② for now.

Things have their priorities, so start with the conditions that are easy to achieve①.

Xia An didn't feel that he was losing out by continuing to practice [Arhat Crystal Slash]. You know, the completion rate of his Fierce Ice Fresh Tai Mountain was stagnant at 81%, and it would be difficult to improve it no matter what.

So the question is, can the unique knife skills after reaching perfection increase the degree of completion from 81% to 90%?
Xia An is very greedy for the reward at the 90% stage of the purple recipe illustration.

If we can successfully push the completion rate to 90%.

He needs to meet learning condition ②, and the 1 valuable attribute point he needs can most likely be found in the "Liebingxiantaishan" illustration reward list!
So interconnected!

……

"You want me to become a cooking god, right?"

Xia An has tried it before, paying salaries to female disciples to increase the cost of setting up the stall.

But the panel only recognizes the cost of the ingredients of the dishes themselves. Otherwise, the mere fact of letting Erina Nakiri set up a stall would be incredible in the eyes of Totsuki chefs in the Japanese food industry. The appearance fee of the eldest lady of the Nakiri family is very scary.

Therefore, Xia An could only skillfully open the fresh food mall of the [Late Night Cooking Man] app.

what!
The fantasy food being advertised for sale on the banner today is an old friend: lobster fish!
But Xia An made many purchases, and the fish he bought was not subject to purchase restrictions.

He has yet to try out the most popular lobster claw meat, which is subject to purchase restrictions, to see what it looks like or tastes like.

"So, the meat in the giant claws of lobster fish, is it shrimp meat or crab meat?"

Lobsters are lobsters and crabs are crabs.

There is definitely a difference in the quality of the meat.

Of course, the official name of the lobster fish is the crab swallowtail fish, which makes sense if the huge crab claws contain crab meat.

But Xia An was not entangled.

There are so many weird fantasy ingredients, just like the carbon-based monkeys on Earth don’t try to understand the life systems of other planets, just do it.

Each person is limited to purchasing half a pound, and each 100 grams is worth yuan.

Xia An directly bought half a pound.

"correct!"

He suddenly thought of something.

"Didn't the red-haired pig keep being sold in a cycle a while ago?"

Xia An's eyes lit up.

That's right.

The two main ingredients of the filling of "Flame Dumplings" are shrimp and pork.

It is already 90% complete, and Xia An is quite confident about using fantasy ingredients to integrate into this ancient dish.

Even shrimp and pork can be melted together!
While thinking, Xia An opened Weixin.

This is when the diners’ connections come into play.

Xia An sent private messages to Wei Xuelin and Chi Xiaobai respectively:
"I need some red pork, but the one on sale today is lobster fish."

Wei Xuelin: "That's easy. I'll use my authority to buy you a 5-catties or 10-catties container. How about I deliver it to you in person later?"

Chi Xiaobai: "Hey, this is not easy, just bronze-level fantasy ingredients, just tell me how much you want?"

Sure enough, special grade is special grade.

Moreover, these two are the provincial general directors of the Late Night Cooks Association, and their authority is obviously astonishing.

Xia An simply added the two of them into a small group.

Wei Xuelin: “?”

Chi Xiaobai: “???”

Xia An: "It's too troublesome for me to chat with you separately. I do need some red-haired pork. The price is based on the market price. I won't take advantage of you for free."

Chi Xiaobai: "You kid, I've let you pass the exam and upgrade to nine stars. Your authority has also been upgraded to gold level. You may have been able to get gold-level fantasy ingredients from official channels within the association."

Wei Xuelin: "Gold-level fantasy ingredients can only be obtained through official channels, and they appear as a whole head, so the amount of ingredients is very limited."

"In order to compete for quotas, every time a gold-level fantasy ingredient appears, it is accompanied by blood and gore!"

Chi Xiaobai: "That's not true. Those who already have quotas will covet each other's quotas. And those who don't have quotas will want to invite food battles to grab quotas."

Xia An became interested: "So how is this quota set?"

Chi Xiaobai: "You want to know? Then you can pass the food war exam, reach nine stars, and unlock the gold level privileges, then you will know, right?"

Wei Xuelin: “That’s right!”

Xia An: "Then can I not pass the food battle and go to the Chef and Gourmet Association outside to take the test properly?"

Chi Xiaobai: "What do you mean, kid? Do you look down on our Late Night Cooking Association?!"

Wei Xuelin: "(Chuckling) Lao Chi, don't worry, maybe Boss Xia has some misunderstanding about us late-night cooks?"

"To be honest, the organization of Midnight Cooks did originate abroad in the beginning, but after gradually developing in China, it was incorporated a long time ago. The top elders' council, the three chefs Lin, all have official backgrounds. You may even know one of them, the one from the Lu family!"

Xia An looked at Wei Xuelin's letter and said to himself, "As expected."

Any organization that comes into the country must be whitewashed. The Late Night Cooks Association he joined has strictly been separated from its foreign origins and has become a localized food organization.

"Is it for some reason that the higher-ups allow this localized Late Night Cooking Association to serve as a supplement to the Chinese food industry?" Xia An pondered.

Less than an hour.

Wei Xuelin and Chi Xiaobai, two top chefs, both brought ingredients to the door.

"Here, the red-haired pork you asked for!"

　The first update is delivered today!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)