Chapter 170: The fancy ingredients of the Spiritual Chef Competition

Chapter 170: The fancy ingredients of the Spiritual Chef Competition

The various skills competitions were going on one after another, with exciting and climaxes.

Many of the popular skills have produced third-level monsters.

Including the spiritual plant skill that Li Xiuchang paid the most attention to, there really was a spiritual plant husband who had just entered the third level.

Fortunately, Li Xiuchang did not sign up for the spiritual plant competition in the end.

The Hundred Arts Competition was held one after another, until the fifth day when it was Li Xiuchang's turn to play.

The spiritual chef was considered a hot spot among the unpopular ones, with more than 50 contestants.

In view of this number of contestants, Yintian Sect also formulated a simple two-round competition system.

The first round of elimination directly decided the top ten.

The second round of ranking competition decided the top ten rankings.

The chief referee was an elder of Yintian Sect. He read out the rules of the first round of the competition loudly: "Contestants can choose any of the ingredients we provide and make a spiritual dish to the best of their ability. The judging panel will score according to the grade, effect and taste of the spiritual dish. The top ten with the highest scores can enter the next round of the finals..."

In short, it is to use the same ingredients to make spiritual dishes and score according to the spiritual dishes.

Among them, the grade of the spiritual dish is the first scoring standard and accounts for the largest proportion.

That is to say, the third-level spiritual dishes do not need to consider the color, aroma and edible effect, which is stable over the second-level spiritual dishes.

Only spiritual dishes of the same level need to compete in taste and edible effect.

The proportion between taste and effect is also half and half.

Li Xiuchang glanced at the ingredients provided by Yintian Sect, ranging from first to third level.

In addition, all kinds of common seasonings, side dishes, auxiliary materials, and even kitchen utensils are also available.

Contestants can only use the ingredients and kitchen utensils provided by Yintian Sect, and cannot use their own.

"Contestants, please come forward and choose your ingredients."

Li Xiuchang took a few steps forward upon hearing this. He had already picked out what he needed in his mind, all of which were third-level ingredients.

Second-level spiritual chefs with profound skills can cook some simple third-level spiritual dishes, but there is a possibility of failure.

However, the time given for the first round of the competition is three hours. As long as the spiritual dishes are made within three hours, it doesn't matter if they fail a few times in the middle.

In addition, Li Xiuchang is actually a peak second-level spiritual chef, and his success rate in cooking third-level spiritual dishes is not low.

So his goal in the first round of the competition is to make a simple third-level spiritual dish, win by the grade of the spiritual dish, and directly enter the next round.

Seeing that Li Xiuchang used third-level ingredients, other contestants and the audience in the audience paid attention to Li Xiuchang, which showed that Li Xiuchang was at least a senior second-level spiritual chef.

This time, Li Xiuchang made a very simple stir-fried pepper with pork, the main ingredients of which were third-level spicy fairy peppers and third-level pig monster meat.

Simple dishes are more skillful. They need to be guided by magic power and stimulated by heat to stimulate the effects of different ingredients, while making them not conflict with each other but complement each other.

As the competition progressed, the entire competition venue was filled with the aroma of food, adding a lot of fireworks to this holy place of the immortal gate.

Li Xiuchang moved quickly and finished cooking first. He took the third-level spiritual dish out of the pot and brought it to the referee's seat.

The referee team was composed of elders from the four major immortal gates, half of whom were masters who were good at spiritual cooking, and the other half were ordinary elders.

Among them were not only two elders from the Xianchen Sect, but also Elder Wu, whose life was saved by Li Xiuchang.

This made Li Xiuchang doubt the fairness of the competition. Would these people really not let him go?

However, with his strength, he did not need extra care.

Several referees shared Li Xiuchang's fried pork with peppers and nodded in agreement, showing approval.

"Not bad, it has good color, aroma and taste, and it also takes into account the effect of spiritual food consumption. This spiritual food can help to cultivate fire attribute skills, and the effect is good."

"Qualified third-level spiritual food!"

Several referees gave good reviews.

In the first round of the competition, Li Xiuchang advanced without a doubt.

Among his opponents, there were also two who cooked third-level spiritual food, but it was far from as easy as Li Xiuchang.

Li Xiuchang succeeded once, and the other two failed more or less several times before making third-level spiritual food.

After one round of competition, only ten people were left to enter the second round, and the rest were eliminated.

Among these ten people, only four or five people had reached the second level of spiritual cooking skills, and the others who did not reach the second level were obviously just making up the numbers, and the top ten rankings and rewards were already the end.

In the spiritual cooking competition, everyone knows that the second round is the most important.

The referee read out the rules of the second round: "In the second round, you will be asked to draw lots to decide the types of your main ingredients. The second round will mainly test two things: innovation and ingredient utilization!

"As a spiritual chef, innovation is essential. In the past year, a spiritual chef famous for innovation has emerged in Xianchen Sect. He has developed hundreds of new dishes, which have even influenced the entire spiritual chef world!

"So this competition encourages contestants to create new dishes. For spiritual dishes of the same level, innovative dishes will be given priority for high scores."

The audience camp of Xianchen Sect was in an uproar. They all knew that the person the referee was talking about was the "longest man" who became famous on the preaching list.

"The longest man" has developed hundreds of new dishes. After spreading them, many new dishes have been sold to various sects and casual cultivators in Xianyin Realm.

Now many people in the Xiuxian Realm know that Xianchen Sect has a spiritual chef who is good at innovation, but they can't find out the specific information or even the name of this spiritual chef.

Even if we ask the disciples of Xianchen Sect, they are all hesitant and can't say it.

You can't just call him "the longest man", right?

The referee continued: "The second point is the use of ingredients. As a spiritual chef, you should know that ingredients are hard to come by and it is shameful to waste them. So if you can maximize the use of the given ingredients, the less you waste, the more points you will get."

After the referee read out the rules, the contestants all looked thoughtful, some worried, and some happy.

The worried people are worried about how to innovate. Some people can only cook fixed dishes, like a formula, follow the recipe to make it. Asking them to innovate is definitely difficult for them.

The happy people are because this rule increases their chances of winning.

For example, the skills of those second-level spiritual chefs are not as profound as Li Xiuchang.

If they compete in hard power and the success rate of cooking third-level spiritual dishes, they will definitely not be able to compete with Li Xiuchang, but if they compete in innovation and the use of ingredients, they have a chance.

Li Xiuchang is calm and confident.

Compete for innovation?

He is at the level of a master.

In terms of the number of new dishes developed on the preaching list, even the big boss "Fairy, help me practice" can't compare with him.

He needs to think about the utilization rate of ingredients.

Next, it is the drawing of lots to determine the main ingredients used in the second round of the competition.

Li Xiuchang was the first to be called up to draw lots. With his spiritual sense blocked, he drew a bamboo stick with the word "fish" written on it.

At a glance, it is clear that Li Xiuchang's main ingredient for the second round is fish.

Then the people behind him, some drew "poultry", some drew "beast", some drew "vegetarian", some drew "shell", and some drew "insect"...

In general, Li Xiuchang's draw this round is not the best, but it is definitely not bad.

I didn't see the contestant who drew "insect" and was almost crying with worry.

Even in the world of immortal cultivation, using insects as ingredients is a niche thing.

Not all spiritual chefs are good at this.

Li Xiuchang and other contestants quickly received their main ingredients, and other auxiliary ingredients can be selected by themselves.

Li Xiuchang opened the box containing the main ingredients and found that it contained more than a dozen fish.

There were big and small ones, from first-level to third-level ones!

There was only one third-level fish, about the size of an adult's leg.

The second-level fish were the most numerous, and there were only a few first-level fish.

This also proved that this competition did increase the proportion of "innovation" and "ingredient utilization". The purpose of providing a large number of second-level ingredients was to give contestants room for innovation.

If a large number of third-level ingredients were given, more than half of the contestants would not be able to make third-level spiritual dishes, and the other second-level spiritual chefs would also have difficulty making third-level spiritual dishes, so how could they have the energy to innovate?

When a spiritual chef gets the ingredients, he must first sort out his thoughts and think clearly about what spiritual dishes he wants to make with these ingredients, so that he knows how to deal with these spiritual dishes next.

However, some people were obviously panicked at the first step. For example, the contestant who got the insect ingredients opened the box and saw a group of various insects, some poisonous and some not, some hairy, some with many legs, and some insect pupae that kept twisting their buttocks...

He was so scared that he almost threw away the ingredients and the box together.

These ingredients, even if they are still fresh, are all sealed and cannot cause any danger, but some people are born with fear of certain animals.

For example, Li Xiuchang hates the hairy fluttering moths and gets goose bumps when he sees them.

Another contestant who drew the "shell" also had a sad face. His ingredients were not bad, including shrimps, crabs, turtles, and various shellfish, and the key is that there are also a batch of big snails.

These snails made him worried.

When Chen Changsheng in the audience saw that there were turtle ingredients, he subconsciously frowned.

At this time, Li Xiuchang had sorted out his thoughts and started to deal with the ingredients.

This second round of competition gave them three days of competition time, considering that it takes time to deal with ingredients and innovate and try and error.

For such a long-lasting competition, the next competition will be held in advance on the secondary competition stage, and the two competitions will be held at the same time.

The ten contestants have gradually entered the state, and some who have no ideas can only give up innovation.

The competition only encourages innovation. If you really can't innovate, you can still cook the existing dishes, but you will not get the bonus points for innovation.

Li Xiuchang has clear ideas and his kitchen knife flies. These ingredients are no different from tofu under his equal knife skills, and he can easily handle them.

This knife skill alone attracted everyone's frequent sidelong glances and earned enough eyeballs.

However, looking at the way Li Xiuchang handles the ingredients, many people showed puzzled expressions, as if every knife of Li Xiuchang fell in places they didn't expect.