Chapter 1889: Not That Easy

Watching Ye Zhangqing stand on the shore, Bai Yuan and the two others all looked completely composed.

Wanting to subdue the Immortal Fire is not that easy.

Even among many senior Immortal Chefs, few can subdue the Immortal Fire, let alone the younger generation.

Although subduing the Immortal Fire has no direct relation to one's own cultivation level.

The Immortal Fire does not consider cultivation level, yet among the many young disciples of the Cooking King Immortal City, those who possess it will not exceed a handful.

The other three Young City Lords who came here before also found subduing the Immortal Fire extremely difficult.

Almost none succeeded smoothly, so facing Ye Zhangqing's current situation, Bai Yuan and the two others, who had seen this before, were naturally not surprised.

Even whether Ye Zhangqing can successfully subdue the Immortal Fire remains unknown at present.

The three all know that Ye Zhangqing is not a person of the Immortal Realm but comes from the Lower Realm.

Compared to the other three youths, Ye Zhangqing can be said to be encountering the Immortal Fire for the first time; his only understanding is likely just what Bai Yuan mentioned earlier.

Given such superficial understanding, it actually won't help much.

Therefore, from this perspective, Ye Zhangqing's difficulty in subduing the Immortal Fire is somewhat greater than that of the other three youths.

This is the loss from lacking experience.

"Do you think this kid can succeed?"

Watching Ye Zhangqing delay without action, one of the Deputy City Lords transmitted with interest.

Hearing that, Bai Yuan replied unhappily.

"It's not like you yourselves chose him; this kid is from the Lower Realm—what were you thinking, setting up such an examination?"

Bai Yuan also just learned that this second round of the examination is actually to subdue the Immortal Fire.

Naturally dissatisfied, he felt the examination was unfair to Ye Zhangqing—this kid is a cultivator from the Lower Realm, and you want him to subdue the Immortal Fire?

Facing Bai Yuan's dissatisfied complaint, another Deputy City Lord laughed and said.

"The Young City Lord's examination was never easy; letting this kid subdue the Immortal Fire is indeed somewhat overly demanding, but when the other three youths took their examinations, the difficulty was similarly not small."

"Not bad, old man, don't complain either; when I was the recommender back then, the examination you set up was likewise not simple."

Hearing the two say that, Bai Yuan's face darkened, but he did not retort further.

Indeed, the Cooking King Immortal City has many young disciples, but few could become Young City Lord.

Just look at the chief disciples of the various Fire Halls—who wouldn't want to become Young City Lord?

But in the end, not to mention passing the examination, there wasn't even anyone qualified to be nominated.

Thus the Young City Lord's examination being extremely difficult has its reasons.

After all, bearing the title of Young City Lord means representing the Cooking King Immortal City when traveling abroad.

If one encounters other major powers of the Immortal Realm, especially Pill Masters, Artifact Masters, and the Young City Lords of the several great Immortal Cities, and is easily crushed by them,

then the Cooking King Immortal City would surely lose all face.

Therefore, making the selection of Young City Lord stricter is also entirely reasonable.

For such an important position, it would be better left vacant than to fill it with an unqualified person.

So if Ye Zhangqing fails to subdue the Immortal Fire, then the Young City Lord's position will have nothing to do with him.

Bai Yuan also understands this reasoning, so he did not continue to argue.

To avoid disturbing Ye Zhangqing, the three communicated via Spiritual Voice Transmission, so Ye Zhangqing naturally did not know.

At this moment, Ye Zhangqing's mind and spirit were wholly immersed in how to subdue the Immortal Fire.

However, the most critical problem at present is that he cannot even determine the location of the Immortal Fire.

The extreme heat of the magma river makes all of Ye Zhangqing's methods seem unusable.

Divine sense fails, let alone spiritual power; other various techniques and means are also completely ineffective.

If Ye Zhangqing had been born in the Immortal Realm and had prior contact or understanding of the Immortal Fire, the difficulty would be much lower.

Because there are still several other methods that could resolve the current predicament and determine the Immortal Fire's location.

But Ye Zhangqing happens to come from the Lower Realm, so there is no way.

However, just as Ye Zhangqing was at a loss, the system's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

【Detected Immortal-grade spirit fire; can be forcibly subdued.】

Huh???

This system has been silent for a long time, only making a sound when encountering various new ingredients.

Otherwise, it basically has no presence at all.

But now this Immortal Fire can actually trigger a response from the system?

When encountering innate spirit fire before, there was indeed no reaction.

But before Ye Zhangqing could think further, the next second the system activated the subduing mode.

With the system's help, Ye Zhangqing's field of vision still showed that scorching magma river.

Yet at this moment, within the rolling, scorching magma, Ye Zhangqing saw clusters of flames hiding within it.

These flames are the Immortal Fire 'dwelling' within this magma river.

Their number is not large, but there are indeed over ten clusters of flames.

Just a second ago he was struggling to determine these Immortal Fires' positions, but now Ye Zhangqing can simply look and easily ascertain their locations.

This made Ye Zhangqing feel delighted inside.

However, from the perspective of Bai Yuan and the two others behind him, Ye Zhangqing continually appeared to be in a dazed state.

He seemed at a loss, feeling helpless and without any recourse.

Having stood dazed for a long while, if it were those three youths earlier, they would at least have already determined the Immortal Fire's location and begun the subduing process.

But Ye Zhangqing, even now, has not completed the first step; he still hasn't even found where the Immortal Fire is.

It seems what Bai Yuan said isn't without reason; this kid really doesn't know how to subdue the Immortal Fire at all.

"Take a look at what you've chosen."

Bai Yuan shot the other two an annoyed look; he is quite optimistic about Ye Zhangqing, but the problem is that this assessment content exceeds the standard.

You're not forcing the spirit chef to make pills, are you?

This time, upon hearing Bai Yuan's words, the other two Deputy City Lords also fell somewhat silent.

This assessment content seems to indeed be somewhat exceeding the standard.

Ye Zhangqing's performance in the first round of the assessment was almost perfect; at least the three of them couldn't find any fault.

That culinary skill definitely reached the level of the Young City Lord; even compared to the other three Young City Lords, it is clearly superior.

So, these two Deputy City Lords actually already lean somewhat toward Ye Zhangqing.

If it's because he fails this second round assessment, that would indeed be somewhat regrettable.

But this assessment content has already been set; suddenly changing it also seems somewhat against the rules.

But what Bai Yuan said also isn't without reason; Ye Zhangqing's situation is special, after all he's from the Xia Jie, and right away asking him to subdue an Immortal Fire he's never encountered is indeed somewhat demanding too much.

For a moment, these two Deputy City Lords also fell into contemplation; could it be that they really need to change this assessment content?