Chapter 877: Gathering intelligence

Behind the scenes of the Spirit Chef Competition, Vice Alliance Leader Liu Xing waited anxiously for the alliance leader to arrive.

"The competition is about to start, why hasn't the alliance leader come yet?"

Since coming to the Demon City, the alliance leader had disappeared. The spirit chef exam and the Spirit Chef Competition were basically organized by him.

"Liu Xing, what's the rush? Didn't I come?" A hoarse and hearty laugh sounded in Liu Xing's ears. A cool breeze blew, turning into a white-bearded old man. It was the alliance leader of the Spirit Chef Alliance, Daoist Mingyuan.

Daoist Mingyuan came from a small island in the East Sea and had no roots worth mentioning. He just encountered several adventures. After cultivating to the Integration stage in the East Sea, he didn't occupy a large island and become an island owner like other human cultivators, but chose to travel around, exchange cooking skills with famous chefs in major restaurants, and rarely returned to the East Sea.

It was precisely this behavior that made him not only good at cooking but also have excellent popularity, and he very smoothly became the alliance leader of the Spirit Chef Alliance.

"Alliance leader, you finally came. Where have you been these days?" Seeing Daoist Mingyuan, Liu Xing felt like he saw the backbone, and the big stone in his heart fell.

"I handled some things outside the city. It was a bit troublesome, but it's finally almost done. You have worked hard these days."

Liu Xing sighed for a long time: "It's nothing for me to work hard, but I heard that Jin Tan wants to launch a battle for the alliance leader and wants to seize your position as alliance leader!"

Daoist Mingyuan's eyes flashed with surprise: "It's been three hundred years since Jin Tan lost to me last time, right? It seems that his cooking skills have improved a lot in these three hundred years?"

"I don't know if his cooking skills have improved, but I know that he has researched a top-grade dish, but the production difficulty is extremely high, and it requires the use of legendary ingredients in our alliance's ingredient library, so he has been delaying challenging you."

"This is the first time I've heard of it. So he also sent someone to participate in this competition, wanting to get those ingredients through the championship reward?"

"Yes, it is said that he prepared for today for three hundred years."

Daoist Mingyuan became more and more confused: "Then why didn't he exchange it directly? We didn't know that the top-grade dish he researched needed legendary ingredients before. If he exchanged it, we wouldn't stop him, right?"

"Maybe he thought we knew?"

The two looked at each other.

"By the way, alliance leader, do you know Lu Yang?"

"I know. Didn't I invite him over?" Daoist Mingyuan looked at Liu Xing like a fool, feeling that if he wasn't the alliance leader, this Spirit Chef Alliance would really be hopeless.

"Oh yes, you invited him. You definitely can't guess who he met after I sent him to the hotel!" Liu Xing had been holding back for several days since he saw the Demon Emperor, and he couldn't hold back anymore after seeing the alliance leader.

"Who did he meet?"

The words were on Liu Xing's lips, but the "must not mention the meeting" ordered by Zhu Tian with the Dao Fruit Embryo of Survival of the Fittest took effect. Whether it was explicit or implied, it didn't work.

"I can't say who he met, but I saw many beautiful dancing girls at his door, and they should all be sent to him!"

"You mean, Lu Yang is lecherous, and we also need to bribe him with female color?"

Liu Xing wanted to say "Guess who sent it to Lu Yang", but this became an implication.

Under the effect of the Dao Fruit Embryo of Survival of the Fittest, Liu Xing couldn't speak and could only nod vigorously.

Seeing Liu Xing nod, Daoist Mingyuan hissed. Could it be that Lu Yang went to the Laurel Immortal Palace, and the rumor that many fairies were pregnant was true?

"Look, that's Golden Knife Master Duan Lang, he really came!" Golden Knife Master shaved bones for ox demons in the market every day, throwing cows into the sky and playing with knives. The movement was the biggest. After these days of fermentation, his reputation in the market was the loudest.

Golden Knife Master was shirtless, with two golden knives hanging on his chest. The murderous aura of the knives was extremely heavy. I don't know how much demon beast blood was stained. Among a group of five-star spirit chefs who were good at processing ingredients, this murderous aura was also exceptionally eye-catching. Many five-star spirit chefs consciously stayed away from him.

"And that one, wearing a hood, is Poison Granny. It is rumored that she is a dual cultivator of alchemy and poison. A bowl of medicinal food can cure a hundred diseases, but if she wants to poison someone to death, it is just a matter of one sentence!"

"Look, there are two cultivators behind her. From their dress and appearance, they are people from the Great Xia government. It looks like they are headed by her. Could it be that she has defected to the imperial court now?"

"She is also wearing handcuffs and shackles. Could it be that she is practicing with weight, and when the formal competition arrives, she will take them off and her strength will increase by a large margin?"

Lu Yang listened from the side and couldn't help but complain: "No, how does this look like she was caught by Great Xia and is participating in the competition during her sentence?"

"Now that you mention it, I remember. It seems I heard that she was suspected of poisoning and was caught by Great Xia." The passerby reacted halfway through.

"Wait, who are you?"

The conversation just now was very familiar, like two friends, and he didn't react for a while that he didn't know this person.

"Hello, my name is Lu Yunyang."

"Oh hello hello, my name is Ma Bin... or no, who are you?"

"I am here to participate in the competition, but I am not familiar with these people, so I want to get to know some people from you." Lu Yang pointed to the five-star sleeve badge that could prove his identity, thinking about how to write an article when he went back, and happened to meet a passerby who seemed to know everything.

Ma Bin pulled down his sleeve, revealing the five-star sleeve badge, and said disdainfully.

"As a competitor, do you think I will reveal intelligence to you?"

Lu Yang thought about it. It was a bit bad to ask for intelligence without giving any benefits. He was ready to take out something to give some benefits.

Ma Bin caught a glimpse of Lu Yang's small movements and sneered: "Don't think that you can bribe me with a few spirit stones. This is a sacred spirit chef competition. Don't use your few broken spirit stones to stain this competition!"

Lu Yang didn't prepare to take out spirit stones at all. He took out the identity jade plate that could prove his identity: "Actually, I am Lu Yang of the Wendao Sect. I came here to write a newspaper. If you help me introduce who is participating in the competition, I will praise you a few words in the newspaper."

Ma Bin looked at Lu Yang coldly, straightened his collar, and introduced solemnly:

"My name is Ma Bin, a royal chef of the Great Xia Imperial Kitchen. I am good at steaming and boiling methods such as pasta, as well as compound seasoning using various seasonings. I was born in the Ma family of pasta and have been full of enthusiasm for cooking since I was a child. I have read a lot of books, and my cooking enlightenment comes from the traditional recipes of my family."

"With the passage of time, I not only inherited the family's pasta craftsmanship but also constantly learned new cooking techniques and trends, making my cooking skills more exquisite. After joining the Imperial Kitchen, I practiced knife skills hard, and finally practiced to the point of perfection, known as the 'Knife of the Imperial Kitchen'."

"This time I asked for leave to participate in the Spirit Chef Competition, just to become a Gold Star Spirit Chef and make the Ma family of pasta famous in the spirit chef world. You can just praise it a few words, it is best to mention our Ma family of pasta."

Lu Yang wrote down a sentence silently: Ma Bin, from the Ma family of pasta. ===== CHAPTER 878 =====