Chapter 883: Tofu Showdown!

Due to Lu Yang's appearance, the five-star spirit chef group became the center of attention, and even many spectators who originally wanted to watch the seven-star spirit chef group were attracted over.

"To think that Lu Yang is a spirit chef who possesses the inheritance of the Immortal Chef!" Xie Qi stared fixedly at Lu Yang, imitating Lu Yang's every move.

So what if he obtained the inheritance of the Immortal Chef? I will prove to the world that I can not only imitate the dishes of the Immortal Chef's successor, but also go up another half-grade on that basis!

Xie Qi touched the bottles and jars tucked at his waist and pulled out a meaningful smile.

This was his secret weapon. Inside were spices he had obtained while traveling through the Cultivation Realm, especially those obtained from the Buddha Kingdom.

The spirit chef world had ignored the existence of the Buddha Kingdom and excluded it from the spirit chef world, but Xie Qi discovered that although the dishes of the Buddha Kingdom were hard to describe, or rather, tasted bad, the spices of the Buddha Kingdom were incomparable to anywhere else.

With the power of spices, he made any dish taste even more delicious!

An Tong also wanted to compete on the same stage as Lu Yang and compare their skills!

An Tong, known to the outside world as 【Undefeated】, was so named because she had never lost since she debuted, and Lu Yang would be no exception!

As the center of the venue, Lu Yang felt that everyone didn't need to stare at him like this.

He had only practiced his knife skills for a few days and had learned about some strange spirit plants with the Immortal Fairy, the latter of which he hadn't even used yet.

As for cooking, he was completely incapable. What could he rely on to win?

He might as well just cook something casually and let Xie Qi and An Tong fight for first place.

Anyway, he didn't care whether Jin Tan's side would win or not; this was an internal struggle of the Spirit Chef Alliance, and he was just a bystander.

Liu Xing spread his arms, and the wall at the outermost edge of the examination room collapsed, revealing rows of ingredients—birds and beasts, spirit beans and spirit rice, everything one could wish for.

He announced the final test topic loudly: "Five-star spirit chef group, the final test: you are required to make a dish using tofu!"

Lu Yang: "..."

Lu Yang rubbed his temples in pain. When tofu was mentioned, the first thing he thought of was when he first started cultivating, being arranged by the Senior Sister to use tofu to practice sword skills every day. During the day, no matter how much tofu he cut, he had to eat that much tofu at mealtime, and at night when he slept, the Tofu Heavenly Venerable was in his nightmares, which made him feel nauseous whenever he ate tofu for a while.

Do you still want positive coverage from the Spirit Chef Alliance?

"Little Yangzi, go for it. There is a dish called Yin-Yang Tofu in my recipe. Let them see my level!" The Immortal Fairy encouraged.

Lu Yang's eyes twitched. Because he had translated the entire Cooking Encyclopedia, he remembered the production method of every dish recorded on it.

It was hard to disobey a holy decree; as a subject, how could he have the qualifications to resist the will of His Majesty?

Lu Yang bit the bullet and began to make Yin-Yang Tofu.

Yin-Yang Tofu, as the name suggests, is black and white tofu. To present two different colors, you need hundreds of black ingredients and white ingredients, and the prepared composite juice is used to render the tofu.

Black foods such as squid ink, soy sauce, etc.

White foods such as salt, sugar, etc.

"Fairy, won't it be a bit salty if we do it this way?"

"Don't worry, when you add chili at the end, it will neutralize the salty taste!"

"This Yin-Yang Tofu contains the Dao of Yin and Yang, containing endless universe, wonderful and infinite. If you can realize this layer, you will be able to enter the Dao of Yin and Yang..." The Immortal Fairy chattered on about the philosophy of her developing this dish.

Xie Qi kept his movements synchronized with Lu Yang, pouring hundreds of bottles and jars together and stirring them evenly.

Looking at the black and white juice that produced unknown reactions and emitted countless bubbles, Xie Qi began to doubt whether Lu Yang was really the successor of the Immortal Chef.

But thinking of Lu Yang's various rumors, he gritted his teeth, believed it, and continued to follow suit!

Looking at the black and white tofu cut into spherical shapes and drizzled with sauce on the plate, Xie Qi's appetite was whetted.

Although the production process was indescribably strange, the finished product smelled exceptionally fragrant!

"Let me taste what shortcomings this tofu has."

Xie Qi tasted a mouthful with a spoon, covering his throat in disbelief, making an "uh-uh" sound.

Two extreme flavors collided in his mouth. His sense of taste was already far beyond ordinary people, and under the effect of infinite magnification of taste, the two flavors tortured him to the point of wishing he were dead.

Clang—

Xie Qi fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, unconscious.

Lu Yang didn't use a single soldier or a single pawn, yet he forced Xie Qi to withdraw from the field. It could be called subduing the enemy without fighting, which was the best of strategies!

The final showdown fell on Lu Yang and An Tong.

"Time is up!" Liu Xing said loudly.

"Considering that Xie Qi is out for a reason, after discussion by the high-level officials of our Alliance, it has been decided that the evaluation method for this competition will be changed!"

"It is changed to both sides tasting each other's dishes and giving scores!"

Lu Yang served the Yin-Yang Tofu drizzled with scarlet chili oil, and An Tong served tofu shaped like an orange.

"Now, both sides begin to taste."

Lu Yang examined An Tong's orange tofu. The outer shell of the orange tofu was like a layer of sugar coating. Lu Yang tapped it lightly with a spoon, and the sugar coating dented, revealing white and bouncy tofu.

Lu Yang scooped a spoonful of sugar coating and tofu and put it into his mouth. The bland tofu became rich under the blessing of the orange flavor, and the tofu was also mixed with bamboo shoot bits, making the tofu taste quite crisp.

This taste threw the Immortal Fairy eight streets away!

While Lu Yang was tasting An Tong's orange tofu, An Tong was also studying Lu Yang's Yin-Yang Tofu.

She lost her sense of taste due to a high fever when she was a child, but this also led to her exceptionally developed sense of sight, touch, smell, and hearing.

"The layer of red oil on this Yin-Yang Tofu is moving, but it doesn't steal the fragrance of the tofu. The black and white tofu not only has the fragrance of tofu, but also the fragrance of the sea, the fragrance of the sky, and the fragrance of the earth."

She didn't even need to taste it to know that this was the ultimate tofu that completely crushed her orange tofu!

It could be called the masterpiece of tofu!

Although she had no sense of taste, An Tong still wanted to taste a mouthful; this was respect for Lu Yang.

Lu Yang just wanted to persuade An Tong not to eat it, and he would directly admit defeat, but he saw An Tong eat a spoonful of Yin-Yang Tofu, clutching her throat and opening her mouth wide, shouting out an evaluation she had never said in her life in a voice that the whole venue could hear.

"So spicy, so salty!!"

"How can it be so spicy!"

An Tong drank water vigorously, which slightly lowered the temperature in her mouth, calmed down, and thought about more things.

"Wait, I have a sense of taste?!"

"I, I have a sense of taste?"

An Tong ate the Yin-Yang Tofu in big mouthfuls, tears dripping onto the plate, sobbing with a smile: "Delicious, really delicious..."

After a while, An Tong calmed down a little, bowed deeply to Lu Yang: "Fellow Daoist Lu Yang, you won. I voluntarily admit defeat."

Although she was a person on Jin Tan's side, she also had her own persistence. Lu Yang saved her sense of taste with tofu; how could she have the qualifications to evaluate Lu Yang's Yin-Yang Tofu?

After saying that, she didn't care about Lu Yang's reaction and left the venue directly, leaving a messy Lu Yang behind.

Even when Liu Xing announced the result of the competition, and Lu Yang's armband was changed to five gold stars, representing that he had become the most powerful existence among five-star spirit chefs, he still hadn't recovered.

No, how did I win with this level of mine?