Mission accomplished! Done!
From the Great Wall to the bus at the foot of the mountain, Xia Yu put down his slightly stiff right hand and finally took a breath, pulling down the curtain.
Sealed off from sight and cara lenses, Xia Yu finally took so ti to look back at the results of this practice.
"Supre, Wabi-Sabi, Warmth..."
He didn’t know how to na the path in the "Mother Sun Ball" source recipe.
This path, on the surface, appeared to be the ’taste of a mother’. A deeper layer is ’sunshine’. Ultimately, it’s about a unique warmth tasted on the tongue that influences both body and mind, evoking emotions, and a familiar warmth that stirs a strong resonance in the taster’s heart.
The key is touching the heart.
And the "Mother Sun Ball" is precisely the kind that touches the heart, or rather, it’s the ancestor of the ’heart-touching style’ recipes. In the main plot of the gourt competition, Tanaka Hikari is skilled at capturing the ’taste of hotown’, often making graduates cry, even moving Shigong Xiaoci Lang.
"In this practice attempt, the supre level is my use of ’golden ingredients’... mushrooms, sea cucumbers, abalone, shrimp... They absorbed sunlight when dried, and this hidden taste was infinitely magnified by my supre secret technique... making the dish more dominant."
"Wabi-Sabi, is the essence required to shape the ’soul of the Great Wall’. The Great Wall is a significant symbol of the thousands of years of history on the Chinese Continent, with history matching the ti of Wabi-Sabi, the profound Zen principle of the ’old tree blooming’, where the ailing tree stands in front of forests of new growth..."
"And the third ring of ’warmth’, amplified through supre and Wabi-Sabi... this is also the biggest difference between my ’Mother Sun Ball’ and the original version by Liu Maoxing!"
Xia Yu’s gaze glead.
He understood more than anyone else the grand gamble he took in this attempt and the resolve needed to integrate the ’path’ he recently comprehended, forging it into one.
In the end, the dish didn’t explode into a dark cooking and had a completion rate of 78%.
This showed that the system recognized his phase achievents!
However, the fusion of ’supre’ and ’Wabi-Sabi’ into the ’Mother Sun Ball’ with an appropriate arrangent demonstrates that both secrets enhanced the third ring of ’warmth’, which Xia Yu couldn’t have predicted before the fusion.
A pleasant surprise!
"To thoroughly blend these three ’paths’, it seems the compatibility and compatibility of the ’Mother Sun Ball’ recipe isn’t high enough yet."
Xia Yu’s eyes showed a trace of lancholy.
The 78% completion rate only indicated his attempt had flaws, and thinking it over and over, Xia Yu was sure he made no handling mistake, so the only answer was—
The ’intention’ of the source recipe had deviated.
"Indeed!" Xia Yu exhaled, looking relieved.
Liu Maoxing’s original version of the "Mother Sun Ball" was pure, as simple as a baby, containing his pure love and pursuit for cooking. So, what the diners tasted was an essence close to ’dessert’, making them thoroughly happy.
In other words, just one bite brought extre joy.
But Xia Yu’s version, infused with things it shouldn’t bear, like the fighting spirit against the European Heavenly King and the heavy history of the Great Wall beneath his feet...
All these go against Liu Maoxing’s original intention, adding ’impurities’.
Thinking it over, damn, it could still get a 78? Xia Yu couldn’t help but feel pretty pleased with himself, feeling like he had perford remarkably well.
"Next, is to create a recipe, truly lding these 3 ’paths’ into one!"
"This is my true personal Dragon Finisher."
...
In the Aegean Sea, though the television in the luxurious living room had been off for a long ti.
It’s evening on Chinese Land, but only around noon in Europe.
Clatter, the crisp sound of high heels stepping on the floor ca from the stairs. Doris stood at the top of the living room stairs, seeing her father, Gaius, sitting on the sofa, hands folded, chin resting on top, like a sculpture, unmoving for a long ti.
This Heavenly King, his profile was filled with gravity.
"Cough!"
Doris deliberately made a noise.
"Doris?"
Gaius turned his head, the gloom on his face instantly disappearing, displaying an expression of complete calm and serenity. The quickness of his facial change made it seem like the previous gravity, apprehension, was rely an illusion conjured by Doris, who secretly admired him.
A Heavenly King is indeed a Heavenly King, even his acting is of such level.
"Father, you watched the live broadcast, right?"
Facing his daughter’s clear blue eyes, Gaius hesitated and reluctantly said, "I did watch it."
"So, thoughts?"
A touch of playfulness appeared in Doris’s gaze.
Gaius stretched his long arms, laying them out on the sofa’s back, speaking deliberately in a light and calm tone, "If it’s to this extent, I can still handle it."
"Oh——" Doris nodded, the amusent in her eyes deepening.
She had no intention of continuing to provoke Gaius.
Because she heard a hint of relaxation in Gaius’s tone.
Previously, Gaius had declared in forceful terms—there is absolutely no possibility for that young kid to defeat !
And now? He says, "I can still handle it."
But is that really the case?
Doris pursed her lips, "What if I told you, the recipe he showcased... is the ’Mother Sun Ball’?"
"..."
Suddenly, Gaius stiffened on the sofa, his eyes widening to a dead fish stare.
He, a foreigner, although a high-dinsional chef, knew the legend of the ’Mother Sun Ball’, which was indeed remarkable. After all, to be honest, this recipe, this dish, only appeared once a century ago.
No wonder I always felt a tinge of familiarity!
Doris finally noticed other emotions on her father’s stiff face.
It seed to be called trepidation.
...
Actually, without Doris having to say it outright, that night, the news of the reappearance of the ’Mother Sun Ball’ quickly spread from the word of mouth by a large crowd of fortunate on-site gourts in the Imperial City, rapidly fernting through the internet. Food portals worldwide promptly popped up news alerts in real-ti.
Of course, Xia Yu wasn’t in any mood to care about these things. He took a bus, went back to the hotel to rest for a while, and then was summoned by Dragon Head Zhu Ji to the Forbidden City.
In a hidden underground vault.
Seven legendary cooking utensils, starting with the ’Eternal Spirit Blade’, followed by the ’Dragon Pot’, ’Greedy Wolf Pot’, ’Magic Saint Copper Artifact’, ’Kakura Blade,’ to a male and female pair of ’Jade Dragon Pot’.
A total of 7 treasures, displayed in a fully transparent tempered glass cabinet.
"Only the ’Spiritual Treasure Vault’ is missing."
Upon hearing Xia Yu’s footsteps erging from the corridor, Dragon Head Zhu Ji, standing there for a long ti, spoke with a leisurely tone, "In the current era, no one knows what will happen after gathering all eight legendary cooking utensils."
"Unlock the secret of immortality?"
"Or perhaps a door?"
At this ti, the footsteps of others also followed, Lan Fengxian, Li Wannian, and an old man from Guangzhou Yangquan Restaurant, with hair and beard all white, stood in front of the display cabinet, casting longing and hopeful looks at these utensils.
After a while, Zhu Ji suddenly spoke, "How much longer?"
Several gazes turned to him, and Xia Yu knew Zhu Ji was asking him, scratching his head, "Um, about... a year? This is a conservative estimate. Will it make everyone wait too long?"
"..."
Including Zhu Ji, the group of old folks who had long desired, hoping to uncover the mystery of the eight legendary cooking utensils in their lifeti, had an indescribably strange look in their eyes.
Xia Yu was unnerved by the old folks’ gaze, thinking they were displeased, he quickly said, "Then half a year!"
"Cough, cough!"
Lan Fengxian couldn’t catch his breath, first coughing and pounding his chest, which spread the reaction, and the robust Li Wannian also turned to cough, his face turning red.
Xia Yu glanced at the inventory.
"Comprehension Crystal" (180) *2.
He planned to develop a foundation of creativity and accumulation with this consumable tool to help him quickly grow in "experience", in online ga terms, similar to an experience pill growth stimulant. Therefore, he made the promise of half a year.
"Did I say sothing wrong?" Xia Yu could only question Zhu Ji with an innocent look.
"In our lifeti series... No, just as you said, half a year!"
Zhu Ji imdiately corrected himself. It seems he was quite emotionally disturbed, sowhat absent-minded when Xia Yu questioned him.
I see!
Xia Yu suddenly understood, realizing the drastically shortened ti to reveal the mystery frightened these old folks half to death.
But, I really wasn’t exaggerating!
Just half a year!
In his mind, he had already outlined a westward travel route...
And the endpoint is in the Aegean Sea in Europe.
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