"What are you hesitating for?"
The leader of the gourt club’s words echoed in Lei Zhe’s mind for a long ti.
Thud, thud!
The female assistant knocked on the door, then pushed it open and placed a small, exquisite dinner on the table, whispering, "Sir, it’s ti for dinner!"
"Dinner?"
Lei Zhe sat down at the table, picked up the knife and fork, cut a small piece of the fragrant roasted steak, and chewed it in his mouth.
"We have prepared it with the best fantasy beef as you requested..."
Staring at Lei Zhe’s face, the assistant had only gotten this far when Lei Zhe suddenly frowned.
"Ugh!"
He spat out, and the chewed steak fell onto the white porcelain plate. Lei Zhe grabbed a napkin to wipe his mouth and said expressionlessly, "I can’t eat."
The assistant tentatively said, "You haven’t eaten properly in three days."
"I said I can’t eat!"
Finally, Lei Zhe beca irritable.
"Eating, to maintain bodily functions, is necessary."
"I said I can’t eat!"
Boom.
An extrely irritable Lei Zhe punched and collapsed the table; in that mont, he was like an angry bear, causing the female assistant to fall silent imdiately.
Dishes and food scattered all over the floor.
That piece of steak, still steaming and with only one corner cut off, rolled to his feet.
Just now, Lei Zhe had tasted a steak cooked from the beef part of "Cattle-Pig-Bird", and indeed, as the assistant said, it was of the highest quality, incredibly tender.
But he just had no desire to eat.
Even, when he glanced at the steak by his feet, a hint of annoyance shot from his eyes.
"Why!!"
"Why is this food so dry and hollow!"
"Hollow, ager delicacies, they simply can’t stimulate my appetite!"
Lei Zhe talked to himself.
The feeling of irritation, it even made him panic. It was as if a rustic from the mountains who suddenly dined at the imperial banquet in the palace, enjoying the most delicious delicacies in the world, then having to go back and eat ordinary food, completely unable to muster an appetite.
Simply put—
His "Food Tyrant’s Stomach" was no longer satisfied!
The assistant retreated to the door, watching her boss muttering to himself, irritably rubbing his stomach, and she couldn’t help but recall the story of the Far Moon Chinese Building from three nights ago.
As if, that dish that made Lei Zhe obsessed and still bound his desires to this day, was it called "Tofu Trio"?
She shivered.
Seeing her boss so frustrated, the assistant imdiately felt dread towards that young head chef.
A Food Dominator Lin Chef could fast, not eating for days and still be lively.
But a Food Dominator special chef, who was like a normal person, she could hardly imagine not being able to eat for days, having no appetite, and slowly withering away.
It was as if a soft, sharp knife was constantly nearing the heart, and you were powerless to stop it.
The more the assistant thought about it, the more scared she beca, sweating coldly.
...
At the Tiqie Mansion’s front gate.
Lei Zhe’s luggage was stuffed into the trunk, but suddenly, system text popped up on Xia Yu’s retina:
"Mission—’Advance! The ’School Festival’ battle is on!’ - Completed!"
"You have gained 10 idle Talent Points."
"Food Dominator Qilin Forbidden Recipe has been added to your backpack, please check."
Bang!
The sound of closing the car trunk even had a hint of excitent.
"Ha, another 10 Talent Points!"
Energized, Xia Yu didn’t think twice and invested all the resources into the talents related to his drugging ability, so the updated Talent Panel popped up:
"Heart of Cooking" (Purple → Gold), Upgrade Progress: 67/100.
Just 33 Talent Points away, and I’ll officially advance to Master level!
Involuntarily, Xia Yu’s green gaze locked onto a few major tasks in the mission column that hadn’t been cleared—
"Students Bloom Everywhere" (Part Four) awards 15 Talent Points; the requirent is to ntor a student to break through to a special grade.
"Renown Collection—Delicious Comics! (Part One)," requires the creation of a comic series not less popular than "Death Note" (in this world), with subject matter limited to gastronomy and culinary arts.
The reward for this task is even more brutal: 20 Talent Points, plus one Supre Draw.
Just counting the Talent Point rewards from these two tasks alone, that’d be more than enough to get "Heart of Cooking" through its promotion!
And Xia Yu already had leads on both tasks.
Thinking about the details, he murmured to himself, "From the beginning of December to the end of the month, there’s one month left. And before the Lunar New Year next year, there’s almost two months of operable ti. Roughly three months should be enough, right?"
"What should be enough?"
A sudden voice from behind startled Xia Yu.
He turned around and saw it was Senzaemon.
The old man was holding a broom, having apparently been sweeping the courtyard—a picture of leisure and elegance.
"Nothing."
Xia Yu quickly replied.
Senzaemon didn’t press the matter and nodded, saying, "Thank you for your work with the school festival. Now that you have so free ti, you could delve into that recipe at ho; you might gain other insights."
After saying this, the elderly man turned to leave.
"Does the General want to understand the way to combine Fantasy Ingredients with culinary justice?" Xia Yu asked.
To his surprise, these words made the old man’s body jolt violently.
Xia Yu opened the car door, grasped the handle, and spoke in the most ordinary tone, "I’ll keep an eye on that, thank you for enlightening with those recipes, General."
Bang!
The car door closed, and the young man instructed the driver to start the car, which then drove away, trailing a waft of exhaust emissions behind.
After a long while, Tiqie Zongwei ca out from the main gate and asked Senzaemon, who had been standing still for a long ti, in surprise, "Father, can the so-called ’culinary justice’ really be combined with Fantasy Ingredients?"
"No!"
The old man took a deep breath and said, "This is the path to integrating ’culinary justice’ and ’Food Dominator’!"
Tiqie Zongwei was shocked, "Integration of culinary justice and Food Dominator? What would that create?!"
Hearing that, the old man’s expression beca even more grave.
"This is a mystery above that of the Lin Chef."
Tiqie Zongwei was horrified.
Could that an—
The secret realm of the ’Dragon’?
...
Driving through the bustling streets of Tokyo.
With nothing else to do, Xia Yu simply flipped through the Lin Chef Food Dominator recipe book he had just acquired.
"Light of rck" (Qilin, Forbidden): Legend has it that ’rck’ represents a miller’s school, and the Taboo Spices known as ’rck’s Stars’ were nad after it. This is a true recipe for harnessing and awakening Taboo Spices. Mastering it, you will have a strong competitive edge among the Food Dominator Lin Chef community."
He skimd the information, choosing to learn.
The recipe transford into a beam of light.
But without the aid of a crystal prop for learning, Xia Yu’s understanding of the text information in his mind was only superficial.
After reading it several tis, Xia Yu frowned, "This is tough!"
Rather than calling it a recipe, it seed more like a spice-frawork formula!
And yet, with Xia Yu’s current mastery of "Spice Inequalities" and comprehension abilities, he couldn’t see the details of the frawork in the detailed text!
"Hmm, I didn’t expect ’Light of rck’ to have instructions for using spice formulas. Apparently, they’re examples; indeed very comprehensive... Isn’t this an Italian seasoned bread? Mixing all-purpose flour with salt, caster sugar, adding milk powder, dry yeast, stirring, and kneading with water until the dough can be stretched into a translucent thin film..."
"Huh!"
At the second step of the recipe, Xia Yu’s pupils contracted.
Here, one would normally add sothing called ’Italian seasoning,’ which is really a composite spice made from a blend of dried basil, thy, and various other powders commonly available in many Western spice shops. Xia Yu was not uninford in this area; he could tell the difference at a glance.
"The frawork for using Taboo Spices is to be filled in right here?"
Engrossed in thought, he didn’t realize he had returned to the shopping district.
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