The Spirit of Gourmet

Chapter 219 The Miracle Kitchen Knife's Power

"Sha—"

With a soft, tearing sound like paper being torn, Qin Lang swiftly slashed a piece of cow bone, shaving off a fragment less than a millimeter long along the cut surface.

Looking at the bone fragment that was translucent and had a smooth, mirror-like surface, Qin Lang's eyes widened in a daze.

It is not surprising to cut cow bones with a knife.

But what if you use a knife to slice the cow bone into pieces?
Qin Lang was certain that the force he had just used was not much greater than that used to cut tofu.

With such force, this miraculous cleaver, with its sharp edge, managed to shave incredibly hard cow bones as if they were tofu.

If Qin Lang hadn't intentionally controlled it, he had no doubt that the chopping board under the cow bones, or even the entire table, could have been split in two by the cleaver.

Qin Lang shook his head, both amused and exasperated, and carefully put down the Miracle Knife.

The knife is good, but such a kitchen knife needs to be paired with a matching cutting board, otherwise you'll be worried every time you make a cut, and it's too easy to break it.

At this stage, unless you encounter something that a regular knife can't cut, it doesn't seem to be of much use...

While pondering, Qin Lang glanced in the direction of the Miracle Cleaver, and then almost popped his eyes out.

Egg Baby curiously approached the Miracle Knife and then touched the handle with its tail.

Then, to Qin Lang's astonishment, Egg Baby merged into the Miracle Knife without warning.

"Egg Baby?!"

Amid Qin Lang's exclamation, Egg Baby emerged from the Miracle Knife again, looking at it with a somewhat bewildered expression.

"Are you... alright?" Qin Lang asked anxiously. "Is there anything that's bothering you?"

"Gurgle?" Egg Baby tilted its head and then gurgled a lot.

The key point is that this knife is much wider than the Star Pulse.

Qin Lang: “…”

Indeed, there is a Traveler's Book within the Tian Shu Star Vein.

"Do you have any other feelings?" After confirming that Danbao was alright, Qin Lang asked curiously.

"Gurgle!" Egg Baby nodded emphatically.

Upon entering this knife, it seems to be able to use even more powerful culinary techniques!

"Even more powerful culinary skills..." Qin Lang looked at the Miracle Knife lying quietly on the table, a look of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Could it be that this special set of tableware can enhance a Food Spirit's cooking skills?

Thinking of this, Qin Lang couldn't help but pull Danbao along to experiment.

A moment later, looking at the table full of various cut ingredients, Qin Lang's eyes showed even more surprise.

Through his experiments, he found that after using the Miracle Knife, Egg Baby's cooking skill cooldown time remained unchanged at 12 hours, but the number of ingredients that could change his status was no longer two.

With the Miracle Knife as the medium, there will be no limit to the variety of fresh ingredients!

Normally, to process ingredients fresh without any restrictions on types, one needs to upgrade "Full of Freshness" to 7 stars, which means Egg Treasure needs to be promoted to a 7-star Food Spirit. For Qin Lang, this is a distant prospect.

After discovering another use for the Miracle Knife, Qin Lang's gaze towards it immediately became intense.

As expected of a product from Traveler's Book!
It took Qin Lang a while to recover from his excitement. He entered a state of introspection, put the Miracle Knife back into the Traveler's Book, and then remembered that he still had a very important thing to do.

Let's take a look at the content of the eleventh painting!
Turning the newly unlocked page, a brand new landscape painting appeared before Qin Lang's eyes. On the riverbank, there was a small stool and a fishing rod set up.

Upon seeing the scene, Qin Lang's eyes showed a look of realization and nostalgia.

Just like with the tenth painting before, he didn't need to ask anyone; he had already determined the location of this painting.

Because he had been to that location before.

An image of an old man and a young boy sitting side by side fishing appeared in Qin Lang's mind. The eleventh painting in front of him was of that very embankment.

After going around in circles, everything seems to have returned to the very beginning.

However, he is no longer the young man who argued with Mr. Zhou Qing over a food recommender badge.

He has now earned seven Level 1 Food Recommender badges and become the champion of the Tianhua Prefecture Youth Cooking Competition.

"Are you going back to Dongxia City?" Qin Lang asked with a smile. "That's perfect, I've been away from home for a while now."

Mr. Li Yuantu, president of the Royal Chef Association of Dongxia City, is a Level 2 Food Recommender.

My first Level 2 Food Recommender assessment happened to coincide with this event.

However, he still had two appointments to attend before going home.

The first thing was to teach Yang Xingze how to cook a dish for his mother to try, but now that Yang Xingze's house is being rebuilt, this can only be postponed until after the reconstruction.

As for the second game...
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"I hereby declare that the second duel between Qin Lang and Du Ziyan shall now begin!"

In the temporarily rented venue, Yu Zaozao, who was acting as a guest host, sounded particularly excited.

She had to beg and plead for a long time to secure the sole live broadcast rights for this competition. The Tianhua Prefecture Cooking Competition had just concluded, and anyone who followed the competition would want to watch it.

In just a short time, Yu Zaozao's live stream had already attracted over a million online users, surpassing her previous peak viewership, and this number continues to grow.

I believe her popularity will skyrocket again after this live stream!

Following Qin Lang's live stream this time was definitely a wise decision!

"I'm sure you viewers are all eager to see it, so let's not keep you in suspense any longer. Today's duel between the two of you is..." Yu Zaozao chuckled and moved the camera to the center of the arena, "...the exquisite and delicious lobster!"

As two enormous lobsters, each as long as a person, appeared on camera, the live stream chat exploded instantly, with countless comments flooding in and nearly crashing the server.

It's a showdown between rare and exquisite lobsters!

On the side of the venue, seven invited food critics sat in the spectator stands, watching the two people standing opposite each other at the table, their faces beaming with smiles.

"I didn't expect there to be a sequel to yesterday's championship battle." Bao Heng was probably the most excited of the seven. "Speaking of which, the association's reward was actually a rare and exquisite lobster. Why didn't they say so beforehand?"

"If I had told you beforehand, you probably would have already set your sights on those three lobsters," Pang Ju chuckled, mercilessly exposing his blunder.

“This…” Bao Heng blushed, revealing an embarrassed expression.

He had actually done something similar before.

“These three beautiful lobsters were sent from Mingjing Prefecture.” Xu Yueran smiled. “Recently, the seafood industry in Qili Bay has been booming, and Mingjing Prefecture, as the southernmost prefecture in the Dongyun region, has naturally received a lot of good stuff.”

"Let's not talk about that. Let's watch their cooking instead," Xu Yueran said with anticipation in her eyes. "Every time I see young chefs showcasing their skills, I can't help but think of myself when I was young..."

"We're in for a treat today."

(End of this chapter)