Chapter 206 Food Upgrade (4K)

The group of shamans is mainly male, but strong female shamans can choose to join the shrine and become official shrine maidens.

Therefore, there were only two or three female spirit masters on the scene. They either voluntarily gave up their status as shrine maidens or lost in the competition and eventually became non-staff spirit masters with a higher degree of freedom and who did not have to take on the quota of banquet tasks.

There were a total of 18 spirit masters, and the plate in front of each of them was empty, without even a drop of sauce left.

Tsuyoshi Higashino also dined in this area.

He signed a contract with a monster named Fengli and became a spirit master for more than two years.

But in the group of spirit masters, such a resume can only be considered as a newcomer.

After a moment of quiet reflection.

The many spirit masters sitting at the table suddenly started a lively discussion.

“Higashino Tsuyoshi, don’t you know this new Chosen One?”

“Yes, you just boasted that this Chosen One named Xia An is your fellow villager!”

“Tell me quickly, what’s the situation with this perfect dish of this quality…”

Dong Yegang, who had had little presence since joining the Spirit Master team, was flattered. Looking at the senior colleagues around him who came up to him enthusiastically and wanted to talk to him, his heart was filled with complex emotions and pride.

“Hey, I’ve said it before, my hometown once produced a great chef!” Dong Ye Gang straightened his chest unconsciously, “Didn’t you all see those two beams of light rising into the sky just now?”

“That is the light of cooking, representing the birth of ‘luminous cooking’.”

“In my hometown world, there is a famous saying that children all say: ‘Food that doesn’t shine is not good food’!”

Seeing is believing. Two beams of light had indeed shot up into the sky from the main kitchen of the banquet hall.

It even caused a fight between Lord Madara and the two demon kings.

So, this group of experienced spirit masters who were thrown into the Blue Star world and whose cooking skills were at least at the Pseudo-Lin level, brought up small stools and sat down next to Dong Ye Gang, listening to Dong Ye Gang’s stories about the God of Cooking with rare seriousness and curiosity.

The fourth part of the feast is in progress.

“Shh-“

Everyone who was immersed in the story looked up suddenly.

Everyone’s eyebrows were twitching.

Hold the grass.

Again?
This is the third time today!
In other words, it is the third batch of light dishes!
“Mr. Dongye, didn’t you say that glowing food has become extinct in the modern gourmet world of Blue Star?” A spirit master said suspiciously, “But why can this person cook glowing food wholesale!”

Dong Yegang spread his hands:
“So I said, Chef Xia An has the nickname of ‘The One Who Reappears in the Present Time’ in our place, and after the Cat Island Festival, this nickname must have become famous all over the world.”

A middle-aged female spirit master looked towards the center of the area, at the white-haired old man who was sitting calmly with a peaceful expression.

“Chief Lei, with your erudition, you must know about ‘luminous cuisine’, right?”

These words immediately turned the atmosphere cold.

The spirit masters who were originally chatting at once all stopped talking tacitly and looked at the old man surnamed Lei with awe in their eyes.

Chief Lei, who seemed to be pondering something and had not moved for a long time, raised his eyebrows when he heard the words.

Dong Yegang felt a chill down his spine.

He sensed Chief Lei’s deep gaze cast upon him, as if it could see through all the secrets of him.

“Chief Lei, I…” Dong Yegang took a deep breath.

This up-and-coming pseudo-Lin, who has been making waves in the neon food world of Blue Star recently, behaved like a student meeting an authoritative professor when facing the chief spirit master of the Land of Monsters.

“I know about ‘luminous cuisine’ and the legends and stories of the God of Cooking.”

The old man surnamed Lei spoke calmly, but his eyes showed a bit of interest. “But there is no need to talk about the deeds of the predecessors. In comparison, I am more curious about the ‘glowing re-emergence person’ in the modern food industry. Higashino Tsuyoshi, can you tell me more about this young gentleman’s story?”

“Okay, okay!”

……

the other side.

The two demon kings, Daitengu and Yatsukuni, returned to the main kitchen, only to see the third batch of glowing dishes freshly out of the oven.

“These delicacies are mine!” The fox girl Long glanced at the handsome man with great vigilance.

“No, whoever sees it gets a share.”

The handsome man waved his feather fan with a smile.

“Hehe, so, I hate squinty eyes like you the most.” The fox girl Long’s tone suddenly turned cold. She took a light step forward. With the next step, she shrunk the ground into an inch. In an instant, she was standing in front of the kitchen counter and raised her hand to collect this batch of ten dishes.

call–

The handsome man’s eyes also turned cold, and the black wings on his back fluttered slightly. Then a strange wind blew up out of nowhere, tearing a hole in the fox girl Long’s sleeve and snatching half of the plate.

“stop!”

The fox girl Long shouted loudly, her breast heaving with anger.

“Are you going to break up with me?!”

The handsome man turned and walked away, no longer looking his usual elegant and gentle self.

boom boom boom…

The surging demonic power collides and explodes.

At the banquet venue, people looked at the two groups of evil spirits rising from the ground to the depths of the dark sky, shook their heads and sighed, then continued to discuss and exchange their food experiences with their relatives and friends.

“It’s a mess. It’s all a mess.”

In the open space outside the main kitchen door, the atmosphere between the big demon and the other demons was not right. They were wary of each other and confronted each other.

The Shuten girl took out a wine gourd from somewhere and continued to drink heartily as if no one was around. Only when she occasionally glanced at the group of monster colleagues around her, would she show some clarity and vigilance in her drunken state.

“The number of dishes is limited, so it seems I have to take action today.” The Shuten girl thought to herself.

“Tsk, now that I have said that.”

“What kind of smell is it, and what kind of magic power does it contain, that would make Madara show his true form and snatch it without caring about anything?”

……

And with the efficient cooking of ten dishes per batch.

Soon Xia An found that there was not enough food.

[Goal ①: At your personal banquet, cook a ‘pseudo-Lin-level answer dish’ and take more than 500 servings (double the ingredients returned)]

【Progress 260/500】

“Only halfway through the process?” Xia An frowned.

He quickly told this to the Shion Miko who was returning to the kitchen after leading the team to serve the dishes.

Shion Miko was not surprised: “Those three have such good appetites. They divided up three batches of the glowing dishes.”

“There are still many big monsters and monsters waiting outside with green eyes. If we can’t satisfy their appetite, this feast will never end.”

Xia An had a headache and said:
“But… where can we find a large number of ruby ​​crab legs to feed everyone?”

A crab has 8 legs, and so does the ruby ​​crab.

Four on each side.

If you count the big crab claws, that’s 10 in total.

Fortunately, the ruby ​​crab is a fantasy creature with a very large body. If you cut open one leg, take out the meat and cut it into pieces, you can make a plate of crispy crab legs.

Therefore, the Shion priestess who was preparing the feast brought back 26 fresh ruby ​​crabs specifically for this fourth session.

If converted into igo points, the value of these 26 ruby ​​crabs would be an astronomical figure.

But if we host a banquet for the entire demon land.

26 crabs are still too few.

You know, Xia An’s dish is fried crab legs, and crab meat is rarely used. Crab meat is not suitable for frying. Forcing it to be fried in this way would only be a waste of food.

Shion Miko did not look worried, she smiled and said, “There are at least five or six hundred crabs in the habitat under the mine, which can be called a large population.”

“However, Chef Xia, your ‘Crispy Ruby Crab Legs’ only uses crab legs and crab claws.”

“As for the crab roe for the sauce, we can still get a lot from these 26 crabs.”

“So this time when I lead the team to go hunting, I only plan to cut the crab legs and crab claws and bring them back.”

Xia An was stunned: “Is it possible? Wouldn’t the crab be crippled from now on?”

Shion Miko pursed her lips and said with a smile:
“Ruby crabs are also called ‘mine crabs’. They feed on underground minerals and gems. As long as they devour stones, their limbs will grow back after a while.”

What else could Xia An say? He once again praised it as worthy of being a fantasy life.

“correct.”

Shion Miko, who was about to turn around, stopped and asked:

“Chef Xia, half of the people still haven’t had their food, and with the monsters having huge appetites, how many crab legs do you think we need to bring back?”

Xia An opened the target interface.

[Goal ②: At your personal banquet, cook a ‘pseudo-Lin-level answer dish’ and take more than one thousand servings (10 times the ingredients will be returned)]

【Progress 260/1000】

“740.” Xia An gave an accurate number.

Shion Miko: ? ?

“How did you estimate this number?”

Xia An smiled but said nothing. It was just a task on the Kitchen God panel.

“There are a lot of them. I need to find more people to go with me.”

The priestess Shion walked out of the kitchen and issued a call to all the priestesses on duty and the entire team of spirit masters.

“Chief Lei, please lead the team and come with me.” Shion Miko said, “Chef Xia needs more ingredients to prepare this debut feast.”

The white-haired old man readily agreed:

“I can’t ask for it.”

The spirit masters were also fully willing.

Wouldn’t it mean that if they hunted for more ingredients and brought them back, they would have a chance to have a second plate of fried crab legs today?

Hiss, at the thought of being able to eat such pure and perfect dishes again, the spirit masters all revealed greedy expressions and were drooling.

“let’s go!”

“I have so much energy now!”

Dong Ye Gangren was in the team. He quietly opened his phone and sent a message to Xia An:

[You are really good, kid. You won everyone over with your cooking skills at your first feast, and made the entire Monster Country fall into the food paradise you created.]

At this moment, there was no food available, so Xia An had some time to catch his breath.

When he saw the message from Takeshi Higashino, he smiled happily.

[Higashino-san, I finally know where you got the ruby ​​crabs you provided at the manor competition venue.]

[That is, outside the demon village, resource points are everywhere. After the feast, please give me a favor and I will bring you over to chat with some senior spirit masters. They are very curious about you.]

[Well, of course, there is a spiritual master trading market inside the demon village. If you want to buy or exchange any ingredients, you can ask openly when the time comes.]

Xia An exclaimed, his eyes sparkling.

“You can take this opportunity to ask about the level 92 ‘Sweet Cola’ ingredient.”

The reason why the Demon Town can survive like a nail house in this dark continent, apart from the protection of the cat god Spot, is the system of shrine maidens and spirit masters, which form a positive feedback of continuous purification through feasts.

Therefore, Xia An had extremely high expectations for this place.

After all.

As soon as he arrived, he got the incredible item [God’s Egg] from the private treasury of the cat god Spot.

He estimated.

There must be a dragon chef in the demon country.

If you can establish a dialogue with the Dragon Chef, then level 92 [Sweet Cola] will be equivalent to having accurate information.

Xia An had plenty of time to rest before the Shion Miko brought back another batch of ingredients.

“Let me see what rewards I will get from the recipe book after the Crispy Ruby Crab Legs is completed to 100%.”

……

[Recipe: Crispy Ruby Crab Legs]

[Fake Jin/Fake Lin/Answer Recipe]

[Completion/Reproducibility: 83% → 100%]

[Proficiency: Great → Perfect]

[One of the recipes for the answer to the ‘Ruby Crab Trio’ by the talented chef Tang Meijun]

……

Xia An opened the recipe book again to see the reward information to be received.

[Gain 100 Food Skill Points for 10% Perfect Processing and Mastering ‘Ruby Crab Leg Meat’/’Ruby Crab Roe’]

[Because of 100% reproduction of the recipes of the predecessors’ fake gold and fake lin answers, host, please expand the reward list——]

“coming!”

Xia An was looking forward to it and clicked on the list.

……

“Option ①: Food and Justice · Market Fireworks [Green] → Food and Justice · Market Fireworks [Blue]”

“Option ②: Gourmet Cell Sequence 4 [Crystallization]”

“Option ③: Ruby Crab Breeding and Farming Manual”

……

? ?
This was the first time Xia An had seen a reward like a breeding manual.

He muttered to himself.

It seems that the panel is also intentionally guiding him to take the fantasy food ranch route of “Palu Home”.

Think about it too.

Sitting on a vast volcanic island both above and below the ground, it would be a sheer waste of land resources if we didn’t cultivate a group of imaginary life forms.

Although option ② is good, it is the turtle shell sequence of [Crystallization]. If it was sequence 3, Xia An might have accepted it with a pinch of his nose.

But that’s not entirely true. If one considers the terrible backlash that would follow from a sudden jump in sequence, Xia An feels that the sequence span is so large that he might not be able to withstand it even if he eats glowing dishes. He would also need the assistance of the magical medicine [Chak Leaf] from the dragon horn on the head of the Cretaceous Bird. Only then would he consider taking the risk.

“That’s a perfect option.”

“After the two-route pseudo-Lin, the food meaning of only ‘green’ level and concentration is no longer good enough…”

“We need to upgrade it to purple or pseudo-gold frame grade as soon as possible.”

It was a rare opportunity to see an upgrade option for food, so Xia An no longer hesitated.

Of course, the other 10 food skill points reward was quite generous. Xia An was very happy and did not forget to check the cooking experience points. Then the corner of his mouth twitched slightly:
“Hey, why am I looking at this? It’s already been used up.”

……

Soon, Shion Miko led the team back.

The atmosphere in the main kitchen of the banquet was once again busy and suffocating.

Xia An said nothing.

Just fried crab legs.

After the fourth meat dish session which was the longest and had the most lively atmosphere.

Then, four other shrine maidens served the main course, salad, dessert and drinks.

The entire feast process corresponds exactly to the 8 chapters of the [Menu of Life].

Before I knew it, it was already dusk.

But in the demon land, there is no sky and no sunshine.

Residents will adjust their home timekeeping tools according to the shrine’s clock.

“Chef Xia, thank you for your hard work.”

The priestess Shion led the other priestesses in a line, guarding the door of the main kitchen, and saw Xia An coming out wiping his hands.

The priestesses bowed in sincere greeting from the bottom of their hearts.

This is the situation.

This made the team of spirit masters who were watching not far away feel deeply moved.

Look, others’ first cooking show captured all the shrine maidens from big to small.

“Sun Ning was such a genius back then, but he couldn’t convince all the witches, right?” someone exclaimed.

“Hey, Sun Ning and Li Yue-chan had a cooking showdown!”

“Then let me ask Chef Xia… Is there anyone among you who is dissatisfied with this banquet, dissatisfied with the fourth link that Chef Xia is responsible for… dissatisfied with his dishes?”

The group of spirit masters were speechless and looked at the man who spoke and was obviously adding fuel to the fire.

Dongye just learned that this person was called Cassius Dhawan.

From a steampunk world.

Therefore, this person is dressed in a steampunk style, with a slim vest with a white shirt and straight black trousers decorated with rivets and leather belts.

There are also copper buttons, gears, chains and other elements and decorations everywhere on the body.

The whole person’s temperament gives people a retro and capable feeling.

In fact, this is a fun guy.

At this moment——

Three beams of light descended.

Handsome men and beautiful women who are the incarnations of the three demon kings: Gyuto, Daitengu and Eight-tailed Fox.

They all spoke up, fearing they would fall behind, and invited Xia An to a contract:
“Will you sign a contract with me?”

“I appreciate your cooking skills, and I also want to eat glowing dishes more often…”

“As long as you can keep feeding me, I will keep working for you!”

what?
The witches and spirit masters had never seen three demon kings fighting for a person, and they were all stunned.

(End of this chapter)