1424 A Fluke? (2/2)

The last slash fell gently. The counter over the array finally completed its last jump. With a humming sound, it stopped at nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

”Suc… succeed?!”

”Heavens! He's done it!”

”The second test… is solved?!”

The Divine Chefs all looked in a daze at the lean figure standing in front of the black wok. The array flashed as Bu Fang paused the task. With that, the crowd erupted into an uproar, their excited voices instantly flooding the whole place. Luo Sanniang's great bosom heaved as she giggled.

Bu Fang turned around and breathed a long sigh of relief, but his brows were tightly furrowed. The exhaustion of his divine sense was a little overwhelming. The Kitchen Knife of Affliction was comparable to a divine power, and with his mental force, he could probably use it once. It was indeed the legendary knife technique left behind by an ancient Heavengod.

He produced a teapot, which contained steaming tea. A refreshing aroma filled the air in an instant as he took a sip of the Nine Revolution Great Path Tea to recover his mental force.

With the improvement of Bu Fang's cultivation base, the level of everything inside the Heaven and Earth Farmland had increased as well. The grade of the tea was now comparable to that of a divine-grade food ingredient. As it entered his stomach, his divine sense rapidly recovered like dried land absorbing the long-awaited rain.

Luo Sanniang came next to Bu Fang. She was holding a spirit fruit, and she handed it to him. ”Mister, this is a Spirit Rejuvenating Fruit, a supreme-grade spirit herb that helps recover divine sense. Please eat it quickly,” she said with a smile, looking at Bu Fang with excitement.

A Spirit Rejuvenating Fruit? Bu Fang took the fruit, glanced at her, and took a bite of the greenish fruit. Its juice oozed out as his teeth sank into its skin and flesh, which tasted sweet and fresh. As he chewed, the vast essence in the flesh rushed into his body and combined with the Nine Revolution Great Path Tea, causing his mental force to rotate at great speed. In just a flash, his mental force had fully recovered.

”This fruit is… excellent!” Bu Fang looked at the fruit in wonder. After finishing it, he kept the seed and quietly sent it into the farmland so Niu Hansan could grow it into a tree. He just had to plant a seed today, and he would have an endless supply of Spirit Rejuvenating Fruits in the future.

”The Divine Chef Temple is lucky to have you, mister. This second test had hindered us for about five years, but as soon as you arrived, you solved it,” Luo Sanniang said, winking. ”It's a pity that although you have completed the second test, you have spent too much time. Mister has only one hundred breaths left, and I think it's impossible to complete the third test in one hundred breaths.”

She then secretly gave Master Cheng a hateful look, who was approaching from a distance. Had it not been for this old fool's interruption, which caused Bu Fang to pause for about ten breaths, he would have a longer time to complete the third test. Perhaps the ten breaths were the key to complete the task!

Master Cheng walked over with a dark face, his eyes fixed on Bu Fang. ”I didn't expect that a boy like you would have such a deep understanding of knife techniques! I've underestimated you… It is indeed not easy for a mere Spirit Divine Chef to come this far!” he said coldly.

”But that's all you can do… In fact, I've long come out with the way to solve the second test…”

Before Master Cheng could finish, however, he was cut off by Bu Fang. ”Stop talking… You're disturbing me. I need to think of a way to solve the third test.”

Master Cheng was almost choked by his own words. His eyes went wide as a flush crept up his neck.

”You…”

He was furious. With his bad temper, he could not bear to be humiliated like this.

”That's enough, Master Cheng. If you wish to watch, stay, but if you try to disturb this young mister, I'll have no choice but to ask you to leave…” Luo Sanniang said coldly. She had no good impression of this bad-tempered old fool at all.

”Steward Luo, do you really think this boy can complete the third test? Why do you still put your hope in him when he merely completed the second test by a fluke? I can complete the second test too!” Master Cheng glared in anger. As someone who comprehended the Law of Fire, his temper was as hot as fire.

Luo Sanniang's face froze. Her disgust for this old fool grew stronger, but at the same time, she knew what he said was true. Of the three tests in the first seal, with each more difficult than the last one, the third one was almost impossible to complete. It was wishful thinking for Bu Fang to complete the third test in one hundred breaths.

She sighed and thought she had better not offend Master Cheng too much. After all, the Divine Chef Temple's higher echelon still attached great importance to him. They thought he was the key person who could break the inheritance seals.

”A fluke?”

Bu Fang glanced at Master Cheng as if he was looking at an idiot. His gaze gave both the Earth Divine Chef and Luo Sanniang pause.

”A real chef never has 'fluke' in his dictionary. We only wave our knives when we are confident… Don't you understand such a simple truth? It is a shame for that word to come out of a chef's mouth,” Bu Fang said indifferently.

The next moment, the Dragon Bone Kitchen Knife appeared again, glinting goldenly as it spun in Bu Fang's hand. Holding it firmly, he walked toward the array, his Vermilion Robe fluttering in the wind.

”Steward Luo, I'm going to solve the third test now. Please send those troublemakers away. He will soon realize that the fluke he mentioned is so… laughable.”