651 The Competition Has Entered the Metaphysical Field (1/2)

”H-How is this supposed to work?”

It was only a tea time after the food competition began that Aya already fell into confusion.

She had never heard of this kind of competition. She had to find some deliberate flaws left by

the chefs from the dishes and win the competition by accumulating five hundred points.

The rules were not hard to understand. The difficult thing was about, what role could she play in

this kind of competition?

When it came to culinary judgment, she already had quite an extensive experience. In his stay

in Nine Regions for many years, out of hobbies, she had tasted a lot of food… thus, it was not

wrong to say that she was a food expert.

However, the opponent was the 'Food Immortal'.

In a cup of tea's time, the other side had already got eight points in succession. Most of the

food, as long as they passed through his mouth, he could immediately tell even their slightest

defect accurately.

”Well, previously, this shiitake mushroom hasn't been soaked enough. Though it doesn't affect

the taste much, it is ultimately defective. In addition, the water quality of this soup is not up to

standard, is it deliberately mixed with well water? It's not actually that much, just a spoonful.”

Wang Lu nodded. ”Food Immortal, you get another point.”

Hearing Wang Lu's score announcement, Aya was even more at a loss.

Could such defects be picked out? He was indeed worthy to be an ancient Food Immortal! If it's

me...

Aya looked down at the char-fried meat on the plate. A third of the dish had been eaten, but she

still couldn't tell where the flaw was.

The taste seemed to be a bit heavier and the meat seemed to be fried a bit longer, but to say

conclusively without a doubt that these were the defects, Aya actually didn't dare to say it.

Because it was the best char-fried meat that she had ever tasted. Better than any experience

she'd ever had in Nine Regions. By rougher standards, it was perfect, so how could there be

flaws.

While he was hesitating, the Food Immortal had completed the tenth appraisal. And after

reporting the defect, the Food Immortal turned to look at Aya and then asked, ”Are you really

sure you want to choose her as my opponent? She doesn't even know how to judge food, this

kind of useless person would only reduce this old man's appetite.”

Then, ignoring Aya, whose cheeks were already flushed with anger, Food Immortal said to

Wang Lu, ”I think it's better for you to personally come out and compete with me.”

Wang Lu laughed and said, ”Me?”

The Food Immortal pointed at Wang Lu with his greasy finger. ”I heard that you are a person

with versatile talent, you have good attainment in anything. Moreover, in the past month, we

have won many battles and took many victories. As the Chief Planner of the Union of Ten

Thousand Immortals, you have always been silent all the time. Yet, today you suddenly appear,

so presumably, you want to win a game to reverse the unfavorable situation of the Union of Ten

Thousand Immortals. Thus, in this battle, you have to win and must not lose, and therefore, you

ought to have an assurance to win! And this assurance couldn't possibly be her, right?”

With that, he took a sip of tea and laughed again. ”Moreover, how could you let a beautiful

young girl lose face on the field while you just watch by the side?”

When Wang Lu heard this, he could not help but sigh. ”Senior Food Immortal, it seems that your

big mouth is not only good at eating, but also good at provoking. Yes, if possible, of course, I

want to personally come forward to grasp the victory myself, pinning the hope of everyone as

well as mine on myself. And I did have a lot of experience in food tasting. Unfortunately,

because of not enough effort, I realized that I could never compete with the expert in this. Food

tasting requires talent, to love the food from the soul, not just the taste and the smell. If it's a

competition in theory, especially after training, I am confident that I could compete with anyone.

But what is the use of pure theory? True masters could surpass my learning just by intuition, not

to mention the world-class masters who interpret the dining table as a battlefield.”

The Food Immortal merely let out a laugh. Wang Lu's unwillingness to fight was as expected.

His invitation to Wang Lu a moment ago was just to shake Aya's confidence.

However, very quickly the Food Immortal frowned.

Because on the opposite table, Aya revealed a look of someone who suddenly had an

enlightenment. She said, ”The meat is added a bit more salt, and the beef type is deliberately

chosen wrong, which results in a slight deviation of the meat quality!”

Wang Lu nodded. ”One point for Aya.”

At this time, the Food Immortal suddenly realized what happened and scolded himself for being

muddled. Why would he want to provoke Wang Lu if everything was going well for him?

Wang Lu's remark just now sounded like an excuse for not coming forward, but in fact, he was

signaling Aya, telling her the correct way to judge food!

Although he didn't know why they didn't make this preparation before the match, one the match

started, Wang Lu could not interfere with the match for any reason. And it was also forbidden for

Wang Lu to warn… However, just now, he took the initiative to talk to Wang Lu, so Wang Lu

immediately took the opportunity of talking, to tell Aya the key to the match!

However… that Western Continent girl did indeed have some abilities. It could be seen that she

had no experience in tasting food and was only interested in food itself. She was very young in

both knowledge and means. But… it was not easy to recognize the flaws of the Chared-Fried

Meat. The salt was just a cover, the real difficulty lied in the meat quality identification! The extra

salt was just to obscure some of the meat's taste, making it difficult to tell if the chef actually

chose another kind of beef.

It could be said that this was a trap carefully designed by the chef. Even he, the Food Immortal

took a bit of time to find the details of the dish, after smelling the scent and then restored the full

flavor of the dish with the common sense of immortal method. For an average foodie, this was

already a very difficult problem.

And was Aya's ability to successfully advance through such difficulties a talent? Or...

While he was still astonished, Aya had successfully told the flaws of two dishes in succession.