Various skill competitions are going on one after another, with exciting scenes and climaxes.
Many of the popular skills have produced third-level monsters.
Including Spirit Plant Cultivation Arts, who Li Xiuchang is most concerned about, and as expected, there is also Spirit Planter, who has just entered the third level.
Fortunately, Li Xiuchang did not sign up to participate in the Spirit Plant competition.
Hundred Arts Competition kept spinning, one game after another, until it was Li Xiuchang's turn on the fifth day.
Together with Lingchu, he is considered a favorite among the unpopular, and there are more than fifty contestants.
In view of this kind of small number of players, Seal Heaven Sect also formulated a straightforward two-round competition system.
The first round of eliminations will directly determine the top ten.
The second round of ranking competition will determine the top ten rankings.
The chief referee was an elder from the Seal Heaven Sect. He read the rules of the first round loudly, "The contestants can choose from the ingredients we provide and try their best to make a spiritual dish. The judging panel will score based on the grade, effect and taste of the spiritual dish. The top ten with the highest scores can advance to the next round of finals..."
To put it simply, the same ingredients are used to make spiritual dishes, and the scores are based on the spiritual dishes.
Among them, the grade of spiritual food is the first scoring criterion, accounting for the largest proportion.
In other words, the third-level spiritual food does not need to consider the color, fragrance and edible effect, and the second-level spiritual food is stable.
Only spiritual dishes of the same level need to compete in terms of taste and edible effect.
The ratio between taste and effect is also half and half.
Li Xiuchang took a look at the ingredients provided by the Seal Heaven Sect, which ranged from first level to third level.
In addition, all kinds of common seasonings, side dishes, accessories, and even kitchen utensils are also available.
Contestants can only use the ingredients and kitchen utensils provided by the Seal Heaven Sect, and cannot use their own.
"Contestants please come forward and choose the ingredients."
Li Xiuchang Hearing this, he took a few steps forward. He had already selected in his mind what he needed, which were all third-level ingredients.
The most skilled second-level Spirit Chef can cook some simple third-level spiritual dishes, but there is a possibility of failure.
However, the time given for the first round of the competition is three hours. As long as you make the spiritual dish within three hours, it doesn't matter if you fail a few times in the middle.
Moreover, Li Xiuchang is actually Spirit Chef of Peak Second Tier, and the success rate of cooking third-level spiritual dishes is not low.
Therefore, his goal in the first round of the competition was to make a simple third-level spiritual dish. If he won with the level of the spiritual dish, he would go directly to the next round.
Seeing that Li Xiuchang was using only third-level ingredients made other contestants and the audience pay attention to Li Xiuchang. This shows that Li Xiuchang is at least a second-level senior Spirit Chef.
What Li Xiuchang is making this time is a very simple fried pork with chili pepper. The main ingredients are third-level Spicy Immortal Pepper and third-level Pig Demon meat.
Simple dishes show more skill, requiring the guidance of mana and the stimulation of fire to stimulate the effects of different ingredients, so that they do not conflict with each other and can complement each other.
As the competition progressed, the entire competition venue was filled with the aroma of food, adding a lot of fireworks to this holy land of immortals.
Li Xiuchang moved very quickly. He was the first to finish cooking, took the third-level spiritual dish out of the pot, and brought it to the referee's table.
The judging panel is composed of Four Great Immortal Sects elders, half of whom are masters who are good at spiritual cooking, and the other half are ordinary elders.
Among them were not only the two elders Immortal Dust Sect, but also Elder Wu, whose life was saved by Li Xiuchang.
This made Li Xiuchang couldn't help but doubt the fairness of the game. Are these guys really not going to let him go?
But with his strength, he doesn't need any extra care.
Several judges ate Li Xiuchang's fried pork with chili peppers and nodded unanimously with approval.
"Yes, it has both color and flavor, and it also takes into account the effect of spiritual food. This spiritual food can promote Fire Attribute Cultivation Method's practice, and the effect is good."
"Qualified third-level spiritual food!"
Several referees and elders gave favorable comments.
In the first round, Li Xiuchang advanced without a doubt.
Among his opponents, there were also two people who cooked third-level spiritual dishes, but they were far from as effortless as Li Xiuchang.
Li Xiuchang was a success. The two of them failed more or less several times before making the third-level spiritual dish.
After one round of competition, only ten people were left to enter the second round, and the rest were eliminated.
Among these ten people, there are only four or five who have reached the second level of Spirit Chef Arts. The other few who have not reached the second level are obviously just making up the numbers. The top ten rankings and rewards are already over.
In the spiritual chef competition, everyone knows that the second round is the most important.
The referee read out the rules of the second round, "In the second round, lots will be used to determine the type of your main ingredients. The second round of tests mainly focuses on two points, one is innovation, and the other is the utilization of ingredients!
"As an Spirit Chef, the ability to innovate is essential. In the past year, a Spirit Chef who is famous for innovation has emerged from the Immortal Dust Sect. He has developed hundreds of new dishes and even influenced the entire spiritual cooking world!
"So in this competition, contestants are encouraged to create new dishes. Innovative dishes of the same level will be given priority to give high scores."
There was an uproar in the Immortal Dust Sect audience camp in the audience. They all knew that the person the referee was talking about was "The Longest Man" of Preaching Ranking fame.
"The Longest Man" has developed hundreds of new dishes. After spreading the news, many new dishes have been sold to various large and small sects in the Immortal Shade Realm and Rogue Cultivator.
Nowadays, many people in the world of immortal cultivation know that Immortal Dust Sect has an innovative Spirit Chef, but they cannot find out the specific information or even the name of this Spirit Chef.
Even when I asked the disciples of the Immortal Dust Sect, they couldn't explain it.
You can't say it's called "The Longest Man", right?
The referee continued, "The second point is the use of ingredients. As a Spirit Chef, you should know that ingredients are hard to come by and waste is shameful. Therefore, if you can maximize the use of the given ingredients, the less you waste, the more points you will get."
After the referee read out the rules, the contestants all looked thoughtful, some were worried, and some were happy.
People who are worried are worried about how to innovate. Some people can only cook fixed dishes and follow the recipes like a formula. It will definitely be difficult for them to innovate.
Those who are happy are because this rule increases their chances of winning.
For example, the skills of those second-level Spirit Chef are not as sophisticated as those of Li Xiuchang.
If they were to compete with hard power and the success rate of cooking third-level spiritual dishes, they would definitely not be able to compete with Li Xiuchang, but if they were to compete with innovation and use of ingredients, they would have a chance.
Li Xiuchang is calm and confident.
Fighting for innovation?
He is at the level of Grandmaster.
When it comes to the number of new dishes developed by Preaching Ranking, even the boss of "Fairy, You Aid My Cultivation" cannot compare with him.
On the other hand, he needs to think carefully about the utilization rate of ingredients.
Next, there is the drawing process to determine the main ingredients used in the second round of competition.
Li Xiuchang was the first to be called up to draw lots. When Divine Sense was blocked, he drew a bamboo stick with the word "fish" written on it.
At a glance, you can tell that the main ingredient for the second round of Li Xiuchang is fish.
For those who followed, some drew "bird", some drew "beast", some drew "element", some drew "shell", some drew "worm"...
Overall, this draw of Li Xiuchang is not the best, but it is definitely not bad either.
I didn't see the player who had drawn the "worm", and I was so worried that I almost cried.
Even in the world of immortality, using insects as food ingredients is a niche thing.
Not all Spirit Chef are good at this.
Li Xiuchang and other contestants quickly received their main ingredients, and other auxiliary ingredients could be selected by themselves.
Li Xiuchang opened the box containing the main ingredients and found that there were more than a dozen fish in it.
They are all big and small, from first level to third level!
Among them, there is only one third-order fish, which is about the size of an adult's leg.
There are the largest number of second-order fish, and there are only a few first-order fish.
This also proves that this competition has indeed increased the proportion of "innovation" and "ingredient utilization", and provided a large number of second-level ingredients, with the purpose of allowing contestants to have room for innovation.
If a large amount of third-level ingredients are given, more than half of the contestants will not be able to make third-level spiritual dishes, and several other second-level Spirit Chefs will also have trouble making third-level spiritual dishes. How can they have the energy to innovate?
The first time a Spirit Chef gets the ingredients, he must straighten out his thoughts and figure out what spiritual dishes he wants to use these ingredients for, so that he can know what to do with these spiritual dishes in the next step.
However, some people obviously panicked in the first step. For example, the contestant who got the insect ingredients opened the box and saw a group of various bugs, poisonous and non-toxic, hairy, with many legs, and insect pupae that kept twisting their buttocks...
He was so frightened that he almost threw away the ingredients and the box.
These ingredients, even if they are still alive, are sealed and cannot cause any danger, but some people have an innate fear of certain animals.
For example, Li Xiuchang hates fluffy fluffy moths, and gets goosebumps when he sees them.
The other contestant who drew the "shell" was also in tears. His ingredients were not bad, including shrimps, crabs, turtles, various shellfish, and most importantly, a batch of large snails.
These snails gave him trouble.
Chen Changsheng in the audience frowned subconsciously when he saw that there were turtle ingredients.
At this time Li Xiuchang had already sorted out his thoughts and started processing the ingredients.
This second round of competition gave them three full days to compete, considering that processing ingredients and innovating and trial-and-error take time.
For this kind of long game, the next game will be played in advance on the side competition table, and the two games will be played at the same time.
The ten contestants all entered the state one after another. Some of them had no idea and could only give up innovation.
The competition only encourages innovation. If you really can't innovate, you can still cook existing dishes, but without the bonus points for innovation.
Li Xiuchang thinks clearly, and the kitchen knife in his hand is flying. These ingredients are no different from tofu under his Equalizer Dao, and he can handle them easily.
This sword skill alone attracted everyone's attention and earned enough attention.
However, many people looked puzzled when they saw the way Li Xiuchang handled the ingredients, as if every cut of Li Xiuchang landed in an unexpected place.