<h4>Chapter 651 The Competition Has Entered the Metaphysical Field</h4>


    "H-How is this supposed to work?"


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


    She had never heard of this kind ofpetition. She had to find some deliberate ws left by


    the chefs from the dishes and win thepetition by umting five hundred points.


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


    this kind ofpetition?


    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 session. Most of the


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


    defect urately.


    "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 te. A third of the dish had been eaten, but she


    still couldn''t tell where the w 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


    ws.


    While he was hesitating, the Food Immortal hadpleted 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 personallye out andpete with me."


    Wang Luughed 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 nner 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 andughed 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 personallye 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 neverpete 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


    petition in theory, especially after training, I am confident that I couldpete with anyone.


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


    to mention the world-ss masters who interpret the dining table as a battlefield."


    The Food Immortal merely let out augh. 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 noting 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 ws 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


    vor of the dish with themon sense of immortal method. For an average foodie, this was


    already a very difficult problem.


    And was Aya''s ability to sessfully advance through such difficulties a talent? Or…


    While he was still astonished, Aya had sessfully told the ws of two dishes in session.


    "That was fast!"


    After Wang Lu''s instruction, Aya seemed to have been awakened and quicklypleted the


    tasting of all kinds of delicacies in apletely iprehensible way. It was as fast and as


    urate as the Food Immortal. Any food only needed to be touched by the tip of the tongue and


    the pros and cons of the food became clear and in. The Food Immortal cast a nce at it


    and immediately became dazed.


    Because it was totally unreasonable! She did touch them with her tongue, but it was in the


    wrong ce! For example, just now that Fire Turtle dish, whose vor essence was at the


    bottom tip of the center. Once they tasted that point, they could have aprehensive


    understanding of the whole dish. However, what Aya tasted was in its opposite direction!


    And then she gave the right answer: A negligible seasoning was deliberately misced during


    the seasoning.


    Someone cheated!


    This was the first reaction of the Food Immortal because such a scene was beyond his


    understanding… Of course, instead of using the opposite direction, he could see the problem


    without even using his tongue, but he was the Food Immortal, what of Aya then?


    Nevertheless, the cheating usation did note out because he was the Food Immortal.


    Not only he was the number one foodie in the world, but his cultivation base was also


    world-shaking. From the beginning until the end, he could not see where the two people could


    have cheated at and thus could not open his mouth to criticize them.


    However, a momentter, a more horrific scene appeared.


    In order to make up for the nearly ten points gap in the previous period, Aya began to speed up


    her food tasting. She reached out with chopsticks and picked up a fried eggnt, and then…


    shook it in front of her mouth and before her tongue could reach out to taste it, she threw it


    aside and eagerly said the answer, "The oil used is wrong!"


    Wang Lu immediately nodded. "A score for Aya."


    The Food Immortal pped the table and stood up in anger.


    However, the moment he stood up, he suddenly found something.


    Aya''s concentration was extraordinary.


    Although her action seemed a bit hasty, but from the beginning until the end, the girl''s eyes


    shone, her breathing was steady, and her focused stance was simr to as if she was facing an


    opponent worthy of her vigorous effort.


    If this was cheating, her acting skill was a bit too realistic. However, after all, the Dao of good


    food ultimately needed skill and experience, so how could she possibly do it just by relying on


    concentration alone? Except…


    Suddenly, the Earth Immortal thought of a possibility.


    Could it be that she was just guessing?


    A talented warrior could see the future direction of the fight from theplex environment in


    battle, almost as if it was a foreknowledge. And Aya''s posture at this time was more like a


    warrior than a foodie!


    Thus, she could tell a good dish from a bad one without using her tongue? In theory, it seemed


    to make sense, but, was there really such a thing?


    While he was still in shocked, the Food Immortal found out that the gap between him and the


    other side was only five points.


    Ah well, now is not the time to pay attention to the other side. Since she has the ability to


    pete with me, then… I need to be a bit more serious.


    When the Food Immortal got serious, his food tasting speed was incredibly fast, which


    immediately threw off Aya again.


    Soon, the first batch of thirty dishes in front of the Food Immortal had already been tasted by


    him. At this time, from the nearby kitchen, a dozen chefs brought out thirty new dishes. Food


    Immortal smoothly identified the ws of the first fifteen dishes. However, when it came to the


    sixteenth dish, sliced fish with vinegar, Wang Lu shook his head. "Unfortunately, you could not


    score a point."


    The Food Immortal was stunned, could not score?


    ording to the rules, there were many ws in a dish. If one could not mention all the ws,


    one would not get the score. This meant that the Food Immortal had yet to find all the ws.


    Was it because after tasting more than forty dishes in session, his taste bud became numb?


    Or…


    Did the difficulty begin to imperceptibly rise?


    As the Food Immortal, the resilience of his Earth Immortal''s body was far from that of a normal


    human being. Even the most stimting dishes could not numb his foodie''s tongue. The only


    problem was that the difficulty had been raised, and it was no longer possible to identify the


    ws easily.


    Thereupon, the Food Immortal immediately picked another piece of fish and tasted it. Suddenly,


    there was something else in his heart.


    In terms of taste, he did not intend to change his own answer. But, outside the taste…


    "The chef who cooked this dish was in a gloomy mood and thus contaminated the dish with it."


    Wang Luughed. "You are indeed the Food Immortal, that is indeed correct. The wife of the


    chef who cooked the dish had just died a few days ago. Unfortunately, you could no longer get


    the score for this dish. Please start tasting the next dish."


    The Food Immortal nodded and then sighed internally.


    My goodness, this foodie''s challenge was indeed interesting. The difficulty kept increasing and


    gradually entered an unthinkable situation. After tasting more than forty dishes, he was asked to


    guess the psychological health of the chef! If this thing continued, when it came to the four


    hundredth dish, would it involve the failure of the eighteenth generation ancestor of the chef?


    However, the more of that happened, the more interesting thepetition would be.


    The Food Immortal looked at Aya on the opposite table and hispetitive spirit was furiously


    ignited.