Chapter 274: High-Quality Ingredients

Three medium-level ingredients, Gu Zheng's face showed helplessness.

Kunlun only has so many good things? But in today's environment, even the Kunlun Sect cannot grow medium-level ingredients. How did he get these ingredients?

As before, it was just dry ingredients. Gu Zheng could still understand that Emei could store medium-level ingredients, let alone Kunlun, but Qi Ling said that this time Song Xiu would use medium-level ingredients as the main ingredients to make delicious food. , where did his medium ingredients come from?

You can't just use things that have been there for thousands of years, and you won't be able to make anything.

Gu Zheng was hard to understand, but no matter how hard he understood it, he still had to make preparations. The game was about to start in the afternoon, leaving him very little time.

"Help me find the Supreme Elder!"

Gu Zheng contacted the Emei disciples and specified that he wanted to find Ouyang Hai. The only one who could help him at this time was Ouyang Hai, and no one else had time.

"Tai Shang Elder, I would like to ask if you have any good collections in your hand that can be used to make delicious food!"

In fact, there are mid-level high-end raw materials in Emei. It would be a waste to use only those raw materials to make delicious food. Gu Zheng had no intention of using them, so he asked Ouyang Hai.

If Ouyang Hai didn't have it, he would want to go to Shushan to change it as quickly as possible. He believed that Shushan must have such a thing.

"I have a part of my collection, do you need it?"

Ouyang Hai was a little surprised, but he answered in the affirmative. Gu Zheng felt a little relieved. It would be great if Ouyang Hai had it, but he didn't know if any of Ouyang Hai's collections reached the medium level.

However, for him, a cultivator who existed in the era of prosperous magic, having mid-level ingredients seemed to be nothing.

"Great, Supreme Elder, can you bring some to me and let me have a look!"

Gu Zheng said quickly, he now only has ocean flowers and one medium-level ingredient, and the other party has three kinds, and they are all used to make delicious food. In addition, the other party also has fairy kitchen utensils and various auxiliary tools. The other party's kitchen His skills weren't bad either, but Gu Zheng really didn't have that much confidence in whether he could beat him.

His only advantage now is Tie Xian's cooking skills. Tie Xian's cooking skills are indeed better than his, and they have been verified in the past few days.

However, Tie Xian's cooking skills are not omnipotent. No matter how high the opponent's ingredients are, he will not be able to defeat the opponent even if he has Tie Xian's cooking skills. It is like making omelettes in the same way. If Gu Zheng uses the most common eggs to make them, He would definitely not be able to make it like that. He might not be able to make as good an omelette as Wang Dong made at an ordinary level.

This is the difference in ingredients. Qi Ling has limited ingredients in many tests. It is because of Tiexian's cooking skills that it must be paired with good ingredients.

If the ingredients are not good, the effect of Tie Xian's cooking skills will not be fully exerted.

"Okay, wait for me!"

Ouyang Hai agreed directly without hesitation, while Gu Zheng asked him to hurry up. There was a competition in the afternoon and time was really running out.

This was also the reason why he looked for Ouyang Hai. Only Ouyang Hai could fly here in such a short time. In fact, Wuchou and Gu An were in the capital now, protecting him secretly, but he didn't know this.

It's useless to know, the two of them don't carry such things with them.

Ouyang Hai came very quickly and arrived in the capital at noon. When he arrived, Gu Zheng had just prepared lunch, which was shredded chicken noodle soup. Wang Dong and Chang Feng were both there, shouting that they wanted to eat this.

As soon as Ouyang Hai arrived, he shared a bowl.

"This is my mustard bag. Although it can't hold many things, it's much better than ordinary things!"

After lunch, Ouyang Hai and Gu Zheng entered the room alone, took out a small cloth bag, and whispered that Ouyang Hai actually had a space fairy weapon, but it was the most common and lowest kind.

His mustard bag only has about twenty times the space in it. The pocket is not big to begin with, and twenty times the space is not much bigger. It is almost the same as a large cardboard box. It can't hold much. Gu Zheng took out all the things before. They were big things like pots and pans, which looked much stronger than his.

If you put pots and pans, put two, and his one will be full.

"Prickly pear grass, normal level, not bad!"

Ouyang Hai started to dig out his collection, and the first thing he took out was a high-grade raw material, but unfortunately it was only of ordinary grade.

High-grade raw materials can be used to make both food and food. Ordinary raw materials can only be used to make food but not food. This is the difference between high-grade raw materials and ordinary raw materials.

All the raw materials that can be used for food cultivation can be used to make elixirs and are useful for cultivation.

The bodhi grass they were looking for before was just a common raw material. Apart from making incense and making wine, it had no other uses. Therefore, even if it reached a very high level, no one would ask for it.

"Seven-colored flowers, medium!"

When Ouyang Hai took out the sixth object, Gu Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up. It was a dry flower with petals of seven colors, and this seven-color flower reached a medium level.

"This seems to have been taken off when I was in power. I kept it because it looked good. I don't know how to use it. Does the master need it?"

Ouyang Hai looked at the seven-color flowers, reminisced about them, and finally said in a daze that he had stored a lot of things. The main reason was that there were no more raw materials to collect in the Age of Dharma End, and he could not collect the things he had picked before. Just keep it.

"Yes, yes!"

Gu Zheng nodded quickly. The medium-level seven-color flower can be used as food. The seven-color flower has petals of seven colors. Each petal has a different function and taste. Such raw materials are actually the best for food. This time Ouyang asked Hai Lai really found the right one. Just one Seven-Colored Flower can bring great benefits to Gu Zheng.

Ouyang Hai was not stingy, he directly gave the seven-color flower to Gu Zhen, and then went on to take out his things.

"I borrowed it from you, and I will pay it back to you later!"

Gu Zheng said softly that he couldn't take Ouyang Hai's stuff for free, and it was a medium-level ingredient. With this ingredient and the ocean flowers, he also had two mid-level ingredients.

"Wait, what is this!"

Ouyang Hai was taking out something when Gu Zhengze suddenly called out. Ouyang Hai took out a small, round, black bead from what he was taking out.

"This seems to be a kind of fruit. I forgot what it is!"

Ouyang Hai stared at the small black bead, touched his head, and said awkwardly. It had been too long and he really couldn't remember. He hadn't used this mustard bag for hundreds of years.

There was nothing worth taking out, and nothing worth putting in. What did he usually do with this pocket.

“This is the Golden Congo, the fruit of the Rudraksha tree!”

Gu Zheng answered for Ouyang Hai. The Rudraksha tree is a very rare and hard tree. The name seems to have a lot to do with Buddhism. In fact, it is not. It is just that the name of this kind of book is attributed to Buddhism. rise.

The Rudraksha tree is a very high-level tree species. Its fruit only matures once every thirty years, with only one fruit at a time.

The Rudraksha tree itself can reach a medium level, but the fruit it produces only once every thirty years is one level higher than itself.

In other words, the grade of the Rudraksha tree fruit can reach excellent.

Ouyang Hai's Rudraksha tree fruit has reached the excellent grade. This is the second time Gu Zheng has seen something of the excellent grade.

"It seems like, I really forgot, I just stayed because I saw it looked good!"

Ouyang Hai was a little embarrassed. In fact, he collected more than these things. He also stored some in other caves. But Gu Zheng was in a hurry, so he came with this mustard bag.

He had forgotten at least half of the contents of Mustard Seed's pocket.

"This black fruit is of great use to me. Can I borrow it from you first? I can't pay it back to you here, but if I have the chance to go to the ancient space in the future, I will definitely find a way to pay it back to you!"

Gu Zheng said quickly, although high-quality fruits are not specific ingredients, they can still be used like raw materials.

The excellent grade can give him a lot of extra points for the food he makes. Even in the Era of Shengfa, there were not many excellent grade things on the earth. As for high-grade things, there were even fewer.

Now is the Dharma Ending Age. To encounter something of a high quality is pure luck.

That's why Gu Zheng said that he would return it to Ouyang Hai in the prehistoric space. He really didn't have any confidence on the earth. In fact, he had a high-quality snow lotus seed in his hand, but this snow lotus seed should be reserved for Wuyou's advancement. Possibly used in gourmet food.

"As you said, Master, if you need anything, you can take anything here!"

Ouyang Hai grinned. He had no use for these things. Gu Zheng was useful and could show his value. As for what Gu Zheng said about entering the prehistoric era, Ouyang Hai was very much looking forward to it.

He knows very well that with Gu Zheng's status, once he enters the prehistoric era, he will definitely have countless cultivation resources. When the time comes, he will also be able to benefit from it. This little thing will not matter.

"Thank you, Supreme Elder!"

Gu Zheng immediately put away the black fruit. The grade of this black fruit was excellent. The excellent grade was higher than Song Xiu's medium grade. With this black fruit, Gu Zheng was basically sure to defeat him.

"Master, please take a look. If you need anything, you can keep it. It's useless to let me go!"

Ouyang Hai simply took out everything in the mustard bag. Although the mustard bag was not big, it contained a lot of things. After a while of practicing, he took out more than two hundred items.

Most of these are of ordinary grade, and there are about ten pieces of medium grade. The excellent ones have never been seen again.

Things of high quality, useful for cultivating immortals, have been used by Ouyang Hai for thousands of years, and it is impossible to keep them until now.

"This, and this, I'll keep this, you put the rest away first!"

Gu Zheng's eyes lit up, and he took three more medium-level raw materials from Ouyang Hai. The remaining few could be used for cooking and other purposes, so Gu Zheng kept them for the time being and did not take them over.

These three items, plus the previous one, equal to four medium-level ingredients and one excellent-level ingredient. Gu Zheng is now full of confidence in this Chinese food competition.

Even if Song Xiu has three medium-level ingredients, Gu Zheng doesn't have any worries now. He has one more item than Song Xiu. The most important thing is that he also has one more top-level ingredient of excellent grade.

In the current Gu Zheng, he no longer understands anything about the classification of ingredients as he did at first. He still remembers Qi Ling saying that when his Tiexian Immortal Art reaches the fifth realm, he can use the high-grade ingredients in the prehistoric space. Use it however you like.

High grade, not excellent, nor medium, nor ordinary, it is the highest among the eight levels of ingredients. Gu Zheng himself would drool just thinking about the delicious food made from such ingredients.

No wonder the previous spirits looked down on what he made. With such ingredients, those ordinary-level ingredients are really not worthy of attention.

Perhaps ordinary-level ingredients are the best in his eyes, but in the eyes of spirits, they are just street stalls, and they don't even want to pick them up after seeing them.

In the afternoon, many media came to the gate of the palace. Today is the final, and the media are allowed to enter.

However, only the media who are invited can enter. The Chinese Food Competition is not live, but there is a recorded broadcast, which will be broadcast by CCTV Food Channel a few days later. There was a live broadcast before, but there was a live broadcast accident, so it was stopped.

"Gu Zheng, Gu Zheng!"

As soon as Gu Cheng's car arrived, two rows of people came over from the palace, all wearing uniform clothes, divided into two rows, and neatly stood on both sides of the car.

Whether it was the media or the people who came to watch the game, they were stunned when they saw this scene. A few people who came before were extremely envious. Gu Zheng's fans are really persistent. Among so many contestants, Gu Zheng has the most fans and is the most orderly.

These people came after lunch and waited until Gu Zheng arrived.

"Thank you, thank you everyone!"

Gu Zheng got off the car and waved his hands. Seeing Gu Zheng coming, these people immediately became excited. There were more people today than yesterday, more than 900 people, and the tycoon who sponsored the event came in person today.

Not only did he come, but he also brought more things. Today, everyone had a small loudspeaker, and they could use the loudspeaker to cheer for Gu Zheng.

"Come on, let's shout together!"

The tycoon raised his hand, and everyone immediately put the small loudspeaker in front of their mouths and shouted together.

"Gu Zheng, you are the best!"

"Gu Zheng, take first place!"

"Gu Zheng, we will always support you!"

With the loudspeaker amplification, their voices were really loud, and many media took pictures of them. They looked like this, which was also a good news topic.

"Thank you, I will definitely work hard and will definitely take first place!"

Gu Zheng clenched his fist. He had never said before that he could take first place, but now it was different. He had a test, a test that he had to complete. Whether it was for these supporters or because of the test, he had to take first place and win the championship of this competition.

"Yeah, great!"

"Great, Gu Zheng said he would take first place!"

"Gu Zheng said he could take first place, so he definitely could. He never let us down!"

Many people were shouting excitedly. These people supported Gu Zheng at first purely because Gu Zheng was a grassroots person and they watched him grow up. Some people were also contestants in the Hangzhou Food Competition. Supporting Gu Zheng meant supporting them.

No matter what the reason was for supporting Gu Zheng, they have now become a family. They also gave their small organization a nice name, "Gu Mi".

Gu Mi now has only more than 2,000 members. Compared with those celebrity fan clubs, they are a very small organization, but they are very united, extremely united. Among the more than 2,000 people, more than 900 came to support them, almost half of them.

Even the fan clubs of celebrities find it difficult to achieve such a ratio.

Gu Zheng walked into the palace. Today is the third day of the competition and also the last day.

The ten finalists will each have a separate small room in the main hall of the palace. They will play the first game in the next two hours. After the game, the results of the fourth to tenth places will be announced. The three people whose names have not been announced will continue to compete.

After the second game, this Chinese food competition came to a successful conclusion, and the final top three results will be announced.

There are still 20 judges, unlike some movies and TV shows, which only have three or four judges. The judges of the food competition cannot be too few, otherwise the real results cannot be compared. After all, everyone has their own preferences for food. You like this more, he likes that more, which may affect the final results.

"Gu Zheng!"

"Master Gu is here!"

After Gu Zheng came in, many people took the initiative to greet him. No matter how old Gu Zheng is, he is in the real top ten, and he may even get the top three or even the first. At this time, other people's attitude towards him has also changed.

In the food industry, although seniority is very important, it is also the first to achieve. People with real strength will be admired everywhere.

Gu Zheng responded one by one. He did not ignore these people just because he got a good score. Whether he knew them or not, as long as they were polite to him, he would definitely return the favor.

This is also a personality of Gu Zheng in his daily life.

The twenty judges have already sat down, and Gu Zheng also walked into his small compartment. Only Wang Dong followed him. As for Chang Feng, he came to join in the fun and could not help at all.

Five minutes later, the competition began.

There was no live broadcast of this competition. Only the people inside kept sending text descriptions. Some of them held their mobile phones and posted the latest situation on the forum or other places.

Text can be sent, but video is not allowed. If someone is found secretly filming, the filming tools will be confiscated in the lightest case, and they will be expelled from the competition venue in serious cases. Filming is not allowed in the finals of the Chinese Food Competition.

"The competition has already started. I don't know what Gu Zheng did!"

"The Chinese Food Competition cannot be repeated. The first time Gu Zheng made chicken blood soup, the steamed fish yesterday, and today it may be chicken noodle soup!"

"It may be something else, but no matter what Gu Zheng does, it is the most delicious!"

Outside the palace, the supporters of Gu Zheng were all discussing in a low voice. After the rich man came, everyone bought a small horse Zha, so that everyone did not have to stand and wait, and could just sit down.

There were security guards outside the palace, but these people were very quiet. They just watched and didn't ask whether there was any trouble.

"Come out, come out, Gu Zheng took out the vegetables?"

Someone suddenly shouted. They were all very concerned about what would happen in the first ancient competition. The first competition was the competition for the top three and the ranking of the top ten. It was very important, and everyone did basically the same thing in the food competition. It is a meat dish, and meat dishes are more likely to taste bad. Vegetarian dishes are not absent, but very few.

Generally speaking, those who cook vegetarian dishes are the ones who are the best at it. Maybe it’s just this one specialty dish that will be gone once it’s finished.

Gu Zheng has more than one specialty delicacy. When someone said that he had brought out green vegetables, many people were stunned. Gu Zheng had never cooked green vegetables on any other occasion.

"Is it just an excipient?"

Someone said something, and the person who spoke before was staring at his phone intently. After the report about Gu Zheng came out, he started talking about other people instead of Gu Zheng.

Inside the venue, Gu Zheng indeed brought out green vegetables, and it was not just an auxiliary ingredient as the supporters outside had guessed.

What he wants to do today is green vegetables, but these are not ordinary green vegetables, but fairy vegetables grown in the ancient space. Gu Zheng has harvested so many fairy vegetables, but he has never had suitable supporting cooking skills. Last time he completed After the test of becoming famous, Qi Ling finally rewarded him with the skill of cooking fairy dishes.

A delicacy made with fairy vegetables as the main ingredient, emerald green.

Cuiyuqing, the main ingredient is fairy vegetables, and five fairy vegetables are used at a time. Five fairy vegetables can be stir-fried to make one dish. I originally wanted to try this dish in the first game, Guzheng, but I found that Song Xiu made it It was winter melon and pork ribs soup, so I changed it to chicken blood soup.

Now is a good time to make this dish. The main ingredient is fairy vegetables. The other ingredients are all ordinary-level. Gu Zheng has added medium-level seven-color flowers.

For fairy vegetables, it is enough to add a medium-level ingredient. If there is more, the original taste of fairy vegetables will be suppressed. The seven-color flower is a supplement. The seven-color flower has seven flavors. It is made in this jade green flower. Among them, it is the most suitable.

No matter what kind of green vegetables, they are quick to stir-fry, and fairy vegetables are no exception. Gu Zheng was the first to cook delicious food.

The prepared fairy vegetables are exquisitely arranged and very beautiful. The fairy vegetables are particularly green, and they are that kind of transparent green, just like jasper when placed on the plate. The seven petals of the seven-color flower have bloomed and are dotted on the green vegetable leaves, adding a picturesque beauty to the green vegetable leaves.

Like fried eggs, this dish has a very noble artistic feel.

"Try it!"

The food judges of Gu Zheng are still looking forward to it. Although the judges will change every time, the previous judges also said that the food made by Gu Zheng and Song Xiu tastes the best and feels higher than other contestants. A whole level.

The judges will not say this publicly, but the judges are also people in the circle, and there is still communication in the small circle.

Each person picked up a piece of jasper-like fairy vegetables, and before they put it in their mouths, they were shocked by a clear fragrance. This fragrance was somewhat similar to mint, but it was much cooler than mint, and not as strong as mint.

After exhaling, I went to smell the fragrance again, only to find that the fragrance had changed. It was not as clear as before, but turned into a faint fragrance. Two different fragrances appeared on the same food at the same time.

All the judges were stunned for a moment and looked at each other, seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

Someone lowered his head and smelled the green vegetables again. This time the fragrance changed again, becoming mellow. After exhaling, he smelled it again and it became fragrant again.

Every time I smelled it, the taste was different, which shocked all the judges.

You have to fight for good food, you can't smell it all the time. One of the judges put the green vegetables into his mouth, and his eyes were fixed.

Take a light bite, and the green vegetables immediately exude a refreshing coolness, which refreshes the whole body. Take another bite, and the coolness turns into a delicate fragrance, just like the fragrance in the flowers, and the fragrance spreads to every part of the body. Every pore, there is an indescribable, lazy feeling of comfort all over the body.

The fairy vegetables are very crisp in the mouth and don't taste like green vegetables.

It's not like brittle bones, it's more brittle than brittle bones. Every bite has a different taste, making people unable to stop chewing or swallowing.

The mid-level ingredients, coupled with Tie Xian's cooking skills, brought about a result that was not just one plus one. The result was astonishing. Each of the twenty judges had the same idea in mind. They had been doing it for decades. I have lived in vain, I never thought that food could taste like this.

This is a delicacy they have never tasted and could not imagine.

After making his own fairy dish, Gu Zheng looked at Song Xiu. The first thing he cooked today was another popular dish, a very common family dish, braised pork.

Braised pork is also a famous local dish. There is one chef who is the best at it this time. Unfortunately, he had participated in Song Bai's competition before, and was defeated by Song Bai. He suffered a great mental blow. Even the top thirty None of them made it in and were eliminated early.

The braised pork made by Song Xiu uses six ingredients, high-quality pork belly, cooking oil, sugar, salt, soy sauce and a medium-level ingredient.

In addition to the additional medium-level ingredients in Song Xiu's braised pork, there is actually another medium-level ingredient in it, and that is sugar.

Gu Zheng had no idea where Song Xiu's mid-level sugar came from. It couldn't be left over from the era of prosperity. But if it hadn't been for that time, modern society wouldn't be able to produce mid-level sugar at all, unless he also had something similar. With Yu Guzheng's ability, he can improve the ingredients, and he can upgrade them to medium.

Two kinds of medium ingredients. Gu Zheng remembered that Qi Ling said that he had three kinds of medium ingredients. Unexpectedly, he brought out two of them in the first game.

No matter if he takes it out, it will at least let Gu Zheng know what he has. In the next final game, Gu Zheng will use all his strength and all the ingredients to complete the game, that is, there will be no regrets in this game. I can also complete this test very well and get the method of marrow cleansing and food repair.

With the marrow cleansing food repair, he can help Wang Dong embark on a completely different path as a chef.

Song Xiu was the second to finish his braised pork. In the three games, he and Gu Zheng did not use more than an hour. Unlike other chefs, two hours was not enough.

The ten chefs slowly completed the competition.

After the game, except for Gu Zheng and Song Xiu, everyone else looked a little nervous. This time it was the third place in the top ten and it was a qualifying match. No one knew what kind of results they could achieve.

Those who can persist in the top ten are definitely chefs with real talents and abilities. It can be said that they are all the top beings in a certain cuisine. They are not convinced by anyone, and they all want to get good results. .

The top ten in every session over the years is actually not much different from the top three. They all hope to get the top three. The focus is on their performance on the spot.

Even if you can't get into the top ten, you still hope to have a good ranking. The top ten will announce the results. No matter what, fourth is much better than tenth. If the ranking can be improved by one step, it is a big victory.

At the end of the competition, the scores given by the judges have been reported. The scores of this competition are added to the scores of the previous two competitions. The top three will not announce their results and continue the competition. The results of fourth to tenth will be announced on the spot.

"It's a critical and tense moment again!"

Outside, a supporter of Gu Zheng said excitedly. During the last competition in Hangzhou, he was also one of them waiting for Gu Zheng outside. Many of the rules of the Hangzhou Food Competition were learned from the Chinese Food Competition. The results of the three exams will not be announced.

At that time, they were praying that Gu Zheng's name would not be included in the announced results.

It was the same this time. More than 900 people were praying there, hoping that they wouldn't see Gu Zheng's name in a while. Only those without names would be promoted.

The Chinese Food Competition is a little different from the Hangzhou Food Competition. It is not a live broadcast and there is no host, so the results are released directly from the big screen and synchronized online.

In the Chinese Cuisine Competition, no one announces the results for the top ten, only the top three.

"Come out, come out!"

The results finally came out, and there was an uproar outside and inside. There were many people who had been waiting and refreshing the website.

The top ten, fourth to tenth names are lined up in a row, the top three are blank, and behind each person's name are their three game scores and total score, all results are clear at a glance.

"There is no ancient contention, no ancient contention!"

Gu Zheng's supporters didn't care about their results. They only glanced at it without seeing Gu Zheng's name, and then they all shouted excitedly. Just like in Hangcheng, Gu Zheng did not disappoint them and advanced again.

This is a Chinese food competition. Advancement means the top three, and at worst, third place. Even if Gu Zheng's results stop here, they are very satisfied, extremely satisfied.

How old is Gu Zhengcai? He is in his early twenties. He has such achievements at his age. When he reaches his golden age and glory period, his achievements will be even better and more prominent.

After the list comes out, the top three players are also made public. The names of those who do not appear in the top ten list are the top three of this session.

Among the top ten, three names did not appear, namely Gu Zheng, Song Xiu and Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan is a well-known local chef in the capital. He is thirty-nine years old. He is usually a quiet person. No one expected that he would advance to the top three this time. Lu Yong, the previous favorite to win the championship and the top three favorite, was eliminated. After that, I didn't even get fourth place, only fifth place.

Fifth place, for a disciple of a family like Lu Yong who has been in the family for hundreds of years, is actually a failure. I don’t know if he was affected by losing to Song Bai.

After the list was announced, many people were talking about it. The person who talked the most was not Gu Zheng or Song Xiu, but Chu Yuan.

This was Chu Yuan's first time participating in the Chinese Food Competition. He had been working in a famous traditional restaurant before. He was the chef there and his salary was average. He had several special dishes that were highly sought after by many people.

However, there are too many such chefs in the country. No one expected that Chu Yuan would achieve such good results this time. He participated in the Chinese Food Competition for the first time and reached the top three for the first time.

At this point, someone mentioned again that the top three this time are all newcomers.

After hearing this, many people were stunned for a moment. After looking at it carefully, they found that it was indeed the case. Gu Zheng participated in the Chinese Food Competition for the first time. No one knew about him before Song Xiu. The same goes for Chu Yuan. In this Chinese Food Competition It's really weird, the top three are all newcomers participating for the first time.

In fact, even if Lu Yong enters the top three, this will not change. Although Lu Yong is very famous, he is also a newcomer in the Chinese Food Competition.

Not only that, someone looked at the top ten list and was surprised to find that among the top ten, there were actually five newcomers participating in the Chinese Food Competition for the first time. In other words, half of the top ten were first time participants. Such a proportion of newcomers has never been seen before.

Someone else discovered that this time the top three people all had two characters in their names.

Gu Zheng, Song Xiu, and Chu Yuan do not have three-character names, and the other two newcomers in the top ten still have two-character names. Among the top ten, there are only three names with three characters.

This made some people joke that they would change their names to two words in the future, maybe they could achieve better results.

Of course this is just a joke, but this Chinese Food Competition does have many records that were not seen in previous years, which made many people sigh.

As soon as the results were announced, some were happy, while others sighed.

Lu Yong was the one who sighed. He knew that this Chinese food competition was actually more difficult than before, but he never expected that he only got fifth place. Such a result would be embarrassing when he went home.

As long as their family comes to compete, they are basically among the top three.

He knew his own situation well. He was indeed affected by his loss to Song Bai, especially when he lost to Song Bai the day before and said that Song Bai could win the championship. However, Song Bai lost the next day to a guy named Gu Zheng. young people.

This made him feel very uncomfortable. First of all, it indirectly proved that he was not as good as Gu Zheng. It was true that Song Bai cheated, but what he added was not a prohibited item. He took it out openly and could still use it to participate in this competition. Food competition is one of his strengths.

The reason why he cheated was because he had promised to use whatever ingredients others would use, but he secretly added some ingredients, so he was not accepted by others.

Moreover, in the match between him and Gu Zheng, things were also added, but he still lost in the end. This result made Lu Yong somewhat unacceptable.

Affected by this, he didn't perform very well in the first game, but he was still able to advance even if he didn't perform well. However, his score affected his subsequent overall results, and he only got fifth place in the end.

In the Chinese Cuisine Competition, the results of each competition are very important, because the final total results are added up, so any competition cannot be ignored, unless you only think about participating and not thinking about advancing.

But if you do too poorly and your results are too poor, it will be difficult for you to compete again in the future.

At the end of the game, the fourth to tenth players went to the rest area to rest and watch the final game. An hour later, the top three players will compete in the finals. This game will determine who is first and who is third. .

No one who can be in the top three wants to be in the last place, they all want to be first.

There is only a two-person gap between first and third place, but the treatment and influence in the future are very different. You only need to watch the Olympics to know this. The treatment of gold medals and bronze medals is absolutely different.

It’s not just the food competition, it’s the Olympics, it’s the same in all walks of life.

We like to pay attention to various data, but basically we only look at the number one. Who is number one in the movie box office, who is number one in the ratings, and who is number one in the game rankings.

The first one is the real winner, otherwise the runners will accompany you.

An hour passed quickly, and the three contestants reentered the cubicle, preparing to cook the last dish of the competition.

What Gu Zheng wants to do is fish-flavored honey chicken that he has never made before. Qi Ling chose it for him. Fish-flavored honey chicken. Gu Zheng has never made fish-flavored honey chicken, but he has done honey chicken before. Besides, Tiexian The cooking skills are imprinted in his mind. As long as he remembers, step by step, and does it seriously, he will be fine.

"Gu Zheng, that guy has more than three medium ingredients. In addition to three medium ingredients, he also has one excellent grade ingredient!"

Qi Ling suddenly said something to Gu Zheng. Gu Zheng was slightly startled and turned back sharply.

Song Xiu not only had three medium ingredients, but also had excellent ingredients. In this case, Song Xiu was already no less than him in terms of ingredients.

"Why is this? Didn't you say before that he only has three medium-level ingredients?"

Gu Zheng asked quickly. This unexpected information shocked Gu Zheng. He had already understood the importance of ingredients and knew that Song Xiu's performance before was extraordinary. If he fell behind him in terms of ingredients, could he win this battle? The competition is really unknown.

"I just got a clue before, and I didn't say that he only has three medium-level ingredients. But don't worry, he has one excellent item and three medium-level ingredients. You are the same, and you are not inferior to him. You also have immortal power. , and Tie Xian’s cooking skills can also win!”

After all, it was not the news that Qi Ling had detected before, but the clues he got after putting Gu Zheng to the test.

The clues are true, but they are not necessarily complete. A part is missing. The real situation is that Song Xiu has one excellent grade ingredient, three medium grade ingredients, and a few ordinary grade ingredients to complement them.

"Okay, I know, I will try my best!"

Gu Zheng said secretly in his heart, and became more energetic. Fortunately, he had swallowed an Immortal Essence Pill yesterday, and now his immortal power was enough to support him. It seemed that he was really going to fight this time.

Gu Zheng took out all the things he wanted to make, including chickens, fish, and honey.

The food this time was the one where Gu Zheng used the most ingredients, and the lowest level was ordinary, while the highest level was excellent. Even Gu Zheng himself had never tasted delicacies made from excellent ingredients.

At this moment, he was very lucky. Fortunately, he called Ouyang Hai. Fortunately, Ouyang Hai had high-quality ingredients.

If it weren't for this, relying on his only medium-level ingredient, Ocean Flower, even with his culinary skills, he probably couldn't beat Song Xiu, who had much better ingredients than him. Not only would he not be able to get first place, but he would also fail the test.

Song Xiu also took out his ingredients.

Seeing the ingredients he took out, Gu Zheng's eyes tightened slightly, and he immediately shouted in his heart: "Qi Ling, didn't you say that the current environment on Earth can't grow medium-level ingredients?"

Song Xiu was finally different from before. This time he didn't make popular dishes. This time he actually took out a few insects, and they were all alive, but they were not bean worms, nor were they edible insects like locusts, but a very strange, but not ugly-looking insect.

This kind of insect was very big and was still wriggling gently. Just looking at this insect, Gu Zheng knew that this was definitely not an ordinary-level ingredient, at least a medium-level ingredient.

"The environment on your Earth is indeed like this. As for why he has fresh medium-quality ingredients, I don't know. Maybe they have their own way!"

The spirit of the weapon didn't understand what was going on, but the other party came from the first major sect, Kunlun Sect, which is not an ordinary place. Things that don't exist in other places may not exist there. After all, this is a major sect that has existed since the Shengfa era.

"Happy insects, taste great, medium-quality ingredients!"

The spirit of the weapon gave Gu Zheng an appraisal, and Gu Zheng rolled his eyes. It was indeed a medium-quality ingredient. Although some people don't like to eat insects, this situation will not exist among the judges. The judges are all gourmets. Let alone insects, they have eaten even weirder things.

As long as it is not something that is clearly not allowed to be eaten or is not good for health, they will eat it.

The main ingredient is medium-quality ingredients, and the spirit of the weapon also gave an excellent taste appraisal. Gu Zheng's sense of crisis continued to rise. Three days of competition let him know that Song Xiu's cooking skills are not bad. Although not as good as his gluttonous fairy cooking skills, if there are really high-quality ingredients to assist, he may not be able to beat him.

"Is his bug safe?"

In the rest area, Lu Yong suddenly questioned. Generally speaking, ingredients that can be used for competitions are safe. If any are found to be unsafe, it is not just a simple matter of canceling the competition results. No one will use such a thing to affect their future.

However, bugs are special after all, and no one has ever seen them. It is not too much to raise such doubts.

"Don't worry about this. We have done an appraisal in advance and it is completely qualified!"

Someone in the audience suddenly said something. Seeing this person, many people were stunned. He is not from the food industry, but he is an official, and he is also a leader of the food safety supervision department.

After he said this, no one dared to question it.

Although this person is not the superior department of the Food Association, he has a deep relationship with the food industry after all, and ordinary people dare not offend him easily.

Gu Zheng did not care about these. A medium-level ingredient must have absolutely no problems in safety. If there are problems, it is impossible to reach the medium level.

Song Xiu's main ingredient is the living happy bug, and the auxiliary ingredients are the Tang used before. This sugar is neither white nor red, but orange, and it is in blocks. I don't know how Kunlun made such sugar.

But sugar is okay after all. It's not surprising that Kunlun has a way to store it for thousands of years. Gu Zheng is not surprised. Not to mention Kunlun, even Emei has a way to preserve such ingredients. It's just that this living bug is really incomprehensible to him. It's alive, and it's impossible for this bug to live for thousands of years.

Chu Yuan on the side took out his own ingredients. The last thing he had to do was another specialty dish of his.

He was best at it and did it best. He had already done it in the previous competition. He didn't even expect to be able to enter the top three this time. Although he prepared the second ingredient like other chefs, he really didn't expect that he could use it.

In this way, he was inherently insufficient in preparation and could not compare with Gu Zheng and Song Xiu.

But since he entered the top three, he had to fight anyway. Maybe his miracle could continue to happen. It really exceeded everyone's expectations and won the first place.

Of course, this was just his own idea. Gu Zheng and Song Xiu both knew that it was impossible for him to have inferior ingredients. In terms of ingredients alone, the two of them were far ahead of him. Unless he was a gluttonous fairy, he could use such ingredients to make better delicacies, otherwise he would lose. Gu Zheng and Song Xiu didn't pay attention to him at all. Gu Zheng also took out his own ingredients. Fish, chicken, and honey were all ordinary. Song Xiu's eyes quickly fell on the black fruit that Gu Zheng took out and several other ingredients. The black fruit made him instinctively feel extraordinary. He didn't have the assistance of the spirit of the instrument and couldn't identify the ingredients, but he had his own intuition. Song Xiu was actually the best chef in Kunlun. Song Bai was just his younger brother, a young man who liked to make things and was very talented. If Song Bai hadn't wanted to come out to experience and participate in the Chinese Food Competition, he wouldn't have shown up at all. Song Bai lost and went back to tell him to help him get revenge. Only then did he come out to participate in this competition. Song Xiu's strength is not bad, and he is a core disciple of Kunlun. Although the food he cooks is delicious, the mainstream of Kunlun is still cultivation. His cooking skills are not valued in Kunlun. If it weren't for several elders and the supreme elder who like to eat his food, I'm afraid they would not let him practice cooking and instead focus on cultivation.

It was not easy to bring out so many good ingredients this time. It was because he ate too much of his food. The Supreme Elder couldn't refuse, but he also told him that it would not happen again.

These ingredients were all he could bring out.

It's not that Kunlun didn't have them, but some ingredients were not allowed to be brought out to participate in a small competition in the secular world.

And after coming out, he didn't expect that the cultivator named Gu Zheng who defeated his brother was so good at cooking. He was different from Gu Zheng. He had found out their scores through his connections. Kunlun had great power in the secular world, and it was not difficult to do such a thing.

Gu Zheng's scores in the first two games were the same as his.

He brought good ingredients, used immortal kitchen utensils, and tried his best, but he didn't beat Gu Zheng.

Another point is that although he didn't have a spirit, he had his own way of identifying ingredients. He had seen the ingredients used by Gu Zheng before. Although they were all very good, it was certain that there was no particularly good one, and there was no ingredient that was the finishing touch.

The medium ingredients were regarded as the finishing touch by him.

But even so, Gu Zheng still scored the same as him, which shows that Gu Zheng's cooking skills are really good, and even surpassed him in cooking skills.

In fact, Kunlun could have influenced the judges to give him a higher score, but he didn't do so. If he really did so, he would lose the meaning of coming to participate in the competition.

After knowing the strength of the first two games, he decided to take out all the good ingredients he brought this time and really cook them once, so there were these things that Gu Zheng saw.

Gu Zheng took a deep breath after taking out the things.

"Gu Zheng, you can try to integrate the way of yin and yang into your cooking!"

The spirit of the weapon suddenly said that even if the spirit of the weapon had many treasures, and even countless high-level ingredients, it could not directly take them out to help Gu Zheng. This was the restriction given to it by the immortal.

Unable to directly use ingredients to help, the spirit of the weapon was thinking of other ways. Although Song Xiu's happy insects were only medium, they were ingredients with very good taste. They were available in the prehistoric world, and many people liked to eat them. They were expensive.

If we only talk about cooking, in fact, the happy bug is not inferior to some high-quality ingredients. Gu Zheng has high-quality fruits, but that is not a special ingredient. The two can only be said to be similar.

In this way, Gu Zheng is actually at a disadvantage in terms of ingredients, and it is a big disadvantage.

The higher the grade of the ingredients, the greater the difference in taste. High-quality ingredients, even without any cooking, taste better than ordinary ones. This is the difference in ingredients.