, First Feast of Life, Confirmed!

Nan Xu smiled slightly: "Lord Ding, this is actually thanks to a culinary skill that Chef Luo taught me."

"You should know the name of that culinary skill very well..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ding Baozhen realized what he meant: "Could it be... you mean 'All Rivers Flow into the Sea'?"

"That's right." Nan Xu nodded. "Although I've only learned the basics, it's enough for me to make this dish."

At this moment, Gao Wenjie and Prefect Zhao also drank several more mouthfuls of soup. Like Ding Baozhen, they also showed expressions of shock.

"How could this be? I know a thing or two about the effects of this cooking technique; it's simply about blending different flavors together. How could it possibly produce such a continuous stream of novel flavors?" Gao Wenjie said incredulously. "Could I be remembering wrong?"

Nan Xu smiled and said, "If you remember correctly, I used the effect of all rivers flowing into the sea to combine the flavors of these dozen or so mountain delicacies in pairs, and imitated other mountain delicacies to create dozens of new flavors."

"Even so, it only solves the problem of 'where do the new flavors come from,' but it's still impossible to taste a new flavor in every bite, right?" Prefect Zhao stroked his beard in confusion.

"The principle behind this is actually quite simple," Nan Xu said calmly.

Have any of you heard of "taste fatigue"?

"Taste fatigue?" Gao Wenjie was taken aback. "You mean your tongue gets used to the taste of the food, and your perception of taste gradually weakens? What does that have to do with what you're trying to say?"

"Of course it's related," Nanxu explained. "This effect of 'new flavors emerging one after another' is precisely based on this principle."

"Through meticulous control of 'All Rivers Flow into the Sea,' I 'buried' the new flavor I created beneath the surface flavor. In other words, I used the surface flavor to cover the new flavor I wanted to hide."

"You can't detect these flavors when you first drink the soup. Only after drinking a few more sips, and your tongue gets used to some of the flavors in the soup, and you subconsciously ignore them, can you taste those hidden flavors."

"The more soup you drink, the more your taste buds become fatigued, and the more hidden flavors will be revealed. This is the truth behind the constant emergence of novel flavors."

"I see!" Gao Wenjie exclaimed in sudden realization. "I never imagined that 'All Rivers Flow into the Sea' could be used like this!"

Ding Baozhen looked at Nan Xu with a hint of admiration in his eyes: "To be able to utilize culinary skills to this extent... how long did you spend conceiving this dish?"

Nan Xu clasped his hands in a fist salute and calmly replied, "Lord Ding, I began conceiving this dish the moment I became a chef."

"The inspiration for this dish came from a 'Mountain Mushroom and Chicken Soup' that Chef Luo cooked for me. That soup not only relieved my suffering from illness, but it was also the starting point of my life as a chef... the starting point of my 'rebirth'."

"So, I poured everything I had seen, thought, and felt during my time at Baiweilou into this dish. Whether it was the curiosity I had when trying new dishes, the exploratory spirit I had when searching for ingredients in the mountains, or even Chef Luo's thoughtfulness towards others..."

"This is the 'soup' in my life's feast!"

These words shocked everyone present!

"A feast for life? At his age, he's already decided on one dish for his own life's feast?"

"Wow... truly, heroes emerge from among the young..."

"Wait, what's a banquet of life? Am I the only one who doesn't know?"

The audience was buzzing with discussion. Ding Baozhen and his two companions also looked surprised.

Ding Baozhen was only surprised for a moment before her expression turned excited: "What did you say? You've already completed a 'feast of life'?"

A "life banquet" refers to a chef's repertoire of dishes that represent their own life experiences. The number and variety of dishes vary, but they generally follow a banquet structure, hence the name "life banquet."

However, not just any dish can be considered a feast for the soul. A chef's feast for the soul often embodies all their hard work and represents the pinnacle of their culinary skills.

This is why, every time a chef comprehends a new dish, their experience, skills, and talent will increase to a certain extent, the degree of which depends on the quality of the dish.

In gaming terms, this means gaining a large amount of experience and proficiency while also receiving a permanent buff.

For example, the buff from Nan Xu's "Feast of Life" is as follows:

[A Feast for Life: A Hundred Delicacies in Soup (Soup Dish)]

[Effect: Comprehension +5; Natural regeneration speed of Health, Stamina, and Mana increased by 100%; When cooking, the "Conception" attribute is increased by 25% based on the "Seasoning" attribute's effectiveness.]

Yes, it not only adds 5 points to Comprehension, but also provides a rather exaggerated normal bonus.

Even after that, as the dish continues to improve, the strength of the buff will be further enhanced.

Therefore, understanding the essence of life's banquet as early as possible is highly beneficial for a chef's growth.

Unfortunately, the banquet of life has extremely high requirements for experience, and it is impossible for an ordinary chef to understand it at Nan Xu's age. This is one of the reasons why Ding Baozhen was so excited.

Nan Xu's ability to comprehend this was partly due to his past life's legacy, and partly due to the dramatic changes he experienced after transmigrating, as well as his observations and feelings at Baiweilou, which truly touched his heart and became an important turning point in his life.

His earlier statement to Luo Qinzhu that he wanted to understand the banquet of life was not entirely an excuse, but rather a genuine realization.

With the key of "All Rivers Flow into the Sea" and three days of dedicated practice, he finally succeeded in making the soup dish for his life's feast - the Mountain Delicacies Soup!

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Outside the square, among the crowd.

"Chef Luo... I... I didn't hear wrong, did I?" Xiao Zou's mouth dropped open in shock. "A-Xu has mastered the banquet of life? He... he's only been learning to cook for a short time!"

Luo Qinzhu's expression was complicated. She wasn't too surprised at this moment because she had already been surprised when she helped Nan Xu taste the dishes earlier.

She said in a comforting tone, "A genius like him cannot be predicted by common sense..."

"Yeah, when I think about how Ah-Xu was the one who did this, I don't find it that strange anymore." Xiao Zou immediately regained his optimism.

Then, he asked curiously, "By the way, Chef Luo, Ah Xu actually said that you inspired him, and that you cured his illness... What happened that day? Tell me about it!"

Recalling Nan Xu's speech on stage, Luo Qinzhu's ears turned slightly red: "No... there's nothing worth saying. Ah Xu is really something... I, I just did what I was supposed to do."

On the other side, Wang Yi looked at Nan Xu's figure on the stage, so angry that he almost clenched his fists.

What does it mean that a kid who has only been learning to cook for less than two months has mastered a feast for the soul?

He hasn't even mastered it yet!

Thinking this, he glared angrily at Nan Xu again.

If it weren't for this guy causing trouble, he would have been the head chef of Baiweilou by now!

His long-cherished wish has finally come true, which must be enough for him to comprehend a feast of life!

So it must be Nan Xu's fault that he hasn't mastered the banquet of life yet!