Beast Taming: I Can Bestow Entries-Chapter 200 The Slumbering Starry Sea

Looking at the crystal cabbage that resembled a work of art, the Island Master of Taoyuan, Tao Ming, nodded in satisfaction.

Just the appearance of the boiled cabbage before him made one’s appetite whet involuntarily.

Color, fragrance, and taste all in harmony is what every Spirit Chef strives for!

He couldn’t help but think of the earlier rat-duck neck.

In terms of "color" and "fragrance," the "Boiled Cabbage" and "Salt and Pepper Rat-Duck Neck" were worlds apart.

"Next, let’s have the judges taste and score~"

Neon Cat said.

The staff responsible for dividing the food was in a bit of a dilemma.

Because there were 10 judges, but only one piece of boiled cabbage, they had to divide it.

Destroying such an art-like dish, he felt a little reluctant.

"Go ahead and divide it! The lotus shape is just for appearance, it won’t affect the taste."

Seeing the staff hesitating, Chen Mo said with a smile.

"Okay."

The staff nodded, and then let their Food Spirit equally divide the boiled cabbage into 10 portions.

Luckily, there was plenty of soup, so each judge ended up with a small bowl of soup and a piece of cabbage heart.

Smelling the fragrance, Tao Ming was already impatient. He scooped a small spoonful of the broth and tasted it carefully.

"Fresh!"

He couldn’t help but exclaim.

Tao Ming then tasted the cabbage heart, which was tender and flavorful, melting in his mouth.

In less than 5 seconds, he had finished the small bowl of chicken broth.

The other judges were in a similar state.

Not only that, they even felt a bit unsatisfied.

Just a small amount of soup, who is it enough for?

Chen Meng put down the bowl, looking meaningfully at Chen Mo...and Tuantuan beside him.

"I really want to snatch Tuantuan over to make delicious food for myself every day."

She couldn’t help but think.

"Eeh?" (Meng, perhaps you could try to become a Spirit Chef?)

Inside the Spiritual Space, the Light Unicorn sensed Chen Meng’s thoughts and spoke.

"Damn it, do you think I don’t want to?"

Chen Meng responded to the Light Unicorn through telepathy.

Although she had exceptional talent in nurturing and training Spiritual Beasts, her talent in the field of Spirit Chef could be described as having seven senses blocked – completely ignorant.

After all, no one is perfect, but as for Chen Mo, he really seems... quite versatile.

"Eeh!?" (Perhaps...you should try to win over Chen Mo?)

The Light Unicorn continued to offer advice.

That way they could directly enjoy it together.

"Please proceed with scoring, contestants~"

After all the judges had finished tasting, Neon Cat said.

Chen Meng didn’t hesitate to write down a score of 10, and the other judges raised their cards too.

All high scores of 10 and 9.5, even the lowest was a 9!

"Chen Mo’s total score is 296 points, the highest so far, even over 100 points ahead of the runner-up!"

The female host enthusiastically announced the results.

"Thank you all."

Seeing the score, Chen Mo bowed and expressed his gratitude, then returned to the contestant’s preparation area.

"Is this what you said you prepared for two weeks? Just two weeks to make a rare-level dish?"

Seeing Chen Mo return, Yu Tao excitedly "questioned."

"To be precise... it was two and a half weeks."

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible!"

Yu Tao was full of disbelief.

To know, Tuantuan had been born for just three months, how could it make a rare-level dish?

But now the fact was right in front of him.

Indeed... there is an unbridgeable gap even among Food Spirits?

"Master Yu, the next match is yours, good luck! Let’s meet at the summit!"

Chen Mo encouraged.

Yu Tao was placed in the second group, and currently, the staff was replenishing and replacing ingredients, the match would start in two hours.

"Alright! Let me show you that the old ginger is still the hottest!"

Yu Tao was full of fighting spirit.

And then... he soon got his face "slapped."

His dish was Honey Roasted gugu chicken, an original food.

However, failing to catch the gugu chicken, he had to use Black Feathered Chicken instead, which was slightly inferior in flavor.

Thus, although the food quality was a rare First Rank, the judges’ scores were 15 points lower than Chen Mo’s.

A narrow defeat.

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The Southeast Division’s preliminaries had a total of 10 matches, with two matches a day; it took 5 days to complete officially.

The finals would be held two days after the preliminaries ended. The specific rules would be announced when the preliminaries concluded.

In the next day’s matches, Chen Mo didn’t watch live but viewed the match highlights.

He discovered that several Spirit Chefs gave birth to Food Spirits while preparing dishes.

This was a fairly common sight in Food Spirit competitions.

Because during Food Spirit competitions, every Spirit Chef’s Spirit was highly focused, often infusing their beliefs into the food, thus giving birth to new Food Spirits.

Besides this, Chen Mo also noticed several strong competitors.

A Quasi-Master, and more than a dozen High-level Spirit Chefs, most of whom possessed multiple Commander Stage Food Spirits.

Even when ingredients were limited, they could easily make rare-level dishes.

The most impressive was the number one on the Rookie Chef God list, Liu Yang from New Oriental Food Spirit University.

He casually made a rare Sixth Rank Longjing Shrimp.

The ranking on the Rookie Chef God list was quite accurate.

"A rare First-Level dish isn’t enough! If luck doesn’t strike in the upcoming finals and the God of Cooking isn’t triggered, Tuantuan and I could very likely be eliminated."

Observing the performances of the other Spirit Chefs, a sense of crisis began to rise in Chen Mo’s heart.

The Youth Chef God Invitational in the Southeast Division preliminaries had over 1,200 participants advancing to 50, while the division finals advanced from 50 to 10.

Only a 20% qualification rate!

"There’s no time to level up Tuantuan’s growth right now, at most we can only get one more food-related entry in the weekly challenges."

Chen Mo contemplated, then suddenly thought—

"If I’m able to make two, even three dishes at the same time, then the probability of triggering the God of Cooking would be much higher!"

However, Food Spirit competitions often have strict time constraints, making it difficult to complete one dish and then start another.

Multi-tasking would be necessary.

"Multi-tasking... clone technique!"

Chen Mo’s brain worked quickly, then he spoke:

"I have an idea!"

"Woo?"

Chen Mo roughly explained his idea to Tuantuan, then logged into the Spirit Master’s website, inputting the keywords [Food Spirit][Clone][Phantom].

Instantly, a variety of clone techniques appeared before Chen Mo.

But most were not food attribute techniques, rather they were clone techniques of other attributes or exclusive clone techniques of certain Spiritual Beasts.

For example, Shadow type’s Shadow Clone, Water type’s Reflection of the Moon, Ice type’s Avatar of Snow, Paper Clone, Insect Clone...

Almost no clone techniques available for Food Spirit type Spiritual Beasts.

"Everyone, let’s search together!"

Chen Mo let Xiao Jiu and Bing Lan join the search.

As for Cang Hai, it remained in a state of slumber, but its size had already grown nearly a hundred meters!

It had increased by almost 40 meters compared to before.

Its weight had more than doubled, reaching over 3,000 tons! A creature’s size and weight do not grow proportionately.

Currently, the behemoth slumbering in the Heart of the Sea (it couldn’t fit in the Spiritual Space anymore), truly resembled a towering small mountain with a full sense of pressure.

Although Xinghai’s growth level was still Commander Second Rank, with its powerful physique, it could fully crush even High Rank Commander Spiritual Beasts!