Beast Taming: I Can Bestow Entries-Chapter 218: World-Class Pastry Master

"Sister Meng, you’ve worked hard. Try this mint lemon tea—it can help relieve fatigue to some extent."

Chen Mo handed over a cup of lemon tea.

"Thank you."

Chen Meng nodded, and then seemed to suddenly remember something. She smiled and said,

"Don’t forget to go to Master Tao to get the three pieces of epic ingredients. That’s the bet he lost to me."

"I’m not good at cooking, so it’s your gain. Also, Master Tao is very wealthy, don’t be too polite with him."

"Then... next time I’ll treat you to a meal."

Feeling a bit embarrassed to take three epic ingredients for free, Chen Mo said.

"It’s a deal then!"

Chen Meng laughed.

She had been waiting for Chen Mo to say that.

She loved getting a free meal more than anything.

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Time quietly passed, and in the blink of an eye, there were only two days left until the Youth Culinary Spirits Competition.

This week, Chen Mo chose the weekly challenge of [Traditional Pastry Artisan], a blue entry.

The entry challenge was to complete 10 different traditional pastries and receive praise from 100 Spiritual Beasts.

For Tuantuan, this entry challenge was incredibly easy.

After half a day of setting up a stall on the street, the challenge was easily completed.

What surprised Chen Mo was that after completing the [Traditional Pastry Artisan] challenge, there was actually a prompt on the entry manual about combining it with the [Pastry Master] entry.

Without hesitation, Chen Mo immediately chose to merge them.

The two blue entries shattered, and what reappeared before Chen Mo was a touch of purple—

[World-Class Pastry Master] (Purple)

Entry Effect: Master all the knowledge of pastry making from ancient to modern times, both domestic and foreign. Significant enhancement in culinary skills. Pastries you create have a high probability of quality improvement and an increased chance of improved deliciousness value.

The moment he equipped this entry, countless recipes and methods for making pastries surged into Chen Mo’s mind.

This entry could be said to be a comprehensive upgrade of a pastry master.

In the Pastry Master entry, knowledge and recipes about pastry making focused mainly on rare and treasured pastries with not a single epic pastry.

But the World-Class Pastry Master enabled Chen Mo to acquire several recipes for epic pastries.

"Wait, the World-Class Pastry Master can also enhance the quality of pastries. Plus, with the boost from the God of Cooking, isn’t there a chance to create a food of legendary quality! In that case, even if I don’t win the champion of this Culinary God Competition, I can still have Tuantuan achieve complete evolution!"

Chen Mo suddenly thought, feeling like he was about to take flight.

He couldn’t wait to start experimenting with Tuantuan, right when he had just snuck three epic ingredients from the Island Master of Taoyuan.

A small bag of snowflake glutinous rice flour, leaves from an overlord-level Longjing ancient tree, and soul-holding glutinous rice.

The snowflake glutinous rice flour was just right for making snowy mooncakes, the evolutionary food for the Snowflake Rice Spirit.

The Longjing ancient tree leaves could be used to make Longjing Qingtuan, another type of evolutionary food.

However, the ideal is full, but reality is skinny.

Under Tuantuan’s high-level performance, they made rare-level eight-tier snowy mooncakes.

The two entries both triggered simultaneously, yet the final product’s quality was only epic ninth tier.

There was still a certain gap from legendary cuisine.

[God of Cooking] raised the rare level 8 snowy mooncake’s quality to epic level 8, and then [World-Class Pastry Master] only nudged it up a little further.

Of course, this wasn’t because the [World-Class Pastry Master] effect was weak; in the same batch, some snowy mooncakes not affected by [God of Cooking] were directly elevated by one major rank.

But there seemed to be a vast gap between epic food and legendary food.

Nonetheless, Chen Mo was content. If he could still make pastries in the finals of the Youth Culinary God Competition, he and Tuantuan would directly crush the competition.

Next, Chen Mo and Tuantuan used the remaining ingredients to make several portions of epic-level Glutinous Rice Ball Spirit’s original food.

After Tuantuan consumed it, its growth level greatly improved, reaching the Extraordinary Ninth Rank!

This was already the current limit that its growth level could reach; to further advance, it would need to undergo evolution, a qualitative change in the level of life.

And the opportunity for evolution would be in the upcoming Culinary Spirits Competition...

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Two days later, at Kyoto Food God Square.

After the start of winter, temperatures plummeted, and at this time, Kyoto’s temperature was close to zero, yet the atmosphere on the square was quite lively.

As the finals venue for the National Youth Culinary God Competition, the Food God Square was already adorned with all sorts of colorful lights, and the streets were decorated with various shapes of Food Spirit dolls and all kinds of merchandise.

In the center of the square were more than 30 stoves, fully equipped with kitchenware and seasonings.

Thirty young Spirit Chefs from three major competition zones would compete here.

The Little Chef God of the 68th Young Chef Competition would be crowned today!

At 6 o’clock sharp.

With the continuous sound of fireworks, the Young Chef Competition finals officially began!

"Welcome everyone to the finals of the 68th Youth Culinary God Competition! I am this competition’s host, Xia Yan."

A petite girl with a cute appearance spoke up.

She was a high-level Spirit Chef and also a food blogger on the pilipili website. With excellent culinary skills and outstanding looks, she was quite popular online.

She would host this competition along with Neon Cat.

"Before the competition begins, let’s invite our Chef God Jiang Yun to deliver a speech meow!"

Neon Cat waved its paw towards the camera, and then a slender old man in a red Tang suit slowly walked up to the podium.

He was Chef God Jiang Yun.

"I’ll keep this brief."

"Firstly, I’m delighted to see so many young Spirit Chefs. Since ancient times, the idea of ’The people regard food as their heaven’ has been deeply ingrained in every Dongxia person’s heart. The arrival of the Spirit Era has manifested the soul of cuisine, injecting new vitality into our culinary culture..."

"A familiar flavor."

Listening to the Chef God’s speech, Chen Mo couldn’t help but recall the school leadership’s speeches from his previous life, so he started to relax with his eyes closed.

"Woo~"

Not long after, Xiao Jiu, lying on Chen Mo’s shoulder, lightly patted him.

With a telepathic connection, Chen Mo looked in the direction it pointed.

At the left side of the judging panel sat a stunning woman with strikingly beautiful features; today, Sister Meng was wearing a red dress, creating a stark contrast with her cold and aloof demeanor.

"Whoa! Sister Meng!"

Chen Mo was taken aback.

Sister Meng’s background was quite influential to be a judge in the Young Chef Competition finals!

But this also meant that his chances of winning the championship had increased a few notches!

As if sensing Chen Mo’s gaze, Chen Meng’s eyes fluttered, and a slight smile unconsciously appeared at the corner of her mouth.

minutes later.

Chef God Jiang Yun finished his opening speech, and the event host Xia Yan took the microphone, showing a sweet smile and saying,

"Next, please allow Neon Cat and me to introduce the rules of this Culinary Spirits Competition to everyone!"