Chapter 569: Chapter 568: The Perfect ‘One Strike

It has begun!

Xia Yu had just risen from his chair when suddenly the camera cut back to Li Han—

Clang! Clang!

A huge noise emitted from the iron cage as the Wagyu, sensing its fate, began to struggle incessantly the moment it left the cage. The chains that bound it were pulled taut.

A staff member responsible for slaughtering, holding a metal stun gun, was preparing to use the most efficient method of slaughter by shooting through the Wagyu’s brain when unexpectedly Li Han raised his hand to stop him,

“Let me do it!”

The staff member stomped his foot, puzzled, “Chef Li, are you sure…”

Before he could finish, Li Han had already taken several steps toward the Wagyu.

Boom!!

Suddenly, a cow weighing several hundred kilograms heavily collapsed to the ground. The staff member was petrified. From his perspective, it was Li Han who had burst forth and with a deep grunt punched the cow in the head.

And then, just as if it had been shot in the head with a stun gun, the cow stretched its limbs and lay straight out on the ground.

“What happened?!”

“How did the Wagyu die suddenly?”

The audience exclaimed.

Xia Yu, not far away, saw this scene and his heart also skipped a beat.

Incredible strength!

He couldn’t help but scrutinize Li Han’s right fist.

He still maintained the posture of his punch, his face holding remnants of a ferocious effort, completely different from his usual decadent dandy demeanor.

It was as if a sleeping lion had suddenly opened its eyes and pounced to kill its prey, sending chills down Xia Yu’s spine.

This guy…

Dangerous!

His instincts told him that.

Below stage, the executive director instructed the cameraman to replay the footage captured, so the slow-motion of Li Han punching the cow to death was displayed on the big screen at the venue and on the terminal devices receiving the live broadcast.

The renowned culinary competition hall in Hokkaido fell deadly silent.

“Hiss!”

Cold air was drawn.

Even Xia Yu was shocked, let alone ordinary spectators.

They stared at Li Han, who seemed about as strong as a nerdy gamer, around 175 cm tall, and their eyes nearly bulged out.

“Oh… my God!”

“This guy killed a Wagyu with his bare hands!”

But upon closer observation, special chefs and Lin Giants only seemed slightly surprised by the scene of Li Han slaying the Wagyu.

“Not bad!”

Jintan Shun rested his chin, “I didn’t expect this young master from the Li Family to also practice martial arts.”

“Chinese chefs training in martial arts is a tradition, nothing more normal right?” Tulip said, her pretty face freezing momentarily, “That’s why, the Chinese Continent is still the least invaded region in the world today.”

“Besides the prevalence of martial arts, its large population is also a significant factor, right?” Jintan Shun’s lips twitched as he seemed to recall his past experience hunting invasive fierce beasts in northwest China.

He did not want to reminisce about that scene filled with hunters everywhere.

“Zest, using Qi Force to kill a cow, Li Han is almost catching up to me in martial arts, huh?”

Zhu Qing couldn’t help but glance towards the White Jade Tower Team, coincidentally, the female Lin Giant, Lan Chuhai from the opposing team, also looked over. Their gazes collided, instantly igniting a sense of tension.

Another male Lin Giant said gravely, “Chef Lan, Zhu Qing is in the Far Moon Team, looks like that piece of information was true. The surface of that team is Far Moon, but it’s actually controlled by the Xia Family.”

The Xia Family!

Lan Chuhai pursed her lips, her gaze shifting toward the young Xia genius.

Now that the Li Family scion had made his move, what about his performance?

The culinary competition between these two had been escalating from the slaughtering stage, anyone who showed weakness in any part might be suppressed by their opponent throughout the event.

The momentum, in such a razor-thin contest, also became a weight that could tip the scales of victory.

The big screen replayed the slow-motion footage of Li Han killing the cow over and over again.

But the relevant party, without any abnormal expression, stepped forward, grabbed the chains that bound the Wagyu, and before dragging the Wagyu away, the young Li scion coldly glanced over at Xia Yu nearby, paying him no mind as he went about slaughtering the cow.

Rumble, rumble.

The Wagyu, weighing several hundred kilograms, was effortlessly dragged by Li Han, with no blood seen along the path, as he easily pulled it back to his own cooking station.

“Phew—”

He composed himself.

A punch killing a cow, had it been any other time Xia Yu certainly would have thought it a wild tale, nearly as implausible as Wu Song’s slaying a tiger.

But thinking of his awakened gourmet cells, and the powers granted to him by these cells, Xia Yu realized he could do it too.

However, brute force killing of a cow was ultimately too crude.

The opposite of crudeness…

How about that, precision craftsmanship?

Xia Yu’s mouth curved into a smile as he returned to his cooking station, but when he came back to the cage, he was already holding a shimmering ‘cleaver’ single-handedly—a knife quite a few people recognized—

“Is that the huge kitchen knife he used to handle ‘cow, pig, bird’ last time?” Bernard exclaimed in surprise.

“Seven Stars Knife—Greed Wolf!”

Zhu Qing’s face stiffened, members of the White Jade Tower Team whispering amongst themselves.

“Not that knife again!”

“Is it a fake, or the real deal?”

“Who cares if it’s fake or real? The tools are secondary, what’s more terrifying isn’t that he has also mastered the corresponding knife skills?”

Clang!

Xia Yu flicked the broad blade with his finger and smiled gently:

“It’s your turn to go on stage.”

For slaughtering, there was no tool more suitable than the “Greed Wolf Knife.”

Moreover…

Suddenly, Xia Yu’s gaze sharpened slightly, and as Chiyoda Aichi, who was about to step forward for an interview, felt the impact of his aura, she involuntarily retreated with cold sweat on her forehead.

Swoosh—

Without any dawdling, Xia Yu’s energy settled, his abdomen slightly contracted, and a mysterious air flow surged throughout his body from beneath, especially to his arms where warmth brewed. When he focused most of his thoughts on the cooking skills he had consistently honed, there was no possibility of any error!

With one slash, a cold light flashed.

The high-definition camera, due to this sudden slash, was filled with an effect resembling censored light.

When the image cleared, the boy had already put down the ‘cleaver.’

The cattle still posed as if emerging from a cage.

Time seemed to stop.

“Gurgle~”

The slaughtering officer swallowed hard with a nail gun from six or seven steps away.

“Another one-slash!”

Chefs who had witnessed the boy’s debut in the previous competition, upon seeing such ‘one-slash’ culinary skills again, were still emotionally shaken.

With the knife-holding right arm hanging down, Xia Yu stepped forward and gently patted the Wagyu’s forehead, “What a pity there isn’t a Soul Suppressing Talisman…”

He chuckled to himself.

He didn’t mind doing a ‘Seven Stars Knife’ cosplay of Rein, but alas, he was without the proper props.

At the moment he withdrew his hand.

“Click”

A slight sound, and the standing Wagyu suddenly bent its limbs and thudded to the ground, and at the same time, an unbelievable phenomenon occurred—

The Wagyu’s back displayed glowing fractures.

The crowd blinked, vaguely seeing an image of petals opening. But upon rubbing their eyes and looking again, the Wagyu that had fallen to the ground had already been dismembered, its skin layer spread around like a peeled orange peel.

“Whoa—”

A sudden uproar.

In the close-up shot, there was a whole perfect piece of beef shaped like the shadow of a cow!

Every fiber of the beef was distinct, and what was key was that it looked as though it had been severed by just ‘one slash,’ but the beef exposed in the camera retained even the finest texture perfectly.

Knife skills with not a fraction of error… Terrifying!

“Perfect, perfect slaughter!”

“Just ‘one slash’! Such fast processing!”

Hearing the commotion, Li Han had already turned to look.

Hmm?!

His expression changed, and Li Han’s eyes observed the ground near the cattle corpse, before he finally showed a hint of horror:

“Not a drop of blood, not a drip of juice…”

“His ‘Fierce Bull Green Dragon Slash,’ it must be very close to perfect mastery!”

It was precisely because he understood the ‘Fierce Bull Green Dragon Slash’ so well that Li Han was shocked.

Dark culinary skills, every one of which was extremely difficult to learn, not suitable for those without great perseverance.

Initially, when Li Han wanted to learn similar dark culinary techniques, his elder had dissuaded him with similar words.

“But… the winner is ultimately me!”

“Destiny is on my side!”

“Just on a topic of ‘stir-fried noodles,’ and my ancestor left behind a supreme stir-fried noodles recipe, what can you use to beat me?”

Li Han’s eyes turned cold, promptly no longer paying attention to his opponent’s movements, grabbing a knife, and dissecting the beef.

Once in a cooking state, he was like an emperor reigning supreme—

Mastering the aura!