Chapter 272 Knife Skills

Without the Tyrannosaurus pattern, the Yongling Sword has lost its magical power, but as a kitchen knife, its material, feel, weight, precision and sharpness are all top-notch.

At least among all the kitchen knives Xu Qing has used, none can compare with the Yongling Knife in workmanship.

A good kitchen knife can be of great help to a chef.

Take Xiang En for example. In the previous two duels, she relied on her excellent kitchen knife to display strength far beyond her own ability.

Although the Eternal Spirit Sword cannot allow Xu Qing to exert strength far beyond his own ability, it can at least reduce some of his burden.

Xu Qing never had any special requirements for kitchen utensils before, because he was strong enough and could make exquisite dishes even with the most ordinary kitchen utensils.

However, when his right hand was injured and his strength declined, Xu Qing realized the importance of kitchen utensils.

The Eternal Spirit Sword can bring him closer to his peak state.

As for how close you can get, you'll have to try it to know.

Xu Qing picked up a native crucian carp, knocked the fish unconscious with a knife, and then did some preliminary processing, scraping off the scales, removing the gills and internal organs, and rinsing it repeatedly.

After that comes the test of knife skills, which involves picking out the thorns and removing the bones.

The fish bones and fish bones of large fish are easy to remove because large fish only have one large bone and the fish bones grow on both sides of the bone.

But for small fish like crucian carp, apart from the large bone in the center, the fish bones are also integrated with the fish meat and become part of the fish meat, making them very difficult to pick out.

If you want to forcibly pick out the fish bones, you can only poke the fish meat into a paste, then filter out the fish bones.

However, this is for ordinary people.

With Xu Qing's knife skills, he had no problem embroidering on the fish meat, not to mention picking out the fish bones.

The difficulty lies in trying to ensure the integrity of the fish meat after picking out the fish bones.

Ensuring the integrity of the fish meat not only shows its exquisite and attractive appearance, but also guarantees its delicious taste.

Moreover, this duel is different from the previous ones. The cold dish platter has very high requirements for the appearance of the dishes, and even the taste has to give way to the appearance.

In order to keep the fish meat as intact as possible, you first need to understand the structure of the fish meat and the general location of the fish bones.

All of this was clearly visible to Xu Qing's extraordinary five senses.

Xu Qing placed the Yongling Knife on the crucian carp, took a deep breath, and slowly swung the knife.

The moment the kitchen knife fell, the tiny crucian carp was cut into extremely thin strips, blooming like chrysanthemums, and the fish bones hidden in the fish meat were picked out one by one without a single tear.

This complex and delicate knife work requires a high degree of mental concentration and sufficient patience.

Because a crucian carp has at least hundreds of thorns, most of which are as small as cow hairs, and many of them are forked. It is not a job that humans can do to pick them out one by one.

Normally, even when Xu Qing was in peak condition, using the kitchen knife he was most proficient at using, it would still take a lot of time and energy to achieve this.

But when holding the Eternal Spirit Sword, this step becomes much easier.

The turning of the blade and the angle of cutting the meat were just right. When the sharp tip of the knife lightly touched the fish meat, the fish meat was smoothly cut from the tip of the knife to both sides, making Xu Qing's every move of the knife like a dragonfly touching the water, separating the fish meat as soon as it touched, and easily peeling off the fish bones the moment it touched.

Comfort, this is the most comfortable feeling I have ever experienced!
Xu Qing felt that he could do it more delicately and more lightly.

The Eternal Spirit Sword seemed to have freed his limits, allowing him to display his skills without restraint.

Xu Qing's mind became more and more focused, and he even forgot about the knife in his hand and where he was. All he could see were the small and tender crucian carp and the fish bones hidden deep in the fish meat. It was like playing hide-and-seek with the fish bones, and he felt a great sense of accomplishment every time he picked out a fish bone.

The Yongling Sword seemed to be trying to counter the kitchen knife. It behaved very obediently in Xu Qing's hand. It did not give Xu Qing any help beyond the limit. Instead, it seemed to have given up self-control and completely handed itself over to Xu Qing's control, moving in rhythm with every turn of his wrist.

This clever combination makes the complicated and boring process of picking fish bones easier, faster and more relaxed.

There was a faint smile on Xu Qing's lips.

The tacit cooperation between Xu Qing and Yongling Dao made Caidao on the other side even more angry.

The person who was most happy about this was Xiang En.

The kitchen knife in her hand and the Yongling knife were fighting each other, but she, the fisherman, benefited from it.

The kitchen knife in his hand is full of spirituality, and every swing and drop of the knife is full of spirit.

It was as if the knife was guiding her, as if the knife had become an extension of her arm. Just a thought, a contraction and relaxation of her muscles, could make the knife move according to her thoughts, and the dishes she cut would be exactly the same as she had imagined.

Generally speaking, there is a huge gap between the brain's ideas and practice, which is often said to be the case that the brain can do something but the hands cannot.

But at this moment, the kitchen knife in Xiang En's hand seemed to be directly connected to the thoughts in her mind. Her hand moved in the same way as she thought in her mind, perfectly reproducing the idea without any error.

It can be said that everything goes as planned.

Xiang En looked at the kitchen knife in his hand with great surprise.

Her knife skills are already among the best, but there is still a long way to go compared to Xu Qing.

The reason is that Xu Qing's knife skills are no longer at the human level.

Even if Xiang En wanted to improve his knife skills, there was no room for improvement.

Even though she had imagined many sophisticated techniques in her mind, she was unable to reproduce them because her current strength was her limit.

But with the help of this smooth kitchen knife, her limit was instantly broken. The knife seemed to guide her to cut and cut vegetables.

What she needs to do is to try her best to imagine what the limits of knife skills are. As for how to put it into practice, that is the task of the kitchen knife.

This kitchen knife seemed to be trying its best to prove its strength to Yongling Knife and Xu Qing, as if it wanted Xu Qing to regret not choosing it. It also wanted to perform hard in front of Xu Qing to prove that it was a kitchen knife worthy of him.

This determination was transmitted to Xu Qing's heart through the inexplicable connection between them.

Xu Qing stopped what he was doing, looked up at it, and seeing it struggling hard, his blood boiled in his heart.

It is trying to express itself.

How could Xu Qing let it look down upon him?

He lowered his head, and the knife skills in his hands became more refined and accurate. All kinds of ingredients fluttered and danced under the knife, turning into exquisite works of art, falling lightly onto the plate.

With the help of their respective kitchen knives, the two opponents continued to break through their own limits and pushed their knife skills to the peak.

In the eyes of onlookers, the ingredients in their hands almost turned into double images. Their knife skills were so fast that it was hard to keep up. One could not see the process. One could only see the cut ingredients falling onto the plate in an orderly manner, gradually filling up the white porcelain plate.

Using the porcelain plate as the canvas, the ingredients as the paint and the knife skills as the brush, the dazzling array of ingredients is transformed into a gorgeous painting, and this cold dish platter gradually takes shape.

(End of this chapter)