"Ladies and gentlemen, the final results of the 16th National Culinary Contest are now out......"

In the live broadcast room of the TV station, the host said excitedly.

“...... This year's champion is ......" The host made a gesture, and the stage suddenly went black, and then another pillar of light shone in the middle of the stage.

The lifting platform slowly rose, and a young man in a chef's uniform appeared with a smile on his face.

At this time, the band that had been prepared for a long time also began to play the "March of the Champions", and when the lifting platform was level with the stage, countless petals and colored bars erupted over the stage......

The host said excitedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the champion of this year, Mr. Su Ze from Changzhou [East Kitchen Residence]......"

"Come, let's talk about our champions, talk about how you feel about winning this championship......" The host walked over with the microphone.

Su Ze's smile was stiff, and he turned into the microphone and began to recite the thank you speech that had been prepared long ago: "I want to thank ...... first Secondly, I want to think...... And thanks...... Without them, there would be no ......"

After tossing for more than half an hour, Su Ze finally returned to the backstage to remove his makeup and change his clothes.

"Damn, it's so boring! Lao Tzu doesn't want to participate in this Rausch Bird Feather Contest at all!" Su Ze rubbed his sour-smiling face and complained in his heart.

"Mm-hmm, it's not a fun game. Now that it's finally done, let's go back to Changzhou tomorrow......" Su Xue looked around, picked up his luggage and went out.

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April 28, 2009, Changzhou.

Su Ze is a homemaker, a chef, and a restaurant owner.

Everyone has their own hobbies, some people like to raise fish and flowers, some people like to play cards and chess, and Su Ze's hobby is relatively rare - cooking. He loves to study cooking techniques, but it's just a hobby.

Just like someone who likes codewords doesn't necessarily want to be a writer or editor, neither a chef nor a restaurateur is his ideal career.

His greatest wish is to become an immortal, and his second wish is to be a cult ancestor.

However, nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory, whether it is a chef or a restaurant owner, it is too far from his ideals.

However, the profession of chef is ancestral, and the profession of restaurant owner is also ancestral.

For an extremely traditional family like the Su family, Su Xue, who has been passed down for three generations, must choose these professions, which is an unavoidable responsibility!!

So Su Ze had to learn how to be a chef since he was 5 years old, and how to be a restaurant owner since he was 14 years old. After graduating from university, I had to take over the ancestral hotel very depressed.

Three years ago, after Su Ze's parents died in an accident, he could finally play Xiuzhen unscrupulously......

Today, Su Ze turned on the computer, connected to the Internet, opened QQ, and entered a QQ group called [Ziluoxia] as usual.

This QQ group called [Ziluo Gorge] is the daily communication platform for Su Ze and his fellow Xiuzhen, and they also have a website of [Holy Dao Society].

This [Holy Dao Society] was established by Su Ze and a few fellow fans ten years ago, and there were only two or three kittens at first. Up to now, there are thousands of regular members, and they are also well-known in the domestic cultivation circle. Those who can enter this [Ziluoxia] QQ group are all backbone netizens of the [Holy Dao Society].

Because Su Ze is one of the founders and one of the stationmasters, and he has initiated the discussion of establishing a super cult - "Oriental Holy See", netizens like to call him "Godfather".

He first said hello to netizens and announced a message he got today.

"Fellow Daoists, this time the [Heavenly Dao Alliance] has held a cultivation exchange meeting, and the location is in Fuzhou. They called me yesterday and made an appointment with us [Holy Dao Society], do you want to go? I opened a registration post in the altar, and the Taoist friends who want to go follow the post in the altar. Su Ze quickly typed a few lines and clicked send.

After discussing with everyone for a while, Su Xue was ready to go offline. At this time, a new netizen who joined the group sent a message: "Ancestor, I heard that your family is also a Xiuzhen family?"

"No!!!886, I'm down. ”

Xiuzhen family?

Every time I mentioned this, Su Xue was depressed.

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In a sense, the Su family is indeed a Xiuzhen family, because their family has an ancestral "secret book" - "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Treasure Sutra".

Among the so-called "cultivation cheats", the "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Treasure Sutra" is a rare tome, it consists of 7 books, each of which is not below the thickness of "Ci Hai". There are more than 3.53 million words and more than 19,000 illustrations. At that time, Su Ze was busy for more than 2 months in order to get this set of tomes on the website, scanning, ORC, proofreading, etc., which was the result of him bringing in a few colleagues to serve as coolies.

But this "feat" is undoubtedly the biggest failure in his life in Su Ze's current view.

The problem lies in this "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Bao Jing", this seemingly awesome "Haoran Masterpiece Works" is a "pirated book" that is the culmination of plagiarism in this collection! From the ancient "Tao Te Ching", "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", and "Shennong's Materia Medica" to the medieval "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription", "Preparation for Emergency Qianjin Prescription", "Diet Therapy Materia Medica", "Taiping Shenghui Fang", "Drinking and Eating Zhengyao", and all the way to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Ancient and Modern Medical System", and "Zunsheng Eight Notes" in the Ming and Qing dynasties...... And so on and so forth, no less than 300 books of various kinds on Taoism, medicine, medicine, diet, etc., have been unscrupulously plagiarized.

Moreover, the most shameful thing about this book is that it copied other people's works and did not finish copying them, they all copied a paragraph in the east and a paragraph in the west. For example, the previous paragraph is "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", the next paragraph jumps to "Neidan Returns to the Yuan Jue", and the next paragraph becomes "The Eight Scenes of the Mixed Yuan True Scripture". And the transition in the middle is very stiff, which makes the viewers extremely annoyed.

At that time, when Su Ze did this, he was still a high school student, a novice who had just entered the circle of cultivation, and he didn't know much about all kinds of ancient books, so how did he know that this so-called "ancestral secret book" would actually be a "pirated book". The result is naturally a tragedy.

At that time, Su Ze proudly packaged and uploaded this "brilliant masterpiece" to the website, originally wanting to show off his secrets, but he didn't expect it to become the biggest joke in this circle.

At the beginning, this super tome still caused some surprise, after all, a cultivation book of more than 3 million words was still relatively rare. But the good times didn't last long, and that night, a large number of "human flesh search engines" and "face slapping parties" jumped out.

They used detailed and sufficient evidence to launch a dense storm of bricks, and poor Su Xue was photographed as a pig's head. As a result, not only was the "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Treasure Sutra" proven to be plagiarized, but there were also many places that were found to be copied by mistake.

Shame! Su Ze, who has no place to be ashamed, even has the intention of killing his ancestors.

But strictly speaking, this "cheats" is not all plagiarized, there is still some original content, although it is less than 10% of the full text, but there is still a little fig leaf.

However, for Su Ze, this fig leaf not only did not play a comforting role, but made him even more depressed. Because even in this bit of original content, less than 10% of it is really related to cultivation, and more than ninety percent of the rest of the content is all recipes!

That's right, it's the recipe!

At that time, there was a Xiuzhen old bird with an ID named "Yang Liu Qingyang" who pointed out sharply: "Ancestor, this book of your family is not so much a Taoist book of cultivation as a chef's guide. By the way, this "Yang Liu Qingyang" was one of the most ruthless IDs at that time.

Although the words of "Yang Liu Qingyang" are harsh, there is some truth, because the "Nine Spirits Yuan King" in this "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Treasure Sutra" is the abbreviation of [East Kitchen Si Ming Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Dingfu Shenjun].

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The East Chef ordered the Nine Spirits Yuan King to set the blessing of the Divine Monarch.

People who are not in this circle may not know that the name is that road immortal.

But if we talk about his common name, it is estimated that as long as the Chinese do not know it. The so-called [East Kitchen Si Ming Jiuling Yuan Wang Dingfu Shenjun], that is, "Stove God", "Stove King" or "Stove King", the well-known god of food in China!

However, among the many theories about the origin of the stove king, one of them, the king of the stove is surnamed "Su"! That's right, according to the "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" and the "Jade Candle Treasure Book": "The god of the stove, surnamed Su, is named auspicious, and the woman's name is Bo Cheek."

As for whether the "Su" of Su Ze's family is in the same vein as the "Su" of Su Jili, only God knows. Even Su Xue himself couldn't be sure, because he didn't see a clear explanation on the family tree, after all, he was not a Korean and lacked the heroic courage to recognize his ancestors.

"The heart of heaven is the will of the people, and the will of heaven is the will of the people. The people take food as the sky, so the way of eating is the way of heaven. Taking the essence of the five insects of plants and trees, using yin and yang, adjusting them with five flavors, and combining them with five elements, the so-called method of diet is the method of regulating yin and yang and turning the five elements. The method of eating and drinking is first in the five senses......"

This passage is too familiar to Su Ze, there is no way, just look at anything for more than 20 years, it is impossible to be unfamiliar with it. That's right, this text is the first paragraph of the Su family's "ancestral secret book" - "Nine Spirits Yuan Wang Treasure Sutra".

"Hey, why is it so difficult to cultivate now?" Su Xue sighed and closed the book.

The main difficulty of modern cultivation lies in the scarcity of aura, and the lack of those "natural treasures" is just a concomitant phenomenon of "scarcity of aura".

As for why the aura between heaven and earth is scarce? In the modern cultivation circle, there are dozens of hypotheses, ranging from the "natural depletion theory" of environmental protection to the "meteorite theory" of science fiction...... There are all kinds of theories, and Su Ze is not sure which one is more reliable. And even if he knew, there could be no solution.