"Miss Aoko, are you sure it's here?"

Qian Chen looked at the old temple in front of him with a blank expression.

After handing over the mobile phone and other items to Yoshikawa for safekeeping, Yoshikawa asked Miss Aoko to take Qian Chen to the trial site.

Before coming, Qian Chen still had all kinds of fantasies, what kind of difficulties would be waiting for him in the special chef trial.

Don't give him any supplies, throw him into the mountains, and let him pay tribute to Bei Ye?

Or is there the eighteen reckless men of Kashima Shrine waiting for him ahead, and he must engage in a fierce halberd confrontation with these town bosses to fight his way out of the encirclement?

Or maybe it was to throw him into some illusion and let him cook for the god of thunder, until this god of war was satisfied, it was considered a success?

It turned out that he was overthinking.

Qingzi took him all the way to the mountain silently.

Along the way, the road is lined with dense towering trees, and even at noon, they are still sheltered from the wind.

Apart from the two of them, there was not a single figure in sight around.

The two of them spent a full two hours walking along a long moss-covered stone path, and a miniature shrine covering an area of about 20 square meters came into view.

On the roof and walls of the temple, traces of wind and rain can be seen everywhere.

Qian Chen dared to guarantee that the history of this mini-temple was only more than a hundred years old.

Or rather, it represents history in its own right.

Aoko turned around and looked at him expressionlessly.

"This is the original site of Kashima Shrine, which was built during the Warring States period, and it is also the place where the ancestors were worshipped."

Aoko then pointed to a small mound and a half meters high in front of the temple.

"This was once the knife holder of the National Treasure "Gold, Bronze and Black Lacquer Flat Bun Bow with Sword."

This knife Qian Chen has not only read the information of IGO, but also just now saw the original product in the bulletproof glass in the treasure hall of Kashima Shrine.

It was a Tang knife with a length of 256 cm, which is about 2.6 meters.

Maybe the manufacturing process at that time was too good, or maybe it was well preserved by later generations.

Even through the thick bulletproof glass, Qian Chen could feel the dignified cold light on it.

The only thing that Qian Chen couldn't understand was how the ancients used this knife, which was nearly 2.6 meters long, to cook.

Is it used to cut down elephants?

What makes him even more strange is that even Japanese archaeologists admit that this Tang knife came from the Celestial Empire on the other side of the sea, but it is regarded as a national treasure by Japan.

While worshipping the Celestial Empire, he is always thinking about the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean to overthrow the rule and oppression of the Celestial Empire.

Japan is really a country of contradictions.

At this time, Miss Qingzi's voice pulled Qian Chen's thoughts back.

"For the past hundred days, you will live here, and I will regularly put food at the foot of the mountain, and when the time comes, the ancestors will naturally give you a trial."

Qian Chen was waiting for her next words, but he didn't expect Miss Qingzi to look at him calmly after saying this.

Qian Chen had to bite the bullet.

"And then? What do I need to do in the 100 days? ”

Miss Aoko didn't reply, she just looked at him indifferently.

It wasn't until Qian Chen couldn't stand it anymore that he spit out two words lightly.

"Meditation."

“。。。”

Qian Chen was silent in an instant.

However, before he could speak, Miss Aoko pointed to a moss-covered bath next to the temple with a blank face.

"Reminder, meditation in the water is better."

Qian Chen: You're not a warm reminder, it's a Bingxin reminder and a heart-piercing reminder.

"How to incubate the kitchen heart and let it take root and sprout, others can't help you."

Leaving this meaningful sentence, Miss Qingzi turned around directly and walked away.

Only Qian Chen, who had a depressed face, was left messy in the wind.

There is no wilderness survival he imagined, no passing the test, no predecessors passing the merits, nothing to do, just let him sit down?

Was this a test of his patience?

Well, Qian Chen admitted that it was he who lost.

As a result, Qian Chen started a pure natural and pollution-free health life for more than three months in this deep mountain and old forest.

There were no cell phones, computers, televisions, no modern entertainment, not even lights, not even candles.

The only entertainment is to look up and count the stars.

Dine? I have to chop wood to make a fire, as for the ingredients, hehe, don't mention it, anyway, Qian Chen didn't see a trace of oil flowers.

Go to bed? It was also only given a straw mat.

A change of clothes? There is only a white linen yukata, which is itchy to wear, and it is not warm.

As for Qian Chen's changed clothes, I'm sorry, please take care of yourself.

Learn about the stream washing machine, and manually scrub and dry to understand.

Qian Chen felt like a modern person who had been thrown back to ancient times to be a primitive person.

However, life is just inconvenient, and the loneliness of his soul is like a virus that infects his soul.

Why don't modern people feel lonely even if they only have a computer or even a mobile phone?

It's because the Internet connects everything, and there is no way to have fun.

After Qian Chen was now cut off from all contact with the outside world, he felt deeply lonely.

It was as if he was the only one left in the world.

Later, I couldn't bear it, and even turned on the chatter mode, flirting with the system every day.

By the way, after entering the trial state, the system seemed to be afraid that he would be disturbed by the outside world, so it directly temporarily closed the restaurant in another dimension.

Now he has really become a modern primitive man isolated from the outside world

That's it for his first month here.

Going crazy in the midst of repression.

Fortunately, whenever he felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, he couldn't help but hold the omamori on his chest.

The warmth passed through the dark didn't make him completely crazy.

In the second month, being idle anyway, Qian Chen began to think seriously.

The trials of Kashima Jingu are never meant to drive people crazy.

Because there was a person who was here, and he started his practice in the same way.

And what is even more extreme than Qian Chen is that this person has stayed here for a thousand days, not seeing anyone, and completely blending his soul into the mountains and forests and nature.

This person is Tsukahara Buden.

After passing this so-called 'Thousand Days Trial', Tsukahara Buden created the world-famous mystery 'Ichino Tai Sword'.

A lost stunt knife worker, a knife worker who leads to the path of the Heavenly King.

It doesn't matter if it's scientific or not.

Meditating in this tranquil environment can really make people more focused.

Otherwise, if you take a mobile phone, brush a circle of friends every once in a while, and brush a scarf every other moment, you still think about it.

In the second month, Qian Chen began to try to give up distractions and seek the key to incubate the kitchen heart in meditation.

By the third month, there was no progress. Qian Chen's heart was quiet.

Sweep the moss off the sink and sit cross-legged in the water wearing only a single coat.

Miss Aoko didn't lie to him, sitting meditation in the water does help with meditation. At least Qian Chen felt that he was gradually blending into this piece of nature.

He began to completely calm down and ponder the fundamental question of why he chose to become a chef.

Late at night on the hundredth day, Qian Chen, who was sitting quietly in the bath, suddenly opened his eyes.

He came to his senses!