Chapter 97: Three Questions

Jiangnan didn't know what one of the three holy places, a place rich in miracles, was just three down-and-out stinky old men pretending to be the legendary big cloves of garlic with themselves, pouting, and following the three old men into the low thatched house.

The house was extremely open, fifty paces long and wide, with a marble knife and water case in the middle, surrounding the walls of the thatched house, with all kinds of vegetables on the north side, all kinds of meat on the east and west sides, and on the south side where Jiangnan entered, in addition to a wooden door, there were three banners hanging on the wall.

The first banner reads, "Carry the knife by hand", the second banner reads, "Carry the knife with the heart", and the third banner turns out to be ...... Covered with a red cloth, I can't see what is written on it.

Jiang Nan was in awe! Others don't know what these three banners represent, but Jiang Nan, who once pointed out Anya's seven-character knife skills, understands that the first two banners represent the two realms of knife technique: the first layer, the knife is in the hand, and the second layer, the knife is in the heart.

As for the third banner...... It should be a higher level of sword art realm, Jiang Nan vaguely felt something, but the words were in his mouth, and he couldn't express it accurately.

"Roddy, this is the Academy's knife class. Yudi didn't dare to breathe on the side, lowered his head and explained, "The conditions for recruiting students in the academy are extremely strict, five years ago, after I graduated from this knife class, no one has been able to get in, so this place has been idle for five years!"

Jiang Nan ignored it, still looking at the blank third banner.

Noticing Jiang Nan's gaze, the three old men looked at each other and nodded together, "Luo Di, what do you see?"

"I didn't see anything, but I wanted to see something. ”

Jiang Nan turned his head and smiled, and said a strange answer, but the three old men all laughed, "The first entrance exam question - the potential of comprehending a higher level of sword skill realm, you have passed!"

Then an old man came to the wall, grabbed a piece of tofu, and threw it on the table in the distance. This is the most ordinary piece of water-milled tofu that will break if you pinch it casually, but it was thrown a distance of more than ten steps, and when it landed on the table, the tofu was intact, and it didn't even tremble, "The second knife entrance exam question is to use this piece of tofu to carve a statue of a trio in ten minutes according to our appearance!"

Jiangnan frowned slightly, the lesson of the fiasco to Julian was just around the corner, he was good at dissecting human bodies and animals, but for tofu...... Hard-headed, Jiang Nan picked up the two carving knives on the table and carved them in the same way as the three deans.

There are at least three difficulties in carving a portrait with tender tofu: one is that the texture of the tofu is delicate, and if the strength is a little greater, the tofu will be crushed!

But Jiang Nan's fingers can even fiddle with the human nerves freely, holding the tofu at the moment, it is as strong as grasping a rock, an old man touched his beard, "If you lift lightly, your hand strength is varied, with this, no matter whether he can finally enroll in school, Yudi, there is nothing wrong with your recommendation!"

If you want to carve a full-body portrait of three people with such a small thing, you must be as careful as a hair, and you can't make a mistake with a knife...... The second old man also touched his beard, looking very satisfied.

Time passed minute by minute, and a layer of fine beads of sweat had already been discharged from Jiang Nan's forehead, but he was in no mood to wipe it - he encountered the third difficulty: the three deans only gave a period of ten minutes, ten minutes, Jiang Nan is not a carving artist, let alone a master of cooking, he tried his best, and at the time of nine minutes and thirty seconds, there was still half an old man left to finish carving!

"It's a pity, your finger dexterity and meticulousness not only fully meet the admission requirements, but even exceed our expectations, but your knife carving foundation is really ......"

The third old man shook his head, and it seemed that he was not optimistic that Jiang Nan would be able to complete the work on time.

But this sigh pierced Jiang Nan's heart, banana is a pig's brain, brother, I have already lost to Julian in knife work once, is this time, do you want to let the three bad old men look down on you?

Bite!

In the interval between the carvings of his hands, he stretched out a finger and flicked the third thin needle, learning to bite the handle of the knife with Yurian's teeth, biting the tail of the needle, and actually carving with his left and right hands and mouth, and at the same time controlling the carving of three fine needles, which suddenly increased the speed several times!

"Move the knife with your mouth!?" Yudi exclaimed in a low exclamation!

The three old men were also moved, "You can stop, you have passed the second test." Luo Di, did you comprehend these skills of the three swords, or did someone teach you?"

"Three Knife Streams?" After Jiang Nan carried the knife with his mouth, he only felt that he had vaguely understood something in his heart, and muttered: "I don't know what the three knife flows are, but I know that as long as I can complete the work, I can also use my mouth to move the knife, isn't it?"

All of a sudden!

He saw the third banner covered with red cloth again, and the little realization in his heart was even stronger, and he blurted out: "Or, the knife work is to the extreme, the hands, the mouth, the toes...... Where can't you carry a knife? I'm a knife, and a knife is me!"

"Yes, you are the knife, the knife is you!"

An old man strode to the door and tore off the red cloth on the third banner, on which was written the third level of knife work: the unity of man and knife!

But immediately after, the old man put away the three banners and flipped the secret door on the wall, revealing three more banners covered with red cloth, "Luo Di, if you can pass the test of the third test, you can stay here and continue to comprehend the fourth, fifth, and even sixth level realm of sword art!"

At this moment, Jiang Nan's impression of the Imperial Culinary Academy completely changed, and he bowed seriously, "Three deans, please come up with the third test question!"

The three old men looked at each other and smiled, and one of the old men placed a little dairy cow that had just been slaughtered in front of Jiang Nan, and said with a smile: "You Di said that the speed at which you solve the cow and kill the pig is not inferior to him, so for this third question, we originally wanted you to dissect a cow within half an hour......"

Another old man said, "As a result, your performance in the second question exceeded our expectations, and we are interested in accepting you as a personal disciple! However, if you want to become our personal disciple, you must undergo a more difficult test - ten minutes, dissecting a scalper, can you do it!?"

"Dean, aren't you embarrassed!"

Yu Di muttered: "There are only a few people on the mainland who can dissect a scalper in ten minutes, you might as well let Luo Di learn from Julian and dissect a scalper in twenty-seven seconds!"

The old people didn't bother with Yudi at all, and said to themselves: "Roddy, maybe you will think that it is too difficult to dissect a scalper in ten minutes, but we tell you that any one of us has the ability to dissect a scalper in half a minute, if you want to learn this ability from us......"

"Dear old gentlemen, ten minutes, is it?"

Jiang Nan smiled, his stomach was about to cramp when he laughed, looking at the first two questions, he thought that this third question might be such a difficult test question, but he didn't expect it to be what he was best at...... To dissect a scalper, Jiang Nan only needed seventeen seconds and twenty-seven knives! Of course, it was impossible for him to show his golden knife in front of three outsiders, pick up a scalpel, Jiang Nan controlled his speed, slowly, so slow that he was about to be unbearable, dissected the scalper.

A knife!

Two knives!

Just when Jiangnan fell the third knife, an old man suddenly turned gloomy and waved his hand: "You Di, you go out first!"

After Yudi left, a glimmer of light bloomed in his slender eyes, "Roddy, I don't care what your purpose is for entering the Imperial Culinary Academy, we are just chefs, we only want to recruit and train the top knife chefs on the continent, so ...... Yudi is gone, show your true strength, don't deal with it in this way of insulting us and insulting yourself!"

Three knives, only three knives, these three old men saw through their strength!?

Jiang Nan only felt cold behind him...... But the old man showed a smile after a short period of coercion, "Maybe you don't know about the Imperial Culinary Academy, here, as long as you have culinary potential, you can be any identity - spy, criminal, villain, and even necromantic totem, as long as you have knife potential, we will accept you as a personal disciple regardless of your identity!"

"Necromantic Totem is OK too?"

Jiang Nan's eyes narrowed.

"A secret that is not a secret: the King of the Necromancy is from us!"

The old man smiled mysteriously, but it was a pity that he didn't mention that the King of Necromancy was called 'Dominel', otherwise Jiang Nan would have broken his eyes in surprise.

But this sentence was enough to make Jiang Nan throw away two ordinary scalpels and pull out the dissecting cane called 'Godfather' on his waist, "As long as I have potential, even if I am a necromantic totem, I can do it?"

"Of course, mid-grade necromantic totem, Roddy!" the old man smiled more and more mysteriously, "Don't be surprised, as soon as you enter the door, we will see through your identity, but I said it, as long as you let us see your potential, necromantic totem...... The Imperial Culinary Academy is a place where there is no class and habits produce miracles!"

Jiang Nan also smiled, click, the dissecting cane broke, and two scalpels came into his palm.

But the third knife is also ready, the human knife is one, and he is just about to try it, the third layer of knife work realm that he has just comprehended, how far can he improve his dissecting speed!

"Since the three of you have seen through my identity......"

Jiang Nan's right-hand scalpel pointed at another cow, "I meet your requirements!" But there is no opponent, it is difficult to exert the extreme speed of knife work, three old men, each of you has the ability to dissect a cow in half a minute, if you join forces, what level of speed will it reach?"

The three old men suddenly changed color, "Roddy, do you want to ......?"

"Let's come together, there are no restrictions, I don't mind being alone, challenging the three of you to join forces!"

(To be continued)