In the distance, a huge city crawled like a monster on the vast plain, it can no longer be described as a city, and the city of Taru, which straddles the border between the Orlan Empire and the Huarong Empire, is clearly a huge fortress. The fortress is lined with troops of the Huarong Empire that stretches for hundreds of miles, the Huarong Empire has an excellent geographical location, the empire in the south occupies a large area of rich land, and they are bordered by the sea in the southwest, although they border the three empires of Langmu, Chiru and Oran, but the scope of defense is not large. The Huarong Empire attaches great importance to military affairs, and the main combat strength of the empire is composed of four major groups, namely the Northern Group Army stationed at the border between the north and the Langmu Empire, the Northeast Group Army stationed near Talu City in the northeast, the Eastern Group Army stationed at the border with the Qilu Empire in the east, and the Central Group Army stationed near the capital Tiancheng. The number of troops in service in the country has never been less than 1.2 million, and it must be a great burden for several other empires to have so many legions, but for the rich Huarong Empire, it is not a difficult task. It's like when they attack the perimeter, it's not really to grab anything, it's more for training, after all, a soldier who hasn't been on the battlefield is by no means a qualified soldier.

The four major armies of the Huarong Empire are each commanded by a marshal, among which the Central Army is the most powerful, and the famous Flame Lion Knights is the elite of the Central Army. And what Nian Bing sees now is the Northeast Group Army of the Huarong Empire stationed in Tabian City, Talu City is not like Binglan City, which is under the control of the two countries, the army of the Huarong Empire is stationed here, but the army of the Orlan Empire has withdrawn into the interior smoothly, no matter in terms of equipment, military salary, quantity and other aspects, the Orlan Empire is far worse than the Huarong Empire. If it weren't for the Langmu Empire, which is also a powerful country, restricting the Huarong Empire, the Huarong Empire would have already opened its huge mouth of the flame lion to devour the Orlan Empire.

Before reaching Taru City, Nian Bing first had to pass through the defense line of the Huarong Empire, here. will be subject to strict inspection. If it arouses the slightest suspicion, it will be fundamentally entered into the Huarong Empire. However, he has his own way of dealing with the inspection of Nian Bing, after all, he is a member of the Huarong Empire, and his understanding of the Huarong Empire is mostly limited to his father's narration. Although he doesn't love his motherland very much, his roots are in Huarong, and all the memories of the Huarong Empire are so profound.

Standing at the back of the inspection queue, looking up at the huge gate of Talu City that looked like the mouth of a giant lion, Nian Bing muttered: "Huarong, I'm back again, more than ten years later, I'm back again." I remember being here when I left, Dad. Rest assured, if possible, I will fight back what we deserve.

The speed of the inspection is very fast, and most of the civilians and merchants who enter the city have a pass issued by the Huarong Empire, with which they can easily enter the city, after all, there are very few people who dare to make trouble in the Huarong Empire now, and it is not a time of war. Naturally, the inspection will not be very tight.

Finally, it was Nian Bing's turn, and the commander of the guards in armor said to him like everyone else, "Show me your pass." His tone was not stern, this was because he saw Nian Bing's long golden hair, blonde hair, which was common in the Huarong Empire. For their own people, the guards will always be polite, and someone once counted that among the high-level nobles of the Huarong Empire, more than 90% have blonde hair.

Shaking his head, Nian Bing said indifferently: "I'm sorry, I don't have a pass." “

"No?" The guard commander looked at him with some surprise, Nian Bing didn't have any luggage on his body, and the clothes on his body were very ordinary, but the guard commander who read a lot of people saw an unusual temperament from him, "Since you don't have a pass, you need to search your whole body, please go over there." As he spoke, he pointed to a poorly built house by the city gate.

Shaking his head again, Nian Bing stretched out his right hand, "I don't think so." With a pop, a flame burned from the palm of his hand, and the flame swayed in the breeze, and suddenly the surrounding temperature rose a little, "I'm a magician." “

The surprise in the eyes of the guard commander suddenly turned into respect, "It turned out to be Mr. Magician, please enter the city." After speaking, he hurriedly got out of the way, and Nian Bing stepped in, without encountering any obstacles.

The Huarong Empire is a country that worships fire, and due to the prosperity of its magic, everyone from the king to the common people has great respect for magicians, especially powerful magicians. Therefore, the king once issued an order that as long as it is a magician, no matter which country's magician, he can enter the Huarong Empire casually, especially the fire magician, who is the most popular object in the Huarong Empire, plus Nian Bing's blonde hair, the guards will naturally not stop it more.

The first feeling of walking into Talu City is prosperity, in stark contrast to the Orlan Empire, the streets are full of bustling people, including some soldiers on vacation, no matter what kind of shop business is very good, as a border city is so rich, I am afraid that only the Huarong Empire can do it, no one here will worry about the invasion of foreign enemies, after all, the Northeast Army garrisoned here by the Huarong Empire is not vegetarian.

Taking a deep breath, Nian Bing sighed lightly, "Is this the air of the motherland? motherland, I'm afraid no one will admit that I belong to Huarong." "As a native of the Huarong Empire, he came back this time to represent the Ice Moon Empire in the New Magician Competition, which is not an irony for him.

Walking on the street, Nian Bing was going to find a hotel to live in, and now there were still two months before the Magician Competition, although it was not close to Dutian City from here, half a month was enough to arrive, so he still had time. Nian Bing's mind is full of magicians now, he has absolute confidence in his cooking skills, on the way to the Huarong Empire, he has decided to take the three months before the competition as his journey to practice magic, every place he goes, he will stay at least one day to practice all kinds of magic on the road, especially the newly obtained Xuanji Knife, which is the top priority of his cultivation. Someone once said that the samurai is the nemesis of the magician at close range, but the space magician is the nemesis of all the samurai, which shows the status of the space magic in the mainland magic world, and having space magic is equivalent to having a talisman in front of the samurai. Of course, space mages also have their own weaknesses. Seeking that is, the ability to attack is poor. Space magic is best at teleportation and imprisoning. Only when you reach the level of Magus or above, the attack power will gradually appear.

Suddenly, Nian Bing saw that the people on the street were rushing in one direction, as if something had happened, and thought to himself, could there be people in Taru City who dare to make trouble?

The flow of people is surging. Driven by the flow of people, Nian Bing did not teach himself to move in that direction. Curious, he asked a passer-by, "What's going on over there, why is everyone going over?"

Passers-by said: "Little brother, you must have just come here, this is a grand event that has only been seen for several years! Hualong Hotel in Talu City Square every three years held a local cooking challenge competition just started today, to last for three days, these three days, will be our Talu City carnival three days, famous chefs from all over the country will come here to participate in the challenge, this competition seems to be the culinary world after the competition of the God of Chef competition." It's a pity not to see much, hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to see it if it's far away. “

Nian Bing's heart moved, what kind of Hualong Cooking Challenge he had never heard of Cha Ji say, I think it has only emerged in recent years, but since it is said to be a competition second only to the Chef God Competition, it should be a certain amount of interest, under the effect of curiosity, he hurriedly followed the flow of people next to him towards Taru Square.

In the distance, a huge square can already be seen, this square is so large that it probably occupies one-third of the area of Tarudi, which was originally a school field specially used for military orders. But at this time, it became the venue for a cooking competition. The entire square was crowded with people, and at least nearly 100,000 people gathered around the square, and there was no disturbance under the large number of guards to maintain order.

In the center of the square, there is a round platform that is nearly two zhang high and about fifteen zhang in diameter, the table is covered with a red carpet, even if it is seen from below, it is extremely eye-catching, the most surprising thing for Nian Bing is that this giant round table can be rotated, around the round table, a total of ten brand-new stoves are arranged, and behind it are some necessary tools in the kitchen, obviously, it can accommodate ten chefs at the same time for competition.

Seeing such a huge cooking display table, Nian Bing couldn't help but feel a feeling of blood boiling in his heart, as a chef, what a wonderful thing it is to be able to show his cooking skills on such a stage! No wonder the master once said that the Huarong Empire gathers the most outstanding chefs, it seems that he is not wrong, I am afraid, only in the Huarong Empire can there be this kind of culinary prosperity.

Ten feet away on each side of the round platform, there is a raised platform with a canopy, and there are chairs placed in it, which is obviously the place where the distinguished guests stay.

At this time, there were more than a dozen people walking on the giant round platform, and it was easy to tell from their clothes that these people were all high-ranking officials in the Huarong Empire, among them, one person walked to the front of the round platform, this person was a little fat, a red robe with gold trim looked extremely gorgeous, his small eyes shimmered, and he was holding a strange thing in his hand, which seemed to have a magical light flickering on it.

"Everyone, be quiet. Listen to me. He didn't scream hoarsely, but the deep voice easily reached everyone's ears. Nian Bing was shocked in his heart, if he was a master at the level of a martial saint, he could naturally do this with his super fighting qi, but this person obviously did not use his fighting qi. In an instant, he understood, and secretly exclaimed in his heart, because he found that what the man was holding in his hand turned out to be a magic megaphone. A megaphone that can emit such a sound must be backed by extremely precious magic gems, and it seems that the cost of this competition is really not small!

The square gradually fell silent, and the five thousand soldiers in charge of maintaining order appeared to be in order, with their spears pointed diagonally in the air, keeping an eye on the surrounding people at any time to prevent any changes.

The fat man looked down at the people below on the rotating round platform and smiled: "Hello everyone, I think, as long as it is our own people in Talu City, they should recognize it." Yes, I am Hua Feizi of Hualong Hotel, everyone calls me fat. “

"Fatty, fat, fat, ......" Suddenly, the audience cheered, looking at the happy appearance of the civilians, it was obvious that this Hua Long Hotel's Hua Fat Man was very popular in Talu City.

Nian Bing inquired with a cheering civilian next to him and found out that this Hua Fat Man was the owner of the Hualong Hotel, extremely easy-going, and philanthropic, the money earned by the Hualong Hotel, he would donate eighty of the hundred founding every year to the government, the military and the Huarong Empire Magician Union, and often launched some high-quality and inexpensive food for ordinary civilians, so he had an excellent reputation in all aspects, and was also given the title of viscount by His Majesty the King of the Huarong Empire. It is precisely because of his relationship that the Hualong Cooking Challenge Competition can be held more and more prosperously, and it is gradually catching up with the influence of the Chef God Competition.

Hua Fat Man spoke again, "Thank you for your support of this competition, this is already the fourth level of the Hualong Challenge, hey, my Hua Fat Man is also getting old, but the culinary world of our Huarong Empire is constantly flourishing." I'm honored to see the prosperity we are seeing now. Okay, I'm not going to talk nonsense, so I don't have to throw eggs at me. As he spoke, he made a funny expression, which immediately caused the people below to burst into laughter.

Hua Fatzi smiled and waited until the laughter of the people below stopped, and then said: "The rules are the same as in the past, the game is still after the preliminary round, the semi-final, The three stages of the finals, the preliminary round is held on the south side of the square, we are held in the Hualong Hotel, it has been ten days, within ten days, we have selected hundreds of outstanding chefs, they will participate in the semi-finals here, the semi-finals will be designated by me three main ingredients, by these chefs to cook a variety of delicious dishes for review, and finally ten people will be selected to participate in the final finals, the final is the day after tomorrow, all the delicacies made in this competition, I will give to the most respectable people in our Huarong Empire, that is, the Northeast Group Army that has been defending our homeland。 Speaking of the last five words, he deliberately raised his voice, and suddenly, the whole scene showed an explosive cheer, surging sounds, I am afraid that people outside Taru City can also hear it, and the warmth of the atmosphere made Nian Bing very frightened.

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