Chapter 744

Each day, Yuan Zhou would practice sculpting . For him, there was no end to the path of knife skills . This was an outlook similar to what many wuxia novels would have .

His skills might be good now, but he could always be better .

In fact, Yuan Zhou’s knife skills were absolutely top tier . Therefore, when outsiders saw him practicing, they would think that he was simply showing off his skills while he was still constantly improving .

An example was the new goal Yuan Zhou set for himself yesterday: to create a sculpture that would either look like a Guanyin or an Arhat from different angles .

Simply put, when one looked at the sculpture from the front, it would look like Guanyin, and when one looked from the right, the sculpture would look like Arhat . Extreme attention to detail would be required .

For example, when sculpting the model of Guanyin, he needed to be careful to not ruin the model of Arhat . After his training yesterday, Yuan Zhou was already able to sculpt that perfectly . Today, he had a new goal for himself: to sculpt a sculpture that looked like a monkey and a snake at one sitting .

When Yuan Zhou was serious, he would be at full concentration, looking quite like a great master .

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The knife moved like a fluttering butterfly and slowly, the radish took shape into what he was sculpting .

He failed his first attempt as the monkey’s eyes did not look lively enough . Yuan Zhou was an extremely obstinate person . For him, if the eyes did not look lively enough, it was because his knife skills were too lacking to express what he wanted .

The subsequent three attempts all ended with an unsatisfactory result for Yuan Zhou . He started rubbing his nonexistent mustache before deciding to change his approach .

In the first four attempts, he had sculpted the monkey first . However, there would be some detail he was dissatisfied with each time . Now, he decided to start with the snake .

Coincidentally, just as Yuan Zhou was about to start his fifth attempt, the guy with the slickback and Tom returned .

When Tom saw the knife Yuan Zhou was holding, his face remained expressionless yet his mind started spinning .

“He is too unprofessional . Using a kitchen knife to sculpt? How can he even improve with this? He does not even have a basic sculpting knife,” Tom complained inwardly .

In Western cuisines, there were many types of knives such as the bread knife, boning knife, trowel, scraping knife, and so on . In Chinese cuisine, only a kitchen knife would be used . Whether it was for slicing tiny ingredients, to dice ingredients, to slice meats, or to cut vegetables, a kitchen knife would be used . That was too unprofessional .

Yuan Zhou could sense that someone had arrived . However, outside business hours and when he was practicing sculpting, Yuan Zhou would ignore everyone .

The knife he was holding was, in fact, the kitchen knife of the Master Chef Set . Without a doubt, he wanted to use a knife unsuitable for sculpting for practice so he could greatly polish his sculpting skills, to reach a point where he could sculpt with any type of knife .

After formulating a plan for his fifth attempt, Yuan Zhou started sculpting again .

Tom was about to say: “Do you need us to provide you a professional set of knives for you?”

Before he could speak, he saw blade lights shining out from Yuan Zhou’s knife .

This was not a blade light that could injure someone like what they had in wuxia novels . Rather, the blade light was actually the reflection of the sunshine from the rapidly moving knife in Yuan Zhou’s hand . The knife was moving like a miniature person that was dancing atop his hand .

Tom’s suggestion was immediately stuck before he could utter them . He started wondering how could one move such a huge knife so nimbly .

He felt like he had just seen a 500 pound fatty dancing like a graceful ballet dancer, doing numerous difficult rotations .

Yuan Zhou first sculpted a coiling snake before using the outline of the snake to sculpt the body and tail of a “monkey stealing the peach” . He could not afford even a tiny bit of mistake at this stage of sculpting .

Sculpting two feelings into a single sculpture was extremely difficult . The monkey needed to be mischevious and lively, while the coiling snake needed to be lazy and resting instead of a dead snake .

After several minutes, the radish slowly took form .

The guy with the slickback had done a lot of research previously and was aware that Yuan Zhou had very good knife skills . After all, the incident where Yuan Zhou sculpted the coilia ectenes was found during his research .

But what he was witnessing here was way too terrifying .

Tom watched with his eyes opened wide, as if his eyeballs were going to fall out of his eye sockets . Had this guy fully maximized his knife skills?

“What a lively snake (monkey) . “

The guy with the slickback and Tom said at the same time before exchanging a gaze .

“It is obviously a monkey(snake) . “

They exchanged glances again, seemingly having understood something . They switched places in silence and looked at the sculpture again to see a completely different sight .

A witty looking monkey and a silent yet dangerous snake .

“This… is way too shocking,” the guy with the slickback said after a short moment of silence .

“Cough, cough,” Tom coughed yet his eyes were still fixed on Yuan Zhou .

This was no longer about knife skills . From this sculpture, it was obvious that this Boss Yuan’s dish decorating skills were top notch as well .

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The knife whipped about as the pieces of radishes landed into the basket . Finally, Yuan Zhou reached the finishing stage of sculpting .

While he was sculpting, both Tom and the guy with the slickback stayed in complete silence and watched on in stupefaction .

This sculpture was already a work of art . From the left, it looked like a monkey stealing the peach and from the right, it looked like a coiling snake .

Even more importantly, there were a lot of details sculpted into the sculpture . Even the snake scales could be clearly seen .

“Is this really something sculpted with a kitchen knife?” Even though Tom had personally witnessed it, he still found it hard to believe .

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“Hu . ” Yuan Zhou exhaled softly before putting his knife down and started studying the sculpture he was holding .

“This time, I manage to fuse the tail of the monkey and snake . But the furs of the monkey tail still feels somewhat lacking . Their eyes look good enough this time,” Yuan Zhou analyzed as he studied the sculpture . He was obviously still dissatisfied with it .

“What a sight,” muttered the guy with the slickback . The sculptures here were good enough to be sold for money .

“This is too unbelievable . Too unbelievable,” Tom repeated again and again in his mind . Could anyone do something like this in Western cuisine?

Numerous master chefs of Western cuisine appeared in his mind but all of them were promptly removed . He kept muttering the word “unbelievable” without stop .

Just as Tom and the guy with the slickback were in stupefaction over Yuan Zhou’s knife skills, what happened next shocked them even more .

Yuan Zhou tossed the sculpture that was an “art piece” into the trash can . He moved in a straightforward manner before they could stop him in time .

They both sank into silence .

Both Tom and the slickback guy looked at each other, wondering why Yuan Zhou was throwing away such a good piece of art .

Why was he throwing away something this amazing?

“Something is still wrong,” Yuan Zhou inhaled deeply as he muttered . Animals were indeed much harder to sculpt than Guanyin and Arhat .

“And a lively animal is even harder,” Yuan Zhou muttered .

With a solemn and serious expression, Yuan Zhou frowned as he stared at the tail of the sculpture he had just thrown into the trash can .

When Yuan Zhou did this, Tom and the guy with the slickback finally understood that Yuan Zhou was dissatisfied with his sculpting .

He was actually dissatisfied!

“You’re not even satisfied with this? What do you want?” Tom muttered inwardly while he trembled .

When he recalled his actual reason for returning to watch Yuan Zhou sculpting, he started to feel uncomfortable .