# E7 - Two Successors
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***SIGN*** True Cooking Master Boy
**[01:30] Zhouyu**
Mao, what hope do you have of winning?
**[01:37] Meili**
Mao...
**[01:40] Guan**
Let the judging begin.
**[01:48] Guan**
* Maoxing, you took too long mincing*
* the sea bream and wrapping it in its skin.*
**[01:57] Guan**
*This sea bream is already dead.*
**[02:13] Guan**
Wh-What?!
**[02:18] All**
It's alive!
**[02:23] All**
And delicious!
**[02:25] Luo**
It's incredibly fresh, as though a living
sea bream is leaping inside my mouth.
**[02:32] Leien**
What?!
**[02:36] Guan**
This surprising flavor
that melts on the tongue
**[02:39] ---**
along with the vegetables is
the sea bream's peak deliciousness!
**[02:43] Yan**
Sealed inside these spring
rolls is a golden flavor
**[02:48] ---**
just as delicious as Lei En's!
**[02:53] Luo**
* But the sea bream was prepared long*
* after its peak deliciousness ended.*
**[02:58] ---**
*How?*
**[03:00] Leien**
*I-Impossible...*
**[03:06] Leien**
*C-Could it be?*
**[03:11] Meili**
Mao!
**[03:12] Shirou**
Mao's hand!
**[03:14] Leien**
Th-These burns...
**[03:16] Leien**
Could it be?
**[03:19] Mao**
That's right, Lei En.
**[03:23] Mao**
I thrust my third knife
directly into the fire...
**[03:29] Mao**
and used its heat to
seal the flavor inside.
**[03:32] Leien**
Heat!
**[03:33] Zhouyu**
That's it. The heat...
**[03:39] Zhouyu**
While slicing the sea bream with his knife,
**[03:42] ---**
the heat instantly seared its surface,
**[03:46] ---**
sealing the flavor of the meat inside.
**[03:53] Xielu**
And Mao held that white-hot
knife in his bare hand.
**[03:57] Xielu**
Just as Lei En sacrificed
himself to slice his sashimi,
**[04:00] Xielu**
Mao sacrificed himself to cook his own dish.
**[04:08] Leien**
Not bad, kid.
**[04:11] Mao**
You, too.
**[04:13] Mob**
The elders have begun their discussion!
**[04:15] Mob**
No matter how you look at it,
it's Mao's spring rolls.
**[04:18] Mob**
He transformed the sea bream!
**[04:20] Mao**
But it was Lei En's frozen
sashimi that brought out
**[04:23] ---**
all the sea bream's flavor in a simple form!
**[04:26] Mob**
They've been talking for a long time...
**[04:27] Mob**
Maybe it's not going well.
**[04:29] Mob**
Lei En and Mao...
**[04:30] Mob**
Which Yang Spring Restaurant chef
will inherit the legendary utensils?
**[04:40] Luo**
We will now issue our judgment.
**[04:46] Luo**
Lei En, you used an ice
knife to cut the sea bream,
**[04:49] ---**
presenting the ingredient
in its ultimate frozen form.
**[04:54] Luo**
Mao, not only did you masterfully use
both knives, but you also combined both
**[04:59] ---**
and used heat to seal the flavor
of the ingredient inside.
**[05:07] Luo**
Based on all the facts, we are now
prepared to announce our decision.
**[05:13] Luo**
In this knife skills contest
before the goods...
**[05:19] Luo**
In his infinite ingenuity that revived
the sea bream in an unexpected way,
**[05:26] ---**
we saw the potential of Chinese food!
**[05:30] Luo**
The winner is...
**[05:32] Luo**
Super Chef Liu Maoxing!
**[05:39] Shirou**
Yes!
**[05:40] Xielu**
Nicely done, Mao!
**[05:42] Xielu**
Now that underworld jerk won't
get the legendary utensils!
**[05:59] Luo**
After the previous owner passed away,
a successor never appeared,
**[06:04] ---**
leaving the legendary utensils to slumber
within Daxian Temple for four hundred years.
**[06:11] Luo**
Super Chef Liu Maoxing, as the victor
of this knife skills contest,
**[06:17] ---**
you have earned the right to
inherit the legendary utensils.
**[06:22] Luo**
Chief priest.
**[06:24] Priest**
Yes. Liu Maoxing, come with me.
**[06:29] Mao**
O-Okay.
**[06:32] Zhouyu**
The legendary utensils...
**[06:34] Zhouyu**
Mystical utensils said to be
forged from an iron meteorite
**[06:38] ---**
by legendary chef Xiu Li
one thousand years ago.
**[06:45] Priest**
Unseal the utensils!
**[06:55] Leien**
Th-That's...
**[06:58] Zhouyu**
The secret of Xiu Li.
**[07:01] Zhouyu**
The legendary utensil, "Ever-Soul Knife."
***SIGN*** Ever-Soul Knife
**[07:10] Mob**
There's no rust on it at all!
**[07:11] Mob**
It looks like an ordinary knife, though.
**[07:33] Mob**
Look! Something's appearing on the blade!
**[07:38] Lou**
Mao, the mark of the dragon
appearing on the blade
**[07:42] ---**
after four hundred years says it all.
**[07:45] Luo**
That mark proves that you, Liu Maoxing,
**[07:50] ---**
are the true successor of
the legendary utensil, "Ever-Soul Knife!"
**[07:55] Shirou**
Mao!
**[07:57] Guan**
I don't believe it...
**[07:59] Sifu**
I never thought I'd see
the dragon's mark in my lifetime!
**[08:06] Zhouyu**
* When Lei En brought out*
* his Seven Star Knives,*
**[08:10] ---**
* Mao combined his two knives*
* to create a new one.*
**[08:16] Zhouyu**
* When Lei En tried to finish*
* him with his ice knife,*
**[08:20] ---**
* he made a miraculous comeback with*
* an unprecedented spring roll dish.*
**[08:24] Zhouyu**
* The more precarious his situation,*
* the more his power bubbles forth,*
**[08:28] ---**
*almost joyfully, like water from a spring.*
**[08:32] Zhouyu**
* Your mother, Bei—the Szechuan*
* Fairy—was the same.*
**[08:37] Zhouyu**
* Mao, I still don't know the full*
* extent of your power.*
**[08:45] Mao**
Master Luo, may I try using this knife?
**[08:49] Luo**
Yes.
**[08:50] Mao**
*How sharp is it?*
**[08:57] Mao**
*What is this?*
**[08:59] Mao**
*It's so sharp!*
**[09:01] Mao**
*It's like the knife is cutting on its own!*
**[09:08] Shirou**
It's glowing?
**[09:09] Shirou**
Am I seeing things?
**[09:12] Shirou**
I thought I saw the slice glow for a second.
**[09:19] Mao**
I wonder how this sea bream cut
by a legendary utensil tastes.
**[09:31] Mao**
It's alive...
**[09:34] Mao**
This sea bream is long past its
moment of peak deliciousness,
**[09:37] ---**
but its flavor has been completely revived!
**[09:40] Mob**
How can that be?
**[09:42] Mob**
Is this the power of the legendary utensils?
**[09:44] Mob**
In any case, it's amazing!
**[09:45] Mob**
Let us have some!
**[09:47] Guan**
Luo...
**[09:48] Luo**
Yes. The legends were true.
**[09:59] Luo**
It's said that one thousand years ago,
Master Xiu Li forged the Ever-Soul Knife
**[10:05] ---**
from an iron meteorite that
had fallen from the sky.
**[10:10] Luo**
The blade is undoubtedly sharp,
**[10:11] ---**
but they also say ingredients cut by
the knife regain their lost flavor.
**[10:16] Shirou**
That's amazing, Mao!
**[10:18] Xielu**
Mao, you're the true successor
chosen by the gods!
**[10:24] Mao**
There's another successor.
**[10:36] Mao**
Lei En.
**[10:44] Leien**
What do you think you're doing?
**[10:47] Mao**
This knife is amazing.
**[10:49] Mao**
You should try it, too.
**[10:51] Mao**
It's true that you used
underworld techniques, but...
**[10:58] Leien**
I didn't want to use this.
**[11:03] Mao**
You didn't use them because you wanted to.
**[11:05] Mao**
The tenacity to sacrifice yourself
to create something delicious.
**[11:09] Mao**
The kindness to pray for
even your ingredients.
**[11:12] Mao**
I heard the underworld's
dishes make people unhappy,
**[11:15] ---**
but I can't imagine your
cooking making anyone unhappy!
**[11:25] Mao**
Take it, Lei En.
**[11:36] Luo**
What?!
**[11:38] Luo**
The dragon mark of the successor
appeared clearly for Lei En, as well!
**[11:52] Luo**
What?! The Ever-Soul Knife...
**[11:55] Guan**
It recognizes Lei En,
the loser, as a successor...
**[11:58] Yan**
And the mark on his left hand...
**[12:01] Sifu**
It's being erased!
**[12:03] Mao**
I knew it.
**[12:05] Mao**
The Ever-Soul Knife has proven everything.
**[12:13] Meili**
Does this mean Lei En doesn't
belong to the underworld?
**[12:16] Mao**
Lei En, tell us everything.
**[12:23] Leien**
You're a strange one, Mao.
**[12:28] Leien**
You're right. Perhaps you'll understand...
**[12:34] Leien**
the thirst I felt.
**[12:40] Leien**
Perhaps you'll understand...
**[12:43] Leien**
the thirst I felt.
**[12:47] Leien**
*I'd been called a prodigy since I was young.*
**[12:50] Leien**
* Having completed my training*
* at the Yang Spring Restaurant,*
**[12:53] ---**
*I left on a journey in search of new worlds.*
**[12:58] Leien**
* I spent two years traveling*
* throughout Southern China,*
**[13:02] ---**
*but I found nothing worth studying.*
**[13:05] Leien**
*My thirst was not satisfied.*
**[13:43] (Flashback) Leien**
I finally made it...
**[13:45] Leien**
* That's why I requested an apprenticeship*
* with the cooking underworld.*
**[13:52] Leien**
* I was accepted, had their mark*
* tattooed on my left hand,*
**[13:56] Leien**
*and my harsh training began.*
**[14:08] Leien**
* Those days of training*
* were unimaginably severe.*
**[14:13] Leien**
*However...*
**[14:18] Leien**
I enjoyed it. It made my heart leap.
**[14:24] Mao**
I understand that feeling, Lei En.
**[14:28] Leien**
But it became my downfall.
**[14:30] Leien**
Having mastered the underworld's techniques,
I became arrogant, and so...
**[14:35] Leien**
I made an irrevocable mistake.
**[14:40] Leien**
Something no chef—no,
no person should never do.
**[14:50] Leien**
For the first time, I realized how
terrifying the cooking underworld could be.
**[14:56] Leien**
Prepared to die, I left the organization.
**[15:07] Leien**
It was the only key to
resisting the underworld.
**[15:10] Leien**
I needed the legendary utensils
Master Luo once promised me.
**[15:21] Leien**
I returned so I could fight
against the cooking underworld.
**[15:35] Shirou**
I can't believe Lei En was a successor
to the legendary utensils, too.
**[15:42] Shirou**
It's weird that a guy who belonged
to the underworld has that right.
**[15:47] Shirou**
Of course you would, Mao, but...
**[15:51] Mao**
What's wrong?
**[15:53] Shirou**
It's nothing. Want some more tea?
**[16:02] Mao**
Meili? What's with the face you're making?
**[16:05] Meili**
Mao, I have a question for you.
**[16:13] Meili**
I've been wondering about something.
**[16:15] Meili**
Lei En said the Hundred Hole Knife
you used in the knife skills contest
**[16:21] ---**
is used only by the underworld.
**[16:31] Meili**
Mao, are you and Lei En the same?
**[16:36] Meili**
Were you once part of
the cooking underworld, too?
**[16:42] Shirou**
* That's right. I've actually been wanting*
* to ask you the same thing, Mao.*
**[16:59] Mao**
Sorry, Meili. I didn't
mean to make you worry.
**[17:03] Meili**
Mao...
**[17:05] Mao**
I knew I had to tell you eventually.
**[17:10] Mao**
Have a seat and wait here.
**[17:15] Mao**
Finely chop green onions and ginger.
**[17:18] Mao**
Cube fatty pork ribs with the skin still on.
**[17:22] Mao**
Season the cubes with five-spice,
boil over low heat,
**[17:26] ---**
season again, and drain the excess fat.
**[17:32] Mao**
Quickly fry the meat to
seal the flavor inside.
**[17:36] Mao**
Finish the dish by quickly searing
the green onions, ginger, soy paste,
**[17:40] ---**
and sugar over high heat for flavor.
**[17:44] Mao**
Add vinegar, and—
**[17:47] Meili**
What kind of magic is that, Mao?
**[17:50] Meili**
The cooked white pork is turning
cherry-colored right before my eyes.
**[17:55] Mao**
Your bei shi tang cu yingtao rou is done.
**[18:00] Meili**
It's beautiful.
**[18:01] Shirou**
Mao, why'd it turn this pretty cherry color?
**[18:04] Mao**
One of the five spices, chanchin,
contains copious amounts of pigment.
**[18:11] Mao**
It reacts to vinegar by turning
a beautiful cherry color.
**[18:16] Meili**
Huh.
**[18:17] Shirou**
Your knife skills have gotten even better.
**[18:21] Shirou**
Your cubes are all exactly the same size.
**[18:24] Mao**
Try it.
**[18:38] Shirou**
The juicy and fragrant
sweet and sour pork cubes
**[18:42] ---**
fall apart the moment they touch
my teeth, before melting away...
**[18:48] Meili**
The flavor is so mild and fresh,
**[18:51] ---**
like flower petals scattering in a peach
orchard at the height of spring...
**[18:57] Meili**
The mild flavor of the meat
drawn out by the boiling,
**[19:01] ---**
frying, and searing is supreme bliss.
**[19:05] Meili**
The five-spice is fragrant,
the amount of vinegar is perfect,
**[19:09] ---**
and the flavors are fresh.
**[19:11] Meili**
Mao, I sense in this dish
something completely different
**[19:14] ---**
from what you've cooked before.
**[19:17] Meili**
What is this heart-meltingly sad kindness?
**[19:23] Mao**
This is my mom's dish.
**[19:27] Meili**
What?
**[19:28] Meili**
The Szechuan Fairy, Master Bei?
**[19:33] Mao**
Yes.
**[19:35] Mao**
It was written in my mom's recipe book.
**[19:40] Shirou**
So that's what's in that old
book you'd read sometimes.
**[19:43] Meili**
What's written in that book?
**[19:47] Mao**
Recipes, of course.
**[19:49] ---**
But not ordinary recipes.
**[19:52] Meili**
What?
**[19:53] Mao**
In this book are things I never knew.
**[19:57] Mao**
A shocking side of my mom.
**[20:00] Mao**
This book...
**[20:03] Mao**
records the heroic battles
my mom fought in her youth
**[20:07] ---**
against the chefs of the underworld!
**[20:13] Meili**
Records of Bei's battles
against underworld chefs...
**[20:18] Shirou**
That's it.
**[20:19] ---**
In other words, the underworld chefs'
recipes are also recorded in there.
**[20:23] Shirou**
That's how you knew about
underworld techniques!
**[20:28] Meili**
* I'm so glad. Mao wasn't part*
* of the underworld, then.*
**[20:35] Mao**
This book contains a record of
a triple-cooked pork contest
**[20:40] ---**
in which my mom used her
secret chanchin technique
**[20:45] ---**
to boil, fry, and sear
the pork to make this dish
**[20:49] ---**
and defeat an underworld chef.
**[20:53] Shirou**
That's amazing.
**[20:55] Mao**
The underworld rarely reveals itself.
**[20:58] Mao**
Since I couldn't find any trace of them,
I kept this book a secret.
**[21:04] Mao**
But since returning to Guangzhou...
**[21:07] Mao**
Since battling Li Yan and Lei En,
**[21:10] Mao**
all the blood inside me is screaming.
**[21:13] Mao**
I must carry on my mother's wishes.
**[21:15] Mao**
My mom wanted to make people
happy with her cooking,
**[21:19] Mao**
and Zhou Yu taught me techniques
to create happiness.
**[21:24] Mao**
I'm not sure how much I can
accomplish right now, but...
**[21:29] Mao**
as a Super Chef, I will fight
against the cooking underworld!
**[21:34] Meili**
Mao...
**[21:36] Shirou**
Mao!
**[21:37] Luo**
The say even a snake in the lake can become
a dragon in the sky with enough rain.
**[21:43] Luo**
No wonder you're Bei's son.
**[21:45] Luo**
I admire your determination.
**[21:48] Mao**
Master Luo, Zhou Yu.
**[21:52] Meili**
What?
**[21:54] Luo**
The Szechuan Fairy Bei was said
**[21:58] ---**
to have mastered the use of
all spices and seasonings.
**[22:03] Luo**
This unique aroma and color could
only have been created by Bei.
**[22:08] Luo**
You've replicated it impressively.
**[22:14] Luo**
Mao...
**[22:16] Luo**
You have the determination and the skills.
**[22:20] Luo**
The time has come to reveal
the secret of the legendary utensils.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** "The Eight Legendary Utensils"
**[24:24] Narration**
*"The Eight Legendary Utensils."*