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 .
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