Wizard's Journey

Chapter 157 Food Street

In the towering shadow of the Seven Rings Tree of Life, a small black dot flew to the edge of the trunk and then fell to the ground.

Above them, the shadows of flying creatures came and went in an endless stream. On the trunk of the Tree of Life, 'Cliffside', which seemed to be a pillar supporting the sky, various high-level demon-hunting castles were interspersed between the crevices of the wrinkled bark. Occasionally, one could also see the busy figures of some otherworldly life servants.

Green silently landed on a raised root beneath the Tree of Life. This raised root resembled a continuous hill, with houses of various styles densely packed on its top, forming a street. Wizards coming and going along the street resembled a stream, flowing endlessly.

Before he even hit the ground, a deep-seated desire within Green's body cells was stirred by the strange odor molecules mixed in the air, causing him to salivate.

This is the human desire to savor delicious food.

In the mindset of a food connoisseur, savoring delicious food is not only a need to satisfy basic bodily desires, but also a need for deeper spiritual and mental fulfillment.

In order to survive, living organisms can never rely on their own energy balance to meet their needs; they must obtain new energy from the outside world to maintain their survival and reproduction. This is the most basic law of balance in the endless world. Various energy balance sealing techniques utilize the constant energy balance to isolate the energy exchange system of a small part of the world space, thereby achieving the purpose of sealing.

The energy that humans consume to sustain their survival is called food in the human knowledge system.

Different biological groups require different types of food, and even within a single biological group, individual differences can lead to variations in the need for passive energy intake. However, generally speaking, the most popular foods are those whose energy can be efficiently utilized by the species.

The body secretes different emotional signals based on the energy from the food it obtains, causing a certain emotional change in the organism's spirit and soul.

Furthermore, the term "delicious food" was born.

Some wizards sought the spiritual enjoyment that came from the wondrous emotional sublimation that comes with consuming delicious food, while others sought to mitigate the negative effects of certain wizarding knowledge in order to meet the higher-level energy needs of their bodies. Still others, purely for the purpose of researching certain advanced energy knowledge related to the body's food intake, all became captives of delicious food.

To satisfy the needs of these delicious captives, some arcane wizards have spent a long time studying culinary knowledge, becoming gourmets in the wizarding world.

Boom.

Stepping on the tree-rooted hills, the ground is damp with the unique scent of the tree bark after it has breathed. Wizard apprentices might not notice it, but a fully-fledged wizard with the power to manipulate nature would find it very uncomfortable.

"Hmm? This feeling... So, the Tree of Life has indeed become part of the Wizarding World's rules? Just like those World Guardians, it has completely aligned with the will of the entire Wizarding World. In fact, they themselves have begun to radiate natural energy, just like those world rules that exist between the physical and the illusory."

Green had gained some insights.

Green floated off the ground silently on his toes, casually glancing at the many wizards passing by. Everyone instinctively kept a distance, observing the food and goods in the shops on both sides.

This is the famous Qihuan Delicacies Street in Qihuan Shengta!

This place sells delicacies from various wondrous worlds that can be plundered in the wizarding world. It is no longer limited to physical creatures, but also includes certain elemental creatures, rare and precious energy bodies nurtured by the world, and certain special energy bodies from the energy cycle of nature...

Of course, these are all high-grade ingredients suitable for human wizards.

Walking around, Green was drawn to a red liquid displayed in a shop.

"This is?"

Beneath the pale mask, Green looked at a small bottle of red liquid that resembled magma with a puzzled expression. The delicious aroma emanating from it made Green smell the 'Beauty Shell'.

This feeling is wonderful.

The shop was managed by a female wizard, half of whose face was covered in silver scales. Upon hearing Grimm's question, she closed her magic book and explained, "This is the blood of the fin dolphin from the coastal world. It can be used as a delicious seasoning, a high-grade fire elemental energy ingredient with between thirty-eight and forty-seven calories. It's a perfect finishing touch for dishes lacking fire-attribute delicacies..."

Green had no prior knowledge of gourmet food pairings, and he also lacked a concrete understanding of some of the unit terms.

However, driven by primal physical desires, Green continued, "So, what's the price?"

Seeing that Green seemed genuinely interested in buying, the witch's eyes lit up and she said, "If we use magic stones, one mid-grade magic stone costs one milliliter. If we use witch essence, one witch essence will not only provide one hundred live pufferfish, but also a liter of fin pufferfish blood."

After thinking for a moment, Green said cautiously, "I'll take 300 milliliters first."

With a slash in the void, a dimensional rift appeared that no wizard except Grimm could see. Grimm then handed three high-level magic stones to the wizard opposite him.

Here, it is quite common for wizards to possess spatial artifacts or other methods of storing items, and the witches do not react to this at all.

The witch's interest waned considerably when she realized that Green only wanted to buy some goods with magic stones, and the two quickly completed the transaction.

After a while.

Several enormous "fruits," each three meters tall, appeared in Green's field of vision. The overall appearance of these fruits resembled the tropical fruit "jackfruit" from the wizarding world, but they had a few more terrifying, densely packed, swaying, soft tentacles that also had a fluorescent effect, somewhat like the tentacles of a jellyfish in the deep ocean.

Green stopped in his tracks, and several wizards around him also stopped, their eyes gleaming with interest.

A sign hangs on the giant fruit, explaining that the fruit is called "Hornet," a precious ingredient from an extremely large race native to this other world, priced at three witch spirits per fruit, and that magic stones are not accepted.

Looking up, Grimm glanced at a shirtless male wizard sitting atop the enormous "fruit," staring intently at a crystal ball, and asked, "Excuse me, how enormous is that gigantic indigenous race from the other world that obtained this 'glassy essence'?"

The shirtless wizard glanced at Grimm and said indifferently, "They range from tens of meters to hundreds of meters in length, and their life forms can be roughly classified as humanoid races."

Green nodded and then turned and left.

Green really wanted to obtain the life and water elements within the crystalline essence, but since it involved consuming witch essence, he wasn't in a hurry and simply wandered around elsewhere first.

Inside an exquisite cylindrical metal cage, eyes were completely blind, but through the snout and pale mask, Green "senses" a group of small creatures scurrying around inside, like little sparrows.

"Oh, this is the Traceless Fat, one high-grade magic stone per piece."

It seemed that no wizards had stopped here for a long time. When the wizard at the shop stall saw that Green was very interested, he took the initiative to introduce the place, with a toothpick in his mouth swinging up and down as he spoke.

Green didn't speak, he just quietly sensed it...

"This feeling... Yes, this feeling is right, these traceless fat creatures are actually feeding on sound! My Pale Mask ultrasonic witchcraft has actually caused a disturbance among these little creatures!" Green felt incredulous.

What would happen if Hillwood encountered this little creature during the Santa Qualifier?

With two high-grade magic stones, Green purchased two 'Stainless Fat'.

After walking and stopping several times, Green stopped again.

This was a building over thirty meters tall. Several enormous hooks hung from the ceiling of the main hall, where the corpse of an unknown, gigantic creature from another world hung upside down, dripping with blood. A wizard butcher was skillfully dissecting the creature's body; a pair of wings had fallen off, and golden blood was flowing from the corpse, emitting a refreshing lemon juice scent.

Upon seeing the price on the sign, Green became very interested and joined the queue behind a line of wizards waiting to buy, quietly taking out some high-grade magic stones.

The cheap and plentiful meat of this alien creature was indeed favored by many wizards.

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After three hourglasses had rung in a row, and after spending a lot of magic stones here and there, Green still couldn't make up his mind to spend witch essence to buy those precious ingredients that could only be purchased with limited witch essence.

As for restaurants, Green wouldn't splurge on them at this point.

In the gourmet restaurant, some renowned gourmets use their culinary knowledge to create all sorts of bizarre and wonderful delicacies from rare ingredients, taking into account aspects such as balanced energy intake, enhanced taste, and visual impact.

However, the prices of the delicious food inside are also beyond the reach of ordinary wizards.

Low-level wizards wouldn't spend exorbitant amounts of magic stones or even wizard essence just to satisfy their own spiritual desires.

Therefore, Green couldn't help but sigh that there was definitely a "scheme" involved in his mentor Peranos marrying his wife Alice. Green would never believe that his mentor's love for Alice wasn't due to his own gluttony.

In some ways, Mrs. Alice was also a woman of great wisdom.

How to win a man's heart?

First, you have to take care of a man's stomach...

Ultimately, Green decided to first travel to other places to confirm the specific value of the witch essence before deciding whether to consume his witch essence in order to improve certain passive resistance abilities of his body as quickly as possible.

With a surge of magical energy, under the control of Grimm's natural power, his body flew in another direction from the roots of the Tree of Life.

(End of this chapter)