Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

"Never mind, let's go."

"There's still a lot to explore in the metaverse, don't waste time here."

She turned and continued walking forward, the Ruyi Staff slung over her shoulder, her steps still light and quick.

Xia Jie followed, her peripheral vision sweeping over the flowing scenery on both sides of the street.

Just then, a huge black shadow flew past him from his left.

It was a snail, a snail as big as a small car.

The heavy shell is coated with silver-blue metallic paint, gleaming with a magnificent yet understated steel luster in the sunlight.

A snail is carrying a young man wearing sunglasses. The young man has a candy candy stick in his mouth and holds two golden reins in his hands. He is bending down and pressing his body against the surface of the snail's shell, as if he is driving a motorboat.

The snail's mucus left a shimmering silver trail on the ground, then evaporated in the next instant.

The snail itself became a blur, dodging pedestrians along the way and sprinting towards the corner at the end of the street.

"son--!"

A voice came down from the sky.

"Wait for Mommy—"

Following closely behind was a young priestess, about seventeen or eighteen years old, riding a broom. Her black hair was tied in a ponytail, and the broom trailed a pale pink tail that shimmered with tiny stars.

She flew very fast, almost skimming the ground as she chased the snail. As she passed Xia Jie, a gust of wind rose up, lifting Xia Jie's clothes half a foot high.

"—Have you finished your game before you started racing like a snail?!"

Without looking back, the snail-like youth made a sharp turn and sprinted in the opposite direction behind Xia Jie, then rushed back in front of her with an even more graceful trajectory:

"Mom! I'm four hundred years old!"

"Even at four hundred years old, he's still my son!"

The shrine maiden flew over Xia Jie's head again, leaving a beautiful pink arc in the air behind her broom, chasing the snail and disappearing around the street corner.

"Is this...always like this?" Xia Jie asked.

"It's always been like this." Little Deer didn't turn her head. "You'll get used to it."

She stopped beneath a large, lush green tree. A plump pigeon, wearing a crown of thorns, perched atop the tree, tilting its head to look at her. The little deer ignored it, raising its magic staff and pointing to the right front.

That's the street corner.

At the corner stands a large gold sign with six black characters engraved on it: "Restaurant of Strength".

There was no house, no walls, and not even a door frame under the sign; only a lonely wooden door stood by the roadside.

The door panel is made of dark brown old wood with natural grain and several scratches of varying depths. The door handle is a smooth, round copper ring, golden yellow, with the luster of a walnut, as if it has just been handled.

Xia Jie walked to the door, her gaze shifting from the golden signboard to a piece of paper pasted on the door panel.

The edges of the paper were slightly curled, and the paper itself was slightly yellowed, but the writing on it was clearly legible, appearing to be regular script written stroke by stroke with black ink:

①This restaurant is a free buffet. Except for players with the Guest title, everything in the restaurant is edible.

②Based on human taste standards, the more delicious the food in this restaurant, the stronger its appetite. If you don't want to be devoured by the ingredients, please do not enter this restaurant.

③ Guests can directly order their favorite dishes through the menu.

④ The combat power of a dish = the sum of the combat power of the ingredients used to make the dish × the combat power of the chef.

⑤ This restaurant does not prohibit any violent means outside of the general rules; guests are free to snatch food from each other.

(Note: Tear and bite to your heart's content!)

⑥ This restaurant offers unlimited ingredients, so guests can enjoy their food until they are satisfied. Long-term stays are also welcome.

⑦ The battle of wits: The door opens inwards, and always only inwards. Aside from teleportation through the integrated network, this is the only way to leave.

(Note: I hope you're not Dora the Explorer.)

⑧ For the sake of the dining experience, this restaurant only accepts players who drink small cups or less.

(Note: This is mainly because last time a gluttonous guy almost got eaten by the kitchen staff.)

9. Please come in.

(Note: Literal meaning.)

Xia Jie finished reading the nine rules, remained silent for a moment, and then complained.

"This name is definitely a good choice."

"Right?" Little Deer had already placed her hand on the brass ring. "So—"

She turned the brass ring and pushed the wooden door inward.

The moment the door opened, a burst of intense light rushed out.

That light was neither gold, nor silver, nor white, nor did it belong to the seven colors.

Instead, it was an aurora-like glow, existing outside the visible spectrum of ordinary people, so intense it was almost tangible, like a stream of paint flowing out from a crack in a door, slowly spreading through the air.

This reminded Xia Jie of the Star of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The light carried just the right amount of warmth, like the lingering heat of a beach that had been baking in the sun all day.

Xia Jie squinted in the glow and stepped across the threshold.

Then he saw the planet.

It wasn't very big, only about three times the size of Earth, and it floated in the vast, empty space behind the door.

The surface has flowing, colorful patterns, like bubbles, candy, or colorful cotton candy swirling in the wind. Each pattern is slowly rotating, emitting a fragrance that makes your throat tighten.

It wasn't the taste of any known food, but rather the embodiment of the concept of "deliciousness" itself, striking at the deepest desires of the soul.

The planet is “speaking”.

Its domineering aroma fills all five senses, telling everyone who sees it: I'm delicious, come and eat me.

Xia Jie heard Xiao Lu's voice behind her: "Let's go, let's go down."

Then gravity caught them.

The planet's gravitational pull emanated from the vacuum, dragging Xia Jie and Xiao Lu from outer space beyond the atmosphere.

The two transformed into two fiery meteors, plummeting straight into the planet's atmosphere.

The windbreak exploded on the side of my face, and all I could hear was the continuous roar.

Xia Jie's hair flew upwards, and the hem of his clothes fluttered in the airflow, as if thousands of people were trying to squeeze him.

Xia Jie deliberately lowered her values, then opened her mouth to speak. The wind blowing into her mouth made her voice muffled, as if the sound had been slapped back into her throat.

As they plummeted, Xia Jie noticed that there were far more than just the two of them in the surrounding sky.

Thousands upon thousands of fire lines fell simultaneously in different directions, like a meteor shower scattered across the entire sky.

Each fire line represents a player who entered the restaurant through another wooden door.

Clearly, the wooden door they pushed open was not the only entrance.

The friction of the air caused a tingling, burning sensation on the skin.

Xia Jie looked down at her palm; the edges of her fingertips were glowing faintly red, as if they were about to be ignited.

Then, through a spiritual connection, he sensed that the deer was not far to his left, and turned to look—

Lu Ziyun was falling at the same speed, her hair pulled into a taut line by the airflow, and her mouth was opening and closing repeatedly, as if she were chewing an invisible piece of gum.

Xia Jie used the bond to transmit her voice: "After losing the duel, do you have any new plans for the placement matches?"

The voice reached the little deer's heart, causing the deer, who was enjoying the raging wind, to pause slightly and then fall into a very brief moment of thought.

Lu Ziyun responded quickly:

"I plan to go back and study the combat records of those advanced players, and re-analyze tactics that are more suitable for me."

"I will fight against the AI ​​phantoms that have recorded their combat logic, and hone my perfect realm."

"My spell power output efficiency is already top-notch among those of the same level, but there is still considerable room for improvement in operational precision and tactical adaptability."

"Then, I'll easily knock you out in the duel and show you that you're the challenger!"

Xiaolu spoke calmly, as if stating something obvious, but her tone rose slightly at the end, carrying a sense of certainty that she would "win".

"And now?" Xia Jie asked again, "What are your plans now?"

The little deer adjusted her posture in the wind, arms outstretched, like a gliding bird. A strained smile played on her lips as she descended through the rapidly changing air currents; her inner thoughts, carried back through the bonds of fate, carried a hint of mocking laughter:

"We're already inside the restaurant, and you're still asking me what my plans are?"

"A question you already know the answer to."

"Now that things have come to this, of course we should eat first. Otherwise, what are we going to do with you?"

Chapter 153 Chewing Big

The atmosphere around Gourmet Star also contains clouds, and they are clouds shaped like cotton candy.

Xia Jie used a tearing motion to attack the clouds.

As he pierced through the first cloud, his mouth tasted cloyingly sweet—it was the flavor of roasted marshmallows, with a hint of caramel, as if someone had stuffed an entire bonfire party into the cloud.

The second cloud is strawberry flavored, the third is mint chocolate, and the fourth is probably rum-soaked cherry.

By the time he broke through the eighth cloud, the taste on his tongue had become a jumbled mess, indistinguishable between sweet, salty, bitter, and spicy; he only felt his lips and tongue tingling and numb.

The little deer was about three hundred meters to his left and front, her body slightly curled up, legs tucked in, and arms pressed close to her torso to reduce her surface area exposed to the wind. A thin layer of magical energy appeared on her body, which, while eliminating air friction, generated an upward electromagnetic force, like an invisible parachute slowing her descent.

As a result, one less fiery meteor appeared in the sky.

Xia Jie looked down and saw the caramel-colored Pudding Mountains rapidly enlarging beneath her feet. The ridges were soft and rounded, their surfaces gleaming with an amber luster, like a giant block of non-metallic material just poured from a mold, and they were trembling slightly, rising and falling like breathing.

This mountain is probably indeed alive.

Golden syrup rivers flow through the valleys between the mountains, with tiny bubbles floating on the surface. Each bubble bursts, releasing a rich, sweet fruity aroma.

Although they were still hundreds of meters apart, he had already tasted part of the mountain's flavor using his colorless and formless domain.

Xia Jie spread his arms wide, using his body as elbows, allowing himself to face the earth in the most comfortable posture. A breeze swept past him, and the fresh air shone brightly in his ears.