Food: I found Eri Nakiri in the world of Food Prisoners

It's possible to accelerate ripening, but it would require a massive amount of high-quality ingredients, which Xu Yong can't afford right now.

Secondly, there's Ma Wang. In the original story, Qing Gui held Ma Wang back. Xu Yong didn't want to provoke Ma Wang now, otherwise he wouldn't even know how he died, since Ma Wang could easily kill them.

Finally, there's the question of whether there are other informants watching Air, since the big battle between IGO and the Gourmet Club hasn't even started yet.

Therefore, you absolutely cannot touch Air now. Otherwise, even if Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto can hear the sounds of the ingredients, they still won't be able to cook Air, and the probability of losing their lives will be even higher.

After searching the ruins, Xu Yong discovered that besides the records and technology, there was practically no food. But thinking about it, that made sense; any food that did exist would probably have been eaten by the experimental subjects scattered throughout the ruins…

Xu Yong also solved some of the experimental subjects here, and also found information on some of them. These modified creatures were almost entirely devoid of edible value.

After all, the purpose of the things researched here is to capture humans in the human world, so what is needed is not something delicious.

After looting everything they could from the ruins, Xu Yong and the others left. Their next task was to hunt down all sorts of ingredients throughout the Eighth Continent.

As long as you avoid Horse King Hill, you can hunt for ingredients anywhere else without Horse King interfering.

However, not long after leaving the ruins, Xu Yong discovered a very peculiar tree.

"Erina, Hisako, try entering receive mode and see if you can manage this tree."

Xu Yong said that air trees are not uncommon in the Eighth Continent, especially in Horse King Hill, where the number of air trees is terrifying.

Air trees exist not only on the Eighth Continent, but also on other continents.

However, under normal circumstances, people regard air trees as plants that release air and do not have any other edible value.

However, Xu Yong, who had read the original work, knew that the Air Tree was actually a very good ingredient, and it was precisely because of the Air Tree's fruit that the Blue Demon was able to fight for a period of time.

Otherwise, even if Toriko healed himself with the healing water, he wouldn't be able to slow down the horse king's pace.

Therefore, the fruit of the Air Tree must also be a very good ingredient. Xu Yongdu almost forgot about the Air Tree, so now he let Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto try it out.

"Air tree? Is this food?"

Hearing Xu Yong's words, Erina Nakiri and the other girl were also stunned for a moment, because when Air Tree and the others were learning from Blanche, they also learned about some dangerous plants in the Gourmet World.

Among them is the air tree, because the air tree releases a large amount of air in an instant, and if you get too close, your body may not be able to withstand it.

Toriko suffered from the Air Tree when he first entered the Gourmet World, so now Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinomiya are both quite curious.

However, since Xu Yong had said so, they naturally did as he said. After they received the seven-colored fish, the air tree emitted a faint golden light.

"It really is food!"

After hearing the sounds of the ingredients, the two naturally learned how to cook the air tree. Who would have thought that the air tree would actually be an ingredient?

Without hearing the sounds of the ingredients, it's really hard to understand.

Just like the Sandric Flower of the Seventh Continent, the terror of that thing can be said to be engraved in the DNA of all creatures on the Seventh Continent, so much so that all creatures will flee at the first moment when they face the Sandric Flower.

After all, this thing can squeeze 1.7 times the water out of a living organism in the blink of an eye. Back then, Acacia almost died at the hands of the Sandric flower. It survived only after encountering pairs that tore each other apart.

Following the guidance of the Air Tree, Erina Nakiri and her companion made their move, sheathing their swords in the blink of an eye.

Their physical abilities are far superior to Komatsu's, and their attack speed is naturally faster than Komatsu's.

The method for preparing air trees is quite simple; there are fruits of various sizes floating in the air, but these fruits are not edible.

Therefore, the cooking method is to cut them to release the energy from these small fruits. After the Air Tree discovers the energy loss, it will try to seal the energy in these fruits.

As a result, all the fruits have wounds, so eventually the fruits will be gathered together by the Air Tree to create the real Air Tree Fruit.

During this period, due to energy loss, the Air Tree will release many times more air than the Royal City.

In the original story, Ma Wang had already planned to leave, but was forcibly stopped by the changes in the Air Tree, allowing the Blue Demon to come out and stop Ma Wang.

However, the Air Tree cannot complete the gathering of fruits in an instant; it also takes some time.

Not long after Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto stopped fighting, the surrounding fruits began to gradually gather in the center and quickly merge.

Finally, a fruit about the size of a normal person's head appeared before everyone.

At the same time, the air tree released many times more air than before, formed from the energy emanating from its fruit.

Chapter 102 Breaking the 1000-Level Mark, Changes in the Nature of Spiritual Magic, and a Higher Level of Life

Why do I feel an urge to eat this fruit whenever I see it?

Although it doesn't look like any special fruit, everyone who sees it feels an urge to eat it.

"Perhaps it's because the Air Tree is a simplified version of 'air'!"

After thinking for a moment, Xu Yong said that the air tree and the fruit tree of the air are indeed very similar.

The Air fruit grows on a giant tree whose roots extend deep into the Earth's core. Therefore, the delicious flavors released during cooking on Earth are quickly transmitted to the fruit tree through the roots.

Air contains a large amount of air, enough to disperse the dark clouds over the entire Eighth Continent, transforming it directly from a rainy continent into a sunny, rainbow-filled continent.

Even the horse king, with its enormous appetite, can have a full meal after the air in the air is released, and can even absorb a hundred times the amount of a normal meal to conceive healthy offspring.

The Air Tree also has a large amount of air, and its fruit is similar to Air, except that the Air Tree is more like a simplified version.

However, even the simplified version is not simple as long as it involves eight ingredients.

After all, in the original story, Chisen took out an apple that was tainted with the aura of God, which caused the gourmet demons inside the Four Heavenly Kings to go berserk. They couldn't wait to eat the apple, and even the gourmet demon inside Komatsu was momentarily drawn out.

It is clear that any ingredient that is associated with the eight ingredients is certainly not simple.

This also explains why Toriko was able to summon the Blue Oni to fight for a while after eating the fruit of the Air Tree; it's because the fruit of the Air Tree is equivalent to a simplified version of "air" many times over.

The reason everyone wants to eat now is based on the instinct of the food demons. The food demons inside everyone are indeed unconscious, but since their bodies are still there, they naturally have some instincts.

When the fruit appeared, it was imbued with the aura of air, which triggered some of the instincts of the gourmet demons, who instinctively wanted to eat it.

The Gourmet Demon is actually the appetite of everyone, and the instinctive reaction of the Gourmet Demon naturally arouses everyone's appetite.

Xu Yong divided the fruit into five pieces, giving one piece to each person. However, to Xu Yong's surprise, he had thought that the fruit of the Air Tree might bring a huge boost, but now it seemed that he had guessed wrong.

The fruit of the Air Tree did indeed raise everyone's cell level somewhat, but not by much, and it couldn't be called cell activation.

However, the fruit of the Air Tree has a very special effect: it stimulates gourmet cells, making them extremely active for a short period of time. This may be why the Blue Demon was able to emerge for a while after eating this ingredient.

The fruit of the Air Tree provides more of a temporary enhancement than a permanent one.

Although the fruit of the Air Tree did not meet Xu Yong's expectations, there were other ingredients. After that, Xu Yong led everyone to search for various ingredients on the Eighth Continent.

Due to their own strength and the blessing of the Seven-Colored Fish, Xu Yong and his companions were ignored by most beasts, except for a very few special ones.

Therefore, everyone obtained ingredients very quickly. Of course, some ingredients required fighting, but this was precisely Xu Yong's strength. His cell level was only a few hundred, but he could unleash combat power of one or two thousand or even higher.

This made it much easier and simpler for Xu Yong to catch ingredients.

If other food hunters who come to the culinary world knew about Xu Yong's hunting methods, they would probably be furious instantly.

This hunting method only works on Xu Yong; no one else can replicate it.

After all, the first hurdle is detection. Xu Yong has an extraordinary soul perception, which is more powerful than any other form of perception and will not be detected.

Therefore, with this perception method combined with food luck, Xu Yong could not possibly miss some precious ingredients.

With powerful perception, combat strength that allows her to easily fight opponents of higher levels, and finally, a life-saving move that allows her to escape at any time, as well as a controllable food demon as a backup.

This allowed Xu Yong to move freely in the culinary world; after all, if he couldn't win, he could simply run away.

They can escape using spatial magic, and these beasts have no way to stop them. With such a trick, as long as they don't go too far astray, they basically don't have to worry about safety.

This is Xu Yong's confidence. He can make countless mistakes, but others cannot afford to make even one. Otherwise, a single mistake could very likely cost them their lives.

For ordinary food hunters, finding ingredients is a cautious process, and even after finally finding them, they still need to be wary of the wild beasts around them.

If it's something they can't do, then they have to give up and find something else. They spend ten or a hundred times more time than Xu Yong, but their returns are less than one ten-thousandth of Xu Yong's.

In this way, Xu Yong and the others spent more than a month collecting all the precious ingredients that could be gathered from the Eighth Continent. Combined with the Ghost Clam meat they had consumed during this period, they successfully brought Xu Yong's cell level close to the thousandth level.

Such a growth rate is like riding a rocket, after all, Xu Yong didn't eat the eight ingredients, but relied purely on other ingredients to reach this level.

"After eating these ingredients, the cell level should be over a thousand by now."

Xu Yong's strength has improved by leaps and bounds during this period. In addition to his own level increase, he has also successfully mastered the Cell Unification Method.

Shi Yi also reached a new level, all thanks to the help of everyone. As they continuously improved their strength, Xu Yong's strength naturally improved as well.

Of course, everyone's improvement was also significant. Although they couldn't compare to Xu Yong, who was a super cheater, they were still considered cheaters, so their cell level was second only to Xu Yong.

Moreover, everyone has mastered the art of food, but they haven't reached the level of mastery yet.

As the last few ingredients were consumed, the cell level increased again. Unfortunately, it was now extremely difficult to activate the food cells even once, as the ingredients were gradually falling behind Xu Yong's pace.

However, the eight ingredients are beyond Xu Yong's current reach, so he can only rely on the quantity of ingredients to quickly improve his level.

As the cell level increases, the amount of calories naturally increases as well, but this time the increase brings some special changes.

"Both the magical properties and the spiritual properties have changed!"

After discovering the condition of his body, Xu Yong immediately checked his body. The calories of Xu Yong and others fused with spiritual particles and magic power, and directly absorbed and assimilated their characteristics.

Strictly speaking, the power within the five individuals is no longer calories, nor magic, nor spiritual pressure.

Whether in the Fairy Tail world or the Bleach world, magic power and spiritual pressure will undergo a qualitative change once they reach a certain level.

In the Fairy Tail world, Zeref eventually reached a higher level by fusing with the hearts of fairies, a quantitative change leading to a qualitative change. In the Bleach world, it goes without saying that when spiritual pressure reaches a certain level, no special techniques are needed; Aizen is the most typical example.

After his cell level broke through a thousand, the energy within Xu Yong's body continued to surge, incorporating both spiritual particles and magical power, which caused a qualitative change in the power within Xu Yong's body.

"What's going on? Why is he emitting such a strange aura?"

Rukia Kuchiki asked with some confusion, "Xu Yong's Gourmet Cells haven't been activated; they've only leveled up. But this simple level increase has unleashed this strange aura."

At this moment, the magical power and spiritual properties within Xu Yong's body underwent a qualitative change, thereby further strengthening the energy within his body.

Although his cell level hadn't increased much, Xu Yong could clearly sense that his life level had changed.

There are also different levels of life in the world of Gourmet Devil. There is a certain gap between humans and appetite, and similarly, there is a great gap between appetite and gourmet gods.

The so-called food deity is not Acacia, the god of food, but a real food deity.

In this world, there exist special life forms called Gourmet Gods. They are enormous, sometimes reaching the size of a galaxy, and even a galaxy is merely their dining table.

Logically speaking, such a being, even with the slightest movement, would be a devastating blow to the galaxy.

However, over the years, apart from the fact that Blue Netero's food satellite accidentally captured such images to prove the existence of the food god, no one else knew that such a creature existed.

It is certain that the food deities cannot be observed, perceived, or touched by humans or their appetites; they can be considered a higher-dimensional life form.

The level of life can be considered humanity's Achilles' heel. After all, the level of human life is very low. Even if one perfectly integrates their appetite, at that point, they have only reached the level of appetite. Xu Yong is not sure about going further. Perhaps there are such means in the universe that can elevate the level of life.

But no one can guarantee that they can be elevated to the level of a gourmet god.

The qualitative change in the magical and spiritual properties within Xu Yong's body suddenly elevated his level of life.

However, at the same time, both magical and spiritual properties have reached their limits. In the Fairy Tail world, the strongest beings are gods. Even Zeref, who is as powerful as he is, was cursed by Anxiram.

In the world of Bleach, there exists a being called the Soul King.

Although he was turned into a human stick and used as a tool to create the Three Realms, he also had to maintain the stability of life in the Three Realms.

However, the Spirit King's actions were entirely voluntary. After all, the Spirit King himself possessed the ability to foresee the future. When facing the five progenitors, the Spirit King knew that he would be ambushed.

However, at that time, the Spirit King did not choose to resist, but allowed the other party to ambush him, which eventually led to this situation.

Throughout the entire Bleach world, whether it's Yhwach, Aizen, or Ichigo Kurosaki, they all fought and struggled, but in the end, they still couldn't surpass the Soul King.

The power of the Soul King is supreme. In other words, the upper limit of magic power in the Fairy Tail world is the so-called god, and the upper limit of spirit particles is the so-called Soul King.

This qualitative change in Xu Yong brought both energy characteristics to the peak of their respective worlds, elevating his life level. However, these two characteristics have also reached their limit. Further improvements will only increase the quantity, not further elevate Xu Yong's life level.

Xu Yong937 discovered that he seemed to have found a path to a higher-dimensional life form like the God of Food, but this path required the integration of energy from other worlds.

Moreover, it must be a world with a higher level of life; otherwise, a world like Food Wars! would not have any special energy, and naturally, it would be impossible for Xu Yong to continue to improve.

However, if he wants to travel to other worlds, he must wait for the people from those other worlds to reappear; otherwise, Xu Yong has no way to do so.

After regaining his senses, Xu Yong told everyone about the qualitative change in the energy within his body.

"I didn't expect such changes to occur after my level broke 1000. But what are the benefits of increasing my life level?"

Everyone understood Xu Yong's meaning, but they were now even more curious about the benefits of advancing their life level.

"The first thing that comes with the elevation of one's level of life is the ability to see things that are not normally visible, such as the ability to generate food. I could sense the existence of the ability to generate food before, but I couldn't see it with my naked eye."

"But now, I can clearly see what food transport looks like."

"Besides this, the improvement in life level also brings about an increase in lifespan. I can feel the terrifying life force within my body."

"Finally, in terms of combat strength, mastering various skills has become much easier, and the speed of learning various knowledge has increased significantly. If the difficulty of learning these skills was ten before, it has now become one."