bullyxtreme Chapter 425 Divine Culinary Arts
Chapter 425 Divine Culinary Arts
A small, amber-colored orb with a gradient of white light floated in the palm of the hand, radiating an appetite-inducing rhythm.
As soon as it escaped from Gonia's grasp, the Gourmet Goddess, like a pitiful creature freed from a demon's clutches, clung to Fan Wei in a flash, practically ready to show affection.
Seeing this, the blonde girl felt even more jealous and secretly regretted her actions.
How could she just hand it over like that!
If Misr Van takes away the divine status, he will definitely not be able to get it back! His long-planned grand scheme is facing bankruptcy, and he will probably have no hope of revenge in the future.
However, what reassured her was that Fan Wei did not accept the divine essence after receiving it, but simply gently held the ball of light and closed his eyes to feel it.
This was the first time Fan Wei had truly connected with 'divinity'. In an instant, he touched the 'rules' with his mortal body!
"&*……*%&￥&"
My mind was adrift in a dreamlike emptiness, and in a daze, a cacophony of jarring noises rushed into my ears, making me feel irritable and agitated.
But as the sound grew louder, gradually discernible content came through.
Distant, ethereal, and mingled with countless sounds, it seemed to come from an infinitely distant place, like the roar of waves, accompanied by whispers amidst the noise, transforming into the language he knew best!
The sounds and words of my hometown!
"Delegating permissions..."
"Port error detected, redirecting to source path, connected to the Virtual Hub... Connection error..."
"Connection to the Underworld... Connection error..."
"Connection successful... Connection error..."
"Unable to search for ultimate energy..."
"Command escaped...&*...&%%"
After a brief period of identifiable sounds, everything became chaotic and sharp again, but Fan Wei felt that his consciousness had already connected with the divine power in his hand.
You can use its power at will!
But his attention wasn't immediately focused on the divine spark; it was on the sound he had just heard.
Those sounds reminded him of something that happened long ago, when he first entered the labyrinth and heard the voice of the so-called 'Sea of Ancient Memories'!
From initial doubt to gradual forgetting.
The ancient voices that first entered the labyrinth were like a mystery without clues, set aside, until today when they came into contact with one of the world's greatest secrets—divinity.
Fan Wei heard it again!
The feeling that a huge mystery has been partially revealed is returning.
"Gonia." Opening his eyes, Fan Wei looked at the blonde girl and asked, "Did you hear any strange noises when you were connecting to the divine spark?"
"Strange sound? You must have tinnitus." Gonia's puzzled expression actually proved that she couldn't hear anything.
"Could it be that the divine essence is speaking to you?!"
Although she didn't understand what Fan Wei had heard, it didn't stop the blonde girl from making a guess: she was being led astray by the 'favoritism' of the Gourmet God.
However, in reality, gods do not possess intelligence; they only have the most instinctive reactions to 'rules'.
Fan Wei understood; he had probably stumbled upon some special area again. Ever since he came into contact with dark matter, he had begun to doubt the nature of this world.
Today, finally, there is irrefutable evidence to prove it.
Perhaps the so-called divine status and the so-called world rules are just permissions delegated from a huge system!
The questions are: what exactly is that system? Who created it? Why does it contain local dialect? Is it reacting based on its own memory, or is there genuine information about the hometown stored in that system?
Many questions arose in my mind, but the divine essence did not react after being connected.
Fan Wei wanted to continue exploring, but he couldn't.
After a moment of contemplation, he put aside his doubts and began to experience the laws of 'food'. It was quite amazing that such a man-made concept could become the rule of the world.
But after hearing that ancient voice, Fan Wei also had his own guesses.
Natural laws are inherently undefined; all natural phenomena share common origins at the microscopic level. Only human concepts can divide them into 'domains'.
So how is this 'artificial concept' defined? Who defines it?
Fan Wei thought of 'faith,' which was also the question he wanted to ask Gonia: 'What exactly is faith?'
Seeing that Misel Van had been stunned for a moment before asking her such a crucial question, the blonde girl became wary. "What? Are you trying to ditch me and go it alone?"
"Don't even think about it! I won't allow it!!"
"I'm just curious," Fan Wei said gently, trying to comfort her. "What exactly is the purpose of the gods collecting faith? You must be able to gain some benefit from it, right?"
With a suspicious look in her eyes, Gonia finally confessed, "I don't remember much, but I can give you an example."
"If divinity is fire, then faith is coal!"
"Once the fire of divinity is ignited, it can never be extinguished. It must be sustained by a constant stream of faith, otherwise the god himself will become fuel and be burned to ashes."
Is that really how it is? Fan Wei felt that this method was somewhat familiar, and in his recollection, he recalled Gao Xueshi's notes.
'Gather the desires of all intelligent life into the 'Apostles,' helping them resist assimilation and gain abilities beyond reality.'
The original words in this notebook have a counterpart in reality: is the gods' collection of 'faith' also a kind of collection of 'desire'?
There is a convergence effect among similar desires.
'This effect is like gravity; normally insignificant and negligible, but when gathered together, it becomes incredibly powerful! Enough to achieve balance with the great Him!'
Fan Wei recalls that the 'He' in Gao Xueshi's notes did not refer to the gods, but to 'dark matter'.
"Is the origin of divinity dark matter?" he whispered, then many other thoughts came to mind, knowing that the threshold for accessing dark matter was 'infinite desire'.
Are all the gods driven by insatiable desires? Judging from Gonia's behavior, it doesn't seem so.
How did they manipulate this power? Doesn't the dark matter react to it? And in what form does it exist in this world?
Finally, and most fundamentally, what exactly is the soul? And what is endless desire?
Why is the essence of the soul sufficient to contend with something as defying nature as dark matter?
There were so many questions that Fan Wei really wanted to ask someone who knew everything, but he didn't know if such a person even existed in this mortal world...
"Hey, why are you spacing out again? Are you plotting something?"
Gonia reached out and poked Fan Wei's cheek, waking him from his reverie. "You seem to have more and more on your mind lately. Tell me about it."
A look of shock appeared on Fan Wei's face, even more surprising than learning the true nature of faith.
"You've learned to care about others!" Wow, my child has really grown up!
With her delicate eyebrows raised, Gonia angrily punched Fan Wei in the waist with her small fist, gritting her teeth and shouting, "You! What do you mean! I've always cared about you, okay?"
"Foolish mortals! You're infuriating! You only ever make this goddess angry!"
Consider how the blonde girl addresses others—they're always called bugs or trash—it seems like a real honor to be called an idiot.
"Thank you so much."
Fan Wei, in a much better mood, stroked Gonia's little head and asked, "How much of your memory have returned? Have you remembered the origin of those 'primal malices' in your graveyard?"
Primal malice, possibly one of the products of dark matter.
They appeared in the chaotic maze when Gonia was revived, and Fan Wei personally dealt with them. He really wanted to hear what the person involved had to say.
"What primal malice? That's 'divine abomination'!"
“Although it wasn’t my doing, but…” Gonia held her forehead and lowered her head slightly, “There are too many things I can’t remember. It seems to be related to a certain plan and my idiotic sister.”
"Divine Abomination?" What a name that evokes a lot of thoughts.
Fan Wei suddenly remembered that when he first arrived in the capital, he was attacked by unidentified people who had put something that looked like primal malice in the gift box.
Now this is a big problem!
"Can only gods produce something like this?" he pressed Gonia.
The blonde girl rolled her eyes. "Of course! It's self-explanatory, isn't it? Besides gods, only demons in the abyss can create divine abominations..."
"But it's strange, there were no demons in my time... How do I know?" The loss of too many important memories has always been a source of trouble for Gonia.
"Alright, I'll adjust the Gourmet Godhood first."
Fan Wei suddenly stopped investigating. He grasped the culinary godhood he had already taken control of. Without a foundation of faith, he would not have been able to directly control the godhood, but the quality of infinite desire filled the void.
As long as it does not exceed a certain limit, infinite desires can manipulate divinity at will, even without the power of faith.
This coincides with Fan Wei's deduction about the essence of faith.
However, in Gonia's eyes, this meant that he had indeed secretly collected faith. The faith power from the mixed-bloods had flowed into the godhood, which the blonde girl had sensed.
"Hmph, you say no but your body says no."
Muttering a huff, Gonia sat down to the side without taking any action, even though it was something incredibly important to her right now.
When the blonde girl held it in Fan Wei's hand, she didn't feel any aversion.
This was an irrational, foolish act driven purely by emotion, causing Gonia to struggle with her inner turmoil, her delicate eyebrows furrowing together.
However, Fan Wei really didn't want to take her things; he was just using the power of food to modify and create some divine rules.
Such modifications cannot exceed the realm of gastronomy, yet the person who holds the divine title is none other than the beacon of gastronomy in this world!
Ninety-nine percent of the faith foundation that Gonia used to condense her divine status was created by Fan Wei, who is undoubtedly the leader in this field.
Fan Wei didn't do much; he simply incorporated his understanding of cooking into the new divine art.
The First New Testament Divine Art: The Sensation of Food.
'The divine flame of gastronomy burns within your heart; possessing this flame means sharing the power of the God of Gourmet Food! Using this divine art grants inspiration for creating divine cuisine, allowing you to cook dishes with special effects!'
The second New Testament divine art: Food.
'The secret of gastronomy is revealed in the eye: the more delicious food one prepares and consumes, the stronger one's own power becomes! Consuming food with temporary effects yields even more pronounced results.'
The Third New Testament Divine Art: Food.
'Food, imbued with soul, becomes more resonant with nearby ingredients, fostering a two-way exchange and connecting with diners who regularly enjoy and prepare the food. This allows for a sharing of the diners' abilities to some extent!'
There are only three so-so ones. Fan Wei didn't divide divine arts into many levels like other divine arts systems.
Anyone who is a food enthusiast and truly loves food can directly master these three divine arts. Unlike ordinary skills, these three divine arts are all progressive.
Fan Wei infused a portion of his own qualities into a divine essence, allowing food enthusiasts to share in its power.
A chef's sense of taste will become stronger and more profound as their experience grows, their understanding of food will steadily increase with their practice and cooking, and their culinary luck will gradually improve through the bonds they form with ingredients and diners.
Compared to Gonia's divine magic, Fan Wei's divine magic lies in its extremely high growth potential.
He did not bestow divine power upon the people, but rather used himself as a model and pioneer to share the power of food, enabling everyone to reach the ultimate path of culinary delights!
Of course, besides the three divine arts, Fan Wei also wanted to copy his 'toxin removal' ability.
Expanding through store staff is too slow. It would be much better if it could be transformed into divine magic. However, this ability can't even be handled by the God of Food?!
The poison of the demon is something that even divine power cannot cure!
Fan Wei was shocked again. After thinking for a moment, he decided to trouble Gonia and give her the ability to 'detoxify monsters' as the type of gift.
When believers want to cure a demon, they only need to pray upwards, and the divine holder will receive it.
Then the divine power will spontaneously construct a one-way channel, which will appear at the place of worshippers' prayers as long as the holder of the divine power releases the skill.
The benefit is that 'toxin removal' will be disseminated to more people in this way.
The downside is that the holder of the divine status will likely face considerable trouble. Although releasing the 'toxin removal' consumes very little energy, the blessing of the divine status makes it virtually effortless.
But having to respond to customer service 24/7 sounds like a real ordeal.
Fan Wei wasn't a devil, so naturally he had to think about Gonia. Depriving a child of sleep was too cruel, so he fiddled with it for a while longer.
He successfully used divine power to build a 'skill warehouse'.
Normally, you can continuously release "Toxin Removal" into the "Skill Warehouse," which will automatically respond and launch the skill when believers pray.
Although it will increase the consumption of divine power, as long as the number of believers increases, there will be a continuous return of faith power.
This will create a positive cycle!
"It's done, here you go." Fan Wei finished adjusting the divine power. He didn't delete the divine spells that Gonia herself had created; it wouldn't hurt to provide the chef with some power when he was weak.
In terms of bestowing divine magic, the 'God of Gourmet Food' is probably the most generous of all the gods today.
Having regained her divine status, Gonia's anxious heart finally calmed down. She regained control of her divine status and wanted to see what adjustments Misr Van had made.
As she looked, the blonde girl's eyes lit up, but then her face darkened.
"What is this?! Are they treating me like a slave?! A dignified god! And I have to be busy with the prayers of believers every day! And with this kind of split-divine technique, I can't gain much divine power at all!"
"The faith was converted, but it immediately reverted to divine power and returned to the believers!"
This is why the gods categorize and limit the bestowal of divine arts; they want to maximize profits by distributing more divine magical power to believers, but this consumes their own resources.
"Oh, everyone for me, and me for everyone, isn't that wonderful?"
Fan Wei chuckled and patted Gunia's head again, "Go for it, girl, be a generous and good deity!"
Gonia was so angry that she stomped her feet, furiously determined to revert Fan Wei's corrections! However, to her astonishment, the deity wouldn't listen to her!
The content left behind by Misr Van is like the underlying permissions, an inviolable rule, and cannot be modified at all!
The proud blonde girl finally got her comeuppance. She was so angry that she trembled all over. She rushed up to Fan Wei, waving her little fists, and stood on tiptoe to punch him repeatedly in the chest.
However, they couldn't even break through the defenses...
Divine Body Forging, Azure Guardian, Alluring Charm, Fairy Heart—these four skills are utterly insignificant; they're simply invulnerable to damage! Little devil.
"This is outrageous!"
The girl roared, her shrill screams echoing throughout the room. Gonia had finally been defeated by Misr Van and could no longer rise!