I might be a fake Ultraman.

Baili Yuan chased the octopus monster all the way to its lair.

The hot plate is ready, the fire is lit, all that's left is to put the octopus on the hot plate!
As expected.

The octopus monster, licking its wounds in its lair, was chased to the lair by Saigang, who then slapped it unconscious and sent it into the home space.

It turned into a teppanyaki grill the moment it landed.

Both the octopus monster and the crab monster are mutated creatures that humans might not be able to eat, but they are not a problem for the elves.

With Baili Yuan's culinary skills, isn't the monster a delicious dish?

In the home space, a figure dressed in a chef's uniform with taotie patterns is busy working on an octopus monster.

The figure was that of a young boy, holding the Eternal Spirit Blade in his hand, with the Seven Deadly Sins' cooking utensils arranged behind him. He effortlessly pressed the octopus monster onto the hot plate to cook it.

The octopus monster was transformed into food at a visible speed, and as the aroma of the food spread, the Taotie pattern on the chef's uniform shimmered slightly.

The enormous Taotie Food Soul loomed in and out of sight, exuding a considerable sense of oppression.

This young man is another incarnation of Baili Yuan—a chef!
The chef's incarnation is different from his human incarnation.

The Chef Avatar is the embodiment of Baili Yuan's culinary skills. Once created, its abilities, appearance, and strength are already fully formed.

The chef's avatar is fixed as sixteen-year-old Baili Yuan, with strength at the initial stage of the Seven-Colored Realm. This is not an avatar skilled in combat.

While there is still room for improvement in skill, the only way to help the chef avatar improve is to allow it to acquire power related to culinary arts.

Possesses unique kitchen utensils such as the Eternal Spirit Blade, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Dragon Pattern Pot, the Gluttonous Chef's Uniform, and the Pot of World Barrier Fragments.

Possesses special abilities; Food Soul: Taotie.

Food Souls are powers acquired in the chef's world, connected to restaurants. They are powerful forces born from a chef's lifelong understanding of all the ingredients they've cooked, infused with their culinary art. From the ethereal to the tangible, from the lowly to the high.

It can be transformed into physical combat.

Baili Yuan's Food Soul is the legendary Taotie, which has the ability to devour everything.

This corresponds to Baili Yuan's culinary philosophy of treating everything as a dish, and perhaps also includes Baili Yuan's gluttonous heart that wants to taste everything.

Theoretically speaking, a chef's understanding of culinary skills has no limits, so the size of a Food Soul should also be limitless.

In reality, although only one in ten thousand chefs can condense a food spirit, in most cases a chef's food spirit will not exceed one hundred meters.

Even in the world of chefs, there are very few chefs who possess a Food Soul that exceeds 100 meters in length, and it is generally accepted that 1,000 meters is the limit for a Food Soul.

When a Food Soul breaks through a thousand meters, it will reach a new realm!
Baili Yuan's Gluttonous Food Soul did not exceed 1,000 meters, but it reached more than 900 meters, almost approaching the limit of 1,000-meter Food Souls.

Although the chef avatar is also a Baili Yuan, it's more like an clone, and the companions don't form any bond or connection with the chef avatar.

The bond remains with the human host.

Although the human form is the weakest, it can easily command and even control the chef's avatar.

When the human host needs a chef, the chef incarnation is born and then descends.

The chef's mindset is also different from Baili Yuan's; his only pursuit is cooking, tasting, and pursuing the way of cooking.

……

"We apologize for the poor hospitality! Please enjoy the grilled octopus monster!"

The chef, brimming with confidence, distributed the plated octopus monsters to the group of elves.

One octopus monster was certainly not enough for the elves to share.

Therefore, the chef turned around and went back to the warehouse to select ingredients to continue cooking.

For the chef, cooking is the happiest thing in the world and his pursuit.

As a symbol of a certain aspect of Baili Yuan, it possesses an extremely pure spiritual pursuit.

Baili Yuan also received a plate of grilled octopus monster. While enjoying it in the cockpit of the Saigang, he piloted the Saigang to patrol the sea, searching for the source of the monster's mutation and checking for any other mutated monsters.

Unfortunately, they didn't encounter any other mutated monsters.

Because this sea area is the territory of the octopus monster, even if there were other mutated monsters in the past, they would have long since become the dead souls under the tentacles of the octopus monster.

This led Baili Yuan to discover the source of the octopus monster's mutation. In the deep sea, there was a special device with interdimensional energy fluctuations. Although it was damaged, it was constantly affecting the surrounding environment.

This machine looked somewhat familiar to Baili Yuan; he had seen it in a book!
"Isn't this the Yapool's Super Beast Manufacturing Machine that Brother Ace wrote about in the book?"

The Super Beast Manufacturing Machine is one of the devices used by the Yapool to create Super Beasts, and it can be considered a key component of the process.

It possesses four main abilities.

Physical synthesis: forcibly splicing together bodies and organs, such as "cosmic monster + bee = Belokorn" and "cactus + hedgehog = Sabotanda".

Recombination at the gene and cell level: rewriting genetic information to achieve cross-species fusion.

Brain and consciousness swapping: such as the super-beast Black Pigeon, which directly swaps the brains of a cosmic monster and a pigeon.

Energy Infusion: Infuse extradimensional energy as a power source to enhance vitality and destructive power.

Baili Yuan, controlling Sai Gang, picked up the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine, confirming that he hadn't misread it.

"Wow, 99% perfect, a rare find~~~"

Then Baili Yuan took the machine back to his home space, eager to study it.

When Ace defeated the Yapool and captured these machines, he never studied them; instead, he destroyed them directly.

The Land of Light had not researched the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine, and Baili Yuan had only seen pictures of it in books.

This was the first super beast manufacturing machine he had ever handled.

……

We've arrived at the Home Space.

Baili Yuan personally patted the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine.

Okay, the Super Beast Maker isn't a TV at home; it can't be restored by just patting it.

Therefore, Baili Yuan could only take the machine, scan the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine, and try to study how many functions the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine still had and how to use them.

Baili Yuan thought for a moment, then communicated with the Light of Time Travel and made it condense into a new incarnation.

"The Doctor's incarnation has descended! Human form, are you my Master?"

A young man dressed in a white coat, who looked like a doctor, appeared in front of Baili Yuan.

It is the embodiment of Baili Yuan at the age of 30, possessing a doctoral degree, and whose abilities lean towards research.

"Could you help me study this device?"

"Bai Liyuan gave the order."

The Doctor's avatar nodded, then took the scanning device from Baili Yuan, started the scan, and then... nothing more.

"And then? What are your research plans?" Baili Yuan asked.

"That's all. Wait for the results," the doctor said earnestly.

"That's it?" Baili Yuan asked, looking puzzled.

The professor in his guise said irritably, "Don't you know what your research abilities are? With Caroline around, your research abilities have basically never been developed. The only reason you have the title of professor is because you earned it in the Pokémon world."

Baili Yuan: "...So what abilities do you have?"

"Does memorizing the first twenty elements of the periodic table count?" the Doctor replied calmly.

"Go back."

"Okay~"

The Doctor's avatar finally smiled, threw down the scanning device, returned to the light of time travel, and disappeared.

Baili Yuan accepted the scanning device and continued scanning the Super Beast Manufacturing Machine, feeling somewhat helpless.

"They're all legendary figures, yet we can't just conjure them up out of thin air, sigh~" (End of Chapter)