Starting with Food Wars, I'll be sourcing delicacies from all realms.

After looking at the Wu Forest not far away and thinking for a while, Ximen Yan decided to wait until the next day to enter.

After all, problems can easily arise at night in the forest.

He wasn't a novice anymore, so naturally he couldn't be too reckless.

Not to mention, he planned to spend the remaining days in the world of Gourmet Hunter in the Forest of E.

After wandering around casually, Ximen Yan found some trees with salt-fried saury, rice ball trees, banana and cucumber trees, and red lantern and wine coconut trees...

After gathering all the ingredients they found and having a big meal, Ximen Yan found a place to rest.

……

I woke up early the next morning and saw a large number of trees growing around me.

Ximen Yan was stunned for a moment before he realized that the Wu Forest had expanded to the place where he was resting!

The Forest of Wu truly lives up to its name as a plant hell; the vigorous vitality of the plants here is simply astonishing.

They can grow into tall trees in a short time, even faster than with hormones!

Of course, in Ximen Yan's opinion, it must also be because BB Corn comes from the food world, which is why the Forest of Wu is so special.

It's important to know that all the nutrients in the entire Wu Forest ultimately flow to BB Corn.

It is obvious that the Forest of Wu is entirely composed of the roots, stems, branches, and leaves that BB Corn uses to obtain nutrients.

It's quite normal that plants in the culinary world can easily outclass plants and animals in the human world, isn't it?

I took some food from the food storage space to fill my stomach.

Ximen Yan began to advance deeper into the Wu Forest.

Quickly dodge a puddle of bird droppings falling from the sky.

Ximen Yan glanced at the pile of bird droppings that had landed on the ground.

One of the seedlings grew rapidly from within.

And it quickly grew a flower.

However, looking at the swaying body and the flower with sharp fangs and a gaping maw, it was clearly a man-eating flower.

The newly grown man-eating flower, despite having no eyes, somehow sensed Ximen Yan's presence nearby.

The flower, with its gaping maw, suddenly lunged at Ximen Yan.

With a swift chop, Ximen Yan cleaved the man-eating flower in two and began his ascent into the Forest of Wu.

This thing is no trouble for him now.

(Please give flowers, monthly tickets, and tips)

Chapter 43 Discovering BB Corn

As Ximen Yan delved deeper, he gradually encountered some troubles.

For example, some carnivorous plants. If possible, Ximenyan should avoid these carnivorous plants.

After all, in the Forest of Wu, these carnivorous plants have an incredibly strong vitality.

Even if he chops up these carnivorous plants, they will recover quickly.

Unless you dig up all the roots of these carnivorous plants and burn them completely.

Otherwise, there's no way to completely eliminate these carnivorous plants.

This is obviously too much trouble.

So the only option is to avoid it.

In addition to carnivorous plants, Ximenyan also encountered an aloe vera lizard.

Aloe vera lizards do not have the vigorous vitality of carnivorous plants.

However, the aloe vera lizard doesn't look very appetizing.

So Ximenyan only took the aloe vera from the neck of the aloe vera lizard.

When we return to the Food Wars world, I can give it to Erina Nakiri as a gift.

I imagine Erina Nakiri would like something that can whiten and moisturize the skin.

However, as soon as Ximen Yan was distracted, he found that his entire field of vision had suddenly been flipped over.

A strange plant, resembling a withered tree but with a ferocious face, appeared before Ximen Yan.

Zombie Tree, one of the many carnivorous plants in the Forest of Wu, capture level 33.

At this moment, Ximen Yan was being lifted up by his ankles by the zombie tree's tentacle-like, flexible branches.

As the zombie tree's ferocious face drew closer and closer, its gaping maw wide open, he watched in horror.

Without hesitation, Ximen Yan threw a fireball directly into the zombie tree's open mouth.

'Boom! '

The fireball exploded.

Thick black smoke immediately billowed from the zombie tree's mouth.

"Roar!"

The zombie tree, suddenly struck by a fireball, flew into a rage.

A large number of branches immediately wrapped around Ximen Yan's body.

Ximen Yan's response to this was still 'Fire Release'.

After all, he couldn't possibly compete with such a large zombie tree in terms of sheer strength.

Ximen Yan, who appeared a few dozen meters away, looked at the zombie tree, which was in a state of rage and whose countless tentacle-like branches were flailing wildly, with curiosity in his eyes.

"Should this be considered a plant or an animal?"

Ximen Yan rested his chin on his hand and looked the zombie tree up and down.

Although some common plants can also move relatively quickly, such as the mimosa and the Venus flytrap.

But they are obviously no match for the zombie trees in front of them.

The zombie tree, a creature with both plant and animal characteristics, is indeed quite peculiar.

So, if we were to classify zombie trees as species, would they belong to the plant or animal kingdom?

However, in the world of Toriko, this seems to be considered normal practice.

After all, even live roasted pigs exist.

……

Having just been hit by Ximenyan's fireball, the Zombie Tree was naturally not going to let Ximenyan off the hook.

The instant when Ximenyan appeared in the distance.

The zombie tree then rushed towards Ximen Yan.

"wrong!"

Ximen Yan carefully observed the zombie tree's movements.

"It turns out that they quickly pulled out the tree roots and then planted them in the ground to move the entire branch!"

"What a bizarre way of moving!"

However, Ximen Yan had already discovered the zombie tree's weakness.

As a half-plant, the zombie tree's weakness is actually fire!

Although some plants are not very afraid of fire, he had encountered them before.

But his fireball just now was very effective against the zombie tree.

Clearly, the zombie tree has not overcome its weakness of being afraid of fire.

Or rather, the zombie tree, which resembles a withered tree, has very little moisture in its body and is more afraid of fire than ordinary trees.

"This is a good opportunity to test my abilities and see just how far I can go."

Ximen Yan looked at the zombie tree with some anticipation.

Faced with the fire-averse zombie tree, Ximen Yan was naturally fearless.

However, before dealing with the zombie tree, it's a good time to train myself and adapt to the increased strength I've gained.

After all, it's not easy to find an opponent who is strong enough but doesn't pose much of a danger to him.

Ximen Yan began to fight the zombie tree with his own body.

Without a doubt, Ximen Yan, who was unable to use his abilities, was easily crushed by the zombie tree.

However, Ximen Yan also noticed that his body was becoming more and more agile.

Clearly, such pressure is indeed very useful for his ability to adapt to growth.

……

After gaining sufficient strength to adapt to the growth, Ximen Yan burned down the zombie tree, a classic example of discarding a useful tool after it has served its purpose.

However, after dealing with the zombie tree...

Ximen Yan circled the zombie tree several times.

Finally, they completely dismantled the zombie tree.

He did find something interesting.

A tree core, more than two meters long and about the thickness of a wrist.

Ximen Yan tried it and found that the tree core was very tough; it wouldn't break even if he folded it in half.

Although he didn't know what it was for, Ximen Yan still put it away.

However, I just put this tree core into my food storage space.

Ximen Yan suddenly realized what was happening.

The tree core is actually some kind of food ingredient! After all, the food ingredient space can't store anything other than food ingredients or delicacies.

"I wonder what it tastes like."

After muttering something to himself, Ximen Yan ignored it and continued to venture deeper into the Wu Forest.

He came looking for BB Corn.

……

When the surrounding trees had grown so tall that they completely blocked out the sunlight.

Ximen Yan looked up.

Feeling that he had reached the right spot, Ximen Yan grabbed the surrounding tree branches and began to climb upwards.

After climbing along the tree branches for more than ten minutes, reaching a height of several hundred meters, Ximen Yan finally saw the light.

He quickened his pace and arrived above the forest.

Standing steadily on the branch and looking around, Ximen Yan easily spotted quite a few baby corns that were over a meter tall.

However, Ximen Yan only observed these baby corns briefly and did not make any purchases.

Although these baby corns in front of us are already several times larger than regular corns.

But in reality, just like a seedling, it is still a long way from maturity.

The taste of baby corn like this is quite different from that of fully ripe baby corn.

Therefore, it was impossible for Ximenyan to go to the trouble of purchasing these baby corns.

Chapter 44 BB Corn Acquired, A Gift from the Forest of Wu

Simon began searching far and wide for truly mature baby corn.

Finally, after the clouds and mist dissipated.