At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

“Then I will prepare a kitchen where Chef Xiangling can give full play to her talents,” Tao Jing said with a smile.

Soon, everyone left the 'tea party' amidst cheers.

Leosley then took Xiangling to find Aikofi.

At this moment, in the food area, a girl dressed in a white chef's uniform and wearing an exquisite chef's hat was seriously tasting the food, while in front of her was a trembling third-level chef.

The chef, though a middle-aged man in his forties, looked like a student waiting to be criticized by his teacher.

As is well known, Chef Aikofi is extremely strict with his cooking and cannot tolerate any flaws. Once he gets into the zone, he can become quite irritable.

However, all the chefs in the food street were eager to be tested and instructed by the famous Chef Aikofei when they heard that she was coming.

After all, no chef can resist progress.

Food is not just for eating; it is more like a tool to aid cultivation. The higher the rank, the more powerful the effect, and it even comes with various magical effects. Only those who reach the fourth rank or above can access the 'spiritual level'.

Dishes at the 'spiritual level' are treasures that extraordinary individuals covet.

"Too eager for quick success!" After tasting the soup, Aikofei looked at the chef in front of her with a stern face and said angrily, "Although the effect has reached the third level, it is obvious that the chef's 'love' for cooking has been ignored in pursuit of the effect."

"Cooking requires more than just culinary skills; it also needs to be infused with the chef's passion, which is the most basic soul."

"Think carefully about the warmth of your mother cooking for you when you were a child. Was it just for the food to taste good? It was because it was filled with love for you."

"Perhaps my mother's cooking wasn't that delicious, but the 'love' she poured into it surpassed the quality of the dish itself."

"Don't focus solely on the ingredients and cooking skills; pay more attention to why you love cooking."

"Yes, yes, Chef Aikofi, your words are worth more than ten years of hard work practicing my culinary skills." The third-level chef was not angry at being scolded, but was overjoyed. He had never thought about it from the perspective of 'love'.

Just then, Aikofi's 'network terminal' rang, making her frown. She hated being disturbed when she was engrossed in cooking.

This 'network terminal' is an interplanetary interconnection tool developed by Earth's Xia Kingdom. Earthlings call it a 'mobile phone'. She learned many of her culinary insights from the 'Internet', which greatly improved her cooking skills.

"Leosley? What happened? Do you know I'm very busy right now?"

"I apologize for bothering you, Miss Aikofi. It's not me who's looking for you, but a fifth-tier chef from Liyue who wants to get to know you and discuss culinary arts. Here you go."

"A fifth-tier chef! From Liyue?" Aikofi was surprised, then puzzled. She rarely paid attention to other countries and didn't know what kind of amazing chefs they had.

"Exchanging cooking skills, okay, I understand, I have time now."

Aikofee became slightly excited. Finally, a chef who knew more about cooking than her had appeared. To be honest, she was a little disappointed after coming to Earth. More than 90% of chefs were still focused on ingredients and cooking skills, and did not realize that the most important thing in cooking was 'heart'.

The third-level chef's ears perked up, his heart pounding. A fifth-level chef! My God, is there any chef in the world more skilled than Ms. Aikofi?

On the other side at this moment.

Cheers echoed through the martial arts hall, a place for extraordinary individuals who wanted to spar. The materials used in the hall could withstand battles between fourth-tier extraordinary individuals.

Due to elemental forces, all sorts of extraordinary mineral veins continue to emerge.

At this moment, Rin Tohsaka was sparring with a female boxer who claimed to be a fourth-level Bajiquan practitioner. They were exchanging blows on the martial arts stage, and the visual impact of their close-quarters combat was extremely violent, causing onlookers to shout excitedly.

"Wow, that's amazing! Is this one of the famous boxing styles of Xia Kingdom? It's incredible!"

"Yes, they could have split mountains and shattered the earth simply by using their physical strength!"

When it comes to sparring in terms of martial arts, the superhumans all agree that they do not use energy against each other.

"Standing Sky Cannon!" The fourth-tier female transcendent was like a cannonball, instantly rushing in front of Rin Tohsaka. A cone-shaped white impact barrier had formed in front of her steel fist. This was an ultra-high pressure formed by the supersonic speed and power of her punch.

Once released, this ultra-high pressure could easily blast apart a mountain peak several hundred meters high.

"Oh no!" Rin Tohsaka's expression changed drastically. She hurriedly released her rock element to envelop her entire body, encasing herself in hard, amber-colored rock.

boom----

The white shockwave exploded like a nuclear bomb, the sound of the air being torn apart was as piercing as scraping glass, and the atmosphere was constantly distorted under the shockwave.

Drop drop drop-

The measuring instrument outside the martial arts arena sounded an alarm, and the screen showed that the energy index had reached [6897]. The destructive power of this punch was close to that of a small tactical nuclear bomb.

However, the shockwave was blocked by a semi-transparent protective shield when it reached the edge of the martial arts platform. Runes lit up around the platform, which was the usage of immortal talismans learned from the disciples of the immortals. Practical talismans have been completely popularized and used for people's livelihood.

"Aaaaaah!!!" The amber-colored rock on Rin Tohsaka's body shattered instantly, and she was slammed against the barrier by the shockwave. She was in a terrible state, her hair ties that tied her twin tails were broken, and her long hair was in disarray.

"You flatter me." The fourth-tier female transcendent clasped her hands in a fist salute: "I must say, my friend from Japan, your Bajiquan stance is quite good, but it lacks some essence."

She is Li Shuying, one of the martial artists of the Xia Kingdom Martial Arts Association and a contemporary inheritor of authentic Bajiquan. Her great-grandfather was the famous "Steel Fist Unmatched, Divine Spear Li Shuwen" who killed Japanese invaders during the Republic of China era.

Before the advent of the superhuman, martial arts were purely for performance; however, after the advent of the superhuman, the various theories and techniques of martial arts became truly achievable.

Now, martial artists are opening martial arts schools everywhere in Xia Kingdom, teaching their own martial arts. The most widely spread are Tai Chi, Bajiquan, Piguazhang, and so on.

"Hiss... Is that Bajiquan?" Rin Tohsaka was completely stunned. How come it's completely different from the Bajiquan I learned?

They are all fourth-tier superhumans, so why can't I use Bajiquan to create a nuclear explosion with just my physical body?

After regaining her senses, Rin Tohsaka clenched her fists. She had learned Bajiquan from Kirei Kotomine, the disciple of her most hated father. It was certain that the detestable Kirei Kotomine had only taught her the form, without imparting the true essence of Bajiquan to her.

"A loss is a loss..." Rin Tohsaka stood up and sighed. She was skilled in magic, so it was no wonder she couldn't win against a superhuman who was an expert in close combat.

Rin Tohsaka walked out of the martial arts hall and suddenly stopped, a strange feeling rising in her heart.

“This feeling…” Rin Tohsaka placed her hand on her chest: “It feels like there’s another me…” She looked in the direction that gave her this strange feeling, feeling puzzled.

"Over there!"

Rin Tohsaka stopped running after a while, staring blankly at two girls who looked almost exactly like her playing claw machines in the arcade not far away. The only differences between them were their hair and eye color, and even the angle at which their twin tails were tied was exactly the same.

“I’ve already caught three Ishtars. You’ll have to admit defeat sooner or later. After all, you’re just a little sister.”

"What's with the attitude! You're so arrogant! So what if you caught three? I'll surpass you in no time! Watch me catch some more!"

"You're going to use your divine power, aren't you? I can sense it."

"Nonsense! When did I ever prepare to use divine power? Slander! Ereshkigal, you're just slandering me!"

Ishtar's face flushed red as she glared. Damn it, was my luck really that bad today? No matter what I did, I was always being outdone by that wretched Ereshkigal.

"Hmph~ I'm not playing with you anymore. Speaking of which, there's already a civilization on my Venus. It will soon be as prosperous as Earth. It will be much more comfortable to live in your gloomy underworld."

"Oh...it seems you've never been to the Underworld, Ishtar." Ereshkigal smiled as she watched Ishtar, who, unable to outmaneuver her, changed the subject. "How do you know it's eerie if you've never been? Why haven't you come even once? Are you afraid it'll be the same as before?"

"What! I'm afraid of you? What a joke, you think I'd be afraid of a sinister goddess like you!" Ishtar reacted as if a cat had guessed her tail, crossing her arms and snorting coldly, "Hmph, anyway, I'm the lord of Venus now, and I'll soon become the supreme god-king."

"Los Saint still likes me quite a bit. After all, I am the goddess of beauty. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given me sovereignty over Venus, hmph."

"Oh..." Ereshkigal said nonchalantly, "I kissed Los Saint, you're already a loser, my stupid sister."

“Oh, what do you mean?” Ishtar raised her chin smugly. “I know, Ereshkigal, you’re jealous, but it doesn’t matter, I don’t care at all.”

Just then, Ishtar and Ereshkigal both froze for a moment, turned around, and saw a girl who looked exactly like them with an incredulous expression on her face.

"what……"

Ishtar and Ereshkigal exchanged a glance.

Isn't this girl... the medium through which they inhabited their bodies?

Because they are from the same body, they resonate with each other.

As deities, they have already interfered with the perceptions of those around them. In the eyes of others, they are just ordinary superhumans with ordinary appearances, and they will not attract any attention.

However, the induction of the same source will render this cognitive interference ineffective.

"You, you..." Rin Tohsaka stared in disbelief at the two people in front of her who looked exactly like her: "How come you look exactly like me!"

"Wait!" Rin Tohsaka exclaimed, covering her head with her hands as if she had just realized something. "If twins can sense each other, could it be that Father... No, no, there are parallel worlds where identical people can sense each other!"

"Could it be! You two are my counterparts in this world!" Rin Tohsaka exclaimed in shock, pointing at the two people in front of her who looked exactly like her.

"What? What counterpart? I am Ishtar. Although I have indeed descended into this girl's body, I am fundamentally different from humans." Ishtar looked at Rin Tohsaka, who was pointing at her, and put her hands on her hips.

"Descent... Ishtar, divine descent? Then the original me!" Rin Tohsaka realized what was going on and her expression changed. She involuntarily took a step back.

"What nonsense are you thinking?" Ishtar said with displeasure. "Although it was a divine descent, I did not devour the medium's consciousness. Instead, I merged with her. I occupy 70%, her consciousness occupies 30%, and she still exists."

"In other words, it wasn't that the goddess replaced her, but rather that she became the goddess."

"And what about her?" Rin Tohsaka breathed a sigh of relief. The gods in this world are all of the Lawful Good type, so it's definitely not like what she thought. She then looked at Ereshkigal.

“Me too,” Ereshkigal said calmly. “It’s just that Ishtar and I each inherited a part of her personality.”

Rin Tohsaka's lips twitched slightly; at this moment, she once again felt the absurdity of the world.

Her counterparts in this world were bestowed by the goddesses, primarily Ishtar and Ereshkigal. However, her counterparts did not disappear; one could argue that her counterparts became gods, and there were two of them at that.

Suddenly, I recalled the complicated look in Naruto's eyes when I was summoned by him during my advancement to the fourth rank. So that's why.

Suddenly, Rin Tohsaka seemed to remember something, and her expression turned strange.

While learning about the known gods, she read many rumors about Ishtar, who loved gems to death and even caused all sorts of things because of them.

'I truly envy my counterpart in this world; I can so easily command tribute of gems from so many nations!'

She couldn't even imagine how many gems Ishtar had hoarded; it would take tens of thousands of years to spend them all.

Just then, a tall woman wearing a leather jacket and with hair the color of flames walked over.

"Wait, aren't Venus and the Underworld goddesses sister goddesses? Could it be that there's actually a triplets sister?"

Ishtar, Ereshkigal, and Rin Tohsaka all turned to look when they heard the sound.

"Hey! Is that Vulcan Mavka?" Ishtar's eyes lit up. Because she had been busy with matters between Mesopotamia and Egypt recently, she hadn't had time to go back to Venus to see the civilization that had come to Venus.

All she knew was that the civilization that came to Venus was protected by a fire goddess named Mavica, and because of this divine protection, she was even less in a hurry.

“Yes, Lord of Venus, I was waiting for you on Venus to come and have a conversation with you, my master, but you haven’t come yet,” Mavica said warmly. “So I came to Earth to check on things. It just so happens that a grand event is being held here and all the gods are here, so I came to find you.”

Although Nata is currently on Venus, the Heavenly Principles have given her a chance to choose a 'planet'—a planet in the solar system that is currently unclaimed.

After choosing a planet, she can go to the Great Tree King to modify it.

It is said that the other seven gods also had the opportunity to choose a planet.

However, she felt that Venus was fine, and there were no humans on Venus, only the Nata civilization. There was no need to choose a planet and spend a lot of effort to transform it.

At worst, we can wait until the population of Nata grows before considering taking over a planet.

“I see.” Ishtar nodded with her arms crossed. “I’ve been quite busy in Mesopotamia lately, so I haven’t had much time. But if there’s anything you need, just let me know. I’ll do my best to help.”

There's only one civilization on Venus, and she's counting on Venus to prosper. So she plans to maintain good relations with Mavica. If Mavica moves the civilization away, she'll have nowhere to go to regret it.

“No rush.” Mavica smiled warmly at Ereshkigal: “This must be the goddess of the underworld. It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m sorry to trouble you to take care of Nata’s underworld.”