At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

"Oh dear! Oh dear, oh dear!"

The giant mushroom rolled off the shelf with a dizzying howl.

The large mushroom is light green overall, with a faint blue glow emanating from the back of its cap. Two glowing eyes are located on the stem beneath the cap, and these eyes have turned into mosquito coil eyes.

"What happened? Did I just come out from under a volcano?"

The giant mushroom instantly snapped out of its daze, jumped up from the ground, and excitedly looked around.

"Hahaha! He's out! He's really out! I, the Sage of Mushrooms, have finally emerged! Hahahaha, now I will reclaim my glory as a Demon God."

"Show humanity my might, tell them that the Sage of the Mushrooms, the Demon God 'Biflong' has returned! They will surely return to my side, and then we will win the Demon God War and take revenge on the gods of Sumeru! Hahaha!"

"Hey... wait a minute!" The big mushroom's smile vanished instantly, its gaze fixed in a certain direction, a large question mark appearing on its canopy.

Although his power has declined to the point where he can't even defeat an elemental lord (fourth tier) like the Emerald Terror Fungus, he still retains the perception of a demon god.

He could now sense that the auras of the humans eating not far away were all incredibly strong, even putting him under considerable pressure. The auras of two of these humans were in no way inferior to those of some of the weaker demons in the Demon God War.

A bead of cold sweat appeared on the umbrella canopy, and he muttered to himself.

'No way, did humans become this strong when I was buried under the volcano? They're almost as powerful as demons... No, no, no, they definitely aren't human. Humans are so fragile; they'd be too weak to stand if they didn't eat for a day. They definitely aren't human.'

Just then, he felt two gazes behind him and turned around instantly. He saw the human girl who had been cooking standing behind him, looking at him curiously.

What's going on? How did you suddenly appear behind me at such a fast speed!

"Wow! What a huge mushroom!" Xiangling's eyes sparkled, her nose twitched slightly, and a drop of crystal-clear saliva appeared at the corner of her mouth. "The mushroom smells so good! Could this be a top-tier ingredient of level five or higher?"

“Yes, although I rarely cook dishes with mushrooms, I can tell that this big mushroom is of very high quality.” Aiko’s eyes shone brightly, and she couldn’t help but raise her cleaver: “Xia Country truly lives up to its reputation as the most prosperous country on Earth; they even have ingredients of this caliber.”

"Xiangling, let's divide it equally and make our best mushroom dishes. This level of ingredients can probably even be used to make a sixth-level dish."

Chapter 224: The Chef and the Mushroom God, Another Witch's System

Bifflong stared at the two humans who were raising kitchen knives at him, their umbrellas covered in a dense layer of dew. What? Did I hear that right? Divide him up and cook him?

"Hey! What do you want to do?!" Biffron screamed in terror, "I am the Sage of the Mushrooms! The Demon God Biffron! The powerful Demon God! You actually want to eat me?!"

At such close range, he could already sense the elemental power contained within the bodies of these two humans. This level of elemental power was far stronger than that of an elemental lord, especially one of them, which far surpassed the elemental lord and was roughly equivalent to the level of the followers of the three overlord demon gods of Sumeru.

The followers of a powerful demon god are close to those of a weaker demon god, but he is not one of those weaker demon gods. Even if he is not as powerful as the three overlords of Sumeru, he is only slightly inferior.

How terrifying! Have humans gone so far as to eat demons?

"Huh???" Xiangling and Aikefei were startled by Bifflong's shout.

"The mushroom is talking!" Xiangling exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the trembling giant mushroom in front of her.

“Isn’t this food?” Aikofi frowned slightly. “How did an intelligent elemental creature get into the vegetable section?”

"No, no, he seems to have said he's a demon god." Xiangling blinked.

"A demon god? Really?" Aiko looked at the giant mushroom in front of her with suspicion. It seemed to only have elemental power of about the third rank. How could it be a demon god? It should be a mushroom-like grass elemental creature that has developed sentience.

"Of course it's true! I am the Sage Lord of Mushrooms, the Demon God of Mushrooms, worshipped by the Sumeru people, Biflong!" Biflong exclaimed in shock, "Which demon god's servants are you! You humans have already started eating demon gods?!?"

"Uh..." Xiangling and Aikefei looked at each other, a little confused about what the giant mushroom in front of them was saying.

"Never mind this giant mushroom, let's find the ingredients for the next dish first," Xiangling said regretfully. It was a pity that the giant mushroom was intelligent; she couldn't bring herself to kill and cook it. After all, she couldn't stomach a dish made from something that could talk.

"What a pity, I thought I had found a top-tier mushroom ingredient of level five or higher." Aikofei sighed and put away the kitchen knife in her hand.

After they finished speaking, the two turned around and started looking for ingredients.

"?" Bifflong saw the human who originally wanted to eat him turn around and leave, and a dense array of question marks appeared on the umbrella canopy. What was going on?

"As expected of Xia Kingdom, all the fruits and vegetables here are Tier 3. It's a pity that Tier 4 fruits and vegetables are still very rare, and there isn't a single Tier 5 one. They can only be found in the Great Forest." Ai Kefei said involuntarily as she picked out small mushrooms from the vegetable shelf in front of Bifflong.

Earth's great forests, especially the Amazon rainforest in South America, have many Tier 5 ingredients, but unfortunately they are all in dangerous places that humans have never set foot in. Those places are densely populated with elemental creatures, including many elemental lord-level creatures.

She's only at the late fourth stage right now, so even if she finds fifth-tier ingredients in the Amazon rainforest, it will be difficult for her to bring them out.

Tier 4 can fly, but in places like the Amazon rainforest, flying in the air would make them a target for attack.

“Yes, Earth’s ingredients are so much better. There are very few fourth-tier ingredients on Mars. I can only find them occasionally. It’s amazing that Xia Kingdom can even cultivate them artificially.” Xiangling nodded as she started picking out small mushrooms. “This place is simply a chef’s paradise.”

Apart from Earth, both the Moon and Mars, which were the first to be terraformed, are still in the early stages of planetary transcendence. The natural resources of a planet can only give rise to the fourth level at most. It is necessary to further sublimate the planet's status to give rise to natural resources of the fifth level or above.

This is the latest revised planetary hierarchy in Los Santos. It no longer classifies planetary hierarchy according to the number of powers a planet can accommodate, but rather according to the natural resources that a planet can generate at what level.

After all, even the worst planet with a status can give birth to gods, but it cannot provide material assistance to civilization in the long run.

For civilizations, the most important thing is 'resources'. The higher the status of a planet, the more natural resources it can generate, which are of higher quality and in greater quantity.

The natural resources that Earth can currently produce have reached the 'sixth level'. Some plants and animals that cannot develop consciousness are able to gain 'divine knowledge' as they grow, such as the Wuyi Mountain Da Hong Pao that the Xia Kingdom has kept hidden and not made public for more than a thousand years.

This is the only food resource above the fifth rank discovered in Xia Kingdom so far. The tea made from this Da Hong Pao tea can enhance the comprehension of extraordinary individuals in a short period of time, during which time extraordinary individuals can comprehend or optimize their own skills.

Drinking it long-term can improve the physical qualities of a fourth-tier superhuman, allowing them to approach the physical strength of a fifth-tier individual in the early stages of the fourth tier, and to achieve the physical strength of a late-stage fifth-tier individual in the early stages of the fifth tier.

Unfortunately, the amount of tea produced each year is pitifully small, not even enough for five people.

Therefore, the higher the quality of the natural resources a planet produces, the higher the planet's status. Similarly, the higher the planet's status, the higher the quality of its resources.

“Next, I’m going to make creamy mushroom soup, a classic Fontaine dish,” Aikofe said to Xiangling with a smile.

"I made Fresh Mushroom and Shredded Chicken, which is also the most classic home-style stir-fry dish in Liyue." Xiangling nodded.

"Hey! Are you cooking?" Bifflong felt frustrated when the two ignored him and couldn't help but ask.

"Isn't it obvious?" Aikofei looked at the big mushroom that had interrupted her and Xiangling's cooking conversation with dissatisfaction.

"Want some delicious mushrooms? I can give you any mushrooms you want, like mushrooms with a meaty taste and texture, etc." Bifflong jumped in front of the two. These two humans were so strong, but it seemed that he did not sense the mark of a demon god on them. Powerful humans who were not the familiars of a demon god were truly rare.

If he could win their support, he would quickly gather a large number of subjects.

"I am the Mushroom Demon God. I used to feed 300,000 of my people with mushrooms, but they were ungrateful and left me after they were full."

"Do you two want to support me? Once I regain my strength, I can easily feed a million humans."

"You can create any mushroom?" Xiangling looked at the giant mushroom that claimed to be a demon god with suspicion. She couldn't see anything about this giant mushroom that resembled a demon god. She felt that it could be smashed to pieces with a single punch.

"Really? If you can really make the mushrooms I want according to my specifications, then you are truly amazing." Aiko crossed her arms: "I worry about high-quality ingredients every day. If it weren't for the lack of ingredients, I would probably have millions of customers waiting in line."

"Wow! Aikofi, you're really popular on Earth," Xiangling said enviously.

"It's alright. My Douyin account has over 5 billion followers, and over 100 million people have sent me messages. I can't possibly read all of those messages, so I just stop looking at them," Aikefei sighed in frustration.

"Pfft!" Bifflong's eyes widened in shock: "Although I didn't quite understand, you said there are more than five billion people?"

Are there really that many people in the world?

Although I didn't understand, this human seemed so confident. Could he be a leader or something, revered by many, many people?

Immediately, Biffron's heart ignited. That's right, with such powerful strength, she must be the leader of humanity. If she could gain her support, even if there were only a few hundred thousand humans, she could quickly recover to her peak.

Thinking of this, Bifflon shook its cap, releasing green spores.

"What are you doing? A poison attack?" Aikofee stepped back instantly, frowning.

"Hmph, ignorant humans, let me show you the power of the Demon God Bifflon." Bifflon said proudly, "Only I can grow the most delicious mushrooms in the world, ten thousand times better than the mushrooms in your hands."

"My clone! Grow rapidly, grow rapidly!" Bifflon exuded the power of grass element as if it were holding back its urine, accompanied by rules, but these rules did not have direct destructive power.

hum~

This is a rule unique to 'mushrooms'. Everything related to mushrooms is part of this rule: mycelium, growth, smell, nutrition, decay, mycelium decomposition, fungal toxins, etc. It can be called the 'rules of mushrooms'.

While this rule cannot be called weak, it is only on the very edge of the world.

Although Bifron is a demon god, he does not have complete rules, only fragments of rules. At his peak, he could only be considered as a seventh-level being in this world, and he was an extremely weak seventh-level being, even weaker than a fifth-level superhuman.

Green spore smoke fell onto the floor tiles, and the spores grew rapidly, one by one, into small mushrooms. To Xiangling and Aikefei's astonishment, they grew to the size of a person and emitted a very sweet aroma.

Soon, the surrounding area within several dozen meters was covered with mushrooms of all sizes.

"Wow! It smells so sweet!" Xiangling opened her mouth wide in disbelief, reaching out to pat the large mushroom that had just sprouted in front of her: "These mushrooms are all level five! Especially the biggest one, it's level six!"

"This, this is too unbelievable." Aikofe was also dumbfounded.

"How... how was it... I... I'm pretty good, right?" Bifflong said breathlessly. He was so tired; this was the best he could do at the moment.

"Wow, that's amazing. This isn't something an ordinary mushroom creature could do."

"You wouldn't actually be the Mushroom God, would you?"

"Of course, I am the Mushroom God, ptooey ptooey, the Wise Lord of Mushrooms."

"Incredible. Even if it's not a demon god, this kind of ability would be sought after by countless human gourmets."

"Of course, I am a great demon god, so naturally I will be welcomed by humans."

"Mushroom God, come to my house, I'm sure many people will like you."

"Hmph." Bifflon immediately became arrogant: "Then we'll see how you perform."

"Xiangling, let's open a new restaurant together. With this giant mushroom, our cuisine will definitely be able to reach new heights."

"Great! I want to make level six dishes too."

"How rude! I'm not called Big Mushroom, I'm called Great Bifflon."

"Ahem, by the way, am I really that popular with humans?"

"It's true, it's absolutely true, after all, this ability is really amazing."

……

At this very moment, the culprit who threw the demon god Biffron onto Earth is watching the spectacle from a bustling street on the other side.

"It looks like it won't be long before we can enjoy sixth-tier cuisine." Luo Sheng smiled. The Mushroom Demon God, who can create high-tier ingredients, and the two future Gods of Food and Chefs are simply top-notch.

Bivron's incompetence was actually due to the influence of the Dharma King's 'lover'. Bivron prioritized caring for humans and did not develop any abilities in the direction of aggression.

If any human were to master the 'Rules of the Mushrooms,' their top priority would undoubtedly be how to kill and survive, how to spread spores throughout the world so that as long as there is one mushroom, it will not be killed, how to silently penetrate the body of life with spores to take root and sprout, how to decompose and corrode from the inside with hyphae, and even produce various complex toxins.

To take it even further, the hyphae directly affect and control the organism's nerves and brain.

Any rule is extremely powerful within its own domain; the only question is whether one knows how to use it.

"The solar system civilization has completely gotten on track, and the era of large-scale space exploration has officially begun." Luo Sheng looked up at the sky, where the emerald green moon left a faint shadow in the azure sky, and a slightly bright band of light connected the planet.

A long, dim band of light extends outward from the moon.

That was a space route extending beyond the Earth-Moon system, which began to branch after spreading out for a distance.