At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

Ingredients section.

This place is incredibly huge, like an interstellar library. Each food shelf is thousands of meters high, and the chefs move between the shelves as if they were traveling between skyscrapers.

"Emotion and memory, I've already thought of it." Erina Nakiri selected ingredients, recalling a memory from her mind.

She was only seven years old when she first picked up a spoon. As a novice chef, no one would eat the food she made, but she couldn't finish it herself, so she would put the clean food in a box and secretly place it next to the down-on-their-luck adults who made a living in a cardboard box.

He secretly hid to the side, waiting for his food to be discovered.

Every time I saw them eating the food I made with tears in their eyes and red noses, I would secretly smile with joy. Looking back now, I realize how they truly felt when they said "thank you" and "it's delicious."

This is one of her most precious memories, Erina Nakiri.

"When you are poor and helpless, the kindness of strangers is touching."

Food Wars! Parallel World.

"Look! That's our Gluttony Demon Queen, Erina Nakiri!"

"We must defeat all our opponents and break into the top ten! Miss Nakiri, you are the strongest in our world!"

On the other side, Liu Maoxing had finished selecting the ingredients and returned to the stove: "Touched, remembered, the gentlest mother's every teaching, now that I'm grown up and looking back, are the most touching memories, selfless maternal love."

One by one, the contestants got into the zone. Even some chefs who didn't have the culinary skills to imbue their dishes with a story gritted their teeth and did their best to create dishes that fit the theme. Even if they didn't make it to the finals, at least they gave it their all.

In the 'foodie' seat.

Luo Sheng looked with great interest at the chefs who he thought had a good chance of making it into the top ten: "Nakiri Erina, Liu Maoxing... and Takanashi Touka."

In the world of 'Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions', Rikka Takanashi, a chunibyo, has become a fifth-tier chunibyo, while the other members of the chunibyo group have also reached the fourth tier.

Sigh, those with chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) are essentially kind-hearted kids who think about protecting, saving, destroying evil, and shattering darkness. Moreover, they are simple-minded, and this belief can easily become fixed after they come into contact with the supernatural.

Takanashi Rikka's older sister, Takanashi Touka, is a restaurant chef who is exposed to extraordinary culinary skills, becomes an extraordinary chef, and advances to the fourth rank. In that parallel world, a fourth-rank chef is already the pinnacle of the world.

So she came to participate in the once-every-ten-year 'Master Chef Competition' with great enthusiasm.

"Go, Holy Healer! Go, Holy Healer!"

"Chef Shihua! You are our best chef! You must be shortlisted!"

In the audience, Rikka Takanashi and Sanae Dekomori held up a colorful banner and shouted encouragement. Next to them were other high-level superhumans from their world who had come to cheer them on.

Various banners and cheerleading squads were set up in the stands. These were all people from different countries and parallel worlds who came specifically to support the chefs from their respective countries and worlds.

"I'm getting more and more excited to see what kind of delicious food the chefs who have made it to the finals will create." Luo Sheng leaned back in his chair with a smile on his face.

He was surrounded by gods on both sides, in front and behind, and even not far away.

That's right, the gods all disguised themselves as 'gourmets' and sat at the table. Each of them had a mortal identity. Barbatos had the identity of Wendy, Morax had the identity of Zhongli, and they were all super celebrities in the mortal world.

"Hmm, one person has already finished, no, two people." Zhongli, who was calmly drinking tea, suddenly looked at the various sub-venues.

The other gods, disguised as gourmets, also looked over, and everyone's excitement was heightened, leading them to communicate with each other using divine thoughts.

But tensions began to rise during the exchange.

"This year's competition is truly fierce, with some talents even emerging that are no less than Xiangling and Aikefei."

"In a few decades or a hundred years, another master chef will appear."

"He's a promising talent who deserves special attention. I've got my eye on him, so don't try to take him from me."

"Get lost! You think you can just ask for a potential master chef without even asking!"

"Exactly! Only two seedlings have emerged in total."

"Liyue and Fontaine are prohibited from competing! You already have a master chef."

"That's not right. How can you exclude Liyue from fair competition?"

"Grandpa, can you please stop arguing about everything? Leave some opportunities for us younger generation! Otherwise, I'm going to lose my temper!"

Chapter 290 The God of Gourmet Food, the God of Cooking, They Approached the Gods

The hour of the preliminary round ended quickly.

All the dishes prepared by more than 100 million participants were finished. They stood tall with their hands behind their backs, their chests out, with their dishes, ranging from level three to level five, displayed beside their stoves.

A chef's skill is not necessarily reflected in the rank of a dish. Even if a high-ranking chef makes a second-rank dish, he can still allow diners to enter a spiritual world.

However, being able to create level 5 cuisine also proves the chef's solid skills.

The chefs who had finished their dishes were in various states of mind: some were full of confidence, some were nervous, and some were dejected.

The dejected chefs knew their creations might not have met the requirements, but they still tried their best to make them the best they could be.

Colorful clouds of smoke rose from the various sub-venues, a strange phenomenon formed by the chefs' dishes coming together. The audience in the stands looked incredibly engrossed and blissful, as if they were in a different world they had never experienced before.

Now, Chef Xiangling and Chef Aikefei will temporarily grant all viewers the 'divine sense of taste,' allowing them to rate randomly selected dishes.

Each audience member can randomly select twelve dishes, and then give their ratings based on their own taste.

The top 10% of chefs by score will advance to the first round of the official competition!

Although each chef only prepares one dish, the dish will be divided into twelve equal portions, and each portion will be served to a different audience member.

The audience's true feelings and opinions will be reflected on the big screen.

It's completely impossible for Xiangling and Aikofi to grant the audience over 10 billion 'divine taste buds' when they are only at the eighth level. However, Xiangling and Aikofi used the divine power of the peak god Maxius, so it became very simple.

Although Maxius is still a top-tier god, on special occasions like the "Godly Chef Competition," the focus of all humanity is on this day. The faith generated far exceeds that of a top god, even surpassing that of a "Primary Great God-King," and vaguely reaches the level of a "Middle Great God-King."

Therefore, during the 'Master Chef Competition', Maxius was able to obtain the 'Great Power God King Experience Card'.

The collective human will generated by the entire pan-human civilization is extremely vast.

If all of humanity harbors hatred and loathing for a powerful god-king, their collective will can severely damage that god-king.

The Great Power God-King is already the embodiment of rules; he will certainly not die, but he will make people wish they were dead.

At this moment, the audience collectively became excited.

"They're here! This is the moment we've been waiting for!"

"I failed to get a ticket for the previous six competitions, but I can finally participate this time! It wasn't easy!"

"You can taste the culinary skills and delicacies of different top chefs all at once! This is an incredible deal!!"

"If I could randomly draw a Tier 5 delicacy, this life would have been worthwhile!"

Apart from the invitations issued by the Chefs Association to those at or above the fifth level of superhuman ability, all other seats in the audience were sold out through a lottery system. Each person could only get one ticket, and each ticket cost only a symbolic one Earth coin.

For just one Earth Coin, you can randomly sample dishes prepared by chefs from the preliminary rounds to the top 10,000. In total, one Earth Coin can be used to sample over 300 dishes, and with a bit of luck, you might even get to taste dishes of level six or higher.

For any delicacy of the fifth rank or higher, an ordinary superhuman might not be able to accumulate enough savings in their entire life to cover the cost of the ingredients themselves. Even for a fourth-rank delicacy, an ordinary person of the second or third rank might not be able to eat it more than ten times in their lifetime.

This is also the appeal of the 'Chef God Competition' to ordinary extraordinary individuals.

Audience tickets are open to all superhumans of level two and above. With a bit of luck, you can get one and taste delicacies that you would never dare to dream of in your daily life. This may be the greatest opportunity in the life of an ordinary superhuman.

Of course, admission tickets can also be traded, but only under the supervision of the Chefs Association. At its peak, a single admission ticket was traded for ten million Earth Dollars.

Under the eager gaze of the audience, Xiangling and Aikefei raised their hands high, and the divine cores in their bodies radiated the light of rules.

Xiangling has gathered 'Fragments of Gourmet Power', and Ai Kefei has gathered 'Fragments of Cooking Power'.

Once Xiangling and Aikefei reach the ninth level of their powers, they can call themselves the 'God of Gourmet Food' or the 'God of Cooking'.

Pale golden culinary light emanated from Xiangling and Aikefei, transforming into countless pale golden specks that fell towards all the sub-areas.

The divine power of Maxiius burned continuously within them, allowing them to experience the true power of a god for the seventh time.

Golden specks of light fell from the sky like a rain of fireflies, each speck landing on the mouths of the audience, giving them temporary 'gourmet' taste buds.

Then, the dishes that the chefs had already prepared on the stove were wrapped in colorful bubbles. The next moment, the colorful bubbles split into twelve smaller bubbles, and the plates and dishes inside were evenly divided into smaller sizes.

Countless colorful bubbles carried the chefs' dishes into the audience.

【Dear lucky audience members, please savor the dishes prepared by the chefs present!】Coral Palace Heart Sea said passionately, her cheeks slightly flushed. This feeling of pointing out the world to all mankind was wonderful, just like a strategist making plans.

"It smells so good! It smells amazing!"

"Delicious, so good! Wait! What's this? It's like seeing someone else's life."

"I cried! I actually cried because it was so delicious."

"It is said that food with a story can make people cry uncontrollably. I used to think it was outrageous when I watched videos on 'StarNet', but now I understand."

"I actually felt my mother's love, waaaaah, this is too unfair! Is fifth-tier gourmet food really this unfair...?"

The audience members savored the food with a variety of expressions, sometimes overjoyed, sometimes filled with guilt, sometimes sobbing, and sometimes laughing through their tears. A myriad of human emotions unfolded in the audience.

It was as if they were not eating gourmet food, but a life experience. These flavors that they were indulging in touched the softest part of their hearts that they had not even realized they were eating.

The scores generated by the audience's genuine feedback are being displayed on the holographic screen above the stadium.

The chefs also had a small projection screen in front of them, and they were watching the scores rise nervously, cold sweat dripping down their temples.

Each round of advancement has a 90% elimination rate; only one out of ten people can advance to the next round.

The audience's revelry and the chefs' tension created a world with completely different atmospheres.

"I will definitely advance!" Erina Nakiri clenched her hands involuntarily, her palms constantly damp with cold sweat, staring intently at the ever-rising numbers and rankings in front of her.

[7...6 people]

[7...9 people]

[4...3 people]

[1...8 people]

[9655858 people]

"We made it!" Erina Nakiri jumped up with joy. Although she knew that her fifth-tier dish would definitely make it, she couldn't hide her excitement when it actually did.

Erina Nakiri watched her ranking continue to rise, her eyes filled with anticipation. She wanted to see where she would ultimately be ranked and hoped to break into the top 300.

There are only a little over 300 chefs at level 5 and above. Being in the top 300 means you're not at the bottom of the level 5 chef rankings.

This is among the top 300 civilizations in the broader human civilization landscape. There are countless civilizations, nations, parallel worlds, and even extraterrestrial planets and galaxies beyond our solar system.

Rounding up, she ranks among the top 300 in the entire universe.

[236 people]