Chapter 247: Gourmet Power

In the mist-filled forest, a massive wild boar was charging, but a golden streak of Qi shot straight out from the fog, instantly piercing the skull of this giant boar, which was nearly three meters in size.

The boar grunted twice before collapsing to the ground and twitching, its foul-smelling blood flowing all over the ground.

Bai Cangshu approached with a frown; a flash of light appeared in his hand, and a bright, clear kitchen knife appeared in his grasp. Looking at the blade's pattern alone, this knife was more beautiful than the famous blades of many swordsmen.

However, Bai Cangshu did not see the 【Rui Feng Pattern】 appear on the blade. In the setting of *Chuugoku Ichiban! *, these legendary kitchen utensils actually had a mechanic similar to famous swords choosing their masters; in the hands of a chosen successor, a special Rui Feng pattern would appear on the blade.

Tsk, in a space that completely worships power, they actually still kept this kind of thing.

Puchi~

Bai Cangshu possessed neither culinary skills nor any particularly brilliant blade techniques.

But his strikes were equally fast and precise; after a flash of bright white blade light, one of the giant boar's hind legs was sliced off.

He did not perform any processing, simply using this special kitchen utensil to cut a thin slice from the hind leg. In an instant, even without the Rui Feng pattern appearing, the knife's ability still took effect.

The meat was instantly purified, as if it had been cleaned repeatedly many times, and it was impossible for any germs to exist within the meat quality.

Bai Cangshu placed the slice of meat into his mouth; the raw smell was not strong, and it seemed the bloodiness had also faded significantly.

【You have consumed unprocessed beast meat. Ingredient Grade: Low, Deliciousness Grade: Extremely Low】

【Body Strengthening: Gourmet Cell has not gained any improvement】

【Milestone: Gourmet has not gained any bonus】

Bai Cangshu spat out the boar meat in his mouth in a very unrefined manner, looking at the clear kitchen utensil in his hand with an expressionless face.

This "Gourmet Power" thing seems not as simple as I thought; it is not the type where you gain bonuses from eating anything.

Moreover, with my near-zero culinary skills, even with this "legendary kitchen utensil," the "boar sashimi" I produced didn't even meet the requirements for "gourmet food" in the 【Gourmet】 milestone.

The milestone he had specifically switched to also did not gain any bonus status.

Yes, Bai Cangshu believed that in a distorted environment like the space, which craved power to the extreme, the requirement for ingredient grade must be higher than that for so-called culinary skill.

After all, the act of hunting powerful creatures better fits the space's requirements for Reincarnators.

Therefore, in his vision, he could rely on a Garuda Blade and, based on the theory that everything can be sashimi, eat his way through the world.

He hadn't expected the first attempt at cooking to fail.

This caused Bai Cangshu to rarely show a gloomy expression; he effortlessly carried the massive wild boar back to the campfire.

Catherine saw Tao Baibai's expression and thought the other party knew she had been hypnotized by Shisui to reveal intelligence, so her face instantly turned pale. Her heart rate accelerated, and she didn't know whether she should run away.

Instead, Ping Zhonghua, who understood nothing, looked at the kitchen knife in Bai Cangshu's hand and the giant boar, pondered for a moment, and took the initiative to speak.

"Are you... planning to cook this prey?"

Bai Cangshu was in a bad mood and couldn't be bothered to pay attention to her; he was thinking about whether he should eat or not if Shisui brought back a Tailed Beast at this moment.

If he couldn't improve his Gourmet Cells, then eating some Tailed Beast meat would yield him no benefits at all; he did not count on gaining Nine-Tails Chakra by eating the meat of the Nine-Tails like the Gold and Silver Brothers.

Ping Zhonghua and the others hadn't really eaten properly anyway; the harsh environment of the Land of Rain and the towns almost completely destroyed by war meant there were few people gathered, and food was even more scarce.

She hesitated for a moment before stepping forward and grasping the knife in Bai Cangshu's hand.

"Let me do it, I know how to cook..."

Itachi, whose bones were still shattered throughout his body, lay on a rock at this time. His meridians had also suffered extensive damage, so he couldn't even refine Chakra, and his Sharingan couldn't be activated, but he still remained calm, constantly thinking.

He could also hear the conversation of the few people below; he was collecting as much information about Tao Baibai as possible. He wanted to judge how much of what this person had said to him earlier was true and how much was false.

People of the Uchiha Clan often become extreme and irritable due to overly intense emotions; that is both the source of their power and the root of the disasters they invite.

The reason Itachi was completely different from other clansmen in Shisui's eyes was that he was always thinking, hiding most of his emotions in his heart.

But Itachi himself did not realize that the reason he kept thinking about Tao Baibai's words was because he had already been attracted by the content of Tao Baibai's words.

In this world, if one thinks solely from the perspective of ninjas, the so-called 【Peace】 and 【Hatred】 are actually unsolvable issues; wars will always break out, hatred will accumulate for generations, and it will never end.

Like ninjas such as Shisui and Itachi, their thinking always stopped at idealistic expectations. Shisui looked forward to Itachi changing everything and entrusted his eyes to Itachi, but Itachi ultimately couldn't solve anything, choosing to stand completely on the side of the village, slaughtering his kin to save his younger brother's life.

However, Tao Baibai's words gave Itachi another line of thought: to jump out of Konoha Village, out of the Land of Fire, and even out of the Renweishijie to think.

If the wars in this world are all caused by interests, then whose interests are these interests...

Itachi seemed to have found a breakthrough, a point where all hatred could once never be blamed; now, it seemed it could all be blamed on the word 【Interest】. More intuitively, it could be blamed on the owners of those interests.

The Daimyo and Nobles that the ninja era obeys, those rulers of the countries...

This was a terrifying thought, but it allowed Itachi to see an unprecedented 【Capacity】.

Pupa~

Grease dripped into the flames, crackling, and a meaty aroma instantly assailed his nostrils. Despite the lack of seasonings, the boar meat processed by the Garuda Blade still exuded a succulent scent over the flames.

This caused Itachi to break free from his thoughts, and his stomach began to growl.

【You have consumed a piece of carefully processed roasted meat. Ingredient Grade: Low, Deliciousness Grade: Average】

【Gourmet Cell has gained slight growth, Current: lv0 (5/100)】

【Milestone: Gourmet triggered, you have gained a temporary bonus: Enhanced Hearing】

Bai Cangshu raised an eyebrow, his cold and gloomy expression dissipating. He sized up Ping Zhonghua.

"Sure enough, no matter how weak a guy is, they have their own talents."

Catherine also noticed that this Plot Character had decent culinary skills, but she didn't speak up, only feeling that Tao Baibai was truly terrifying; just a little bit of emotion would make her feel fear.

Staying by the side of such a person was like being beside a wild beast, with no sense of security at all; she also completely extinguished any thoughts she had of wanting to defect to the other party.

As one of the currently quite famous low-level Reincarnators in the space, many Reincarnators wanted to defect to or team up with Tao Baibai.

But Catherine understood by now that this kind of guy probably wouldn't have anything like a team. If he did, it would definitely be a very distorted team completely dominated by him; except for himself, everyone else would be similar to a tool person.

Bai Cangshu first asked Ping Zhonghua in great detail about the points of roasting meat, and only then did he let Catherine help Itachi up and heal him.

Aside from not being good at cooking, he was actually very adept at grasping the human heart.

By deliberately leaving Itachi aside and letting him think, when the body cannot move and only the brain can think, a person will immerse themselves in that mode of thinking—what others call "getting stuck in a rut."

His theory was not sound, but Bai Cangshu himself did not intend to change this world; he was not a true Savior, he was just exerting more intense emotions.

And then let those who were already tortured by this world to the point of being unable to bear it follow him, and let this world... feel pain.

【Special Trial: Ultimate Benevolence, progress updated, current: 4/7】

He saw the notification refresh and knew he would soon be able to shake off this dead weight and go stir up trouble on a grand scale; oh, now they were not entirely a dead weight anymore, as the other party had at least mastered some culinary skills.

Bai Cangshu knew that the Plot Characters he was about to encounter were not as kind and benevolent as Shisui, so he had to wait until this mission was completed before he could steadily advance.

Suddenly, Bai Cangshu's ears twitched, and he looked into the extreme distance, where several figures draped in black robes appeared without a sound.

(End of this chapter)