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The situation on Yuuki's body was the effect of the Bubble Fruit. But under his control, he soon returned to his original state. Only now, his strength had taken another step forward.
"Chef Yuuki, have you already been able to precisely control the cells in your body?"
Seeing this, Chin Chinchin was also stunned. Though he knew Yuuki was very impressive, he never thought he had already reached this level.
To be able to precisely control the cells in one's body... this meant that his Enbu had already reached the master level. This level of Enbu was only one step away from the Monkey King. But once Enbu reached this level, it had already reached its end.
After that, you had to walk your own path—or you were destined to never be able to surpass the Monkey King.
For him to find a new path now was not something that could be done overnight. He still needed to continuously get stronger to be able to touch a higher level.
The stronger you were, the easier it was to touch a higher level. Take Enbu, for example. If your strength was insufficient, forget Enbu—even Food Honor would be difficult to master. Strong people had a certain innate advantage.
This was why the Four Heavenly Kings only learned Food Honor in the later stages of the story. Logically, since Food Honor was so useful, it should be learned as early as possible. But Ichiryu hadn't done that.
Instead, he waited until Toriko and the others' strength had risen to a certain level before letting them learn it.
And the facts proved that his idea was correct. Toriko and the others hadn't spent too much time before their Food Honor had reached the master level.
....
"That's right. I've learned Enbu, and I've already reached the master level!"
Yuuki nodded.
His words made Chin Chinchin suck in a cold breath. At this moment, he was also filled with emotion. As expected, Yuuki was a monster. How old was he?
To have mastered Food Honor was one thing—but to have even brought Enbu to the master level...
Look at the Seventh Continent. In the entire continent, there were only a few monkeys whose Enbu had reached the master level.
"Truly amazing. To train that technique to a high level, and at such a young age."
Chin Chinchin remarked. After chatting with everyone for a while, the two of them rested for a night and then left.
Later, Nono planned to return to Gourmet Town. After all, she couldn't just ignore everything at the Setsuno Group. As for Yuuki, he went to the IGO.
Because at this moment, he planned to do one thing: research Gourmet Cells—Or rather, research how to make people fuse with them.
The method of making people fuse with Gourmet Cells was something even the Blue Nitro had been researching, but so far, there had been no results. Because the result of a forced fusion was already known.
Forcibly fusing with Gourmet Cells, the vast majority of people would die directly. The small portion that succeeded, their bodies would also show the characteristics of an Appetite Demon, and it would be permanent and hereditary.
As long as they had offspring, these characteristics would be passed down continuously. Yuuki naturally wasn't arrogant enough to think he was better than the Blue Nitro's billions of years of research.
He just planned to take a different direction.
The technology of the Blue Nitro was very impressive—they could even travel between universes. The Gourmet Satellite in the later stages had even captured an image of the massive Gourmet God.
Logically, since the Blue Nitro had researched for so long without any results, it would be impossible for him to succeed on his own.
But he didn't think so. The reason was simple: the Blue Nitro had taken the path of technology. This was something he couldn't compare to. But some of his special abilities were not something the Blue Nitro could match.
Why could he fuse Food Immersion and Damage Knocking?
Because he was strong?
Because he had high-end technology?
No, it was because he had abilities that others didn't.
Secondly, he also had an idea. The reason why fusing Gourmet Cells was so dangerous was mainly because after the fusion, it would connect to the Appetite Demons. The Appetite Demon would become a person's appetite, but not everyone could resist it.
What if he took the Gourmet Cells away?
These Appetite Demons were actually already dead. Strictly speaking, they existed in a special space in the World of Souls.
Though they still had souls, they were also related to the World of Souls. If he took the Gourmet Cells out of this world, then these Appetite Demons wouldn't be able to connect to others through them.
The reason he wanted to research these things was for Megumi Tadokoro and the others. They didn't have Gourmet Cells. He had thought before that he might be able to fish out some for them to use.
But to this day, he had only gotten them once—which was his own portion. So he planned to try to artificially fuse them.
Of course, before that, he needed to find the correct method and do a lot of experiments. He didn't want anything to happen to Megumi and the others.
He had come to the IGO because he was sure that they were definitely doing such experiments. Those with money and power would not give up on this method of getting stronger and even extending their lives.
....
"You want the data on Gourmet Cell fusion? Though you do have the authority to view these materials, can I be so bold as to ask why? You shouldn't need this method, and your partner Nono also has Gourmet Cells."
Mansam was stunned after learning the purpose of his visit. Yuuki's authority in the IGO was very high—Ichiryu had been constantly raising it.
After all, the strength and potential he had shown were too great. So he could naturally view this part of the data.
But Mansam really couldn't understand his purpose. He was a person with Gourmet Cells, and he had already developed them to such a degree.
The people around him also had Gourmet Cells, including his current partner Nono. In that case, he really couldn't understand what he was trying to do.
"I'm just very interested in Gourmet Cells. I also want to understand them better through this method and develop them better."
Yuuki naturally wouldn't tell him the real reason. His reason also wasn't a complete fabrication.
He did indeed want to use this method to further improve his own strength. After all, Gourmet Cells were truly magical. If he could understand them more fully, it would be beneficial for him.
"I understand!"
Mansam didn't say any more. The reason he had asked was not to judge whether he was qualified to view these materials. He had asked purely out of curiosity. Anyway, he didn't think he could research anything. The IGO had been researching Gourmet Cells since its establishment, but the research had always been stuck after the extraction stage.
They could now extract them, but they didn't dare to fuse them into humans.
Fusing them into animals had no effect. After all, the creatures of the outside world more or less had Gourmet Cells—otherwise, they wouldn't have become so strong.
But fusing them into humans and animals were two completely different concepts.
When fused into animals, the animals weren't affected. And no Appetite Demon had ever resided in other animals, only in humans.
As long as a human fused with them, the Appetite Demons would enter the human's body through them. But many people with Gourmet Cells couldn't awaken these Appetite Demons.
If they couldn't awaken them, their strength couldn't improve. But awakening them was very risky.
Even for those born with them, awakening an Appetite Demon was very dangerous. For those who fused with them later, this danger was magnified who knows how many times.
The IGO had never found an answer to how to fuse them into the human body. After all, this was something the Blue Nitro had researched for billions of years without success. It would be a ghost story if they could succeed.
....
As for Yuuki, he soon got the IGO's research report on Gourmet Cells. The number of these reports was extremely large, but for him, reading them wasn't too difficult.
After he finished reading all the materials, he also knew the situation of the IGO's research in this area. Though the research had always been stuck at the fusion stage, the development of other aspects of Gourmet Cells was very well done.
For example, the Regal Mammoth. This beast was created using Gourmet Cells.
And they had also cloned quite a few, and Rin was responsible for taming them. It was a good thing that the Regal Mammoths created in this way were docile, and the difficulty of taming them was also much lower.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be so easy for Rin to tame a beast with a capture level of over 90. After all, in the original story, she had had a hard time taming a Devil Serpent of over level 20.
Yuuki firmly memorized these materials in his mind. He then began to extract Gourmet Cells from some beasts.
His method was different from the IGO's. Through his understanding of Gourmet Cells, he extracted them with his own special ability.
Ki was a very special existence, and it was constantly growing. So he was very curious. Since Ki could make ingredients so happy, even make them speak, and could change their very essence, could it also change Gourmet Cells?
So he began to experiment.
His initial experiment was to erase them with Ki. After all, they were also a part of the ingredient. Logically, if Ki could modify everything, then it might also be able to erase them.
And after some experimentation, he confirmed that Ki could indeed do this. But Gourmet Cells were very special—it was very difficult to erase them directly.
He could do it with his Ki, but it was very slow, so he gave up on erasing them.
He switched to another experiment: Separating them from the ingredient by changing the ingredient with Ki.
This step, he also quickly succeeded. And the separated Gourmet Cells were much better than the ones separated by the IGO.
You know, the incompleteness of Gourmet Cells could lead to some side effects.
Joie had controlled others by leaving scars on their Gourmet Cells.
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