Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 335 - 259: Evolution God of Gluttony

Destiny artifacts seem to have significant side effects.

Fortuna became scatterbrained, amnesia.

And this destiny is even more absurd; only the dead can control this artifact?

"If I take it, will I die?"

"Or perhaps locking oneself can resist the side effects of death? But surely one cannot remain locked forever?"

Liu Jun slightly raised a brow, his gaze falling on the next artifact.

If you don’t act foolishly, you won’t die.

He wanted to avoid these death-related things.

Besides, my mysteriousness has a miraculous effect on dead objects.

Even if I don’t take it, the Goddess of Destiny would still serve me.

"Looks like maybe I can support this fellow to rise."

Liu Jun pondered, "Should I eliminate Fortuna?"

Destiny is too powerful; controlling it would be ideal.

He looked at the next mushroom.

Mushroom No. 2 is a human without a face, only a pair of seductive crimson lips, sitting at the dining table.

[Heaven’s Lips]: When you consume your favorite food, you will grant it the power to break evolutionary locks.

"Great, after the musician, now there’s a gourmet."

"A destiny symphony, a culinary connoisseur of all beings?"

Liu Jun mocked slightly, but this was actually what he had anticipated long ago.

This evolution series is obviously the chef series.

Introduction:

I am a gourmet.

Exploring restaurants, making videos, taking ads, that’s my whole life.

"Meat is too tough, overcooked!"

"This restaurant charges so much, it’s just an IQ tax, dishes below a hundred yuan are acceptable, but it’s five to six times market price."

"This shop is even worse, using prepared meals."

I traveled by plane, visiting every shop, walking across the country, tasting various cuisines around the world.

My appetite grew larger, and the flavors I sought increased.

"Terrible taste, terrible taste, absolutely awful."

My face twisted, taste buds protesting, bloodshot eyes protruding, teeth crooked, lips expanding like a beast, splitting to the chin.

"You, you!?" Various servers watched me, showing horrified expressions.

At the doctor’s, I learned: I was ill.

A new disease called gluttony, a strong craving to eat tormented me.

A year later, having donned a mask, I became a world-class gourmet, perfectly cooking dishes with incredible taste.

All the rich take pride in tasting the food I cook.

But my hunger grew even stronger.

I need to eat.

I need to eat, eat eat eat eat.

Until one day, I followed a client to a pig farm and saw a piglet that was extremely distinctive.

Just smelling it, I knew it had to have a delightful taste, promising an unbelievable experience for my taste buds.

My drool soaked through the mask covering my odd mouth.

I saw an invisible lock on this pig.

I opened my mouth and bit through the lock.

This pig underwent inconceivable evolution, becoming a new primordial pig beyond this planet.

From that moment I understood.

"My lips can savor everything!"

"My lips can bite through the evolutionary locks of creatures!"

"The shattered locks can make them become even better food to satisfy my appetite!"

I began searching every corner of the world for life with locks.

Unfortunately, only life reaching its limit would show evolution locks.

"How can it be, of the planet’s creatures, only a few happen to have locks?"

"Trash, even if they evolve, they are merely low-level first-tier locks, possessing strange power known as Telekinesis!"

"These first-tier animals are far from enough for me to eat!"

"Hungry, hungry, I’m so hungry!"

I started research on evolution locks, aiming to produce better and more ingredients to fill my bottomless appetite. I birthed an ambition:

Turn the entire planet into my farm!

I began researching gourmet evolution and finally discovered a method for manually evolving life levels, which I named: cultivation.

A telekinesis age of cultivators began.

Whenever someone reached the limit of their current realm, I bestowed blessings under the name of a Divine Spirit, hypnotized them, and brought them to my Divine Hall.

One by one, I placed these devotees in my enormous mouth.

Crunch!

Biting through their life evolution locks, letting them break through to the next realm.

Slurp slurp slurp~~

His tongue circled inside my mouth around a person.

Once covered in my saliva, I spat them out, "Such a shame, first I’ll savor them and then raise them."

First-tier locks, second-tier locks, third-tier locks, fourth-tier locks...

With no hindrance, no resistance, no bottlenecks.

I effortlessly led civilization to enter the fourth cultivation realm.

"Even a pig, without bottlenecks, can grow ever stronger."

"Haha, but they were always merely a herd of pigs I raised, hungry, hungry, I’m too hungry, let me eat some first."

I began savoring the flavors I raised, elegantly using knife and fork to cook, playing the piano, appreciating food with the grace of a noble.

But soon the realm stopped progressing, reaching Fourth Tier Peak.

How is it the Fourth Tier Peak has no lock?

As hunger increased daily, I realized only Fifth Tier creatures could satisfy my appetite.

Fifth Tier, I don’t need food of the Fifth Tier!

"Could it be, they haven’t reached their current limits yet?"

I spent most of my life just to find a way to break through the Fifth Tier.

The Fourth Tier involves solely cultivating the soul, the Fifth Tier requires simultaneous cultivation of the body and soul.

Furthermore, one needs to condense the Sacred Body to reach the Fourth Tier’s limit and encounter the Fifth Tier evolution lock.

But a terrifying problem emerged.

The Fifth Tier requires the Saint Body...

"I can’t do it, I can’t do it! It’s absolutely impossible to forge so many organs in a short time."

My ability only bites through their evolutionary bottleneck but cannot help them swiftly complete the evolutionary process.

I’m so hungry.

Ten years later, my hunger turned into gluttony, devouring the people of an entire nation.

The whole world was denouncing me, questioning me.

"You’re truly a disgusting monster!"

"Every time we devoutly receive baptism, it’s just to be thrown into your mouth to be licked uncontrollably?"

"You damned monster! Every time we receive baptism, our bodies are covered in Holy Water, turns out it’s just your saliva?" Some beautiful powerful warriors vomited directly upon learning the truth.

Disgusting, utterly disgusting.

Numerous powerhouses waged war against me.

"Do you remember how many grains of rice you’ve eaten?" I replied thus.

After a great battle, I devoured everyone.

But there were no longer any excellent materials to help me break through the Fifth Tier, I starved to death in the past.

Amidst the ruins of the battlefield, the next successor picked up my lips.

"You’re mine now!"

The next cycle of hunger began anew.

The second-generation host also began a new plan of cultivating the common people, but couldn’t manage to assemble so many Saint’s Organs to condense the Sacred Body, ultimately dying of hunger as the hunger gradually increased.

The third generation, the fourth generation.

One God of Evolution after another emerged, biting through boundaries, aiding human civilization’s progress, in the end perishing in the destruction of civilization due to hunger.

Cycle after cycle, life and death repeated.

Humanity finally collected all the organs, broke through the Fifth Tier.

But the next host too grew weary, sealing themselves.

Humanity discovered an ultra-ancient statue with bright red lips.

On it was inscribed mysterious words, the Gate of Truth, the Gate of Mysteries... in each cycle era they had different names.

The inscriptions recorded the words of past Gods of Gluttony.

"I have a premonition, we’re treating the entire planet as a ranch, but we lack the other three Divine Objects for cooking."

"One is the light that bakes the entire world into an oven."

"One is the vessel that brews the entire world into fine wine."

"One is the anvil that turns the entire world into a chopping board."

"Without the three cooking utensils for preparing delicacies, we are like primitive people, unable to savor true gourmet meals, starving on these meager offerings."

"Food, food."

"I so want to eat real delicious food made with utensils!"

...

Liu Jun raised an eyebrow.

Previously guessed, the Evolution series is a set of kitchen utensils.

Now it turns out to be true.

Three utensils, one mouth...

Cooking using the three utensils, evolving to create tastier life.

Then using the lips to bite through the shackles of life’s realm, crafting more perfect food.

This four-piece set is indispensable.

Even though it’s an ultimate Divine Object, Liu Jun wasn’t very interested.

This damn thing...

A Gods of Gluttony? Really?

Stuff it into the mouth "ora ora ora" with a frenzy of tongue and lips.

"This thing’s direct combat power isn’t strong, yet it’s purely functional."

Honestly, it’s similar to his Newborn Divine Power.

His Newborn Divine Power is actually purely functional, allowing self-restoration of Divine Power within the body.

Its assistance to the era holds historical significance.

But speaking of practical use, it’s not as good as his low-rank Divine Object, Immortal and Unchanging, locking the state, that’s the true Divine.

Since long ago Liu Jun realized.

The series of Divine Objects, low, middle, high, ultimate, are not absolute.

Sometimes what you use most frequently is the high-level Divine Object, not the ultimate one.

Take his Vanish series for example, what he used most frequently was the medium-level Divine Object Vanish, the advanced was just a shadow, and the more advanced caused complete disappearance.

"This thing, God of Gluttony, is obviously a laborious fate."

Liu Jun pondered.

Although undeniably strong, its role for the era is irreplaceable.

Biting through the shackles of a boundary means the Sixth Tier can breakthrough to the Seventh Tier, even if there’s a future possibility of Seventh, Eighth Tier realms, it probably won’t have any bottleneck obstacle!

It can be said.

Perverse to the extreme!

But personally transforming into the gluttonous lips and evolution gate of this world...

Better not.

And if you want this Divine Object to be perfect, it’s not enough to just have a mouth to eat, you also need cooking utensils for preparing food.

Otherwise, with only a mouth, wouldn’t one be at the mercy of the chef wielding those three utensils?

Thus, one must also acquire the other three evolutionary Divine utensils.

And to collect this series completely requires occupying three more Divine positions.

However.

Currently, every Divine position is very precious, where can I spare any?