[Parallel Space-Time]

The oven had a cute mushroom icon engraved on it.

Introduction:

I am a baker, running a bakery.

I love my ordinary life, love my wife, love my children.

"Good morning! What kind of bread would you like?"

"A strawberry delight, please!"

"Sure thing!"

"Good morning, what kind of bread would you like?"

"A chocolate cream, please!"

My fancy breads are extremely popular, and I'm very passionate about developing new types of bread.

Until that day, when I was out shopping and stumbled upon a square oven that made my heart skip a beat.

This feeling was inexplicable.

"Ah, this is an old oven I picked up from a scrapyard. I don't know if it still works, but if you want it, I'll sell it to you!"

I bought the oven and took it home.

This oven didn't require electricity or any power source, defying physical laws. I tried to take it apart, but I couldn't.

I attempted to bake bread with it.

The resulting bread was incredibly delicious.

But gradually, I discovered a brand new use for this bread oven.

Over time, the bread baked within it began to develop a multitude of microorganisms...

These microorganisms would reproduce and grow inside the bread during the baking process.

Baking and fermenting at the same time.

With this yeast, my bread would become remarkably fluffy and extraordinarily delicious!

The shop's entrance was always bustling with customers.

"Boss, your bread is simply too good!"

"Yes, have you discovered a new mutant yeast? Or perhaps a new fermentation method? A new recipe? This texture is certainly not found in regular bread!"

I only answered with, a secret recipe.

Only I knew it was the new yeast.

The deliciousness of a piece of bread lies in its fluffy texture, which comes from microbial fermentation.

How wonderful!

With this oven, with the special yeast it provided, it's truly wonderful!

I began obsessively studying the bread-making technique of the oven.

Better yeast, better bread baking methods.

A month, two months, three months... Until that day, I discovered that the yeast in the oven had finally changed.

The yeast community had developed a civilization.

They lived within this gigantic elliptical bread, developing civilization, advancing technology... The pace of their development within the bread was incredibly fast.

"What is this, am I dreaming? The creatures inside the bread came to life? They even formed tribes?"

I was terrified and horrified, wanting to burn this dreadful bread.

But as a baker, my love for bread mysteriously compelled me to eat the entire bread in one gulp.

Sweet, fragrant, delicious...

Indescribable flavors danced on my taste buds.

"Ahhh!" "No!" "Help!" "What are those creatures!?" Various screams emanated from my mouth, yet I was already intoxicated by the delicious taste.

When I came to my senses, I realized the grievous and cruel act I had committed.

I had eaten a community of intelligent life within the bread!

I was a terrible demon!

I decided to seal this demonic oven and return to a normal life.

A month, two months, three months...

My bread business began to decline.

"Boss, where's that bread of yours?"

"Boss, why have you stopped selling your delicious bread?"

I simply smiled and replied that my supplier no longer provided the ingredients.

Five months, six months, every night I reminisced about the deliciousness of that bread, with countless saliva forming in my throat.

Delicious...

I want to eat it again!

The greedy desire seemed to break through my tranquil life, growing into a towering tree.

Eventually, I couldn't resist.

"Just like how people eat pork, dogs, cows, and sheep, eating them is merely part of the food chain."

I dashed into the storage room, opened the dusty oven, and started baking bread again.

"Ahhh, save us!"

"Don't eat me!"

"Damn it, I'll kill you!"

In the midst of countless fears, I consumed the bread.

And I began studying the bread that birthed Wise life.

I discovered three characteristics:

1. Eating this type of bread can enhance physical strength.

2. Do not make bread beyond your tolerable limit because the yeast inside will attack your throat and stomach during consumption.

If the yeast civilization within the bread is too powerful, it will tear your throat apart and kill you.

3. The fermentation time of the bread should not be too long. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The effect of the yeast on the bread is fermenting it.

If the yeast overbreeds within the bread, it will become harmful bacteria, causing the bread to spoil and turn rancid.

Consuming such expired bread will cause stomach pain.

Moreover, the harmful bacteria within expired bread will try to kill you.

You must consume the bread within its prime before it spoils.

Having understood these three principles, I began creating brand new bread.

"The bread should not be too strong, it should just fit my physique!"

So I consumed the bread repeatedly.

Although there were quite a few mishaps along the way.

For instance, sometimes, the bread in the oven fermented too powerfully, and the yeast civilization within attacked my throat, making me very uncomfortable.

But through the ups and downs of cooking, my physique gradually strengthened.

My strength could tear through steel, my breath could blow away the atmosphere, my telekinesis could strangle the life of an entire planet.

My wife and children, therefore, became frail like paper.

I could only feed them bread, so they could grow stronger with me.

Thus, our family became the gods people spoke of!

"Gods, the family of three who once hid in our city making bread!"

"Oh God, you are so great."

I ruled the civilization of the entire planet, defeated over a hundred countries on this land, and ended the wars.

From a baker, I became the king of this planet.

I did not know how to govern civilization, but I knew how to bake bread.

I began to organize a planetary research movement on bread, turning scholars all around the world into bakers to study bread-making for me.

As a result, bread technology surged forward.

I would regularly reward those who achieved great merits with delicious bread, transforming them into the strong ones.

Soon, we left the planet.

The miracle oven also became the supreme treasure of our civilization.

We started to enlarge the baking volume, shoving large quantities of material into the oven to create gigantic bread.

I began to conquer star systems, turning one planet after another into bread.

Every time we devoured these super-sized loaves, as large as planets, the yeast life within still screamed.

"No!"

"Not like this."

But these sacrifices were necessary!

Only with these yeasts could the bread become fluffy.

We traversed the stars, and countless civilizations called us: Bakers, Devourers of Stars.

We continued to develop, stuffing more matter and energy into the bread-making process.

Additionally, we researched the bread multi-fermentation method.

Multiple times of fermentation, with flavors more exquisite, made the bread taste even better, strengthening anyone who ate it.

Ten thousand years later.

Our super bread possessed the ability to enable dimensional ascension, and anyone who consumed it could transform into a higher-dimensional being, and we all ascended...

On this day.

We stepped into the Genesis Civilization.

One hundred thousand years later.

We invented the six-phase fermentation method.

The bread inside the oven would undergo six phases of fermentation by the yeast, with every fermentation bringing a new transformation.

The bread's color, energy, and charm all reached a whole new level.

One million years later.

Our bread technology finally peaked.

We developed the ultimate twelve-phase bread fermentation method.

The bread, through its yeast, fermented twelve times, reaching perfection.

One hundred million years later.

We finally stuffed the entire cosmos alive into an oven.

We were about to forge the world's one and only supreme cosmic bread.

This was my ultimate pursuit as a baker.

Before the oven.

I watched the bread with excitement on my face, while the scholars beside me narrated data.

"The bread has started baking."

"The yeast inside the bread is fermenting."

"Ah, the yeast inside the bread has started the first fermentation."

"The second time now."

"Hahaha, the third time now, the bread is becoming more perfect, its internal structure more fluffy."

"The seventh time now."

"Be careful not to let the yeast over-ferment, lest they transform from beneficial bread yeast into bacteria that spoil the bread!"

"Don't worry, we'll consume the bread in the perfect moment it finishes baking... Absolutely won't let the yeast do any unnecessary things!"

"That's good then."

"Yes, if these yeasts overdevelop, they will become harmful bacteria that destroy the bread's ecological environment, making the bread terribly awful!"

"We have already instilled in these yeasts a mental imprint for protecting the environment!"

"To make them continue fermenting the bread, making it more complete and delicious... rather than destroying its internal structure!"

"Wait, it's the twelfth fermentation, the bread is finally perfect!"

"That's great, fantastic!"

A tremorous voice sounded.

The exciting moment arrived, everyone looked at the gigantic bread inside the oven.

The oval cosmic bread was fluffy and soft.

It seemed to contain endless yeast, working hard at fermenting the bread, like construction workers perfecting various facilities, making the bread sweeter and more mature.

"Success!"

Exclamations rang out, and I couldn't help but take out the bread and take a bite.

And within the bread, came an angry voice:

"Our mother civilization experienced twelve trials and perfected the cosmos, how could it face this big mouth?"

"Is it going to eat us?"

"Kill him!"

Countless angry roars came, and the introduction ended.

"Mother civilization, yeast civilization? Hehe, your existence is merely as the fermenting bacteria of bread."

"It seems you have already turned from probiotics into harmful bacteria, trying to pollute and spoil our fresh bread, making it deteriorate."

"You, too, deserve to die."

...

Liu Jun read this, and the mushroom introduction of this parallel space-time came to an end.