The Festival of Light Arrives

At the House of Food, Tang Qi, having exited his Deification State at incredible speed, slowly descended with a plain earthen pot held in both hands.

Around half of the contestants and judges on the ground had survived.

Regrettably, that did not include Alfred, the host who had initially received Tang Qi and whose real profession was food critic.

Before Tang Qi arrived, Alfred, like some of the others, had already been completely contaminated. Once the black tongues left them, their bodies were pronounced dead.

Holding the earthen pot, Tang Qi met the survivors' delighted and curious gazes.

Inevitably, nearly all of them looked at the earthen pot.

It had been cooked by a Transcendental Cook possessing divine authority, using a Flame Curse imbued with the Furnace's traits. The soup's base was the milk of the evil god Mesoliya, and its sole ingredient was Mesoliya herself.

Even gods would likely find it difficult to suppress their curiosity toward such a pot of meat soup.

Some gods from the Chaos Faction would probably directly ask Tang Qi for a taste.

What would that meat soup taste like?

The contestants and judges all had the same thought at once.

Then, the next moment, they watched Tang Qi hand over the earthen pot and ask, "Want a taste?"

In an instant, everyone shook their heads wildly in perfect unison.

They were all immensely curious about the flavor of the so-called All-Flavor Mysterious Meat Soup cooked from Mesoliya, but they were not idiots. They did not need to think twice; no one would dare drink even a mouthful of that soup.

Perhaps merely approaching it, opening the lid, and taking one sniff would drive them insane on the spot.

Tang Qi showed no change in expression after the expected refusal and casually put the