Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye returned to Tatsumaki and told her he planned to take the entire universe with him. He took Tatsumaki and Fubuki on a conspicuous outing that World Modulation Mode made passersby ignore, while Boros unknowingly walked right past them searching for Bai Ye.

• Bai Ye reunited with Tatsumaki, said he intended to take the universe with him, and denied doing anything to Fubuki.
• Fubuki arrived at Tatsumaki's villa, and Bai Ye invited her to join him and Tatsumaki on an outing.
• Fubuki joined Bai Ye and Tatsumaki, then noticed that passersby ignored them because of Bai Ye's World Modulation Mode.
• Tatsumaki rode on Bai Ye's shoulders and directed him toward a shopping mall while he called for Fubuki to follow.
• Boros searched for Bai Ye after joining the Hero Association, but World Modulation Mode let the two pass each other unnoticed.

After spending months enjoying ordinary competitions with Tatsumaki in the One-Punch World, Bai Ye erased the god who had empowered Homeless Emperor and prepared to choose another universe. The Chat Group recruited Morty, Jiang Zhiwei, and Ding Yi, whose names suggested several startlingly powerful worlds, and Bai Ye paused to question them.

• Bai Ye won the International Ice Sculpture League with an intricate Miniature Gundam sculpture, then explained to Tatsumaki that he enjoyed experiencing competitions as an ordinary contestant.
• Bai Ye left the One-Punch World with all its matter stored in his Intangibility Space and erased the humanoid god who had empowered Homeless Emperor.
• The Chat Group automatically recruited Lower Body War God, Chicken Slaughtering Sword God, and Sextant, who introduced themselves as Morty, Jiang Zhiwei, and Ding Yi.
• Kimishima Kana welcomed the newcomers and shared the group's usual guides, while Bai Ye said the three recruits seemed interesting.
• Yang Kaitai recognized the newcomers' names as potentially connected to extraordinary worlds and questioned them about Rick, the Shaolin Exchange Competition, and several possible versions of Ding Yi.

Bai Ye muted Yang Kaitai to prevent him from revealing dangerous information about Jiang Zhiwei, then answered questions from the new Chat Group members. He entered the Food Wars! world through B-level Authority and made himself visible to everyone on the planet.

• Bai Ye recognized the dangerous potential of the newcomers’ worlds and muted Yang Kaitai before he could reveal information about Jiang Zhiwei.
• Bai Ye warned Jiang Zhiwei not to open files and told her that information about her was troublesome, while she suspected the messages might be a trap.
• Morty asked Bai Ye about his dimension, and Bai Ye told him to keep striving for love because he could not identify which Morty he was.
• Bai Ye searched the Main God Space’s world list, selected Gourmet Competition World, and used B-level Authority to enter without a mission.
• Bai Ye arrived at Totsuki Culinary Academy with thirteen other Reincarnators and made himself appear in everyone’s field of vision.

Bai Ye appeared before the entire world and arrived at Totsuki Culinary Academy, where he demanded that Erina cook for him. When the academy’s commander-in-chief hesitated, Bai Ye split Earth in two and demanded half the planet’s lives as the price.

• Bai Ye forced people across the world to see him while preventing accidents and deaths caused by the distraction.
• Bai Ye crossed space and time to appear at Totsuki Culinary Academy during its transfer entrance exams.
• Naqie Xianqie Zuo Weimen asked Bai Ye why he had come, and Bai Ye said he wanted to sample the academy’s food.
• Bai Ye rejected Naqie Xianqie Zuo Weimen as his chef and demanded that his granddaughter Erina cook for him.
• When Naqie Xianqie Zuo Weimen hesitated, Bai Ye split Earth in two and demanded half the planet’s lives as the price.

Bai Ye threatened to destroy half the planet unless Naqie Hui Li Nai’s cooking pleased him, then challenged her to prepare a beef dish. After Naqie Xianqie Zuo Weimen advised her to make refined home cooking, Erina served Burgundy Red Wine Stewed Beef, leaving Bai Ye poised to taste it.

• Bai Ye wagered the lives of everyone on one half of the planet on whether Naqie Hui Li Nai’s cooking would satisfy him.
• Naqie Hui Li Nai confronted Bai Ye, who set beef as the theme and promised a reward if she won.
• Naqie Xianqie Zuo Weimen urged Erina to make an unfamiliar home-cooked dish rather than an extravagant specialty.
• Erina accepted her grandfather’s advice and prepared to handle the cooking alone while people around the world feared for their lives.
• After waiting for her preparation, Bai Ye entered the academy restaurant, where Erina revealed her Burgundy Red Wine Stewed Beef.

Bai Ye tasted Nakiri Hui Li Nai’s Burgundy red wine-braised beef and praised the dish, declaring that the food of her planet had conquered him. He then named their universe his Personal Gourmet Universe, demanding that its people serve him, while Erina challenged his decree.

• Nakiri Hui Li Nai served Bai Ye Burgundy red wine-braised beef, and he admired its appearance and aroma despite never having drunk alcohol.
• Bai Ye tasted the beef, was transported by its flavor, and ate every piece on the plate.
• Bai Ye praised the dish and announced that the planet’s food had conquered him.
• Bai Ye declared that he would make their universe his Personal Gourmet Universe, with its people creating food for him for the rest of their lives.
• Erina objected that Bai Ye was making them slaves, but he caught her hand and criticized how rough her fingers were.

Bai Ye transformed the planet and its people into a world devoted to the Culinary Dao, awakening Gourmet Cells and creating a hierarchy of culinary cultivation. The people accepted his gift and chose to pursue cuisine in his Personal Gourmet Universe, where they would create dishes to satisfy him.

• Bai Ye criticized Erina's hands and culinary senses, then showed everyone a perfect dish's flaws and revealed a Nine Marvels Undying Elixir.
• Bai Ye expanded the planet into a vast Culinary Continent and implanted Gourmet Cells and new cultivation rules into its inhabitants.
• People across the world gained strength through cooking, while Totsuki graduates reached at least Culinary Spirit and Nakiri Senzaemon became a Culinary Emperor.
• Bai Ye created savage beasts and rare culinary treasures as ingredients for future masters of the Culinary Dao.
• Naqie Hui Li Nai awakened as a Culinary King, and Erina and the others regarded Bai Ye with gratitude and reverence.
• Bai Ye named the realm his Personal Gourmet Universe and offered to release anyone who gave up their power, but no one chose to leave the Culinary Dao.

Bai Ye explained that he chose chefs to serve him for the experience and to help the universe evolve, then agreed to demonstrate culinary techniques from the future. He began preparing egg fried rice with a Phoenix Egg and Dragon Tooth Rice, leaving the dish unfinished.

• Bai Ye announced that he would select a chef from the universe every ten years, while everyone else would improve their culinary skills.
• Sōma Yukihira asked why Bai Ye needed chefs when he could master every technique, and Bai Ye said he valued the process and the universe’s evolution over efficiency.
• Sōma Yukihira asked Bai Ye to demonstrate future culinary arts, and Bai Ye declared the dish would be payment for Erina’s next ten years of service.
• Bai Ye began making egg fried rice with a Phoenix Egg and Dragon Tooth Rice, using absolute zero and a dying star to trigger the egg’s nirvana.
• Bai Ye transformed the Dragon Tooth Rice into perfectly uniform pearls whose beauty approached the Dao.

Bai Ye cooked Dragon Phoenix Fried Rice by triggering a Big Bang to heat the Phoenix Egg, then let Erina taste it first. The dish’s power overwhelmed people around the world, and Erina begged Bai Ye for another bite.

• Bai Ye roasted Dragon Tooth Rice and rare ingredients inside a dying star with the Phoenix Egg, restoring the egg’s vitality.
• Bai Ye triggered an early Big Bang and used its heat to cook the Phoenix Egg, then presented the Dragon Phoenix Fried Rice to Erina as her pay.
• Erina lifted the cover and revealed the dish’s golden glow, while everyone present marveled at its appearance.
• Erina tasted the fried rice, causing people across the globe to experience its flavor as nearly ten thousand stars shattered.
• Erina devoured the rice and jade platter, then clutched Bai Ye’s clothes and begged for another bite.

Bai Ye left the transformed universe after promising to return in ten years and select a skilled, beautiful woman, then brought Erina to his home and made her his cook. He sent dishes to the Chat Group, warning its members to prepare spare clothes before eating.

• Bai Ye told the crowd he was leaving their universe and would return every ten years to take one woman with outstanding looks and cooking skills.
• Bai Ye brought Erina to his One-Punch Universe home and ordered her to prepare three meals a day; she agreed to serve him as Master for the chance to eat his cooking again.
• Tatsumaki questioned Bai Ye about Erina, and Bai Ye called her an extremely capable cook before blocking Tatsumaki's psychic attack.
• Bai Ye sent dishes to his Chat Group members and warned them not to eat in a crowd and to prepare spare clothes.
• Kimishima Kana accepted Bai Ye's red packet, saw a plate of boiled cabbage appear, and took a bite.

Bai Ye's food caused dramatic reactions across the Chat Group, while he discreetly avoided sending Jiang Zhiwei a meal because he feared drawing the attention of the Other Shores. After Yang Kaitai revealed that the Great Desolation Continent was at least as large as the observable universe, Bai Ye decided to visit it.

• Kimishima Kana's clothes were destroyed by Bai Ye's dish, but she devoured it and later hesitated before accepting more food from his red packets.
• Stark, Ghost Hunter Taoist, Master Luo, and other group members praised Bai Ye's cooking and requested more portions.
• Bai Ye sent enormous stores of food to group members but withheld a red packet from Jiang Zhiwei to avoid exposing her to the Other Shores.
• Yue Buqun ordered ten thousand sets of clothes, while Rick and Morty stripped naked and raced to eat Bai Ye's food.
• Yang Kaitai told Bai Ye that the Great Desolation Continent was at least the size of the observable universe, prompting Bai Ye to decide to visit it after dinner.

Bai Ye explained that Yang Kaitai’s universe was nested deep beneath the Great Desolation and offered to take him to the Heavenly Court. He forced Yang Kaitai’s strength up to Level 12, allowing him to ascend one layer into the Upper Realm, with countless more ascensions still ahead.

• Bai Ye visited Yang Kaitai at his Taoist temple and sensed that his world contained layers of subordinate universes.
• Bai Ye told Yang Kaitai that his universe lay around the 10^34th layer beneath the Great Desolation and that reaching it would require ascending 10^32 times.
• Bai Ye offered to take Yang Kaitai to the Heavenly Court as a Heavenly Soldier or General, and Yang Kaitai agreed after confirming he could return.
• Bai Ye found that the world’s Heavenly Dao resisted shortcuts, so he poured vast energy into Yang Kaitai until he broke through toward Level 12.
• Yang Kaitai ascended into the next subordinate universe, while another 10^32 ascensions remained before he could reach the true Great Desolation.

Bai Ye brought Yang Kaitai to the Great Desolation Continent, where Yang Kaitai learned that immortals did not need spiritual energy and that the Great Desolation suppressed powerful visitors. They discovered Sun Wukong trapped beneath Five Finger Mountain and approached him.

• Bai Ye led Yang Kaitai through countless worlds until they reached the Great Desolation Continent.
• Yang Kaitai questioned how immortals could survive without spiritual energy, and Bai Ye explained that immortals were perpetual-motion machines.
• Yang Kaitai found his spiritual sense severely suppressed and recognized that they were in the Great Desolation.
• Bai Ye confirmed they had arrived at Five Finger Mountain and warned Yang Kaitai not to reveal the plot or speak carelessly about powerful figures.
• Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai reached the mountain's base, where Sun Wukong recognized them as visitors and looked to Bai Ye for help.

Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai visited Sun Wukong beneath Five Elements Mountain, where Bai Ye explained the unimaginable mental torture of his imprisonment and said Guanyin would soon recruit him back into the system. As they left, a celestial envoy arrived to guide them to the Heavenly Court and treated Bai Ye as a powerful senior.

• Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai met Sun Wukong, who hoped they had come to release him, but Bai Ye explained that they had only stopped by after ascending from the lower realm.
• Bai Ye gave Sun Wukong several drugged peaches, and Sun Wukong eagerly ate them while recounting his past to his visitors.
• Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai left after Bai Ye promised that someone would come to enlighten Sun Wukong in a few days.
• Yang Kaitai asked why Sun Wukong had been so eager to talk, and Bai Ye explained that Tathagata’s layered suppression made each moment of imprisonment feel like an unimaginable span of time.
• Bai Ye told Yang Kaitai that Guanyin would soon recruit Sun Wukong back into the system.
• A celestial envoy descended and offered to guide Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai to the Heavenly Court, then asked whether Bai Ye was a wandering immortal who had come to take Yang Kaitai as his disciple.

Yang Kaitai and Bai Ye agreed to join the Heavenly Court, and the Guide brought them there while explaining the strange mix of mythologies and the realms of cultivation. Yang Kaitai registered as a Heavenly Soldier, received an Immortal Pill, and swallowed it in hopes of becoming an immortal.

• Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai agreed to join the Heavenly Court, and the Guide summoned the Guiding Divine Light to take them there.
• Yang Kaitai learned that the primordial world was surrounded by Asgard, Shiva's domain, God in the west, and Zeus in the south, and asked whether the Heavenly Court had a Fate Gu.
• The Guide explained the Central Continent cultivation hierarchy and said the Demon Monkey sealed at Five Elements Mountain had been a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• The Guide brought Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai to the Heavenly Court, where Yang Kaitai registered and received an Immortal Register and an Immortal Pill.
• Yang Kaitai reached the Heavenly Soldiers' hall and swallowed the pill, hoping to become an immortal.

Yang Kaitai swallowed the Immortal Pill and used its signal-like boost to comprehend the Great Dao, rapidly becoming an Earth Immortal before his progress slowed. An immortal message revealed that the pill’s acceleration effect had expired and invited him to continue comprehending the Dao with others.

• Yang Kaitai swallowed the Heavenly Court’s Immortal Pill and began using the Great Dao signals permeating the worlds within his body.
• His Great Dao comprehension raced toward 99.9%, where he realized its final progress worked like increasingly difficult blockchain mining.
• Yang Kaitai cultivated for several minutes and opened the first layer of particle worlds in his body, officially reaching the Earth Immortal realm.
• His cultivation speed suddenly slowed, and an immortal light delivered a message that the pill’s acceleration effect had expired.
• The message asked Yang Kaitai whether he wanted to join the others in comprehending the Great Dao.

Yang Kaitai learned that Heavenly Soldiers pooled their efforts to comprehend the Great Dao, and he agreed to join them after comparing the system to crypto mining. Meanwhile, the Jade Emperor examined Bai Ye’s information and saw that he had reached Quasi-Sage Peak.

• Yan Xiu invited Yang Kaitai to join the Heavenly Soldiers in jointly comprehending the Great Dao and explained how they shared rewards according to contribution.
• Yang Kaitai likened the collective cultivation system to crypto mining and learned that newcomers made comprehension easier for the group.
• Yan Xiu explained how Sun Wukong’s exceptional origins, master, cultivation method, peaches, and golden pills had helped him become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Yang Kaitai set aside his doubts, reassured himself that Bai Ye and the Chat Group gave him advantages, and agreed to join Yan Xiu’s group.
• The Jade Emperor examined Bai Ye’s information in the Demon Revealing Mirror and saw that Bai Ye was nineteen and at Quasi-Sage Peak.

Bai Ye appeared before the Jade Emperor and asked for an easy, independent, entertaining Immortal Position with an impressive title. He chose the vacant Great Sage Equal to Heaven post, and the Jade Emperor appointed him and restored the position’s former residence and departments.

• The immortals saw the Demon Revealing Mirror identify Bai Ye as a nineteen-year-old peak Quasi-Sage, and the Jade Emperor addressed him as an equal.
• Bai Ye explained that he had come to claim an Immortal Official position after Heaven invited him to become an immortal.
• The Jade Emperor offered Bai Ye a choice of positions, and Bai Ye listed his demands for an easy, free, entertaining post with an impressive name.
• Bai Ye selected Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and the Jade Emperor granted him the title despite recalling its previous holder.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the former Great Sage Equal to Heaven Residence renovated, restored the Quiet Department and Peaceful Spirit Department to their registers, and sent the Five Dipper Star Lord to escort Bai Ye with gifts.

Yang Kaitai learned that Bai Ye had become the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and was reassigned to a position in Bai Ye’s residence. After half a month of enjoying himself in Heaven, Bai Ye heard that the Buddha of Mount Ling had come to discuss spreading the teachings, leaving him wondering why the Buddha had arrived in person.

• Yang Kaitai heard the Heavenly Soldiers discuss a nineteen-year-old peak Quasi-Sage and privately confirmed that Bai Ye had received the Great Sage Equal to Heaven title.
• A Golden Immortal delivered Bai Ye’s decree appointing Yang Kaitai Director of the Quiet Department under the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Residence.
• Bai Ye spent half a month visiting palaces, borrowing Immortal Pills, and sharing his cooking with female immortals.
• Bai Ye received notice that the Buddha of Mount Ling had arrived to discuss spreading the teachings and wondered why Guanyin was not acting as liaison.

Bai Ye went to the Hall of Universal Brightness with Yang Kaitai to hear Tathagata explain the plan to spread Buddhist teachings. Tathagata’s account of the world’s divided continents led them to suspect the scheme involved crossing the barriers between regions, and Bai Ye looked forward to seeing what happened.

• Bai Ye agreed to attend the gathering at the Hall of Precious Light and brought Yang Kaitai and the chief of the Anning Division along.
• Bai Ye and Yang Kaitai arrived at the Hall of Universal Brightness, where Tathagata sat with Ananda and Kasyapa before the Jade Emperor.
• At the Jade Emperor’s request, Tathagata began explaining the spread of the teachings by describing the world’s five regions.
• Yang Kaitai recalled that the regions had been divided by Cronus’s Abyss Scythe and sealed behind barriers raised by God, which only a Quasi-Sage could cross.
• Yang Kaitai and Bai Ye realized Tathagata’s explanation might signal a plan to cross the regional barriers, and Bai Ye eagerly anticipated the spectacle.