Take the fruit!
This fruit tree's yield was also considerable, 28 fruits.
[Collection complete: Silver Apple!]
[Replication time: 61 days]
This quantity was enough to significantly reduce the replication time!
Replication time: 56 days
Replication time: 51 days
Replication time: 47 days
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...
Complete collection, replication time 6.2 days!
"With another Silver Apple tree, the replication time can easily be reduced to one day!"
Zhang Wei took a deep breath.
Whether it was Bronze Apples or Silver Apples, they were rare and unimaginable wonders. To compress them all to a single day within two days, and to elevate their quality to this extent...
The profit was beyond imagination!
Breaking a hole through the roof, Zhang Wei, carrying the human-skinned doll, ascended into the sky.
Before leaving, he couldn't resist saying, "This round was a bit too easy."
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...
In the sky, Zhang Wei was chewing food, sweet juice flowing in his mouth.
Zhang Wei squinted his eyes and hummed contentedly.
"Chef, how does it feel to have your sense of smell and taste restored?"
"Awesome! Every day I lost my senses felt agonizing! Perhaps if it had lasted any longer, I might have gone mad."
The human-skinned doll said with a grin, "I'm even happier than you. I can finally enjoy your cooking again."
Since Zhang Wei lost his senses, he had stopped showcasing his culinary skills in front of others.
Zhang Wei continued, "It's a shame, it's still not as good as before."
"What? Haven't you recovered already?"
"Yes, and no."
"My current level of perception is no different from an ordinary level 61 individual, or rather, very common. My true taste is ten times stronger than that of others at the same level!"
A chef's sense of smell and taste are primary evolutionary directions. Through the accumulation of countless ingredients and their effects, Zhang Wei had long evolved his perception to an incredibly exaggerated degree.
Nearly a year of accumulated deliciousness was not something two apples could compare to.
Perhaps, even a Golden Apple couldn't achieve that.
The human-skinned doll pondered for a moment, "Chef, perhaps you have a chance to regain your previous perception."
"Oh? Tell me about it?"
"After you conquered Lingxiao City, we confiscated a large number of ancient texts, including some about Sha Jia's abilities."
"The book states that the power of this ability does not lie in destruction, because the more thoroughly it is destroyed, the easier the subsequent reconstruction work will be. The world has too many wonders that can rebuild the sensory system."
Zhang Wei carefully considered.
It seemed to make sense.
He had tried eating many ordinary ingredients that were beneficial for nasal and oral repair, and had even cut them off and regrown them.
But he still couldn't recover.
It was as if something was preventing reconstruction.
If perception were a tall building, then Sha Jia's actions were not demolition, but a strange sealing ability that prevented him from entering and using it, while also not clearing space for him to rebuild.
Zhang Wei murmured, "A sealing technique..."
"Similar!"
"I remember Sha Jia saying as he was dying that he would take my taste and smell to the endless purgatory. Does this world truly have a hell?" Da Feng Novel Network
Even Mount Olympus exists.
A hell of some sort wouldn't be impossible to accept.
Furthermore, the woodcutter had once said that he had gone to the Moon Palace to chop the Moon Palace Osmanthus tree, which was also a space similar to a celestial realm.
And the dark tentacle monster that the human-skinned doll had captured earlier.
It was said to have come from the Dream Realm, a place only reachable by the slumbering, and only through dreaming could such an evil ingredient be conceived.
"If I could go to the endless purgatory, redeem my taste and smell, and then combine it with my current taste and smell, a fusion of strengths..."
The concept was beautiful.
Zhang Wei questioned, "But how can this be achieved?"
"Channeling!"
The human-skinned doll said, "This world is full of myriad mysterious and illusionary arts. The Black List had previously encountered these unorthodox practitioners, and they indeed possessed true skills. If you could be sent to the endless purgatory... perhaps it would be very dangerous there..."
At least the idea was acceptable.
...
The vast summit of Hengduan Mountain.
Besides the Bronze Apples and Silver Apples, there were countless other top-tier ingredients.
Zhang Wei noted them all, but his primary target remained the Golden Apple.
A pit reappeared!
A Bronze Apple tree!
Following his previous experience, Zhang Wei again collected them in a circle. Nine pits yielded about 60 Bronze Apples.
The exhibits in the Treasure Hall grew by two sizes.
Sketching a map, Zhang Wei quickly found the location of the third Silver Apple tree...
"A pool?"
Zhang Wei and the human-skinned doll arrived.
But the target location was a deep pool!
Zhang Wei frowned, feeling quite uncomfortable.
"Is this round a water battle... I have no experience fighting underwater, and my cell activity is too high, consuming an astonishing amount of oxygen..."
Although his lung capacity was immense, allowing him to compress a large amount of air into his lungs.
Zhang Wei's consumption was also not low; he could hold his breath for no more than ten minutes at most. If he engaged in intense combat, this number would decrease.
Zhang Wei asked, "How long can you last underwater?"
"If it's for stealth and infiltration, about half a month?"
Zhang Wei: ...
That exaggerated?
"What if it's not for stealth and infiltration?"
"For normal operations, it's only enough for one day, this is the lowest consumption mode. Once combat begins, the cellular oxygen consumption will surge. If I were to fight at full strength, I wouldn't last ten minutes."
Zhang Wei nodded.
They were all roughly the same, but the human-skinned doll was better at controlling its cells to enter energy-saving mode, while Zhang Wei simply lacked this skill.
Thus, fighting underwater was extremely disadvantageous.
The human-skinned doll continued, "I am, after all, a mammal. I have never been able to learn the skill of breathing through gills to overcome the interspecies gap. I also cannot breathe through my skin like a frog."
There were still limitations.
What should be done...
The mountain peak...
The celestial lake...
The underwater world...
Zhang Wei had a sudden inspiration!
"What about opening the sluice gates!"
"What?"
Zhang Wei clenched his fist and said, "Although it might disrupt the ecological balance, I can only say I'm sorry!"
Spreading out the map, this location was at the southeast corner of the mountain peak.
It was still 35 kilometers from the edge.
"Ten-tenths strength, spiral fist force!"
Not far from the pool, Zhang Wei punched through the ground, drilling a hundred meters deep.
He then burrowed underground.
"Ten-tenths strength, spiral fist force!"
This time, the direction was towards the edge of the mountain peak, the precipice!
The human-skinned doll instantly understood Zhang Wei's intention. This... this was building an aqueduct!
If the celestial lake on the mountain peak were a bathtub, this was punching a hole in the bottom of the bathtub...
Opening the sluice gates!
Zhang Wei's spiral drill bit had a diameter of twenty meters. Once unblocked, no amount of water could resist flowing through it!
And Zhang Wei's punch could create a tunnel at least five hundred meters long. For 35 kilometers...
Only 70 punches!