Spiral Fist Force!
Zhang Wei dug tunnels underground with punch after punch.
Until he reached beneath the abdomen of the Legal Mammoth.
Although the sound of digging was astonishing, it was a trivial matter for the Legal Mammoth.
The rumbling of the Legal Mammoth's six legs allowed Zhang Wei to pinpoint its abdomen.
Break through the soil!
Spring up!
Zhang Wei burrowed directly into the dense fur of the Legal Mammoth.
"Good heavens, what a body odor..."
"This fur is as thick as an arm, and incredibly tough, it seems to have some cold-resistance ability."
"If one could be slaughtered, this hide and fur would be quite suitable for building materials."
The skin of the Legal Mammoth was like a jungle, and one could find the entrance by following it.
[Discoverable Ingredient: Legal Mammoth]
[Capture Level: 178]
[Habitat: Legal Plateau]
[Description 1: A giant mammoth known as an ancient ingredient, born at only ten meters long, reaching 50 meters after a few weeks. They have a lifespan of up to 500 years, and Legal Mammoths never stop growing.]
[Description 2: Specializes in Gem Meat, which grows in different locations depending on the individual.]
[Description 3: Legal Mammoths have wings, but they have atrophied. It is said they had the ability to fly in ancient times. The taste of their wings is similar to birds and is very delicious.]
[Description 4: Most of the meat's nutrients are absorbed by the Gem Meat, so its nutritional value is slightly lower, but it is still a very high-end meat.]
[Description 5: They have twelve stomachs and can digest most types of food. There is air circulation within them, forming a unique ecological environment.]
[Description 6: They inhale through the left nostril and exhale through the right, possessing considerable digestive capabilities and absorbing most nutrients. Their nostrils are made of hard muscle, and they taste similar to pig or ox tongue.]
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"Truly an incredibly valuable item, but unfortunately a beast of level 178 is not something I can consider yet."
He arrived at the mouth of the mammoth.
In addition to two massive tusks, the Legal Mammoth also had molars for chewing.
Taking advantage of the gaps between breaths, he used the Wind Manipulation Technique to enter its mouth.
He bypassed the teeth the size of houses!
"With my current strength, if I were crushed by that, I would be turned to dust."
Inside the Legal Mammoth, it was not filled with the mucus and flesh Zhang Wei had imagined.
The walls on both sides were weathered rock, the ground beneath was powdered calcium carbonate impurities, and there was even some sparse vegetation growing.
[Discoverable Ingredient: Telephone Snake]
[Capture Level: 4]
[Description: A scavenger within the Legal Mammoth, possessing potent poison and strong digestive abilities.]
"Parasites?"
"What a unique ecosystem."
Zhang Wei casually caught dozens of them, compressing their replication time to one day.
He spent about half an hour inside the mammoth.
He saw many strange creatures but found himself lost in this labyrinth, unable to find what he was looking for.
He broke through the dried rock walls on both sides and casually cut off a piece of meat.
"Tender and succulent, just like fatty streaky pork..."
"Dipped in a little soy sauce, it can be eaten as sashimi. The taste is quite good."
"Considering the quality of this meat, 800 Berries is an underestimate. It could be sold for 1300 Berries."
"The texture is too good, the fat melts directly in the mouth, and it's a perfect match for the special oil from Soy Sauce Grasshoppers!"
After briefly replenishing his energy,
Zhang Wei submerged himself in the broken opening of flesh and blood, closed his eyes, and slowly emitted low-voltage electricity.
In the darkness, the entire outline of the Legal Mammoth appeared!
Exploring a beast of this size consumed energy at a rapid pace.
The place where all nutrients converged...
The organ with the strongest electromagnetic signal...
It shimmered like a jewel within its body...
Found it!
The path...
Not needed!
Gourmet God, Slicing Blade!
Passing through countless layers of flesh and blood, Zhang Wei was careful not to cause significant damage, carving a small tunnel within the Legal Mammoth, just large enough for his tiny body to squeeze through.
He looked back.
The hole he had opened had almost healed. As expected, it grew incessantly, even its healing ability was superb.
The surrounding organs gradually became luminous, shimmering vibrantly...
It was right around here!
To avoid damaging the Gem Meat, Zhang Wei's movements became even more cautious.
After cutting through the brightest membrane, Zhang Wei entered a magnificent chamber. The upper and lower spaces were composed of the most tender meat. Stepping on it with his shoes would be an insult to the delicacy!
Zhang Wei even felt the urge to bathe and burn incense!
He had the desire to prostrate himself before the object before him, the highest respect for cuisine!
"So dazzling... like a three-kilowatt searchlight, guiding lost ships home!"
"This enticing fragrance... hundreds of bottles of perfume compressed together couldn't compare!"
In the center of the hall, a pillar of meat hung down, perfectly spherical like a fruit!
Meat like a jewel!
Perfectly crimson, with the most tender texture.
White streaks of fat were interspersed within the meat, like a repeatedly worked piece of art!
Juice dripped from the moist jewel, and even raw, its freshness was undiminished. Its perfect meaty aroma could penetrate one's instincts, making any seasoning pale in comparison.
Zhang Wei slowly moved his feet.
His gaze was fixed only on the most perfect treasure in the world!
All his memories from past and present flashed through his mind, like a dying person reliving their life.
Just smelling it made one want to shed tears of emotion.
"It's been so long... so long since I've felt this way."
"A sense of happiness on par with the formless..."
Zhang Wei gently extended his hand, tentatively touching it, as cautious as a worshipper desecrating an idol.
Soft!
So soft!
Beneath its glittering exterior, it was as smooth and tender as congealed fat. The juice wasn't like blood, but more like shimmering, attractive liquid gold.
With just a single touch, he could feel the Gem Meat breathing at his fingertips.
As if alive, it embraced him intimately, reciprocating his touch.
Transforming his palm into a blade!
He lightly grazed the Gem Meat!
"Beneath the unimpeded tenderness, there was a solid feeling like that of a colossal beast!"
"These conflicting textures were perfectly reconciled in the Gem Meat!"
"The splashing meat splattered like fireworks, drawing feelings of celebration and love in the air! Perfectly releasing its exquisite aroma!"
Without any processing,
Zhang Wei directly threw the meat into his mouth and chewed.
The moist smoothness of the tenderloin...
The fine tightness of the loin...
The sweetness of the streaky pork and high-grade fat...
The shoulder meat...
The trotters...
The exquisite texture and the delicious essence that filled his mouth instantly captured Zhang Wei's body and soul!
The more he ate, the more he couldn't stop. This treasure of food, the Gem Meat, which gathered all ancient delicacies!
Gulp~
Gulp~
Zhang Wei felt his heart pounding like a drum!
The essence of deliciousness flowed through his entire body with his blood, and his whole being radiated an incredibly dazzling glow!
Zhang Wei could no longer hold back, embracing the massive Gem Meat and devouring it.
With a toss of his head, he tore off a large mouthful!
"Wuwuwuwu~~~ This texture, like chewing on a heart, feels like it's beating in my mouth!"
"Juice gushed out with each chew, smoothly filling my mouth, and there wasn't any stickiness!"
"This bite tastes like liver, with a hint of creamy sweetness... This bite has the rich aroma of ribs, like layers upon layers of muscle and fat stacked, then bitten through!"
"Where did this bite land?"
"The fat content seems quite high, the texture is very smooth, and that rich aroma is also exceptional!"
The more he ate,
The brighter Zhang Wei's radiance became.
Even his skin became crystal clear like a jewel, faintly shimmering!
A massive amount of energy surged within his abdomen!
"So... so powerful!"
"This energy is even more concentrated than that of the Bronze Apple!"
Level 69!
Level 70!
Level 71!
Level 72!
As Zhang Wei devoured it madly, the nutrients from eighty million tons of weight exploded!
Although it was only a few small bites, the nutrients far exceeded tens of tons of meat. Even Zhang Wei felt an unusual sense of fullness!
"Such... such abundant energy!"
"So far, only the Silver Apple can compare to it!"
Awakening from the blissful happiness of the deliciousness,
Zhang Wei severed the connection to the cavity with a single knife. The entire Gem Meat was shaped like an apple with a handle.
[Storage Complete: Gem Meat of the Legal Mammoth]
[Capture Level: 170]
[Replication Time: 335 days]
It was stored?
Not the complete Legal Mammoth, but only the Gem Meat itself.
Zhang Wei gasped. As expected of Gem Meat, it had a replication time of 335 days!
It was the ingredient with the longest replication time Zhang Wei had ever encountered!
If it were a complete Legal Mammoth...
Unimaginable!
"Nearly a year of replication time... this is too long."
"To be honest, this piece of Gem Meat weighs about 800 kilograms, the essence of eighty million tons of nutrition. Where can I find another one?"
"The Gourmet World?"
"It's still a bit too far for me."
The moment the Gem Meat was taken,
The Legal Mammoth let out a mournful cry, as if it had lost something important!
For the Legal Mammoth, the Gem Meat was the aggregate of its entire body's nutrition and its most vital energy battery.
The Legal Mammoth's ability to grow indefinitely relied on the energy storage of the Gem Meat!
This Gem Meat was so abundant, it was clear its energy had reached its maximum capacity.
The Legal Mammoth could only continue to accumulate energy, and only after the Gem Meat regrew could its body continue to grow.
He licked his finger.
Zhang Wei, with immense satisfaction, intended to leave.
Just then, a thought suddenly arose in Zhang Wei's mind...
"Actually... the ingredients stored in the Treasury are already super abundant. The merchant guild couldn't possibly sell them all."
"I can't eat them all myself either."
"The dishes I've processed will also be stored in the Treasury, and I've accumulated a lot that I haven't finished eating."
"It's just feeding an elephant... I can certainly support it!"
For the Gem Meat, everything was worth it!
At this moment.
An irresistible tremor came from Zhang Wei's location!
Rejection!
Mammoth sneeze!
It was normal for creatures of the Legal Mammoth's size to host some organisms within their bodies. When some organisms began to affect their health, a major expulsion was needed!
The Legal Mammoth swore that it would ensure the cleanliness of its insides from now on!
This sneeze expelled a mountain of debris: Telephone Snakes, accumulated rocks, miscellaneous digestive residue...
Conservatively, this sneeze ejected at least a million tons of debris!
"I remember when I first entered the Cloud Country, the Treasury replicated tens of thousands of tons of materials in half a month. Now... a day's worth of materials is over a hundred thousand tons!"
Over three thousand types of perfect ingredients, all of them nutritious and delicious.
Among them, there were about two hundred large creatures, accounting for the bulk of the weight.
Calculated, the ingredients in the Treasury already stretched endlessly in the right side hall.
"Little mammoth, accept my acceleration!"
"Take it all out!"
"Accept this sky full of ingredients!"
Ascending into the sky, the accumulated ingredients rained down like water!
Although he didn't know what was happening, the greedy nature of the Legal Mammoth instinctively raised its trunk, and a mighty suction emerged.
The ingredients rushed into the Legal Mammoth's body like rivers flowing into the sea.
"Too little, not enough!"
Bronze Apple!
Out!
Twenty!
The essence of the Olympus Divine Tree's power could generate endless kinetic energy for small creatures, but for the Legal Mammoth, it was still a bit thin.
Silver Apple!
Yin Yang Broth Base!
The Legal Mammoth let out a joyful roar. This food was enough for twenty days of hard hunting!
After all, although the Legal Island was vast, it could only support one Legal Mammoth. Any more would disrupt the ecosystem of the Legal Island.
Whenever a Legal Mammoth had enough energy and strength to enter the Gourmet World, it would reproduce several offspring.
But no matter how many offspring there were, only one would survive to adulthood!
One per island!
A second could absolutely not be sustained.
Therefore, the growth of the Legal Mammoth was not determined by how diligently it hunted, but by how the ecosystem of the Legal Island was that year, and how much food it could support.
"Very good!"
"The Legal Mammoth doesn't seem so weak anymore."
"However, the Gem Meat shouldn't grow back in a short period. Storage must continue! I'll strive to have enough ingredients to fill this elephant!"
The Gem Meat was infinitely delicious and full of energy.
Zhang Wei estimated its price to be at least 45 million Berries, and a lump of Gem Meat weighed about 800 kilograms.
This meant it was worth 36 billion!
Far more precious than a Silver Apple!
Looking at the satisfied Legal Mammoth, Zhang Wei directly summoned Warm Harbor on its back.
Camp Toad, with its seventy-meter height, appeared insignificant on the back of the Legal Mammoth.
"Warm Harbor, take me back to the three outposts and bring all the ingredients traded recently..."
"I need more replicated copies!"
One hundred thousand tons!
This was still far from the limit!
And...
"It's time to communicate with the people of the West Continent."
"The Forging Mountain Villa Merchant Guild... their business of kitchenware and armor is spread throughout the world. I've wanted to see it for a long time."
"And besides the Legal Island in the West Continent, there's a place in the East Continent that I've been longing for..."