"Are you sure?"
Li Xue looked at Lin Xiao Tian, who was busy in front of her.
When Lin Xiao Tian first suggested eating these monsters, Li Xue was startled.
Would it be alright to eat these creatures of unknown origin?
What if they were poisonous?
"Don't worry, I have detoxification pills prepared. I'll try it first, and you can eat it after I confirm it's okay."
Dying from poison was still death, and dying from starvation was also death. Lin Xiao Tian felt that either choice was wrong, so he might as well die more spectacularly.
Actually, he didn't know if his pills could neutralize the poison of these monsters.
The Na Du Pill was said to absorb all poisons, but not all poisons were effective. For example, the gu poison of the old lady Lin family had no effect on it.
There were also many potent poisons recorded in the Shen Nong Medical Codex, which the Na Du Pill also had no effect on. Lin Xiao Tian could only hope that these frog-people were not poisonous.
Lin Xiao Tian sprinkled some scent-masking liquid near the cave entrance again and then began simple processing of the meat. They had waterproof lighters, so fire was not an issue.
Soon, a piece of roasted frog meat appeared before Lin Xiao Tian.
Lin Xiao Tian swallowed, and after an internal struggle, he put the frog meat into his mouth.
Gag!
The next moment, Lin Xiao Tian almost spat it out.
This meat was truly unusually unpalatable. Lin Xiao Tian felt his entire mouth was rebelling against further consumption.
"Are you alright?" Li Xue looked at Lin Xiao Tian anxiously.
"I'm fine, it's just a bit unpalatable."
"Unpalatable is better than starving to death, isn't it? I didn't expect you to be so melodramatic?" Li Xue rolled her eyes at Lin Xiao Tian.
She had a lot of experience in wilderness survival and her taste buds had long since become immune to poisons. She believed she could endure any level of unpalatability.
However, seeing Lin Xiao Tian's strange expression, she became even more curious.
"Let me try."
"Wait, what if it's poisonous?"
"If it's poisonous, what can we do? We can't get out of this situation, and there's no other food. Do I have a choice?" After speaking, Li Xue took a bite of the meat without regard for Lin Xiao Tian's objection.
The next moment, her expression turned sour.
"Ugh... it's so unpalatable!"
"Heh heh, who was being melodramatic just now?" Lin Xiao Tian looked at Li Xue with a smile.
"You... I was just cooperating with you, otherwise wouldn't I lose face?"
However, although Li Xue said so, her hand was honest, and she returned the piece of meat to Lin Xiao Tian.
Lin Xiao Tian saw through her but didn't expose her, and continued to eat.
To force himself to eat, Lin Xiao Tian gave himself a few acupuncture needles to temporarily numb his sense of taste.
After finishing this piece of meat, Lin Xiao Tian re-enabled his sense of taste.
The lingering taste of the meat in his mouth made Lin Xiao Tian's stomach churn. He carefully sent a mouthful of water into his mouth and rinsed quickly to make himself more comfortable.
Next, Lin Xiao Tian prepared to verify if the meat was poisonous.
Ten minutes later, Lin Xiao Tian's body was normal.
Twenty minutes later, everything was normal.
Just as it was half an hour later, Lin Xiao Tian was about to say that the meat was fine when he suddenly noticed something was wrong with Li Xue beside him.
"Are you having a fever?" Lin Xiao Tian was stunned.
"I'm fine." Li Xue was still being stubborn.
But this clearly couldn't escape Lin Xiao Tian's diagnosis.
"It's too damp here, and you're very wet. This will only get worse. You should take off your clothes?" Lin Xiao Tian suggested.
"Take them off?" Li Xue instantly sobered up a bit.
"Don't worry, I'll turn my back and definitely won't look," Lin Xiao Tian said very seriously.
Li Xue hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.
Shortly after, there was a rustling sound from behind. Li Xue's clothes were so wet that taking them off made quite a noise. Lin Xiao Tian could imagine the scene.
Lin Xiao Tian let Bai Xue rest for a while and then continued to sense his body's changes.
About an hour later, Lin Xiao Tian sensed something was wrong.
What was happening?
Why did the green energy within him feel like it was surging?
Upon discovering this change, Lin Xiao Tian was overjoyed.
He sensed it carefully again and quickly found the reason for the surge of green energy.
"The meat of these monsters actually possesses such dense energy?"
Considering that there were almost no valuable medicinal herbs in the Kunlun Valley, perhaps the most precious things in the Kunlun Valley were not the herbs, but the creatures here!
The essence of precious medicinal herbs was how much spiritual energy they absorbed from heaven and earth. It didn't make sense that plants could do it but animals couldn't!
Thinking of this, Lin Xiao Tian couldn't help but glance at the frog meat on the ground.
If he ate more, and the green energy continued to grow, perhaps he wouldn't have to wait ten or eight years to be able to fight that human-faced sheep-bodied monster head-on?
Driven by curiosity, Lin Xiao Tian roasted another large piece of meat.
As usual, Lin Xiao Tian deactivated his sense of taste.
As expected, the green energy within him surged again.
For the next period of time, Lin Xiao Tian had a good feast.
Just as Lin Xiao Tian was about to continue eating the meat, he suddenly noticed that a black bead had appeared inside the frog-person's body.
Lin Xiao Tian activated the Shen Nong Heart Method and checked the situation inside. The energy contained within was extremely rich. If he absorbed it all, it would at least increase his own green energy by half!
Without any hesitation, Lin Xiao Tian began to absorb the energy of the black bead.
With the help of the Shen Nong Heart Method, his energy absorption speed was much faster this time. In just one hour, he completely absorbed it.
Feeling the surging power within him, Lin Xiao Tian became even happier.
After that, Lin Xiao Tian found the black beads from two other monsters and refined them.
In just these few hours, the green energy within Lin Xiao Tian had doubled.
The next day, Li Xue felt much better. Lin Xiao Tian handed her the frog meat.
"I've tried it, it's not poisonous, you can eat it with confidence."
Li Xue nodded, looked at the dark meat in front of her, and took a bite.
However, after only a small bite of meat, Li Xue couldn't eat any more.
"Can you handle just eating this much?"
"I don't know. I only took one bite, and I felt very full and couldn't eat anymore. I don't know if it's because of my illness."
Hearing Li Xue's explanation, Lin Xiao Tian immediately felt something was wrong.
Lin Xiao Tian quickly grabbed Li Xue's wrist and took her pulse.
As expected, spiritual energy was flowing through Li Xue's body.
This spiritual energy was very weak, but Li Xue's body couldn't tolerate it. If this continued, her condition would only worsen.
"I'll give you an acupuncture treatment. Lie down," Lin Xiao Tian said to Li Xue.
Li Xue was currently naked, and she still felt a bit shy. But considering that Lin Xiao Tian had already seen her so many times, it wouldn't hurt to do it one more time. Since it was for treating her illness, she let Lin Xiao Tian proceed.