The delicacies of the heavens begin with obtaining gem meat.

Chapter 116 Returning to the City, News of the Pufferfish Whale

With the unexpected reward of the golden apple, Jiang Yan set off again after filling his stomach.

I'm preparing to harvest as many ingredients as possible while my food luck is at its best.

After walking for more than an hour, Jiang Yan suddenly discovered a rocky area composed of rocks of varying sizes and shapes.

In the ordinary world, rocky terrain often means barrenness and desolation.

But this is a world captivated by delicious food, and such places often hide even more surprising delicacies.

Jiang Yan immediately changed direction and headed towards the rocky area.

Upon entering the rocky area, Jiang Yan immediately sensed something different.

The rocks here are not ordinary, cold, hard stones, but rather ingredients.

The black one is chocolate rock, with a rich, slightly bitter taste and a sweet aftertaste; it has the best cocoa flavor.

The white one is marshmallow rock, which is soft, light, melts in your mouth, and is sweet but not cloying.

There are also rough stones that exude a faint meaty aroma.

Pick up a football-sized piece of rough stone, cut it open with a knife, and inside is a marbled, marbled piece of beef with clear texture, even fat distribution, and a bright red color;

Cut open another, larger rock, and you'll find tender pork tenderloin, followed by thick slices of pork belly—each rock is an unknown meat mystery box.

This made Jiang Yan quite happy.

After collecting a large number of various rocks, Jiang Yan left the rocky area with satisfaction and continued to venture deeper into the area.

After walking for a while, Jiang Yan arrived at a meadow covered with four-leaf hamburger clovers.

Two of the four leaves of the Hamburger Clover are soft bread slices, one is a crispy fried meat patty, and the other is cheese.

When combined, they form a hamburger, which can be removed and eaten immediately.

Around the Hamburger Clover, there are also some French fry butterflies fluttering around. The wings of the French fry butterflies are made of crispy and delicious French fries, and they emit the salty aroma of potatoes as they fly.

In the open space not far away, a fruit tree stood tall against the wind, its intertwined branches laden with all sorts of fruit: strawberries, mangoes, grapes, peaches, cherries, bananas—

Fruits from different seasons and regions gather on one tree.

After picking a lot of various fruits, Jiang Yan encountered the Rice Bowl Forest.

Round, spherical fruits hang from the vines that droop down from the rice bowl tree.

Inside the fruit are steaming hot and fragrant rice bowls of various kinds: the chicken cutlet rice bowl has crispy chicken on the outside and tender chicken on the inside; the shrimp rice bowl has bouncy and juicy shrimp; the pork rice bowl has tender and flavorful meat, and the rice grains are distinct and soaked in soup.

Of course, it wasn't without danger. While Jiang Yan was picking the rice bowl fruit, a seemingly ordinary green vine suddenly started to move!

Caught off guard, Jiang Yan was suddenly entangled, and the vines began to tighten with great force, creating a strong sense of restraint.

However, after Jiang Yan exerted his strength, the vines wrapped around his body snapped, and the green sap splashed onto the ground, quickly losing their vitality.

After escaping danger, Jiang Yan became more composed and cautiously observed his surroundings.

Not long after leaving the rice bowl forest, an incredibly rich aroma of meat wafted on the wind, making Jiang Yan's mouth water.

The water flows straight down.

He followed the scent and walked quickly towards it, and the scene before him made his eyes light up.

In a wide open woodland, there grows patches of roasted meat trees and chicken leg trees.

The barbecue tree was piled high with pieces of roasted meat, golden and glistening with oil, which dripped slowly down the meat.

The chicken leg tree is laden with a large number of roasted chicken legs, emitting an enticing aroma that makes one's mouth water just by looking at it.

Beside the roasted meat tree and the chicken leg tree, a group of steaming whole roasted pigs were slowly walking around.

With such a sumptuous feast laid out before him, Jiang Yan naturally wouldn't let it pass him by.

They then cautiously approached the group of roasted whole pigs, preparing to capture them.

Unfortunately, the speed was still a bit slow. During the capture process, the two whole roasted pigs were frightened and became extremely angry. Their internal heat exploded, and they were charred in just a few seconds, losing their best taste.

After spending more than ten days in the Bebard dunes, Jiang Yan arrived at the edge of a city.

After more than ten days of living in the wild, Jiang Yan was exhausted, so he simply went into the city to rest for a few days.

The aroma of food wafting through the air and the hustle and bustle of the marketplace brought a long-lost sense of peace to Jiang Yan, who had been alone in the wilderness for a long time.

I found a clean hotel, quickly washed up and rested, changed out of my dusty clothes, and sorted out the food I had caught and stockpiled over the past month.

Jiang Yan then went to the food market and sold the produce.

This brought in a considerable sum of money, which served as a financial reserve for the upcoming trip.

After selling off the surplus ingredients, Jiang Yan then prepared to buy some more ingredients at the food market.

Although it's just an ordinary city's food market, it still boasts a dazzling array of ingredients.

From deep-sea fish and shrimp to various kinds of poultry and livestock on land, to all sorts of fruits and fungi, as well as various spices and herbs, and all kinds of pickling ingredients—it has everything.

Jiang Yan wandered among the stalls, carefully selecting various ingredients. Although the ingredients he bought were not high-end or rare, they were extremely diverse.

Moreover, Jiang Yan only bought these ingredients to taste them, so he didn't need too many.

After a shopping spree, Jiang Yan discovered that the variety of ingredients he bought was several times greater than the variety of ingredients he had caught in the Babbat dunes.

This excited Jiang Yan, even though there were no particularly rare ingredients among them.

However, after eating so many kinds of ingredients, his strength should increase considerably.

In addition to purchasing ingredients, Jiang Yan gritted his teeth and spent most of his money to buy a Melker kitchen knife at the city's food market.

Of course, this Melk cleaver is most likely just a practice piece, made from the ivory of a level 17 captured dinosaur elephant.

The blade is simple and unadorned, without any fancy carvings, yet it still maintains the sharpness and toughness that Melker knives are known for.

For Jiang Yan at the moment, this Melker kitchen knife is sufficient as a temporary solution, and it is perfectly capable of handling the vast majority of ingredients.

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During his few days of rest, Jiang Yan didn't sit idle; he explored almost every restaurant in the city, from street food stalls to elegantly decorated mid-range restaurants.

The crispy fried food, the rich soup, and the uniquely flavored barbecue greatly satisfied Jiang Yan's stomach.

In his spare time, Jiang Yan also heard a lot of hot news in the city's taverns and trading houses. Among them, the hottest news during this period was the auction of half a rainbow fruit.

The one who took out this half of the Rainbow Fruit was none other than the Gourmet Hunter Toriko.

A single, complete Rainbow Fruit can fetch a market price of up to 500 million yuan.

However, the half of the Rainbow Fruit that Toriko brought out this time was auctioned off for a sky-high price of 320 million yuan, far exceeding the theoretical value of half a Rainbow Fruit.

However, no one seemed to see anything wrong with it.

In the world captivated by food, the pursuit of delicious food is deeply ingrained, and many people are willing to spend their entire fortune to acquire rare ingredients.

Rainbow Fruit is a rare and highly sought-after ingredient, so it's only natural that it fetches a price far exceeding the market value.

Besides the news about the Rainbow Fruit, another piece of news has caused a lot of discussion: Zebra, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Gourmet Food, has been captured.

Just as Jiang Yan finished resting, packed his bags, and prepared to head to the next ingredient-producing area to continue hunting for ingredients, he found that the atmosphere in the entire city had become restless.

Jiang Yan didn't need to inquire at all; he quickly learned the reason.

The pufferfish whale, which appears only once every ten years, is about to make its appearance.

This news excited Jiang Yan; the capture of the pufferfish whale was an opportunity not to be missed.

The pufferfish whale, hailed as a delicacy of the deep sea, inhabits the deep sea at depths of tens of thousands of meters and only briefly appears once every ten years with ocean currents in its underground caves in shallow waters to lay its eggs.

It is a rare ingredient that countless food hunters and diners dream of.

In the human world, the rarity of the pufferfish whale is beyond doubt.

A live pufferfish whale can fetch up to 100 million yuan on the market.

If the poison sacs inside its body can be removed, its value will increase fivefold, reaching an astonishing 500 million yuan.

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Even so, it remains in high demand but priceless, and extremely rare.

The high price of pufferfish whales is not only due to their long appearance cycle of only once every ten years, but also to their extremely potent venom, which can poison the entire body if handled carelessly.

In the human realm, the number of people who can handle the venom sacs of pufferfish whales, according to the official records of the IGO, is no more than ten.

This means that only a select few can enjoy the delicious taste of pufferfish whales.

Some people have even risked their lives to taste poisoned pufferfish.

Of course, Jiang Yan knew that there were actually more people who could handle pufferfish whales.

But these things don't really concern him.

With the ability to deconstruct ingredients at "Food Restaurant", Jiang Yan can easily deal with pufferfish toxin.

However, it's too early to think about these things right now, since he hasn't even seen a pufferfish yet.

The most urgent task is to successfully capture the pufferfish whale, which only appears once every ten years.