The delicacies of the heavens begin with obtaining gem meat.

Chapter 96 Exchange of Aquatic Horse Meat

After calming himself down, Jiang Yan swam towards Leos and the others.

The sound of water startled Leos, who instinctively gripped the sword at his waist and turned to look warily.

He breathed a sigh of relief after recognizing Jiang Yan, and waved and greeted him with a smile.

"Jiang Yan? It's you! You've come to the fourth floor too?"

"Yes, there are more kinds of monsters on the fourth floor, and you can find a lot of good ingredients there."

Jiang Yan swam over to Leos and Chilchak and said in a relaxed tone.

At least yesterday he reaped far more than on the third level of the underground labyrinth.

Leos nodded in deep agreement.

"That's right! The ingredients here are much more plentiful than on the third floor. We just hunted an aquatic horse, and Senshi is busy preparing it."

After a few brief pleasantries, Jiang Yan's gaze fell on Kabul and his group floating on the water.

"I didn't expect to run into them again."

This was, in fact, the second time Leos and his group had encountered Cabor and his crew.

Do you know them?

Zircak looked at Jiang Yan and asked curiously.

"I met him once before and we exchanged a few words."

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Jiang Yan replied casually.

At this moment, Leos spoke up.

"They must have been attacked by merfolk and perished together with them."

"We have to move them ashore."

"It's too dangerous to stay floating in the water; you're easily eaten by fish."

Nodding, Jiang Yan then worked with Leos and Chilchak to drag Kabul and the others one by one to the platform of a nearby dilapidated building, ensuring they were away from the water.

After settling Kabul and the others in, Leos and Chilchak began to salvage the wheat scattered on the water's surface.

These were scattered when Kabul and his men were attacked.

Leos felt it was too wasteful, so he wanted to collect them.

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Jiang Yan wasn't interested in this, so he simply followed the directions he had asked earlier and found Senxi and Marusier who were busy at work.

At this moment, Senshi was holding a kitchen knife, preparing the aquatic horse.

Marousir squatted to the side, cutting the fat of the water horse into small pieces and grinding it in a bowl, preparing to make it into soap.

"Senxi, Marusir, it's been a long time."

Jiang Yan stepped forward and greeted him with a smile.

The two turned around at the sound and were quite surprised to see Jiang Yan. Marusier nodded in response and continued with her work.

Senxi stopped what he was doing and looked at Jiang Yan to ask.

"I didn't expect to run into you here, Jiang Yan. Are you here looking for ingredients?"

"That's exactly right."

Jiang Yan nodded, his gaze falling on the water horse, and then he spoke.

"This aquatic horse is quite large; I doubt the four of you can carry all the ingredients."

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"Would you be willing to trade me your surplus aquatic horse meat?"

"I happen to be short of these kinds of ingredients. If you need anything, we can discuss it within our capabilities."

Upon hearing that Jiang Yan wanted aquatic horse meat, Senxi was slightly taken aback, but after a moment of contemplation, he agreed.

"Of course, we really can't take that much meat with us, so an exchange would be fine."

"As for what is used in the exchange—"

Senxi thought about it for a while and then had an idea.

"We need flour now. If you have any, it would be great to exchange them for flour."

"One bag is enough."

With flour, he was able to make some staple foods to eat.

However, since they needed to bring aquatic horse meat, too much flour would be difficult to carry, so Senshi only needed one bag.

Upon hearing this, Marcusil, who was standing nearby, disregarded her work and nodded repeatedly in agreement, her eyes full of approval.

With flour, she should be able to eat slightly more normal food.

Although she is no longer as averse to eating monsters.

Jiang Yan immediately agreed to Senxi's request and readily took a bag of refined flour from the "Food Restaurant" and handed it over.

He prepared a lot of ingredients, such as flour.

Senxi took the flour, examined it, nodded in satisfaction, and then gave most of the prepared aquatic horse meat to Jiang Yan.

The remaining aquatic horse meat was the limit of what they could carry.

However, looking at the large quantity of aquatic horse meat, Jiang Yan knew that the value of a bag of flour was obviously far greater than that.

Neither Sensi nor Marusier cared about this.

But Jiang Yan didn't want to accept it so easily.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yan took out the cloth bag he had unexpectedly obtained earlier.

He took out a gold coin, handed it to Senxi, and said earnestly.

"A bag of flour is not worth as much aquatic horse meat as this. Please accept this gold coin."

Senxi didn't care about the gold coins and tried to refuse them by waving his hand, but Jiang Yan was adamant and persuaded him repeatedly, so he finally accepted the gold coins.

Marcusel, who was standing to the side, didn't say anything, but she felt that the cloth bag in Jiang Yan's hand looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.

After thinking for a moment without any clue, I didn't delve into it further and went back to work.

After exchanging the ingredients, Jiang Yan put away the aquatic horse meat and was about to jump into the water to search for monster ingredients when he suddenly stopped, as if he remembered something. He turned to Marusil and asked for help.

"By the way, Marcusil, could you perhaps cast a water-walking spell on me?"

With the magic to walk on water, moving around in the fourth level of the underground labyrinth would be much easier.

I had forgotten about this when I met Kabul and the others before.

However, even if Kabul and the others had helped cast the water-walking spell at the time, it would probably have lost its effect after a night.

After all, the magic of walking on water is not permanent.

Upon hearing Jiang Yan's request, Maruccie immediately nodded in agreement, as it was not a troublesome matter for her.

"sure."

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Setting down her bowl, Marusir stood up, took her staff, walked to Jiang Yan, and gently tapped the staff on his shoulder.

As Marusil cast the water-walking spell on him, Jiang Yan felt as if an invisible barrier was enveloping him.

But it is impossible to touch it.

Jiang Yan didn't dwell on it too much. He tentatively lifted one foot and gently stepped on the water. Surprisingly, he stood firmly on the water without sinking at all.

Then Jiang Yan put his other foot on the water and stomped it down hard.

The water beneath my feet rippled gently, its surface soft to the touch, like walking on clouds or fluffy cotton—strange and wondrous.

This novel experience filled Jiang Yan with joy, his eyes brimming with excitement.

He turned to Marcus and thanked her sincerely.

"Thank you, Marcusil!"

"It was just a small favor."

Maruccie waved her hand and continued with her work; her soap would take some more time to finish.

Seeing this, Jiang Yan didn't delay and turned to leave, stepping on the water.

With the water-walking magic, he will be able to move faster and find more monsters.

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