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Chapter 1423: Chapter 1425: The Mature Posuo Fruit Chapter 1423: Chapter 1425: The Mature Posuo Fruit Guo Zhiqi knew that, with his current strength, facing these ordinary monsters between level 80 to 85, he had no advantage. The skills he had learned were all commonplace, and the only reason he could hunt them down was thanks to the epic chef’s knife he had obtained through a hidden quest!

He had originally thought that the chef’s knife only had bonus attributes for cooking, but unexpectedly, it also had a hidden attribute of increased attack power when striking undead creatures.

With this chef’s knife, Guo Zhiqi, when his Vitality Points had fallen to less than 10%, successfully killed three wolf-shaped skeletal monsters!

After a bloody slaughter, Guo Zhiqi’s suppressed emotions were vented. The thought of suicide that he had initially entertained gradually faded, and he looked at the blood on himself with cowardice, returning to the burrow he had found earlier.

“Haha, can’t even die when I want to!” Guo Zhiqi tossed the loot dropped by the skeletal monsters to the side with a bitter smile on his face.

Half a day passed, and Guo Zhiqi’s Vitality Points had recovered to 80%, but soon, his hunger level approached the warning line, and by then, he had no food left.

“Am I really going to starve to death!” Guo Zhiqi exclaimed with a mix of tears and laughter.

If he were in an ordinary world, a world with living creatures, Guo Zhiqi could have survived by gathering and hunting animals to make food. But in this Undead World, filled with the Force of Death, he could not obtain any ingredients at all.

At that moment, Guo Zhiqi’s gaze suddenly fell on a few pieces of loot he had acquired earlier.

A pitch-black wolf’s bone, an eyeball as big as a fist and as hard as a stone, and a wolf’s heart that wafted with the black Force of Death–these were the items dropped by the skeletal monsters.

“The wolf bone is an alchemical material for Undead Potion, the eyeball is a curious item that can be sold for money, and the wolf heart is a quest item for Necromancer class professions to advance. These things would be valuable in the game world, but for me right now, they’re worth less than a piece of bread!” Guo Zhiqi bitterly laughed, tossing the three items aside, lay flat on the ground and sighed deeply.

As time went on, Guo Zhiqi’s hunger level dropped lower and lower, and his body grew weaker. Both his Vitality Points recovery rate and Spirit Points recovery rate were affected. If this continued, it wouldn’t be long before his Vitality Points would begin to automatically decrease.

“I am a chef, a Great Grandmaster-level chef, how could I possibly starve to death like this!” Guo Zhiqi sat up, turning over and staring at the three items with a bloodthirsty, crazed look in his eyes.

Having spent over thirty days in this world filled with the stench of death, Guo Zhiqi had been subtly affected. Faced with the threat of death, he finally burst out.

He stood up, took out a large pile of cooking utensils–pots, pans, ladles, every kind of cooking tool shining as if they were new.

Boom~
A burst of flames blossomed from Guo Zhiqi’s fingertips, and then the kindling under a large pot was ignited. Guo Zhiqi began to cook a special kind of food using the wolf bone, wolf eye, and wolf heart, all condensed from the Force of Death!

Without a corresponding recipe, Guo Zhiqi switched to a creative mode, completely ignoring the system’s waterfall of warning messages, “The item is not a cooking ingredient. Using it might lead to a high chance of cooking failure and destruction of the item. Please use with caution!”

If such a system prompt appeared during cooking before, Guo Zhiqi would have immediately given up, but now, Guo Zhiqi, already becoming somewhat mad, blocked out the system prompt altogether. It was as if an old witch in a call was brewing a potion, the dim light of fire flickering on Guo Zhiqi’s shadow, a strange smell slowly emanating from the pot…

Time passed, and all of a sudden, Guo Zhiqi shuddered. In his originally bewildered eyes, a shade of ecstatic joy appeared as he looked into the pot.

At this moment, a strange, intoxicating fragrance wafted out from the iron pot. The fragrance was faint, yet it made one feel as though they were eternally sinking into it, akin to the scent of poppies, but its effect was ten times, a hundred times stronger!

Unable to resist, Guo Zhiqi scooped up a spoonful for himself and drank, and instantly, his already plummeting hunger and thirst value started to soar once again.

“Good, delicious!” Guo Zhiqi said with a cracked open mouth, displaying a silent smile, not noticing that wisps of the Force of Death were spreading from the pot; as he continued to devour the food inside, the Force of Death was also manifesting upon him.

Meanwhile, the cooking proficiency which had not increased for a long time started to climb once more, and the originally ordinary cooking techniques turned into an epic color, “Undead Cooking.”

The previously vacant main profession now displayed the words “Undead Demon Eater,” flickering with purple-gold light…

Setting aside the other travelers’ gains in the fragmenting universe, at this moment, Song Jian was carefully tracking several giant lizardmen, carrying the Sky-breaking Sword in his hand.

After discovering that the Posuo Fruit Tree had been prematurely ripened by someone, the giant lizardmen were furious. Nearly half of them chased in the direction the young giant lizard ran, while the rest guarded the hot area enveloped by the Power of Law around the Posuo Fruit Tree.

After an indeterminate amount of time, the hunting party returned, apparently not capturing the young giant lizard. In the days that followed, the lives of the lizardmen were thrown into great panic, as though an invisible Death God was reaping their lives every day!

In the span of a month, Song Jian had hunted over a hundred lizardmen, almost every two or three kills would drop a Law Fragment; the Law Fragments that fell over these days were enough for Song Jian to combine into a Heart of Law, but Song Jian used all these Law Fragments to restore the Posuo Fruit.

At this point, the maturity of the Posuo Fruit had reached 99%, just one more integration of a Law Fragment and it would become a complete Posuo Fruit!

Song Jian pulled the Sky-breaking Sword out of a lizardman corpse. These lizardmen were powerful, with even three in the Legendary Realm at their peak, a lizardman chief with one foot stepping into the domain of demigods. If there was a frontal battle, Song Jian was no match for these lizardmen, but he was like a stealth killer lurking in the shadows. Whenever he spotted a lone lizardman, he would execute the Opening Heaven Style, instantly killing them, then quickly picking up the spoils of war and disappearing into the stone forest, the whole process taking less than ten seconds.

Seeing the Law Fragments flickering with light under the lizardman corpse, the somewhat haggard Song Jian had a smile on his face, “After a month’s time, I can finally obtain a complete Posuo Fruit, hahaha, Time Law, I can finally comprehend Time Law…”

With this thought, Song Jian hesitated not a moment to bring the Law Fragment close to the Posuo Fruit. The Posuo Fruit, already 99% mature, once again swallowed the Law Fragment. In just a moment, when the maturity reached 100%, the surface of the entire Posuo Fruit erupted with vibrant dark red flames. What were only phantom-like flames became extremely real. At the same time, an essence of Time Law spread from the Posuo Fruit, immersing Song Jian in the urge to sink into this special comprehension.

“No, this place is not safe; I must find a secure location to calmly comprehend it!” Song Jian’s eyes showed a trace of struggle as he stored the Posuo Fruit in his inventory and quickly ran towards the distance.

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