Desert Island Infrastructure: Claiming the System Brings Many Blessings

The signal came from directly below and slightly to the west, about eight kilometers away.

Qin Chuan focused his mental energy and increased the scanning accuracy.

The signal gradually became clearer.

It was a plant.

They grow on rocks on the seabed beneath the ice, and are very small, about the size of a fist.

It is a translucent ice-blue color with a fine crystalline structure on its surface. It emits an extremely faint cold light.

Qin Chuan's heart skipped a beat.

Is this it?

He manipulated the ancient sword demon to accelerate its descent, heading in that direction.

The water grew deeper and the temperature dropped. The frost on the ancient sword demon's watch face grew thicker and thicker, forming icicles as thick as fingers in some places.

Five thousand meters.

Six thousand meters.

7,000 meters.

Qin Chuan approached the target location.

The green light of the luminous pearl illuminated the seabed.

This seabed is completely different from the bottom of the Eye of the Deep. Instead of black rock beds, there is a grayish-white ice floor. Ice and rock are interspersed, with thick ice in some places and exposed gray rocks in others.

Qin Chuan spotted the plant on the surface of a gray rock.

A mushroom.

Its shape is very similar to the Blue Poison Mushroom, with its layered caps. But the color is completely different.

This mushroom is a translucent, ice-blue color, looking like a flower sculpted from ice. Each layer of its cap is covered with fine ice crystals, refracting shimmering spots of light under the green glow of the luminous pearl.

The mushroom's stem is attached to the rock surface, and the rocks around its roots are covered with a layer of white frost.

Qin Chuan controlled the ancient sword demon to hover about ten meters above the mushroom.

Rinnegan, scanning with full power.

Information is emerging.

Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom.

Qin Chuan almost cried out.

A rare aquatic artifact. It contains extremely potent water toxins. Upon contact with the flesh and blood of living beings, it can rapidly crystallize the affected area, freezing all life processes. It can be extracted after being isolated using fire-based energy.

"Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom!" Qin Chuan clenched his fist inside the Sword Demon's body.

The second one!

Two of the five types of poisonous mushrooms have been found.

The next question is how to pick them.

The Azure Poison Mushroom is of the metal element and should be isolated using wood. The Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom is of the water element and should be isolated using fire energy.

Fire-type energy exists in Qin Chuan.

The Heaven-Burning Technique.

However, the temperature of the Heaven-Burning Technique is too high; if you're not careful, you might burn the mushroom to ashes.

"We need to control the firepower." Qin Chuan thought for a moment, "Use the lowest power of the Heaven-Burning Technique, only for isolation, and don't damage the mushroom itself."

Qin Chuan controlled the ancient sword demon to slowly approach the ice crystal poison mushroom.

He stopped about a meter away from the mushroom.

With my left palm facing down, I aimed at the mushroom.

Mental energy controls the output of the Heaven-Burning Technique.

Qin Chuan reduced the power to the lowest level.

A wisp of orange-red flame emerged from the ancient sword demon's left palm. The flame was small, only the size of a thumb. The temperature was controlled within a range that would not damage the mushroom structure.

The heat from the flames spreads rapidly in the water, but near the mushroom, the heat forms a thin warm layer.

The water toxins became less active under the influence of flames.

Taking advantage of this moment, Qin Chuan reached out with his right hand.

The ancient sword demon's fingertips carefully touched the stem of the ice crystal poison mushroom.

There was no reaction that caused ice crystallization.

The flame insulation is effective.

Qin Chuan's fingers shoveled down from the base of the mushroom, completely separating the entire Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom from the rock.

The mushroom fell into the palm of the ancient sword demon.

An icy blue light shimmered in the dark purple metal palm.

Qin Chuan continued to envelop the mushroom with the same small flame, and then sent it into his spatial ring.

The internal environment of the spatial ring is independent, and toxins will not leak out.

"Got it."

Qin Chuan let out a long breath. The tension he had been holding his breath underwater instantly dissipated.

Of the five poisonous mushrooms, two have already been obtained.

The Azure Poison Mushroom is in hand.

Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom, obtained.

Three more are missing: Jade Poison Mushroom, Flame Poison Mushroom, and Ash Poison Mushroom.

According to Gu Yifei's explanation of the five elements' generating cycle: metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, and fire generates earth.

The next one should be the Wood-type Jade Poison Mushroom.

The Wood element corresponds to environments with vegetation.

Qin Chuan brought up the map in his mind.

About 5,000 kilometers south of the Frozen Sea, there is an area marked on the map called the "Rotten Jungle".

In a desolate place like the Battlefield of the God of Food, the presence of jungle indicates the presence of vegetation. In a wood-based environment, the Jade Poison Mushroom is most likely to appear there.

Five thousand kilometers. That's quite a distance.

Qin Chuan controlled the ancient sword demon to rise towards the water's surface.

Leaving the frozen seabed, passing through thousands of meters of icy water, breaking through the ice, and returning to the gray sky.

The cold wind from the ice seeped into the cracks of the ancient sword demon, making Qin Chuan shiver again.

He sheathed the ancient sword demon and flew in his true form.

Direction: south.

Objective: The Decaying Jungle.

Qin Chuan wrapped his cloak tighter around himself and took flight again.

"Twenty-seven days. Subtracting the time spent on the road, the actual time available for searching is probably only a dozen days," Qin Chuan calculated in his mind. "We need to hurry."

Under the gray sky, a pale golden streak of light swept across the frozen sea and flew south.

The ice surface receded rapidly beneath my feet, gradually being replaced by dark red sand and gravel.

The temperature is slowly rising.

Qin Chuan's fingers regained feeling from their stiffness, and felt a little itchy. It was the kind of itchiness that comes after being frozen for a long time and then warming up, which was a bit uncomfortable.

As he flew, he went through his experience in his mind.

The two types of poisonous mushrooms are harvested in different ways. The metal-type mushrooms are isolated using wooden materials, while the water-type mushrooms are isolated using fire-type energy.

Following this pattern, the Wood-type Jade Poison Mushroom should be isolated using Metal-type materials. In the Five Elements theory, Metal overcomes Wood.

Fire-type Flame Mushrooms should be isolated using water-type energy. Water counters fire.

The Earth-type Dead Ash Mushroom should be isolated using Wood-type materials. Wood controls Earth.

"Interesting." Qin Chuan mentally reviewed the situation. "Each type of poisonous mushroom has a corresponding method to counteract it."

Therefore, as long as you find the poisonous mushrooms, harvesting them isn't too difficult. The real challenge lies in finding them.

Finding five fist-sized mushrooms in a battlefield of food gods spanning 100 million square kilometers is an incredibly difficult task.

Fortunately, there's the Rinnegan. Although a scanning range of 100 kilometers is insignificant compared to the entire battlefield, as long as the direction is right and you're in the correct environmental area, combined with intensive search scanning, you can always find it.

We found the first two plants, didn't we?

The Azure Poison Mushroom was discovered by chance while escaping Bataan. The Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom was found through a targeted search after arriving at the Frozen Sea.

"Luck and skill are both indispensable," Qin Chuan concluded.

It took about three hours to fly.

The terrain beneath our feet has changed again.

The dark red sand and gravel were gradually replaced by grayish-brown soil. The soil surface was somewhat damp and should feel soft to the touch.

Some low-lying vegetation appeared in the distance.

Scattered patches of grayish-green shrubs dotted the muddy ground. The shrubs had small leaves with curled edges, looking half-dead.

But at least there are plants now.

The further south they flew, the more vegetation they encountered. Shrubs grew into saplings, and saplings grew into large trees.

The trees were strangely shaped. Their trunks were twisted and bent, and their bark was dark gray, as if it had been twisted from the inside by something. The leaves were a dark green, almost black, and they looked unhealthy.

A rotten smell filled the air. A cloying, sour, putrid odor that made one want to vomit.

A decaying jungle.

True to its name.

Qin Chuan lowered its flight altitude and entered the canopy.

The gray sky above transformed into the dark green light of the jungle interior. The dense canopy further obscured most of the already dim light.

Visibility was low in the jungle, with tangled branches and hanging vines everywhere.

The Rinnegan automatically adjusted its scanning mode, passing through the thick layer of vegetation and probing into the depths of the jungle.

There are many signs of life.

Completely different from the previous wasteland and metallic mountains, the density of life in the decaying jungle was much higher. Within the scanning range of the Rinnegan, there were at least a dozen life signals of varying sizes.

Most of them are small to medium-sized exotic beasts. The capture level ranges from several hundred to one thousand years.

Qin Chuan had no interest in paying attention to them.

His only goal was the Green Jade Poisonous Mushroom.