Desert Island Infrastructure: Claiming the System Brings Many Blessings

The mushroom grew at the base of a fallen giant tree.

The giant tree's roots are intertwined, like a huge hand gripping the ground. A thick layer of humus has accumulated in the gaps between the roots, and dark green moss covers the entire surface of the roots.

Mushrooms grow on the thickest main root of the tree.

It's about the size of a fist. The cap is layered, similar in shape to the previous Azure Poison Mushroom and Ice Crystal Poison Mushroom. Its color is a translucent emerald green, like a polished piece of green jade.

Its glossy surface makes it stand out against the surrounding dark jungle.

The mushrooms were also glowing. A pale green light emanated from the edges of their caps, pulsating intermittently.

"That's it," Qin Chuan confirmed.

The Rinnegan's recognition information was no longer needed. The three types of poisonous mushrooms were extremely similar in appearance, differing only in color and properties. Qin Chuan could now recognize them at a glance.

The problem lies with that jade python.

The python was coiled up only a dozen meters away from the mushroom. Was it guarding the mushroom, or was it just sleeping there by chance?

Qin Chuan didn't know the answer, nor did he intend to gamble.

Regardless of whether the python was guarding the mushrooms, it remained lying there. Qin Chuan had to get close to that spot to pick the mushrooms.

A distance of a dozen meters is like face-to-face contact for a 600-meter-long python.

The python's attack speed was extremely fast. Even if it was sleeping, at such close range, if it were awakened, Qin Chuan would have no time to react.

"We must deal with the snake first before we can safely pick the mushrooms."

Qin Chuan finalized his plan in his mind.

Kill the snake first. Then pick the mushrooms. Quick in and quick out.

He stopped about three kilometers from his target. This was a safe distance. A 1,600-year-old python's sensory range is at most one or two kilometers; it shouldn't be able to detect him at three kilometers.

Qin Chuan began making preparations.

The ancient sword demon has appeared.

Dark purple energy surged from within him, layering over his mask, shoulder armor, torso, and limbs. A greatsword materialized in his right hand.

A fully formed ancient sword demon, over twenty meters tall, appeared in the jungle.

It was too big. The canopy wasn't tall enough, and the ancient sword demon's head and shoulders emerged directly from the middle of the canopy. Several thick branches were snapped off by its body and fell down with a crash.

"Forget it, I can't worry about that now." Qin Chuan adjusted himself inside the Sword Demon's body.

He controlled the ancient sword demon and flew towards the Jade Star Serpent.

The branches and leaves of the tree canopy were constantly smashed and shattered in front of the sword demon. The dark purple metallic body squeezed through the jungle like an out-of-control tank.

Set the speed to maximum.

Three kilometers is a distance that can be covered in just a few seconds.

The Jade Star Python has awakened.

Its two vertical pupils snapped open. Rings of green light appeared on the transparent snake's body, like some kind of warning signal.

The enormous snake head rose from its coiled body.

Qin Chuan did not give it any more time to react.

"Divine Summoning Technique!"

The phantom of the God of Food began to take shape behind the ancient sword demon.

It was very fast. The experience gained from previous uses made the process of condensing the phantom much smoother. A huge head, curved horns, a hideous maw that split from the left ear to the right, and two pure golden, pupil-less eyes.

A phantom, a thousand meters tall, shot straight into the sky, piercing through the canopy of the jungle, its head disappearing into the gray sky.

The God of Cookery's spiritual pressure poured down at the same instant.

It covered the entire woodland.

The Jade Star Python reacted even more violently than the Thunder Dragon.

The 600-meter-long snake body writhed wildly the instant the God of Food's oppressive aura descended. The writhing was completely uncontrollable, as if it had been electrocuted.

Then its body froze.

The green light patterns on the transparent snake's body vanished. Its vertical pupils contracted violently, shrinking into thin slits.

The snake's mouth opened.

A silent hiss. Its mouth opened to its widest extent, but no sound came out. The oppressive aura of the God of Food had suppressed all its vocal organs.

The python's head began to droop.

It didn't submit on its own. It was the oppressive force compelling its body to obey. The fear etched into its genes was fully awakened at that moment.

Snakes. One of the earliest species domesticated under the Food God civilization. Ten thousand years ago, the Food God used snakes as food more frequently than anything else. Snakes' fear of the Food God was deeper than that of other species.

The 600-meter-long python lay completely sprawled on the ground. Its head was buried between its coiled body, unable to lift even a sliver.

"It's more effective than the dragon," Qin Chuan thought to himself.

Even after being suppressed, the golden fire-breathing dragon could still struggle for a few moments and breathe out half a fireball. The python, however, was completely crippled.

Qin Chuan wasted not a single second.

The ancient sword demon charged forward. He raised his greatsword high and slashed down towards a point three meters behind the python's head.

That spot is the snake's "seven-inch mark." Not literally seven inches, but the location of the snake's heart.

One sword.

puff!

The greatsword pierced directly through the python's body from above. The tip entered from the back, passed through the spine and internal organs, and emerged from the other side of the abdomen.

The python's body twitched violently.

The 600-meter-long snake body sprang to a halt, like a rubber band snapped open. Its tail lashed out, snapping more than a dozen large trees in the vicinity.

But only this once.

Then my body went limp.

The transparent snake's body began to lose its transparency, becoming cloudy, as if someone had poured a glass of milk into clear water.

The light in his eyes went out.

Qin Chuan drew his sword. The blade was stained with pale green snake blood.

From the appearance of the phantom of the God of Food to the death of the python, the entire process took no more than eight seconds.

"Okay." Qin Chuan immediately put away the Food God phantom.

The golden light vanished rapidly from the sky. The thousand-meter-tall phantom disappeared completely within three seconds.

The jungle fell back into its previous darkness and silence.

Qin Chuan's heart was pounding. Not from nervousness, but from the severe depletion of his mental energy. The Food God's Spirit Summoning Technique, combined with the sword strike controlled by the ancient sword demon, had reduced his mental energy from 55% to 30%.

"Quick and decisive, perfect." Qin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Now let's begin processing the prey.

A 600-meter python, while not as exaggeratedly large as the Sky-Swallowing Serpent, is still a behemoth. Cut, cook, and eat. The process is the same as before.

Qin Chuan didn't rush to pick the mushrooms. They were right at the base of the fallen giant tree; they wouldn't run away. He'd deal with the python first.

The ancient sword demon began its work. The greatsword slashed precisely across the snake's body, cutting off the most valuable pieces one by one.

The process of dividing the jade python went relatively smoothly.

While a python's scales are almost transparent and extremely hard when it's alive, their transparency disappears and their hardness decreases significantly after death. The greatsword encounters almost no resistance when cutting through them.

Qin Chuan spent about fifteen minutes cutting off the heart, liver, back meat, and gallbladder of the snake.

The gallbladder of the Jade Star Python is larger than that of the Sky-Swallowing Serpent. It is about the size of a football, with a translucent emerald green shell, inside which a thick green liquid can be seen slowly flowing.

"Snake gallbladders again." Qin Chuan recalled the scene of his face contorting in pain when he ate the gallbladders of the Devouring Serpent last time. "I wonder if this one will be even more bitter than last time."

Probably.

The energy of snake gallbladders is higher in 1,600 years than in 1,280 years, and the bitterness is more likely to be stronger.

Let's ignore that for now and focus on condensing the information first.

Qin Chuan used his concentration skill to compress hundreds of tons of python meat into dozens of fist-sized chunks. The chunks were pale green with a translucent sheen on the surface.

The snake gallbladder was kept separate and not concentrated. It's not a large organ, and concentration could damage the gallbladder's integrity.

He sheathed the ancient sword demon. Qin Chuan landed on the forest floor in his true form.

My foot sank into the soft, humus-covered surface, half of it sinking in.

It was quiet all around. The commotion from that sword strike and the phantom of the God of Food had scared away all the small beasts in the vicinity. Within a radius of several kilometers, Qin Chuan was the only living creature.

Qin Chuan found a large rock protruding from the ground and sat down. He began cooking.

This time he was more experienced.

He took out Shen Mimi's seasoning packet from his spatial ring: sea salt, pepper, ginger powder, and the other bottles of sauce.

Qin Chuan spread the snake meat on the flat surface of the stone and first cut it into thin slices.

There was no knife. He used his mental power to condense a sharp energy blade at his fingertips, and like an invisible scalpel, he sliced ​​through the flesh. The slices were so thin that light could pass through them.

Then sprinkle with sea salt and pepper, and rub evenly.

Finally, begin frying using the gentle heat of the Rinnegan.

Nourishes—

The thin slices of snake meat began to curl the moment they came into contact with the heat. The pale green slices turned dark brown, and oil and moisture appeared on the surface. The aroma of meat and the spiciness of pepper filled the air.

Qin Chuan poured Shen Mimi's sauce over his head.

laugh.

The aroma of sweet and salty caramel wafted up.

"This sauce goes well with everything," Qin Chuan muttered.

Fry each piece carefully, then put it into your mouth one by one.

The meat of the Jade Star Python is not much different in taste from that of the Sky-Swallowing Serpent. Both are snake meat, with tender fibers that are easy to chew. However, the meat of the Jade Star Python has a fresher flavor, somewhat like the sweet taste of fresh bamboo shoots.

With the sauce, it tastes a bit better than the Devouring Serpent.

Qin Chuan ate one bite after another.

After eating for about five minutes, a system notification popped up.

Congratulations, your food energy has increased by 3. Your current food energy is 10,008.

Note: This is a divine ingredient; repeated consumption will have no effect.

"Add three." Qin Chuan nodded.

The same buff as the Thunder Dragon. Sixteen hundred years is significantly higher than one thousand one hundred and eighty years, but the added food power is about the same. This is probably because Qin Chuan is now a beginner-level Food God, and the buffs from low-level divine ingredients are starting to diminish.

Next up is snake gallbladder.

Qin Chuan picked up the emerald green snake gall, about the size of a soccer ball, and looked at it for two seconds.

"bring it on."

He opened his mouth and took a bite.

The outer shell of the snake gallbladder was thicker than that of the Sky-Swallowing Serpent. It took two bites to pierce it.

The moment the green liquid entered his mouth, Qin Chuan's entire face contorted in pain.

bitter.

It is three times more bitter than the gallbladder of the Heaven-Swallowing Serpent.

That kind of bitterness isn't the kind of tolerable bitterness found in bitter tea. It's the kind of bitterness that fills your entire body, from the back of your tongue to the back of your head. It even brings tears to your eyes.

Qin Chuan forced himself to swallow it. The bitter taste burned all the way from his throat to his stomach.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Another series of intense vibrations occurred in the stomach cavity. Even more violently than before.

It lasted for about six or seven minutes before it subsided.

A system notification popped up.

Congratulations, your food energy has increased by 5. Your current food energy is 10,130.

Note: This is a divine ingredient; repeated consumption will have no effect.

"Add five!"

Qin Chuan rubbed his still bitter mouth, but a smile appeared on his face.

10,013. The benefit of snake gallbladder is two points higher than that of snake meat. Consistent with the previous pattern of the Devouring Serpent, snake gallbladder is the most essential part of a snake.

Qin Chuan continued eating the remaining snake meat. Although it wouldn't add any more energy, the energy itself was still useful, replenishing his physical and mental strength.

It took about ten minutes to eat.

A feeling of fullness came from my stomach.

"It's full."

The stomach's capacity is limited. Once full, it needs time to digest, and nothing should be put in within three hours.

Qin Chuan stopped. He put all the remaining concentrated snake meat into his spatial ring.

Eat it three hours later.

He stood up and stretched his limbs. A warm energy flowed through his body, and his mental strength had returned to more than 40% thanks to the replenishment from the snake meat.

Now let's go pick mushrooms.