Food: I found Eri Nakiri in the world of Food Prisoners

The seawater is also very clear, and you can see the pufferfish whales clearly from the shore.

Pufferfish whales lay their eggs in batches because there are just too many of them. Master Xu Yonghe Jiro's target was the pufferfish whales that had already finished laying their eggs.

"This batch of pufferfish whales has already laid their eggs, and that old man made his move first!"

As Master Jiro spoke, he took out a pressure point gun. He couldn't wait to taste the fin wine. The only thing that could make Master Jiro make a special trip was fin wine made from the fins of a pufferfish whale.

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Regenerator's Hunting Methods

“Master Jiro, leave it to me. My method is easier.”

Xu Yong spoke up, explaining that it wasn't that he wanted to show off his skills, but rather that his method was indeed more effortless, and once used, all the pufferfish whales in this batch would be affected, so it was best for him to take action.

"That's true. With a regeneration master like you here, I really don't need to go through all this trouble."

Master Jiro glanced at Xu Yong and remembered Xu Yong's identity as a regeneration master, so he withdrew his pressure point gun.

Seeing this, Xu Yong took out a small bottle containing a liquid with a strong numbing effect and dripped it into the seawater.

This drug spreads very quickly; once dissolved in water, it can spread to a radius of one kilometer within about ten seconds.

The effect is to directly paralyze all creatures within the range; however, the effectiveness of this paralysis depends on the strength of the target.

This medicine is useless against creatures that are too strong, but it's still quite effective against pufferfish whales. After all, the capture level of pufferfish whales is not based on their combat strength, but rather on the difficulty of capturing them.

Therefore, Xu Yong's anesthetic drug can easily render pufferfish unconscious, and once they are unconscious, they will not be poisoned when captured.

Ten seconds after the anesthetic was administered, all the pufferfish whales became motionless. Not only the pufferfish whales, but other aquatic creatures also fainted.

"Your methods as regenerators are indeed quite excellent when it comes to capturing this type of food."

Master Jiro said with a smile that if it were him, he would simply use an acupressure gun to apply pressure points and then slowly retrieve it.

Of course, one could also use a more forceful acupressure technique to directly apply pressure to a wide area, but Jiro would not do that unless absolutely necessary, since his large-scale acupressure techniques are ridiculously powerful.

Even if you can suppress the power, using it to capture a pufferfish whale is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

"Strainer".

Xu Yong looked at the pufferfish whale that had been paralyzed and used calories to condense cooking utensils. His utensils were spoons and chopsticks. In this situation, using a spoon to scoop up the fish was naturally the most convenient.

Moreover, the spoon that Xu Yong made was a slotted spoon, which made it very easy to scoop things up.

This batch of pufferfish whales that had finished spawning were caught and killed by Xu Yong in one fell swoop; the number was probably several thousand.

Xu Yong wasn't worried about catching too many pufferfish whales. There were quite a few pufferfish whales, but the caves on the beach were too small, so the pufferfish whales laid their eggs in batches.

Moreover, even if all the adult pufferfish whales are captured, there are still fish eggs, right? As a regeneration expert, Xu Yong knows all about these things.

"Now that you've won over Master Jiro, how many do you need?"

After Xu Yong brought the pufferfish whales to him, he asked a question.

"I only caught the pufferfish whale for a sip of fish fin wine, but I can bring some over to Kosuke. Just fill this jar."

Master Jiro took out a collapsible jar. This jar has a large capacity, but it can be folded up when empty, making it easy to carry.

Upon hearing Master Jiro's words, Xu Yongzheng was about to put the pufferfish whale into the jar, but he suddenly stopped.

"I almost forgot, the effects of my paralyzing drug only last for half an hour. After half an hour, the effects will wear off, and the paralyzed creature will recover."

As Xu Yong spoke, numerous tiny golden spikes appeared around him, transforming into streaks of light that weaved among the captured pufferfish whales.

If you look closely, you'll find that these spikes are actually just chopsticks shrunk to a certain size.

Xu Yong used these chopsticks to directly apply pressure points to the paralyzed pufferfish whales. The reason he didn't kill them directly was because Master Jiro still needed to take these pufferfish whales back, so applying pressure points to maintain their lives was also a way of preserving them.

Even after the acupressure has worn off, there's no need to worry about the pufferfish whales turning poisoned on their own.

Before learning the art of feeding, Xu Yong would not have been able to accurately apply pressure points to so many pufferfish whales at once, but now that he has learned the art of feeding, this operation is naturally no problem.

"It seems your pressure point skills haven't gone to waste, but you're still a bit too green. Once you've mastered the art of food, go find me at Xiaojie's place."

Master Jiro was quite satisfied with Xu Yong's acupressure technique. Although in his eyes, the technique was still very immature, it was only in front of him. Xu Yong's current acupressure skills were already very strong in the human world.

"Then thank you very much, Master Jiro!"

As Xu Yong put the pufferfish whale into the collapsible container, he thanked them.

He hadn't expected such an unexpected gain this time. Master Jiro's words undoubtedly meant that he intended to teach him acupressure.

This is different from before, when Jiro-sensei would teach him incidentally and for a very short time.

The fact that he said those words this time meant that he intended to teach him seriously. Xu Yong was quite envious of Master Jiro's pressure point techniques.

"Alright, enough with the formalities, I'll be taking my leave now."

Master Jiro waved his hand and simply dragged away the collapsible jar filled with pufferfish whales.

This collapsible container contained hundreds of pufferfish whales; you should know, Xu Yong caught several thousand this time.

Because of their previous conversation, Master Jiro knew that Xu Yong was going to go deeper into the world, so the two parted ways here.

After Master Jiro had gone far away, a large number of tiny golden calorie chopsticks reappeared around Xu Yong, and these chopsticks once again swam among the pufferfish whale.

This time, however, it wasn't acupuncture, but a direct kill. Xu Yong's system space couldn't hold living beings, so he could only put it into the system space after killing it.

Soon, thousands of pufferfish whales were completely killed. Xu Yong did not intend to eat them directly, but instead sent them into his spatial dimension.

For Xu Yong, cooking pufferfish whales was not a big problem.

Cooking pufferfish whales is indeed very difficult because the location of the venom sacs and venom glands in each pufferfish whale is completely different. It can be said that each pufferfish whale has its own unique cutting routes. Once you deviate from these cutting routes, you will become poisoned.

The two most crucial points in preparing pufferfish are determining the location of the venom sac and venom gland, and controlling the force applied.

Once these two conditions are met, cooking pufferfish and whales will not be a big problem. These two conditions are naturally very simple for Xu Yong, but there is no need to cook them now.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Deep Within the Beach Cave, Finding the Path with Sunflowers

While pufferfish and whale meat are delicious, their main benefits are restoring and replenishing energy; activating cells is not so easy.

The calories consumed by catching the pufferfish whale were negligible for Xu Yong, so he didn't need to replenish them at all.

Xu Yongyi is not yet proficient in food, nor has he mastered the technique of temporarily increasing the calorie limit, so there is naturally no need for him to eat pufferfish now.

After collecting the pufferfish whales, Xu Yongjiu left the cave. By the time the next batch of pufferfish whales came to lay their eggs, the numbing drugs in the water would have long since worn off.

Now he needs to head straight to the depths of the beach cave, where he will capture skeletal moss and hunt some demonic serpents.

After all, the demon serpent is also a good ingredient, and the demon serpent in the deepest layers is basically unlikely to have eaten a human.

People who come to the beach caves are there for pufferfish whales. Those who are capable of catching pufferfish whales will not stay long after they catch them; they will only stay in the middle and upper layers and will not go to the deeper layers.

Those who venture into the deeper levels are almost always there for the Bone Moss; as for hunting the Demon Serpent, virtually no one does that.

With the strength to hunt the deep-seated demon serpent, wouldn't it be better to capture other, better ingredients?

Xu Yong planned to capture some demon serpents because it was something he happened to be doing, not something he deliberately did.

After leaving the cave where the pufferfish spawned, Xu Yong followed the cave downwards. However, the further down he went, the more complex the maze became. The beach cave was also a maze, but compared to the Golden Swamp maze that appeared later, this maze was nothing.

"Honestly, why didn't the people who came down before bring a map or something?"

Xu Yong took out a seed, dropped it on the ground, and dripped a growth-inducing liquid on it. After that, a sunflower about 1.5 meters tall appeared in front of him.

The next second, the sunflower petals suddenly flew out in all directions.

As the petals detached, some patterns suddenly appeared in the center of the sunflower. The center of the sunflower was where Xu Yong was located. Its petals would fly in different directions and avoid obstacles.

This type of sunflower is called the Pathfinding Sunflower. It is a modified plant that Yu Zuo created when he was young, and its purpose is to help people find their way in mazes.

However, the pathfinding sunflower's maximum range is a radius of ten kilometers. Once this range is exceeded, the pathfinding sunflower will become ineffective.

Because better pathfinding methods became available later, the game did not further improve the pathfinding sunflower.

Xu Yong also had another way of finding his way, but it was more precious, so he used the cheaper wayfinding sunflower instead.

The maze of the beach cave isn't very big; a pathfinding sunflower is enough. Even if one isn't enough, you can use a few more to find your destination smoothly.

The original species of demon serpent is enormous, and the location it occupies, as Xu Yongting and Zuo had mentioned, is a huge void, so it would be easy for the Pathfinding Sunflower to find it.

With the pathfinding sunflower, Xu Yong only needed to stand still and watch. The sunflower petals were small and wouldn't attract much attention from other creatures, so the chances of it being damaged were very small.

After about half an hour, the sunflower's petals reached their limit, and Xu Yong simply picked the sunflower.

Once picked, the Pathfinding Sunflower becomes a map. However, this map has an expiration date; it only lasts for three days. After three days, the Pathfinding Sunflower's energy is depleted, and the map becomes invalid.

After all, this is a plant, not an electronic device.

"It looks like we'll have to try a few more times; we haven't found the biggest cave yet."

Xu Yong glanced at the map, which showed many caves of varying sizes, but judging from the proportions, they were at most the lairs of ordinary demon serpents.

However, Xu Yong was not discouraged; he figured he could just use the pathfinding sunflower a few more times.

Xu Yong looked at the sunflower map in his hand and walked deeper into the area, passing by some lairs of demon serpents along the way.

The number of creatures in the deeper layers began to increase, and Xu Yong discovered that most of these creatures were cave creatures with extremely fast reproduction rates. Clearly, these creatures were the food source for the demon serpent.

In addition, there are many passages deep inside the cave that connect to the ocean, but these passages are also very dangerous and the environment is not suitable for pufferfish to lay their eggs, so pufferfish do not appear in these passages.

The demon serpents probably also use this passage to go hunting in the sea, otherwise it would be difficult to feed so many demon serpents.

Without enough food, these demonic serpents would probably have already rushed to the middle or upper levels, or even possibly gone directly to the outside world.

"The level has increased significantly, and as we delve deeper, the level of the demon serpent continues to rise as well."

Xu Yong looked at the demonic serpent in front of him, which he had already cut into several pieces. At this moment, the cell level measured by the machine in his hand had reached as high as level 53.

Although not all creatures are classified according to their capture level.

However, for creatures like the Demon Serpent, the capture level is basically linked to the cell level. If a machine were used to measure the level of a creature like a pufferfish whale, the measured level would probably only be a single digit, and even one of the lower single digits.

After all, even Komatsu could cut up a pufferfish whale, but the Devil Serpent was different. The Devil Serpent's cell level was not low. Not to mention Komatsu, even if Toriko and Coco were to attack together now, they wouldn't be able to break through its defenses.

Of the Four Heavenly Kings, only Zebula could deal with the demonic serpent before them, but Zebula had already been sent to the Gourmet Prison by Teppei.

In the early to mid-stages, Zebra was the strongest among the Elite Four, only being overtaken by Toriko in the later stages.

After putting away the demonic serpent in front of him, Xu Yong continued to use the Pathfinding Sunflower. Finally, on the fourth use, he found a super-large cave.

Although the lair of the demon serpent is shaped like a cave, the size of those caves is actually not much different. However, the cave in front of us is at least a hundred times larger than the previous caves.

Seeing the cave shown on the map, Xu Yong knew he had found his destination.

It must be said that the upper, middle and deep layers are completely different concepts.

There are only a few passages on the upper level, so even if you're unlucky, you can get to the middle level quickly. However, the complexity of the maze increases exponentially from the middle level to the deep maze. The complexity of the deep maze is even more exaggerated. Xu Yong actually used the pathfinding sunflower four times before he found his target.

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Bones of the Primal Demon Serpent

Having found his destination, Xu Yong naturally moved quickly toward it. Although there were some demonic serpents along the way, Xu Yong dealt with them with great ease.

After all, Xu Yong is capable of fighting even level 70 or 80 beasts now, let alone level 50 or 60 beasts.

The demonic serpent posed no threat to him, but Xu Yong soon noticed a faint sense of oppression, which intensified as she approached the largest cavern.

"The oppressive feeling is getting stronger and stronger. Is this the aura of the original Demon Serpent?"

Xu Yong was also somewhat alarmed, but upon closer reflection, it seemed not unacceptable, given that the original Demon Serpent species had a capture level exceeding five thousand.

This level is second only to the Eight Kings. Even the Seven Beasts of the Sixth Continent do not have such a level, which shows how fierce the original species of the Demon Serpent is.

The stronger a creature is, the stronger the pressure it can leave behind. Even though a thousand years have passed, the horse king's hoofprints on Yuto Island still affect the surrounding environment.

Even though Toriko had been in the Gourmet World for a while and his strength had improved a lot, he was still intimidated by the horse king's hoofprint when he passed by it.

Although the Demon Serpent cannot compare to the Eight Kings, it is second only to them in strength. In addition, since this is a complete skeleton, the pressure it releases is not weak.

However, because this oppressive aura has been around for so long, it no longer poses a significant threat to Xu Yong.

It should be noted that Xu Yong's cell level is not even level 50, but he was able to withstand this pressure. This shows that the pressure brought by the original corpse of the Demon Serpent has weakened to a certain extent, and it will probably disappear completely in a few hundred years.

"Hiss... Is this some kind of movie about Anaconda?!"

Upon arriving at the largest cave, Xu Yong gasped in shock. The skeletons inside emitted bursts of green light, illuminating the entire cave.

However, these lights did not come from the skeletons, but from the skeletal moss growing on them.

Under this eerie green light, Xu Yong could clearly see a huge snake ball next to the skeleton.

That's right, it's similar to the serpent sphere in Anaconda 2, only this one is much larger, and the head of the demonic serpent is outside the sphere, with its three eyes looking even more eerie under the green light.