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This time he was even more reluctant to leave, thick-skinned with hopeful eyes, he said, "I haven’t eaten either..."

"Then shall we eat together?" Li Zheng’s face changed, "Do you think I would say that? I’m telling you, don’t even think about it!"

"Come on!" Misaka Tsuchiemon feigned ignorance, "Isn’t our Dragon Country known for its hospitality?"

"Stop with the sweet-talking crap, you’re from Mud Furnace, stop associating with our Dragon Country, have some dignity, will you?" Li Zheng said irritably, "Moreover, Dragon Country is hospitable to its guests, not Mud Furnace people, please distinguish between the two."

To be honest, Li Zheng really didn’t want to invite Misaka Tsuchiemon to dine together.

But Misaka’s next sentence convinced him.

"I’ve refereed the Olympics!"

"Alright, I’ll give you a plate."

Then Li Zheng sat with Sakura, not far away, where he gave Misaka Tsuchiemon a separate small portion, and they ate their own.

Misaka Tsuchiemon had no objections either since after all, he successfully mooched today’s delicious meal.

Picking up a glistening piece of braised pork, Misaka Tsuchiemon hesitated to take a bite, smelling it with a face full of intoxication for quite a while before reluctantly putting it in his mouth.

As soon as the braised pork entered, tears fell from Misaka Tsuchiemon’s eyes, "Ever since I arrived at Mud Furnace, I haven’t tasted authentic braised pork like this in many years, truly the taste from memory!"

Li Zheng heard this and gave him a sidelong glance, "Your family must be quite wealthy, right?"

"Huh? Why do you ask?" Misaka Tsuchiemon chewed a piece of braised pork into mush and replied indistinctly.

Li Zheng picked up a piece of meat, "The taste of this level of braised pork, in Dragon Country not everyone can eat it. As a native from Dragon Country, I only tasted it after entering the Matrix."

The stove blueprint was opened from a Treasure Chest, the dishes cooked through it are absolutely of national banquet chef level, ordinary people can’t just eat it.

This is also the reason why Zhan Zhouzhou and others went crazy after tasting the dishes, no Dragon Country person can resist the Temptation of gourmet food.

If someone can, it must be because there is not enough food.

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Li Zheng didn’t know how long it had been before he woke up from the chaos, surrounded by darkness, and not-so-strong oppression was hindering his actions.

With a swing of his joints, Li Zheng pushed aside the pressure around him and struggled to move upwards.

Quickly, his spoon-shaped carapace reached a hard barrier.

"What’s this, so hard?" Li Zheng slightly puzzled, he had just woken up, his brain was still foggy, and he couldn’t remember what had happened before he fainted.

His head tentatively pushed up, the barrier was hard, but with full strength, he should be able to break through.

Li Zheng shrank back, gathered all his strength, and rammed into the hard barrier.

Snap...

The barrier was broken open, and the bright sunlight shone down, Li Zheng suddenly felt a bit dazzled.

After a slight pause, before the opened gap became hard again, Li Zheng crawled out of the darkness.

The breeze blew gently, fresh air surged in, and Li Zheng greedily took two big breaths.

"Inhale... what’s this smell?"

"Inhale... ugh... so stinky!" Confused, Li Zheng took another big whiff.

Ignoring the nauseating sensation from his soul, Li Zheng looked around where he was and immediately remembered the scene before he fainted.

"Seemed like I encountered a legendary Giant Dragon before, and then... it threw something down from the sky..."

Li Zheng was stunned on the spot, thinking of that object and the current smell, he vaguely had a suspicion in his mind.

"Um..."

Words failed him

"Um..."

Failed to find words

"..."

Couldn’t hold it in!

"MMP!"

"Are all the Giant Dragons in Otherworld so uncouth? They poop in mid-air, but why throw it on someone! Ugh... what if it hits someone’s head?! Ugh... hits flowers... no, I should get down first."

Li Zheng quickly left Long Xiang’s top, crawling towards the ground.

"Ugh... seems like a lot got on my antennae, better go wash it off in the Water."

The antennae were somewhat like his current olfactory system, after being coated by Long Xiang, it was like shoving his nose into a toilet.

The sensation...

Fortunately, the water source wasn’t far away, soon Li Zheng arrived by the lake, but even in this short distance, Li Zheng saw many things that hadn’t existed before he fainted.

Broken bird beaks, snapped claws and fangs, shattered feathers, unknown carapaces, and some bloodstained fur...

It seemed there had been a fierce battle nearby.

"Wasn’t there no other creatures in the jungle? Where did these fragments come from?"

Li Zheng tumbled into the water, his two limbs scrubbing the dragon dung off his antennae madly.

"Stories often say, if there’s a very powerful creature suppressing an area, all weaker creatures in that area would instinctively leave, could it be that not encountering creatures before was because of that Giant Dragon?"

After the passing faint, Li Zheng felt like his mind became much clearer, operating faster than before the transmigration.

Many previously unsolvable things now just needed a little deduction to understand.

"Then how come the Mordo Sheng I possessed didn’t leave?"

The limb scrubbing his antennae paused, Li Zheng immediately figured it out, "Probably didn’t not leave, but died on the way due to some accident, which allowed me to transmigrate smoothly."

Thinking of the reflection earlier, his insect body was less than two centimeters long, probably still a larva.

If it was a larva, dying halfway through the escape is understandable.

"Huh? What’s going on here?"

Just understanding some things, Li Zheng suddenly discovered the scrubbing limbs seemed a bit off in color.

He quickly looked down into the water and found that not only the limbs, his whole body experienced great changes.

The whole body was approximately twice as large as before, with a body length reaching about six centimeters.

The spoon-shaped carapace was wider and larger, and the indentation was deeper. It was much more Solid than before.

The protrusion behind the spoon-shaped carapace was longer, but it still seemed undeveloped, still a small carapace pillar about three centimeters long.

Among these, the most significant change was his color, switching from a shiny brown-black to a matte dark green.

On the dark green carapace were deeper colored wave-like patterns, resembling fish scales.

The overall green color was exceptionally eye-catching to Li Zheng.

"How did I become like this?" Li Zheng thought, was it because I was soaked in Long Xiang for who knows how long, causing such changes?

Could it be that Long Xiang induces mutations in creatures?

Li Zheng pondered deeply, this touched his knowledge blind spot, so after thinking for a while, he didn’t come up with anything.

"I always felt this color looks familiar... really resembling jade, wait... jade?"

Li Zheng suddenly remembered about that emerald green seed he swallowed whole, still not stuck inside his body.

"Could it be because of that seed?"

Li Zheng was uncertain, but he felt a while thinking about the seed, there seemed to be something more in his mind.

With slight concentration, Li Zheng immediately grasped that feeling, his perspective instantly shifted to a dark void.

Though the dark void originally had no light, before Li Zheng was a plant bud emitting soft light, illuminating a small area.

The bud wasn’t large, with only two tender leaves the size of an infant’s thumb, vibrant and youthful.

Below, however, the root stem was monstrously developed. The dense stems floated in the void, resembling cobwebs, with the ends penetrating the void, seemingly reaching into the unknown.

"Is this grown from that seed?" Li Zheng dumbfounded, stared at the small shoot and its developed root system, astounded.

He’s heard that bamboo doesn’t grow older for ten years, but the underground roots have unknown depths.

Back then, Li Zheng couldn’t quite understand that concept, but now... he understood.

"How did this terrifying root system grow? To grow like this, wouldn’t it require vast amounts of nutrients?" Li Zheng was slightly puzzled, "Could it be because of that lump of Long Xiang?"

It was at this moment, Li Zheng realized, perhaps that lump of Long Xiang was more extraordinary than he initially thought.

At least its function wasn’t just for squashing people.

"This sprout growing in my soul, what exactly is it?" Li Zheng felt a bit uneasy, he decided he needed to discern the sprout’s role.

Otherwise, he’d have this thing constantly on his mind, unable to live peacefully.

Grutting his teeth, Li Zheng condensed his spirit into a line, approached the sprout, and touched it.