The authentic Sichuan-style Salamander hotpot was served, its color a tempting, vibrant red, and its flavor domineering and satisfying. The only question was whether or not it was poisonous.
"Uh, well, Kakashi, why don't you let your Pakkun try my cooking?"
Ling was too embarrassed to say she intended to use Pakkun as a taste-tester. As for Ling letting Pakkun taste it first, that was a display of affection for small animals. If Pakkun couldn't resist the food's aroma and ate it himself, then it had nothing to do with Uchiha Ling.
"No, you don't mean you don't know if Salamander meat is poisonous and you're planning to use Pakkun to test it, are you?"
Kakashi was a genius; he immediately saw what the stammering Ling was trying to express, and he resolutely refused.
"Slurp, Kakashi, just sacrifice Pakkun for a bit. If it's not poisonous, you can just eat a few more pieces. Look, delicious food fresh out of the pot loses its flavor if it sits too long. Eat it while it's hot!"
Obito and Might Guy had already taken out their eating bowls and chopsticks, and tears of hunger were practically gushing from their eyes.
Kakashi was unyielding, so Ling could only look with expectant eyes at Shisui, who was also secretly swallowing saliva. She remembered Shisui also had a Summoning Beast.
"Shisui-kun, why don't you let A-Da try this Salamander and see if it's delicious?"
Under Ling's gaze, Shisui's heart stirred. He found it difficult to refuse, his heart wavering between his favoritism for Ling and his guilt towards A-Da.
"You're a Medical Ninja yourself, can't you identify poison?" Kakashi's words were a wake-up call, and Ling almost forgot her side job.
In this day and age, who doesn't have a side job they easily forget? Ling immediately took out some test tubes and reagents, extracted some Salamander meat, and after multiple extractions, separations, comparisons, and analyses, confirmed that the Salamander meat was not poisonous.
However, Ling did not immediately announce the result. After all, with Obito and Might Guy poised to pounce, she wouldn't have any advantage if she directly competed for the food.
So Ling began to pack up her experimental equipment with a sorrowful expression, then stealthily approached the pot of Salamander, and discreetly took out her own eating bowl from her Ninja Tool pouch.
Then, just as everyone thought Ling was going to dump the pot of Salamander meat, Ling, with lightning speed, immediately scooped a full, large bowl and began to devour it like a whirlwind.
"Damn it! You could eat it, but you made that face to trick us!" Obito and Might Guy immediately joined the fray, followed by Kakashi, Shisui, and Shiranui Genma, who also made their moves.
"Hahaha, how about that? I tricked you, didn't I? Na-na-na-na-na, are you mad or not?"
The Salamander meat in Ling's bowl decreased at a visible rate, while they were only just beginning to scoop the Salamander into their own bowls.
When they had eaten a third of it, Ling went for another large bowl. Ling's actions immediately made those two idiots, Obito and Might Guy, speed up their eating, completely ignoring their runny noses from the spiciness.
Meanwhile, other Ninja villages' teams that had landed on the island were struggling through the Rain Forest, enduring hunger and the humid heat, when suddenly a very potent, spicy aroma wafted over.
Consequently, everyone's stomachs began to rebel, rumbling in protest. The self-digestion of stomach acid made them feel as if their stomachs were being tightly squeezed by someone's hand.
"Damn it! Which bastard is releasing poison in a place like this! Don't they have any public decency! This is outrageous!"
"Stop it, the source of this scent seems to be on the opposite island. Has someone already landed on the island? So fast!"
Ling didn't know that her single act of being a 'bad person' directly caused a chorus of roaring stomachs to echo across the Rain Forest island. If her system was a negative emotion collection system, Ling might have already accumulated enough for a ten-pull gacha.
"Before, looking at the Salamander's disgusting and ugly appearance, I thought it couldn't be eaten. I never expected it to be so delicious! Oh, it's truly fragrant!"
Aside from gatherings, Obito rarely ate such delicious food. Coupled with the Ninja World's preference for light meals, such a domineering Sichuan-style spicy flavor left him with an endless aftertaste.
"Yes, it's truly fragrant." Might Guy lay on the ground, his stomach bulging high. This was the consequence of competing for food with Ling; he had eaten too much.
In contrast, Uchiha Ling calmly began picking her teeth. This amount, Ling said, was only about 70% full. However, the diluted Natural Energy and Chakra contained in Salamander meat had a great nourishing effect on the human body.
Currently, Ling's Heavenly Restriction was finding it difficult to further enhance her physique, which had already reached the limit for her current age. Unexpectedly, eating Salamander meat actually resulted in a slight improvement.
After Ling tidied up the pots, bowls, and ladles that Shisui had cleaned, she continued to ambush on the Stone Bridge, always waiting for lucky contestants to enter and pay their "tickets."
Ling opened her golden finger and found that the stable emotion supply had increased somewhat. It seemed to be the credit of her "poison release" just now.
Looking at the astronomical figure of one hundred eighty-seven, Ling was somewhat looking forward to what she would draw in the next lottery.
In fact, this number fluctuated. Sometimes, when those stable emotion providers died, the number would decrease.
Every time the number decreased, Ling felt a heartbreaking pang, so in order not to be constantly worried and sleepless, Ling proactively blocked the notifications of increases and decreases in stable emotion providers.
Fortunately, items already drawn would not disappear if the quantity dropped below the requirement for the previous draw, but to perform the next draw, she still needed to make up the quantity required for the previous draw before she could proceed.
Ling planned to improve her Reversal Technique. Previously, Ling's Reversal Technique could only heal herself, and the extent of healing couldn't reach limb regeneration.
But ever since Ling subjugated the Shikigami Enka, Ling could use Technique Reversal to borrow Enka's ability to bring her Reversal Technique's level closer to Enka's.
This difficulty was not as hard as Ling trying to learn the Shikigami's technique, but it wasn't simple either. When borrowing Enka's ability, that high-level positive Curse Power was generated naturally.
Therefore, Ling wanted to master high-level Reversal Technique only by reverse-engineering the process of synthesizing this positive Curse Power through Enka's positive Curse Power.
In short, Ling's current Reversal Technique required intense practice, the Sealing Technique designed to seal White Zetsu required intense practice, the Yin Seal designed to store Sage Art Chakra required intense practice, the study of the original sealing runes in the Six Paths Tools: Vajra Bracelet required intense practice, and Sage Mode required intense practice.
Ling's daily training schedule was packed. She always had her own goals to pursue, unlike others who could only train hard repeatedly.
"Ling, snap out of it. It seems someone in the Rain Forest opposite is heading this way, but they seem to be fighting."
Shisui's voice brought Ling back to her senses. Everyone was already used to Ling spacing out when she was safe, but Ling wasn't completely unaware of her surroundings.
Any killing intent, hostility, or even gazes filled with negative emotions directed at her would alarm Ling, so Ling wasn't afraid of encountering danger.
"Everyone, I have a small idea. Perhaps we can obtain enough scrolls without shedding a single drop of blood." Ling smiled sinisterly, having thought of something.
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