Facing Lu Li's question, Ichiryu simply gave two words: "Time."
"Time?"
Lu Li was still puzzled.
"Some ingredients hadn't matured back then. So even though the old man had already understood their effects, he still didn't harvest them. He could only wait for the right time."
Ichiryu explained, then his expression grew somewhat serious. "And now, the time has come. This is the most special point in time in five hundred years. Not only have all kinds of ingredients matured and become available for capture, even GOD is about to appear in the Living World again."
"In other words, your Master might reappear?"
Lu Li pondered this. Although every powerful Gourmet Hunter pursued Acacia's Life Course Meal, when it came down to it, the person who most wanted to eat that Life Course Meal should have been Acacia himself.
According to Ichiryu, Acacia should have eaten quite a few dishes from his own Life Course Meal, but there were probably one or two that he had yet to taste. Only after eating them would he obtain complete power.
Putting himself in Acacia's shoes, if Lu Li were that obsessed with strength, he would definitely want to complete himself. And even if it were purely for the sake of eating, it would be unbearable not to finish a Life Course Meal one had spent an entire lifetime creating.
So as long as Acacia was still alive, he would definitely appear in the near future. The urgency in Lu Li's heart intensified once more. When it came to food, even if Acacia was the creator of that menu, Lu Li would not yield it to him.
"I'm conflicted now. I want to reunite with Master, but what happened back then also feels deeply strange. If the old man simply remained silent and