This highly efficient energy-harvesting system continuously drew vast amounts of Spiritual Energy from the Crystal Veins deep beneath the rocky strata.
Its crisscrossing "grapevines" were laden with heavy fruit.
Every watermelon-sized fruit looked as though it had been carved from yellow crystal, shimmering with flowing light, crystal-clear, and fragrant enough to fill the air.
They were so plump that they seemed ready to burst at the slightest touch, spilling out thick, honey-like liquid gold.
Meng Chao clicked his tongue inwardly.
These "Yellow Crystal Balls" were, astonishingly, the finest among Mandala Fruits—Golden Fruits.
Ye Zi had once told him that during every growth cycle, each Mandala Tree could often produce only a single Golden Fruit.
While that Golden Fruit was still growing, it would unreasonably seize more than half the nutrients of the entire Mandala Tree.
Leaving the other Mandala Fruits utterly unable to contend with it.
The "grapevines" before him clearly lacked the towering trunks and canopy-blocking crowns of Mandala Trees.
Yet within such a tiny space, they were densely packed with Golden Fruits that seemed to proclaim, "I alone reign supreme."
With one casual sweep of his gaze, Meng Chao spotted at least several hundred.
It appeared that the Human-Faced Spider had relied on these Golden Fruits for sustenance, barely enduring the erosion of the incomparably long years he had spent sealed deep underground.
The biotechnology used to cultivate these "grapevines" far exceeded Meng Chao's imagination, as well as the technological limits of Dragon City Agricultural University.
If this technology could be brought into Dragon City...
The Human-Faced Spider knew nothing of the countless twists and turns in Meng Chao's mind.
He waved his Blade Limbs, plucked three Golden Fruits in quick succession, and swallowed them.
Only then did his face, pale as paper, regain a faint trace of