Hunted

The humans of this world had no cultivation techniques. They could only train their bodies through the crudest methods, but fortunately, this world had plenty of excellent ingredients. Some humans had gradually realized that eating the flesh and blood of powerful creatures could make them stronger.

Gungenmir was one such powerful beast. Even without cooking skills or recipes, people could still toughen their skin by continually eating its flesh.

The training method was primitive, but extremely effective, which made Gungenmir immensely valuable.

Had Gungenmir not been so difficult to deal with, impossible to hunt without several hundred people surrounding it at once, the slave traders' leader would certainly have ordered everyone to kill it the moment it appeared.

So he had no reason to let meat already at his lips fly away.

Elsewhere, Owl hid behind a tree, watching a spot not far away. He was lucky, because he had found Spear Fruit, but not particularly lucky, because a bear was resting right beside it.

Under normal circumstances, bears preferred resting in caves and similar places. But the bear Owl had to face was no ordinary bear. It was a Monster Bear.

Owl would never have recognized a Monster Bear before, but the creature itself was also an ingredient, and happened to be recorded in the Great Eating Sutra:

Monster Bear: adult males stand 2.5 meters tall, measure 3.7 meters long, and weigh 2.1 tonnes. Females stand 3 meters tall, measure 5 meters long, and weigh 4.8 tonnes.

Easily enraged and savage in temperament. Fond of tiger and wolf meat. Possesses monstrous strength.

Cooking methods include the following: ...

Owl could swear to heaven that he absolutely did not want to provoke a Monster Bear. It was even more terrifying than Gungenmir, a beast he could no longer escape