"Today, I'm making a King-grade barbecue to see how it tastes!"
Zuo Xiaoduo stepped forward, first shielding his hands with his power, then pinning down the severed centipede leg. The black hairs on it still felt particularly prickly, but the poisonous blood inside had already drained away, leaving him more room to work.
With one stroke of his sword, the hard outer skin of the centipede leg split open, revealing the snowy-white, tender pink flesh inside.
Just looking at it whetted his appetite, especially with his stomach so empty.
"Longlong, come over and see if this meat's poisonous."
"No, no, it's safe to eat."
Hearing that it was nonpoisonous, Zuo Xiaoduo felt even more reassured. He carefully carved out slices of tender meat, only to discover that the inside of this centipede leg was actually like a human's-it even had bones?!
"Things really are different once they become spirits... even a damned centipede has bones." Marveling with clicks of his tongue, Zuo Xiaoduo asked Little Dragon, "Is the Centipede King's bone marrow poisonous?"
"No. Apart from its poison glands, basically nothing inside the Centipede King is poisonous. Its toxins are mostly concentrated in its outer skin, venomous fangs, and venom sacs."
"If that's the case, all the better."
Zuo Xiaoduo processed the centipede leg meat with painstaking care. Although he only had one leg, he still managed to carve out over a hundred and thirty jin of prime meat.
He stripped the outer skin away cleanly and tossed it aside, leaving only a pile of meat and a bone picked completely clean.
He filled a large vat with the Spirit Water Ye Changqing had given him and put the prime meat in to soak.
Then, while it soaked, he began working on the centipede bone. Stroke by stroke, he split