"This is our unique craft."
Zhang Da explained:
"Meat from different Sea Beasts and different cuts all have their own properties as ingredients. Our ancestors left us many secret recipes for combining them. We mix these meats together like we're cooking, then cure them with a secret sauce to raise their rank."
"I see."
Lin Yuan nodded.
In Paradise, everyone simply cooked transcendent ingredients before eating them, at most finding ways to make them taste better.
He hadn't expected there to be a way to upgrade transcendent ingredients like this.
It was a little like artisans turning transcendent materials into Transcendent Equipment.
Though these island dwellers were weak, they had mastered a useful craft.
That did come as a surprise to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan put away all the Gem-Cured Meat and discovered that, although it all shared the same name, its quality and effects varied.
There were only three pieces of C-rank cured meat like the one in Lin Yuan's hand in the entire courtyard. The rest were D-rank and E-rank, without the trait that allowed them to add abilities to Transcendent Equipment with biological activity.
Zhang Da then explained that the quality of the finished product varied according to the quality of the raw ingredients.
At the same time, every island around Shattered Island had its own secret recipes.
Although Lin Yuan had killed many Sea Beasts yesterday, the recipes their island possessed could only produce these three pieces of C-rank cured meat.
This cured meat was Shattered Island's most famous local specialty, as well as the most valuable thing they had to exchange with the caravan for supplies.
Most of the other assorted goods the caravan brought were likewise made on islands with unique crafts, much like Shattered Island.
"Interesting. Can you cure this meat, then?"
Lin