Chapter 165
It looks exactly like a mushroom on land!
These sea mushrooms grow among seaweed; you have to part the seaweed to see them.
They also have round caps and thick stems.
Even the folds of their mushroom caps look almost identical!
If it weren't for the fact that they were definitely underwater and that the soft seaweed floating in front of them wasn't grass, the White Dragon would have almost thought they were in a forest.
To avoid being too surprised and choking on water, the White Dragon carried Telingewei quietly to the surface to breathe.
They took several deep breaths on the sea surface.
White Dragon turned his head and asked, "What sea mushroom?"
Telingewei looked quite surprised. "Just like mushrooms on land, only it's a kind of mushroom that grows in the sea."
White Dragon immediately realized. "So the Tata Fish ate the poisonous mushrooms, and that's why their fish milk had problems?"
The Tata Fish are so big, and they're level four Demonic Beast, they might not actually get poisoned by eating sea mushrooms in the ocean.
Harper and the others are different.
As land-dwelling Demonic Beast, and relatively small in size, Harper and his companions would certainly be more susceptible to the same dose of toxin.
The White Dragon flicked its tail; no wonder they had trouble finding fish milk before.
It turns out that the toxins weren't a problem for the Tata Fish at all; the problem only existed for Harper and her fish.
"No," Telingewei replied negatively, "Sea mushrooms are not poisonous; they are rare mushrooms that can be eaten raw."
"So what's going on?"
"Could the Tata Fish have eaten spoiled sea mushrooms?" Telingewei said. "Rotten sea mushrooms are poisonous, and unfortunately, they spoil quite easily."
"Wait, you've eaten sea mushrooms?" White Dragon's eyes lit up as he asked the question he was most interested in, "Was it delicious?"
"It's delicious," Telingewei replied without hesitation.
"I ate this kind of sea mushroom at a high-level gathering of adventurers when I was an adventurer."
"Legend has it that it is a mushroom formed from the body of the fairy queen Lila, and it tastes very delicious."
"It spoils very easily. People usually dry it with butter and sea salt and store it at low temperatures. Some people also soak it in cold-pressed olive oil. No matter how you cook it, it tastes delicious."
It was unusual for Telingewei to speak so much, and with each sentence he uttered, the White Dragon's eyes shone brighter.
The White Dragon flicked its tail, intending to charge directly into the Tata Fish pick sea mushrooms with them.
Anyway, they weren't the ones who sneaked over to pick sea mushrooms. If they rushed down and got face-to-face with the Tata Fish, they could scare those unruly guys.
Just as the White Dragon was brimming with joy and was about to charge forward—
A flock of seabirds flew in from nowhere in the sky, squawking loudly towards the sea.
The sound was so loud that it pierced through the sea surface and reached into the water.
The alert Tata Fish heard the sound immediately. Several of Tata Fish spun around on the seabed and rushed to the surface, creating several large bubbles.
The seabirds warned, "Quack, quack, quack!"
The Tata Fish cried out in alarm, "Click-click?"
Hidden in the shadows, the White Dragon watched helplessly as several Tata Fish, like piglets rooting in the ground, raised their snouts and scooped up everything on the ground into their mouths.
The sea mushrooms and seaweed that had been quietly growing on the seabed were violently sucked in by the little Tata Fish.
They quickly devoured a patch of land, then carried the remains of Demonic Sea Urchin to the surface of the sea.
The Tata Fish tossed the remains of the Demonic Sea Urchin into the air.
The seabirds, who had been waiting for a long time, swooped down and snatched away the sea urchins they had thrown.
The Tata Fish made two loud "click-click" sounds.
Immediately afterwards, they regrouped and swam back quickly.
They swam so fast, leaping out of the water and sinking back down, almost as if they were fleeing in panic.
In the blink of an eye, they had swum several hundred meters.
In their panic, they were completely unaware of the White Dragon and Telingewei, who had surfaced and were watching their backs.
Xie Juanhan transformed back into human form. "It must be the giant Tata Fish looking for them that made them rush back."
Telingewei: "I never imagined they would tame seabirds and use them to relay messages."
Xie Juanhan also remarked, "The Tata Fish are really clever."
Xie Juanhan glanced at it for a few seconds, then eagerly pulled Telingewei towards the bottom of the water. "Let's go pick sea mushrooms!"
The seaweed on the seabed was very dense, and the Tata Fish pushed aside some of it, while a large patch of seaweed swayed gently with the waves around them.
Xie Juanhan carried a net bag and gently parted the seaweed on the seabed.
He parted a few seaweed leaves and saw a tender yellow mushroom growing on the seabed.
Those are sea mushrooms that grow from the roots of yellowish-green seaweed.
It was washed very clean by the waves, and the whole sea mushroom was a translucent pale yellow color, emerging softly from the seabed.
Further away, two more sea mushrooms, their caps yet to open, clung tightly to the pseudo-roots of seaweed, standing quietly in the water.
They didn't look like mushrooms at all, but rather like freshly made butter gummies, so cute that you couldn't take your eyes off them.
Xie Juanhan reached out and picked the three sea mushrooms.
The sea mushrooms were surprisingly crisp and tender. He reached out and broke one open, making a crisp "pop" sound, just like breaking a tender bamboo shoot.
Even underwater, Xie Juanhan could clearly smell the fresh fragrance from the broken end of the sea mushroom.
Its aroma is very refreshing, with a hint of sweetness.
It was so unique that Xie Juanhan couldn't quite describe what kind of delicate fragrance it was.
However, based on this scent alone, he was already able to determine that these sea mushrooms were at least level one magical plants.
It's still a top-tier magic plant of above-average quality.
Even before tasting them, Xie Juanhan could already imagine how delicious these sea mushrooms would be.
There was too much rain this spring, and the temperature was too high this summer.
They had never found such delicious mushrooms in the forest before, and they never expected to receive such a gift from the seabed, even in the height of summer.
Xie Juanhan put the picked sea mushrooms into a mesh bag and then pushed aside the other seaweed.
He searched bit by bit among the seaweed, among the dense seaweed and the translucent sand.
One by one, crisp and tender mushrooms fell into his net bag; some were pale yellow, and some were pale red.
Most sea mushrooms are crisp and tender.
Some of the sea mushrooms had a bit of slime on them, Xie Juanhan could tell by touching them that they were rotten and spoiled and could not be eaten.
What a pity, the sea mushrooms that looked so beautiful on the outside have already rotted.
No, it's not the sea mushrooms' fault for rotting; they were just too late.
Xie Juanhan finally understood why some of the Tata Fish milk had problems.
If the Tata Fish eat across the seabed so quickly, they will indeed eat some spoiled sea mushrooms.
Xie Juanhan looked at the freshly picked sea mushrooms and felt a strange empathy for the Tata Fish.
So that's what they eat – sea mushrooms.
If it were them, they probably wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of sea mushrooms either.
It's understandable that the Tata Fish would have problems after consuming fish milk.
After all, who could resist these delicious and Magic Power sea mushrooms?
==========Author's Note:=========
Report: I've been really engrossed in writing Western fantasy lately and want to write another one, so my next book will be "Fantastic Beasts: The Magic Chef?!", a relatively traditional Western fantasy story. It will start on October 23rd this year. I welcome any interested readers to check it out, and it would be even better if you could add it to your favorites. The synopsis is as follows (tentative):
Fresh out of university, Mei Ling unexpectedly finds herself transported to a magical world.
Good news! He graduated from the magic academy with his magic apprentice certificate.
The bad news is, he graduated with a degree in magizoology, an even worse major than his original, disastrous field. After three months of job hunting, he's on the verge of starving to death in this land.
Mei Ling pushed up her glasses and sneaked into Count Scott's house as an apprentice.
--A chef's apprentice. Wild vegetables picked by being guided by a flock of pigeons;
The kitten brought back the fish as a token of gratitude.
Otter-lost scallops;
Apprentice Mei Ling always manages to find the most unusual ingredients, which are truly eye-opening.
On the day of the official examination, he even relied on the mushrooms offered by his dog to become the Earl's chef despite being at the very bottom of the class.
Chapter 165 [VIP]
Xie Juanhan swam lightly on the seabed, almost as if he were taking a walk in the deep sea.
He parted layer after layer of seaweed, searching for the sea mushrooms hidden within.
Telingewei is also searching.
Although her swimming skills were not as good as Xie Juanhan's, she was more serious and meticulous.
Therefore, when the two dragons surfaced, they were each carrying heavy net bags.
Telingewei glanced at the net bag Xie Juanhan was carrying. "Enough to eat."
Xie Juanhan shook his head. "That's not necessarily true. Harper and the others will definitely love these sea mushrooms. Moli and Nibote also have big appetites. Two bags like this might not even be enough for each of them to have a plate."
Telingewei paused for a moment, thinking of how ferociously Habei and the others ate.
Xie Juanhan: "Gather some more, I'll freeze these sea mushrooms with my cold air first."
Xie Juanhan applied a little cold air to the bag containing the sea mushrooms, allowing the air to gently wrap around them.
"Okay, look to the west. I just saw several clusters of them peeking through the seaweed over there."
Xie Juanhan pulled Telingewei along and dived back into the sea.
They searched the surrounding waters and picked all the sea mushrooms they could find.
After harvesting the sea mushrooms, Xie Juanhan, considering their deliciousness, specially cast Blessing Magic on the nearby sea area.
May these Blessing Magic bring forth even more delicious mushrooms in the nearby seas!