Bring some Bankai ingredients to Shokugeki

After driving away the fishmen.

Xu Kangping put away the blade fish and continued on his way.

Near noon, Xu Kangping came to a larger building to prepare for today's lunch.

The ingredients are naturally the blade fish obtained earlier.

Xu Kangping first made a blade fish salad.

Dice the bladefish and fry it, then mix it with cooked mandrake and the fruits of various man-eating plants.

Drizzle with a vinaigrette of olive oil and lemon juice.

A colorful and nutritionally balanced bladefish salad is ready.

The sweet and sour taste is very appetizing.

As an appetizer it is quite good.

Next is the relatively simple bladefish sashimi.

The flesh of the bladefish is orange-red, which makes people very appetizing.

With superb knife skills, the blade fish is cut into slices as thin as cicada wings, which adds a sense of crystal clearness.

Since he was going to eat it himself, Xu Kangping placed the food in a rather casual manner.

After cutting it, I couldn't wait to pick up several slices and put them into my mouth with soy sauce and mustard.

Chew it gently, and the sweetness of the fish and the spiciness of the mustard begin to collide in your mouth.

Brings an unprecedented refreshing experience.

Although it is not cooked, it has no fishy smell.

Xu Kangping enjoyed it very much.

Soon a plate of swordfish sashimi was eaten.

Xu Kangping began to prepare the next dish, pan-fried swordfish.

Cut the swordfish into pieces and fry in olive oil until golden brown.

Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper and squeeze some lemon juice over it.

When you take a bite, you will find the skin is crispy and the meat inside is tender and juicy.

Finally, there is the bladefish soup.

Xu Kangping first fry the bones of the bladefish until they are charred, and then stew them together with mandrake and man-eating plant fruits to make a broth.

After filtering, add a little milk and diced swordfish, and simmer over low heat until the soup turns milky white.

At this time, the meat of the blade fish is tender.

The soup retains the delicious taste of the bladefish while also incorporating the sweetness of mandrake and man-eating plants.

After eating one bowl, Xu Kangping felt his body warm up.

Lunch also ended with this bowl of swordfish soup.

Although he actually wants to try more methods.

But if I really want to do this, I'm afraid the remaining time today won't be enough.

Plus, I didn’t have all the cooking tools, so I had to give up.

After clearing the dishes.

Xu Kangping prepared to continue moving towards the entrance to the fifth level of the underground maze.

But at this moment, he heard a faint sound coming from the building where he was.

This caught Xu Kangping's attention.

After shouting loudly a few times and hearing no response, Xu Kangping was basically certain that the one who made the noise was some kind of monster.

This made Xu Kangping excited.

After all, every new monster is a new taste experience for him.

Of course, undead and human-like monsters are excluded.

Putting aside the idea of ​​moving forward for the time being, Xu Kangping decided to explore the building first.

I first checked the several rooms next door, but they were clean and I found nothing.

So Xu Kangping came to the downward stairs and started walking down them.

It went down about five or six meters.

Xu Kangping found that the wall had become very damp.

Obviously, he was already below the water level on the fourth floor of the underground maze.

Such a humid environment is very suitable for the growth of certain plants, such as tentacle monsters.

Tentacle monster is a general term for a type of plant, the main feature of which is that it has long tentacles.

Most tentacle monsters grow quietly in dark and humid places like real plants.

However, there are also several types of tentacle monsters that grow like plants, but their tentacles will actively attack people.

Regardless of whether it will actively attack people or not, the tentacle monster's tentacles have imperceptible barbs.

Once it comes into contact with the skin, it will cause redness, swelling and stinging.

At this time, a large number of tentacle monsters grew densely on the downward stairs and walls.

It makes people's scalp tingle when they see it.

Although he could protect himself by using more 'qi', he didn't know how far these tentacle monsters would spread.

Relying on "Qi" for defense is obviously not very reliable.

After all, if you want the "Qi" to provide effective protection, just using "entanglement" is obviously not enough. You need to increase the thickness of the "Qi", which means that he needs to continuously consume the "Qi".

Although the energy consumption is less than using 'Lian', with his current potential energy, it can only last for about two hours.

During this period, if a battle breaks out, the duration that can be maintained will be further reduced.

So he had to think of other ways.

Then Xu Kangping remembered that he had put away a set of armor left over from his previous movable armor and was preparing to collect it.

The armor of the active armor is basically fully enclosed except for the helmet.

Plus, since it's made of metal, there's no need to worry about the tentacle monster's barbs.

After finding a solution, Xu Kangping immediately began to put on armor.

After getting dressed, Xu Kangping began to go deeper into the tentacle monster.

With the protection of armor, Xu Kangping seemed very relaxed.

But after walking down for a while.

A giant frog with a body length of nearly two meters suddenly pounced out from the tentacle monster.

The huge mouth opened as if it wanted to swallow him whole.

Xu Kangping quickly reached out and grabbed the giant frog's upper jaw, then punched it on the head.

The giant frog immediately stopped moving.

Before Xu Kangping could make any further move, a thick tongue suddenly wrapped around his arm.

And Xu Kangping could feel a huge force trying to pull him over.

Feeling this power, Xu Kangping's mouth corners curled up under the helmet.

"Got you."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Kangping had already grabbed the giant frog's tongue with his backhand.

In fact, at this time Xu Kangping had already used the "circle".

He naturally noticed the giant frog's tongue attack.

However, Xu Kangping did not choose to dodge, but deliberately let the giant frog's tongue wrap around his arm.

After all, when it comes to strength, the giant frog is just like an ant trying to shake a tree.

Xu Kangping grabbed the giant frog's hand and exerted a little force, and the giant frog was pulled directly over.

It was still solved with one punch.

Xu Kangping was very satisfied with the easy harvest of two giant frogs.

After putting the two giant frogs into the storage space, Xu Kangping continued to go deeper.

He had not walked for long when a large number of tentacles hanging from above like tree roots suddenly wrapped around him.

It was obvious that Xu Kangping encountered a tentacle monster that would actively attack.

Xu Kangping did not resist immediately, so he was pulled into the air by the tentacle monster.

At this time, Xu Kangping's "circle" had already enveloped the tentacle monster.

Then, according to the location of the tentacle monster's core sensed by "Circle", Xu Kangping threw out a dagger.

The flying dagger passed through the tentacle monster's tentacles and hit its core.

The tentacles that were originally wrapped around him went limp.

So Xu Kangping happily obtained a tentacle monster.