Super Zoo

The wild man effortlessly ripped off a large piece of rock from the bottom of the water, giving Suming quite a shock—and his eyeballs almost popped out!

It's true that the wild man was fierce, strong, fast and had a good constitution, but in the end, he was just flesh and blood. How could he possibly break through rock?

Not only did he break it, he tore off a large piece?! And this wasn't weathered rock!

The rocks in the cave were extremely hard, something Suming knew well. During gunfights, rifle bullets couldn't penetrate them; at most, they would chip off bits of rock and leave a mark on the cave walls! Yet the wild man managed to rip off a large piece in one go. Wasn't he becoming a superman?!

Even in martial arts novels, there's nothing so exaggerated!

The Nine Yin White Bone Claw was fierce enough, with Mei Chaofeng and her husband dominating others with this move for half their lives by piercing through skulls. Even Zhou Zhiruo, who came after, could not pierce through a skull.

Wang Chaoyang, the foremost among the Five Greats with divine skills, spent his life practicing martial arts but could only poke holes in wooden boards with his fingers. His wife, Lin Chaoying, cheated by inscribing a few characters on a stone slab with her fingers, which scared him back immediately.

But that was only writing a few characters, not directly ripping off a large chunk of rock, and she did that by cheating!

Tears streamed down Suming's face as he realized he had encountered a reclusive master of exceptional caliber. Seeing how effortlessly he lifted heavy objects, Suming was sure his martial arts prowess had already surpassed Jin Yong's System and perhaps was not far from reaching Huang Yi's System!

From then on, consuming divine medicine, learning divine skills, starting a harem, reviving ancient martial arts, dominating the world, breaking out of Earth, scattering the solar system... those good days were coming...

"He..." The 'exceptionally skilled recluse,' with a face full of hair, presented the torn piece of rock to Suming as if offering a treasure.

Suming was about to kneel and cry out, "Great hero, please take me as your disciple," when his eyes caught something odd about that torn-off piece of rock.

It was white, tender, looking like a big chunk of fat...

"Huh?"

Suming paused, instinctively extended his finger, and poked what he wasn't sure was 'fat' or 'rock.'

With a single touch, it caved in, squishy and quite springy.

"Hehe..." The wild man chuckled foolishly.

"I... go..."

Suddenly feeling electrified, Suming leaned over and grabbed at the 'large rock' on the bottom of the water.

As expected, the whitish rock on the bottom wasn't really a rock at all. It felt like rubber when grabbed, softer than rubber but more resilient than fat.

If one had to describe it, grabbing it was like holding onto a beauty's chest; moreover, the kind that could hardly be grasped with one hand, soft flesh oozing out from between the fingers...

Suming was no gentleman when it came to women, and joy filled his heart as he bellowed, "Behold the full power of my divine skill!"

With a swoosh, he easily tore off a large piece of white, flowery flesh from the chest of a beauty at the bottom of the water.

Although lacking in actual combat experience, Suming had seen his fair share of tutorials, the tricks to dealing with a beauty's chest were nothing more than a grab or a lick, and without any hesitation, he stuck out his tongue and licked the piece of 'flesh'.

Indeed, the strange taste of the spring water was due to this chunk of 'flesh', the terrain here was elevated, most of the water collected into the pool, flowed through the bottom of it, soaked by this large piece of 'flesh', and then flowed out, taking on this flavor.

The wild man saw Suming grab a piece and thought he was being 'taught' again, bursting into laughter as he wildly grabbed with both hands, immediately tearing off several more pieces.

"Stop, stop, stop! My ancestors, stop grabbing!" Suming's heart bled at the thought, and he hurriedly stopped the wild man's naughty behavior.

The white substance at the bottom of the water was not any kind of stone, but rather 'Poria'!

Moreover, he could now be one hundred percent certain that what He and his group were looking for was neither a baby fish nor a wild man, but this super-sized Poria! It was just that it was not easily noticeable underwater owing to its color resembling that of rocks!

Poria, in Huaxia, was reputed to be extremely magical, also known as meat Lingzhi. This thing virtually had no life span limitations, as long as it wasn't destroyed and the environment allowed, it could practically live forever, its shelf life was even longer than the legendary 'love', symbolizing immortality in the eyes of the ancients.

The elixir of life that Qin Shi Huang sought after was exactly this, and it was said that Yao, Shun, and Yu all consumed this and lived past a hundred years.

History going back more than three generations has basically become mythologized, so whether or not eating this thing can bring immortality is unknown to anyone.

However, many medical texts recorded that Poria indeed had good medicinal value, Shennong's Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica specifically mentioned that consuming Poria over a long period could make one's body light and unaging, extending life like an immortal.

In Suming's view, this notion was somewhat nebulous, what does 'long-term consumption' mean? Is it eating once a week, or eating it daily as a meal? Is it consuming hundred-year-old Poria, or thousand-year and million-year-old Poria? If it's the latter, even if consumption could make one an immortal, no one in the world from ancient times to the present has had the financial or material resources to do this.

Modern medicine, essentially Western medicine, had also studied Poria.

In the view of Western medicine, Poria was a blend of myxomycetes, bacteria, and fungi, rich in proteins, but whether it had medicinal value, how much value it had, and even whether it could harm the human body were all without conclusions for the time being, as some said it could fight tumors, anti-aging, and enhance immunity, while other studies suggested exactly the opposite, believing consumption could lead to various bacterial infections, minor cases resulting in diarrhea and severe cases leading to death—only then really becoming an immortal.

Speaking of Poria itself, it was also a rare curiosity in the biological world, neither animal nor plant, but something in between.

The only thing that was for certain was that in modern society, the rarity of Poria definitely exceeded that of class-protected wildlife, the older the Poria, the rarer it was, some people even specifically drank water infused with Poria.

Even if Poria had no medicinal value at all, from the perspective of collectibles alone, its price was astonishing, it was said that Poria over a thousand years old could cost tens of thousands of US dollars per gram.

Poria, just like the giant panda, was both a national treasure and the oldest biological specimen still living.

Some foreign scientists after researching even proposed that Poria could be the ancestor of humans and all flora and fauna.

Occasionally, newspapers would report the discovery of Poria, stories like an old lady finding Poria, cutting a little to sell each year, and becoming a millionaire, or the Chinese Wild Ganoderma Museum discovering an exceedingly rare thousand-year-old Poria in a certain year, worth several hundred million, and so on.

As for how old this Poria in front of his eyes was or how much it was worth, Suming dared not be certain, since those reports contained a lot of hype.

But what he could be certain of was that the robust physique of the wild man and the abnormal size and lifespan of the giant baby had an absolute connection with this Poria!