Chapter 88 – Eat as Much as You Gain, Talent: King of Gluttons! (Seeking First Subscriptions, Second Update)

Chapter 88 – Eat as Much as You Gain, Talent: King of Gluttons! (Seeking First Subscriptions, Second Update)

“King of Gluttons?”

Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly and asked with confusion, “This isn’t some useless good-for-nothing talent, is it?”

But what came next gave Su Xing a huge, pleasant surprise regarding the King of Gluttons talent ability.

【King of Gluttons】: You are a one-in-ten-thousand eating machine. Your appetite is ten times that of an ordinary person, and because of this your body is in peak condition — everything you eat tastes delicious. While possessing an astonishing appetite, your digestive system is also extraordinary, capable of absorbing nutrients from food to better strengthen yourself.

After reading it over several times, Su Xing finally grasped the function of the King of Gluttons talent.

Simply put, this should also be a cultivation-boosting talent — one that could increase Su Xing’s physical constitution through eating!

“This King of Gluttons talent seems to perfectly complement Innate Divine Strength!”

Su Xing’s eyes lit up. The Innate Divine Strength talent gave him a remarkable physique, and if he combined that with continuously eating to further enhance his constitution, wouldn’t that be a perfect match?

With that thought, Su Xing couldn’t wait to start the simulation.

【In the Blessed Spirit Field, you became aware that you were in a simulation.】

【You rubbed your belly and felt somewhat hungry, so you stir-fried a few dishes and cooked ten catties of Spirit rice.】

【You ate ten bowls of Spirit rice in one go, only to feel half-full, so you cooked another ten catties of Spirit rice.】

【While cooking the Spirit rice, the Spirit chickens in the coop let out hungry, envious clucks. You glanced at the Spirit chickens in the coop, and tears streamed uncontrollably from the corner of your mouth.】

【The Spirit chickens in the coop looked at you with terrified eyes.】

【After eating and drinking your fill, you began cultivating. You felt a warm mass of energy in your stomach. This energy spread through your flesh and blood to every corner of your body, reaching your four limbs and hundred bones. Using your spiritual sense, you felt that your physique had grown slightly stronger.】

“Hiss~ Twenty catties of Spirit rice, one Spirit chicken, plus several dishes for a single meal — that’s even more than a damn pig can eat!”

Su Xing cursed under his breath, then suddenly realized something.

“It’s over. The pig-headed glutton was me all along…”

Su Xing couldn’t help but worry about his future figure management.

“But this King of Gluttons talent really does work — every time I eat, my physical constitution gets a tiny bit stronger? Although the amount is small, accumulated over time, it’s definitely a top-tier talent!”

Su Xing sighed in admiration and continued the simulation.

【After finishing your cultivation, you began refining pills.】

【Using Dual Focus, you simultaneously refined two furnaces of pills, greatly increasing your pill refinement speed.】

【One week later, you brought six thousand pills to see Jin Congxue.】

【Jin Congxue was utterly astonished upon seeing you produce so many pills. At the same time, she stated that if you could produce this many pills every week, it would take at most three or four months to swallow up all of the Lingyun Merchant Association’s operations.】

【Meanwhile, Jin Congxue handed you the first batch of goods acquired from the Lingyun Merchant Association takeover. You were somewhat surprised when you saw the goods, but Jin Congxue assured you this was only the first batch, and in the coming months, the quantities would only increase!】

【Over the next three months, you ate twenty catties of Spirit rice plus one Spirit chicken every day. In just three months, your Body Tempering cultivation advanced to Organ Tempering, Grand Perfection.】

【You were pleasantly surprised to discover that because you practiced Body Tempering daily, despite eating so much, your figure hadn’t gone out of shape at all. On the contrary, every grain of Spirit rice you consumed was converted into energy that nourished your body.】

【But you also discovered a thorny problem — at this rate of consumption, the few acres of Spirit field in the blessed land couldn’t produce enough Spirit rice for you alone.】

【With no other choice, you cleared wasteland and expanded the Spirit grain fields to ten acres. Only then was it enough to sustain your annual food consumption.】

【In addition, you raised even more Spirit chickens. You had to eat one Spirit chicken every day — in the eyes of these Spirit chickens, you were a terrifying demon.】

【Three more months passed. You felt your constitution growing even more robust, your body reaching a state of perfection, every inch of muscle brimming with terrifying power — yet you never felt on the verge of breaking through to the Primordial Martial Realm.】

【Therefore, you consulted your pill refinement texts and found a pill called the Primordial Martial Pill. The Primordial Martial Pill was a top-tier low-grade pill, used by Primordial Martial Realm cultivators to increase their cultivation.】

【However, based on your previous experience, you believed that an Organ Tempering cultivator with a sufficiently strong physical body could barely manage to consume Primordial Martial Pills.】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and murmured, “Since spiritual energy is insufficient and Qi Refinement cultivation is hard to advance, perhaps improving Body Tempering cultivation is also a good choice…”

“I think I have some recollection — the primary ingredient for refining Primordial Martial Pills seems to be an herb called Primordial Martial Grass…”

Su Xing muttered a few words to himself and continued the simulation.

【One day, Wang Qingxuan found you. After a night of passion, you and she joined the Advent Cult together.】

【During the first three months after joining the Advent Cult, you maintained a low profile, keeping your head down as a nobody within the cult. Aside from completing necessary tasks each day, you continued to cultivate diligently.】

【In the second year, through careful planning, you revealed your talent for pill refinement.】

【Both Protector Shadow and Grand Protector Zong contacted you simultaneously. Without hesitation, you joined Protector Shadow’s faction.】

【Protector Shadow told you that as long as you completed your tasks diligently and made contributions to the cult, she guaranteed you could become an Elder within one year.】

【At this moment, only you and Protector Shadow were present. Seeing the opportunity, you spoke the passphrase to Protector Shadow.】

【You said to Protector Shadow: “Do you still remember the little girl who cried through the night in the heavy rain? You can never go back, Luo Shuying!”】

Su Xing took a deep breath upon seeing this, his heart filled with nervousness and anticipation.

Whether this passphrase could earn Protector Shadow’s trust, Su Xing had no certainty in his heart. If it didn’t work, things could get very troublesome.

But if Protector Shadow believed Su Xing because of it, it would save him an enormous amount of effort in future simulations — making this gamble absolutely worthwhile!

With an anxious heart, Su Xing continued the simulation.

【After hearing your words, Luo Shuying fell silent. After a long while, she asked you who you were and what your purpose was.】

【You told Luo Shuying that you were a “time-space traveler,” explaining that you and she were friends who had cooperated many times — the closest of allies. You told her that you had failed in the struggle during the previous timeline, and so you had come here and sought out Luo Shuying once more.】

【You expected Luo Shuying to express doubt, but to your surprise, she actually believed you. She said you were someone favored by time and fate.】

【Luo Shuying asked what your plan was and what you needed her to do.】

【You told Luo Shuying everything about your pill refinement abilities and explained that you needed medicinal herbs and treasures from the Advent Cult’s treasury. In return, you could provide her with pills every year.】

【Your alliance was formed as agreed. Each month, in addition to the three hundred or so herb specimens the cult provided you, Luo Shuying would also supply you with one thousand specimens.】

【In the first month of the alliance, you used Dual Focus, greatly increasing your pill refinement efficiency. You were able to refine five thousand Essence Nurturing Pills per month. After submitting three hundred Essence Nurturing Pills to complete your task quota, the vast majority of pills went into your own pocket.】

【Besides pill refinement, you even had time to cultivate. Your Body Tempering cultivation continued to improve, though you still couldn’t break through to the Primordial Martial Realm.】

【So you sought out Luo Shuying and told her you needed herbs called Primordial Martial Grass and Dragon Spirit Flowers, and drew pictures of both herbs for her.】

【A few days later, Luo Shuying brought you one hundred stalks of Primordial Martial Grass and one hundred stalks of Dragon Spirit Flowers. She told you that these two types of spirit herbs were quite precious even within the treasury — the entire treasury contained no more than two thousand stalks of the two combined. Exchanging for the herbs required spending cult contribution points.】

【At the same time, Luo Shuying mentioned that she had accumulated many contribution points over her years as a Protector. If you needed them, she could exchange all two thousand-plus stalks for you.】

【You were delighted by this and expressed that, in addition to those two herbs, you would also like her to obtain the piece of Condensing Wood from the cult’s treasury.】

【Luo Shuying nodded and left. A few days later, she returned with over two thousand stalks of herbs and the three-zhang-long piece of Condensing Wood.】

Su Xing was overjoyed seeing this. He clenched his fist and murmured, “As expected — I bet right! With Protector Shadow’s help, the efficiency of obtaining herbs from the cult is astronomically higher!”

In the last simulation, Su Xing had spent ten years to obtain these materials, yet now he had acquired them immediately upon entering the cult.

“Moreover, Luo Shuying’s status within the cult is definitely not low. I can basically ask her for whatever I need. This way, my pill refinement speed and cultivation speed will absolutely skyrocket!”

Su Xing was filled with anticipation for the rest of the simulation.

【After obtaining the herbs, you first began refining Dragon Spirit Pills. You were fairly familiar with Dragon Spirit Pills, and your success rate had already reached as high as fifty percent.】

【Over the next half year, aside from completing necessary tasks, you focused most of your energy on refining Dragon Spirit Pills.】

【You spent half a year and successfully refined four thousand Dragon Spirit Pills. You knew this meant you could bring nearly four hundred Heavenly King-stage powerhouses to Great Xia, so you carefully stored the Dragon Spirit Pills away.】

【Because of your outstanding performance over the past half year — completing your pill refinement tasks on time and earning Protector Shadow’s appreciation — you successfully advanced to become the eighteenth Elder of the Advent Cult, with the codename Medicine Elder.】

【In the third year, you began attempting to refine Primordial Martial Pills.】

【Because your pill refinement skills had already reached Minor Mastery-level, and you had previously refined both Dragon Spirit Pills and Mind-Condensing Pills, a top-tier low-grade pill like the Primordial Martial Pill posed no challenge for you.】

【In the first month of learning to refine Primordial Martial Pills, you refined thirty furnaces, of which two succeeded, and both were of poor quality.】

【In the second month, you summarized your experience and gained a preliminary understanding of Primordial Martial Pills. You refined thirty furnaces and succeeded with four — doubling your success rate.】

【In the third month, your pill refinement technique improved further. You refined thirty furnaces and succeeded with six.】

【In the fourth month, you refined thirty furnaces and succeeded with ten.】

【In the sixth month, you refined thirty furnaces of Primordial Martial Pills, of which fifteen yielded pills. Your success rate had reached nearly half.】

【Six consecutive months of studying Primordial Martial Pill refinement brought your technique to near Minor Mastery-level. Further improvement from here could only come through continuous practice.】

【So you spent another half year refining all the remaining Primordial Martial Grass into Primordial Martial Pills, leaving you with nearly three thousand Primordial Martial Pills in hand.】

【However, you had no intention of immediately consuming the Primordial Martial Pills, because you worried they might cause your body to explode like the Organ Tempering Pills had before, which would waste a simulation opportunity.】

【After careful consideration, you decided to wait until just before the apocalypse arrived to consume the Primordial Martial Pills.】

【In the fourth year, you noticed that gossip had begun spreading within the Advent Cult. Some cult members were rumoring that you were Protector Shadow’s kept boy toy — that she had spent most of the contribution points she’d accumulated over the years on you, and that the only reason you were promoted to Elder within half a year was because of Protector Shadow’s backing.】

【You scoffed at this. You understood these people were just sour grapes — unable to have what they envied. Having a beautiful, wealthy, and powerful superior who favored you? To that, all you could say was: “Perfectly acceptable!”】

【You continued to devote the vast majority of your attention to improving your pill refinement skills. After spending two years refining Dragon Spirit Pills and Primordial Martial Pills, you felt your pill refinement technique had advanced further, so you began attempting to refine Mind-Condensing Pills.】

【You spent half a year refining one hundred furnaces of Mind-Condensing Pills. To your disappointment, your technique for refining Mind-Condensing Pills hadn’t improved much. Even though you believed you had done well enough, the completed pills numbered only twenty to thirty, and all of them were subpar quality. This left you utterly baffled.】

【You consumed all these subpar Mind-Condensing Pills, and your spiritual sense grew further. Your spiritual sense range reached seventy zhang, but you were still troubled by how to better refine Mind-Condensing Pills.】

【One day, while refining pills, you had a Flash of Inspiration and realized that the difficulty in refining Mind-Condensing Pills might be due to the flame. Your gaze turned to the Separation Fire in your palm.】