Chapter 169: Zhang Yu's Digestion Power

Another minor god said, "This Meng Tao swallows very quickly, but without the cooperation of the Gluttonous Spirit Root, relying solely on his own physical body, he simply cannot digest it, and will only eat more and more slowly."

Huang Zichou said, "Indeed, this level requires eating and digesting at the same time. Swallowing fast is useless; the key is who digests faster."

As they spoke, Dai Xingzhi abruptly stood up, patted his bulging lower belly, and asked, "Examiner, where is the toilet?"

Along with a burst of light illuminating, on the side of the examination hall, in a position that was originally inconspicuous, more than a dozen toilet doors were lit up.

Dai Xingzhi took a deep breath, and the next moment, all the muscles in his body suddenly exerted force, and his entire person shot towards the toilet like a projectile.

In the first second, he rushed into the toilet.

In the second second, a series of loud noises came from inside the toilet.

In the third second, he was already walking out of the toilet while fastening his pants.

In just three seconds, he completed all of this.

Such astonishing speed, powerful gastrointestinal strength, and digestive ability instantly shocked many students throughout the venue.

To excrete so quickly, what a formidable physique this is!

And looking at his own rank of 10th, Dai Xingzhi returned to his examination seat, picked up a large barrel of synthetic food, and started devouring it wildly again.

He thought to himself, "Hmph, many students don't seem to have realized that appetite represents a strong person's metabolism and digestive ability."

"And digestion... is not just the part about swallowing food."

Not far away, Meng Tao watched this scene, startled inside: "Oh no."

As a long-term user of the Gluttonous Spirit Root, Meng Tao was usually the type of student who could get stronger even by eating shit.

And in order to become stronger, he had to spend a lot of time each day eating.

This allowed him to have a gastrointestinal tract more adapted to massive eating, able to swallow more food in a short time.

But without the Gluttonous Spirit Root, he was unable to digest food as quickly as usual.

Even because he relied too much on the Gluttonous Spirit Root on ordinary days... he found that his gastrointestinal digestive ability lacked training and might be even worse than other students.

Watching several more students rush fiercely towards the toilet, while his own stomach felt nothing, Meng Tao became more and more anxious.

"Damn it!"

"Right now, I don't even have the slightest urge to go to the toilet."

"How am I going to win if this continues?"

"How can I win?"

Watching himself drop to 5th place in the blink of an eye and start falling to 6th, Meng Tao felt a wave of powerlessness.

At the same time, there was another person present who also felt this sense of urgency.

Zhang Yu frowned and thought to himself, "Damn, rich people have high physical strength... can they even go to the toilet faster than the poor? This world is too unfair!"

With the help of the operation of the Red Marrow Chaotic Primordial Qi, Zhang Yu's gastrointestinal tract was like a huge millstone, rapidly grinding down every mouthful of synthetic food he swallowed.

Although the synthetic food made him want to vomit, he still rushed to a good position of 17th place.

But as the food residue in his stomach increased, his gastrointestinal digestive efficiency decreased, and Zhang Yu's eating speed also kept slowing down.

Not only did he drop to 18th place in the blink of an eye, he was also getting closer and closer to the 19th place behind.

Seeing his ranking in jeopardy and feeling the ever-increasing pressure, Zhang Yu did not panic but planned to observe what his opponents were doing.

He turned his head to look at the 19th place chasing behind him, wanting to see what the other person was doing.

He found that the other person was exactly Number 36, Li Tongyun, who had competed with him in the previous round.

They saw Li Tongyun, while swallowing large mouthfuls of synthetic food, layers of milky white viscous substance began to emerge on her body surface, then rapidly evaporated under her hot body temperature, leaving patches of white marks.

Huang Zichou commented, "This is a digestive system modification surgery, right? It can use sweat glands to metabolize waste in the body."

Another minor god said, "Normally, this kind of milky white substance should not be excreted."

"The current state should be that the protein content in the sweat is too high, even forming a kind of tension, making it very viscous."

Huang Zichou said, "Simply put, she is unable to digest so much protein, in a state of indigestion."

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"Then, in order to continue eating, she chose to expel waste without fully digesting it—what we call..."

Deng Bingding said, "Diarrhea."

Does diarrhea count as cheating? All the gods present looked at Deng Bingding, waiting for the examiner's verdict.

After a moment of deliberation, Deng Bingding said, "It's also a form of bodily control. We'll go by the rankings."

After finishing a large bucket of synthetic food, Li Tongyun saw that she had moved up to 18th place, feeling a surge of excitement.

She thought to herself, "Luckily, I had that digestive tract modification surgery when I still had money. I should be able to make it into the top twenty in this round."

"If I keep going, focus on eating, and don't have to worry about going to the bathroom, I can probably squeeze a few more spots forward step by step."

Watching Li Tongyun eat while having diarrhea, Zhang Yu knew he couldn't copy that trick.

At the same time, dropping to 19th place made him feel greater challenge and pressure.

But he still didn't panic or act recklessly. Instead, he continued to observe the other contestants, looking for inspiration and solutions. "Holy crap, what's wrong with Zhen?"

Seeing Bai Zhenzhen's belly swelling wildly, Zhang Yu was momentarily stunned, then realized, "This guy's Lightning True Body has tempered his flesh to extreme toughness for the sake of speed."

"With that incredible toughness, is he just stuffing food straight into his stomach? Did he give up on fast digestion?"

Glancing at her rank of 20, Zhang Yu felt worried for her but had no solution.

Then he looked at Yu Xinghan in 16th place, whose stomach bulged and contracted while emitting a croaking sound.

Huang Zichou said in the god network, "Is Yu Xinghan using the Great Toad Qi? He actually cultivated a technique specifically for digestion?"

Deng Bingding commented, "After all, he's a Golden Core disciple. Although Yu Xinghan isn't outstanding in any particular aspect, he's well-rounded, with almost no weaknesses. For example, in eating, many students don't take it seriously, thinking just eating well is enough."

"But actually, having a body-tempering technique specialized in aiding digestion means you get more nourishment from every meal, gaining a slight lead over others."

"Over time, that becomes a terrifying gap."

Zhang Yu couldn't understand what Yu Xinghan was doing, so he turned his gaze to Yun Jing, who was in second place, to see how this top high school student from Xiandu handled it.

Yun Jing kept pouring food into the large hole in his chest while his entire body glowed red, the air around him distorted by high heat.

No mistake! One sentence at a time!

In waves of heat, black smoke constantly spewed from his mouth and skin pores, leaving Zhang Yu dumbfounded.

Huang Zichou said, "This Yun Jing's digestive system is amazing, like an alchemy furnace. All the food he swallows is refined by the high temperature in his stomach, with impurities expelled as green smoke."

"If he wants, he can keep eating until his stamina runs out."

"Indeed, top students like him don't need to use the bathroom."

Another minor god beside him said, "That's not necessarily true. Look at Ye Lingxiao."

Ye Lingxiao remained in his initial eating state. Having turned into a small giant, he devoured the synthetic food from the bucket in large mouthfuls, showing no visible change—not even a slight bulge in his stomach.

The minor god said, "The perfect bloodline of the Ye clan allows near-perfect absorption of food. The waste residue left after each meal is minimal."

"It's said they only need to use the bathroom once a year."

"Just the energy and time saved alone is envied by countless people."

"Heh, I wonder how many people try to study that marvelous aspect of their bloodline every year."

Zhang Yu couldn't understand Yun Jing's smoke-blowing trick, but seeing Ye Lingxiao's motionless, silent eating gave him an idea.

"This guy has gotten a size bigger, but his food intake is clearly far beyond his stomach capacity... Is he holding it in?"

The more Zhang Yu thought about it, the more plausible it seemed. Especially under the mounting pressure, he felt his mind racing faster, bursting with inspiration.

"If he can hold it, I can too."

So Zhang Yu suddenly churned his intestines, trying to compress the food residue to free up more space to continue eating.

At first, it seemed to work, lifting Zhang Yu's spirits.

But as he ate more, he soon found the freed space filling up again.

"No... relying only on my intestines isn't enough."

"Then..."

Zhang Yu suddenly slammed his palm onto his stomach. With a booming impact, the terrifying palm force pierced through his skin and intestines, directly striking the food he had swallowed.

Dragon-Elephant Mountain-Shattering Palm, Level 10 activated!

At this moment, Zhang Yu was visibly hammering his own body with one palm strike after another—he was actually using the Dragon-Elephant Mountain-Shattering Palm to aid his digestion!

This scene quickly drew the attention of the other students around him.

Meng Tao, who had already fallen to ninth place, was first stunned, then smiled slightly: "There's a trick like that?"

He hastily imitated the move, slapping his own stomach with palm strike after palm strike.

At first, the impact of the palm force did pulverize and compress the food, speeding up his eating.

But soon he felt a dull ache in his internal organs, struggling to keep it up.

"I can't go on…" Meng Tao couldn't help turning his head to look at Zhang Yu: "Just how tough are this guy's organs? Can he really keep going like this?"

Meanwhile, Zhang Yu had thrown himself entirely into the self-tempering process.

With his complete focus, every piece of flesh, every bone, and every organ in his body became crystal clear.

With each palm strike he delivered, his body seemed to coordinate like countless masters simultaneously pulling, shifting, and deflecting force, channeling the vast majority of the palm power into the food inside him.

At this moment, inside his stomach and intestines, it was as if one palm print after another appeared on the intestinal walls and stomach walls, ruthlessly slamming into the swallowed food.

"Crush… compress…"

"Crush again… compress again…"

One Level 10 martial art after another, plus the physical control he had gained from each previous breakthrough—now all of it was turned against himself.

"Hmph, I really haven't made progress in mana control for a long time."

"But if it's about body control techniques, I doubt many of these celestial lords present here are better than me."

At this moment, relying on his powerful body control, Zhang Yu elevated his digestive ability far beyond the level that his physical body alone could achieve.

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