Chapter 170: Rematch with Yu Xinghan

Applying his control over physical force to the process of digesting food, he even blasted out palm strikes with full power to help him eat.

This was something Zhang Yu had never done before.

But relying on his terrifying skill in physical force, Zhang Yu mastered it very quickly.

At first, he still needed to strike his lower abdomen with full-force palm blows, one after another, to stimulate the squeezing of his stomach and intestines.

Soon, his movements began to grow lighter, and the sound of his palm strikes grew softer and softer.

This meant he was becoming increasingly familiar with using physical force to interfere with the digestive system; his ability to channel and guide physical force through the process was getting better and better.

In the end, Zhang Yu appeared to be merely patting his belly lightly, but it caused his entire body to vibrate repeatedly, producing a series of low, muffled sounds.

In this way, he felt each delicate strand of palm force pass through his muscles, fat, and internal organs, pulverizing and squeezing the food in his stomach, allowing him to swallow a few more mouthfuls of synthetic food.

Zhang Yu's actions not only caught Meng Tao's attention; soon, other lagging high school students tried to imitate him, hoping to speed up their own digestion, but after just a few tries they felt a dull pain in their organs and nearly suffered internal injuries.

A minor god had been observing Zhang Yu's movements and continuously checking the data transmitted from the detection patch.

He commented, "This Zhang Yu has extremely strong control over his own physical force."

"Each palm strike is not only accurately transmitted to the food in his stomach, but he also avoids damaging his internal organs in the process; sometimes he even gets his organs to participate in the circulation of force."

"At this level… it doesn't seem like something a first-year high school student from Songyang City should be able to do."

"Did he cheat?"

Huang Zichou said calmly, "Since he can achieve this through skill, how can it be considered cheating? Skill in physical force is itself a part of strength."

"It's just that in this examination venue, those who can use such a skill already have sufficiently strong bodies and digestive abilities; they don't need to supplement with it."

"As for those who want to use this skill to boost their scores, they lack the ability and end up hurting themselves instead."

That minor god continued, "Ah, I still think comparing food intake is not as good as comparing drug tolerance; taking drugs is the most important ability for body tempering."

Another minor god nodded in deep agreement.

Huang Zichou did not speak, only glanced at the agreeing minor god, privately wondering how much money that guy had taken from pharmaceutical companies.

"Recently, there really has been a wave of advocating replacing exams with drugs, thinking that both the student's strength and potential can be measured by how much drug they take, while also selling drugs and completing experiments."

"I wonder who is behind it…"

While the true gods were communicating, Zhang Yu's eating speed grew faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, he had already caught up to 16th place.

The person ahead of him was Yu Xinghan, who had already surged to 15th place.

Yu Xinghan also noticed Zhang Yu catching up and thought to himself, "Oh? Caught up?"

Looking at the light screen, at the No. 55 pillar that had surged to 16th place and was still rising, a smile crept onto Yu Xinghan's lips.

At that moment, his mind suddenly flashed back to the sports competition a few months ago, when Zhang Yu sprinted with all his might, constantly chasing after him.

That time, although Yu Xinghan had suppressed him in the speed contest, he had lost to him in the subsequent Sky Pillar round.

Although it was because Senior Sister Li Xuelian's misjudgment had prevented him from going all out in the Sky Pillar round, thus costing him the championship.

But to say there was no regret—that would naturally be impossible.

"And this time…" Yu Xinghan felt a surge of excitement: "Here, no one is holding me back, keeping me from using my full strength."

With that thought, Yu Xinghan suddenly stopped eating.

Zhang Yu looked at the light screen, at the person just ahead of him, at the No. 31 pillar that had stopped growing, and was slightly startled.

"No. 31 is that guy Yu Xinghan, right?"

The next moment, as if realizing something, he turned his head to look at Yu Xinghan and saw a pair of eyes full of fighting spirit.

"This guy…" Zhang Yu felt as though he had returned to the competition field a few months ago, seeing Yu Xinghan quickly retreating before sprinting at full speed from the same starting line.

"Want to settle the score with me?"

Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan locked eyes, and a fierce battle intent seemed to clash in the air.

3!

2!

One!

As if by tacit agreement, three seconds later, both of them roared in their minds and frantically began devouring the synthetic food in front of them.

With loud gulping sounds mixed with the rumbling of their internal organs, Yu Xinghan at that moment seemed to transform into a massive demonic beast, gulping down the synthetic food in the bucket.

But just as the synthetic food in the bucket was running low, and he turned to grab another bucket to start binge-eating,

Yu Xinghan was surprised to find that on the light screen, the gap between his and Zhang Yu's food intake was not widening, but instead gradually narrowing.

"This guy... is still catching up?"

Seeing this, drops of sweat began to trickle down Yu Xinghan's forehead.

Then the sweat began to increase more and more.

This was not because he was nervous, anxious, or afraid.

Because this sweat represented his full effort.

As a student at White Dragon High School, he had long completed the digestive system modification surgery.

When he started to sweat, it meant his digestive system had begun to operate at high intensity.

At that moment, his stomach and intestines seemed to turn into a giant furnace, frantically squeezing and crushing all the swallowed food, then streams of heat surged throughout his body.

A large amount of metabolic waste, under this high temperature, was continuously expelled through the sweat glands, turning into strands of sweat flowing down his body.

But... boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of thunderous roars kept coming from Zhang Yu's direction.

There, the food bucket had fallen onto the table, with Zhang Yu lying beneath it.

As the synthetic food cascaded down like a waterfall or a silver river, he continuously swallowed it with his wide-open mouth.

At the same time, his hands struck himself without pause.

Palm after palm struck down, like thunder constantly exploding in midair.

At that moment, Zhang Yu gave Yu Xinghan the feeling of a thunder god continuously beating a divine drum, accompanied by a series of rolling thunderclaps, rapidly catching up to him.

Watching the gap between them on the light screen still shrinking, the sweat flowing from Yu Xinghan now gradually took on a hint of white.

This whitish sweat represented that he was truly feeling some urgency now.

Because the undigested protein in the sweat meant that in order to pursue speed, he had chosen incomplete digestion of food.

"Still not enough..."

Watching Zhang Yu continuously closing in on the light screen, feeling the increasingly dense and thunderous roar,

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Yu Xinghan's gaze grew more solemn, and the sweat flowing from him gradually changed from pale white to milky white.

And as the sweat grew whiter, Yu Xinghan's data growth also became faster, finally temporarily maintaining the gap between him and Zhang Yu.

Just as Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan were fiercely competing,

Bai Zhenzhen, who had fallen to 21st place, also sensed a dangerous aura.

"I need to think of something."

Bai Zhenzhen touched her increasingly swollen belly and thought to herself, "I'm about to throw up from eating."

"I need to find a way to digest."

And while her ranking kept dropping, Bai Zhenzhen only felt herself growing calmer.

"Is this the effect of the Cold Soul Ice Heart Art?"

"I feel my blood and Qi becoming more and more active."

"My brain also seems to be unprecedentedly clear."

At that moment, Bai Zhenzhen felt that all her data, techniques, and abilities were displayed in her mind with extreme detail, like weapons ready for her to choose from.

At the same time, all kinds of information from the examination hall kept appearing before her eyes, transforming into various types of intelligence that flooded into her brain.

One idea after another emerged, only to be abandoned after careful consideration.

In the end, Bai Zhenzhen's gaze fixed on Zhang Yu.

"Yu Zi's method is not bad."

"But it can't be completely copied."

"I need to find a pattern that suits me..."

Bai Zhenzhen's mind flashed through her martial art, the level 10 effects of the Lightning Strike True Body, and the deduced effects.

The level 10 Lightning Strike True Body made Bai Zhenzhen's physical body more resilient, allowing her to maintain a high-speed state for a longer time.

After deduction using the True Spirit Root, the level 10 Lightning Strike True Body further enhanced this resilience, even allowing Bai Zhenzhen's muscles to act as buffers and absorb energy when at full speed.

While thinking of this, Bai Zhenzhen already had an idea in mind.

Her body began to slowly sway, and as the swaying speed increased, it gradually changed from swaying to vibrating, and then to high-frequency vibration.

Her powerful physique and martial cultivation allowed her flesh and internal organs to remain in a healthy state even under this high-frequency vibration.

The food that was originally difficult to digest was continuously crushed, broken apart, and even turned into liquid under this high-frequency vibration.

Relying on the high-frequency vibration of her body, Bai Zhenzhen finally began to accelerate her eating, sprinting from 21st place to 20th, and then starting to charge towards 19th.

And in 19th place was Li Tongyun, who was continuously sweating white.

As her eating speed began to decline continuously, the despair in her heart grew deeper.

She struggled to swallow the synthetic food in her mouth, but felt that the clay-like substance had blocked her all the way from the stomach to her throat.

Huang Zichou commented, "This Li Tongyun has reached her limit."

Another minor god laughed, "She's been having diarrhea for so long. Can her digestive system no longer hold up?"

Huang Zichou said, "It's fine for a temporary burst, but how could she possibly sustain it to the end?"

Li Tongyun thought of the gambling contract and her parents who were on the verge of bankruptcy, so she tried hard to force a bit more synthetic food into her stomach.

But it seemed she had reached some kind of limit. With a soft "pfft" sound, she suddenly spat out all the synthetic food in her mouth.

"No..."

Having already fallen behind 20th place in the mana examination, if she also fell behind 20th in the physical examination now, then in Li Tongyun's view, she would be certain to fail this round of the Foundation Establishment exam.

Thinking of the consequences of becoming company assets, fear coiled around her heart like a venomous snake.

As the daughter of a former company leader, she knew all too clearly that once she became company assets, her body, her flesh and blood, and even her soul would no longer belong to her.

"I really can't afford to lose..."

Almost instinctively, Li Tongyun stuffed all the vomit around her mouth back in, and continued force-feeding herself from the large bucket of synthetic food into her stomach.

But no matter how she struggled, it was of no use. At this moment, she had reached her limit, and in the end, she could only watch helplessly as her ranking continuously dropped.