"The second group that's putting in an extra order of skewers has shown up!"
"They're also starting with a base of thirty skewers!"
"Add seven more skewers on top!"
"Everyone, let's give a big round of applause to those two groups that just ordered, shall we?"
"We've got so many real pros in the shop today, the competition is really starting to heat up!"
"Everyone, please keep an eye on the competition timer too..."
"..."
The more fiercely the scene devolves into a tight back-and-forth, the happier the shop owner looks.
All thanks to this event they're running.
Plenty of passersby have stepped into the shop just to watch the competition.
Even if they don't want to join in, there's no shortage of people who love a good lively spectacle.
Chi Qingchi, having heard the shop owner's announcement, leans over to Lin Yu nervously and says,
"Seven more skewers... that's thirty-seven total!"
"That competitive-eating couple is really going for it, they still have so much left on their table too."
"Aren't they worried at all that they won't be able to finish all of it?"
After saying that,
Chi Qingchi turns to look at Lin Yu again,
"Little Lin, do we still want to add more skewers too?"
If they already ate thirty-five skewers and end up losing in the end,
it would feel so unfair to think about.
Right now Chi Qingchi is still doing pretty well,
she isn't forcing herself to eat past her limit at all.
Eating two more skewers doesn't feel like it would be a problem at all.
But then,
Lin Yu waves his hand and says,
"Don't rush, just slow down and keep eating at a steady pace."
"I'll go put in an extra order later, we still have plenty of time."
Lin Yu looks completely relaxed and confident,
in no rush to decide the winner right this second.
He can more or less guess what the competitive-eating couple is thinking.
Even if he and Little Chi bump their skewer count up to forty right now,
with that couple's skill and personality, they'd almost certainly follow right behind and raise their own order too.
If they keep going back and forth like that,
where does it end?
All they'll get in the end is both sides losing out.
It's much better to keep their pace steady for now, slowly take control of the rhythm,
and also get a sense of how long it takes from ordering extra skewers to having them served at the table.
After seeing how capable Lin Yu is,
Chi Qingchi has completely turned into his little fangirl.
She doesn't question any of Lin Yu's decisions anymore.
A Master must have his own plan.
If she just follows his lead, there's no way it can go wrong!
On top of that,
Lin Yu is already working so hard to power through the meat skewers, Chi Qingchi would never want to be the one holding him back.
She picks up the two remaining skewers on the table again and digs into them with full force.
...
Two minutes later,
Chi Qingchi finishes the last bite of meat from the skewers in her hands.
Five new red willow grilled skewers are brought over to their table.
There are barely any pieces of meat left on Lin Yu's plate,
most of them have already gone into their stomachs.
She had assumed that gorging far beyond a normal person's food intake,
no matter how tough your body is, you'd definitely start to feel uncomfortable.
But it turns out,
the system-enhanced body Lin Yu has is completely beyond normal common sense.
Even though he's already eaten over twenty of these large skewers,
he still doesn't feel the slightest bit of physical discomfort.
He feels almost exactly the same as when he first arrived, the only minor thing is that his throat feels a little dry.
He glances back at the countdown timer.
Roughly half of the twenty minutes have passed.
There's still loads of time left.
He needs to slow down his pace a little, he can't act too absurdly overpowered.
Otherwise,
even if there's no livestream or on-site footage,
eating way more than anyone could possibly imagine would still probably stir up quite a commotion.
He can win,
but he doesn't need to win by a ridiculous margin.
"Gulp gulp... gulp gulp..."
"Little Lin, if you start feeling any stomach discomfort..."
"I'll take care of all the rest for you!!"
she says,
Chi Qingchi pulled the plate of skewers over to his own side. He glanced over at Lin Yu beside him, who had slowed down his pace. Chi Qingchi immediately assumed that Lin Yu had only just realized he was feeling under the weather.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
