Chapter 80 The courage to eat stones!
In the blink of an eye, Chu Hengkong...eel...eel Chu Hengkong used his tentacles to hook up Xiang Fuzi's basket and swallowed the mushroom plant roots and the wooden basket together!
His bite was so powerful that he could rip through even a wire-reinforced basket in one gulp. In the blink of an eye, the basket vanished from the eel's mouth, breaking into pieces and flowing down the eel's long head. Xiang Fuzi heard only a few gurgling sounds, and when he looked up again, the basket had vanished without a trace, leaving only a pair of hungry, innocent eyes.
Xiang Fuzi opened her mouth wide: "How...how could this be? How could this be?!"
"Eel." Chu Hengkong responded in a low voice and threw the last piece of wood into his mouth.
He looked around and found that there was not much food left, so he jumped up and flew high into the sky like a fish with wings, and rushed out of the church.
"What is he going to do?" Xiang Fuzi was shocked.
"Stop him!" Fander and Qisu ran over trembling, "He used the power of the devil and still hasn't eaten enough."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Xiang Fuzi was shocked again and again. "Where did you go just now?"
Fander trembled in fear: "That guy eats too ferociously, I'm afraid he will be regarded as reserve food..."
Xiang Fuzi felt like her head was about to explode: "You... ah...! Demonic power! Can a human use it?! It will lead to disaster! Come with me and chase him!"
The two of them darted out of the church and saw the townspeople gathered in the square, their faces filled with fear and panic. They all had a bad feeling. Fander, seeing this, became anxious and quickly ran into the crowd, "Chu Hengkong, wake up! You can't let hunger take over you. No matter how hungry you are, you can't eat... uh..."
Fander squeezed out of the crowd and froze in place. Qi Su was too short to squeeze through and was anxious: "What did he eat?!"
"It's nothing..." Vander said weakly, "It's just not very polite..."
Qi Su shoved his way through the crowd, his vision suddenly darkening. At the west end of the square stood a large tree, once a shaded haven for the townspeople. The tree had weathered wind and rain for nearly two hundred years, but today, it finally succumbed to its wrath: a mysterious creature with an eel's head crouched atop it, its long head pounding down like a woodpecker, its head swinging wildly, wood chips flying everywhere. As it gnawed and slithered around the tree, the tree shrank halfway, like a barker. In less than half a minute, it was practically reduced to a sapling.
Qi Su screamed, "Stop chewing! Change another one!"
"Eel," Chu Hengkong rose from the sawdust and nodded apologetically. He rolled up his tentacles and flew away from the tree trunk, running to another landmark in the square and climbing onto the top of the cherry dragon statue.
The eel head opened its mouth towards the Sakura Dragon God's head with a series of inhalation sounds.
"Evil creature! Get down here, ahh ...
Qi Su scurried to the statue and began desperately pulling at Chu Hengkong's clothing, but he couldn't budge. Seeing the statue about to be destroyed, Fander stepped forward, determined to unleash his unique skill: hypnosis!
"Brother, we should have some bottom line as human beings. At least we can't eat stones!" Fander pointed to the west in desperation, "Let's go outside the town! There's a lot of grass outside the town!"
Chu Hengkong, already dazed by the demonic mask, was now caught off guard. "Eel!" With a resounding roar, the eel monster scurried toward the west side of town, disappearing from view in a few leaps and bounds. The townspeople breathed a sigh of relief. Qi Su, looking at the now-elusive Sakura Dragon statue, saw that the jade was covered in eel saliva and burst into tears.
"Master Yinglong is not clean anymore!!"
Fander was furious: "Don't use such misleading words! Lord Yinglong has just been washed once and is extremely clean!"
Xiang Fuzi gazed into the distance, his eyes looking particularly vicissitudes of life. He had a terrible guess in his mind.
This grassland outside the town...will it be renamed as wasteland from now on?
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Two hours later, in a small wasteland outside the town.
"Eel eel eel eel eel."
Chu Hengkong sat cross-legged on the muddy ground, resting his head. Within a hundred-meter radius around him, not a blade of grass grew; anything edible had been digested by the eel's head. After two hours of frantic eating, he had finally stored enough energy to feel normal for a while.
He walked back to the town, bowed to Qisu and Fander who were watching, and sighed, "Eel..."
Fander handed over a wooden sign: "I'm really not an eel. I can't understand eel language, but can I write it?"
Chu Hengkong quickly carved a few words and held up the sign: [You can move now, but temporarily]
Qi Su felt a headache: "You've eaten too much! Does practicing bone strengthening with clever hands require so many calories?"
[Energy goes to bones first.] Chu Hengkong peeled off a layer of bark with words on it like peeling a fruit, and added, [Only 30% goes into the stomach.]
Fander discovered the problem: "Don't you martial artists control every part of your body? You should be able to adjust the absorption efficiency, right?"
【……】
Eel Head turned aside silently, and Qi Su grabbed his clothes and forced him: "Tell me! What's going on!!"
[The more you eat, the better your bones will be] Chu Hengkong put down the wooden sign and raised a new one, [Progress is rapid, I don't want to break it]
"I really want to smash this idiot's head through with a stick..."
"That won't do." Fander shook his head and sighed. "The power of the devil is a terrifying thing. If you use it for a long time, you will become addicted. In the worst case scenario, the greedy devil will be resurrected from Chu Hengkong's body. At that time..."
It stared at Chu Hengkong and said sinisterly, "You will really turn into an eel!"
Chu Hengkong was shocked when he heard this and couldn't help but take a bite of the writing board.
Qi Su snatched the clipboard and slapped him hard, "Stop eating, idiot! Forget about eels, you're basically turning into a pig!"
"eel……"
Chu Hengkong put down the sign and fell into deep thought. He had used the remaining fire of the devil before, so he naturally knew the dangers of this power. However, the current problem was not only about hunger, but also about cultivation.
Regardless of the method, the bone-building process has already begun. Interrupting it midway is like forcibly suppressing growth, which will only cause harm rather than benefit. If you want to completely resolve the crisis, you still need to address the root cause of the problem...
He used his tentacles to write and draw on the ground, and soon he had a rough sketch of the human skeleton. A dozen of the bones were drawn too thick, making the whole picture look out of proportion.
[Hunger stems from disharmony. If you can evenly train your bones, you can find balance even without training your spine.] Chu Hengkong wrote on the ground, [Now that things have come to this, why not burn your boats and use this momentum to completely complete bone training until you're no longer hungry!]
"But this crappy method you came up with requires someone to beat you up." Finder's eyes were empty. "You fought all night yesterday and only trained a dozen bones. Where can we find 20 more shadow giants to beat you up and feed you at the same time?"
Chu Hengkong pondered for a long time, then turned his head to the north, looking towards the mountain range that separated the town from the outside world. He thought of the fox that lived on the mountaintop and raised the wooden sign.
I have a plan
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Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three successive booms surged up the mountain, echoing through the empty valley, awakening the Jade Fox and numerous other exotic beasts from their slumber. The Jade Fox scaled the mountaintop, its eyes piercing the mist and instantly identifying the source of the noise. As expected, the sound emanated from Singularity Z-3000-3. The Tentacle Man lashed the mountain wall with his tentacles, clearly attempting to seize the opportunity to ascend.
The Jade Fox flung its tail, a flash of yellow light emanating from the furry tip. Suddenly, a boulder fell from the top of Yingluo Mountain. The rock slid down the cliff, growing larger and larger like a snowball. With immense force, the boulder hurtled down the mountain, sending the suicidal tentacle man flying into the distance!
Jade Fox listened to the crackling of bones with satisfaction and returned to the summit to rest. But a moment later, the pounding sound against the mountain wall returned. Jade Fox glared down the mountain and saw the tentacle man wearing a disgusting hood. Not only was his head shaking from side to side, he was also howling provocatively at the mountaintop: "Eel!"
The Jade Fox pushed down three boulders in one go, hoping to crush the creature completely this time. It listened for about ten minutes, confirming there was no movement before returning to its den. But just as it lay down, the bang started again, accompanied by the man's ferocious roar: "Eel! Eel!"
“Ooooooooooooooooooooo!!”
The Jade Fox howled to the heavens, and rocks crashed down the mountain. Chu Hengkong was once again sent flying hundreds of meters. He rose from the ground, pounding his trained muscles with satisfaction. Then, like a tiger descending a mountain, he pounced on the rock, controlling the eel's head and biting it down!
The Jade-Faced Fox could never have imagined that humans not only had the courage to knock on mountains, but also the courage to eat rocks. So the rocks kept coming, and the Tentacle Man was knocked back again and again. He would eat the rocks and stand up again, fearlessly facing the challenge amid the Fox's howls of despair...
"The more you get beaten, the stronger your bones become. The stronger your bones become, the more rocks you can eat," said Vander. "The more rocks you eat, the more you can take a beating."
"He is truly a rare genius in the world." Qi Su applauded in admiration.
"eel!"
(End of this chapter)
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