146 Secret Card (1/2)

After the jaw-dropping scene of Wang Lu’s eleven lottery draws, the competition situation has been completely reversed.

Ten Thousand Arts Sect was immediately under great pressure. Although they still have an advantage over Spirit Sword Sect in terms of total nutrition points, that advantage has been gradually narrowing.

It was not because Spirit Sword Sect people have become faster, but the people of Ten Thousand Arts Sect have become slower.

The first reason was that of Wang Lu’s eleven lottery draws, which sent an extremely bad suggestion to these contestants. Whenever they accumulated certain points and saw the golden card in Wang Lu’s card case, they inevitably couldn’t help but want to try their luck.

Their Master had said that Wang Lu was born with extremely strong luck, however, of all the people present, who didn’t have strong luck? Among the five of them, no one who was without talent and opportunity bestowed by the heaven! However, once they left their fate to chance, the inevitable result was...

Trash card, trash card, and trash card!

In this way, a lot of their points have been squandered away. Lu Qiancai was not the only one. Even the one with the quickest progress, Zhao Jiangyuan, couldn’t resist to try his luck; in the end, he wasted more than ten dishes.

Seeing this, Wang Lu just smiled and ignored them. Actually, he took that jaw-dropping eleven lottery draws not to lead his team to victory, but to slow down the pace of the opponent, making them hesitate and jump into the pit that was the lottery draw. In other words, he was hundred percent trying to lure them to spend their points in vain!

The so-called born with extremely strong luck was indeed real. However, no matter how strong one’s luck was, it was highly unlikely for someone to have even one in a thousand chance to get that shocking eleven lottery draws result. What actually happened involved a little bit of skill. Of course, it wasn’t cheating per se, but through a special mean, he had momentarily strengthened his own luck!

This one belonged to his own unique skill. However, this skill must only be used when the condition was ripe, otherwise, it wouldn’t bring him a good result. Moreover, it would be really difficult to implement it in an actual fight. Nevertheless, it was enough to be used to get a great result in the lottery draws in this eating competition. Unfortunately, that was a one time use, and it was impossible for him to do that shocking eleven lottery draws in a row again, nor was it necessary.

The second reason why the Ten Thousand Arts Sect contestant’s speed had slowed down was that of Aya’s superb cooking skill. Even their Healthy Stomach Digestion Pill couldn’t suppress the strong and unique taste of Aya’s dishes, which was enough to dispel the appetite of most people. Furthermore, they couldn’t just continue to consume the Healthy Stomach Digestion Pill, because after several pills, the pill wouldn’t have the desired effect anymore.

Fortunately, these five cultivators of Ten Thousand Arts Sect have a strong foundation. With their Foundation Establishment Stage’s powerful control of the body, they could sustain the continuous eating. Needless to say, however, it was torture for them...

On the other side, seeing that the Ten Thousand Arts Sect people have slowed down, the contestants from the Spirit Sword Sect have their morale lifted up, and they began to gradually speed up, trying their best to catch up.

However, when the situation had gradually become more disadvantageous to them, Ten Thousand Arts Sect’s youngest brother finally opened his mouth.

”Senior Brothers, Senior Sister, I think since this is a competition, shouldn’t we treat it as a competition? Rather than showing off our technique or willpower, winning is more important.”

This youngest brother from the five contestants of Ten Thousand Arts Sect was saying those words lightly. After that, he looked at the other four; seeing that they were seriously listening to him, he smiled. ”Senior Brothers, Senior Sister, all of you guys know that I don’t have any skill that I could be proud of, therefore… just now, I have broken my sense of taste.”

Zhan Ziye and the others were stunned, then they revealed the it-suddenly-dawned-on-them expression. That’s right, they have this trick! A Foundation Establishment cultivator’s power to control their body far surpassed that of a Xiantian Stage Martial Arts Master—they could shield their body from their five senses… and it wasn’t difficult at all! Once they broke their sense of taste, though it could cause them some trouble, at least the strange taste on their meal would no longer be a hindrance to them!

This was a competition not to show off their willpower or perhaps lock horn with the other side, but rather victory should come first… Although the Ten Thousand Arts Sect people initially wanted to end the competition with an overwhelming and comprehensive victory, since it was impossible, just the ordinary victory would do.

Zhan Ziye, Zhao Jiangyun and the others approvingly nodded to Hai Yunfan, then all of them broke off their sense of taste and increased their eating speed!

Wang Lu glanced at little Hai, smiled but didn’t speak. From the five people of the Ten Thousand Arts Sect, the one with the highest cultivation stage and level was Zhan Ziye, however, the one really worth paying attention for was actually Hai Yunfan. Nevertheless, it was just a matter of how much he was worth paying attention for; the real card-under-the-sleeve to decide the victory was not this.

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On the other side, after the reminder from Hai Yunfan, the progress of the Ten Thousand Arts Sect was accelerated again, and their hope for victory went back to their field of vision once again. The one with the biggest eating capacity Zhao Jiangyun was like tiger swallowing the whale. The pile of empty bowls next to him stacked up like a small hill, which was really intimidating to look at.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s constitution was not ordinary, however, if there was no special method, it was absolutely impossible for someone to be able to consume that much. If the body couldn’t digest the food residue, how could one be able to eat that much in a row? Moreover, most of the dishes on the table were made with spirit objects, which has a much higher grade than any meal from the mortal world, and consequently, more troublesome to digest. At this time, Zhao Jiangyuan demonstrated his expertise. Soon, he would leave the other Spirit Sword Sect disciples far behind; even the gap between him and Wang Lu had been steadily reduced.

Wang Lu’s high-level card was indeed awesome, but Ten Thousand Arts Sect disciples had also been constantly improving their card level. In the early stage of the competition, they simply couldn’t even dream of any level five or level six card. However, by the middle stage, it wasn’t that unattainable anymore. Zhao Jiangyuan had been accumulating a certain number of level four cards, and at any time, he might exchange them into a level five card!

As long as he could surpass Wang Lu, then there would no longer be any suspense in this competition… unless the latter could go against the heaven once again and draw the eleven in a row lottery and pull out many level six cards, thus consolidating his advantage. However, even if he did, with Zhao Jiangyuan’s progress, he could redeem the level six card with his two-thirds point accumulation and use the last one-third to regain his advantage.

Towards this, Wang Lu still held onto his moderate pace, indifferently watching his hard-won advantage rapidly shrinking… Actually, he couldn’t speed up at all.

On this big stomach competition, from purely individual strength, he was actually the weakest; he couldn’t even gain an advantage over Yue Xinyao. Indeed, from purely physical toughness alone, with his Non-Phase Sword Bone, even compared with Zhan Ziye and Liu Li, he would not feel inferior. However, physical toughness and eating capacity have no direct connection… Actually, with simple reasoning, it wasn’t difficult to get the answer: how could a method to increase eating capacity be born out of that kind of destitute place that was the Non-Phase Peak? Wang Wu herself longed for the day when she and her Disciple could suck the essence of sun and moon, living outdoor without the need to eat anything!

Therefore, from the start, Wang Lu didn’t intend to win the game relying on himself; all he did was to attract the attention to him so that the real card could remain hidden. Right now, the Ten Thousand Arts Sect side, including Hai Yunfan, paid attention only to him, yet they ignored the other four contestants from the Spirit Sword Sect, including a certain person whose progress was getting faster and faster!