Protect Our Clan Leader

"Commandery Prince, Miss Lici is naturally blessed with good fortune," the Butler consoled incessantly, "She is a fortunate child, and no matter where she goes, she will never lack food. What's more, Master Yunyang has raised Miss Lici for the competition among the saints after the Emperor's son's contest concludes. By then, she will surely return."

"Very well, very well, I, this prince, will manage the White Cloud Tower well, earn more money, and store more exquisite and top-grade delicacies, just waiting for that girl to come back for a feast," Heng Commandery Prince seemed to find new motivation, his demeanor suddenly radiant once again.

"Come, come, come, let this prince see who will take first place this time, whether it's Shangguan Yunhong or Fang Yaowu who has the last laugh."

By this time, the Big Stomach King competition was nearing its end.

Heng Commandery Prince, too, cast aside his various emotions and focused on the climax of the match.

"Eh? Something seems off," the Heng Commandery Prince frowned, "There are still three people left on the stage. The stout man on the left, with muscles bulging like a savage bear, must be the martial valorous Sky Pride Fang Yaowu.

And the one on the right, with a thick and robust physique like a standing elephant, is likely Shangguan Yunhong, who practices the Dragon Elephant Tempering Body Technique and possesses a devouring kind of Bloodline."

With the vision of the Heng Commandery Prince, even if he had not met them, he could instantly discern the two based on their physique, aura, and other details.

Some special Horizontal Refining Cultivation Techniques, when practiced deeply, would cause various anomalies to appear in the body.

Cultivators of the Profound Martial at the Heavenly Proud Level are even more likely to end up with a deformity. Therefore, it is advisable to marry and have children early, as it becomes increasingly difficult later on.

However, it is not necessarily the case for a lifetime.

In most cases, when Top Grade Horizontal Refining War Body Cultivation Techniques are perfected at the Purple Abode Realm, there will be a transformation back to the original form, and the external appearance will not be too exaggerated compared to ordinary Profound Martial Cultivators. Only during combat will the War Body form be revealed.

Without a doubt, in the past Big Stomach King competitions, the finalists and often the winners were mostly those with voracious appetites who practice the Horizontal Refining War Body style. Other Profound Martial Cultivators, despite having a huge appetite later in their cultivation, could hardly compare with the War Bodies.

But what did the Heng Commandery Prince see?

Between those two colossal men, there stood a woman who appeared "delicately petite" in comparison, wearing a flowing, female-style long robe with sword sleeves, her figure lean and graceful.

Although her face was veiled and her true appearance unclear, one could still sense her extraordinary fairy-like aura.

Especially those eyes, which seemed to twinkle like stars.

Every time she lifted her veil and ate the competition's gourmet food with elegant gestures, the tip of the iceberg of her beauty, barely glimpsed, already dazzled the spectators and the defeated competitors.

"Go Immortal, go Immortal! Defeat Fang Yaowu and Shangguan Yunhong."

One cheer after another rose and fell, growing more intense and vociferous as if to shake the very foundations of the White Cloud Tower.

She didn't eat fast, and her movements were quite graceful, yet her pace was not slow at all.

A large piece of Spirit Meat weighing over ten pounds easily snapped up by her hand. With a gentle squeeze of her mysterious energy, it was astonishingly compressed to the size of a palm, gobbled up in just a few bites.

Unlike the two burly men beside her, who were tearing and biting directly into their large chunks of roasted Spirit Meat.

"Girl, you're practically desecrating a treasure by eating like that," Fang Yaowu said in a muffled voice, "You're completely failing to appreciate the exquisite culinary art of White Cloud Tower's chef."

Spirit Meat greatly replenishes the energy and blood within the human body, far surpassing ordinary meats.

As the level of the Big Stomach King competition rose and its popularity soared, the ingredients used became increasingly premium. By the final stage, White Cloud Tower brought out the extremely rare and precious Level Five Spirit Cow meat to treat the seeded contestants.

But as good as this meat was, it was very satisfying, and a small bite was difficult for ordinary people to digest due to the immense energy and blood within it. Even for Tianren Realm Cultivators, eating too much required time for cultivation and meditation to digest the energy and blood, or else their blood vessels would burst from being overstuffed, bleeding non-stop.

The woman didn't pay any heed to him, continuing to quietly eat one piece of Level Five Spirit Cow roast meat after another. Her seemingly flat and reserved belly showed barely any signs of swelling.

By contrast, the physically formidable Fang Yaowu and Shangguan Yunhong began to sweat, beads forming on their foreheads, their faces turning somewhat red.

Clearly, the Level Five Spirit Cow meat they were consuming was reaching their limit.

"Could this be Lici coming back?" Heng Commandery Prince excitedly stood up, but upon a closer look, he disappointingly collapsed back into his chair, "It's not Lici; when she eats, she's not nearly as refined~"

"Eh? The purity and richness of that girl's elemental water mysterious energy is astonishing. It flows and turns as if true elemental water circulates within her body," he noted.

Ultimately, Heng Commandery Prince, who was of the same generation as Master Yunyang and an Advanced Stage Purple Abode Realm Cultivator, had an incredibly sharp eye. At a glance, he spotted the peculiarities of her condition.

He could even faintly sense a whirlpool of elemental water within her stomach, spinning incessantly like a galaxy, grinding all the food she ate into pieces, absorbing it, and transforming it into pure energy and blood.

None of these energy and blood were wasted. Instead, she absorbed them at an extremely fast pace into her body, transporting them to every part with her elemental water mysterious energy, bit by bit, strengthening herself.