During his fever, Pan Long's appetite grew enormous. Every day, he ate over a hundred pounds of food—rice, noodles, meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables... He stuffed himself with everything in sight, eating until even he felt a little ashamed.
What the hell? Have I turned into a bottomless pit?
Worse still, after eating so much, he often felt hungry. If he hadn't deliberately held back, he might have eaten all day.
In fact, hunger woke him every night. He would devour more food than an ordinary person could finish in two or three days, then flop back down and sleep like a log.
"If I went back home, I'd probably reach the point where no buffet within fifty miles would let me through the door. I might even make every major buffet chain's blacklist. Moving bricks for a living wouldn't earn enough to feed me. I'd have to survive by entering eating contests..."
Fortunately, it didn't last long. After about a week, he could finally control his appetite.
Strangely, he discovered that while he could eat a great deal, he could also eat nothing at all. For the next three or four days, he drank water but barely touched a grain of rice, yet never felt hungry.
Then he ate an enormous meal.
As he wolfed it down, he finally understood what had happened.
This was Innate Food Mystery!
As martial artists cultivated through the Innate Realm, their bodies underwent tremendous changes. Food Mystery was one unmistakable sign.
A martial artist who entered the Food Mystery Realm possessed digestive powers beyond imagination. Eating dozens or even hundreds of pounds in one meal was no problem. Most astonishingly, none of it seemed to obey conservation of mass. After swallowing dozens of pounds of rice and meat, not only did their body shape