Level 2 Gluttony

Not long after Senior Disciple Brother Wang Ming left, quite a few people came to visit Zhou Feng again.

There were both senior brothers and senior sisters, and every one of them left behind quite a few things.

Origin Blood Pills were the most numerous, along with some special beast meat.

But without exception, whenever they looked at him, saliva seemed to drip from the corners of their mouths.

It was as if they had come to inspect their food.

At last, everyone left, and he was the only one remaining in the room.

Only then did Zhou Feng have the time to examine the Demon Devouring Art he had just obtained.

He had always been deeply interested in true Cultivation Techniques.

The only pity was that he had never obtained one before. Now, he could finally glimpse the path of cultivation.

Demon Devouring Art!

As its name suggested, it centered on devouring.

It was both a cultivation technique and a method of raising Gu.

All of Three Gu Sect's techniques required humans and Gu to cultivate together.

Not only did you need to break through, but the Gu insect within your body had to break through as well.

Though this cultivation method consumed immense resources, once a breakthrough was achieved, one's combat power would more than double.

The first step in cultivating the Demon Devouring Art was to mutate the Bloodthirsty Gu within the body into a Demon Devouring Gu.

Once the Gu insect in one's body became a Demon Devouring Gu, the Demon Devouring Art could be considered introductory-level.

To mutate the Bloodthirsty Gu, one needed Demon Devouring Pills to assist with cultivation.

He had heard that these Demon Devouring Pills were personally refined by his master, the Grand Elder of Three Gu Sect.

Moreover, every disciple who joined Bitter Bamboo Peak could receive them for free until they reached the introductory level of the Demon Devouring Art.

"Free again?"

Seeing this, Zhou Feng's eyelids began twitching wildly.

After entering the Demon Devouring Art, in other words, after the Bloodthirsty Gu transformed into a Demon Devouring Gu—

The stomach would change, and one's appetite would greatly increase.

At that point, one needed to keep eating, endlessly devouring all kinds of food required by the Demon Devouring Gu.

And once one could no longer satisfy the Demon Devouring Gu's demands, it would begin devouring one's heart.

This trait was very similar to the Bloodthirsty Gu, except the Bloodthirsty Gu was nowhere near as formidable as the Demon Devouring Gu.

It also specifically noted that the Demon Devouring Gu's favorite food was other Demon Devouring Gu and the hosts of Demon Devouring Gu.

The moment Zhou Feng saw this, he understood what was going on.

Those senior brothers and sisters from earlier had already had their minds directly controlled by the Demon Devouring Gu inside them.

They could no longer restrain their own appetites.

This was simply an evil demonic art taken to the extreme. Under the drive of such appetite—

No one knew what might happen.

Those fellow disciples treated him as food. Then likewise, were all the disciples on Bitter Bamboo Peak being treated as food by the Grand Elder?

Zhou Feng felt as though he could barely breathe.

Compared to the slight sense of oppression in the Outer Sect, the pressure atop Bitter Bamboo Peak was enough to leave one gasping for air.

The text had described so many drawbacks of the Demon Devouring Art.

Naturally, the Demon Devouring Art also had many advantages. After all, the defining trait of demonic arts was that the greater the side effects, the greater the benefits.

As long as one cultivated the Demon Devouring Art, one's physical body would undergo terrifying tempering.

Stamina, healing ability, strength, speed, immunity, and more would all be enhanced across the board.

That was why Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples fought in an extremely simple and brutal manner.

They relied on their physical bodies to crush everything.

Spiritual power? Useless! Once one cultivated a Demon Devouring Body, ordinary spiritual power could not inflict any damage at all.

Even if they were injured, they would heal themselves in an extremely short time.

Poisoning? Useless as well. The Demon Devouring Gu would directly devour any poison.

Unless it was an especially terrifying poison, they were basically immune.

Thus, Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples had no need to cultivate other combat techniques or Daoist arts. They only needed to focus wholeheartedly on cultivating the Demon Devouring Art.

In a single sentence, this was the path of breaking all techniques with brute force.

"So powerful?"

The more Zhou Feng read the description, the more he felt as though he had fallen into a bottomless abyss.

If this technique was truly so powerful, why was only the Grand Elder's faction cultivating it?

And why was the Grand Elder merely the Grand Elder rather than the sect master?

Most likely, the farther one progressed in this technique, the more traps there were.

But Zhou Feng had no choice but to cultivate it now.

"I can only take it one step at a time!"

He let out a long breath, then habitually glanced at the Skill Panel.

Whenever he felt pressure, he would always look at the Skill Panel to ease it somewhat.

After all, compared to anything else, nothing was more reassuring than a cheat.

"What is this? Why has it changed?"

This time, when he looked at the Skill Panel, Zhou Feng suddenly noticed that it had changed somewhat.

Previously, the Skill Panel had only displayed a simple progress bar.

Now, a skill had actually appeared on it.

Gluttony (Level 1) (Upgradeable)

It was actually the Gluttony Passive Skill he had obtained at the very beginning. It now even said it could be upgraded?

A passive skill could be upgraded?

Why was that? Could it be because of the Demon Devouring Art?

Had some hidden condition been triggered?

Zhou Feng immediately guessed that the change in the Skill Panel was most likely due to the appearance of the Demon Devouring Art.

He was also now certain of one thing.

As long as a drawn Passive Skill had a level after it, that meant it could be upgraded.

However, he did not know what conditions triggered an upgrade.

"Upgrade!"

There was no need to even think about whether to upgrade it.

Of course he would upgrade it!

As he silently gave the command in his heart, the progress bar on the Skill Panel began moving backward.

"So upgrading also reduces the progress!"

Zhou Feng now understood one of the requirements for upgrading a passive skill.

Gluttony (Level 2): Whenever you swallow something, you can digest what you have swallowed more perfectly and rapidly.

There is also a chance of gaining additional unknown attributes, and you will not be controlled by your appetite.

After Gluttony reached Level 2, its description changed completely.

When the Gluttony passive had still been Level 1, it could only help him digest food faster.

But now, that limitation was gone. In other words, no matter what it was—

As long as Zhou Feng could swallow it, he could digest it quickly and gain additional unknown attributes.

And it could even make him immune to his appetite's control?

"Not being controlled by appetite? Doesn't that perfectly correspond to the Demon Devouring Art?"

Zhou Feng looked somewhat excited.

He had just witnessed what cultivating the Demon Devouring Art and being controlled by appetite looked like.

Whether it was Senior Disciple Brother Wang Ming or the others—

Every one of them looked like a Starving Ghost. They could not even control their drool, which would spill from the corners of their mouths if they were not careful.

That appearance was truly terrifying.

But if he could avoid being controlled by his appetite, would that not make Zhou Feng exceptionally suited to the Demon Devouring Art?

Sure enough, his way out lay in the Skill Panel.

With the Level 2 Gluttony passive, Zhou Feng was no longer so resistant to cultivating the Demon Devouring Art.