Awakening The Gluttony Talent: I Become Stronger By Eating Chapter 1

Chapter 1: SSS-class Talent: Gluttony!

The moon was bright and the stars sparse.

In an attic of an old building,
Lu Yu looked at himself in the mirror. Looking at his old haggard face and aged white hair, his face had a blank expression.
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Just then, Lu Yu had woken up and discovered that he had transmigrated.

He had originally thought that it would be a good thing. After transmigrating, he would reach the peak of his life and marry a fair, rich, and beautiful woman.

However, upon closer inspection, how did an eighteen-year-old youth who was living in the best time of his life transmigrate into a hoary old man?
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All of a sudden, Lu Yu suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. The pain was so excruciating that it made his whole body tremble.

After a long while, the pain slowly faded away and a new memory appeared in Lu Yu's mind. It was the original memory of this old man, also known as Lu Yu.

This world was called the Blue Star Continent, which was somewhat similar to Lu Yu's original world.
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However, a hundred years ago, due to the awakening of spiritual energy, many subterranean caverns appeared one after another, and they emanated abundant spiritual energy.

Everyone could absorb it and practice to evolve their skills. A very small number of people could even awaken their respective talents and they discovered that they possess magical and powerful abilities.
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Even if they didn't practice, simply breathing in the spiritual energy could allow them to gradually strengthen their bodies.
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However, soon after this, disaster struck.

All sorts of terrifying beasts rushed out in great abundance from the subterranean caverns and hunted down humans relentlessly.

In front of such big and powerful beasts, humans seemed so tiny.
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In the first year of the appearance of the Fearsome Beasts, the human population was sharply reduced by more than half. There were heavy casualties.
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As time went by, humans slowly evolved their skills and grew stronger. They gradually gained the ability to fight against the Fearsome Beasts and could finally survive albeit with much difficulty.

70 years ago, when that great war erupted, the humans mobilized all the martial arts practitioners and launched a great decisive battle against the Fearsome Beasts.

That battle lasted for an entire year. It was a very bitter fight for survival. Countless humans and Fearsome Beasts died. Blood flowed like rivers and corpses covered the mountains and plains. It was an extremely tragic sight that was beyond words.
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Fortunately, although the battle was arduous, humans emerged victorious in the end.

Having won the land of survival, they had also won for themselves 70 years of peace!

This great battle was thereafter known in history as the Holy War!
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At that time, he was 20 years old, and he was one of the victorious survivors!

From what Lu Yu could understand, his predecessor had average talent. At his peak, he had reached Martial Arts Warrior Grade 9 and was only one step away from becoming a distinguished Martial Master.

But he had not been able to successfully breakthrough to this final step for several decades.
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As he grew older, his evolution level did not improve but declined and he had no hope of entering the realm of a Martial Master.

Until now, when he was 90 years old, he did not have any good fortune. He led an ordinary life, had someone whom he loved, and together they had a son and a daughter.
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Looking at the old haggard face in the mirror, Lu Yu sighed with resignation.
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If he could become a Martial Master, he would have a lifespan of 200 years. He would still be considered as being in his prime at 90 years old.

Unfortunately, he did not succeed in attaining that step. Now that he was 90 years old, he was already old and feeble. His health vitality had regressed severely, and his evolution level had dropped from Martial Arts Warrior Grade 9 to Martial Arts Warrior Grade 1 now.

The annual Federation Martial Arts Trial would begin in 3 days.
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The Trial was broadly divided into two aspects. One was the skills evolution condition of the Martial Arts, and the other was the awakening of innate talent.

However, most of the participants were just martial arts practitioners. Less than one in ten thousand would be able to awaken their innate talents successfully. Such abilities were extremely rare and were out of reach of most mortals.

During the Trial, successful participants were promoted while others were eliminated. Some rejoice while others lament their loss.

Young people all hoped to succeed in becoming a Martial Arts Warrior and after that, advance to a higher level.

In this world where martial arts was preeminent above all, all things related to the martial arts were the top priority. Everything else was secondary and must stand aside.
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Becoming a Martial Arts Warrior meant that one would possess a lofty status. The higher one's evolution level was, the higher one's status would be. This was the same for wealth!

In other words, in this world, if one wanted to succeed and stand out among his peers, one must first become a Martial Arts Warrior and thereafter advance to a higher level.

Ordinary people who could not become Martial Arts Warriors would be rendered insignificant and worthless for life.
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However, for those who had become Martial Arts Warriors but were not able to advance further to a higher level, they would be destined to live a life of mediocrity, just like Lu Yu.

It was particularly risky for an old man to participate in the Trial because he might get eliminated due to the regression of his skills evolution levels, following which he would be demoted to an ordinary person.

Currently, this was the prospect that Lu Yu faced. During last year's Trial, he had regressed to Martial Arts Warrior Grade 1. From that time until now, his health vitality had again regressed by a great deal.

Lu Yu looked at the run-down furniture in the room. They were all the same old furniture from the time he got married.

For the past few decades, even though they were poor, they could still eke out a living.

But now, if Lu Yu failed the Trial in 3 days' time and got demoted to an ordinary person, he would lose his family's only source of income.

Already poor to begin with, the loss of income would mean he would not be able to feed his family anymore.
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Lu Yu rubbed his forehead. Today was his 90th birthday. His wife and children would soon come to celebrate his 90th birthday with him.
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Yet on this all-important day, Lu Yu couldn't find it in his heart to be cheerful.

Right now, the biggest problem he faced was the Federation Martial Arts Trial in 3 days' time. He had to find a way to pass the Trial.

If he could not pass, he would be totally worthless as a 90-year-old without any skills evolution level.

As Lu Yu stood lost in thought, a series of small characters suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Yu tried touching them, but was unable to feel anything at all. He rubbed his eyes, but the small words still remained.

Confused, Lu Yu hastily read them carefully.

[Delicacy Cellular Fusion in progress…]
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[Delicacy Cell Fusion Success!]

[Congratulations on awakening SSS-class talent: Gluttony!]
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[Gluttony]

Level: SSS-class

Effect: Possess an infinite appetite, able to eat a large amount of food and digest it perfectly! Eating the flesh of Fearsome Beasts can replenish one's health vitality, eating the crystal core can increase one's inner strength. Whatever is eaten will replenish the corresponding part of the eater! (Note: The higher the quality of the food, the more skillful the cooking is, the more unexpected surprises there will be!)
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When he saw this notification, Lu Yu became very excited immediately.

Most people awakened their talents successfully when they were young and occasionally, when they were middle-aged.

However, Lu Yu had successfully awakened his very own innate talent at the grand old age of 90. On top of that, it was a legendary highest level talent of the SSS-class!

According to the memories in his mind, Lu Yu had learned that even the lowest F-class talent was equivalent to an expert of at least the Martial Master realm.

Yet now he had simply awakened his SSS-class talent just like that? Lu Yu couldn't believe his luck.

Currently, in the entire Human Alliance, the highest level talent that anyone had come across was only the S-class. He was two levels higher than him!
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After examining his own talent, Lu Yu gained some understanding.

Simply put, whatever he ate would improve that specific part of his body. He could eat all sorts of things to increase his strength in any aspect.
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And in the midst of all those texts, two words were crucial: infinite and perfect.

This meant that from here on, Lu Yu would be able to eat endlessly and upgrade indefinitely. There would be no bottlenecks or upper limits!

All of a sudden, Lu Yu saw what appeared to be a path of gourmet food ahead of him that depended on eating ceaselessly to improve his abilities. It was incredibly bright and dazzling.

Right at this moment, Lu Yu, who was already ninety years old and did not have much of an appetite, suddenly felt his stomach rumble.

Lu Yu rubbed his empty stomach and felt very hungry. In fact, he was absolutely ravenous, and he felt as if he could eat anything, everything.
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