In the kitchen, all the leftovers were gone.
Xu Zhou glanced at the rice bin and found that even the raw rice was finished.
Fortunately, Li Yanping had bought three days' worth of groceries, mostly vegetables, with some ribs and pork.
Without a word, Xu Zhou swept up all the groceries and took them to his room.
Bedroom.
Xu Zhou placed all the groceries on the ground, then split his consciousness to control the shark-toothed mutant chicken to start eating.
At this moment, Xu Zhou realized the usefulness of "shark teeth."
When the mutant chicken bit into the ribs, it only needed a strong bite to shatter the bones, then easily swallow them.
Those were ribs; as for vegetables, they were even easier, swallowed in one gulp.
"Indeed, any food can be eaten now." Xu Zhou smiled slightly in delight.
The shark-toothed mutant chicken devoured everything swiftly.
At the same time, the tremendous digestive power granted by the "Devouring All Things" talent rapidly turned the food into nutrients, which saturated the mutant chicken's entire body.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Inside the shark-toothed mutant chicken, a series of crisp sounds erupted—bones were growing quickly!
Immediately afterward, the mutant chicken expanded significantly under Xu Zhou's incredulous gaze, growing taller than Xu Zhou's knee, its muscles swelling enormously.
Xu Zhou quickly looked at the panel.
[Rank +5%]
Avatar: Shark-toothed mutant chicken
Rank: Level 0, Rank 1 (5%)
Net Weight: 7.5 kilograms
——
"Has the level increased by 5%?"
Xu Zhou was slightly surprised. Does this mean, when it reaches 100%, it will become Rank 2?
At the same time, he also noticed, the avatar's net weight increased from 5 kilograms to 7.5 kilograms.
"Only grew by 2.5 kilograms?" Xu Zhou slightly frowned.
This was three full days of groceries!
To gain ten kilograms, how much would we have to eat?
Xu Zhou was a bit speechless. Given his family's situation, he feared he couldn't support this fellow for long.
Just as Xu Zhou was lamenting, he suddenly felt a warm current within his body.
Under that warm current, his limbs felt exceptionally warm, and soon, it seemed like his strength increased significantly.
Xu Zhou's eyes widened, had he just overlooked something?
He looked at the panel again.
[Qi-Blood +0.1 Cal]
Host: Xu Zhou
Qi-Blood: 71.1 Cal
"Has my Qi-Blood increased too?" Xu Zhou was stunned.
A moment later, he seemed to grasp something, showing an expression of surprise: "Is the avatar nurturing me?"
Xu Zhou looked at the mutant chicken, unable to hide the joy on his face.
Avatar nurturing.
This means that every growth of the mutant chicken will synchronously strengthen his main body.
Previously there was none, perhaps because the avatar was too weak.
Considering this possibility, Xu Zhou was even more excited.
Earlier he thought the main body's cultivation was too slow, but now it seems, not necessarily!
After all, the mutant chicken is still very weak, yet it can bring him such noticeable improvement. What if it grows to a thousand kilograms, or even ten thousand kilograms?
By then, how powerful will his main body be?
"Great." Xu Zhou clenched his fists, unable to conceal his excitement.
Earlier he worried that the main body's cultivation speed was too slow.
But now that the avatar can nurture the main body, he believes the growth speed of the main body will also be astonishingly rapid!
...
The next day, it was the weekend, Xu Zhou didn't go to school.
Meanwhile, his parents discovered that the food in the fridge was all gone.
At first, Li Yanping thought there was a thief at home and wanted to call the police.
In a critical moment, Xu Zhou stopped his stepmother and explained that it was all the big rooster's doing.
Because of this, Li Yanping was very surprised, how could just a chicken eat so much food?
Xu Zhou explained, it had mutated.
These were indeed the facts, Xu Zhou wasn't guilty of anything, he took his stepmother to his room, and Li Yanping was shocked at the sight of the big rooster with shark teeth.
Xu Zhou quickly reassured: "Mom, don't worry, it just has teeth, it won't bite people."
"And it's very obedient, look."
As he spoke, Xu Zhou confidently pointed at the shark-toothed mutant chicken, giving orders.
The next second, the mutant chicken raised its wings, picked up the basketball beside it, and performed a dribble between the legs.
"Cluck cluck cluck!"
The big rooster held its head high, dribbling the basketball before Li Yanping.
After these two days of training, Xu Zhou could multitask, controlling the main body while also manipulating the mutant chicken's avatar.
"This, this..."
Watching the rooster dribble between its legs, Li Yanping was utterly shocked.
Afterward, Xu Zhou made the mutant chicken perform several more actions with the basketball, thoroughly convincing Li Yanping.
At this moment, Li Ruoxi passing through the living room, couldn't help but roll her eyes at the scene: "Keeping a chicken as a pet, and it even mutated, what did you do to it?"
Xu Zhou found this a bit odd: "I don't know, it just mutated all of a sudden."
Li Ruoxi blushed slightly and said: "Normally, poultry doesn't mutate unless it comes into contact with an Awakener's body fluids..."
Saying this, Li Ruoxi gave Xu Zhou a strange look.
Awakeners are also known as Awakeners, for awakening essentially means a certain mutation occurs within the body.
Hearing this, Xu Zhou was also taken aback; is there such a theory?
Li Yanping seemed to understand as well, awkwardly saying: "Ruoxi, don't say nonsense!"
Xu Zhou returned to his senses, looking at Li Ruoxi speechlessly: "Sis, what are you thinking, am I such a person? This chicken must have mutated before I bought it."
Li Ruoxi didn't say anything more, shot Xu Zhou an irritated glance, gave a light snort, and left.
And Li Yanping also didn't stay long, gave a few words of advice, then hurriedly left the bedroom.
In the room, Xu Zhou looked at the shark-toothed mutant chicken on the ground, shook his head and laughed, not expecting that this fellow would cause such a misunderstanding.
With the S-tier talent he awakened, the little bit of dignity he had earned from Li Ruoxi seemed about to be squandered again.
However, Xu Zhou wasn't concerned; right now he's too weak to speak with confidence.
Once his strength catches up with Li Ruoxi, then his words will truly carry weight.
...
Over the past two days, Xu Zhou asked his parents to buy more food.
And all this extra food naturally went into the mutated chicken.
Monday.
The first thing Xu Zhou did upon waking up was to check the panel.
Host: Xu Zhou
Qi-Blood: 71.3 Cal
Spirit: 1 Hertz
Avatar: Shark-toothed mutant chicken
Rank: Level 0, Rank 1 (15%)
Net Weight: 12.5 kilograms
Talent: Grow ten kilograms per day (limit), Devouring All Things
Evolution: Can evolve when weight reaches species' limit.
——
"In two days, my Qi-Blood increased by 0.3 Cal!" Xu Zhou's eyes gleamed bright.
Don't think of a 0.3 Cal increase as being small.
Previously, it would take him half a month to increase Qi-Blood by that much!
Even students with better cultivation talent would need a week.
Yet in these two days, without any training, just letting the avatar eat, Xu Zhou increased his Qi-Blood by 0.3 Cal.
This was already an astonishing speed.
However, Xu Zhou was still not satisfied.
"In these two days, the avatar only grew 5 kilograms, averaging just 2.5 kilograms a day."
Xu Zhou furrowed his brows, "But its daily growth limit is a full ten kilograms!"
"If I could reach this ten-kilogram limit, my Qi-Blood would increase even faster!"
Xu Zhou took a deep breath; he had to prepare more food.
Through these two days of observation, he noticed that rice and vegetables provided the avatar little boost.
Instead, meats had a bigger effect.
"I need to prepare more meat!" Xu Zhou decided.
But soon, he realized, he's just a high school freshman, where would he get money to buy meat?
Ask his parents?
This wasn't a matter of just eating once or twice; it's eating every day, in large and huge quantities!
Not to mention his family's situation, already tight, even if his parents had extra money, it wouldn't be much.
If Xu Zhou spent all the family's money, his parents might not say anything, but he'd feel guilty, and more importantly, that bit of money wouldn't help much.
"Earn money!" Xu Zhou's eyes were firm, this moment, he had an unprecedented desire to earn money.
Only with money can he continuously enhance the avatar, only then can he continually become stronger, and catch up to Li Ruoxi!