Chapter 52 - Power come with a cost

As he looked up, Little Huang was still in the ring. He was carrying a bow and jumping side to side like a wrestler. He held his fist in front of him, challenging him.

"Little Li, whatcha waiting for?"

"Eh? Wait… why did you directly come up here?"

"WAIT… I'M NOT READY YET!"

"WAIT!!! STAY THERE!!! DON'T COME HERE!!"

Little Huang was screaming as he ran around the ring, scaring all of the other members.

…

That night, Li Rui did not go hunting for garbage. He tucked Li Wei into her bed and locked himself in his room.

Tomorrow would be his first official competition of the high schooler level. He wanted to make sure that he would be in his best condition.

He didn't only want to win, but he wanted it to be a perfect win!

After training for the entire night, [The Eternal Indestructible Tribulation] circulated around his body non-stop and rapidly exhausted his energy.

The warm feeling from his stomach continuously flowed through his body along with his circulation, nourishing his body. This was how his body was supporting the extreme exhaustion from [The Eternal Indestructible Tribulation].

Only when he saw the sun rising from his window did he feel completely exhausted and stop practicing.

All the food in his stomach that he had accumulated from before was once again completely used. The feeling of endless hunger had once again struck him, and as soon as he opened his eyes, they gave out a green light.

Luckily, he had already made preparations the night before. There was already a large amount of food in his bedroom and most of it was meat.

He even ate the bones of the fried chicken and swallowed them into his stomach.

After having something in his stomach, he finally slowed down and opened his attribute bar as he continued eating.

HP: 156/156 [Undigested Vitality: 83 points]

AR: 17

AD: 13

There was an increase of 9 points in his HP, and 8 points were from the digested Vitality.

There was also an addition of 1 point in both AR and AD. This kind of progress shocked him.

Who knew that this S-grade cultivation technique along with The Seed of the True Divine Strength would be so powerful?

After thoroughly thinking about it, Li Rui noticed that he had forgotten about a very important factor.

The system!

Everyone else did not have a system like he did!

His current HP was about triple the amount of the other Transcendents of his age.

If it wasn't because of his bottomless stomach, his body could not support his training for more than one or two hours.

After one session of training, he would be drained for at least two to three days. He would have to wait for his vitality to be completely recovered before starting the next round,

However, with this bottomless stomach, he was able to continuously train these two nights and not waste any time!

His efficiency rate had increased by tenfold. The result of one night worth of cultivation would be the same as ordinary people training for a month!

Plus, he didn't have to waste a few days to allow the body to recover as long as he had enough food…

Food…

Just as he thought about food, Li Rui grabbed for more food but realized that all the food he had prepared in advance had been completely finished.

The happy expression on his face disappeared as Li Rui imagined the numbers on his bank account disappearing.

This amount of food cost about 3000! And he wasn't even full!

'Looks like I'll have to go to HaiDiLao to eat… wait, that isn't right… publicize… I'm there to help them publicize!'

Li Rui secretly gave himself a good slap and once again confirmed his legitimacy.

He didn't have much time to waste. After making Little Wei a good breakfast, Li Rui went to school with his luggage.

There was a huge bus parked in front of the school gate. A group of students in their uniforms were gathered together and were excitedly discussing the upcoming competitions.

Among the crowd, Li Rui saw Yi Kaicheng whom he hadn't seen for a long time. He looked a little depressed, but overall, he looked much more powerful than before.

As he made eye contact with Li Rui, he bitterly glared at Li Rui. Then, he turned his head angrily. He was less impetuous and was calmer than before.

Li Rui smiled at him as he didn't really care about the jealousy of a young man. They didn't have any vengeful hatred between them, except for Luo…

"Hi Captain, today is the day! Are you happy? Nervous?"

The weight of about a hundred kilograms hit him from the back and Li Rui directly fell forward, almost causing him to land on his face.

"All of my opponents are chickens, why do I have to be nervous?"

Li Rui couldn't help but sigh as he pulled Luo Li down from his back.

This time, he noticed that Yi Kaicheng was once again looking in his direction, but this time, his attention was completely focused on Luo Li.

The look he had in his eyes was like an affectionate man looking at his lover who had broken up with him. There was a hint of blessing along with pain.

Li Rui was much more experienced than normal high schoolers and he could easily see through Yi Kaicheng's childish thoughts.

After thinking through it, Li Rui was able to completely reform his thoughts.

Yi Kaicheng had initially taken Li Rui as an enemy because he had not shown his true ability.

Try to imagine a short, ugly, and weak man always spending time with your goddess. This would drive any man crazy.

Although Li Rui's image was not as bad, in Yi Kaicheng's perspective, it would be just as bad.

But after being defeated by Li Rui, Luo Li plus his abilities were much more powerful than anyone could imagine.

With this , Yi Kaicheng would be jealous, envious, and dissatisfied.

Therefore, he would try to secretly work hard and swear to win his goddess back.

This was probably why he looked much more powerful than before.

However, Li Rui's performance on the school team was only getting scarier and scarier, and in the end, he had even exceeded the limits of normal human beings.

That's when Yi KaiCheng became hopeless.

He couldn't even see the end of the road and didn't know where to start even if he wanted to work harder.

From hatred to being jealous, then envious and finally compromising…

In the end, he had to admit that Li Rui was much more outstanding than him and thus more suitable for Luo Li.

The emotional roller coaster ride that he had gone through was too thrilling!

Li Rui shook his head.

Still too little homework for them!

Kids should be focused on their studies. They can still date when they're in college-

"What's wrong?"

Luo Li's drooling look moved from his neck and toward his face.

"Nothing."

Li Rui smiled while shaking his head.

'I was looking at Yi KaiCheng, Yi KaiCheng was looking at you, and you were looking at my neck… This was one complicated triangle…'

"Is everyone here? I'm going to start the roll call!"

With the assistant coach's shouting, all of the members got onto the bus in an orderly manner.

The luxurious bus quickly drove to the stadium in the neighboring areas. Coach Chen Bin was briefing them before the match, lighting up their fighting spirits.

"Why don't you seem interested?"

Huang JunCai, who was sitting next to Li Rui, quietly asked.

"My ranking is too low. All of my opponents in the initial stages are weak chickens like you."

Li Rui glanced at him and sighed.

"What do you mean by weak chickens like me?! Do you have the guts to just stand still while I shoot you?!"

Little Huang said indignantly.