Soon after the battle of Chu Feng and Fu Wonton, a few random fought in the next few rounds. Despite Long Zhen being unable to show his true prowess as the Azure Dragon, he was quite curious to see if his brother from another mother would come up next. He had been best friends with Fey Luden since birth, him training and Fey Luden always eating.
It was odd enough for everybody in their village to see them together, despite having completely opposite lifestyles. If one who hasn't never seen them before, noticing how close they were, one would think they both swung the same preference.
Soon, Long Zhen's wishes became true.
"Participant 6, Fey Luden and Participant 108, Tai Shan come to the stage," announced the referee monotonously.
"Tai Shan…? Isn't he the super genius from the bean clan?" queried one of the male disciple watching the two participants stepping onto the stage.
"Yes, no one knows how he looks like though…" answered another disciple next to him.
"This Fey Luden is part of that maroon cloaked group, I wonder if he's a divine marked geniu- THAT'S TAI SHAN?" exclaimed an elder from afar. Many heard of Tai Shan but due to his identity being tightly disclosed, not many knew how he truly looked like.
From afar, a shirtless "man" with short orange hair stood onto the stage at a height of 4.5 meters. His muscular body bulged out, massive pecs and 10 pack symmetrical abs. His thighs were as thick as a fully grown watermelon. Even his arms seem the same as his thighs, incredibly massive. Despite his massive body, those with eyes can see every muscle on his body was cut and well defined like an impeccable diamond.
One could tell he was from the Bean Clan. They were hundreds of miles away from the word "bean", but natural born giants due to their unusual growth. Their clan average 3.6 meters in height, excluding the women with an average of 2.7 meters, in their clan. Of course, they had a body art that could help them change their height to any size, but they rarely used it. On the contrary, the men were buff but the women always had a very curvy and seductive appearance.
They were quite proud of their giant appearances, instantly taking anyone down with just their innate strength. These giants from the Bean Clan were notoriously known for their loathing behavior towards unhealthy looking fat and skinny people. If one wanted to marry their kin, they had to battle with their body. No fancy movements, qi and techniques. Just pure, brute strength.
"Hmph, how can one be so fat yet join this glorious tournament?" scoffed Tai Shan looking down on Fey Luden. Ever since he was a young bean sprout, he abhorred fat people.
"What do you know? Just because you work out little doesn't make you any better than me!" retorted Fey Luden.
"Even I can get a body like yours without trying, but I stay fat to make you type of people look better! You should appreciate that fact."
Everyone in the crowd stayed silent, unsure if they should cry or laugh at Fey Luden's comment towards Tai Shan. Even worse, the fatty even took out a barbequed rigid boar's thigh out and began munching on it. It was luck when he chose his mask, since it only hid the upper face and not his mouth.
Tai Shan stood there, looking at Fey Luden eating, speechless and unable to retort to his comment. Yet, he still felt humiliated by how casual the fatty was. In his head, the opponent wasn't even taking him seriously. Angered by their action, Tai Shan swiped the boar's thigh out of fatty's right hand and tossed onto the ground. He lifted his right foot up and stomped on it furiously, while fatty stared in shock.
'Oh no…' thought Long Zhen as he stared at the poor boar's meat in astonishment. He didn't think the opponent was that ruthless. Back then, when both Fey Luden and him had met, he did the exact same thing once. Little did he know, it was probably the worst and best thing that had happened in his life.
He made a best friend but completely fearful of this best friend too.
After Tai Shan's stomp obliterated the poor fatty's food, he proceeded to punch him right into the gut, hoping to knock them out with one punch. With a loud thud, Tai Shan took his fist back in pain, startled by the sudden change. In his mind, he thought he would be punching a soft, jiggling flesh ball but it felt like he punched an incredibly sturdy steel wall.
Looking up, fear broke into his heart as he stared at the eyes of a murderous beast. Strong waves of savage killing intent emerged from Fey Luden, drenching his muscular body with cold sweat. Taking a step back, Tai Shan tried to control his urges to run away as the killing intent began to materialize into a projection of a majestic white tiger.
"This is the third time I seen Fatty lose his cool," murmured Long Zhen staring at the White Tiger projected above Fey Luden.
There were two previous cases where the Fatty had gotten angry over his food. The first time was when he met him. Long Zhen had been training one time and his father urged him to make some friends, so he introduced his best friend's son to him. Fey Luden was always bullied about his weight, but never stopped eating as he enjoyed food too much to give it up. Such eating allowed him to grow into a plump and well-rounded fat teenager.
One day Long Zhen had gotten mad at Fey Luden for never defending himself, so he snatched the cooked chicken thigh he was eating and stomped it furiously. Long story short, his ass got beaten black and blue. Not only that, he had to barbeque a whole chicken for the glutton after his several rounds of beatings. This was when he knew Fey Luden was quite nimble and stronger than him in terms technique and combat experience.
Every meat the fatty had eaten were all hunted by the glorious fatty himself. Thus, it marked a friend born out of respect and fear. Since then, they always ate and trained together.
Of course, the second was related to the mischievous two.
Both Silver and Yan Li furrowed their eyebrows from a past memory when they bullied Fey Luden as kids. Every time Fey Luden went out to hunt, after they found out his barbeque tasted amazing, they would always snatch his cooked food. Using many forms of distraction, Fey Luden would always go check his surrounding but would never venture to far from his food.
Sadly, this was enough distance for Silver to snatch the food from him.
This game went on for a few weeks, until Fey Luden finally caught them in the act as Yan Li triggered one of his traps this time around and Silver got his foot stuck in unnoticeable hole near the fire pit. Due to the built-up anger, Fey Luden teared up a whole tree nearby and chucked it like a spear at Silver while Yan Li was dangling upside down on a tree like a trapped insect on a spider web.
Luckily, Silver was saved by Blacky and Fey Luden wouldn't dare to harm Yan Li. He was quite fearful of her mother after being beat to a pulp for smearing some cooked beast fat onto her clothes. After releasing Yan Li, he returned to his fire pit and continued to cook.
This time around, both Yan Li and Silver, had come back and requested to eat with him too. Although he was still angry with their previous antics, he didn't mind sharing his food with other people. In fact, he loved eating together with people!
Later on, Fu Wonton joined the group in attempt to hide from his father as he stumbled upon during one of their roasts. Since then, the five had been good friends for many years.
Everyone in the stadium gawked at the fearsome White Tiger that emerged from Fey Luden's killing intent. Those who weren't used to such killing intent felt suffocated while others dispersed it with their powerful cultivation. Although the referee and a few tournament elders had contained and dispersed the surrounding killing intent, they could still feel a miniscule pressure within the stadium.
Tai Shan stared at Fey Luden, taking a half-step away from him. His instincts were screaming in uncontrollable fear, as if he had poked fun at a hornet's nest. Fey Luden casually took a stroll, getting closer to Tai Shan, who was standing still and unable to move due to complete fear.
"Are you going to replace the food you stomped on?" asked Fey Luden with a cold smile on his face.
Everyone, including Tai Shan, felt a cold shiver running down their spine when they saw his smile. Even the most fearsome demons couldn't match up with this smile. Many prayed for Tai Shan to make it out unscathed, but the ones who really wanted him pummeled to an inch to death were the other fatties. Each one of them insidiously laughed at his misfortune.
'You deserved to be beaten to a pulp,' thought all of them.
"Hmph, why should I?" scowled Tai Shan staring menacingly at Fey Luden. He was truly afraid of the him, but he still had his pride. As a member of the Bean Clan, their pride was as sturdy as a mountain.
Without saying a word, Fey Luden left hand grabbed Tai Shan's left arm with immense strength, bringing down the 4.5 meter "man" down to his knees.
**PAH
A resounding slap went across Tai Shan's face onto his left cheek. Staring daggers at Fey Luden, clenching his teeth from the pain of being slapped, he attempted to get out of the Fatty's grip. But to no avail, unable to budge a millimeter.
"Are you going to replace the food you stomped on?" repeated Fey Luden calmly staring at Tai Shan.
"Heh. This pain is nothing. Felt like being smacked with a pillow," taunted Tai Shan.
**PAH
**PAH
**PAH
…
Several resounding slaps echoed throughout the stadium, not even a cricket would chirp under the surging killing intent. By then, Tai Shan's face had swelled so much, it was hard to not laugh. His disfigured face did not match up with his massive and toned physique, appearing comical to the spectating crowd. Many of the fatties who were once cheering for Fey Luden felt a bit fearful of him and couldn't help but feel pity towards the Bean Clan's genius.
In the end, Tai Shan finally gave up after being humiliated with slap after slap from Fey Luden. After promising to hold a grand feast for Fey Luden, he slowly got off the stage as he couldn't see well with his swollen face.
Even then, the crowd stayed silent this time around, pitying the poor Tai Shan. This boy had eyes but couldn't recognized the true Mount Tai before him. Without much happening, Fey Luden got off the stage in great spirit.
'I should beat people up to get some meals or even high-class meat from them,' thought Fey Luden getting off the stage. From what he learned from minor gossips, the Bean Clan was well known for the cooking and huge feasts. One should know it was hard to cultivate one's external body without treasured medicine and succulent meat. And this Bean Clan was truly known for having such resources.
Most of them were a part of the mysterious Spirit Gourd Sect, known for cultivating their external body. Nearly every famous external powerhouse came from that sect, boasting incredible physical strength and nearly indestructible body.
If one were to learn of his thoughts, they would instantly vomit blood from anger and surprise. This glutton could only think of using his overpowered strength for eating.
"Participant 6, Fey Luden has won!" exclaimed the referee still shocked from Fey Luden overwhelming Tai Shan with unmatching strength. It was quite absurd to see many overpowering scenes in tournaments, then again, this was the divine marked individuals they were watching.
"Next up is Participant 4, Silver and Participant 3, Tang Bai!"