"How can one eat more and digest faster?" Ethan thought to himself.
The college entrance examination was just around the corner, and he didn't have much time left. If increasing the amount of food one ate took a long time, his dream of changing his status as a poor student would be completely shattered!
"Qi Yun (a kind of mysterious energy related to one's fortune and destiny in Chinese culture)?" Ethan examined himself and felt it carefully. Finally, he discovered the key to the problem.
Once the Devouring Heavenly Skill was activated, it could absorb Qi Yun. Moreover, as Qi Yun was absorbed, his digestive and absorptive abilities seemed to improve rapidly.
Qi Yun was extremely mysterious. If he had had the slightest doubt before, after the Devouring Heavenly Skill was activated, this last bit of doubt completely disappeared.
Every time he activated the skill, he could see wisps of Qi Yun缠绕 (twining around) each person.
He had quite a bit of Qi Yun himself, a whole stream of it.
In the whole school, even Kevin had only six or seven wisps. The only one who could be compared with him was Sophia.
But she had good academic performance.
And what about himself?
At noon, after lunch.
"Ethan, you've grown up. It's time for you to keep this thing by yourself." Grace Feng took out the crystal - clear jade pendant and said to Ethan.
The shape of the jade pendant was like a small pyramid, and there was a golden "E" on it. When Ethan was still a baby, this jade pendant was worn around his neck.
If he guessed correctly, this should be left by Ethan's parents.
Grace Feng and Ethan Lee hadn't studied much, but because of this jade pendant, they had also been paying attention to it all along.
Although they still hadn't figured out what material this jade pendant was made of until now, but, just in the largest Jinshi (Gold - Stone) Shopping Mall in the center of Azure City, the best jade they had seen there was not as good as the material of the jade pendant in their hands.
Its value was definitely not low.
It was precisely for this reason that Ethan Lee and Grace Feng wanted Ethan to find his biological parents. Twenty years ago, those who could own such a jade pendant must have had much better family conditions than them.
Now, they handed this jade pendant to Ethan again.
"Ethan, we've already told you the origin of this jade pendant. It has something to do with your origin. We've kept it for you for so long. In the future, it will be in your own hands." Ethan Lee handed the jade pendant to Ethan.
"I don't want this broken stone." Ethan's reaction was the same as before. He didn't care about this thing at all.
"Ethan..."
"Since they've abandoned me, what's the use of this thing to me?" Ethan said coldly.
"Alas! How can there be parents who don't love their children? If it wasn't a last resort, who would be cruel enough to abandon their own children? Maybe your parents had some unspeakable difficulties at that time." Grace Feng sighed and said to Ethan.
"I don't care what difficulties they had. Since they abandoned me in the first place, they have nothing to do with me anymore." Ethan said, "You are my parents, the only parents.
As for this jade pendant, you can deal with it as you like. I think this thing should be worth some money. There's also gold on it. If you find a shop to sell it, you should be able to get a good price." Ethan said indifferently.
Hearing Ethan's words, there was both worry and relief on the faces of Ethan Lee and Grace Feng.
"Silly child, what are you talking about! This is your thing. Even if your parents had to sell their blood, they wouldn't sell this thing of yours. Since you don't want it now, we'll keep it for you again. When you want it, just ask Mom for it."
After saying that, Grace Feng was about to put the jade pendant away.
Hmm?
"Wait..." Ethan trembled all over.
Desire!
Just after his father took out this jade pendant, a very strong desire suddenly flashed through Ethan's heart.
Ethan originally thought that he wanted to take this jade pendant to sell for money and was still secretly scolding himself for being worthless in his heart. However, when he refused this thing and his mother wanted to put the jade pendant away, a strong sense of resistance and disappointment welled up in his heart.
This feeling came from the bottom of his soul, as if he hoped that this jade pendant would always be by his side.
"Chaos gives birth to one, yin and yang stand side by side, all things in heaven and man, fortune inherits from the void, the vessel devours the universe, and the will disperses in the hidden... Activate the Devouring Heavenly Skill!"
"Oh my god!"
Ethan couldn't help but swear in his heart.
This jade...
Other things received Qi Yun from heaven and earth bit by bit, but this jade pendant... actually had it converging into a stream.
Streams of Qi Yun converged together, as if they were about to form a small stream.
Ethan was sure that the short - term Qi Yun flow of this small jade pendant was even more than the total Qi Yun flow of the whole campus.
"This... What on earth is going on? It's so amazing!"
However, then, Ethan was like a deflated ball.
Although this thing could absorb Qi Yun from heaven and earth, it couldn't store it.
It was like a sieve full of holes. Although there was a big opening on it and it could absorb Qi Yun from all directions, it leaked almost all of this Qi Yun at the same time.
"Ethan! What's wrong?" Seeing that her son had changed so much in such a short time, Grace Feng couldn't help but ask worriedly.
"Mom! Can you let me hold this jade pendant first?" Ethan looked at the jade pendant, his eyes full of desire.
This look in his eyes startled Grace Feng.
This was not the look of looking at a jade pendant at all. It was clearly the look of looking at a pile of banknotes.
"Son, I tell you. This jade pendant is related to your origin and is also the only clue. You can't take it to sell as junk." Grace Feng reminded him worriedly.
At first, she hoped that the child would take it with him, hoping that one day God would open his eyes and let him be reunited with his biological parents. But if the child was confused for a while and sold this thing, it would really be self - defeating.
"Don't worry, Mom. I promise I won't sell it." Ethan said.
"Since you want to take it, then take it. Anyway, it's yours."
In the afternoon, Grace Feng went out to sell vegetables again, and Ethan Lee also went to set up a stall on Huailing Mountain.
Ethan held the jade pendant that was said to have been with him since he was born in his hand.
The Devouring Heavenly Skill couldn't be activated again, after all, the number of activations was limited.
However, Ethan could still clearly feel that there was still a lot of Qi Yun缠绕 (twining around) this jade pendant.
The Devouring Heavenly Skill wanted to devour this Qi Yun, but it couldn't succeed.
The Devouring Heavenly Skill, which claimed to devour everything and could devour anything, failed this time and couldn't devour Qi Yun.
This situation was like seeing a treasure mountain but not being able to take away a single treasure, which made Ethan scratch his ears and cheeks in anxiety.
After several failed attempts, Ethan finally got angry.
"Believe it or not, I'll swallow you whole right now?" Ethan roared.
If he guessed correctly, this thing should be incomplete. However, it was precisely this guess that made Ethan even more shocked. Just an incomplete item had so much Qi Yun. If it was a complete item, what kind of Qi Yun would it inherit?
After trying several more methods, Ethan finally gave up.
"I'll eat you!" Then, Ethan blew hard, and the string tied to the jade pendant was blown off just like that.
Then, that crystal - clear jade pendant was swallowed by him.
It had no taste.
What he swallowed was not a jade pendant at all, but clearly a mouthful of air.
This situation made Ethan extremely astonished.