Simply put, the amount of food he consumed in that single day was enough to last a normal teenager ten years and still not be finished!!

He devoured, in one go, as much food as a normal person would need for over ten years. Later, when his injuries were too severe, he even directly swallowed raw flesh and blood. As his body became full, his strength and speed steadily increased, to the point where even he no longer knew how much he had grown.

Never in his life had he felt so powerful, and as for the upcoming servant competition in just over twenty days, and his match with Ethan Wright? He now had one hundred percent confidence that he could shock everyone!

Chapter 010: Servant Competition

“Senior Brother Wright, good morning! First, let me congratulate you—this year’s competition will surely be even better than last year’s, right?”

“Not at all, I haven’t made much progress this year.”

...

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days passed. At Servant Valley on Snowfall Peak, as dawn just broke, figures began to emerge from the side courtyards, heading straight for the valley entrance. Most of the servants walked with faces full of excitement and anticipation, because today was the annual servant competition of Snowfall Peak.

The rules of the servant competition were very simple: in the Servant Valley at the foot of Snowfall Peak, participants would challenge the trial towers to determine their ranking. For servants, whose cultivation talents were generally single-element and lacked the ability to challenge higher levels, the trial tower in Servant Valley only had four floors.

The first floor was guarded by a single-element first-level puppet. Defeat the puppet to advance to the second floor, where a single-element second-level puppet awaited, and so on for the third and fourth floors.

There were 697 servants on Snowfall Peak, including David Clark. The strongest among them were only seven single-element fourth-level cultivators, with another seventy or eighty at the third level, over two hundred at the second level, and more than three hundred at the first level. If you could place in the top ten in the competition, you would become a servant steward, and after three consecutive years, you’d have a chance to be promoted to the outer sect.

The lower your ranking, the heavier your servant duties would be the following year. Not only that, but breaking through the first floor of the trial tower earned you three low-grade spirit stones, the second floor ten, and the third floor twenty.

For ninety-nine percent of servants, a normal year’s salary was only ten low-grade spirit stones, so even if not everyone could achieve great results, this competition was still the grandest event in the entire Servant Valley.

At dawn, gray-clad figures were already arriving at Snow Robe Valley several miles away. Snow Robe Valley was a pear-shaped valley, perpetually covered in silver. Inside, strange flowers and trees stood like ice sculptures, adding a dazzling, crystalline beauty to the valley.

The many servant disciples who arrived early at Snow Robe Valley stood scattered in small groups across the snowy ground, chatting excitedly. When five or six hundred people had gathered in the valley, David Clark finally arrived at the entrance, bathed in the morning light. He glanced at the crowd ahead and walked inside along the side of the entrance.

Unlike the others, David Clark looked very calm, not intending to talk to anyone. He just wanted to quietly wait for the competition to begin. But as he walked a few dozen meters along the side of the valley, a burst of laughter suddenly erupted at the entrance.

Amid the laughter, a group that had been standing within a hundred meters of the entrance began to move. Led by a handsome young man, a crowd of twenty or thirty people headed straight for David Clark.

“Junior Brother Clark, good morning!” When the group arrived, the leader, Ethan Wright, looked over with a brilliant smile. Though he was smiling, his expression was lofty and full of pity. “Junior Brother Clark, today the two of us will compete in front of Senior Brother Harris and Senior Sister Foster. But I still don’t know if we’ll be deciding the winner by challenging the trial tower, or by sparring directly in front of all the senior brothers and sisters. Which do you prefer?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Junior Brother Clark definitely hopes to settle it in the trial tower. There are no outsiders watching the trial tower challenge, so even if he loses, it won’t be too embarrassing!”

“What kind of talk is that? What do you mean ‘even if he loses’? He’s bound to lose, isn’t he? Do you really think that guy surnamed Jiang can compare to Junior Brother Wright? Seriously!”

...

As Ethan Wright spoke, David Clark just looked on calmly, but the group following Ethan Wright all burst into laughter. Some flattered Ethan Wright endlessly, while others looked at David Clark with pity and mockery. Ethan Wright seemed to enjoy this, his whole demeanor becoming even more radiant. But after a moment, he suddenly put on a serious face and looked around earnestly. “Don’t say that. Junior Brother Wright is at the first level of Spirit Communication, and so am I. Our cultivation is the same, and we both practice first-grade martial arts. He still has a chance.”

“Ha, Junior Brother Wright really loves to joke. Even if your cultivation is the same, you two aren’t even on the same level! Your martial arts comprehension is probably the best in the whole Servant Valley. What kind of comprehension does David Clark have?”

“Exactly, Junior Brother Wright is giving him too much credit!”

...

In fact, no one really knew how good David Clark’s martial arts comprehension was. A person’s cultivation aptitude and martial arts comprehension were not the same thing, but in ninety percent of cases, if your cultivation aptitude was poor, your comprehension wouldn’t be much better. Judging by David Clark’s famously poor cultivation aptitude in Wangshan County, his comprehension was probably just as terrible. So, when it came to the match between David Clark and Ethan Wright, everyone really just saw it as a joke.