Having eaten a few of the Stone Flesh mushrooms, Lin Mu started to feel their effect.
His eyes widened as a burst of spirit Qi, and vitality gushed out in his belly. It spread around rapidly as if wanting to escape, but Lin Mu's stomach seemed to have awakened as well. It controlled both of them as if a master cracked a whip and tamed it down.
The vitality started flowing into his cells first, getting them to the optimum level that they should normally be at. The spirit Qi, on the other hand, directly flowed through his meridian, directly turning into a liquid form without any need to do it manually.
By the time it reached the Dantian, it was like a tap had been turned on. His depleted spirit Qi levels started to restore, and Lin Mu felt a lot better than before.
"Marvelous… these alone are better than high grade spirit pills…" Lin Mu was left stunned.
While he knew that higher ranked worlds would have better resources, he had not expected even a literal land of exile would have better ones than a top sect.
"I reckon you liked them?" Elder Niji asked, seeing the face of Lin Mu.
"Plenty," Lin Mu said as he sped up his pace of eating.
One by one, the Stone Flesh mushroom started disappearing down his mouth. By the time the first basket was finished, Lin Mu had eaten over a hundred such Stone Flesh Mushrooms.
"We have more." Elder Niji saw that the young man was still hungry and willing to eat more.
The second basket was already prepared and Lin Mu didn't shy away from eating, quickly stuffing them down his throat as if afraid that they would run away. His speed of eating only got faster while the vitality in his body reached the peak.
At this point, his cells had reached the optimal levels that they should be at and the rest of the vitality was directly being stored by his stomach. The nameless technique of the Lost Immortal activated silently and stockpiled all the vital energy.
In less than ten minutes, the second basket was also finished.
Then the third was finished.
The fourth!
The fifth!
The sixth!
The seventh and the eighth!
By now, Elder Niji couldn't even speak and only gawked at the scene. The Haima tribe members bringing the baskets of Stone Flesh Mushroom were also left stunned. But they didn't stop their work and called for more baskets to be brought.
Soon, a supply line of Stone Flesh Mushroom baskets was formed as more and more Haima Tribe members joined to marvel at the act. This was something they had never seen before in their lives.
Their lives were mostly monotonous to start with, thus any form of new stimulus was fascinating to them.
Thus, they did their best to keep the supply line working and more and more Stone Flesh Mushrooms arrived.
'What in the name of ancestors is this? I never knew humans could eat this much… how does it even accommodate in his body?' Elder Niji was left confused.
At least in his case, he knew about the humans decently. But the other members of the Haima tribe only knew a fraction. Their understanding was barely at a surface level such that they only knew humans existed and that they were strong.
Constant chatter could be heard going on between them as they talked about Lin Mu.
"Do all humans eat like this?"
"Maybe they do. Perhaps that's why they are so strong."
"The Elder told us that even in humans, there are many kinds. Weren't there some that were thrown into the Land of Exile and we saw them die in a few minutes to the Chasm beasts?"
"That human isn't just a common human though, he speaks noble tongue, so he must be special."
"Yeah, and Jehu even said that he can jump higher. He actually jumped better than Jehu and his brothers, leaving them behind."
"If he can jump like that, then he must be very strong!"
The Haima tribe members talked amongst themselves, wondering just how Lin Mu could do something like this.
The one's that had a higher cultivation base among them though felt the energy fluctuations coming from him.
"His energy… it's getting stronger…"
Lin Mu's vitality had already been accumulated to the optimal level in his body's cells and now only his stomach was stockpiling it. But this also had the passive effect of increasing the energy fluctuation.
Not just that, but the rest of his body also started to change on a molecular level. It was as if his cells were interacting with the environment though the aura and learning about it. Bit by bit, they started to change their structures, adapting to the new world.
His Xiantian Physique showed its advantage here, becoming what it should have been.
The Xiantian physique was what the stronger powers in the higher worlds started with by default. And it was something that was adapted to the condition of their worlds that were of a high level.
Lin Mu was in the Xiaofan world and his Xiantian physique was thus 'tainted' by it. But it was slowly starting to return to its intended form.
It was like taking someone from a polluted smog covered city and placing them on the clear green mountains filled with the freshest air possible.
An hour had passed since Lin Mu had started eating and now the crowd watching was in the thousands. Elder Niji had been surprised too many times and now he only counted how many more baskets Lin Mu could eat.
Thankfully, the Haima Tribe had a massive stockpile of the Stone Flesh Mushrooms and what Lin Mu had eaten was barely a dent in it. The Haima Tribe had over a hundred thousand members after all, and everyday they would consume many times more than what Lin Mu had done just now.
Thus, to keep that many people well fed, they needed the production to be pretty great as well.
