Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 195 Divine Food
It's not through killing and fighting that people accumulate experience, but through various production and life skills. Once they can see the level and experience of their skills, people do become more enthusiastic about whatever they do. They may not have gone down the path of bloodshed, but more and more people have begun to achieve their own specialization in their respective professions.

The newly formed empire, which was initially somewhat desolate due to the war, quickly began to thrive, and even the supply of fresh cattle and sheep to Du Yi began to increase.

However, Du Yi is now able to fully enjoy the food by shrinking his body. So even though the beef and mutton would not even be enough to fill a tooth gap for him at his normal size, after Du Yi selected a little of each to taste, there was still a large pile of beef and mutton that had not been slaughtered.

"Even if they really eat it seriously, they can't eat more than a few bites of this beef and mutton. It's better to just give it all away as prizes."

Du Yi couldn't help but think this way.

Yes, prizes. The neighboring city is really short of them lately. The reason is that the two priests wanted to deal with the security issues. In their opinion, the best way is to put experience and levels into various life skills. And after people have time occupied by these production and life skills, they will naturally not have time to grind for killing levels.

So, in order to divert people's attention from thinking about killing seven or eight people every day, the two priests started various competitions.

Projects with relatively long cycles, such as farming competitions or chicken-raising competitions, are definitely difficult to organize. However, projects that have both practical value and a certain degree of entertainment value, like metallurgy and logging, are quite interesting to watch.

Of course, in order to attract more people to participate, the two priests really went all out, not only giving out honorary titles, but also giving out a lot of wealth as rewards—of course, the most eye-catching of all was the so-called "food from the gods" that the two priests took from Du Yi.

Although it was just a piece that Du Yi used to practice his control of the heat, the roasting technique accumulated over thousands of years was still quite remarkable. In addition, the evil eagle-headed man that was used as a campfire was laid on the ground. After all, this eagle-headed man was once a sun god. So, rounding up, this roasted meat could be considered a joint creation of two great gods.

At first, people just regarded these divinely bestowed roasted meats as a gimmick, like amulets obtained from temples—if there was anything different about them, it was that these special amulets could be eaten.

Putting everything else aside, this is a delicacy bestowed by the Serpent God, and its taste alone is already among the best.

Moreover, this divinely bestowed food has other effects as well.

Although the first few winners of various competitions did not mention it, as more and more people received divine food, people gradually realized that these fragrant roasted meats were far more than just food.

"You mean, the meat I grill not only restores health after eating, but also gives experience points?"

Du Yi was stunned when he received the news.

You know, he eats this kind of barbecue every day, so how come he didn't get this effect?

"What a joke! How could you possibly control the mind of the meat you grilled yourself?"

Just as Du Yi was racking his brains trying to figure it out, the sun god Ujat, who was sprawled on the ground in thin slices, sneered.

Clearly, this was a mockery of Du Yi's ignorance, but Du Yi was completely unconcerned—more concerned with the eagle-headed man's words about consciousness than with this innocuous ridicule. It was obvious that his previous torture hadn't been enough; the eagle-headed man still had something important to reveal.

Thus, a new round of torture began.

Learning new knowledge mainly relies on interrogation, and Du Yi felt that he was unique in this regard. While he was busy, various competitions in the city were in full swing. As it turned out, the two priests had once again made a successful plan. Especially after the addition of the Divine Food, the competitions that were originally only for ordinary people even attracted a lot of newcomers to the field of divine magic.

Clearly, these warriors' goal was simply to obtain the divine food, whether to increase their experience or to restore their health in critical moments; these things would be a great asset to them.

Unfortunately, the competition was fair and just, and there was no possibility of using violence to seize the prizes. Not to mention that the Serpent God was lurking outside the city and could see the events inside with just a glance, the enforcement teams alone were enough to terrify any warriors who wanted to take shortcuts.

However, this kind of thing was no challenge for these warriors. Although they couldn't use their signature skills, they could incorporate various combat techniques into the competitions—such as using the methods of chopping people to participate in the logging competition, or using divine magic in the forging competition. Of course, the most exciting competition was the cooking competition, where the warriors picked up their weapons and showed off their knife skills. Their exquisite skills, which were aimed directly at the enemy's vital points, even made professional chefs feel ashamed.

Seeing how lively the various events in the city were, Du Yi simply increased the supply of barbecue, since this amount was just a piece of cake for him.

With such an almost unlimited supply of barbecue, various competitions in the city were held in full swing, even reaching a point where there were competitions every day.

Various competitions not only attracted people's attention and improved the security of this new empire, but the experience brought by the abundant divine food also allowed people to level up by leaps and bounds.

For a time, high-level people were almost everywhere. Even a seemingly ordinary civilian you randomly pulled off the street might have a terrifying level 85 gardener.

As for the warriors, needless to say, the divine food has become a stable source of experience for them, which has led to a sharp drop in the number of murder cases. Even the law enforcement team led by the Mad Axe Setka has become idle, to the point that there is no one to arrest.

Everything seemed to be developing in a positive direction. This emerging empire appeared to be thriving. Just look at the way those high-ranking people walked on the road; the confidence shining in their eyes was even more dazzling than the stars in the sky.

And this confidence brought about by rank, these stars fallen to the ground, did indeed enter the constellations and the vision of certain beings.

"Oh? You've already reached such a high level?"

In the boundless starry sky, a being sensed this distant fluctuation and gradually opened its eyes.

"They've already killed their way up this high, it's time to go and harvest the spoils."

(End of this chapter)