Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 275 To become stronger, you need to eat more

Gazing at the distant starry sky, Du Yi felt that he had already seen victory.

As for the reason for the victory, it was naturally because the god of wisdom finally responded to him, and the content of the response was the method he had been looking forward to for a long time to become stronger—although this method seemed a bit like saying nothing at all, Du Yi pondered it carefully and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.

"To become stronger, you need to eat more."

"To become stronger, you need to eat more."

"To become stronger, you need to eat more..."

Du Yi silently pondered the sentence. Even though it sounded completely off, the more he thought about it, the more sense it made. Although it sounded like a truism—after all, how could one not eat more to replenish the nutrients needed to become stronger?—the more he thought about it, the more profound the mystery seemed to him.

Is it to replenish the nutrients needed to become stronger, that's why you eat more?
While that's theoretically true, conversely, is it that we need to exercise more in order to utilize the nutrients we ingest?
Furthermore, the god of wisdom provided a theoretical basis: the body determines the shape of the soul, the soul gives birth to the power of consciousness, and consciousness drives the body forward—which means that all the strengthening ultimately comes back to the body itself.

In other words, becoming stronger means creating the strongest physical body, using the strongest physical body to shape the strongest soul, and then using the strongest soul to drive the strongest consciousness... everything will achieve a perfect closed loop.

To become stronger, you need to eat more.

Reflecting on this statement now, it takes on a profound and simple quality.

Of course, if someone else said this to Du Yi, he would definitely ignore it. After all, in his eyes, becoming stronger should be a move or skill, or at the very least, it should be able to spit out a few light waves with just one word.

But this time is different.

This was a teaching he had received from the god of wisdom, a god of wisdom from the sea of ​​stars, who had at least provided tremendous help to the local natives in the advancement of civilization.

How could such a benevolent deity be wrong?

"Even if I'm wrong, it's my problem."

With this in mind, Du Yi, with unwavering determination, began his path to becoming stronger.

To become stronger, the first thing is definitely to increase food production. This is an absolute certainty. So after summoning the four priests, Du Yi directly mobilized half of Tatunbuto City's reserves. Although the four priests repeatedly reminded him that this could easily hinder Tatunbuto's development, Du Yi had his own reasons.

"You wait, it will be soon."

After saying that, Du Yi began his cooking.

With the help of the new energy barbecue grill, Du Yi's speed in processing ingredients has increased by an order of magnitude. By the end of the day, half of Tatunbuto's food reserves had been consumed.

After that, Du Yi also swallowed a large amount of herbs.

Then, a night passed.

When the four priests were summoned once more, what appeared before them was an extremely vast expanse...

"Gather your men and take it back."

Raising his long tail, Du Yi directed the four priests who were almost fainting from the fumes.

"I don't need to teach you how to use fertilizer. Come back to see me in ten days."

The four priests were bewildered by the fumes and could only quickly organize their men to carry the enormous mountain of dung back. However, they dared not overuse these things, so for the first ten days, they only briefly used the dung on a small wheat field.

Ten days later, the wheat had grown even taller than them.

"What...is this?" The four priests were dumbfounded. They had never seen anything so terrifying...this could no longer be called wheat. Its enormous size made it a completely unfamiliar plant.

It was at this moment that they suddenly understood what the excrement that had been carried back really meant.

"This...this is exactly how to increase food production!"

The four priests exchanged glances, each seeing the surprise in the other's eyes.

The method for increasing production that they had longed for actually lay within the serpent god himself. By using the serpent god's excrement, they could achieve a great harvest in just ten days—no wonder the serpent god suddenly demanded half of Tatunbhut's food reserves; it was for this very reason.

Just look at the terrifying price increase of wheat; even if we ate all of it, let alone half of our food reserves, it would still be worth it.

After all, the food reserves invested can be recovered many times over in just ten days.

The newly produced food can then be put back into this cycle.

“Use the serpent god’s excrement to grow a large amount of crops. The surplus crops can then be used to feed a large number of livestock. After feeding those livestock to the serpent god, even more excrement will appear…”

In just a moment, the four priests had already conceived of that magnificent scene, such a bountiful cycle that could be called a perpetual motion machine!
It was for this reason that this day was designated by the four priests as the harvest festival.

Perhaps it's a coincidence that this harvest festival happens to fall on the same day as the harvest festival of the Ignivas people in the past.

The biggest problem, namely the food source, seemed to have been solved, which was undoubtedly a cause for celebration. However, the cowherd sage came over and poured cold water on the four priests' hopes.

"Even if wheat can grow to harvest in ten days, can a calf grow to maturity in ten days?"

Upon hearing this, the four priests, who had been celebrating, immediately fell silent.

It seems that this is indeed the case. Even though they have a large food reserve, it is still mostly plant-based, such as fruits, vegetables, or grains. They can eat these things without any problem, but the snake god outside the city needs to eat meat.

It will take some time to turn these things into meat.

unless……

"By the way, have you ever thought about this question?"

It was at this moment that Melk, one of the four priests and the one in charge of the Scales, spoke up.

"Yes, we haven't built the flying giant ship that the Serpent God mentioned yet, so we can't leave this land... But those champions outside the city, wearing iron armor, they came from outside."

"what do you mean……"

Satyak the Greatsword vaguely realized something.

Melk nodded in agreement.

“They can come in from outside, which means they can go back in… Yes, we don’t need them to take us out, that’s dangerous, especially since we’re at war with them… But, but.”

Melk paused for a moment at this point.

"But who says you can't do business during wartime?"

"We have plenty of grain now, why don't we just trade it for some meat?"

(End of this chapter)