We bear people have power

When Guan Bo heard the names Master Yideng and Wang Chongyang, he had an indescribable feeling. Besides feeling annoyed, he also felt a sense of unease, as if he had brought this upon himself.

"Let's just consider this a coincidence," Guan Bo comforted himself.

The members of the Demon Extermination Alliance are all generous and righteous people. Guan Bo could tell that their martial arts skills were quite good, many times better than the monks of Baolin Temple.

At Zhang Yuanshan's invitation, Guan Bo set off with them to a branch of the Demon Extermination Alliance near their location. Guan Bo was quite interested in meeting Master Yideng and Master Chongyang.

What made Guan Bo like them even more was that when Zhang Yuanshan heard Guan Bo's stomach growling, he gave Guan Bo all the dry food he had with him.

What should have been three days' worth of dry rations couldn't last even fifteen minutes in Guan Bo's mouth.

"Haha, it seems you expended quite a bit of energy in that battle just now, young hero," Zhang Yuanshan laughed.

Seeing that Guan Bo was still hungry, a member of the Demon Extermination Alliance contributed his own rations, and then they endured for another fifteen minutes.

"As expected, those with high martial arts skills have an astonishing appetite. I've witnessed it firsthand today." Zhang Yuanshan's smile was somewhat forced.

The third, very enthusiastic friend also contributed three days' worth of rations... Another quarter of an hour passed.

"This... brave warrior, you're still not full?" Zhang Yuanshan unconsciously changed his form of address. How could he have eaten so much? It was really hard to call him "young hero" anymore.

The style of painting is wrong!

Guan Bo felt a little embarrassed, but even after eating so many steamed buns and dried meat, he was only twice full. A little while later, his stomach started growling again.

Everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Guan Bo. They'd seen people who could eat a lot, but they'd never seen anything this outrageous.

You should know that those dried meats and cornbreads can expand several times their original size after being soaked in water. The ones Guan Bo ate alone expanded to be larger than his entire body.

However, Guan Bo ate so much food that his stomach didn't even swell up, and he only burped twice.

Oh, speaking of this, besides his enormous appetite, the smell of this strong man's burps is truly unbearable.

Perhaps martial arts masters all have various quirks; people used this reason to convince themselves not to regard Guan Bo as a monster.

Guan Bo was also a little embarrassed, but... what could I do? I was desperate too.

After walking only a few steps, we could hear his stomach growling, and everyone felt embarrassed.

“I think we should all give our rations to Young Hero Guan. Anyway, all the black-robed men around here have been killed, and we can rest for about half a month after we return to the branch. There’s no need to keep these rations. We can’t let people say that our Demon Extermination Alliance encountered a hero who killed cultists, but we can’t even feed him properly,” Zhang Yuanshan suggested.

Everyone laughed and agreed, because Guan Bo had single-handedly killed most of the black-robed men and even repelled the descent of the evil god. This time, the Demon Extermination Alliance completed the mission with almost zero casualties, a truly extraordinary victory compared to the previous heavy losses they had suffered.

How could anyone be stingy with these meager rations for Guan Bo, a hero of the nation?

Guan Bo naturally wouldn't be coy and refuse; he was so hungry he was practically starving, and everyone looked like a steamed bun to him.

As they walked, they counted for Guan Bo.

Every time Guan Bo ate three days' worth of rations, everyone would gasp in amazement, but as Guan Bo ate more and more, everyone's eyes widened in astonishment.

Guan Bo didn't let out a long burp until the rations for the thirty-fifth and last member of the Demon Extermination Alliance were finished, and then he patted his belly contentedly.

Zhang Yuanshan struggled to readjust his jaw, which was about to drop, and asked cautiously, "Guan Zhuangshi, are you full?"

"Yes, as the saying goes, you should only eat until you're seven-tenths full," Guan Bo said earnestly.

“Seven…points.” Zhang Yuanshan suddenly didn’t know what to say. His usually eloquent tongue was completely stunned by Guan Bo’s appetite.

After eating so much, Guan Bo saw that the red line symbolizing his health had finally risen to a bottleneck-like position.

A small, round lump, slightly larger than a thin thread, hangs at the end like a needle tip.

Guan Bo could sense that no matter how much he ate, the red line probably wouldn't increase much in the short term. This "eating spree" technique had reached a bottleneck.

The red line on the peach is now significantly longer than the other two, while the remaining two lines are growing very slowly, almost imperceptibly.

"The health bar is upgraded by eating, but what are the blue and green bars? How do you upgrade them? Damn it, I need an instruction manual," Guan Bo complained again.

Clearly, no one could respond to him.

The Demon Extermination Alliance's branch headquarters arrived quickly; it was a cleared wasteland. What was originally a patch of low shrubs had been cleared out into large open areas. Some wooden huts and tents had been erected, and although they looked rudimentary, there were quite a few people there—several hundred at a glance.

Despite having so many people together, all of whom were skilled martial artists, there was no chaos; instead, the division of labor was clear and orderly.

"Who says that martial arts practitioners are all a rabble who can only lose against an army? Judging from this, ordinary armies are definitely no match for them." Guan Bo was secretly on guard. If just a branch could have such a presence, this Demon Extermination Alliance was definitely not simple.

Guan Bo was slightly disappointed that he did not get to meet the legendary Master Yideng, who was said to have left suddenly due to important matters.

Guan Bo was naturally a little disappointed that they never met, but he also discovered other interesting things.

Zhang Yuanshan told him that the members of the Demon Extermination Alliance all practiced the same martial arts, which is why they seemed much more united and cooperative than ordinary martial arts practitioners.

Guan Bo initially thought it was a common martial art like Black Tiger Stealing Heart and Splitting Mount Hua, but Zhang Yuanshan told him it was a top-tier divine skill in the martial arts world. Wang Chongyang, the leader of the Demon Extermination Alliance, already possessed the strength to become the number one martial artist, and he also practiced this divine skill.

"Shouldn't such unparalleled martial arts be kept secret? How come this Master Chongyang is so generous as to make it public?" Guan Bo thought that this Wang Chongyang's realm was much higher than that one, but it didn't make sense no matter how he looked at it.

"Hehe, if you want to learn, Guan Zhuangshi, join my Demon Extermination Alliance, and you will naturally be able to fulfill your wish," Zhang Yuanshan tempted.

Zhang Yuanshan earnestly invited Guan Bo, whose ability to single-handedly destroy the Zoroastrian altar was a great asset if he could join the Demon Extermination Alliance.

"Does this Demon Extermination Alliance have any rules?"

Guan Bo was naturally tempted. After all, he was currently relying solely on brute force to overcome all techniques, and his martial arts skills were practically nonexistent. The monks in Baolin Temple, compared to these martial arts masters, were like farmers practicing their skills.

"The only rule is to punish evil and promote good; there are no other restrictions. Our biggest enemy is the Zoroastrian cult that uses human sacrifice," Zhang Yuanshan explained.

"It's that simple? I can join the Demon Extermination Alliance and cultivate that peerless martial arts just by agreeing to punish evil and promote good?"

“That’s right,” Zhang Yuanshan replied quite seriously.

"Then what reason do I have not to agree?" Guan Bo readily agreed.

Guan Bo couldn't help but admire their great spirit! But the fact that the Demon Extermination Alliance had managed to develop to this point without falling apart truly surprised Guan Bo.

If you give away your peerless martial arts skills casually, what if someone among them has ulterior motives, or is even an undercover agent sent by the Zoroastrianism? Wouldn't that mean that your peerless martial arts skills would be leaked?

However, this is not something Guan Bo should worry about; learning the divine skill is the most important thing.

Without offering any prevarication or excuses, Zhang Yuanshan handed Guan Bo a secret manual after Guan Bo agreed to join the Demon Extermination Alliance, reminding him, "This divine skill was passed down by immortals. The one I have here was directly copied from the sacred mountain, guaranteed to be exactly the same."

Guan Bo opened the manual with some skepticism. After only a couple of glances, he couldn't help but exclaim, "The handwriting is terribly ugly!"