Becoming The Food God In This Cultivation World

Inside the third VIP box, Cao Rang’s eyes narrowed slightly.

He naturally sensed the blatant targeting.

The first VIP box… belonging to the royal family?

Thinking of the somewhat familiar voice, Cao Rang had already guessed who was sitting in the first box, unable to help shaking his head and chuckling.

Some people were like this, never willing to find fault in themselves.

Back then, Dai Tonghua had competed with a fellow student. The other student came from an ordinary background but possessed exceptional talent, highly regarded by the upper echelons of the outer court. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have been admitted to the inner court and perhaps become a new elder of the Sea God Pavilion.

Dai Tonghua also had excellent talent, but he couldn’t surpass that fellow student and was always suppressed by him.

Shrek Academy never intervened in competitions between students. Dai Tonghua was also highly regarded by many teachers at the time. Everyone thought that the desire to surpass that fellow student would always drive Dai Tonghua to work hard. However, things didn’t turn out that way.

After failing repeatedly to win in competitions, Dai Tonghua became increasingly desperate. He dispatched powerful individuals to ambush that fellow student within Shrek City, resulting in the fellow student being severely injured and unable to cultivate again.

In the end, all of the involved powerful individuals were killed by the enraged Cao Rang, and Dai Tonghua was apprehended and expelled from the academy after discussions by the outer court’s academic affairs department.

Later, Dai Tonghua entered the Star Luo Royal Academy. It was expected that after a few years, he would realize where the problem lay. However, this person turned out to be so stubborn, openly causing trouble for Shrek Academy at the auction.

Cao Rang’s expression darkened. With such behavior, he must teach Dai Tonghua a lesson; otherwise, where would the dignity of Shrek Academy be?

The leg bone itself was worth only 120,000 Gold Coins. Dai Tonghua was clearly engaging in malicious bidding.

Since you want to target Shrek, then I’ll play along with you.

With a cold snort, Cao Rang spoke again, “160,000.”

As soon as he spoke, he increased the price by another 30.000 Gold Coins.

“161,000.” Dai Tonghua promptly followed, with a cold gleam in his eyes.

This leg bone wasn’t suitable for him, and he didn’t even want it. He simply intended to cause trouble for Shrek.

He had calculated it all. As long as Shrek’s bid exceeded 200,000, he would immediately concede, intending to make Shrek pay a little more and relieve his resentment.

“190,000!” Cao Rang’s bidding speed not only didn’t slow down but accelerated, almost without hesitation.

“191,000!” Dai Tonghua swiftly followed suit, a trace of satisfaction appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Keep going. If you bid once more, I won’t bid anymore, and I’ll make you vomit blood to death.

However, after waiting for a long time, there was no more sound from the third box.

The smile on Dai Tonghua’s face gradually froze, turning into a deep scowl.

“Ah!” The woman in his arms was inadvertently hurt by Dai Tonghua’s force and couldn’t help but cry out in pain.

“Get lost!” Dai Tonghua shouted, kicking the woman against the wall. She spat out thick blood from her mouth, severely injured by Dai Tonghua’s angry kick, barely clinging to life.

Ignoring her, Dai Tonghua raised his head and stared deeply at the position of the third box.

At this moment, where could he not see it? Cao Rang was clearly setting him up.

In the eyes of other bidders, he probably looked like a fool, right?

Fortunately, they only knew that someone from the royal family was in this box, but they didn’t know who exactly.

Just as he was thinking about this, a faint sigh came from the third box.

“I didn’t expect that, the Crown Prince of the Star Luo Empire would be such a reckless person. Is it really a good idea to entrust the future of the Star Luo Empire to such a person?”

Was Cao Rang a good person?

This guy was nicknamed the Smiling Tiger. Despite his smiling appearance, very few who offended him ended up well.

Sure, he had been cultivating his moral character as the dean in recent years, but in his younger days, he was a ruthless man.

This voice didn’t conceal anything, but instead, under the diffusion of Spirit power, instantly appeared in the ears of everyone present.

The situation now was what Dai Tonghua feared the most.

The Star Luo Empire’s royal family has a unique tradition where every prince of each generation must undergo the most rigorous competition, and only the strongest among them can become the new emperor. This method of succession is inseparable from the Star Luo Empire’s culture of admiring strength and has been revered by the empire’s royal family for nearly ten thousand years.

Until the previous Emperor of the Star Luo Empire openly declared that such cruel competition was a persecution of the royal bloodline and needed to be abolished. Instead, he directly appointed his eldest son, Dai Yuansheng, as the crown prince without going through the competition. Then, he arranged the more talented, beloved by the masses, and smarter second son, Dai Youyuan, to be stationed at the border military camp of the Eastern Garrison.

Under the pretext of allowing his younger brother to guard the border and govern the empire together, in reality, it was nothing more than exile.

Dai Yuansheng’s ascension was not legitimate, which already caused resentment among the people of the Star Luo Empire. As his eldest son, Dai Tonghua needed to win the people’s hearts by performing exceptionally well.

However, Dai Tonghua’s impulsive and resentful nature, identical to his father’s, had caused him to lose face since the moment he was expelled from Shrek Academy.

To regain the admiration and respect of the Star Luo Empire’s people, who revered martial prowess, the best way was to lead the team from the Star Luo Royal Academy to defeat the team from Shrek Academy in the Spirit Fighting Tournament.

As long as this nearly impossible feat was accomplished, whether it was Dai Yuansheng’s illegitimate ascension or his own black history of expulsion from Shrek, would be completely overshadowed.

Normally unable to win, father and son thought of resorting to underhanded tactics.

Unfortunately, this afternoon, Prime Minister Xu Changling insisted on opposing covert operations. Without the cooperation of the Prime Minister’s Office, the plan couldn’t be implemented and had to be abandoned.

Dai Tonghua, who had just received this news, sat in the VIP room, becoming increasingly angry as he thought about it, almost burning with rage.

He hated Xu Changling’s stubbornness. His father had actively tried to reconcile with him multiple times, even wanting to arrange a marriage between his daughter and himself. However, Xu Changling unexpectedly refused without hesitation, and his constant admonitions showed no regard for the emperor’s dignity.

But what he hated most was still Shrek Academy.

A commoner-born fool, relying on his high talent, repeatedly suppressed him, yet Shrek turned a blind eye.

As the Crown Prince of the Star Luo Empire, sending someone to deal with a mere commoner? That was nothing more than a trivial matter!

Yet, such a small matter actually led to his direct expulsion. Even when the Emperor personally sent someone to plead on his behalf, it was futile.

That was clearly intentional targeting!

Shame!

If he became the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire, he would directly send the army troops to destroy Shrek City!

How dare a mere city oppose the empire!

In a fit of anger, Dai Tonghua made this open attack against Shrek Academy, hoping to disgust them and vent his frustration. But he ended up being the clown himself.

His identity as the Crown Prince was directly exposed by Cao Rang, and there was even a hint of provocative meaning implying that he was unworthy of being the empire’s heir apparent.

He could already imagine that once the auction ended, these rumors would fill the entire Star Luo City and be known by countless people.

For a moment, Dai Tonghua wanted to send someone to kill everyone inside the auction house to silence them.

But that was just wishful thinking.

After all, he doesn’t bring any of the empire Titled Douluo as a bodyguard with him, and if his hunch is correct, there are more than 1 Titled Douluo inside the auction house.

With a grim face, Dai Tonghua got up and left the box under the escort of the attendants.

He had had enough embarrassment here. It was time to leave.