Chapter 299 - 294: A Different Kind of Fasting
Because of the various novels he had read before, Leon’s first impression of fasting was not having to eat, no longer worrying about starving due to lack of food.
However, not needing to eat might be useful for mortals, but for a mighty dragon it was downright pointless. Dragons used supernatural energy as part of their digestion process, allowing them to swallow and digest all kinds of substances—including things other creatures wouldn’t even consider food, like mud and rocks.
Not to mention dragons don’t stop growing once they’ve passed the growth stage like humans do. Dragons can grow indefinitely. Without eating, how would they grow? Grow out of thin air?
No matter how others view eating, Leon simply enjoyed it. He loved meat—grilled pig trotters, roasted pork knuckles, twice-cooked pork—and he also loved sugary-oily confections, along with fruits... Often, even after a meal, he’d continue eating just to satisfy his taste buds.
So what about Golden Finger rewards? Walking on water was a Golden Finger reward too. Leon originally planned to dismiss fasting as irrelevant—until the moment came when he was trapped somewhere, say, by a demigod-level enemy, and there wasn’t even mud or rocks available. After some thought, he decided it was worth researching fasting after all.
And with this research, Leon found himself bewildered. Who knew fasting involved so much?
Fasting is also called grain abstinence, grain rejection, or grain avoidance, literally meaning abstaining from the five cereals.
Meat eaters are brave and fierce, grain eaters are wise and resourceful, air eaters are divine and long-lived, and non-eaters are immortal and godly. This forms the foundation of fasting.
Fasting is often linked with Qi consumption, known as Qi Fasting. Qi consumption, as the name suggests, means consuming air, refined energy, or nature’s vital energy. It’s a method of replacing food with energy—a cultivation method.