I Shall Eat The Heavens

On the cherry blossom continent, stood a small village that thrived on their agriculture and animal rearing, the village was called Millet, and it had a population of 5,000 people.

The village was rather lively today as it was holding a festival to thank the immortals who blessed their crops, so they would grow nice and big.

Red banners and lanterns were already being hung around the village, even though it was only noon.

Discussions were abounding as people speculated if an immortal would arrive this time to grace them with his or her presence.

Most of the people in the village were all thinking about the great immortal, and how they wanted to meet him, maybe they were talented, and they would be taken back to the immortal's cave, so they could be taught cultivation.

For simple farmers and the like, this was the most they would be able to dream.

Only one person in the whole village didn't care whether the immortal arrived or not.

A young man with a short stocky build patted his belly, his hair was greasy and slicked back in a short ponytail, he wore a white robe full of grease stains as he was just finishing cleaning his greasy hands on it.

At his feet, there was a small hill of bones that looked to be from chickens.

The young man burped loudly letting out such a sound that it alerted half of the neighborhood sighs and curses could be heard around as a sandal was thrown at the young man nailing him directly in the stomach but somehow his bloated and full stomach resisted the sandal strike as the sandal bounced back as if it hit rubber and not flesh.

A shout came from inside the small rustic house that was a few meters away from the young man:

"DAMN YOU BAI FENG, DON'T TELL ME YOU ATE ALL THE CELEBRATORY CHICKEN ALREADY!"

Bai Feng only burped again as confirmation.

A short stocky woman left the house while glaring at Bai Feng, she wasn't beautiful and looked average, she took the sandal from the ground where it bounced from Bai Feng's belly and started to hit him on the head with it, the sandal was made of wood but Bai Feng took the beating rather easily as if he was used to it.

"Damn it you glutton, after our parents passed away all you did was eat and eat until you almost ate us out of the house, you are lucky that I can make some money to support the both of us, it's not enough you eat like a pig but you are lazy like one as well!"

Bai Feng scratched his cheek as he bowed to the woman and said:

"Sorry big sister Mu An but when our parents passed away they said that I should grow big and strong so they told me that I should eat a lot!"

His sister sighed as he looked at him up and down and said:

"You have grown alright, grown a lot, but not vertically!"

Bai Feng was a wide person but not to the point he could be considered obese, however, he was very chubby, chubby to the point that you would think he was a pig in human's skin, his stomach average size was the only reason he wasn't considered morbidly obese.

Being short and pudgy this was Bai Feng!

His sister sighed as he stopped looking him up and down and said:

"How will you ever find a wife like this? All the other boys in the village who grew up with you are already stalwart young men who are ready to marry! But look at you, no job living on your sister's money and eating so much that you might not even be able to move one day."

"I understand you are still mourning our parents passing away but you don't have to turn to food for that."

Bai Feng didn't listen to her as he looked down at the small hill of chicken bones and licked his lips, suddenly he found himself being assaulted by the sandal again as his sister shouted in his ear:

"DAMN YOU BAI FENG, YOU ATE ALL OF THE CHICKEN AND YOU STILL WANT MORE?"

Bai Feng's family was in a bad situation financially but their parents left behind a chicken farm which the duo abused in their youth leading to their current builds, while Mu An started to cut on the chicken and she started to trade for vegetables for a balanced diet, Bai Feng ate with gusto whenever he was able to.

Boiled chicken soup, fried chicken, chicken kebap, and a whole load of eggs.

He ate a lot and you would think that he would do something productive after eating right?

However her sister looked at him slowly leaving her behind as she got tired of beating him with her sandal, there was a tall apple tree in their courtyard, Bai Feng slowly sat down below it enjoying the shade before dozing off.

Mu An shook her head as she looked at him sleeping, there was nothing he could do to him, at first before he started eating like a pig her sandal beatings would affect him but as time passed she realized that his skin was getting tougher and tougher, it was unknown if the chicken he ate toughened his skin or her beatings did.

She almost got angry when she saw how he slept as if nothing was wrong in the world, they were penniless and they could only support themselves from the chicken farm and her work, but her work was only occasional so all of the money she made was paid for taxes and the usual.

They were lucky the chicken they had didn't need to eat grains or they would have died of starvation long ago!

She sighed a second time seeing Bai Feng mutter in his sleep, she wanted to take a closer look at him only to hear a loud 'boom' before a disastrous stench assaulted her nose, she forgot that Bai Feng would let out all that he ate when he went to sleep!

She clutched her nose shut before running away, she needed to fry some more chicken for the festival as she wanted to give her respects to the immortal who blessed their chickens.

Bai Feng slept while muttering under his breath, saliva dripped out his mouth as he said:

"Mmm...more chicken."

Even at these times when his belly was full, the sky was blue and things went well for him he still wanted to eat! It was almost unbelievable!

Time slowly passed as the sun started to set and noon passed until it was evening, Bai Feng woke up with a rumbling stomach as he looked around, he was alone as there was no light in the house but he could see light coming from the alleyways outside the courtyard.

He remembered that there was a festival today and the festival meant delicious food!

Bai Feng loved chicken but eating the same thing since he was off his mother's milk started to become a little bland to him no matter how his sister cooked it or what spices she used, however, the festival was an occasion where he could eat whatever he wanted for free and get away with it as well!

He started to make his way out of the courtyard his belly jiggling up and down as if he was Santa Claus

He left his courtyard and looked around only to realize that none of his neighbors was home, in this situation he would have gone ahead and helped himself to whatever he would find in their houses but considering he could get food for free without trouble to boot he decided against it.

He started to trot towards the middle of the village where everyone was currently doing their best, putting the best foods on a long table where everyone was supposed to settle themselves after they said their blessings.

Mu An stood amongst the crowd with a few plates full of pipping hot glistening chicken drums.

A lot of people were looking at the chicken with envy as their mouths watered at the thought of taking a bite of it, while the brother-sister duo had gotten tired of it the others couldn't get enough of it, most of the chicken ended up in the duo's hands while very few left the house for trading and this only started this year because of the sister's new eating habits!

Some women even got closer to her as they said:

"Oh my god Mu An, your chicken is so delicious, even though I cook the chicken as well it's never as good as yours, can you give me your recipe?"

Mu An chuckled good-naturedly as she said:

"We all cook chicken the same way, but the chicken is the only thing that's different."

"Oh come on Mu An, it's impossible, we all have chickens from the same source, you think that you can lie to us? It's ok if you don't want to share the recipe."

The women looked rather cold as they looked at Mu An, they never thought that the chicken was special but they were only deluding themselves as they were also from chicken rearing families, they would never lower themselves to think that their chicken was worse than the one cooked by Mu An.

Bai Feng slowly arrived at the plaza in the middle of the village as he scratched his backside, his greasy figure cut a strong contrast compared to all of the clean people who wore new clothes for the celebration.

Everyone glared at Bai Feng before looking at Mu An with a look that said 'Why didn't you keep him at home?'

Mu An felt embarrassed as she saw so many people looking at her at the same time and her plates almost fell from her grasp.

Bai Feng slowly made his way towards the table and sat down as he started to salivate while he looked at all of the food on the table and there was still more coming!

He only heard about this festival once from his parents as it was held once every 50 years, his parents didn't even get to experience it and they only heard about it from Bai Feng's grandparents!

The moment he sat at the table while everyone was still fussing around was the moment the proverbial bomb exploded.

One of the stalwart men who was observing from the side making sure everything went ok with the festival celebration suddenly went directly to Bai Feng and glared at him, he even cracked his knuckles showing that he was ready to take things in a different, more violent direction, however, Bai Feng ignored him as his eyes were glued only to the food that was in front of him never taking in account whatever else was around him, his left hand was slowly inching towards the potato salad that caught his eye, only to realize that he found an unknown hand on his wrist, stopping him from reaching the fated potato salad!!