Agility Pills Break the Human Limit

They were already on the fourth floor. No matter how fast she was, she couldn't descend faster than the elevator.

Of course, she could jump straight out of a window. But the mall was enclosed, and finding a window wouldn't be easy. Even if she found one, Jiang Yiming figured he would be long gone by then.

As the elevator doors began to close, a hint of amusement appeared in his eyes behind his sunglasses.

Suddenly!

"Ding~ ding-ding~"

A strange ringing sounded, and the elevator doors, which had been about to close, suddenly opened again!

"What's going on?!" Jiang Yiming hurriedly pressed the close button, but the doors only opened wider!

He watched as Yulan walked over and entered the elevator.

Only then did Jiang Yiming notice a bell hanging at her waist!

"Armor Bell Gu! How could I have forgotten about it?!"

The moment he saw the Armor Bell Gu, he understood everything.

The Armor Bell Gu excelled at illusions. Jiang Yiming had actually closed the elevator doors just now, but he had also fallen under its illusion and mistakenly believed the doors were opening.

So he had pressed the close button again, but because he was under the illusion, he had actually pressed the open button.

And just like that, he had opened the doors himself and let Yulan in.

"Where else do you think you can run?" Yulan looked at him face-to-face. In the cramped space, the two were close enough to hear each other breathe.

Under the elevator's dim yellow light, Jiang Yiming instinctively adjusted his sunglasses, unwilling to be recognized.

But Yulan was determined to see what he looked like and reached straight for his mask.

In such a small space, he had nowhere to dodge. But he didn't need to, because he had already summoned the Single-Horned Wandering Snake to the top of the elevator.

Boom! Its enormous tail lashed out, slamming heavily into the elevator roof and smashing the panel above them.

That single blow sent the elevator shaking violently.

Yulan quickly pulled back her hand and steadied herself to keep from falling.

At the same time, a thick snake tail reached through the hole overhead, coiled around Jiang Yiming, and lifted him straight up.

Yulan wasn't about to let him get away. She moved her feet, sprang up, and shot through the hole after him. Looking up, she saw nothing but darkness above and could only hear the clinking and clanking of chains.

Watching the snake's tail vanish into the darkness, Yulan didn't give chase. She merely stood atop the elevator and murmured to herself.

"He doesn't look possessed, and he doesn't have second-tier strength at all. He probably isn't the Evil Gu Master I'm looking for."

"Strange. Where does he hide his Gu insects? Why can he summon Gu insects like other Gu Masters when there clearly aren't any inside him?"

"And why are his Gu insects only at the Early Yellow Rank too, yet obviously much stronger than ordinary Early Yellow Rank Gu insects?"

"Hmph, I've already marked him. Sooner or later, I'll find him and get to the bottom of these secrets!"

A moment later, Yulan drifted away.

She didn't know that ordinary Gu Masters put venomous insects into a vessel and ultimately refined them into a single Gu. This method was called "Refining Gu with Insects."

Jiang Yiming was different.

After he stored venomous insects in the Gu Rearing Box, they became Gu, which he then used to refine more Gu. So his method was "Refining Gu with Gu."

With Refining Gu with Gu, the Yellow-Rank Gu insects obtained in the end were naturally stronger than those obtained through "Refining Gu with Insects."

In the end, it was all thanks to the Gu Rearing Box the system had given him.

Jiang Yiming returned home, took off his sunglasses, and threw away his mask. Then he picked up the Dragon Scale Cup his parents had left him, filled it with cold water, and drained it in one gulp.

"A systematically trained Gu Master really is stronger."

"But the biggest gaps between us are experience and accumulated Gu Essence. My Gu insects seem even stronger than hers!"

"Once I refine all the Gu Essential Essence in my qi sea and get used to my body after that huge boost in agility, I'll definitely beat her the next time we meet!"

"If I can get some powerful moves and techniques, that'll make it even more certain..."

After taking stock of his shortcomings, Jiang Yiming began getting used to his body.

He had just eaten ten Agility Pills and hadn't expected them to work so well. They had left him so unaccustomed to his body that he could only bring his fight with Yulan to a hasty end. Otherwise, he could have fought a while longer.

He kicked and punched... practicing until dawn.

After breakfast, Jiang Yiming continued practicing.

Under the morning sun, quite a few men and women were jogging around the residential complex. He still needed practice, so he promptly joined them.

"Young man, I don't recognize you. Is this your first morning run?" an elderly man behind him asked.

"Judging by your looks, you're only in your teens, right? You like morning runs at such a young age?" A woman in her twenties or thirties, wearing an athletic tank top, looked back from ahead of him.

The people who came out to exercise were all familiar faces. Jiang Yiming had no intention of joining them long-term, so he just smiled.

He was mainly there to get used to his body's agility, so he didn't run very fast. He stayed in the middle of the group, jogging along at a steady pace.

After more than a dozen laps, he had gained a deeper understanding of his muscles and joints.

Only then did he realize that the Agility Pills had not only changed his joints but also strengthened his muscles and tendons. They had improved his body's flexibility in every respect, rather than changing his joints alone.

So this is what the pills can do! Those Gu Refining Points were well spent!

Now, every time he raised a leg, he did it much faster than before. The faster he raised his legs, the faster he ran.

"Whoosh~"

Having been in the middle of the group, he suddenly stopped keeping a low profile. In the blink of an eye, he passed everyone and reached the front.

That wasn't all. He kept accelerating, and within minutes, he was out of sight.

"That young man... isn't he a little too fast?!"

"At that speed, he could easily compete in the hundred-meter dash! He must have come from a sports school, right?"

Amid everyone's exclamations, Jiang Yiming ran out of the residential complex and headed straight for the woods more than a thousand meters away.

Only once he reached the woods did he stop. "I'm too fast. If I ran a few more laps, I'd probably attract attention. If someone timed me because of that, I'd be exposed."

Although he hadn't timed himself, he was certain his speed just now had probably been faster than that of some national-level sprinters!

To verify it, he took out his phone and opened the stopwatch.

After pressing start, Jiang Yiming sprinted through the woods. He had no idea how many dead branches and leaves he crushed underfoot before he stopped when the stopwatch reached 10.

He looked back at the route he had run and startled even himself.

"This... has to be at least two hundred meters..."

He turned and walked back, trying to keep each step around sixty centimeters. Sure enough, after roughly measuring it with his steps, the distance was at least 210 meters.

Although this method of measurement wasn't standard, it wasn't too far off.

Even if it were only two hundred meters, running it in ten seconds would unquestionably break the human limit!

This was one of the changes agility had brought.

Jiang Yiming felt that he still wasn't familiar enough with his current body. Once he was completely used to it, his speed would definitely increase even further!