"Handsome, your fried noodles are ready. Ten yuan."
The vendor flipped the wok and scooped the noodles back into the takeout container. Hazy steam curled upward beneath the neon-lit night sky, passing over the colorful paper pinwheels and neon signs suspended above the street.
"Thanks."
He Ao snapped out of his daze, dispersing the pages that had surfaced in his mind. Smiling, he scanned the code to pay, showed the Boss the payment confirmation, and reached out to take the fried noodles.
A synthetic voice from a nearby Bluetooth speaker announced, "Payment received: ten yuan."
"Got it. Come again, handsome. The chopsticks are over there."
The vendor pointed at a plastic bag full of disposable chopsticks. Rising cooking fumes had long since stained the bag with a hazy film.
"Alright."
He Ao pulled out a pair of disposable chopsticks and looked once more at the words in his field of vision.
He Ao Permission Level: Advanced Player Physical Fitness: 8721 Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Hyperthymesia (B-Class), Basic Firearms Proficiency, Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar (B-Class) Mechanical Modification: None Martial Arts: Refining Qi into Spirit (B-Class)
His Physical Fitness had risen from 8221 to 8721, an increase of 500.
This bout of "enlightenment" had directly increased his Physical Fitness by the equivalent of a relatively strong C-Class.
Of course, that was not his greatest gain from this enlightenment. The greatest change had actually occurred in his Energy Circuit.
The Energy Circuit within his body had changed. The Energy Circuit naturally formed through cultivating according to the little book had, at some unknown point, sprouted countless dense branches. Those branches connected through all sorts of pathways, forming a complex and mysterious network.
This network covered nearly every corner of his body. It was more intricate and denser than before.
Yet