He Ao opened his eyes, and a bright chandelier glowing with gentle white light came into view.
He slowly climbed out of bed, clutching his forehead as a violent dizziness, like the oxygen-deprived vertigo from suddenly standing after squatting, surged through his mind and slightly affected his thoughts.
He shook his head and slowly sat up, trying to drive the dizziness from his mind.
At the same time, he briefly assessed his physical condition.
His injuries had not fully recovered, but the promotion was complete.
He raised his hand and glanced at his palm.
The skin on his palm was visibly much fairer and more tender, like newly grown skin.
But beneath that pale skin, faint dark-red lines could still be seen.
Those were the scars left behind by his shattered body, not yet fully repaired.
The power of promotion was still different from the system's "repair." Even though He Ao had completed the ritual extremely well, after pushing his body beyond its limits twice, the promotion had failed to fully restore him.
But the good news was that as long as he did not attempt anything too extreme, this body would not get any worse.
After advancing to Rank B, this body's endurance had undergone a qualitative leap. The energy overflowing from Hypermemory was no longer enough to tear it apart.
The final "death countdown" had finally been removed as well.
At the same time, He Ao could sense that the "minor scars" that had not been repaired were naturally "recovering." Their healing speed was far faster than that of any other Rank B Talent Sequence He Ao had experienced before.
This was not the "healing" that reconstructed the body during a Talent Sequence promotion. It was more like the body's own "self-healing" ability.
Or rather, it was an