Two hours later.
Chen Ye completed a ten-kilometer run on the treadmill.
Under normal circumstances, a world-class champion could run ten kilometers in under twenty-five minutes. An average professional long-distance runner could finish within forty minutes, while a healthy ordinary person could usually complete it in about an hour.
Yet Chen Ye had taken a full two hours.
And even then, he was drenched in sweat and on the verge of collapse!
That alone showed how formidable those old women had been. An ordinary man simply could not withstand them.
In just two years, they had drained a young body dry...
At that moment, Chen Ye lay on the floor, resting while checking his status panel.
After running ten kilometers, his attributes had not changed in the slightest.
Chen Ye frowned.
But he did not dwell on it. Once he had rested enough, he continued with the other exercises.
Thus, for the rest of the day, aside from eating and using the bathroom, Chen Ye remained in the basement and exercised diligently.
His behavior worried both of his parents.
After all, the previous Chen Ye had never been very interested in sports from childhood to adulthood.
Chen Ye's unusual behavior naturally left Father Chen and Mother Chen uneasy.
"Did this kid really suffer some kind of blow?"
Father Chen had originally needed to go out, but his son's abnormal behavior made him too worried to leave.
"That must be it!" Yang Rongzhi's expression was grim. "Ye'er wants to exhaust himself and numb himself this way, so he won't think about those painful things!"
They said that invisible assumptions were the deadliest.
That was indeed true.
The couple was now convinced that some scumbag woman must have wounded their son's pure heart, driving Chen Ye to exercise so desperately...
By evening.
In the basement.
Chen Ye finally completed every part of the Saitama Training Method.
He was soaked in sweat and so exhausted that he did not even want to move a finger.
At the instant he finished those exercises, he suddenly felt an invisible power emerge within his body, improving it.
Though the exhaustion remained, he could clearly feel that his strength had increased somewhat.
Chen Ye was instantly invigorated and immediately opened his status panel:
Name: Chen Ye. Physique: 12. Spirit: 11. Strength: 14. Agility: 14. Talent: Saitama Physique. ...
Sure enough.
Other than his spirit attribute, the other three attributes on the panel had each increased by five points.
That was a total increase of fifteen attribute points.
Chen Ye was overjoyed and immediately became excited.
The memories in his mind told him this.
The four basic attributes were extremely important!
Increasing "physique" enhanced a person's vitality, resistance to damage, and self-healing ability.
Increasing "spirit" enhanced one's five senses and willpower. Vision, hearing, smell, and the like could all be improved through the spirit attribute.
Increasing "strength" raised the explosive power of the human body's muscles and determined the upper limit of a person's physical destructive power.
Increasing "agility" enhanced one's movement speed and neural reflexes.
Every one of these four attributes was incomparably important.
They could even be called the foundation of a powerhouse.
Take the nation's strongest, Ms. Qin, as an example. The power of her telekinesis was directly proportional to her spirit attribute.
The stronger her spirit attribute, the stronger her telekinetic ability.
Rumor had it that Ms. Qin's spirit attribute had long since reached four digits...
Because her spiritual power was too strong, she had even reached the realm of "seeing nothing, hearing nothing, yet sensing danger and avoiding it," allowing her to detect danger in advance.
For ordinary people, increasing attributes was extremely difficult. Other than rapidly acquiring them in secret realms, other training methods produced negligible results.
This was common knowledge.
Yet Chen Ye had gained fifteen attribute points after exercising for just one day...
If others learned of this, it would absolutely cause a global sensation!
No!
Even if Chen Ye voluntarily revealed his secret, no one would believe him.
What delighted Chen Ye the most was this.
He had guessed correctly!
The Saitama Physique truly existed!!
"Perhaps others had chosen to synchronize with the Bald Demon King before, but they didn't know the Saitama Training Method. So even if they succeeded, it would have been useless..."
"Only in my hands can the Saitama Physique truly flourish!"
After his excitement faded.
Chen Ye gradually calmed down and began to think.
"Right, why didn't my spirit attribute increase? Does the Saitama Physique not increase spirit? Was the Bald Demon King himself weak in spirit?"
"Also... if each individual attribute increases by five points per day, then after three years—three hundred and sixty-five days a year—my strength attribute would only be a little over 5,400 points. That's 540 times that of an ordinary person. It probably wouldn't be enough for the aftershock of a Serious Punch to split the atmosphere like the Bald Demon King's, right?"
"So my Saitama Physique is actually a weakened version? Synchronizing with a hero doesn't grant one hundred percent of their talent abilities?"
Chen Ye could not help frowning.
By his calculations, he might become the strongest human in three years, but he might not necessarily be invincible on Blue Star.
Because some King-level monsters were utterly terrifying.
Every time one appeared, it was a world-ending disaster!
At present, there was no record in human history of a King-level monster ever being killed.
On the contrary, records of humanity's top experts dying in the jaws of King-level monsters were everywhere...
If King-level monsters did not usually remain so elusive, humanity might have been wiped out long ago.
Thinking of this, Chen Ye felt somewhat panicked.
If he could not be invincible,
he would have no sense of security!
"So, for my weakened Saitama Physique to truly become invincible in this world, would it take ten years? Or even twenty?"
"Wait... there's another requirement in the Saitama Training Method: 'Never turn on the air conditioner, no matter how hot the weather gets.' So when the weather becomes hot, will my training increase my attributes?"
It was currently May.
There was still a month before the weather turned hot.
He would find out when the time came.
No matter what.
Chen Ye was still extremely satisfied with the Saitama Physique.
Having rested enough, he got up from the floor with satisfaction, took a shower, then went upstairs to the living room.
It was already evening.
The fragrance of food drifted from the dining room.
The family maid was preparing dinner.
"Son, you've been exercising all day. You must be exhausted, right? Dinner will be ready soon. Eat first, then go rest, okay?"
Yang Rongzhi's voice came from the sofa.
Chen Ye was indeed hungry. Hearing that, he nodded. "Okay."
He looked around but did not see his father, so he asked, "Where's Dad?"
"Your father had something come up and went out. He won't be back for dinner tonight," Yang Rongzhi said.
Chen Ye did not pay it much mind.
This happened often. His father held a high position, so he was bound to have plenty of social engagements.
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