"Whoosh..."
The clear sound of waves rang out, while seagulls cried and wheeled through the azure sky.
Warm, gentle morning light filtered through the thin gauze curtains fluttering in the sea breeze and quietly fell across the soft, comfortable silk-and-cotton quilt.
As if sensing the sunlight from outside the window, the slightly disheveled quilt, bulging into a lump atop the mattress, wriggled for a moment before being thrown aside without the slightest hesitation.
Awakening from his dream, Xia Nan sat up. His eyes remained closed as he seemingly meditated, sensing the warmth of the sunlight and the faint dampness of the sea breeze against his skin.
His powerful physique and Six-Dimensional Attributes far beyond those of ordinary people gave him astonishingly high sleep efficiency.
After dinner yesterday, he had trained until late at night. After returning to the tavern, he had even ordered a small Cream Mushroom Soup set meal. While enjoying the food, he had casually gathered the latest intelligence from other adventurers in the Tavern Hall. Only after midnight had he taken a hot bath and fallen into a deep sleep. By the time he awoke, he had slept for only a little over four hours in total.
In his previous life, that body, left in a prolonged state of sub-health by exhausting work from dawn to dusk, would never have been in good spirits after only four hours of sleep, even if he had set an alarm and managed to get out of bed under the pressure of work.
Even if he had forcibly used caffeine to stay awake, it would have been no different from a whip lashing an ox or horse. He would merely have forced himself into work at the cost of overdrawing his body.
Things were completely different now.
His physical fitness surpassed