Improvement and Weighted Training

Improvement and Weighted Training

In an instant.

A strange new muscle memory began to form within Chen Sheng's body.

He stood where he was, carefully experiencing and absorbing the changes brought by the upgrade.

When he opened his eyes again,

delight immediately flashed through them.

Then,

Chen Sheng's body began to move at once as he practiced the Three-Body Stance.

Before the skill had leveled up, Chen Sheng needed to concentrate at all times while holding the Three-Body Stance, controlling every muscle and his breathing rhythm.

But now, the key points of the movements, the changes in force, and the rhythm of his breathing had all been integrated into his muscles.

He no longer needed to adjust them deliberately. His body instinctively operated in the optimal manner.

Under the clear night sky.

Chen Sheng stood on the balcony and closed his eyes once more.

His movements looked no different from before.

Yet in an instant, his entire bearing underwent some marvelous change.

Chen Sheng was completely immersed in the Three-Body Stance.

One hour.

Two hours.

Three hours.

Time passed swiftly as he trained in a state of self-forgetfulness.

At this moment,

next door to Chen Sheng's home,

Xu Ziwen emerged from his house carrying cleaning tools.

He looked up toward Chen Sheng's home.

He immediately spotted Chen Sheng, who was practicing the Three-Body Stance with his eyes closed.

Silver moonlight fell upon Chen Sheng.

The faint breeze stirred his clothes.

He looked every bit like a master.

Xu Ziwen could not help stopping what he was doing. He simply stared blankly at Chen Sheng, seemingly afraid that even his footsteps would disturb him.

Just then.

Chen Sheng slowly opened his eyes.

The next second.

He seemed to sense something.

With a swish.

Chen Sheng quickly turned his head and looked down at Xu Ziwen below.

Reflected by the moonlight, a trace of silver gleamed in his eyes.

Clang!

Xu Ziwen jumped at the sudden gaze, and the dustpan in his hand fell straight to the ground.

The sound of metal striking the floor instantly shattered the night's silence.

It also instantly shattered Chen Sheng's masterful aura.

"Fuck!"

The piercing sound exploding beside his ears made him cry out, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

"Sorry, sorry!"

Seeing this,

Xu Ziwen hurriedly pressed his palms together and apologized to Chen Sheng from afar.

"I was watching you practice martial arts, Little Brother Chen, and got so absorbed that I lost track of myself."

"I'm truly sorry for disturbing you."

Chen Sheng snapped back to his senses and waved his hands repeatedly.

"It's fine, it's fine."

"Where are you going so late, Teacher Xu?"

His first impression of Xu Ziwen was fairly good, and since the other man had apologized sincerely, Chen Sheng naturally did not mind.

"I had nothing to do tonight, so I thought I'd go clean up the cemetery."

Hearing this,

Chen Sheng's gaze toward Xu Ziwen immediately became somewhat strange.

Cleaning a cemetery in the middle of the night.

Should he say the man was brave, or that he was missing a screw?

"Then go ahead, Teacher Xu. I won't keep you."

Chen Sheng was eager to inspect the results of his training.

After waving goodbye to Xu Ziwen, he went straight inside.

Xu Ziwen had originally intended to say something else.

But seeing that Chen Sheng did not seem interested in talking further, he could only give up awkwardly.

Still,

the image of Chen Sheng practicing martial arts kept resurfacing in Xu Ziwen's mind.

At the time, if someone had said Chen Sheng was a reclusive Martial Arts Expert, he would have believed it.

His neighbor seemed rather extraordinary.

I should find a chance to visit him.

With that thought, Xu Ziwen picked up the dustpan again and headed toward the cemetery along the path.

Chen Sheng returned to the living room and immediately slumped onto the sofa.

Having just emerged from that self-forgetful state, he had not felt tired at all.

Now that he relaxed,

it felt as if he could hear the wails of every muscle in his body. He felt like he was about to fall apart.

After resting for a while,

Chen Sheng summoned the panel to inspect the results of this training session.

"Ha!"

At a glance,

Chen Sheng nearly jumped off the sofa with joy.

If only his body had not been so weak.

Chen Sheng

Strength: 1.22

Agility: 1.10

Constitution: 1.3

Skill Points: 0.34

Both Strength and Constitution had risen by 0.1. Agility had also risen by 0.09.

Since obtaining the panel, this was Chen Sheng's biggest improvement yet.

And this

was merely the result of practicing the Three-Body Stance once.

Chen Sheng glanced at the time.

It was eight in the evening.

He usually went to bed around ten.

Once his body recovered, he could do some basic strength training, take a shower, and it would be about time.

Chen Sheng continued lying sprawled across the sofa, waiting for his stamina to recover.

At the same time, he considered his next training plan.

Now that he had the Three-Body Stance, he did not intend to abandon his daily strength and endurance training.

Although the Three-Body Stance was highly effective, it consumed a great deal of vitality and blood. Chen Sheng could not possibly practice it nonstop all day.

But compared to the Three-Body Stance, the improvement efficiency of those other exercises was somewhat low.

Strength training was still manageable.

As long as Chen Sheng kept increasing the weight and number of sets, its effects could barely keep up.

As for endurance training.

Now, even if Chen Sheng struggled through a run of ten or twenty kilometers, it was only about equivalent to practicing the Three-Body Stance for two hours, and it could only raise his Constitution.

"What about... weighted training?"

Chen Sheng suddenly thought of it.

Since running took so much time, why could he not run with added weight?

With more weight, not only would his stamina consumption increase, but he could also train his muscles along the way.

He acted as soon as the thought came to him.

Chen Sheng opened an online marketplace and began selecting Weighted Gear.

Very quickly, he settled on a Weighted Vest, along with leg weights and a belt, and placed the order directly.

This Weighted Vest was adjustable.

By adding or removing weight blocks, it could hold up to 100 kilograms.

Together with the leg weights and belt, it should be enough for him for the time being.

The marketplace's delivery speed was very fast.

Only a few minutes after Chen Sheng placed the order, the tracking information showed that it was being shipped from the warehouse.

It was expected to arrive tomorrow morning.

Putting down his phone.

Chen Sheng, feeling that his body had recovered somewhat, returned to the balcony.

Now that his physical condition had improved greatly, he decided to stop making training plans. Instead, he would do as much as he could and improve his physique to the greatest extent possible.

An hour and a half later.

Chen Sheng sat on the balcony floor, enjoying the cool breeze as he waited for his tense body to relax.

Push-ups, two hundred.

Sit-ups, one hundred and seventy.

Squats, three hundred.

His Strength rose by 0.05.

His Constitution and Agility each rose by 0.01. As Chen Sheng's training intensity increased, each workout no longer raised only a single attribute, but also improved the others along with it.

After resting for a few minutes.

Chen Sheng climbed up from the floor.

Leaning against the balcony railing, he looked downstairs.

Xu Ziwen's room was still pitch-black.

He did not know whether the man was asleep or had not returned home yet.

Chen Sheng did not think much of it. After merely taking a look, he went back inside.

Entering the bathroom.

Chen Sheng looked at himself in the mirror, and a trace of delight could not help appearing on his face.

His body was no longer the skin-and-bones frame it had been a few days ago.

The outlines of his muscles were faintly visible beneath his skin.

Though he still could not compare to those heavily muscled men, he was already in fairly good shape among ordinary people.

His complexion was no longer as deathly pale as it had been that morning, but had regained the healthy color of a normal person.

The Vitality Soup deserved much of the credit for that.

Everything was steadily developing in a better and better direction.

After showering and drying his hair, Chen Sheng went straight back to his room.

As he lay down on the bed, his body relaxed.

Before long, he fell into a deep sleep.