Ten days and ten nights later.
Time came around to the afternoon again.
Not only was his expression calm.
As he walked out through the entrance of the fruit shop named Forbidden Fruit.
Listening to the shop's reluctant farewells of "handsome, come again sometime~"
His thoughts began to drift.
He began pondering Copernicus's "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," Eudoxus's "On the Heavens," Aristotle's "Metaphysics," Newton's "Principia Mathematica," Zhuangzi's "Wandering Beyond," Laozi's "Tao Te Ching"...
In his heart, he silently recited the "Diamond Sutra."
In an instant.
He felt the harmony and beauty of the world!
And then.
He regretted it.
After all, he had made a grave mistake earlier!
He had eaten far too much fruit!!
And then, once again.
More than ten minutes later.
As Xi Shenlian strode away from Kabukicho, he heard that familiar line once more.
"Handsome, want to come play?"
"Our shop has lots of beautiful ladies and special services too~"
Hearing that.
Xi Shenlian's heart was filled with disdain.
He was now as holy as the Buddha incarnate.
A mere temptation of women could not possibly shake his indestructible will.
Of course.
Out of biological instinct.
He still glanced in that direction.
Then.
In the blink of an eye.
He couldn't help sucking in a cold breath!
At the entrance of that resplendent shop were black stockings, white stockings, red stockings, blue ones, green ones, gold ones, orange ones...
He immediately sensed danger drawing near!
Or rather, he had wandered into a place of peril!!
"Oh no!"
"There's a damn Spider Silk Cave!!"
Unfortunately.
Spider Silk Cave, as one of the eighty-one tribulations.
Back then, even Tang Sanzang, reincarnated Golden Cicada, had failed to avoid this ordeal.
So.
Needless to say, neither could he!
And so.
Unfortunately, Xi Shenlian was captured alive.
He lost contact again!
You had to understand, it was broad daylight!!
Demons and monsters were running rampant in broad daylight—this was simply unconscionable!!
Moreover, because the demons were too dangerous this time, Xi Shenlian lost contact for a full twenty days and twenty nights!!
During that time.
The only proof of Xi Shenlian's survival and struggle came from the occupied notices that remained displayed above each avatar on the 17/83 quantity interface of the tablet computer inside Spider Silk Cave, which was specially used to select people.
The situation was deeply worrying!
But what could they do?
No one could do anything.
All they could say was,
Kabukicho, as one of the strongholds of capitalism, was truly an incomparably evil and treacherous place. It actually kept demons there—it was simply too dangerous and too hateful!!!
Even Xi Shenlian, an Awakened, had disappeared there!
However.
The one consolation amid the misfortune was that Xi Shenlian was ultimately skilled enough!!
No matter how boundless the danger, it still failed to stop him from escaping the peril.
When he put on the trousers he had bought a month and one day ago but had worn for only a single day, and successfully escaped to freedom.
He couldn't help thinking about countless meaningful things.
From the "Twenty-Four Histories" to "A Brief History of Time," from "Advanced Mathematics" to "Quantum Physics"...
His thoughts automatically wandered through the superposition of 1+1 equals what? and gravitational waves.
He felt that he had transcended the mundane.
He had completely escaped lowbrow interests.
He had become a useful person to the world.
Of course.
As everyone knew.
The spider spirits inside Spider Silk Cave were extremely dangerous.
Furthermore, spiders fed by injecting venom to digest their prey's internal organs, then sucking up the liquefied flesh and blood.
During those twenty days and twenty nights of being captured alive.
Xi Shenlian had naturally suffered that inhuman torment as well.
Therefore.
At present.
Although his spirit had reached perfection.
He still had to find a hotel and get a proper rest.
And so.
He immediately rented the presidential suite of a nearby five-star hotel for half a month.
After eating a simple meal.
After consuming enough food for roughly a hundred people, he, gravely injured, immediately began hibernating to recover.
This situation was also ample proof that.
Exorcising demons was a very dangerous undertaking.
Children absolutely must not try it!!
Meanwhile.
As he hibernated.
Thanks to the fact that his thoughts had been excessively unimpeded while exorcising demons earlier, his Innate Ability—the Arbitrary One—was operating at high speed, rapidly pushing him through the growth process that would ordinarily have taken a long time. Xi Shenlian's strength surged uncontrollably, reaching a level far beyond his previous limits, becoming a vast foundation of power accumulated within his body!!
As he slept and healed.
The potential within his body was finally released to its fullest.
This caused his body to directly skip several stages and begin developing beyond all common sense!
His bones not only became tougher and harder, but their number also increased, granting him even greater flexibility.
Beneath the surface of his skin, several translucent, membrane-like structures grew, allowing him to withstand various injuries with greater ease.
The structure of his muscles underwent an earth-shaking transformation. It was like leaping directly from an ancient society into the modern age, bringing about a stage-wide breakthrough, as though it had become some kind of perfect work of art...
The same applied to.
During this process.
Xi Shenlian's height, weight, hair color, appearance...
All of them automatically underwent self-correction—or, more accurately, overall evolution.
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It was not until six days and six nights later.
That Xi Shenlian finally awoke from his slumber.
At that moment.
The sensation was difficult to describe.
It was as if his entire being had been reborn.
He not only felt an indescribable sense of exhilaration.
He also sensed many things he had been entirely unable to perceive before.
Such as the flow of the air, invisible to the naked eye.
Lying on the large bed, he merely raised his right hand upward.
The surrounding air was tugged by the five fingers of his palm, automatically gathering in his hand.
When he clenched his hand...
"Bang!"
It was not a particularly loud explosion.
Rather like the sort of large firecracker sold outside elementary schools.
This meant that Xi Shenlian had crushed the surrounding air.
Although its power was not great.
It still caused the surrounding air to ripple, blowing the curtains in the room.
This was not some special ability to manipulate air.
It was something else.
Xi Shenlian could sense that there was an energy within his body that he could wield.
An energy...
Something like the Inner Force, vital energy, or Magic Power found in novels... a Special Energy.
The reason he had been able to affect the surrounding air earlier was based on that energy.
He attached it around his palm, like strands of invisible tentacles, forcibly gathering and influencing the surrounding airflow. He drew that air into his hand, then crushed it, creating the commotion just now.
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