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Chapter 20: Escaping the Danger Zone (clap.jpg)

Ten days and ten nights later.

Time had once again arrived at the afternoon hour.

His expression was utterly calm.

As he stepped out of the fruit shop named Forbidden Fruit.

Listening to the reluctant farewells from inside—"Come back anytime, handsome~"—his thoughts began to drift.

He started 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"...

And silently recited the "Diamond Sutra" in his heart.

Suddenly.

He felt the harmony and beauty of the world!

Then.

He regretted it.

Because he had made a grave mistake earlier!

He had eaten way too much fruit!!

And then.

Over ten minutes later.

Xi Shenlian, who was striding out of Kabukicho, heard a familiar line once again.

"Handsome, wanna come play?"

"We've got plenty of beauties and special services inside~"

Hearing this.

Xi Shenlian was filled with disdain.

He was now as saintly as the Buddha incarnate.

Mere female charms could never shake his unbreakable will.

Of course.

Out of biological instinct.

He still glanced over.

Then.

In an instant.

He couldn't help but gasp sharply!

At the entrance of that gaudy shop, there were black stockings, white stockings, red stockings, blue, green, gold, orange...

He immediately sensed danger closing in!

Or rather, he had stumbled into a perilous trap!!

"Damn it!"

"This is a goddamn Spider Silk Cave!!"

But unfortunately.

Spider Silk Cave was one of the eighty-one tribulations.

Back in the day, even Tang Sanzang, the reincarnation of Golden Cicada, couldn't dodge that calamity.

So.

What hope was there for him?

Just like that.

Unluckily, Xi Shenlian was captured alive.

Out of contact once again!

And mind you, it was broad daylight!!

Demons running wild in the middle of the day—utterly depraved!!

And this time, because the demons were too dangerous, Xi Shenlian was missing for a full twenty days and twenty nights!!

Throughout.

Only the tablet used for selection inside Spider Silk Cave, with its 17/83 ratio interface, showed each avatar perpetually marked as "occupied," proving Xi Shenlian was still alive and struggling.

The situation was worrying!

But what could be done?

No one could do anything about it.

All they could say was:

Kabukicho, as one of the strongholds of capitalism, was truly an incomparably evil and treacherous place—it actually harbored demons, which was far too dangerous and detestable!!!

Even Xi Shenlian, an Awakened, had gone missing there.

But.

A blessing in disguise was that Xi Shenlian's skills were ultimately solid enough!!

Even amidst endless perils, he still managed to escape danger.

When he put on that pair of pants he'd bought a month and a day ago but only worn for one day, successfully breaking free to safety.

He couldn't help but ponder many meaningful things.

From the "Twenty-Four Histories" to "A Brief History of Time," from "Higher Mathematics" to "Quantum Physics"...

His thoughts roamed freely through the superposition of 1+1 equals? and gravitational waves.

He felt he had transcended the mundane.

Completely shed lowly interests.

Become a person useful to the world.

Of course.

As everyone knows.

The spider demons inside the Spider Silk Cave were very dangerous.

Moreover, spiders feed by injecting venom to liquefy their prey's internal organs, then sucking up the resulting juice of dissolved flesh and blood.

During the twenty days and twenty nights of being captured alive.

Xi Shenlian naturally couldn't avoid suffering that kind of inhuman torment.

So.

Now.

Though his spirit was whole.

He still needed to find a hotel and rest properly.

And so.

He directly booked a presidential suite at a five-star hotel nearby, for half a month.

After a simple meal.

Eating roughly enough for a hundred people, he, severely injured, immediately began hibernating to heal.

This situation fully illustrated.

That subduing demons and eliminating evils was very dangerous.

Children absolutely must not try it!!

Meanwhile.

During his hibernation.

Thanks to his thoughts being exceptionally unimpeded while subduing demons earlier, his Innate Ability—the Arbitrary One—was operating at high speed, rapidly pushing him through the growth process that would have otherwise taken a Long time, causing Xi Shenlian's strength to surge and skyrocket uncontrollably, reaching a level far beyond his past self, accumulating as vast reserves within his body!!

And with his slumbering recovery.

The potential within his body was finally unleashed to the fullest.

This caused his physique to directly skip several stages, beginning development beyond normal logic!

His bones not only became tougher and harder, but their number also increased, granting him greater flexibility.

Beneath the surface of his skin, some semi-transparent membranous structures grew, allowing him to withstand various injuries more easily.

The structure of his muscles underwent earth-shattering changes, as if leaping straight from an ancient society to a modern one, achieving a stage-spanning breakthrough, resembling some perfect work of art...

Similarly.

During this process.

Xi Shenlian's height, weight, hair color, facial features...

All automatically underwent self-correction, or rather, holistic evolution.

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Until six days and six nights later.

Xi Shenlian finally awoke from his slumber.

At that moment.

That feeling was hard to describe.

As if his entire being had been reborn.

He not only felt an indescribable sense of exhilaration.

He also sensed many things he had never been able to perceive before.

Like the flow of air, invisible to the naked eye.

Lying on the big bed, he simply raised his right hand upward, and the surrounding currents were dragged by the five fingers of his palm, automatically converging into his grasp.

When his hand clenched...

"Boom!"

It was a muffled explosion.

Somewhat like the loud firecrackers sold at elementary school gates.

This meant the surrounding air had been crushed by Xi Shenlian.

Though the power was limited.

It still stirred the air around him, rustling the curtains in the room.

This wasn't some special ability to manipulate air.

It was something else.

Xi Shenlian could feel that there was a type of energy within his body that he could utilize.

A kind of...

Special Energy, somewhat like the Inner Force, blood vitality, or Magic Power described in novels.

The reason he had been able to influence the surrounding airflow earlier was based on that energy.

He had attached it around his palm, like invisible tentacles, forcibly gathering and affecting the currents, drawing them into his hand, and then crushing them—creating the commotion just now.

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