He slept straight through until broad daylight.
By the time Chen Shouyi woke up, it was already half past seven.
He glanced at Shell Girl. She still hadn't slept, and was playing excitedly with seven or eight cabbage caterpillars on the bedside table.
Before going to sleep the previous night, Chen Shouyi had deliberately caught these bugs from the vegetable patch in the hotel courtyard for her to play with at night. After all, even an Other World Creature with forty hours in a day couldn't possibly sleep for more than forty hours straight.
After being tormented all night, these poor cabbage caterpillars had long since gone limp, without the slightest sign of movement. Even if they were still alive, they probably had only one breath left in them. Yet despite that, Shell Girl was still arranging the poor creatures into all sorts of bizarre poses.
"Good giant, you're finally awake." Seeing Chen Shouyi get up, Shell Girl wrinkled her brow and complained, "These bugs won't move anymore."
No matter how strong a bug's vitality was, it wouldn't survive being tormented by you like this for long!
"I'll catch some more for you next time, and make them a little bigger!"
"Don't catch them! Let me catch them!" Shell Girl said excitedly, her little face glowing. "I want to catch a—a bug as big as me!"
Then she added, "A good bug."
"All right, all right, I'll let you catch one." Chen Shouyi was speechless. He had long since seen through her nature: fierce on the outside, weak within.
Thinking that his aunt and cousin probably hadn't gotten up yet, he assumed a stance and began practicing the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening.
Before long, a cyan whirlwind began spinning madly inside his dantian. Threads of mysterious power rapidly converged on