Chen Shouyi walked down the street, avoiding the puddles along the way.
It had rained just before dawn yesterday, bringing a touch of long-missed coolness to the weather, which had recently started to grow somewhat hot.
He checked his Status Panel. Looking at his Strength attribute, he seemed slightly surprised and excited.
"The third optimized version really is powerful. I've only been officially cultivating for a day, and my Strength has already increased by 0.1 points. At this rate, given a little more time, my power will undergo a complete transformation."
"Even now, if I fought Sun Mengyuan again, I'm sure I could beat her more easily." He felt an itch to try, but after thinking it over, gave up. Even though it was in a virtual space and everything was fake,
making her wet herself again still felt a little too much. He just couldn't get past that mental hurdle.
In fact, the attribute that had improved the most over the past few days wasn't Strength, but Will.
He had been practicing day and night, enduring the agonizing torment of what felt like purgatory at every moment. It had thoroughly tempered his Will, raising it by a full 0.2 points to fourteen.
A few grubby little brats stood by the roadside playing. Whenever someone passed, they deliberately stomped in the puddles, making pedestrians dodge as filthy water splashed all over their clothes.
One person got so angry that he reached out to hit them, but the kids laughed and scampered off at a run.
Most people could only accept their bad luck.
The kids did it again and again, having the time of their lives as cheerful laughter drifted along the street.
Just then, they saw Chen Shouyi approaching from afar and grinned mischievously, seemingly ready to pull the