Wang Feng sprang straight up from the boulder.
Auxiliary Check-in System?
I knew it. The cheat might be late, but it would never be absent!
"The Meteor Tear... Isn't that the protagonist's cheat in Stellar Transformations?"
For the first time in six years, Wang Feng was this excited.
As a homebody, he was naturally familiar with all kinds of anime and novels.
Stellar Transformations was also a very famous novel.
The cheat belonging to its protagonist, Qin Yu, was the Meteor Tear, formed from the energy the legendary Goddess of Life gathered before she died.
In its early stages, it could greatly increase the speed at which one absorbed the energy of heaven and earth, while also granting an extremely powerful recovery ability. In the beginning, protagonist Qin Yu had relied on this item to surpass the limits of the human body time and again, growing stronger and stronger!
And as he grew stronger, he could gradually unlock even more abilities.
"With this thing, even if I don't know any of the secret techniques in Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record... as long as I keep training past my limits, my body will become incredibly powerful!"
After his excitement passed, Wang Feng quickly calmed down and began to think.
Now that he had a cheat, he couldn't laze around anymore.
With the hope of becoming stronger, Wang Feng was full of motivation. He felt as if his whole body were brimming with strength, and the future seemed bright...
So Wang Feng continued lying on the boulder, conveniently rolling over as he chewed on a strand of Blue Silver Grass and pondered.
"The Auxiliary Check-in System said the Meteor Tear won't arrive until tonight. There's no use getting worked up now... I should figure out how to train first."
Wang Feng suddenly felt a little grateful.
Back on Earth, he had watched all kinds of training videos: Ab Ripper, the Russian stand, special forces hell training...
He would often watch them so excitedly that he tossed and turned under the covers... and then, and then he'd leave them in his bookmarks to gather dust.
Train? Not a chance.
That stuff was practically lethal to train with.
It would take years to see even the slightest results, and one wrong move could easily leave you injured.
With the Meteor Tear, it was different. Not only would it greatly reduce the time needed and improve efficiency, it would also ensure nothing went wrong.
"Going by the time Grandpa Jack mentioned... Brother Tao should come to the Spirit Hall in Holy Soul Village to conduct the awakening ceremony in a month..."
Wang Feng thought to himself. "If I check in at the Spirit Hall in Holy Soul Village, I can check in with Innate Full Soul Power and receive an extra reward... In other words, I need to reach Innate Full Soul Power within this month... just like Xiao San..."
"But Xiao San's been cultivating for years, and only awakened with Innate Full Soul Power during the awakening ceremony..."
"One month... Looks like I'll have to go without food or sleep..."
As he thought, Wang Feng found some time to return to Holy Soul Village for a meal, then hurriedly ran back out.
It was evening before long.
Night fell, and a cool breeze stirred. Wang Feng gazed up at the star-filled sky, waiting quietly on a raised platform outside a small grove.
"The Meteor Tear should fall like a meteor, right?"
Wang Feng stared into the darkness.
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared, cutting across the black sky. A meteor streaked from the distant horizon straight toward Wang Feng!
"It's here!"
Wang Feng's eyes widened as he stared right at the meteor, which was coming straight down on him. "Holy crap... It's not going to hit me dead-on, is it? Could I, Wang Feng, become the first person killed by his own cheat?"
However, Wang Feng was imagining things.
The streak of light shot straight into the area around his heart. Lines of light spread across his chest in intricate, beautiful patterns, like a blooming sunflower.
Wang Feng felt his heart thump several times. Faintly, he could sense a surging power.
"Could my heart have merged with the Meteor Tear...?"
Wang Feng looked at the faintly glowing spot over his heart and thought, "Did it turn into a nuclear reactor?"
As the thought crossed his mind, Wang Feng's heart surged with excitement. He immediately sprinted forward, hoping to test whether his body had changed.
But before long, his legs went numb, and he began to feel dizzy.
"My body hasn't gotten stronger... Looks like I need to reach a certain limit before the Meteor Tear's power will be activated..."
Wang Feng gritted his teeth.
The paths through this grove were rather rugged, making them far more exhausting to run than ordinary roads. With a six-year-old body, running at high intensity for more than ten minutes-
Wang Feng was already having trouble breathing. He could hardly catch his breath at all.
"Could this cheat be fake?"
With every step he took, Wang Feng felt another will in his mind tempting him, as if it were saying, "Stop now. If you keep running, you'll die... Don't force yourself... It's useless..."
"Get lost! I want to get stronger! I want girls, a Martial Spirit, Innate Full Soul Power, and I want to show off! You'll never fool me!"
Wang Feng roared inwardly. "I've got a cheat. If I still can't persevere, then I, Wang Feng, really am a hopeless loser!"
Roaring inwardly as he forced himself to keep going, Wang Feng continued running.
It was as if he were venting all the frustration of his more than twenty years of mediocrity in his previous life, along with all the jealousy he'd felt toward Tang San over the past few years since transmigrating to the Douluo Continent.
Wang Feng's pace grew slower and slower... His legs began to tremble, his face turned scarlet, and his pupils started to lose focus.
These were signs of exhaustion.
By then, he had been running for nearly an hour. For a six-year-old child who had never exercised, this was practically his limit.
Sweat the size of beans ran down his whole body, soaking his clothes. His short, tousled hair looked as if he had just washed it.
Wang Feng felt his consciousness growing hazy.
"I've used up the willpower of both my lifetimes. No, I can't stop..."
Wang Feng's consciousness was starting to blur, and he didn't know how long he'd been running.
It must have been nearly two hours by now.
He felt he had reached his limit.
In this condition, his vision had long since blurred...
Thud!
His sluggish feet tripped over a rock, and Wang Feng fell to the ground.
As soon as he fell, Wang Feng felt endless exhaustion surge toward him from every direction, like a tide...
His body no longer felt like his own.
In this state of pushing past his limits, Wang Feng felt as though he were in close contact with the Grim Reaper...
That was indeed the case. When a little boy who had never exercised suddenly ran at such high intensity, it was easy for him to suffocate or die from exhaustion.
But...
It was precisely then that a gentle energy slowly spread from Wang Feng's heart to every part of his body.
The sensation was a hundred times more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring!
His muscles and joints, worn down by the sudden high-intensity exercise, along with every other part of his body, quickly began to recover...
Like being reborn through fire, everything seemed to be renewed as this energy washed over him. Even his cells seemed to have been given new life, becoming full of vitality.
"This feels incredible..."
Wang Feng nearly cried out... It was just as true that the worse he had felt a moment ago, the better he felt now.
What's more, he could almost feel firsthand how every part of his body grew stronger as it was washed by the energy released by the Meteor Tear!
More than ten minutes later.
Wang Feng opened his eyes and suddenly pushed down with all four limbs, lifting himself straight up.
"After my body surpasses its limits... it gets stronger. This Meteor Tear really is powerful. Even without knowing any cultivation techniques... it's more than enough to make me stronger and stronger!"
Wang Feng rubbed his hands together, feeling himself grow visibly stronger. "Not enough. It seems there's a faint energy flowing through my body... Could it be absorbing energy automatically?"
Wang Feng rubbed his lower abdomen.
He felt a warm current there...
It wandered through his whole body, and it seemed to be doing so automatically...
"Right now, I feel like I could knock down a seven- or eight-year-old with one punch... and that was only two hours of training..."
Wang Feng clenched his fists, bursting with excitement. "But the stronger I get, the harder it'll be to surpass my body's limits... This warm current should be the key to Innate Full Soul Power! Could it be Soul Power?"
"Forget it. I'll keep training! I'll keep surpassing my limits!"
A series of panting sounds came from the grove again.
The next morning.
At dawn, Tang San had already washed up. Controlling his breathing as he went, he ran steadily out of the village gate.
Seeing the small hill in the distance, so familiar by now, Tang San smiled faintly. Then his gaze fell on the boulder nearby, and he froze.
"Huh? Where's Brother Feng?"
Tang San asked in surprise.
Usually, at this time, he could see Brother Feng almost every day, lying on that boulder like a fish hauled out of the water and left to dry.
He even had a strand of Blue Silver Grass in his mouth.
How come he was missing today?
What a strange thing.
Tang San thought to himself, looking around. Then he suddenly spotted a familiar figure in the grove ahead, leaning against a tree trunk with a strand of Blue Silver Grass still in his mouth.
His eyes were half closed, and he looked perfectly at ease.
"Brother Feng, why have you changed positions today?"
Tang San walked over and asked curiously, "Those uneven marks on the boulder should have been flattened by you lying on it. They shouldn't be digging into you, should they?"
"..." Wang Feng raised his head and opened his eyes, looking at Tang San.
Suddenly, at that moment, Tang San felt that there was something different about Brother Feng.
He couldn't put it into words.
Though Brother Feng's eyes were still lazy, they now held a trace of sharpness. It was like how his dad was usually lazy and languid, but when he was forging iron, a keen glint would occasionally appear in his eyes, leaving Tang San shaken to the core.
It even gave him a slight sense of pressure, and Brother Feng's figure seemed to have grown taller.
"Little San, people have to keep moving upward. It's about time your Brother Feng moved somewhere else."
Wang Feng said calmly.
After training all night, just as the sun was about to rise, he had finally surpassed his own limits for the second time. Once more, the energy spilling from the Meteor Tear had washed through his entire body.
He had grown stronger!
"Then, want to train with me today?"
Tang San smiled and pointed at the hill ahead. "But, Brother Feng, you haven't trained in a long time. You should probably start with the basics, like jogging..."
Just then, Wang Feng patted Tang San's shoulder with a solemn air, his voice somewhat low.
"Little San, actually, I haven't told you these past few years... I conquered that hill a long time ago."
Hearing this, Tang San was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing to himself.
Bullshit!
Brother Feng, you've spent these past few years lying down there every day, watching me train. Did you conquer the air?
That hill is at least a hundred meters high, and incredibly rugged. Even if you trained with me every day, you might not be able to climb it.
Tang San knew that since he had practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill, his physical constitution had long since surpassed that of his peers. That was why he could climb up there with ease.
After thinking it over, Tang San said cautiously:
"Um, Brother Feng... It's already light out..."
"..." Wang Feng.
So you think I'm sleep-talking?
The corner of Wang Feng's mouth twitched. He smiled calmly and strode toward the hill, radiating an air of utter confidence.
"Watch closely, Xiao San! Your Brother Feng never brags!"
Wang Feng laughed loudly. His hands clamped onto the rocks on the hillside like a pair of pincers. He pushed off with one foot and quickly climbed up the hill.
Seeing this, Tang San's eyes widened. He stared in disbelief at...