The Empty City!

After warming up for about half an hour in the back hills, Fang Can started home.

On the way, he made a rough calculation of the physical abilities he had just displayed.

His strength was around 1.5 tons, and his top speed was 18 meters per second.

Starting from a standstill, he could reach his top speed and run 100 meters in under seven seconds.

His body could also maintain excellent flexibility while being even tougher than solid wood.

Under direct sunlight, he could sustain an all-out fight for at least three hours.

These various feats proved that he had reached a terrifying, inhuman level.

In the ancient civilization before the Great Cataclysm, when there were no divine miracles, it would have taken at least tens of thousands of lives to wear someone like Fang Can down through sheer numbers.

Of course, that was with ample sunlight.

On a cloudy, moonless night, if Fang Can fought to the death without retreating, he could kill two or three thousand people at most before he ran out of strength.

"Too bad. Against those Superpowered people, this level is nowhere near enough to stand a chance. I'm still not strong enough." Fang Can shook his head slightly to himself.

Every Superpowered person's abilities were unfathomably strange. No matter how powerful someone was, they could never be certain they could take on the whole world alone.

No one knew whether there was some ability that happened to counter their own.

Looking up at the bright moon that had appeared in the sky after the sun sank in the west, Fang Can tilted his head slightly. "Moonlight... is just reflected sunlight, isn't it?"

At that thought, he felt the rate at which his body converted energy increase a little.

But since most of the light was scattered and refracted, he absorbed it far more slowly than direct sunlight.

Feeling the change in his body, Fang Can couldn't help laughing. "Man, it's all about mindset!"

The journey passed without incident. After walking a few kilometers, Fang Can opened the door and saw a woman who looked like a fairy, sitting cross-legged on the cold tiled floor, cultivating beneath the silvery moonlight streaming through the window.

Using the moonlight as cover, Fang Can casually took a look at her face as he closed the door. She was breathtakingly beautiful.

To be honest, when he'd first met the girl, he'd seriously suspected that fate had arranged their meeting with some ulterior motive.

He'd almost thought she'd shown up at his door to throw herself at him.

That notion had even made Fang Can doubt himself.

Was he so starved for affection that even fate couldn't stand it and had decided to play matchmaker for him?

Was his life about to turn into some erotic-game plot like "Oh no, I'm surrounded by beautiful girls" or "My girlfriend came from another world"?

He shook his head, clearing those thoughts away, and prepared to ignore the girl and continue tempering his body indoors.

But Jiang Ning'an seemed to sense his return. She stopped cultivating and slowly opened her eyes. "You're back."

Her expression was calm, but seeing that Fang Can hadn't reported her had still come as a relief.

After all, even though she had chosen to trust Fang Can, the instinctive suspicion she felt toward someone she'd known for only one night still surfaced from time to time.

Now, though, Fang Can's actions proved she hadn't bet wrong. The stiffness between them eased a little.

"Mm. Looks like you didn't go out today." Fang Can nodded approvingly. "I'll teach you some basic things about the modern world. Come with me."

Jiang Ning'an obediently nodded and followed Fang Can into the bedroom.

But as she approached him, her brows furrowed slightly. She sensed a faint, inexplicable dissonance, as though Fang Can's martial arts had made a qualitative leap overnight.

"That's impossible. I must be imagining it," Jiang Ning'an told herself.

Tempering the body took painstaking, gradual effort. Even someone as exceptionally talented as her had trained for a whole year before managing to perfect her flesh and blood. Getting stronger overnight was simply impossible.

"There's no way this guy really achieved all that in seven days... right? Surely not?" Jiang Ning'an thought, feeling a little absurd.

In theory and in practice, such a thing was absolutely impossible! It just couldn't happen!

Suppressing the strange impression that had just crossed her mind, the girl followed Fang Can into the bedroom. She saw him press a button on a metal box, and the next moment, it lit up.

"What is this?" She stared intently at the computer tower. She'd long wanted to learn about this world's ingenious contraptions.

"Don't rush. You'll find out in a moment." Fang Can casually turned on the computer and picked a video from a streaming site titled "How a Time Traveler Can Pass for a Modern Human."

Humanity had truly taken absurdity to the extreme. They had created every kind of content imaginable.

But Fang Can needed a way to ease a native of another world into modern society, and this video was perfect for the job.

As Jiang Ning'an watched, dumbfounded, Fang Can sat her down in the gaming chair. "Watch this video all the way through over the next hour, and you should get a basic understanding of this country."

Jiang Ning'an nodded, still bewildered. She watched the video creator, who was solemnly delivering a comedic performance, and began to study in earnest.

Fang Can watched Jiang Ning'an learn about modern life, occasionally reacting with expressions like "I see," "Wow," and "That's amazing."

"I have to admit, the idea that the two worlds share a language is ridiculous, but it sure is convenient in a situation like this. We don't have to waste time just learning how to communicate."

Fang Can shook his head with a smile, planning to use videos to teach Jiang Ning'an how to use various modern appliances after she finished watching.

"But... I probably don't need to teach her how to use the toilet, right?" Fang Can mused.

After all, the Mortal Shedding Body was itself a process of becoming divine. A martial artist who had completely shed their mortal body returned from acquired to innate. Aside from those in certain special systems, most could stop eating ordinary food.

This might come as a huge disappointment to certain people online, but in theory, a beautiful girl who had reached the Mortal Shedding Body really wouldn't poop, would she?

With all sorts of thoughts circling through his mind, Fang Can realized he'd been thinking too much lately. He left the room and began slowly practicing the Sixty-Six Tiger Devour Fist Techniques.

Although the Tiger Fiend Sect's cultivation method on his status panel had been changed, its fist techniques did have their merits when it came to training the body. So Fang Can began practicing the Tiger Fiend Fist.

Meanwhile, all the Superpowered people in Z City received orders from their superiors in the Dragon Group to evacuate the city overnight.

Though they had no idea what the higher-ups were planning, these people still packed up their three wives, four concubines, and seventy-two imperial consorts, along with the rest of their families, and left in an orderly fashion.

In just one night, Z City had become a deserted city for Superpowered people. On the surface, it looked unchanged, but in reality, they were all gone.