Insane Finger Pull-Ups

"Can you really sneak in a workout during class?"

Chen Jue looked surprised. He leaned closer for a look. The grip strengthener was shaped like a pair of tweezers and about the size of a phone. It would fit easily into a pocket, making it very portable.

What made Chen Jue feel most ashamed, though, was that even with an Attribute Panel, he still lacked the self-discipline of exercise enthusiasts like Yu Jie.

Yu Jie even made use of the little time he had during class.

Since getting the Attribute Panel, Chen Jue had wasted most of his time socializing. He hadn't devoted himself to exercise like this at all.

He'd even only gone to the gym a few times, and barely trained while he was there.

Chen Jue felt he still had a long way to go before he could get the body he dreamed of, like Yu Jie's.

"No wonder this guy has such a great physique!"

Chen Jue marveled to himself. He decided that from now on, he'd be a man of action. He took out his phone, searched online for the same grip strengthener, and placed an order.

Yu Jie flashed a sunny smile. Then he started telling Chen Jue about the joys of rock climbing. As an instructor at a climbing club, it was his job to share his experience with visitors and help them develop an interest in the sport.

If he could recruit a few members along the way, Yu Jie and the junior student he'd brought along could earn a decent commission.

So, while he had the chance, Yu Jie demonstrated the arm strength of a climber, as well as his incredible finger strength.

Yu Jie extended his right hand and curled his index finger around a climbing hold. Then he flexed one arm, the muscle fibers in it tensing tight, and pulled himself up into the air.

He did a one-finger pull-up half a meter off the ground!

"Holy shit!"

"That's insane!"

Chen Jue stared, his eyes wide.

With his current build, even doing a pull-up with both hands on a bar was difficult.

Doing such a challenging upper-body exercise with just one finger was unthinkable.

Most incredible of all, Yu Jie managed to do five perfect pull-ups in a row using a single finger!

When he finished, he let go and landed on his feet. Then, with a calm expression, he asked, "Brother Jue, what do you think? Pretty impressive, huh?"

"Damn!"

"It's like you're cheating!" Chen Jue nodded, feeling intensely envious.

With arm and finger strength that terrifying, if Yu Jie used it for darts, couldn't he easily punch a hole through a wooden board from dozens of meters away?

"That move I just did is called a finger pull-up. It's an essential skill for professional rock climbers."

"I can do ten with one finger on my right hand, and that's my limit. My left hand is a little weaker; I can manage seven or eight. But there are some foreign experts who can do forty finger pull-ups in a row as a warm-up. That's what you call incredible!" Yu Jie patiently explained.

"Forty finger pull-ups?"

"What kind of superhumans are these?"

"Did they inject themselves with super serum?"

"How does it feel like they're even more overpowered than me?"

Hearing such an absurd number left Chen Jue dumbfounded.

He felt like an ordinary person who had suddenly wandered into a world full of freaks.

No wonder people online said you shouldn't try to challenge someone else's livelihood with your hobby.

The gap between them was simply unimaginable to ordinary people!

After getting a lesson from a young man at the climbing club, Chen Jue left the sports business park in a daze.

On the way back to the talent apartment, all sorts of strange thoughts raced through his mind.

It was as if Yu Jie's finger pull-ups had kicked open the door to a whole new world.

Chen Jue figured that if the human body could perform so many incredible feats—if a single finger could lift a body weighing over a hundred pounds—then what would happen if he trained every finger to that level and used all five at once? Just how absurdly strong would his hands become?

And if he extended that training to his whole body... the possibilities were almost too incredible to imagine!

If an ordinary person had these ideas, they would be completely impractical.

But Chen Jue was different. He had an Attribute Panel that could correct his posture and monitor his body.

With proper training, he had a chance of reaching Yu Jie's or Li Chaoqun's level.

"My horizons were too narrow."

"Why become a darts player?"

"Wouldn't it be better to become a superhuman?"

The more Chen Jue thought about it, the more excited he got. His imagination ran wild, and he almost ran a red light while driving because he wasn't paying attention. Luckily, he didn't hit any cars or pedestrians.

After putting aside those impractical fantasies, Chen Jue returned to the talent apartment, still in a daze.

But the moment he stepped into his little apartment, he couldn't sit still.

Starting today, he was going to change his habit of dragging his feet!

First, he needed to set himself a plan and some goals.

First, he definitely had to keep doing his "work" at Hengtong—that was currently his only source of income.

Second, he had to work on his video-making side gig. It was the only way he could think of to increase his income right now.

Third, exercise had to become the top priority in his daily routine.

As for his most important goal, if he wanted to pursue a beautiful, discerning woman like Wu Fang, he had to change himself from the inside out.

He'd set his poor financial situation aside for the moment.

Making big money was an age-old challenge. Without luck and fate on his side, it wouldn't matter even if he risked his life.

Besides, there was no rule in this world that poor people couldn't date rich people.

But if Chen Jue couldn't improve his looks and physique, he'd struggle to get past the first hurdle of making a good impression on a woman.

"Pretty girls really are the motivation that drives lecherous men to improve!" Chen Jue silently encouraged himself.

He collected a large package from the parcel lockers downstairs and hauled it upstairs with great effort. When he opened it, he found 500 clay petal-shaped skipping stones.

Along with the phone mount he'd already received, two large power banks, and an ancient-style face mask, he now had everything he needed to get his side gig and exercise plan underway.

He packed over a hundred skipping stones into a backpack and headed to the nearby park again.

After the recent incident in which a vicious dog had bitten someone, which had caused quite a stir, the park was much emptier during the day.

He walked around and found a suitable spot for stone skipping.

It was the park's central scenic lake. It covered quite a large area, with plenty of landscaping and lawns and trees on all sides.

In the pavilion in the distance, he could see a group of old men taking a break and playing chess, as well as a group of older women doing square dancing.

"Retired people have it so good!"

"That's what you call living."

Chen Jue looked around and sighed.

He set down his bags and started fiddling with the phone mount according to the instructions. Once he'd found the right angle, he started recording.

"I'll try filming a few clips first."

Chen Jue put on the mask, picked up a few ordinary flat stones nearby, and threw them toward the camera.

Since they weren't specially made stones, even with his [Mastery] in stone skipping, they could only skip around thirty times at most.

He returned to the mount and checked the footage he'd just recorded.

It was good enough for now, so Chen Jue adjusted the camera angle slightly and switched to the clay petal-shaped skipping stones.

"No wonder these were invented by a world record holder!"

"This stone feels great."

"It's better than all the ones I bought before!"

Chen Jue weighed one in his hand and couldn't help praising it.

His [Stone Skipping] skill had already reached the highest level, and he'd long since mastered every technical aspect of this recreational sport.

Just by casually weighing the new stone in his hand, he could roughly guess how well it would perform.

And sure enough!

Chen Jue turned and threw it at the standard twenty-degree angle. The petal-shaped stone started spinning across the surface at a ridiculously fast speed, then followed a curved trajectory, lightly tapping the water again and again.

The stone bounced at a height barely above the water's surface, making Chen Jue's head spin!

Good grief!

On his very first try, the clay petal-shaped stone flew nearly a hundred meters!

As for the dense rings of ripples spreading across the lake, there were too many to count. He'd have to review the phone footage to get an accurate number.

"This is so ridiculously bizarre!"

"Even more bizarre than when I first got the skill to Mastery!"

Chen Jue opened his mouth and sucked in a breath of crisp autumn air.

Knowing that he'd produced such an astonishing throw himself filled him with a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

After half an hour of stone skipping and recording footage, Chen Jue was sweating all over.

The motion might not have a very wide range, but the sustained bursts of force still took a lot of stamina.

Fortunately, his hard work paid off. Besides getting footage he was happy with, he'd also earned 0.01 free attribute points from the Attribute Panel.

Including what he'd accumulated before, he now had 0.03 free attribute points.

He planned to save up to 0.10 and then merge [Stone Skipping] and [Darts].

As for improving his physical attributes, Chen Jue planned to work on that gradually through exercise.

He'd only just started training, so there was plenty of room for improvement. Saving up more points might come in handy later.

It was like saving up resources in a game. Once he had enough, he could buy a major upgrade and turn the tide. Just imagining it got Chen Jue excited.

After sitting down to rest for about ten minutes, he uploaded the footage to a video-editing app and put together a simple edit. Then he added some AI narration generated by the software and some fun captions, and his short stone-skipping video was ready.

"Done!"

"Now for a title. I'll just post it."

"It's only a short video. No need to overthink it."

Chen Jue thought for a moment, added the title [Unique Skill: Stone Skipping], and uploaded the simply edited video to Master of Unique Skills' accounts on Douyin and Bilibili.

Chen Jue had no idea whether the video would go viral.

Who could predict the future?

"Anyway, I've done everything I can. The rest is up to fate!"

Chen Jue gave himself a pep talk, packed up his filming equipment, and, since it was still morning, began practicing the Twelve Taiji Forms by the lake.

First update~

I took the baby to the hospital during the day, so the update was delayed.

The flu has been spreading a lot lately, and we caught it by accident.

We have to go again tomorrow, so there'll be fewer updates over the next couple of days. They'll probably come a little later in the evening. Sorry about that.

And I'd like to ask for your votes again~

I saw someone complaining about running the red light, so I've revised that.