As Long as You Train, You Can Grow Stronger

Chapter 2: As Long as You Train, You Can Grow Stronger

Name: Bai Ye

Lifespan: 18/76

Strength: 1.2+

Constitution: 1.1+

Spirit: 1.2+

Charm: 1.3+

Unused Attribute Points: 0.4

Talent 1: Never-Ending: No limits, no bottlenecks, no weaknesses. Work hard, and you can grow stronger!

Talent 2: Strongest's Leisure: For every point an attribute increases, an additional 0.1 unused Attribute Points will be gained.

Description: None

The entire Stat Panel was simple and easy to understand, without any explanations. Looking at the 0.4 under Unused Attribute Points, Bai Ye hesitated and did not allocate them immediately.

After all, he understood the principle of starting with the easy things before tackling the difficult ones. He would wait until his attributes became harder to improve in the later stages before trying to allocate points. For now, he should first test what this talent called Never-Ending could do.

How did that post from my previous life put it again? Training makes you stronger?

Bai Ye looked at the clock hanging on the opposite wall. It was already 8:19, which meant class would start in half an hour.

His high school was about two kilometers away. If he strolled there like before, he would definitely be late.

Why not just run there? Running counts as exercise too. Bai Ye considered it for a moment, then immediately grabbed his backpack, rushed out of his room, and ran toward school.

The cool morning breeze brushed across Bai Ye's cheeks, gradually clearing his mind. Looking at the hurried pedestrians around him, Bai Ye thought, Since I've decided to train, I should naturally take it to the extreme.

The next moment, his steady jog abruptly changed. Amid the astonished gazes of the pedestrians around him, he raced toward school at full speed like a gust of wind.

Two kilometers! For Bai Ye, whose physical condition had always been fairly good, he could jog there in a dozen or so minutes without even getting out of breath.

But sprinting at full speed now was a tremendous test of his willpower, stamina, and endurance.

During the first four hundred meters, the reckless expenditure of energy brought an inexplicable sense of comfort to his mind. There was no discomfort at all as he ran at full speed, and he even felt confident that he could keep running forever.

But Bai Ye's rationality told him that this was merely an illusion created by having abundant energy at the beginning. The real suffering would come in the second half.

After sprinting three hundred meters at full speed, his breathing began to grow slightly ragged, and the illusion of abundant energy started to fade.

His legs gradually became heavier, and his speed began to drop. Sweat started to form on his skin as his body released heat.

By the time he had run eight hundred meters at full speed, he could feel that helpless sensation of his body no longer obeying him.

Every step felt like he was trudging through a muddy swamp. Exhaustion and weakness spread throughout his body. From this point on, his speed plummeted, and he was drenched in sweat.

After fifteen hundred meters, he felt as if his heart were about to leap out of his chest.

Every muscle in his body burned with pain, his breathing was as laborious as pumping a bellows, and every breath brought a distinct ache. Large beads of sweat streamed down his body, while thoughts of giving up kept flooding his mind.

But the one thing that never changed throughout it all was his pair of eyes, still filled with calm.

Nine minutes later, at Midtown High School, under the astonished gazes of the entire class and the teacher already conducting the lesson, Bai Ye struggled to take his final step and planted his foot at the entrance to the Second Year Class One classroom.

Almost the instant Bai Ye entered the classroom, the school bell rang sharply, meaning he was not late after all.

"Good... morning, Teacher." Bai Ye felt pain in his lungs with every breath as he greeted the stunned teacher at the podium in a broken voice.

"Did you run all the way to school? You're covered in sweat. Forget it, go back to your seat first," the teacher said, watching Bai Ye practically shuffle toward his seat.

The teacher watched as the sweating Bai Ye slowly made his way to his seat. Only after he sat down did the lesson continue.

Beside him, a skinny blond boy looked curiously at the panting Bai Ye and whispered, "Bai Ye, what happened to you? Don't tell me you were about to be late, so you ran all the way to the classroom?"

"Mm." Bai Ye gave a perfunctory reply, then glanced at his classmate beside him, Peter Parker.

Having only just awakened the memories of his previous life, he suddenly realized that this chatty classmate beside him was actually the Spider-Man from the movies. Of course, he had not been bitten by a spider yet.

As he dealt with Peter's chatter-like whispered questions, Bai Ye casually opened his Stat Panel, utterly unafraid that anyone around him would notice.

He had already discovered this at home. When he opened the Stat Panel, it did not appear in the mirror, which meant only he could see it.

But after opening the panel, he froze. Several lines of text had appeared in the previously blank Description section.

Description:

You completed a run with a total distance of 2,024 meters and an average pace of 4 minutes 42 seconds per kilometer. Repeat 5,328 times. Your body has sustained 0.12% long-term damage, which can recover naturally when Constitution reaches 1.5.

Strength decreased by 43%. Strength limit increased by 2.7%. Repeat 193 times to increase the Strength limit by 0.1.

Stamina depleted by 74%. Endurance limit increased by 2.2%. Repeat 65 times to increase the Constitution limit by 0.1.

Willpower depleted by 46%. Willpower limit increased by 4.3%. Repeat 356 times to increase the Spirit limit by 0.1.

As long as he repeated it at most 356 times, he could increase all Three-Dimensional Attributes by 0.1?

Bai Ye's eyes gleamed as he looked at the Description section before him. It clearly told him, in a data-driven manner, exactly what he needed to do next.

And this only showed the effects of running. What about other forms of training?

All-out push-ups? All-out sit-ups? All-out squats? Would their training effects be even better?

But it takes more than three hundred repetitions just to increase it by 0.1. Isn't that a little too little? Reaching the level of the Hulk, with hundreds of thousands of Strength, would probably be impossible even in a lifetime. I have to make every second count.

With that thought, Bai Ye, keenly aware that time waited for no one, stood up and raised his hand after recovering some of his strength. "Teacher, I feel a little dizzy. I'd like to go to the infirmary."

The teacher silently looked at Bai Ye, hesitated for a moment, then said, "Peter, take Bai Ye to the infirmary."

"Teacher, there's no need to trouble Peter. I can go by myself," Bai Ye said, shaking his head.

The moment he finished speaking, he stood up and ran out of the classroom under the stunned gazes of the entire class.

Watching Bai Ye sprint away and disappear in an instant, the entire class was dumbfounded. This guy, was he not even going to pretend when skipping class?