Breaking the World Record

Inside the Fitness Club, under Smith's skeptical gaze, Bai Ye performed squats with trembling legs.

Based on his previous experience of reaching his physical limit, Bai Ye knew he would probably collapse after at most ten more reps. But unlike before, he now had two strands of internal energy within him.

When he felt that his stamina was nearly spent, he continued doing squats with difficulty while the internal energy in his Dantian flowed through his Meridians toward the acupoints in his legs. After circulating through his body once, the fatigue in his legs immediately eased.

It really works. Bai Ye was delighted, marveling that it truly could restore stamina as Yue Buqun's notes had described. He then calmed himself and began observing the state of his internal energy.

After circulating through one cycle, the two strands of internal energy in his body had directly consumed one-tenth of their strength—roughly two wisps. In other words, he could recover his stamina nine more times.

His body slightly restored, Bai Ye continued squatting. After enduring another twenty squats, his muscles reached their limit once more, and he again guided the internal energy in his Dantian downward to replenish his stamina.

Under Smith's ghost-stricken gaze, Bai Ye's squatting speed would always slow to a certain point before suddenly accelerating, then gradually slowing again, repeating over and over.

What's going on? Did this kid take the wrong medicine? How did he change so much? If he does a few more, he could enter the Guinness World Record!

Smith had already lost count of how many times Bai Ye had astonished him since they met. This kid always managed to pull out some new trick.

Finally, under Smith's somewhat numb gaze, Bai Ye exhausted the last wisp of internal energy in his Dantian. Unable to hold on any longer, his legs gave out and he collapsed onto the Yoga Mat.

You completed 663 bodyweight squats in total...

Repeat 62 times to increase the Strength cap by 0.1.

Repeat 32 times to increase the Constitution cap by 0.1.

Repeat 92 times to increase the Spirit cap by 0.1.

Sure enough, training while at my physical limit is several times more effective than usual, and internal energy can extend the number of times I train in that state. It's like I've directly activated a multiple-experience card. Bai Ye finally confirmed his guess.

In that case, I'll first train my body to its limit, then use internal energy to recover, repeating the process. Before school on Monday, I should have enough time to raise my three attributes by another 0.1.

As Bai Ye pondered, he sat cross-legged on the Yoga Mat and slowly restored the true qi he had consumed that morning, one strand at a time, while Smith watched from the side without understanding what he was doing.

Compared with raising the upper limit of his internal energy, restoring lost true qi was much faster. On top of that, the amount of true qi he had was pitifully small to begin with, so he fully recovered in just a few minutes.

After refilling his internal energy, he looked at Smith and said, "My legs have no strength left. Please carry me up."

"Uh, what do you want to train now?" Smith asked.

Bai Ye did not answer. He merely pointed at the Bench Press Rack beside him.

And so, Bai Ye steadily improved himself at his own pace, continuously using different training exercises to challenge his physiological limits.

Whenever he could no longer continue training, he used internal energy to ease the strain. Whenever his internal energy was exhausted, he ended his training and recovered. Once it was replenished, he switched to a new exercise. Through constant training, he gradually adapted to the pain of working out.

At night, he returned to his room to cultivate the Purple Mist Divine Skill and raise the upper limit of his true qi.

After 18 hours: You completed 1,392 bodyweight squats in total. Constitution attribute cap increased to 1.3!

After 24 hours: You completed 831 weighted push-ups with 30 kg. Strength attribute cap increased to 1.4!

Finally, after going twenty-seven consecutive hours without sleep, the utterly exhausted Bai Ye stared straight ahead and threw a standard straight punch at the strength-testing machine, his gaze incomparably resolute.

The instant his fist struck, a thunderous boom echoed throughout the entire gym, while the number on the force gauge began rapidly climbing.

200→300→400→500→600

At last, under Smith's disbelieving gaze, the number on the force gauge stopped at 672 pounds.

At the same time, a cool sensation surged into Bai Ye's brain, clearing his mind. Even without looking at the Stat Panel, he knew that his Spirit attribute had risen to 1.4.

"My God, how is this possible? 672 pounds—it's already surpassed the world record!" Smith exclaimed, while Bai Ye silently looked at his attributes.

Name: Bai Ye

Lifespan: 18/120

Strength: 1.4+

Constitution: 1.3+

Spirit: 1.4+

Charm: 1.4+

Unused Attribute Points: 0.5

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Just 1.4 Strength can break the world record for ordinary humans? Bai Ye felt that the numbers on the panel were somewhat off.

When his Strength had been 1.2, he had not even been able to hit half that number. Yet an increase of merely 0.2 had more than doubled his physical capabilities.

Moreover, through his investigations over the past two days, he had discovered some hidden information about the panel. For example, the Strength category was not limited to muscular power; it also included movement speed.

Constitution represented the body's resilience, cultivation speed, and healing speed.

As for the Spirit attribute, it represented willpower, neural reaction speed, control, memory, observation, and comprehension.

He had come to this conclusion because when Bai Ye's Constitution increased, his cultivation speed for the Purple Mist Divine Skill increased as well.

After his Constitution reached 1.3, it took only fifteen minutes to condense a strand of Purple Mist True Qi, reaching the level of the peerless genius described in Yue Buqun's notes.

But what surprised him even more was that his entire body seemed to have become connected as one. When he did squats, the strength in his arms also increased from training his legs, and the same applied to cultivation speed.

In other words, just because he had not trained his dick did not mean his dick had not been trained!

It looks like this Stat Panel still has many secrets waiting to be uncovered. Why doesn't it come with an instruction manual or something? Bai Ye thought with some dissatisfaction.

Bai Ye then said to Smith, "Let's stop here for today. I have school on Monday, so I might not be able to come train until after classes. You can arrange your own time before three o'clock."

"O-okay," Smith replied cautiously.

After witnessing Bai Ye's enormous changes, Smith had already begun to regard Bai Ye as a mutant.

Because of the propaganda spread by human governments, mutants had a reputation as foul as rats in the street. Smith had even hesitated over whether to report Bai Ye to the police and have him sent to the Mutant Containment Facility.

Of course, it was only a passing thought. Bai Ye was now his client. Watching him train was easy work aside from the occasional surprise, and Smith still got paid. There was absolutely no need to meddle in other people's business.

After leaving the Fitness Club, Bai Ye walked straight home. His body was in excellent condition, and his Spirit was especially vigorous after the breakthrough. Mere physical training no longer satisfied him; there were some ideas he wanted to try.