Chapter 740: Breakthrough!
One lap!
Two laps!
Three laps!
Drenched in sweat and panting like an ox, Qin Ran moved slower and slower.
But he never stopped.
The stubbornness in his bones would not let him stop, much less give up.
Even when his stamina reached its limit, he kept inching forward, step by step.
Time slipped by, second after second.
From evening to midnight, then on to dawn!
When the light of dawn shone through a gap beside the window and fell across Qin Ran's face, he was already relying entirely on willpower to keep going. His eyes were almost unfocused, yet he still remembered to move his feet. Almost instinctively, he tried to bring his breathing into the rhythm of the [Dawn Knight Body-Tempering Art].
Normally, this would have been exceedingly easy.
At that moment, however, it was anything but.
His severely depleted stamina and mental energy caused him to fail three times in a row.
His attempts even made him stumble as he moved, but just as Qin Ran refused to stop walking, he refused to abandon these attempts.
Again and again.
Until the seventeenth attempt.
Qin Ran finally brought his breathing into the rhythm of the [Dawn Knight Body-Tempering Art].
Thump, thump, thump!
His heart, brimming with Dawn Force, began to beat powerfully. Like drought-stricken earth receiving rain from the heavens, Qin Ran's depleted stamina began recovering at an unimaginable speed.
And it was not just his stamina recovering.
Qin Ran's strength also underwent a monumental change.
His steps, which should have remained slow, began to quicken.
Then they grew faster and faster!
From a brisk walk to a jog, until finally Qin Ran was running flat out.
System notifications appeared on Qin Ran's retinas.
``` [Strength, Constitution checks exceeded restrictions...]
[Strength, Constitution -3 check