Metal Eater

There was little to say about the next two days.

By day, they traveled while being hunted by Flame Scorpions; by night, they rode the Moonchasing Dark Tortoise.

Lu Han joined them just before "daybreak" on the first night, followed by Bai De, Zhao Yanlong, and Zhao Yanhu. Now they were riding the Moonchasing Dark Tortoise toward Feng Laixian's location.

Everyone was delighted after Zhang Ping handed out the weapons. Over the next two nights, they kept studying how to use them, occasionally even sparring on the tortoise's back. The clash of weapons rang out constantly.

One thing worth mentioning was that the differences between individual Awakened were truly enormous.

During the day, Zhang Ping discovered through Analysis that exposure to the blazing sun actually slowed Liu Sishan's leveling speed. Fortunately, she usually wore the Ice Mask and rarely spent much time under the sun, so her progress had not stalled completely.

Zhao Yanhu had it even worse. Eating meat slowed his leveling speed, which was why his level had been lower than Zhao Yanlong's despite his greater natural talent.

In short, Zhao Yanhu could only eat vegetarian food. He could not eat meat.

Besides Liu Sishan's and Zhao Yanhu's strange constitutions, Zhang Ping discovered some even stranger traits over two days of study. Whenever Bai De laughed heartily, his leveling speed slowed by a minuscule amount.

A full day of hearty laughter would add about a minute to the time he needed to level up.

After learning about these bizarre issues, everyone became rather inhibited. Whatever they wanted to do, they had to ask Zhang Ping whether they could do it.

"Zhang Ping, I need to take a shit. Could you... come with me? What if taking a shit..." Zhang Shouzhong sidled up to Zhang Ping and spoke in