Xu Shunkang sneered. "'Mastering it'? It's still too early for that. Let's watch a little longer."
Meanwhile, Li Huiyuan had also noticed the changes in Lin Yi, and a captivating gleam burst from her large, bright eyes.
But she tactfully refrained from disturbing him.
Just then, however, she heard Lin Yi's voice. "Li... Huihuizi, let a little more weight down."
"Oh! Okay~" Li Huiyuan began adjusting the weight again.
"A little more... a little more... good! That's it. That'll do!"
Li Huiyuan immediately held it steady, inwardly feeling a little startled.
Lin Yi didn't know, but she did: the weight on him had already reached one and one-third Cloth Bags.
"Huff, huff, huff..."
At that moment, Lin Yi's back was bent at almost forty-five degrees. His chest and back were soaked, and he looked like a brick-hauling god of war on a construction crew, inching forward at a turtle's pace, one solid footstep at a time.
Sweat beads the size of soybeans ran down his nose and jaw before dripping from his chin and hitting the floor with a patter...
Strangely, those drops evaporated on the spot as soon as they landed, turning into faint wisps of vapor, as though the Gymnastics Hall's floor were scorching hot.
"Step... step... step..."
Sweat soaked his bangs, which hung like a curtain over his eyes and slightly blurred his vision. Unfortunately, he had no hand to spare to brush his hair aside, so he could only endure the discomfort and move forward little by little.
As a result, even he failed to realize that sky-blue vapor was spreading around his body.
Not far away, Boss's attention fell to his feet instead. Through the faint Sky Blue Steam, she saw the mistlike "ashes" drifting over Lin Yi's shadow.
With the appearance of the Sky