Leveling Up in the Real World
Chapter 171

The cicada sensed it before the autumn wind stirred

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As the plane flew away and the faint sense of danger receded, Chen Jue's pores relaxed, and he let out a long breath. The heat rising from his body actually melted the falling ice and snow into vapor.

That series of explosive movements had consumed considerable stamina. Through [Inner Vision], Chen Jue discovered that many of his capillaries had been damaged during the intense exertion. Fortunately, his constitution attribute was high enough, and his recovery was extraordinary. Those damaged capillaries had already begun slowly repairing themselves.

Besides that, Chen Jue also discovered that his heavenly sensitivity gave him timely warnings when facing firearms such as handguns, displaying the keen vigilance of "the cicada sensing it before the autumn wind stirred."

Back then, the founder of Cheng Style Eight Trigrams Palm, the venerable Cheng Tinghua, had failed to dodge in time and ultimately died under a hail of gunfire from foreign devils.

Although Chen Jue had faced only one gun, a modern handgun was countless times more powerful than the flintlocks of that earlier era.

Moreover, the foreign devil Zhao Zhen whom Chen Jue had faced was an expert who had cultivated Yoga Mahamudra to a realm where his physical body rivaled Shakyamuni's.

An expert like that armed with a handgun was definitely more dangerous than facing ten guns firing at once.

Fortunately, Chen Jue's agility attribute had already surpassed 3. With the additional status bonus from [Flower-Piercing Butterfly], his physical reactions and ability to evade were several times greater than those of a human at the absolute limit.

He could not move faster than a bullet, but he only needed to be faster than Zhao Zhen. That was how he had escaped those successive shots.

As for taking bullets head-on with his flesh and blood, Chen Jue did not believe

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