Yet after leveling up once more, the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill did not display Lv3 as Chen Jue had expected. Instead, it showed the word "Perfection," and even the skill proficiency bar after it had disappeared!
[Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill (Perfection)]
"Did I just grind it to max level?"
"It can't level up anymore?"
Chen Jue was astonished. This was his first skill to reach level 3, yet it had already hit its maximum!
In addition, when Chen Jue focused his gaze on the skill, a note appeared beneath it:
[Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill (Perfection)]: Grants the additional status One Qi, Rising Sun Birth. [One Qi, Rising Sun Birth]: Keeps the body brimming with energy like the newly risen morning sun, increases resistance to fatigue, sustains vigorous qi and blood, and slows aging. Note: This status will automatically weaken if the player loses his primal yang.
The attribute panel's first perfected skill had been born, and it had even produced a miraculous bonus status. Chen Jue was delighted by the unexpected reward.
"Almost two days of grinding proficiency finally paid off!"
Of course, the reason Chen Jue had maxed out this Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill so quickly was that his physical condition had already reached the state described as "concentrating your qi and attaining softness, can you become like an infant?"
His skin was fair with a rosy glow, and his complexion resembled a baby's. Naturally, practicing this Child's-Boy Skill yielded twice the results for half the effort.
To prevent the breakthrough from depleting his body, Chen Jue went back and drank the remaining third of the medicinal decoction in the pot. After practicing his perfected Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill a few more times, his attributes stood as follows:
Player: Chen Jue Age: 27 Health index: 96% Strength: 1.06 Agility: 1.05 Intelligence: 1.23 Constitution: 1.74 Skills mastered: [Boat Boxing Lv2 (12/500)] [Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic Level 1 (10/200)] [Eight Immortals Stance Lv2 (9/500)] [Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill Level 0 (2/100)] [Internal Strength Child Prodigy Skill (Perfection)] Unallocated attribute points: 0.33
After practicing the Child's-Boy Skill all day, his constitution had increased by another 0.05, and even that increase had been driven by the skill's breakthrough to perfection.
He had thought that with the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction's support, this breakthrough would raise it by at least 0.10. Instead, the gain had been cut roughly in half.
Clearly, the higher these panel attributes rose, the less efficiently they would increase.
Fortunately, he had also accumulated quite a few unallocated attribute points, which made up for Chen Jue's disappointment in another way.
Still, seeing that the Child's-Boy Skill counted as perfected at level 3 made Chen Jue start worrying about his other skills.
Boat Boxing and the Eight Immortals Stance were both relatively easy martial arts to practice, and their proficiency increased very quickly. They would probably be much like the Child's-Boy Skill, reaching their maximum after just one more level.
The Muscle-Tendon Change Classic and the Impact-Conditioning Skill, on the other hand, gained proficiency extremely slowly. Level 3 probably would not be their upper limit!
After spending two days bringing this Shaolin Internal Strength Child Prodigy Skill to perfection, Chen Jue felt full of vitality. Even at night, he was just as energetic as he was during the day.
After eating a large pot of bone broth with rice, Chen Jue checked the time. It was already eight in the evening.
The breakthrough in the Child's-Boy Skill had taken longer than expected and disrupted his evening training plan, so Chen Jue decided not to practice his boxing or the Eight Immortals Stance that night.
After resting for half an hour, he felt that his digestive motility and digestion had improved dramatically. The meal he had only just eaten already seemed to have settled and begun digesting.
Presumably, the Child's-Boy Skill's buff had enhanced his body's ability to absorb nutrients.
He picked up the pair of 20 kg dumbbells from the floor and lifted them a few times. Chen Jue felt they were a little light.
With his attributes increasing day after day, the basic fitness equipment he had ordered online was already becoming inadequate.
Apart from the sit-up bench and pull-up bar, which still had some effect, these 20 kg dumbbells felt no different from lifting a sheet of paper in Chen Jue's hands. They no longer did anything to train his body or increase his attributes.
Putting down the dumbbells, he opened Taobao on his phone and searched around. He found a seller specializing in custom fitness dumbbells with good sales and service, then asked, "Can you make a custom dumbbell weighing 200 kilograms apiece?"
It was evening, when plenty of people browsed Taobao and sales peaked for the various stores.
After seeing Chen Jue's question, the seller first replied with a confused Black man meme marked with three question marks, then said, "Dear customer! Do you really want a dumbbell weighing 200 kilograms apiece? The 120-kilogram electroplated dumbbells in our store are already the heaviest available online."
"Even a world weightlifting champion probably couldn't lift a 200-kilogram dumbbell!"
"At 200 kilograms, that's not a dumbbell anymore. That's a barbell!"
"Dear customer! Are you sure you want a custom dumbbell?"
Chen Jue: "..."
Chen Jue knew the figure he had given might have startled the seller. But based on his training over the past few days and how those 20 kg dumbbells felt in his hands, he could roughly estimate that only something five times heavier-100 kg-might approach his one-arm lifting limit.
Besides, his strength was not static. As time passed, his strength attribute would keep increasing, and by then, he would probably have outgrown even 100 kg dumbbells.
Rather than waste money buying them one after another, he might as well go straight for a custom pair of 200 kg dumbbells!
After some thought, Chen Jue sent another message. "Yes, I want them custom-made! Aren't your dumbbells adjustable? Just add a few more plates and make each plate a little bigger. Wouldn't that bring them up to 200 kg?"
Hunk Fitness Equipment Factory: "All right, dear customer! We'll go with the weight you requested, but we don't have a product template like that on hand. I'm only a customer service representative, so I'll need to ask the factory whether they can make them. If they can, I'll get back to you right away! Please wait five minutes!"
Apparently unwilling to turn away a sale, the seller soon sent Chen Jue a sample image.
It looked little different from the 120 kg electroplated dumbbells listed in the store, except that four more plates had been added and the template had been enlarged. The price, however, had increased substantially.
A custom 120 kg electroplated dumbbell cost only 1,300 yuan apiece with free shipping. But the pair of 200 kg dumbbells Chen Jue ordered cost him 2,000 yuan each, with shipping excluded. He was really splurging!
Because the items were so heavy, shipping cost another 300 yuan.
However, the seller promised delivery within two days, with express delivery available even to the countryside. That left Chen Jue extremely satisfied.
Besides this pair of monstrous dumbbells, Chen Jue also searched for weighted training gear. He spent over a thousand yuan on a weighted vest that could be loaded up to 50 kg, then ordered a set of wrist and ankle sandbag weights totaling 20 kg. Everything was sent by expedited SF Express delivery, which cost him another 200 yuan in shipping.
"The new vest plus the wrist and ankle sandbags make seventy kilograms of added weight."
"That should be enough for a while!"
"If it really isn't enough, I'll just put those dumbbells in a backpack and wear it when I go jogging."
Chen Jue felt he was quite the clever fellow, finding flexible ways to save money. After closing Taobao, he went online and found a martial arts documentary, intending to watch it to pass the time before bed.
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