A small hole had been forcibly punctured in his skin, and a bead of blood seeped out.
As the steel needle was withdrawn.
The bleeding wound rapidly healed itself.
Within moments, it had clotted and closed.
"My self-healing ability is pretty good. If I keep evolving like this, maybe one day I'll be able to rebuild myself from a drop of blood."
Gu Qing looked at the wound, which had completely stopped bleeding, and felt a flicker of excitement.
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Having finished testing his skin's toughness, he moved on to testing its heat resistance.
Gu Qing took out a lighter. As the flame sprang up, he held his palm directly over it.
Only after more than ten seconds did he feel a faint burning pain in his palm.
"Not bad. My heat resistance is pretty high too. If I run into a fire in the future, I can just charge straight through the flames."
Gu Qing muttered to himself.
Next, he took out some toilet cleaner to test his skin's resistance to corrosion.
He unscrewed the cap and poured a little liquid into his palm.
Several minutes passed, and his palm showed no change, as though it had merely gotten a little wet with clean water.
"This level of acidity can't hurt me anymore. If someone splashes concentrated sulfuric acid on me in the future, as long as I can wipe it off immediately and find water to rinse it thoroughly, I might come out completely unscathed."
With that, Gu Qing put away the toilet cleaner and turned his gaze to a tree ahead.
The tree looked almost as thick as his thigh and was firmly rooted in the ground.
"With my current strength, could I snap this tree with one punch?"
Curious, Gu Qing stepped forward and punched its trunk.
Bang!
The entire tree was uprooted by the blow.
It crashed to the ground.
Gu Qing froze for a moment. He hadn't expected to knock the entire tree over with a single punch.
But he soon figured out what had happened.
The weather had alternated between wet and dry recently, softening the soil, which was why the tree before him had been uprooted so easily.
Having figured that out.
Gu Qing stepped forward and wrapped his arms around the tree, which stood several meters tall, lifting it up.
Veins bulged on his arms.
His face twisted.
It took tremendous effort.
But in the end, brute strength worked a miracle, and he managed to plant the tree back in its hole.
Then he brought over several large rocks and set them around the roots to secure the tree, so it wouldn't be blown over before it took root again.
Once he had finished, Gu Qing looked at his powerful arms and pondered.
My physical constitution has only accumulated +38 so far, yet my physical attributes are already this strong.
Once my physical constitution maxes out at 100 points and I get the knotted muscles attribute that turns me into a hulking muscleman, just how ridiculous will my strength be?
That afternoon.
Gu Qing arrived at the sports field on time to practice with the Red-Tassel Spear alongside Xia Shuran.
Since he couldn't train his core every day and needed to let his muscles rest and recover, he only practiced with the Red-Tassel Spear that day.
[Physical constitution +1] ×3 [Accumulated physical constitution +41]
After three straight hours of practice, the familiar text popped up.
Seeing that he had earned the attribute gains, Gu Qing immediately put away his spear and stopped practicing.
As for Xia Shuran beside him, he wasn't sure whether those three straight hours of practice had left her badly exhausted.
As she made a wide sweeping motion with her spear.
Her ankle suddenly twisted, and she instantly lost her balance, about to fall.
Gu Qing reacted swiftly and caught her.
"Are you all right?"
"I think I twisted my ankle..."
Xia Shuran looked down at her right foot.
Gu Qing helped her sit on the nearby steps, briefly examined her ankle, and judged it to be an ordinary sprain. He immediately said:
"Sit here for a bit. I'll get you some ice from the Living Area."
"Okay."
Xia Shuran nodded obediently.
A few minutes later.
Having run there and back, Gu Qing returned carrying a bag of ice and two ice cream bars.
Despite running fast the entire way, he hadn't broken a sweat.
His body had long since become different from an ordinary person's and could no longer be measured by normal standards.
Running back and forth over such a short distance wasn't enough to make him sweat.
"Take off your shoe. I'll ice it for you."
Holding the bag of ice, Gu Qing crouched in front of Xia Shuran as he spoke.
Xia Shuran's cheeks grew slightly warm. She obediently eased off her shoe and sock, revealing a fair, clean right foot.
Despite her years of martial arts practice, this younger schoolmate's foot was small and delicate, without a single callus. It felt quite soft in his hand.
An innate sacred physique of jade feet?
Pretty impressive.
Without dwelling on it, Gu Qing soon finished icing Xia Shuran's sprained ankle.
Afterward, they unwrapped their ice cream bars and sat on the steps, chatting as they ate.
"Senior, I have to go home this weekend, so I won't be able to practice with you."
"You've sprained your ankle. You couldn't practice even if you wanted to. Go home and get some proper rest."
"It's fine. I twist my ankle a lot, so my body's already used to it. As long as it's not serious, it'll heal in a day or two."
Xia Shuran took small licks of her ice cream, a trace of a martial artist's stubbornness in her eyes.
As they chatted.
The two began talking about their families.
Only then did Gu Qing learn that Xia Shuran was also a Haicheng local.
Their homes weren't far apart, either-only an hour's drive.
"Senior, you can come visit my family's martial arts school when you have time, or I could visit your place."
"Don't you have a younger sister in her final year of high school?"
"I started school a year early, so we're the same age. Maybe we could become best friends."
Xia Shuran's eyes sparkled, and there was a hint of anticipation in her voice.
Gu Qing smiled. "Sure. When we get the chance."
After finishing their ice cream and resting a little longer, they decided to go to the dining hall together.
Gu Qing supported Xia Shuran as they headed to the dining hall.
Seeing her limp, he asked, "Want me to carry you on my back?"
Xia Shuran's heart instantly fluttered.
If Gu Qing carried her, her chest would press against his back. They would be so close.
She really wanted to say yes.
But when she thought of all the people coming and going along the way, and of being watched by so many of them, she felt far too embarrassed.
After much hesitation, she finally shook her head and said, "No need, Senior. It doesn't feel like a very bad sprain. Just help me walk."
"All right."
Gu Qing didn't insist. He simply held Xia Shuran's forearm steadily and slowed his pace considerably.
After dinner, he escorted Xia Shuran all the way back to the entrance of the women's dormitory and had her roommate help her upstairs.
The next day.
Saturday.
Gu Qing lay in bed, staring at his attribute data.
[Accumulated learning ability +38] [Accumulated physical constitution +41]
He had been grinding these two attributes for so long, yet neither was even halfway there.
His progress was already slow enough, but when it rained, it poured-he couldn't grind any attributes at all this weekend.
Because everyone had left.
Xia Shuran had gone home.
Gao Fei had gone to the beach on a date with his girlfriend.
Even Yang Yuntong, the top student studying for the postgraduate entrance exam, said she had things to do over the weekend and couldn't go to the library to work through practice questions.
Gu Qing knew that Yang Yuntong was probably feeling awkward after her failed movie invitation last time and had deliberately found an excuse to decline.
Just as he was wondering how to pass the time.
That [Biochemical Maniac], Zhou Yuan, suddenly ambushed him on WeChat.
[Zhou Yuan: Want to team up for some games?]
[Gu Qing: Sure. My ID is Miracle Walker.]
Without the slightest hesitation, he replied instantly.
Afterward, Gu Qing felt a little surprised.
He had never imagined that when everyone else was too busy to help him grind attributes, the one to step up would be this doctoral student who spent all day busy with research.
He had clearly said before that he was only free on weekend evenings.
Before long.
The two added each other as friends in the game.
Gu Qing called over Chen Zijie and Qian Duole, and they jumped straight in as a four-player team.
When they first started playing, they didn't know one another very well, and Zhou Yuan was still a little reserved and couldn't quite relax.
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