I've already become a god, and only now you're telling me there are monsters in the world?

After looking over his muscles a few times, Gu Qing clenched his fist hard.

Yes, he felt full of strength.

He felt as though he could knock down the wall in front of him with a single punch.

After carefully getting a feel for his strength,

Gu Qing grew anxious.

How was he supposed to explain to other people why his body had suddenly become so muscular?

As he fretted,

suddenly,

he discovered an extra memory in his mind.

A memory about Knotted Muscles.

He examined it.

To his delight, he discovered

that, just like Lightning-Fast Reflexes, Knotted Muscles was an active skill he could switch on and off at will.

Without needing anyone to teach him, Gu Qing hurriedly willed himself out of the Knotted Muscles state.

As the thought of deactivating it took effect,

before long,

the bulging muscles on Gu Qing's body began shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few seconds,

his body, which had been as muscular as the Hulk's,

returned to its former lean, toned appearance.

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Chapter 47: Impervious to blades and bullets

"Gu Qing, what are you doing in there?"

Chen Zijie got up, walked over to the bathroom door, and stopped, asking with a puzzled expression.

Gao Fei and Qian Duole did not follow him, but both turned to look, equally puzzled.

The moment Gu Qing returned, he had rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door shut, leaving all three of them baffled.

"Nothing. I was itching all over just now, so I rushed in to take a cold shower to ease it."

Gu Qing walked out of the bathroom and explained.

The instant he emerged,

all three roommates were dumbfounded. They stared at him wide-eyed, thinking they were hallucinating.

"Wait, what happened to your clothes? Why are they all torn up?"

Chen Zijie examined the shirt Gu Qing had burst out of, his face full of confusion.

Gao Fei got up and walked over, offering a bold guess:

"Could it be..."

"You secretly got yourself a wild bad-girl girlfriend behind our backs and just had a fierce battle with her in the woods on the hill behind campus?"

"Then you both accidentally fell down the hill and tore up your clothes?"

"..."

Speechless, Gu Qing could not help retorting, "Are you writing a novel here? What an imagination."

Qian Duole came over too. "So how did you end up looking like this?"

Gu Qing gave a mysterious smile. "It's a secret."

Since he could not come up with a reasonable explanation, he might as well not explain at all.

After all, roommates were just roommates.

They were not public security officers who specialized in interrogation.

They would not use the Great Memory Restoration Technique on him.

Without any more chatter,

Gu Qing fetched a clean change of clothes and returned to the bathroom to shower.

Ten minutes later,

he came out after his shower and saw Qian Duole weighing himself.

When Qian Duole saw that he had actually gained weight again, he wailed on the spot:

"I can't believe this! I've clearly been eating way less white rice these past few days. How am I still gaining weight?"

"Man, I really envy you three. You never get fat no matter how much you eat."

"Unlike me. Even drinking water makes me gain weight."

Qian Duole spoke with a miserable expression, feeling that heaven was truly unfair.

They were all human, yet he alone had been given a body that gained weight whenever he ate so much as a little food.

It was downright bullying.

Gu Qing glanced at the obviously freshly opened cola and snacks on Qian Duole's desk and nearly lost his composure.

Well, damn.

So when you say you only drink water, you mean you only drink fat-boy happy water, huh?

And you eat way less white rice, then stuff yourself with fries and chips, right?

Gu Qing shook his head, speechless.

According to the law of conservation of energy, people who gained weight while dieting did not exist.

There were only fake humans who secretly gorged themselves, then shamelessly lied that even drinking water made them fat.

As for people who ate like crazy without gaining weight...

Unless something was wrong with their metabolism,

it was impossible.

Well, I should be precise. I have to exclude cheaters like myself.

Because I have the Devouring attribute, the way my cells store energy has fundamentally changed. Right now, I really can eat like crazy without gaining weight.

Without dwelling on it,

Gu Qing blow-dried his hair and climbed into bed to sleep.

He had just lain down and checked his phone when he saw a WeChat message Xia Shuran had sent a few minutes earlier.

[Xia Shuran: Senior, you suddenly left in such a hurry just now. Nothing happened, did it?]

[Gu Qing: Nothing happened. I just came back to handle something urgent. It's already taken care of.]

[Xia Shuran: That's good. I thought you'd run into some trouble, Senior. I was a little worried.]

[Gu Qing: Thanks for your concern. It's almost midnight now. It's late, so I'm going to bed. You should get some rest early too.]

[Xia Shuran: Okay, I'm going to bed now too. Good night, Senior.]

[Gu Qing: Good night.]

The next day.

In the morning.

Gu Qing went to class as usual and sat with [Top student] Yang Yuntong, working through past graduate entrance exam papers.

[Learning Ability +1] x4

[Cumulative Learning Ability +66]

After class,

Gu Qing did not go to the dining hall with Chen Zijie.

Instead, he left campus and headed for the park where he had last tested his Physical Constitution.

After days of effort, he had finally managed to obtain Knotted Muscles last night. He had to test his current strength.

Before long,

Gu Qing arrived at the park.

He made his way into the depths of the wooded hills along a familiar route.

He reached the thickly wooded hillside.

After making sure no one was around,

Gu Qing immediately took off his clothes and activated the Knotted Muscles attribute with a thought. His body instantly grew a size larger, becoming as imposing as a small hill.

Then he looked around and fixed his gaze on a tree with a trunk as thick as a bucket.

"I choose you."

Gu Qing slowly walked up to the tree, spread his arms, and wrapped them firmly around its thick trunk.

The next instant,

veins faintly surfaced on his arms, his muscles abruptly tightened, and he heaved upward.

Crack-!

Boom-!

A deep, thunderous noise rang out.

In an instant,

soil flew and roots snapped.

Just like that, Gu Qing effortlessly uprooted a towering tree twenty meters tall.

He left two startlingly large holes in the ground.

One was where he himself had sunk into the earth.

The other was the hole left by the uprooted tree.

The sight was utterly stunning.

Gu Qing was very satisfied with his strength.

After putting the enormous tree back into its hole and finding several huge rocks to weigh it down, thoroughly securing the trunk,

Gu Qing began the next test:

-testing his ability to withstand blows.

The testing method was extremely simple and brutal.

He would jump off a cliff.

Gu Qing walked to the cliff's edge and glanced at its not particularly steep slope. Without the slightest hesitation, he crouched down and rolled straight down the slope.

He bumped and bounced all the way down, snapping shrubs and smashing into jagged rocks. The terrifying commotion sent birds and beasts fleeing in panic.

When he rolled to the bottom of the cliff, stood up, and brushed the dust off himself, there was not even a scratch on his skin.

"With my Physical Constitution, I can already be said to have bronze skin and iron bones."

Gu Qing muttered to himself.