Chapter 018: Enlightenment?
It was already a little after 9 o'clock after breakfast. Chen Jue found that the time it took him to walk down the mountain to Linjia Village was getting shorter and shorter.
Although he still had an 8-pound weight tied to his body, his physical strength became extremely abundant, perhaps because his physical fitness had been strengthened overnight.
Even after practicing boxing and standing meditation for a whole morning, I still feel like there is strength left in my body.
After eating a big bowl of glutinous rice, salty soy milk and two steamed buns, Chen Jue sat and browsed his phone for more than 10 minutes. When he felt that the food in his stomach had settled, he stood up and planned to rush to Panlong Town to buy vegetables.
He had done this once before, and it was only a round trip of more than ten kilometers, but Chen Jue was disappointed on the way back.
Now that all attributes were increasing rapidly, Chen Jue made up his mind to complete the challenge of running to buy groceries.
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After paying the money, I left Lin's breakfast shop. This time I didn't meet my old classmate Lin Ruoming. I heard from her mother who sold breakfast that she went to work in the city.
Nowadays, every household in the countryside has a car, especially in areas like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the economy is developed, and many people buy cars worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan to commute to work in the city.
As for the other party's little daughter, she was left in the breakfast shop because of her mischief and was handed over to her parents.
This is also a microcosm of many ordinary people, who have children, support their families, and live an ordinary life.
Chen Jue was thinking about the great principles of life as he walked.
He had chatted with Mr. Huang at the reservoir before and got a lot of information.
The old man from Huangjiacun who taught the old man boxing is probably a tragic representative of a martial artist.
When he was young, he fought on the battlefield to resist foreign enemies. After returning home, he was alone and helpless and only knew how to practice martial arts.
In addition, the material life in the era that the other party experienced was extremely scarce, so he died in his sixties.
There are many hidden information in this that Chen Jue did not know. Perhaps the senior who practiced martial arts died young due to injuries sustained on the battlefield.
Otherwise, just relying on this Boat Fist plus the Eight Immortals Posture, it would be absolutely no problem to maintain physical strength and prolong life to live to seventy or eighty years old.
However, human life span is unpredictable. When Chen Jue was in high school, there was a physics teacher who was only in his forties. He was young and strong but died unexpectedly of a myocardial infarction caused by playing table tennis.
This physics teacher is also a person who loves sports very much. He looks very healthy on weekdays, chatting and laughing with students, and he does not overwork himself.
Somehow, he left unexpectedly.
All we can say is that life and death are unpredictable, and the King of Hell will take your life!
After all, few of Chen Jue's family members died of natural causes. His grandparents all died of old age and illness, and his parents died of cancer and an accident at a construction site respectively, which left a huge psychological blow to the young Chen Jue.
So after awakening this attribute panel, he became extremely interested in a set of theories of life evolution on the Internet.
Even if he could not ascend to heaven in broad daylight or become an immortal like in novels through practicing martial arts, he hoped that he would be free from disasters and illness and live for over a hundred years so that he could see to what extent the world would change and progress.
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A myriad of thoughts were running through his mind and the road under his feet changed. When Chen Jue came to his senses, he found that he had arrived at the vegetable market in Panlong Town!
The feeling was amazing, like time was fast forwarding, and in the blink of an eye I had finished the five kilometers in one breath.
You know , at that time he was still carrying an 8-pound sandbag. He looked at the time and it was only 10 o'clock in the morning. He walked the entire way in less than an hour.
Such a fast walking speed even scared Chen Jue himself!
Subconsciously looked at the properties panel:
Name: Chen Jue
Age: 27
Health index: 98%
Strength: 0.95
Agility: 0.92
Intelligence: 1.23
Constitution: 1.57
Skills: [Ship Fist Lv1 (100/200)] [Twelve Forms of Yi Jin Jing Lv1 (6/200)] [Eight Immortals Posture Lv1 (76/200)]
Allocable free attribute points: 0.12
"Agility actually increased by three points in one go !"
"And how come intelligence has also increased?"
"Could it be that the state just now... was the legendary enlightenment?" Chen Jue was shocked by the increasing attributes and thought he was seeing things.
Agility and intelligence have both been improved, and even the free attribute points have accumulated an additional 0.02.
Such an incredible speed of progress is just like using a plug-in.
Moreover, after walking for 5 kilometers, Chen Jue did not feel tired at all. He only sweated slightly all over his body, which dried up quickly when the cool breeze blew. However, his toes were indeed a little rubbed, which was obviously because the pair of sneakers did not fit his feet well.
"Could it be that the stronger the physique, the greater the effect of exercise?"
Chen Jue was delighted. He originally planned to add all the free attribute points he had gained to his physical fitness again. However, after taking a look at his proficiency in the twelve moves of the Yi Jin Jing, he gave up this sudden idea.
In Chen Jue's opinion, once this Shaolin magic skill is improved, it can greatly promote physical growth, which is much more cost-effective than the return rate obtained by simply adding points.
Adding physical attributes is like a one-size-fits-all business, once you add it, it’s gone.
However, adding the twelve moves of the Yi Jin Jing can continuously produce physical attributes. Comparing the two, it is self-evident which one has a higher proportion!
"Adding points is only a temporary pleasure! But practicing is a lifelong process!"
"Skills are like tools to develop physical attributes. The better the tool, the more attributes you can tap into."
"Just be patient for now, go back and accumulate more attributes, and then work hard to increase the level of Yi Jin Jing." Chen Jue figured out the logic here, so he gave up the idea of adding points and went into the vegetable market to buy goods.
Chen Jue bought some soft-shelled turtle, old hen, old duck, pigeon, all kinds of tonic ingredients. Of course, the combination of meat and vegetables was indispensable. Chen Jue also bought some dried mushrooms and fresh beef, intending to go back and enjoy some meat.
Just with this purchase, the things he bought were a bit overweight. When Chen Jue walked out of the vegetable market, he was carrying nearly 30 kilograms of things in his hands.
Feeling the gradually rising temperature outside, he realized that the bloody goods in the bag would not last long before they would rot. He had no choice but to stop a 7-seater minivan again and spent a few dollars to take the bus back to Chen Village.
"Alas! My leg skills are still not good enough. I still haven't broken the record of running back and forth to buy groceries."
"I don't know how the speedster in Water Margin, who could travel a thousand miles a day and eight hundred miles a night, learned how to do it. Could it be that it was really the work of a god or magic? Or is it just an exaggeration in the novel ?"
"But the world record for a 20km race walk is only over an hour. I don't believe that I won't be able to achieve my goal of running for groceries after my attributes are upgraded!"
Chen Dezhong complained in his heart, then took another look at his agility value which had not exceeded the standard by 1 point, and temporarily gave up the idea of running twelve kilometers back and forth.
