Chapter 67: A Sudden Surge in Strength
“By the way, there’s a gym on the first floor. Go there later and get used to your strength.”
Jing Shizhen stood up and said, “After you opened the Small Heavenly Circuit, true qi will gradually begin to develop inside your body. Your strength may become somewhat greater than before.”
“Master, I don’t feel anything.”
Su Xiaofan shook his head. He had just taken a shower and such, but he hadn’t noticed any changes in his body.
“Didn’t you hear what I said? It develops gradually.”
Jing Shizhen raised his foot and headed toward the first floor, saying, “Remember, none of the things here are cheap. If you damage anything, you’ll have to pay for it.”
“Is that really necessary?”
Su Xiaofan muttered under his breath. He pressed his hand against the armrest of the chair and stood up.
“Crack!”
Jing Shizhen, who had already reached the stairs, turned his head around.
“That armchair cost me six hundred thousand yuan at an auction. You’d better be careful.”
“Master, it’s not broken!”
【Repair Value: 56 points!】
【Republic of China red sandalwood armchair. Repairable. Requires 1 Repair Value. Would you like to repair it?】
“Repair!”
Su Xiaofan issued the repair command almost at the same time he spoke.
【Remaining Repair Value: 55 points!】
“Huh? It really isn’t broken? Could it be that you broke the floor instead?”
Jing Shizhen turned back and carefully inspected the armchair from top to bottom. Sure enough, he couldn’t find any damage.
“Master, why has my strength increased so much?”
Su Xiaofan stood where he was, suddenly afraid to move.
He had barely used any strength just now, yet he had actually managed to snap the backrest of a red sandalwood chair, a wood famous for its hardness. It was simply unbelievable.
“Once you open the meridians of the Great Heavenly Circuit, your strength will be ten times what it is now.”
Jing Shizhen waved his hand.
“Be careful when you come downstairs. The wood I used for the staircase is very expensive.”
“Superman?”
A question mark appeared in Su Xiaofan’s mind.
Still, he really became more cautious while walking. He lifted and lowered his feet gently, afraid that he might damage the floor.
“Rich people really are ridiculously wealthy!”
When he arrived at the gym on the first floor and pushed open the door, Su Xiaofan couldn’t help grumbling inwardly.
Back when he was with Zheng Dagang, Su Xiaofan had once gone with him to buy a one-year membership at a gym.
At that time, Su Xiaofan couldn’t afford a personal trainer, so he simply trained on his own. However, he was very familiar with the equipment in a gym.
The equipment in the gym before him was no worse than the one he had visited before. Everything was professional-grade.
“Let’s see how much I can bench press.”
Su Xiaofan walked over to the barbell and placed two fifty-kilogram plates on both sides of the bar.
In the past, Su Xiaofan could bench-press around sixty kilograms. That was already about equal to his own body weight, which meant he was in fairly good shape compared with ordinary people.
This time, however, he immediately loaded a hundred kilograms onto the bar. Adding the twenty-kilogram barbell itself, the total weight was already 120 kilograms.
“Huh? This is so light?”
To Su Xiaofan’s surprise, after lying down, he lifted the 120-kilogram barbell with ease.
“Add another hundred kilograms.”
Su Xiaofan got up and added two more fifty-kilogram plates. Including the weight of the barbell, the total had reached 220 kilograms.
“Still light?”
He lay down and tried again. Su Xiaofan still found it very easy. He pushed it up ten times in a row without even breathing heavily.
Each time, he added another hundred kilograms, doing so twice more.
When the total weight reached 420 kilograms, Su Xiaofan finally felt some pressure.
After completing one set of bench presses, Su Xiaofan felt about the same as he had after doing 60 kilograms in the past.
Following the training rhythm he used to have at the gym, Su Xiaofan completed six sets. Only then did he finally break into a sweat.
“What level am I at now?”
Su Xiaofan remembered that there had been a trainer at the gym he used to visit who could bench-press 140 kilograms, and everyone thought he was incredibly strong.
But Su Xiaofan could lift three times that amount.
“Holy crap, the world record is only 455 kilograms!”
Su Xiaofan took out his phone and searched it. When he saw the results, an excited smile appeared on his face.
420 kilograms was not Su Xiaofan’s maximum strength. He felt that he should be able to push up around 600 kilograms.
Of course, he could only lift that much once. Using such a weight for actual training was obviously impossible.
“Opening the Great Heavenly Circuit will make my strength ten times what it is now?”
Thinking about what Uncle Jing had said, Su Xiaofan couldn’t help being startled.
Wouldn’t that mean he could lift objects weighing five or six tons?
“Keep a low profile. I still need to keep a low profile.”
Su Xiaofan knew that after practicing the cultivation technique, his life might undergo tremendous changes.
What he needed to do now was first get used to his own strength.
Su Xiaofan went from barbells to dumbbells, trying out every piece of strength-training equipment one by one.
After finding his limits, Su Xiaofan began training seriously, working every muscle group until they became sore.
Su Xiaofan had trained before, so he knew that only when the muscles responded could training produce results.
His cultivation had caused his strength to increase dramatically, so the source of this strength should be considered as developing from the inside out.
If that was the case, the strength of his muscles might not necessarily be able to keep up.
He decided to use high-intensity training to strengthen his muscles while also adapting to the sudden increase in his strength.
Su Xiaofan spent the entire day in the gym.
Just as Su Xiaofan had expected.
Although he was exhausted and his entire body was sore, he had already initially adapted to his own strength.
It wasn’t that Su Xiaofan didn’t want to continue training. It was simply that his stomach was growling loudly from hunger.
He walked around the villa and saw that Uncle Jing still hadn’t returned. Su Xiaofan took a shower and changed into a clean set of clothes.
“What an old-fashioned guy. He doesn’t even have a car that young people would drive.”
When he arrived at the garage and saw the two cars parked inside, Su Xiaofan couldn’t help complaining again.
Both cars were sedans—one with four rings and the other with a three-pointed star.
They were luxury cars, all right, but they were the kind driven by successful businessmen. If Su Xiaofan drove one, people would definitely mistake him for a chauffeur.
After high-intensity training, it was best to eat more beef.
Su Xiaofan used his phone to navigate to a steakhouse and drove the four-ring car out.
Perhaps because it was located near the Central Villa District, the steakhouse was extremely upscale.
The old Su Xiaofan would absolutely never have come to a place like this to eat. But with more than four million yuan sitting in his bank account, Su Xiaofan naturally felt confident enough.
“Damn, that’s expensive.”
Looking at the steak set meals on the menu, one serving actually cost 988 yuan. Su Xiaofan felt his heart tremble.
“Stay calm. What’s the point of knowing how to make money if you don’t know how to spend it?”
Su Xiaofan waved his hand and directly ordered two servings.
The waiter, who was wearing a suit vest, quietly reminded Su Xiaofan that their set meals were very generous in size and that one serving should be enough for him.
Su Xiaofan waved him off, indicating that he should simply bring the food.
At this moment, Su Xiaofan felt that he could finish not only two servings, but even four.
Just as the waiter had said, the portions were indeed very generous.
Before the steaks arrived, bread, salad, and other appetizers were brought out, along with a glass of red wine.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Su Xiaofan finally got to eat his steak.
Only after the steak reached his stomach did his ravenous stomach feel a little better.
He waved the waiter over and ordered four more steaks separately.
Ignoring the waiter’s astonished expression, Su Xiaofan ate all six steaks before finally feeling a little full.
“My digestive ability must have improved too.”
Su Xiaofan felt that he could continue eating, but he didn’t want people to look at him as if he were some kind of bottomless pit. So he paid the bill and left the steakhouse.
A single dinner had cost him six thousand yuan, leaving Su Xiaofan somewhat speechless.
However, Su Xiaofan also understood that a restaurant like this was naturally expensive. At an ordinary small restaurant, a few hundred yuan would have been enough to fill his stomach.
After opening the Small Heavenly Circuit, Su Xiaofan’s control over his body had also improved.
He knew that food was replenishing the energy he had consumed. If he wasn’t engaging in strenuous physical activity, he probably wouldn’t need to eat so much.
When he returned to the villa, Uncle Jing had already come back.
After asking about Su Xiaofan’s condition, Uncle Jing said that his performance was only average. Back when he had opened the Small Heavenly Circuit, he had only needed an hour to adapt to the changes in his body.
As far as Su Xiaofan was concerned, Uncle Jing’s words were no longer useful as a reference at all.
He knew that this handsome old man was unwilling to admit defeat. He had changed the time it took him to open the Small Heavenly Circuit from one year to one day, and there was enough exaggeration in those words to fill an entire washbasin.
Back in the bedroom Uncle Jing had arranged for him, Su Xiaofan took out the two meridian circulation diagrams and tried to sense the circulation route of the Great Heavenly Circuit.
Sure enough, the Repair System in his mind gave him another notification.
The meridians of the Great Heavenly Circuit could also be nurtured, but doing so would require 100 Repair Value.
Su Xiaofan could only stare helplessly at the notification. He didn’t have that much Repair Value to spare.
However, even if he cultivated it himself, he would only need a little over ten days to open the Great Heavenly Circuit, so Su Xiaofan wasn’t in a hurry.
Throughout the entire night, Su Xiaofan cultivated, circulating his true qi through the Small Heavenly Circuit meridians again and again.
“This circulation cultivation technique can’t replace sleep after all.”
Early the next morning, Su Xiaofan felt extremely exhausted.
It turned out that the novels had been lying again. All that nonsense about waking up refreshed after practicing cultivation was completely fake.
As for the time when Su Xiaofan had opened the Small Heavenly Circuit, the Nurturing Pool had helped his true qi circulate through his meridians, which was why he had woken up feeling refreshed.
But this time, Su Xiaofan had used his mental will to guide his true qi through the meridians for nearly twelve hours.
His entire head was splitting with pain, and he collapsed onto the bed and immediately fell into a deep sleep.
After sleeping for the entire morning, Su Xiaofan began furiously pumping iron in the gym.
That day, Su Xiaofan didn’t go back to the steakhouse. Instead, he found a restaurant with better value for money and solved his food problem there.
When Uncle Jing returned that evening, Su Xiaofan once again asked him about some of the problems he had encountered while cultivating.
Su Xiaofan finally understood.
The reason Uncle Jing had asked him to stay at the villa to cultivate was because he was afraid that Su Xiaofan might take a wrong path during the initial stages, allowing him to correct him in time.
And so, a week passed.
Su Xiaofan had already found the right balance for his cultivation.
Cultivating for six hours every day, sleeping for six hours, and pumping iron during the daytime allowed Su Xiaofan to maintain himself in peak condition.
Although he had reduced his cultivation time, after a week, the true qi within Su Xiaofan’s body had already become much denser and more powerful.
He had already opened half of the meridians in his limbs. With a little more than another week, he would be able to complete the Great Heavenly Circuit cultivation technique.
Su Xiaofan had also completely adapted to the imbalance caused by his sudden surge in strength.
At this point, Su Xiaofan began thinking about leaving.
Zheng Dagang had already called him countless times, saying that all the necessary paperwork had been completed. They were just waiting for Su Xiaofan to bring back the antiques he had bought so they could open for business.
(End of Chapter)
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