Chapter Thirty-Four Supercompensation
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He returned to the hotel in a daze.
Fang Yi was practically supported by Xu Xiaoli as he entered the room.
Xu Xiaoli gently helped him to the bed, asking with concern, "Zhenren, are you alright?"
Fang Yi barely had the strength to speak, let alone move.
However, he knew he had to speak now, so he struggled to say, "You...you take the ginseng out of...from your backpack, and then...then slice it and brew it into tea...and I...drink it."
After saying this, he truly had no strength left, closing his eyes and panting heavily.
Although Xu Xiaoli was quite frightened, she remained very calm and quickly did as Fang Yi said.
A while later, she brought over a steaming cup of ginseng tea.
Fang Yi tried to get up, but he had no strength at all.
Fortunately, Xu Xiaoli was very observant and quickly supported Fang Yi's head with her arm, then carefully fed him the tea.
The tea and ginseng slices were immediately digested and converted into energy, which was then absorbed by the Golden Core.
Fang Yi felt slightly better and said, "It's not enough. Take out the wild ginseng from the small wooden box, slice it all, and then make tea for me."
"Okay, Master, wait a moment."
Xu Xiaoli gently put him down and started bustling around again.
After about two or three minutes,
the piping hot ginseng tea arrived.
Fang Yi drank it down despite the heat.
Wild ginseng was indeed much more effective than cultivated ginseng.
After he swallowed most of the wild ginseng with the help of the tea, his Golden Core finally recovered by one-tenth.
This time, the consumption was too great.
Even eating a whole wild ginseng only restored one-tenth of his energy.
But this was barely enough.
Fang Yi, having regained much of his strength, proactively advised, "I need to rest now, I might sleep for several days. You can go back to Suzhou first, don't worry about my safety."
Xu Xiaoli was about to say she would stay and take care of the weakened Fang Yi,
but before she could speak, she heard Fang Yi snoring.
Xu Xiaoli quickly shut her mouth, not wanting to disturb Fang Yi's rest.
Fang Yi didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
He only knew that someone had been feeding him hot ginseng tea during his unconsciousness.
Because of the ginseng tea replenishing his vital energy,
he felt his golden core power gradually recover.
However, this recovered golden core energy was quickly absorbed by his divine soul.
His divine soul was constantly repairing itself.
Finally, at a certain moment,
Fang Yi felt his divine soul stop absorbing the golden core power.
As expected, his divine soul was repaired.
At the same time, he had a feeling that
his divine soul seemed to have grown much stronger.
After an unknown amount of time,
Fang Yi felt that the power of his golden core had not only recovered to its peak, but had actually undergone a qualitative change!
The golden core churned continuously in his dantian.
Each churn released a large amount of dantian energy,
which spread to his limbs and bones.
The energy seemed to be transforming his body; initially, he felt itchy and sore all over.
However, his soul seemed to be temporarily disconnected from his physical body.
Fang Yi's consciousness remained clear, but he couldn't wake up, forced to endure the alternating itchiness and pain throughout his body.
The feeling was particularly intense.
Fang Yi even felt his body constantly sweating profusely, as if the energy was removing the "waste" created during the transformation.
Simultaneously, he felt someone quickly wiping him clean after each heavy sweat.
This continued for a long time.
Until one day, the itching and pain subsided, and the energy gradually settled peacefully in his limbs and bones.
At this moment, the golden core stopped churning.
Fang Yi felt a warmth throughout his body, as if his physical form had been elevated!
He even had the illusion that his body was now filled with immense strength!
After his body underwent the transformation, Fang Yi clearly felt his soul "come alive" and reconnect with his physical body.
Spirit and body united!
One morning,
Fang Yi woke up.
He didn't rush to open his eyes, but quietly sensed his surroundings.
He heard footsteps.
It seemed someone was walking outside.
Then he heard a soft door close.
Click.
The door closed.
Fang Yi slowly opened his eyes.
He raised his arm in disbelief, feeling a surge of immense power!
"I seem to have become stronger."
His arm was no different from before, except his skin had become smooth, with a delicate, tender feel.
Fang Yi stared at his arm for a while, muttering to himself, "The Dan Qi is constantly circulating around my body. According to the cultivation method's description, I should be at the second stage of perfection. It's because the Dan Qi is throughout my body that my strength has greatly increased."
He wanted to get up and test how much strength he had.
Sitting up in bed,
Fang Yi first looked around.
He found he was still in his hotel room.
He didn't know how long he had slept.
He turned his head to look at the bedside table and saw his phone charging. Fang Yi
guessed Xiao Li had charged the phone.
Without thinking much of it, he reached for his phone.
Then…
*crack*, the screen shattered!
Fang Yi: “…”
While anyone could break a phone by squeezing it, it usually required full force.
And him?
Just a light squeeze!
Fang Yi finally gained a basic understanding of his own strength. “From this, I can infer that my strength is probably several times that of an average person.”
The description of the second stage of the cultivation technique being fully completed is “further enhancement of physique.”
He had previously wondered to what extent it was enhanced, but now he finally understood.
“It shouldn’t just be a simple increase in strength; there might be other aspects that have been enhanced.”
Fang Yi was eager to try it out.
So, he carefully got off the bed.
He dared not exert any force, afraid of breaking something again.
His gaze swept across the room, searching for something to aid his experiment.
"That's right!
I have a small knife for slicing ginseng in my backpack!"
Fang Yi quickly went to the desk where he kept his backpack, reaching out to lift it. He found the backpack surprisingly light, as if many things were missing.
He initially thought it was just his imagination, a result of increased strength.
But upon opening the backpack, he realized it wasn't an illusion.
The ginseng, jacket, and T-shirt were gone, leaving only his underwear and socks. "
Xu Xiaoli must have sliced the ginseng for tea," he thought, "but where did the jacket and T-shirt go? "
The window was open, letting in gusts of cold wind. Wouldn't he be cold without the jacket?
"Hey! Wait!"
Fang Yi blinked.
The window was open, and the cold wind was blowing in.
Why didn't he feel cold at all? He even felt warm!
Oh!
That's right!
Dan Qi is a pure Yang energy.
Now that it permeates his entire body, how could he be cold?
Fang Yi discovered the second "special function" of the second stage of perfect cultivation.
The first was increased strength.
The second is being unafraid of frost.
"It shouldn't just be these things. Medically speaking, people with strong constitutions are not only less prone to illness, but they also have better energy, higher sleep quality, and their wounds heal faster than those with weaker constitutions."
"When I reached the peak of my first cultivation stage, my constitution was already much stronger than ordinary people. Now, with further enhancement, it's highly likely that my wound healing speed is several times faster than ordinary people."
Thinking this, Fang Yi noticed the small knife for slicing ginseng on the desk.
He picked it up and opened it.
The blade was clean, without a single cut mark.
Clearly, Xu Xiaoli was very meticulous, wiping the ginseng clean after each slice.
Fang Yi felt a pang of gratitude towards her.
Even though he hadn't slept for many days because he'd broken his phone, Fang Yi had a good idea of how long he'd slept—at least three to five days.
The fact that she had persisted in taking care of him for so long and managed everything so meticulously was truly commendable.
He'd thank her properly later.
Thinking this, Fang Yi gently pierced his finger with the tip of the knife.
Most people wouldn't do this,
as piercing the skin could lead to tetanus infection.
Fang Yi was different. Since cultivating his Golden Core, he could cure all diseases and regulate his body temperature, so he wasn't afraid of infection at all.
*Sizzle.*
The blade pierced his skin.
A slight pain shot through him.
Then, bright red blood spread.
"As expected, without reaching the fourth stage of perfect cultivation, one cannot be invulnerable to blades and spears."
Fang Yi wasn't surprised at all, just staring at the wound on his finger. A
miraculous thing happened. For
a normal young adult, it would take two or three minutes for a cut to stop bleeding.
But Fang Yi saw his punctured finger scab over and heal rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Wow, the healing speed is very fast."
Fang Yi roughly judged that his healing speed was probably five times that of an average young adult.
However, he still underestimated the healing speed.
About half an hour later,
he felt a slight itch on his finger.
He reached out and touched the scab-covered wound.
The scab had actually fallen off, revealing newly grown pink flesh!
"Wow, the wound heals this fast?"
Fang Yi was greatly surprised.
Normally, even for a young adult, the wound heals relatively quickly, taking three to seven days to recover.
He only spent half an hour?
Fang Yi was immediately delighted, very satisfied with the significant increase in his physical strength.
"Phew, I didn't expect that the battle with Asura, which depleted my energy, would actually be a blessing in disguise, allowing me to complete the second stage of cultivation ahead of schedule."
Fang Yi's mood improved greatly. "By the way, I feel that my divine soul has also become much stronger, at least half as strong as before. If I were to fight Asura again, I might be able to successfully summon ten golden dragons to fight, instead of exhausting my energy after summoning only six."
His strength had greatly increased.
No wonder the ancients said, "No destruction, no construction. "
His divine soul was injured.
His golden core had also exhausted its energy.
However, after recovery, his strength became even higher.
This is similar to overtraining.
At first, there might be muscle soreness, but after sufficient rest and nutritional replenishment, the function and morphology of the muscles will not only return to the original level, but will continue to rise, exceeding the original level, forming a small peak.
This rebound peak stage is "supercompensation."
The golden core and divine soul should also be like this, forming supercompensation, making him stronger.
Fang Yi didn't intend to continue researching the strength of his body and soul.
He recalled the arrangement of bio-energy field particles he'd obtained from the Buddha statues at Jingyan Temple.
"Since Xiaoli isn't here, I'll first construct the energy field models of the three Buddha statues, then immerse my mind in them to see what special functions they possess."
He'd fought tooth and nail against Asura, even injuring his soul, though it had recovered now—wasn't it all for the sake of obtaining supernatural powers?
Naturally, after testing his physical strength,
Fang Yi couldn't wait to construct the Buddha statue energy field models and see how amazing the new supernatural powers were!
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