After doing all this, Chen Shouyi turned to look at the Shell Lady, who was tilting her head and sulking.

He was instantly filled with frustration,

"Do you know how dangerous that was just now?"

"Can you just eat things like that casually?"

Chen Shouyi looked at the silent Shell Lady, feeling the urge to poke her water-logged head with his finger.

He picked her up and put her back on the bed:

"Come, let me see if you've been squished."

The Shell Lady rolled her eyes at him, let out a cold snort, and looked completely uninterested in engaging with Chen Shouyi.

This reaction seemed fine; Chen Shouyi thought to himself, and no longer bothered with her. He was already used to her behavior like this, which happened almost every few days, and she'd be fine after a while.

He stood up, took a spoon, scooped some honey, and mixed it with warm water.

"If you're hungry, come over and eat." Chen Shouyi said, and with that, he continued practicing the Thirty-Six Body Refinement Techniques on his own.

The Shell Lady turned her head, and after a while, seeing that Chen Shouyi wasn't paying attention to her, she finally couldn't resist the hunger in her belly and jumped from the bed onto the table.

After the transformation, her abilities had slightly recovered, and a height difference of one or two meters was no longer challenging for her. If she wanted, she could effortlessly jump from the floor to the computer desk.

She drank the entire spoonful of honey, licking it clean.

Deliberately said loudly: "It's really awful."

Chen Shouyi had just finished a set, glanced at her amusingly, and continued practicing.

He practiced fifteen sets in a row before stopping.

Sweat was pouring out all over his body. When he turned to look at the Shell Lady, he saw that she had long returned to the bed, playing with a game of airplane chess by herself.

...

Chen Shouyi opened the attribute panel:

Strength: 14.4

Agility: 14.4

Constitution: 14.6

Intelligence: 13.9

Perception: 12.1

Willpower: 13.1

Knowledge: Chinese Language (Mastery 6); Physics (Proficient 12); Biology (10) Chemistry (Proficient 11); Mathematics (Proficient 9); English (Proficient 6); Programming (Beginner 6); Cooking (Beginner 5); Thirty-Six Body Refinement Techniques (Mastery 8); Meditation Refinement (Mastery 5); Swordsmanship (Mastery: 1); Archery (Proficient 18)

Innate Abilities: Natural Healing, Atmospheric Control (Beginner)

Energy Accumulation: 3.51

Chen Shouyi discovered that this mission experience had increased his willpower by a whole 0.3 points.

But then again, when had any mission ever been like this, almost facing a divine being directly?

The kind of fear as if facing a natural disaster was still chilling to think about, only a step away from death. If he had been even slightly affected by the aftermath, he probably would have died.

He looked at the knowledge skill column, swordsmanship was still only (Mastery: 1), and since the last upgrade to mastery, there had been hardly any progress for a long time. On the other hand, archery had improved rapidly recently, and he suspected it had much to do with the rapid improvement in perception. Mastery of archery to a certain extent relied heavily on intuitive judgment, and intuition came from perception.

Looking at the array of attribute skills,

"The strength is still too weak!" Chen Shouyi sighed inwardly.

Recalling the despair and powerlessness during the divine battle deeply stimulated him and also instilled a strong sense of crisis and urgency within him.

He had never realized so clearly what it was like to be an ant.

Facing a divine being, even a great martial artist is just an ant.

He now desperately wanted to improve his strength, not to face the divine beings directly, but to increase his survival capabilities as much as possible against potential future dangers.

This period is almost the most fragile time for humanity, and also the most dangerous time. He glanced at the energy accumulation that had reached 3.51, originally planning to continue accumulating it to further optimize the Thirty-Six Body Refinement Techniques. But now it seemed the wait was simply too long, and there were too many variables during that time, with danger potentially looming at any moment.

Instead of waiting for the future, it was better to seize the present.

Having thought so, he chose the swordsmanship option and immediately began optimization.

The next moment,

A dreamlike sensation came again.

Under a blanket of gray mist, he practiced the lunging stab over and over, with smooth and extremely skilled movements. Each thrust caused the gray mist to churn, with great momentum. As time went by, his movements subtly adjusted and changed by an almost imperceptible margin.

More and more muscles joined in this sword form, and muscle exertion became increasingly coordinated, synchronized, and nuanced. The power of the lunging stab became greater and greater, and by the final stab, it was like a sudden bolt of wind and thunder, as quick as lightning.

Compared to before, the speed increased by nearly thirty percent.

He then shifted his sword form, switching to another, and continued practicing like before, over and over...

...

At some point, Chen Shouyi opened his eyes in a daze, secretly savoring the moment with a flicker of strange light in his eyes.

"Never imagined that the swordsmanship I thought was already well-honed was actually crude under the Book of Knowledge. Not only were there numerous mistakes in the movements, but even the muscle exertion couldn't be called coordinated or synchronized, not to mention the finer muscle control.

If my previous power exertion was like a 10-thrust ratio aero engine, then after optimization, with the same material, it became a 13-thrust ratio.

Once I integrate and utilize these optimized sword forms, my strength would improve by more than threefold. Even facing the Silver Giant Scythe Insect, I could confidently slay it without even using the War Bow."

He picked up his sword and said to the Shell Lady: "I'm going out. Do you want to come?"

He wasn't planning to sleep anymore today.

Memory is, after all, memory. If he didn't practice and master it promptly while the memory was fresh, it would gradually fade away, and more troublesome was that the memories granted by the Book of Knowledge had no backup in the Memory Space.

The Shell Lady continued playing airplane chess, humming, and ignoring him.

"So temperamental today?"

"Then you stay here, don't leave, and don't run around," Chen Shouyi said, checking the door gap to make sure she couldn't get through, then pulled open the curtains, opened the window, and jumped out from the fifth floor.

As soon as the window opened, the Shell Lady beside him suddenly gaped in astonishment, no longer caring to play airplane chess, and hurriedly jumped to the computer desk, then sprang to the window ledge, standing there and gazing at the vast, mountain-like buildings outside, her little face filled with terror.

This was her first time seeing the outside world. Ever since she was captured by Chen Shouyi, she had always stayed inside the room, with the curtains usually drawn.

Upon suddenly seeing the vast buildings outside, she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of panic, seeing Chen Shouyi jumping down and walking away in the distance, her unease grew stronger.

Then she bit her lip, and leaped down as well, floating down through the air while crying out:

"Good Giant, wait for me, I'm scared!"

If it weren't for Chen Shouyi's keen hearing, he might have completely ignored it.

He watched as the Shell Lady floated down from mid-air, looking slightly surprised.

Soon the Shell Lady adjusted her direction, swung into an arc, and landed accurately on Chen Shouyi's shoulder, clinging tightly to his clothes, trembling all over.

"Since you're scared, you shouldn't have jumped down; it's so dangerous." Chen Shouyi said, thinking she was frightened by the height, and tried to comfort her.

The Shell Lady, terrified, looked at the surrounding buildings that appeared like mountains: "Are all these... the lairs of bad giants?"

Oh!

Chen Shouyi was taken aback, looking at the surrounding buildings generally around twenty floors high, and he suddenly realized, finding it amusing but maintained a serious face and said: "You're right, the bad giants live inside, and they love eating little ones like you, all tender and white. It'd only take two bites."

"Good Giant, you'll protect me, right?" The Shell Lady, frightened stiff, grabbed Chen Shouyi's clothes tightly, looking up at him with hope.

"Of course, I'm a Good Giant. You've been so well-behaved; I must protect you." Chen Shouyi reassured her, stopping the teasing.

"Yes, I've always been very well-behaved!" The Shell Lady said, and immediately sat upright, posing as a good little girl.

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