Though Shi Feng didn't understand what had happened, once he stepped out of the virtual reality pod, he could clearly feel his mental state was better than it had ever been, and even his body felt lighter.
He loosened up with a few simple movements, throwing out dozens of punches in place. He could faintly feel that his fists could pierce through the air itself.
"My body's become so much more flexible, and my punching speed has improved considerably. Looks like the real key to training is alternating between tension and relaxation." After just a casual warm-up, Shi Feng already had a clear sense of his current condition.
Previously, Shi Feng had always exercised relentlessly, keeping his body in a constant state of tension. Over time, all his muscles would enter a state of fatigue, and even nutritional supplements had limited restorative effect since the tension was never fully released.
Thirty-plus hours of rest had allowed his body to completely unwind, which in turn unlocked the latent power it had been hiding.
While his raw physical stats hadn't increased, his body was now far more agile than before — exactly what Shi Feng had always wanted.
"I've been asleep for so long. I wonder how things are at White Mist Valley. I hope Shui Se hasn't pushed recklessly deep into the inner areas." After his brief moment of joy, Shi Feng remembered the dangers of White Mist Valley and couldn't help but worry.
White Mist Valley was divided into an outer region and an inner region. The Battle Monkeys in the outer area were manageable enough, and deadly traps were relatively scarce. But once you entered the inner region, not only were the monsters all level 25 or above, but most of them were Special Elites — the danger was incomparably higher than the outer area.
With Zero Wing's five hundred people, of whom only a few dozen were Tier 1 class holders, they would suffer devastating losses if they ran into real trouble.
The vast majority of Zero Wing's experts were out there. Losing even a handful would be a significant blow to the guild.
With that thought, Shi Feng hurriedly called for takeout and simultaneously contacted the game's specialty shop to purchase a large quantity of nutritional solution. The supply in his virtual reality pod was nearly depleted. While it could still operate without a refill, nutritional solution was meant to handle emergency situations.
If he didn't replenish it and encountered something like another mental limit breakthrough, he wouldn't recover both body and mind as perfectly as he had this time.
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After his brief rest, Shi Feng was preparing to re-enter the Divine Realm when his light computer watch suddenly rang.
He glanced at the caller ID and found it was Xiao Yan, the manager he'd met the last time he visited the Beidou Fitness Center.
"Why's he suddenly calling?"
Shi Feng remembered that last time, he had wanted to cooperate with Beidou. Xiao Yan had said he needed to discuss it with his superiors.
But after that, three or four days had passed without any contact, which pretty much meant they weren't interested in cooperating. So Shi Feng had dropped the matter. On top of that, he'd been so busy with the Holy Ten's inheritance quest that he'd practically forgotten about it entirely.
Seeing the caller's name now, it all came back to him.
He had already been prepared to open his own training facility. After all, he'd received another thirty million credit points from Bai Qingxue, more than enough for startup capital.
"Manager Xiao, what's going on with you?" Shi Feng picked up the call. When he saw how Xiao Yan looked, he couldn't help but be startled.
On the image displayed by his light computer watch, Xiao Yan looked utterly exhausted, as though he hadn't slept in days. He even had dark circles under his eyes.
Xiao Yan was a martial artist, after all — his physical condition far surpassed that of an ordinary person, and he had nutritional supplements to back him up. Even pulling several all-nighters in a row shouldn't have left him looking this wrecked.