Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 499 - 473: Rapid Advancement

In five days, strength, agility, and perception each increased by 0.1 points, physique and willpower increased by 0.2 points, and most surprisingly, just now, even the crucial intelligence increased by 0.1 points.

Intelligence cannot be improved through cultivation and has always been a major concern for Chen Shouyi.

Previously, he could rely on the Divine Marrow of a True God, but since reaching eighteen points, even the Divine Marrow was of no use.

Now, this fourth optimized version clearly made up for this flaw.

He wore a hint of excitement on his face: "This is truly a pleasant surprise. I thought it would be the same as before, only improving strength, body, and agility."

Finally, he looked at the already accumulated 1185 points of Faith Value.

In the past few days, the Faith Value has been accumulating at an average rate of seventy to eighty points, but it has become increasingly apparent that it’s decreasing, as the outside craze is gradually subsiding.

He simply added a thousand Faith Points to the "Giant Battle Body."

...

Half a minute later, as the burning sensation all over his body subsided.

The original "Giant Battle Body (Advanced): 2.05%"

Suddenly became:

"Giant Battle Body (Advanced): 12.05%."

Chen Shouyi didn’t immediately test it. At the moment, the consumption was severe, and his stomach was hungry, so he decided to fill his stomach first.

He took out the Demigod’s flesh from the space and gorged on it until his belly was round. He then began to digest and started transforming.

This time, the transformation speed became faster.

His body rapidly expanded, countless muscles appeared out of nowhere on his body, and his vision suddenly elevated.

In just a third of a second.

A lead-gray giant as enormous as a mountain stood in the desert, with its entire lower leg buried in the soft sand.

"Only about 26 meters!" Chen Shouyi roughly estimated.

Compared to the previous 23 meters, there was almost no change.

He checked the attribute panel.

As expected!

Counting the one hundred points consumed not long ago, a total of eleven hundred Faith Points were consumed.

The attributes of strength and physique increased by less than one point compared to before.

But agility has undergone a huge change.

Originally, in the alien world, the agility value was reduced by 2.4, and the actual response was only thirty percent.

Now it was only reduced by 2.1.

It exceeded forty percent of the body.

"In terms of specific combat power, I’m afraid it’s more than doubled." He thought to himself.

Thinking, he suddenly took a step, a lunge forward punch.

The terrifying force of tens of thousands of tons erupted instantly, the air violently rubbing against the fist, emitting a red firelight, the atmosphere completely shattered.

"Boom"

A circle of shockwaves spread out, all the weeds and shrubs around were knocked down.

Fifty to sixty meters away, Shell Lady, who was hovering in the air and dumbly watching the situation here, hadn’t yet managed to escape and was blown away by the shockwave while screaming, vanishing without a trace...

...

In the evening, at dinner with the family.

Chen Shouyi spoke, "Mom, Dad, I’m going to retreat to another world for a while tomorrow. I feel like I’m going to have a breakthrough soon!"

This period will be a peak for his power growth.

In this era of gods and men battling, peaceful days are like fine porcelain, precious and fragile, just like life; danger could appear at any time. He plans to train well for a period, quickly enhancing his own power.

When encountering danger, having a little extra power means a better chance of survival.

Next to him, Chen Xingyue was about to pick some food, but upon hearing this, her hand shook, snapping the chopsticks with a crack, yet she seemed oblivious and asked in shock, "Brother, are you going to break through!?"

"Getting startled and breaking the chopsticks." Mrs. Chen said, getting up to fetch new chopsticks.

"Your brother has always trained fast, nothing strange about that." Chen Dawei laughed and said.

"But... Brother is already legendary!" Chen Xingyue said awkwardly, still struggling with the thirty-six style body refinement technique!

"I recently had some insights, not a big breakthrough, just a small one!" Chen Shouyi humbly said.

Mrs. Chen came back with chopsticks, placed them in front of Chen Xingyue, sighed, and said to Chen Shouyi, "Don’t push yourself so hard, take care of your body, you’ve lost quite a bit of weight recently!"

"Mom, I’m fine, don’t worry! I promise I’ll be stronger after I come back from the retreat!" Chen Shouyi quickly assured.

"Do you need anything packed? I’ll prepare it for you later!" Chen Dawei said.

"No need, no need, I’m all set."

...

The next morning, Chen Shouyi made a call to Bai Xiaoling, letting her know he was going to enter a retreat at the space passage in Huangling Town.

So, even if something happens, he can be found.

He hung up the phone and then left the house.

...

Chen Shouyi’s luck wasn’t good, on the fifth day in the alien desert.

A terrible sandstorm began to arrive.

Though it was daytime, the light was as if night had fallen.

The sky was dark, covering the heavens, the dunes moved like waves in the storm, sand and gravel crazily hitting Hollow Mountain, the whole world rumbling.

Chen Shouyi was just curious to see the outside situation, but before reaching the cave entrance, he got a mouthful of windblown sand; if he hadn’t reacted quickly, using the Wind Control Ability at once, he would have been blown away.

He hurried back into the depths of the cave.

"Damn it! What kind of crazy weather is this!"

"Pfft! Pfft!" Chen Shouyi frustratedly spat out the sand from his mouth.

Meanwhile, Shell Lady had long shrunk into a corner, like an ostrich, her rear end facing outward, trembling all over. Faced with such an overwhelming alien world’s might, she was clearly scared.

As time passed, the sandstorm became more fearsome.

Chen Shouyi felt that the entire Hollow Mountain was trembling slightly. He finally understood why Hollow Mountain was in such a state, why in the desert, only some occasional weeds and low shrubs existed.

Even the most solid mountain couldn’t withstand such a storm for long.

He grabbed the frightened Shell Lady in his hand. She didn’t struggle at all, curled up in his palm, docile and incredibly gentle.

After a long time, she finally peeked out her head, seemingly feeling embarrassed about her earlier behavior, softly explained, "Little one, I wasn’t scared at all."

"Hmm, I know!" Chen Shouyi said.

Upon hearing this, Shell Lady finally felt relieved and shrank back into the palm, nestling inside.

To her, this was undoubtedly the safest place.

The cave became silent, contrasting the deafening roar outside; the small cave seemed to isolate two worlds, giving a sense of being forgotten by the world, both alienating and safe.

Chen Shouyi leaned against the wall, checked the attribute panel.

Strength: 18.7

Agility: 18.7

Physique: 18.8

Intelligence: 18.4

Perception: 16.8

Willpower: 17.6

Energy Accumulation: 3.1

Faith Value: 496.2

He glanced at it, satisfied, turned off the attribute panel, and soon, a wave of exhaustion overwhelmed him, his eyes grew heavy, and he fell into a deep sleep, a faint snore rising.

A total of five alien world days.

A total of two hundred hours.

His accumulated sleep time didn’t exceed ten hours.

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