#19 - Chapter 19: Constitution +1
After seeing his sister off to school, Shen Xingyan returned to his room and began his workout.
His awakened body seemed to have shed its limitations; after each exercise, he could feel a slight growth in his body.
Although such growth was insignificant in the eyes of combat professionals, every improvement was a cause for joy for him, who harbored hope.
He kept exercising, seemingly forgetting the passage of time, wholeheartedly immersed as he was at school, only not as effective due to space and facility constraints.
The workout continued until near noon when Shen Xingyan's spirit began to flag, and his physical strength declined significantly. This situation could only be remedied by sleep to replenish his mental energy.
Stopping his somewhat weary body, Shen Xingyan breathed a sigh of relief, preparing to cook some food to build up his strength for today's Star Origin journey.
After all, his consciousness entered the Star Origin world, but his body remained in reality, and this entry lasted for 12 hours. Mentally, he could replenish himself through rest in Star Origin.
However, maintaining physical strength in reality could only be done by returning to reality.
He had heard that some advanced alchemy products and medicines could keep the body's stamina slowly recovering for a period of time, thereby achieving a balance between stamina consumption and replenishment.
But their prices were beyond what Shen Xingyan could afford at this stage, so he didn't consider them.
On his way to the kitchen, Shen Xingyan suddenly felt the Star Origin Card vibrate. He picked it up with some doubt and saw Chu Wei's picture displayed on the card.
As Shen Xingyan's gaze fell on the picture, a prompt sounded from the Star Origin Card: "Chu Wei requests to talk to you. Accept?"
Only then did Shen Xingyan remember that the Star Origin Card had a call function.
Using this small card for communication for the first time, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but feel a burst of novelty.
Before awakening, Shen Xingyan's life was basically a straight line between two points, and he rarely needed to use the call function.
He only knew about using a card for communication from the teacher's explanation and the occasional communication between awakeners, but he had never used it himself.
After accepting the call with his mind, Chu Wei's energetic voice followed: "Shen Xingyan, long time no see, how have you been lately?"
"It's only been two days, how is that a long time?" Shen Xingyan couldn't help but laugh at Chu Wei's exaggerated statement, and then responded, "I've been fine recently, how about you?"
"Hehe, it's the first time I haven't seen you for so long, so isn't it a long time? I just leveled up to level 2 yesterday, all attributes increased by one point, and there are two free attribute points. I put them all on spirit, and now spirit is already at 14.
The cooldown time of professional skills has also been reduced a bit, but extracting skills and attribute points to the real world is too expensive. The equipment, materials, and money I got from killing monsters these two days aren't even enough to fill a tooth!"
Chu Wei seemed to have opened a chatterbox, telling Shen Xingyan all her experiences these two days, as if she had finally found someone to talk to and had to quickly relieve the worries in her heart.
Shen Xingyan just listened quietly, occasionally helping her analyze the specific situation and giving some small suggestions, just like he did at school.
The difference was that it was face-to-face at the time, but now it was facing a card.
"Shen Xingyan, why do I feel like you've become much more peaceful? More stable than before?" Chu Wei was observing Shen Xingyan's reaction while talking about her own affairs.
Chu Wei initiated this call for two reasons: first, to be able to chat with Shen Xingyan and share her experiences these two days.
But more importantly, it was to care about Shen Xingyan's recent state, after all, no one knew better than her the other party's determination to become a combat professional.
Seeing that she had said so much about combat professional matters, but the other party did not have much fluctuation in tone, as if he really saw it, this made her somewhat worried thoughts slowly settle down.
She was naturally happy that the other party could return to the way he was before.
Shen Xingyan naturally heard the full of care in Chu Wei's words and replied softly: "After experiencing some things, you always have to grow, don't you? People still have to look forward."
Shen Xingyan didn't say anything else. His secrets couldn't be revealed to anyone, not even his sister. The impact would be too great. Not telling them was also a kind of protection for them.
After hearing this, Chu Wei nodded heavily and said with a rather relaxed tone and a smile: "This is the Shen Xingyan I know. I'm relieved to see you like this."
The two then agreed to meet at the trial a month later, and then ended the call.
Through this call, Shen Xingyan had a firsthand experience of the horror of combat professionals.
Even with such professional skills, he still couldn't keep up with the leveling speed of combat professionals, let alone ordinary life professionals.
Combat professionals can improve one level in two days, while they plant the lowest level one seeds, and it takes at least 9 days to produce a harvest.
And it is not certain that they can level up after the harvest. Star Origin needs to judge according to the final output value and give corresponding professional experience points.
This comparison shows the difference is too great. In 9 days, it is estimated that people are already level three or four, and the gap in their attributes is even more crushing. The gap between life professionals and combat professionals is evident.
Shen Xingyan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but when he thought of his two powerful skills, the emotion that had just risen in his heart disappeared instantly.
"You still have to be content. You already have such powerful skills, so don't think about other things. It's right to grow crops and improve yourself." Shen Xingyan secretly warned himself.
He hurriedly made something to eat, stuffed it into his stomach, and after his hungry stomach had a sense of fullness, Shen Xingyan returned to his room and lay on the bed. He set the time to enter the Star Origin world and prepared to sleep for a while to recover his spirit.
However, when he habitually placed the Star Origin Card on his forehead, he suddenly noticed that his attributes were different:
Name: Starfire Prairie Fire (Shen Xingyan)
ID: 118120431-9527
Occupation: Farmer
Professional Skill: 1. Consume a certain amount of Origin Energy points to increase the growth progress of crops within a specified range by +10%. The larger the range, the more Origin Energy points are consumed. Interval 10 hours, skill cooldown 24 hours.
Strength: 10 points
Agility: 10 points
Constitution: 11 points
Spirit: 10 points
Health: 110 / 110 points
Origin Energy: 18 / 18 points
Stamina: 8 / 11 points
Physical Attack: 10 points
Magic Attack: 10 points
Defense: 11 points
Speed: 10 points
Talent: Summon Skeleton --- Summons a skeleton monster with all attributes of 1 to fight (Cooldown time 24 hours)
Money: 0 Gold 0 Silver 6 Copper
Star Origin World Entrance → (3 hour countdown)
Shen Xingyan, who was about to close his eyes, opened them suddenly and checked his attributes again, and found that he was not mistaken just now, his constitution really increased by one point.
