#193 - 1st Pawn

Six hours later, Shen Xingyan woke up from his meditative state.

As he prepared to open the attribute panel to check his current Primal Energy status, he heard Xingyuan's prompt:

“Ding~ Detecting that your Primal Energy factor has reached 1 point, your Primal Energy limit has automatically increased by one point.”

Looking at this prompt, a look of understanding appeared on Shen Xingyan's face. At the same time, the attribute panel appeared before him, and his gaze focused directly on the Primal Energy attribute:

Primal Energy: 84 / 84 points (Primal Energy factor + 0.3)

Seeing that the attribute had indeed increased as he had guessed, his two-day conjecture of one Primal Energy point had officially landed!

Seeing this, the corners of Shen Xingyan's mouth couldn't help but curl up, and at the same time, he sighed in his heart:

“Now all that's missing is money. As long as I have a large amount of gold coins, these attributes will truly belong to me! Next, I need to farm well and save money to improve my strength in the real world!”

After Shen Xingyan cheered himself up, his gaze fell on the farmland in front of him:

“A level 3 strawberry crop with a 50-day growth cycle can provide me with more than 5 gold coins every day. Then, when I harvest a level 4 peony crop with a 100-day growth cycle, it should be at least 10 gold coins!

When that time comes, the idea of extracting one point of Primal Energy to the real world every day will really not be a dream!”

Shen Xingyan looked forward to it happily. Then, he asked Wang Cai to take good care of the place, and he returned directly to the real world.

Slowly waking up, Shen Xingyan observed his surroundings and found nothing unusual. Seeing this, he moved his mind, turned off the protective function of the scarecrow, and used his clone technique.

Picking up the summoned clone, he walked out of the tent, slowly moving his body as he walked towards the outside of the safe zone.

After successfully passing through the formation, he had Clone No. 9 escape far away on its own, while he returned to the safe zone.

However, on the way back, he was greeted with strange gazes, with a gossip-like meaning that was somewhat visible to the naked eye, which made him feel puzzled.

But he didn't care too much, just assuming that his 'snail-like' behavior had been ostracized and discussed by everyone.

He casually went to a stall-selling chef and 'overpaid' for a few freshly baked buns. After eating them, he returned directly to the tent and continued to train.

“Now it's already the fifth day of the trial. In two more days, it will be over, and then I can safely go back and stay put! My strength is still too weak!”

Shen Xingyan murmured softly, but the movements in his hands didn't stop at all, immersed in the training of 'Balance Power'.

A professional like Shen Xingyan, who stayed in the tent for a long time, was also very rare.

After all, for them, after studying at school for more than ten years, it was rare to be able to come to the outer realm. Even those who awakened as life professionals would want to experience the feeling of fighting disasters.

They all knew that if they wanted to come out as easily as this time in the future, they didn't know when it would be.

At this time, at the points calculation office, a group of people were doing statistical work for the end of the trial the day after tomorrow.

“Shen Xingyan hasn’t even gotten 1 point now, this isn’t like him! Could it be that he was really hit by the awakened profession and chose to give up?”

At this time, Teacher Li shook his head with a sigh when he saw that Shen Xingyan was at the bottom of the list.

The other teachers in the school had naturally heard of Shen Xingyan's deeds. While feeling唏嘘 about this matter, they also had some understanding in their feelings.

“This is also normal. If you or I fell from Ma Gao's position, it is estimated that it would be like this!” Teacher Li's colleague sighed softly beside him.

Teacher Li, who wanted to go to Shen Xingyan's place to see what was going on, stopped his movements when he heard the words, and thought to himself: “Maybe, maybe I misread it!”

Shen Xingyan, who was 'misread' by Teacher Li, had been training from morning until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, without any rest in between.

Continuous training for more than 8 hours, such training intensity is rarely achieved by his peers, but for Shen Xingyan, it is like a routine.

Stopping his movements, he slowly adjusted his state, replenished his energy, and opened the attribute panel to check it.

After seeing that the progress of his 'Balance Power' had reached a value of 9.2%, he nodded slightly.

Although this progress would only take him more than an hour to reach before, he didn't have any complaints now. He felt very satisfied to be able to improve little by little.

Just as he was about to use his perception skill, he suddenly felt a burst of悸动 from Clone No. 2.

Before he could figure out what was going on with this sudden situation, he saw that the perspective of Clone No. 2 in his mind suddenly disappeared. Obviously, Clone No. 2 had fallen.

This accident made Shen Xingyan frown slightly. Not knowing the specific reason, he could only wait for the consciousness of Clone No. 2 to return to see what the reason was.

One minute later, the consciousness returned, and Shen Xingyan quickly read through the memory before he understood the ins and outs of it.

It turned out that as Clone No. 2 went deeper into the disaster area, domain-level disasters began to appear one after another. Originally, everything was fine. Due to the smallness of the ant clone, it was not easily noticed, and he had safely killed many low-attribute disasters.

However, he underestimated the domain-level disaster. Its lethality was range-based, just like a gravity field. As soon as Clone No. 2 entered its domain, it was indiscriminately killed.

This made Shen Xingyan, who knew the reason, feel resentful for the death of Clone No. 2, and at the same time, he had a new understanding of the intensity of the disaster.

“It seems that I have to improve my strength quickly. This kind of disaster is the target I will hunt in the future!”

Knowing this situation, Shen Xingyan did not have the slightest fear, but was full of fighting spirit for this challenge!

Just as he was about to activate the perception skill, he found that with the fusion of consciousness, the Primal Energy in his body began to show abnormal signs.

Shen Xingyan, who had already experienced this phenomenon once, seemed to know something. He quickly took out the Xingyuan card and opened the attribute panel, and found that his Primal Energy had reached 24 points, an increase of one point from the previous 23 points!

At the same time, the Dragon Elephant Fist also reached 20% progress, and the Gale Step even increased by 15%, reaching 30% progress.