Chapter 105: Chapter 16: Sasa and Li Xinyue’s First Meeting
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Punching power: 3.2 tons, kicking power: 5.6 tons, absolute strength—
1.3 tons!
This value far exceeded Sasa’s estimation, because she predicted that Yan Luo would only reach this level of strength after fully digesting all of his Magic Power.
Before returning from the Abyss, Yan Luo had supplemented his body with Magic Power at the Drunken Demon standard; therefore, there were still 2800 Qi of Magic Power remaining in Yan Luo’s body now.
If Yan Luo could digest the remaining Magic Power, his absolute strength might reach 1.4 tons.
Seeing this measurement result, Sasa’s first reaction was—
Yan Luo’s body structure had strengthened again!
... No, that’s not right!
Sasa shook her head; Yan Luo’s body structure had always been strengthening, otherwise, with a normal human body structure, it would be impossible to exert the kind of power Yan Luo had now.
Thinking of this, Sasa looked at Yan Luo and said, "Your body structure has once again been optimized, and the growth rate might be faster than I anticipated."
Yan Luo himself was also watching the measurement results, his mind filled with thoughts.
"At this rate, it might take me less than three months to grow to the equivalent of Sequence 4," Yan Luo remarked with some sentiment.
His growth rate was already fast, and now it was discovered that it was even faster than imagined.
Yan Luo’s growth was in leaps and bounds; when his absolute strength reached 2 tons, perhaps his body structure could be optimized once more.
Each time he’s optimized, his strength growth would level up, and the more his physical features are enhanced, the faster his growth rate would be.
At this rate, it might take only a few years before he reaches the level of Sequence Three.
"Absolute strength test passed, now let’s test resistance capability."
With that, Sasa took out some ’testing tools.’
First, she took out a hammer, gripped the handle with both hands, gathered her strength, and swung the hammer towards Yan Luo’s knee.
When struck by the hammer, Yan Luo didn’t even flinch.
"Hit here," Yan Luo pointed to his head.
Sasa took a deep breath, yelled "Yah," and once again swung the hammer.
Yan Luo slightly tilted his head back, while Sasa ended up sitting on the ground due to the rebound force.
Touching the bump on his head, Yan Luo still remained expressionless.
Sasa stood up after dusting herself off and tossed the hammer back into the toolbox, exclaiming, "With your current resistance ability, an ordinary person couldn’t hurt you without a weapon."
Yan Luo shook his head, "Still not strong enough."
Saying so, he bent down and took a dinner knife from the toolbox, pressing the edge against his arm and lightly slashed.
The blade pressed into the skin but couldn’t cut it. Yan Luo applied a bit more force, and only then did the knife cut through his skin.
The capillaries under the skin ruptured, and blood dripped out, but within seconds the bleeding stopped. Yan Luo pinched the wound, and after a few minutes, when he let go, the wound had already glued together completely.
With a little more pressure, the wound could open again, but after staying still for another ten minutes, the wound would heal.
Noticing Yan Luo’s situation, Sasa’s eyes lit up.
Normal humans could not accomplish this, it was evident that Yan Luo’s body had undergone special enhancement in response to his frequent injuries.
Yan Luo’s skin toughness had become quite close to that of a Dangerous-level Demon, and his muscle strength could even compete with a Dangerous-level Demon.
The dinner knife only cut through Yan Luo’s skin and was stopped by his muscles. Yan Luo used half of his body’s strength to cut through the surface of his muscles with the knife.
Unfortunately, the dinner knife had some dullness to it for Yan Luo. Even with half his strength, the blade could only stop at the surface of the muscles, unable to go deeper.
Without steel-like muscles, Yan Luo couldn’t exert such powerful force.
"Using military cold weapons, it would be much easier to cut my muscles," he said.
Wiping the blood off the knife, Yan Luo tossed it back into the toolbox.
Sasa stood by, taking notes for Yan Luo. Hearing his comment, she smiled and said, "Aren’t you satisfied with your current body strength? Compared to you, other Hunters are like ’glass cannons.’ Even an Engraver of the Vajra Sequence, without triggering the Engraving, can’t match your extravagant resistance capability in usual conditions, even if they are of the Second Rank."
Yan Luo shook his head, "Compared to those Engravers, I have nothing; Engravers in the Vajra Sequence dare to charge directly at Demons head-on; if I dared to do that, the odds of dying would be high. They have their kind of superpowers, while I only have considerable strength and reaction speed, and perhaps there is even an enhancement limit."
Sasa showed opposition to this statement.
Sasa forcefully patted Yan Luo, who was seated in the chair, on the shoulder, looking up into his face, "Your enhancement direction now clearly resembles that of mutant creatures. The strongest mutants can reach city-breaking level, and the reason there hasn’t been a catastrophe level it’s because the military has been actively purging them. Of course, this is only on land; whether there are catastrophe-level mutants in the ocean is still unknown, but considering the oceanic environment, I believe there might highly likely be catastrophe-level mutants."
Yan Luo looked at Sasa, "Are you saying I could at least enhance to catastrophe level?"
"That’s pretty much the idea," Sasa patted Yan Luo’s shoulder. "Before truly hitting your limits, nobody knows what your limits might be. What you should be doing now is not underestimating yourself, thinking your future is bleak, but first finding ways to strengthen yourself to your limits. Before gaining this ability, didn’t you also hope to become a Hunter?"
Yan Luo was indeed a bit lost just now, but hearing Sasa’s encouragement, he instantly realized he was being foolish, why think about so much? What’s the point of worrying about what to do after reaching a limit that he hasn’t even touched yet? It’s like fantasizing about how to spend money after winning the lottery?
Yan Luo let out a breath of stale air, and nodded to Sasa, "Let’s continue the testing."
The testing wasn’t over yet; Yan Luo still needed to test his neural reaction speed.
This was much easier to do; there are many online softwares to test reaction speed. Sasa casually took the codes of one software, slightly modified it, and created an offline reaction speed testing software.
Ever since knowing Sasa, Yan Luo had been using this software to test his reaction speed.
A quick test delivered the result.
—86ms!
Compared to other aspects, Yan Luo’s improvement in neural reaction speed wasn’t significant, as his reaction speed was adequate now, even when dealing with deadly-speed Demons.
After reaching city-breaking level, most demons choose the ’enlargement’ approach, with few enhancing their speed.
Thus, the gain from training neural reaction speed was trivial, and Yan Luo would only do it occasionally.
Having obtained the complete physical test report, Sasa went upstairs to a quiet room to create Yan Luo’s next training plan to ensure he could grow even faster.
Yan Luo returned to the gravity room, continuing his body training to exhaust the potential of his current physique.
Both were tirelessly striving, and soon it was afternoon.
When he received a message from Li Xinyue, Yan Luo remembered he hadn’t had lunch. While replying to her, he asked Keke to prepare lunch.
The round little robot headed right to the kitchen, while Yan Luo sat at the dining table to rest.
Half an hour later, Yan Luo was happily eating when a door entry request popped up, showing Li Xinyue as the requester, to which Yan Luo promptly gave access.
Just then, Sasa descended from the second floor, shouting, "Yan Luo, I’ve completed your training plan..."
Swoosh!
The villa’s front door, having confirmed Li Xinyue’s access rights, opened wide automatically.
Descending from the stairs, Sasa came face to face with Li Xinyue, who had just entered the door. They both froze mid-step, quietly gazing at each other, as the air thickened with tension.
Meanwhile, Yan Luo continued eating.