Starting to Gain Experience from Push-Ups Chapter 1419 - 685:

"1997."

"1998."

"1999."

"2000."

Fang Cheng’s chin crossed the branch for the last time, his arms maintaining a static contraction at the peak for about three seconds.

Then, he loosened his five fingers, his body lightly fell downward, and his feet landed steadily on the mud filled with fallen leaves.

"Hoo——"

Fang Cheng let out a long breath of foul air, raising his arm and using the back of his hand to wipe away the sweat beaded on his chin.

Completing two thousand standard double-hand pull-ups continuously is an absolutely impossible challenge for any ordinary athlete.

But for Fang Cheng, with his now monstrous physical attributes, it seemed too easy.

If it were just ordinary pull-ups, even doing them ten thousand times would only serve as a warm-up.

The reason he appeared to put in significant effort, with muscles engorged and sweat flowing, was that he actively enabled the training mode effect of his Pull-ups skill.

In the charging state, with every upward pull, he deliberately controlled his exertion rhythm, maintaining the process precisely around three seconds.

During these three seconds, it was as if a heavy hydraulic press was inserted inside him.

Roughly equivalent to six tons of terrifying internal pressure grinding and contending within his bone and muscle fibers.

This dual internal and external pressure made each action achieve the highest efficiency in destruction and reformation.

Even with Fang Cheng’s constitution attribute as high as 95 points, it’s impossible to bear such inhuman and terrifying training intensity in one go.

He could only split the two thousand charging pull-ups into five sets, with four hundred in each set.

After finishing, he rested on the spot for two minutes, relying on his strong constitution to quickly expel lactic acid and recover physical strength, then jumped back onto the tree to continue training.

In these deep mountains and old forests, lacking professional weight-bearing equipment, actions like deep squats, push-ups, and back bridges, even if done in the thousands, have inefficaciously low training efficiency.

Fang Cheng simply shifted his focus, putting all his morning exercise efforts on the Pull-ups skill.

After all, with the unique skill effect under training mode, its difficulty is multiplied, and both training efficiency and experience gain increase several times.

As for other fitness projects, they can wait until he returns to Sea Sky Garden or the dormitory to complete.

This approach has an obvious benefit.

At the current pace, the skill Pull-ups, which has accompanied him day and night, will soon reach LV5 and achieve the max level milestone.

As he thought about it, a faint light appeared in the bottom right corner of his retina.

A line of pale blue system notifications quietly appeared:

[Pull-up Experience +45]

[Pull-ups LV4 (298/2500)]

Fang Cheng looked at the values on the panel, the corners of his mouth curling into a satisfied smile.

He raised his hands, flexing his finger joints, the bones making a crisp rattling sound.

He wondered what kind of feedback the system would provide once this skill reached the max level.

Would it directly reward a large number of free attribute points?

Or would it unlock some even more incredible new skill effect?

Or perhaps result in some kind of qualitative transformation?

Fang Cheng’s heart was full of anticipation.

"Chirp—Chirp—"

In the treetops above, several gray sparrows fluttered their wings and flew over the branches.

Fang Cheng reined in his thoughts and glanced up at the sky.

The surrounding environment had already brightened significantly, with the gray-white fog gradually dissipating.

The lush green leaves glistened under the morning light.

The wild boar that had been hiding in the bushes, watching, had long fled in panic due to the repeated explosive bone sounds Fang Cheng caused.

Fang Cheng had gotten up at four in the morning in the dormitory, ran ten kilometers along the mountain road as a warm-up, and then came to this forest for over an hour of extreme physical training.

In summer, the day breaks early, and it was estimated to be around half-past five now.

Fang Cheng stood in place, taking several deep breaths.

Feeling his heart rate rapidly stabilizing and his physical endurance quickly replenishing, he slightly parted his legs, habitually lowering his center of gravity and clenching his fists.

Preparing to engage in his daily Air Attack training without fail.

"However, before that..."

Fang Cheng suddenly stopped his actions, thinking for a moment, and switched the system panel to the skills interface.

His gaze directly scanned below, towards the palm technique skill section.

His eyes locked onto the suffix with four words.

"Condensing Qi into Gang."

The previous life-and-death struggle with Jiang Chen in the Inner World of Ancient Locust Village had gained him a massive amount of combat experience.

The palm technique, which had been stuck in a bottleneck, broke through the limit with insights gained from real combat, advancing to the Master Level.

And "Condensing Qi into Gang" was the new skill effect acquired after the palm technique’s advancement.

During these days of staying alone in the dorm room at the sanatorium, Fang Cheng had also secretly activated True Qi for verification.

However, the dorm was too cramped, and a casual wave could punch through the wall, alarming the colleagues next door.

It was utterly impossible to fully unleash it and test its true power limits.

Fang Cheng looked around, the forest remained quiet and dim.

Taking advantage of being in this remote, deserted wilderness, he could freely let loose and thoroughly understand the details of this new skill effect.

He closed his eyes, his mind replaying the specific details about the effect.

[Condensing Qi into Gang]

[The density of condensed true qi increased by 300% compared to before, with the true qi inside originally circulating in a gaseous or liquid state, undergoing a physical change into a high-energy crystalline solid "Gang Qi" through extreme compression, greatly enhancing the destructive power of attacks]

[The effective control and damage radius of True Qi emission increased by 300%, completely breaking the martial arts shackles of "Qi not leaving the body." Gang Qi can fully separate from the host’s body and maintain its high-energy structure briefly in flight]

Fang Cheng opened his eyes, a flash in his gaze.

He stood still, gradually raising his right hand, palm facing upwards, and the five fingers naturally slightly spread.

The True Qi in the Dantian surged along specified meridians towards his right arm.

"Condense!"

Fang Cheng’s eyes concentrated, his five fingers abruptly unfolding, fingertips closing together like a blade.

Buzz——

A faint yet sharp high-frequency vibration sounded in the air.

On his palm’s surface, a translucent air membrane suddenly appeared.

This air membrane no longer sprayed out violently like flames or dispersed like liquid.

Instead, it obediently gathered and compressed towards the edge of his palm, presenting a highly dense solid texture, with edges even refracting faint light.

Once the True Qi reached maximum density, it was as crystal-clear as a crystal, exuding a chilling sharpness.

Like a substantial golden Light Saber extending and retracting at his fingertips.

"Is this Gang Qi?"

Fang Cheng carefully observed the crystalline substance covering his palm, attentively perceiving the energy flow changes in his meridians.

The originally gaseous or liquid true qi underwent a qualitative transformation under tremendous internal pressure, solidifying into this high-energy crystalline state.

The True Qi’s structural arrangement was thoroughly optimized, naturally significantly enhancing external cohesiveness.

Gang Qi wasn’t a new energy created from nothing but an advanced form post extreme compression of True Qi, a thorough qualitative transformation.

To verify its combat destructiveness, Fang Cheng stepped forward.

He didn’t utilize any muscle explosive force, merely used the speed of an ordinary hand wave, wielding the Hand Blade towards a pine tree as thick as an adult’s waist beside him.

Szz!

A soft sound, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

The transparent Gang Qi coating his fingertips, upon contact with the bark, acted like the laser blade of a high-frequency cutter.

There was little resistance and no flying wood chips.

His fingers smoothly sliced through the entire hard trunk.

After a brief pause.

The stout upper half of the trunk, losing its support, slid slowly down the inclined, flush cut.

Soon after, the center of gravity became utterly unbalanced, toppling over.

Creaks, the tree trunk collapsed and crushed the intertwined shrubs along the way like a withering wreck.

Finally, with a "bang," it heavily crashed onto the leaf-strewn mud, branches breaking, and dust rising.