Chapter 8 Fist Improvement
There are currently only two ways to earn XP.
The first is auto-acquisition, which allows you to gain a little experience directly every once in a while, and then you can get experience from foreign objects such as commemorative coins.
And this experience point only appeared after Chen Xiu came back from outside, so this experience was obviously obtained in the first way.
What puzzled him a little was that this experience seemed to have come a little too soon.
You must know that he just got a little experience yesterday, and according to the previous rules, this experience should appear tomorrow night.
It won't be until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
Now it's only been a day, and the experience has appeared, which is completely inconsistent with the original law.
"Gaining experience is starting to get faster?"
Chen Xiu couldn't help but think of yesterday, and yesterday's experience appeared much earlier than before.
He had a vague feeling that maybe that was really the case.
It's also very simple to verify, just see if there is any experience tomorrow.
Either way, it was a good thing for him, and it made him feel a lot better.
In the evening, Zhou Boxiong asked Chen Xiu to soak in the medicinal bath again, but he still used the same bucket of medicinal soup from yesterday, although this medicinal soup had been used once, but the effect was still very good, not much worse than the first time.
The next morning's task was to lift the stone lock, but the requirement was to reduce the original ten groups to half, and only five groups were enough.
This is not that Zhou Boxiong has reduced Chen Xiu's training intensity, but has added another training item - rope throwing.
The two ropes are 4 centimeters thick and about 15 meters long, and together they weigh 30 kilograms, and it is difficult to keep them moving without enough core strength to support them.
Chen Xiu originally thought it was very simple, but he didn't realize the difficulty until he really started.
He had only practiced for a few minutes, and he felt that most of his physical strength had been consumed, which was not much easier than lifting a stone lock.
In the end, it was not easy to complete the five sets of movements requested by Zhou Boxiong, and after stopping, Chen Xiu was so tired that he had no strength in his whole body, and he didn't even bother to move a toe when he lay on the ground.
If he hadn't practiced throwing the rope alone, he wouldn't have been tired like this, mainly because he had lifted the stone lock for so long before throwing the rope.
With the addition of the two, Chen Xiu is not iron-beaten, so he is naturally tired and lying down.
Even Xu Hongyuan, who was teaching boxing on the side, couldn't bear to see it, and said to Zhou Boxiong: "Master, are your requirements for Senior Brother Chen a little too high?" β
"His talent is so strong, I don't demand too much from him, it's irresponsible to him."
Zhou Boxiong shook his head and said.
In fact, this training intensity is not high in his eyes, when he used to learn boxing, he practiced Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer, more than 360 days a year, and there was no day to stop.
After years of hard training, I have developed a good skill.
Chen Xiu's talent was stronger than he had ever seen before, and he didn't want to waste this kid's amazing talent, so he had such high requirements for Chen Xiu.
If it weren't for Chen Xiu's talent that really amazed him, he hadn't accepted any more apprentices for nearly ten years, and it would be impossible for him to make an exception to accept apprentices at this age when he was about to enter the ground.
It's still the same as yesterday, after lunch, Zhou Boxiong took Chen Xiu to take a pill again, and after taking the medicine, he gave Chen Xiu a half-day vacation in the afternoon.
Chen Xiu had free time, so he continued to look for an antique store.
Although Xu Hongyuan had already told him yesterday that there were several antique shops in the Chinatown on the other side of the port, it was too far away from this side after all, so it was not in his plan for the time being.
He searched the internet and found that there were more than a dozen antique shops in Parari, but most of them were in two Chinatowns, and there were only three outside of Chinatown.
The distance between the three antique shops is not close, and it is not possible to walk on two legs like yesterday, you need to take a taxi.
In addition to antique shops, Chen Xiu also searched for souvenir shops and found that there were many places that sold souvenirs, so he included these places in the plan.
Once he had planned his route, he set out to act.
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In the following days, Chen Xiu's life entered a fixed mode, getting up at five o'clock every morning, practicing boxing until six o'clock, eating breakfast, and then using stone locks and rope throwing to practice strength.
After doing this kind of high-intensity training every day, it took him about a week to successfully increase his strength from 1.1 to 1.2 on the data panel.
The strength has been increased by almost 10%, and it can be said that the effect is very significant.
Of course, there can be progress so quickly, and it is inseparable from Zhou Boxiong's strong support.
If it weren't for Zhou Boxiong's medicinal soup and ointment, with Chen Xiu's current physical level, he would not be able to support this kind of high-intensity training for many days in a row.
In the afternoon, he left the gym to find the antique shops and souvenir shops.
After looking for so many days, he ran to more than a dozen stores, large and small, but he never found anything, and still did not find any items with experience points.
This made Chen Xiudu start to be a little discouraged.
The only thing that comforted him was the experience points that were automatically gained, as he had guessed before, the time between them had indeed become shorter, and now he was able to gain a little experience automatically every other day.
So far, Chen Xiu has six more points of experience available.
The original progress of the Little Five-Shaped Fist was 2/10, that is, it took eight points of experience to level up, but because he continued to practice every day, the progress of the Little Five-Shaped Fist finally increased a little, and now it has become 3/10.
In other words, as long as he gains a little more experience, he can upgrade the small five-shaped fist.
In the past few days in the gym, Chen Xiu and some of the students here have gradually become acquainted, and in addition to practicing boxing every day, the students will also find time to practice with each other every afternoon to improve their actual combat ability.
Sometimes Chen Xiu will also join in and practice with them.
At the beginning, Chen Xiu basically had few fights, and he had no actual combat experience, he could only punch the king eight punches, and he couldn't make effective strikes at all, so he could only be beaten passively.
But his ability to learn is amazing, and he can learn other people's martial arts skills just by looking at them once.
After a few sparring sessions, he learned everyone's fighting skills, and his fighting experience has also increased, knowing how to find opportunities to attack, and how to defend in the face of attack.
The pace of progress is blazing.
Up to now, Chen Xiu has been able to beat most of the students, but like those special students who live in the gym every day, he still can't beat any of them.
Those special students have far more fighting experience than ordinary students, in Xu Hongyuan's words, several of them have the strength of amateur-level fighters, and some of them can't even beat Xu Hongyuan, and they are real professional fighting masters.
Chen Xiu had only been practicing boxing for a few days, and it was not surprising that he couldn't beat them.
I thought that the next days would still be spent like this, but a small episode suddenly appeared, breaking the fixed rhythm of Chen Xiu's life.
The episode was a phone call from his grandfather, who told him that a girl named Doreen had called his home and asked him to go to her party.
Chen Xiu then remembered the party that Doreen had mentioned, every day he either practiced boxing or looked for antique souvenirs everywhere, and he almost forgot about this stubble.
"Do you want to go back? Okay, go back and see your grandfather. After Zhou Boxiong heard that Chen Xiu was going back, he didn't say anything and agreed directly.
He specially advised: "But don't slack off when you go back, you must insist on practicing boxing every day. β
Chen Xiu agreed.
If nothing else, even for the sake of experience, he couldn't stop practicing.
Through the summary of this period of time, he has found that the reason for the shortening of the interval between experience points lies in two points -
One is to eat, and the other is to practice!
Since coming to the gym, he has eaten much more food every day than he did at home, and his body has become more efficient at absorbing and utilizing these nutrients.
That's why you can only get a little XP for two days when you're at home, and you can get a little XP for a day when you come to the gym.
"How are you going to go back?" Zhou Boxiong asked.
"Tomorrow morning by long-distance bus, nine o'clock."
Chen Xiu had already checked the frequency of the bus from Parari City to Tanar City, and the car at nine o'clock could arrive in Tanar City at noon, which was completely in time for Doreen's evening party.
"By bus? Do you have a driver's license? If I have a driver's license, I can find a car for you to drive back. β
"Nope."
Chen Xiu shook his head.
At his age, he can already take a driver's license test in the Federation, but first, his family's economy is relatively tight, and secondly, he has no need for this for the time being, so he has never planned to take a driver's license.
"How can a young man do without a driver's license?" Zhou Boxiong thought for a while and said, "When you come from home, I'll find someone for you and take your driver's license by the way." β
Chen Xiu didn't have any opinions.
A driver's license is really important, and although you don't have a car to drive, it's always good to get your hands first.
Because he was going to attend Doreen's party tomorrow, Chen Xiu deliberately picked out a beautiful hairpin as a gift at a souvenir shop in the afternoon and kept it for Doreen to bring tomorrow.
It wasn't that he was going to pursue Doreen, it was the default tradition to go to the party and bring a small gift to the host's family.
After Chen Xiu returned to the gym from outside, there was a little more usable experience on the data panel.
It's the experience of today.
"It's finally time to upgrade."
Chen Xiu saw that his existing experience had met the upgrade conditions for upgrading the Little Five-Form Fist, so he did not hesitate to directly upgrade the Little Five-Form Fist.
The current experience has dropped directly from 37/75 to 30/75, and the small five-shaped fist has also been successfully upgraded to the first layer.
γSmall Five-Shape Fist (1st Layer): 0/15γ
When the small five-shaped fist was upgraded to the first layer, Chen Xiu only felt that his whole body suddenly went numb, as if an electric current was rushing through, and the cold hairs on his body stood up instantly.
At the same time, a fiery sensation appeared in his body, which soon spread throughout his body.
This feeling is very similar to the fiery feeling after Zhou Boxiong gave him the medicine, except that it was transferred from the outside of the body to the body, burning inside the body, and it was relatively much milder.
"Does that count as a feeling?"
Chen Xiu couldn't help but think of what Zhou Boxiong had said to him before.
Just as he was about to feel the heat, the heat quickly subsided and dissipated, but he could feel that the heat was not completely gone, but retreated into the depths of his body.
He looked at the data panel, and the information on the data panel had changed.
The strength stat has changed from 1.2 to 1.3, the physique stat has changed from 0.9 to 1.0, and both stats have increased by 0.1.
This isn't a huge boost, and it's just decent compared to the amount of XP spent.
However, Chen Xiu thought of the feeling of burning all over his body just now, and faintly felt that the improvement of the small five-shaped fist should be more than just a little bit of attribute.
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Early the next morning, Chen Xiu still got up at five o'clock to practice boxing as usual, practiced for more than an hour, had breakfast, and then raised the stone lock to practice strength.
When he finished practicing at eight o'clock in the morning, he finished today's workout, went back to his room to rinse briefly, changed into clean and refreshing clothes, and said goodbye to Zhou Boxiong and left the gym.
When I arrived at the long-distance station, it was not half past eight, and I waited for half an hour to get on the train.
The journey on the long-distance bus was very boring, and Chen Xiu was really tired from the morning exercise, so he fell asleep not long after getting on the bus.
By the time he woke up, he had already arrived in Tanar.
37 Huilin Avenue, Cape Antique Shop.
Charin sat behind the counter, happily counting the bills in the cash cabinet, and his old face smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.
Just now, he made another business and successfully fooled a young couple into buying an antique pocket watch for 340 dowlers, and the purchase price of that pocket watch was actually less than 10 dowlers.
Just as the old man was happily counting the money, a shadow suddenly covered his whole body.
The old man, who had no psychological defense, was startled, grabbed the money in his hand, and at the same time habitually shouted: "Once the goods in this store are sold, they will not be returned...... It turned out to be you little one! β
When he saw the appearance of the person who came, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
The person who came was Chen Xiu.
"Who do you think is coming?"
Chen Xiu was also speechless when he saw the old man's reaction, he originally planned to go home to visit his grandfather first, but on the way, he thought that this antique shop was nearby, so he stopped by to find it.
"Ahem...... I thought it was the robbers again, you know it's never been very safe here. β
Old man Charin coughed to hide his embarrassment.
In fact, he thought that the little couple had come back to him to settle accounts when they found out about the fakes, but of course he couldn't say this kind of thing.
After the initial embarrassment, Charin looked at Chen Xiu, who had not appeared for several days, and an old face suddenly squeezed out a smile.
"Boy, you came just in time, I just bought a batch of new goods two days ago, it happens to be the kind you are interested in, do you want to take a look?"
Old man Charin rubbed his hands and looked at Chen Xiu with bright eyes.
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Chen Xiu looked at the old man speechlessly, after the experience of searching for experience items everywhere in the past few days, he had long been familiar with this kind of shining eyes, which was the eyes of a profiteer looking at the wronged man.