In the evening, Bai Ye stood in front of his small house. A carefully wrapped package was placed at the door.
He bent down to pick up the package, but before he could enter, someone behind him called out.
"Excuse me, did you order delivery to your door?" The delivery guy, looking at the address on the package, asked Bai Ye, who was about to go inside.
Seeing his package had arrived, Bai Ye turned around and nodded, "Yes, I ordered it. The last four digits of my phone number are ****."
The delivery guy was stunned for a few seconds when he saw Bai Ye's face. Then, he awkwardly pulled out a receipt and said, "Please sign here. And you ordered quite a lot. Do you need me to help you bring it inside?"
Bai Ye signed his name and shook his head, "No need. Just leave it here. I'll carry it in myself."
"Oh, okay." The delivery guy nodded, struggling to take off the big items from the car and place them in front of Bai Ye. Then, he was surprised to see the somewhat thin and handsome young man easily grab the several hundred-pound package with one hand and quickly walk into the house.
Walking into the house, Bai Ye couldn't wait to open the package. Inside was a custom glass bathtub, 160 centimeters long and 70 centimeters wide, along with a 50-centimeter glass rod.
As for the package initially placed at the doorstep, it contained 10 liters of 98% concentration ultra-pure sulfuric acid stored in a glass container.
He had bought it from the dark web because it was too troublesome to purchase through official channels.
Under the illumination of the lights, these glass products sparkled, appearing exquisitely crafted.
Bai Ye eagerly carried the custom glass bathtub into the bathroom. Then, he put on a protective suit and took out several buckets of purified water he had bought from the nearby Walmart supermarket, pouring them directly into the glass bathtub.
Next, he unscrewed the glass lid of the concentrated sulfuric acid and slowly poured it directly into the inner wall of the glass bathtub.
During the dilution process, he watched the concentrated sulfuric acid mix with the purified water, and he continuously stirred the water with the glass rod, constantly releasing heat.
Watching the colorless and odorless sulfuric acid flow into the glass bathtub, when he felt it was about right, he looked at the slightly warm diluted sulfuric acid bath. Bai Ye took off his gloves and gently reached in.
Feeling the slightly warm water temperature, Bai Ye removed all his clothes except for the hood, then expressionlessly lay down, leaving only his head exposed, savoring the mild corrosion of the highly diluted sulfuric acid on his body.
As long as your mind doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than problems. Since so-called training is a process of muscle destruction and repair, it's better to go directly to the source and give the skin's epidermis some toughness.
At this moment, his Physique had reached 1.3. While maintaining elasticity, his skin's epidermis also had considerable resilience.
Through experiments, an ordinary knife needed some force to cut through his skin, and the wound would quickly stop bleeding within 30 seconds, forming a scab and healing within a day. These performances had begun to move towards the non-human, which was also the reason why he dared to take a sulfuric acid bath.
I'll just sleep here tonight. Bai Ye thought to himself, then immediately calmed his mind. Ignoring the slight stinging sensation from the sulfuric acid, he began to cultivate the Purple Mist Divine Skill, quickly entering a state of selflessness.
During this process, the sulfuric acid inside the glass bathtub was constantly eroding Bai Ye's skin.
Although the corrosiveness of the sulfuric acid was almost negligible due to the dilution, under the extended duration of several hours, Bai Ye's skin also began to gradually give way.
However, as the skin's epidermis was corroded, Bai Ye's healing ability also began to take effect, thus maintaining a delicate balance between destruction and healing.
At seven o'clock in the morning, Bai Ye, his face suffused with a purplish aura, exhaled a long breath of turbid air, slowly drawing the internal energy that flowed throughout his body back into his Dantian.
Feeling the eight strands of True Qi quietly dormant within his Dantian, Bai Ye slowly opened his eyes, his heart filled with emotion.
'The 1.3 Physique has doubled my cultivation efficiency. The True Qi accumulated in a single night is equivalent to the total of the previous two nights. If I had a 1.4 or 1.5 Physique, I might… ouch.'
Lost in thought, Bai Ye suddenly inhaled sharply. As he tried to stand up, he found that the skin below his neck was stinging as if pricked by needles.
Looking down, the skin that had been submerged in the bathtub was a fiery red, as if bleeding, resembling a cooked shrimp.
Shaking almost uncontrollably, he climbed out of the bathtub. The stinging sensation, especially in his lower body, made him gasp continuously.
This feeling, akin to being skinned, was too intense; his body felt as if it was being marinated in a Sulfuric Acid Pool.
As Bai Ye stepped out of the bathtub, a new description appeared in his status bar.
You have completed a diluted sulfuric acid bath, lasting a total of 9 hours, 17 minutes, and 26 seconds...
Repeating it 5 times can increase Physique limit by 0.1.
Looking at the prompt displayed on the information panel, Bai Ye's eyes lit up. His attempts were indeed correct; the destruction and regeneration of the body could indeed improve Physique. Next time, he'd have the opportunity to lie in the Sulfuric Acid Pool and use electrotherapy, cultivating both internally and externally – the effects would definitely be even more outstanding.
Bai Ye got up, enduring the stinging pain from his skin, and slowly wiped the water droplets off his body with a towel before putting on his clothes.
He glanced at the time; it was still early before school. Bai Ye quickly ate something to fill his stomach, then immediately started doing push-ups in his room.
With Strength reaching 1.4 and Physique reaching 1.3, Bai Ye's physical fitness was gradually approaching the human limit.
He could do more than three thousand push-ups at a time, relying solely on his stamina, without needing True Qi for endurance.
Enduring the stinging sensation from the friction of his skin and clothes, Bai Ye spent an hour, completing over five thousand eight hundred push-ups in a standard posture before collapsing to the ground, his True Qi exhausted.
During this process, sweat seeped out from his skin, as if salt was being sprinkled on his wounds.
'Too slow. After my stamina increased, relying solely on my own weight to train takes too long. I really need to train with weights.' Bai Ye looked at the wasted time with some dissatisfaction.
Looking at the time, he had about ten minutes before class. Bai Ye casually picked up his bag, opened the door, and sprinted towards the school.
Three days ago, the run would have felt like hell. For Bai Ye now, it wasn't challenging at all; he didn't even breathe heavily.
The only discomfort was the chafing from his clothes while running.
On the road, his running body created a blur, and passersby didn't even realize he'd passed them, just staring blankly at his back.
You have completed a run of 2024 meters, with an average pace of 2 minutes 20 seconds/km, repeated 15328 times. Long-term body damage 0.11%. Will recover on its own when Physique reaches 1.5.
(End of Chapter)