#538Chapter 538: Work hard, eat well, play well, and sleep wellAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 538: Work Hard, Eat Well, Play Hard, Sleep Soundly
A long-awaited private space, a familiar arcade game feast.
When Cheng Tian finished ordering food with a phone call and turned to look at his companions, he found that no one was standing.
Even after the settlement in the dungeon, it wasn't enough for everyone to drop their guard against their surroundings.
But upon returning to their space and stepping into their true home, everyone's minds and bodies completely relaxed at that moment, and one by one, they collapsed onto the floor in unseemly heaps, emitting a chorus of intense snores.
When your body and mind are sufficiently exhausted, whether you're fat or thin, male or female, snores will arrive as scheduled.
Cheng Tian looked at the sprawling group and was infected, letting out a huge yawn.
As one's age and experience grow, even with identical works, the insights gained and the focus of attention can vary significantly during a second or multiple viewings.
When he was young, watching Dragon Ball, his attention was solely on the Saiyans constantly getting stronger and stronger, transforming into cool forms to defeat even more powerful enemies.
But now, what impressed Cheng Tian the most was the teachings of Master Roshi, the Turtle Hermit, to young Goku and Krillin.
"Work hard, study hard, eat and drink well, play hard, and sleep soundly—this is the essence of the Turtle School's training."
He didn't feel much about it back then, but the older he got, the more he realized the preciousness of this philosophy.
It sounded like a trivial training philosophy, but very few people could truly put it into practice.
Cheng Tian himself had never truly been able to practice this philosophy, as societal pressures, family factors, and various other conditions only allowed the vast majority of people to go with the flow.
But now, he had the ability to put this philosophy into practice.
So, he would start by getting a good night's sleep~
As Cheng Tian's thoughts stirred, a pile of thin quilts, some oversized and some miniature, covered everyone. Cheng Tian, meanwhile, forced himself to brush his teeth, fighting off sleep, before collapsing onto his pure-prison-style bed, falling asleep instantly.
After an unknown period of deep sleep, oblivious to the passage of time in the space, the clinking of glasses and chatter around him slowly roused him.
Not far from his bed, both humans and animals were feasting, a scene reminiscent of a pirate king's banquet.
It was clear that everyone, even including Aoko, who was least fond of Cheng, had come to treat this place as their own, doing everything casually and naturally.
And Cheng Tian marked the start of a new day with a bowl of steaming pig's blood pudding.
Cheng, a vampire making his own garlic paste, casually opened his personal panel.
Name: Cheng Tian / Aoko / DX233180
Title: Uncle Doll
Race: Earth Bloodline Sunfire Walker
Occupation: Heart Priest, None
Attributes: Strength 26, Agility 24, Spirit 50 (Max value exceeded), Charisma 40, Legend Points 3, Fire Resistance 30%, Wind Resistance 10%, Lightning Resistance 10%
Available Free Attribute Points: 15 points
Available Free Skill Points: 6 points, 2 Gold
Status: HP = 900 / 900 (Strength to HP ratio 1:25), MP = 1500 / 1500 (Spirit to MP ratio 1:30), No special BUFFs
Talents: Game Master, Sunfire Blessing (from incomplete to complete, mask effect unsealed), Tai Chi True Eye
Inherent Skills: Hundred Demons' Night Parade B-rank Lv4, Dominate A-rank Lv4, Titan's Grip B-rank Lv4, Demonic Concerto B-rank Lv4, Psychic Combat Origin Lv1, Midnight Blessing B-rank Lv1
Additional Extra Skills: Substitute World
Additional Equipment: Qin's Secret Scroll Vol. 2, Electric Guitar Hellbone, Electronic Keyboard War Spirit Keys, Dark Thunder Fist (Skill Book), Chris's Blood (Bottled), Large Feng Shui Engine / Golem Reserve Device, NESTS Battle Suit (Basic/Intermediate/Advanced), Kusanagi Gauntlets (Pair), Styx Water Essence (1 bottle), Athena's Pink Summer Special, VR Duel Disk
Seven Deadly Sins Soul Collection Progress: Undying Vega, Unwilling Geese, Roaring Storm, Flames of Destiny, Parched Earth, Wild Thunder
Wealth: 30W+
It was only then that Cheng Tian realized his talents had changed.
The "Incomplete" suffix on Sunfire Blessing had disappeared, and the corresponding bonus effects had significantly improved.
Sunfire Blessing: B-rank Talent / Lv -, Exclusive Talent, Composite Skill. (Omitted previous details)
When you are in a daytime environment, your Strength and Agility are permanently +8; when in a lightless or nighttime environment, your Strength and Agility still receive a +3 effect.
When you are under direct sunlight, your MP recovery rate doubles. This effect can stack with your other MP recovery skills.
Your Sunfire Blessing derived skill, 'Solar Flare,' has its charge count increased by 1, currently at 2 points. The single charge time is reduced to 10 minutes.
The fragment amount increased from 15% to 30%, which upgraded Cheng Tian's Sunfire Blessing from C-rank to B-rank.
Besides the increased basic bonuses and Solar Flare charges, it truly turned Cheng Tian into a "solar battery." And according to the description, it should be stackable with the Guardian Barrier's MP recovery bonus, allowing the original maximum of 640 MP per minute to break its limit and become 1280 MP per minute.
Not only were his talents strengthened, but the blazing sun mask also received further unsealing, with its 6th equipment special effect now available for use.
blazing sun mask: (Omitted previous details)
Blazing Sun—Use gem shards to resonate with the mask, forcibly changing the current scene's weather to a blazing sun with direct sunlight. This effect has priority in judgment. The weather change affects a radius of Spirit * 50 meters and lasts for Spirit attribute * 1 minute. Cooldown is 12 hours. Can be ended early at will.
...What, Sunny Day?
Cheng Tian had an urge to compete with Kyogre for weather manipulation.
The newly unsealed sixth special effect of the blazing sun mask was to forcibly create an environment suitable for him in a combat situation that was originally unfavorable. If the opponent didn't have a matching weather interference ability, they would be forced to fight him in an environment most suited to Cheng Tian.
As long as there was direct sunlight, Cheng Tian's HP and MP recovery rates were at a mini-boss level, making a war of attrition against him incredibly frustrating.
Cheng Tian was somewhat eager to know whether his Sunny Day or the weather-changing skills of those Pokémon were stronger.
Attribute points would, of course, be added to the Spirit attribute, which had already broken through; otherwise, his breakthrough would have been for nothing.
But here, Cheng Tian also had a new question.
Having already broken through in Spirit, could he still break through in other stats? Or would his other attributes forever be limited to within 50?
Thinking of this, Cheng Tian chose to directly email the space with his question.
The result was that the space replied instantly.
Any single attribute's extreme value breakthrough allows other attributes to also synchronously break through the 50-point limit. However, correspondingly, adding points to these attributes that are not extreme value breakthroughs requires more free attribute points.
For example, going from Strength 50 to 55 requires 2 free attribute points, from 55 to 60 requires 3 free attribute points, and so on.
Even if an extreme value breakthrough has been completed, there is still a chance to either actively or passively trigger extreme value breakthrough challenges for other attributes, but the trigger conditions are more stringent, and the difficulty of the challenge tasks after triggering is higher.
At the same time, if a player has already increased a non-extreme-breakthrough attribute beyond 50 points by consuming double the free attribute points, they will permanently lose the possibility of triggering the corresponding extreme value breakthrough challenge task.