Bam!

Even a 5mm thick alloy steel plate couldn't withstand Yan Luo's punch.

With a single blow, Yan Luo punched through the steel plate.

However, although the plate was pierced, as Yan Luo withdrew his arm, the cracked metal still managed to cut his skin, causing blood to flow down his arm.

Yan Luo shook his head, realizing that his body strength was still insufficient and needed more training.

The wound on his arm healed rapidly, and soon it stopped bleeding.

Taking a deep breath, Yan Luo, without any oxygen equipment, stripped off his sweat-soaked workout clothes, wearing only shorts, and stepped into a glass tank.

Once the equipment was activated, water surged up from below.

The water level rose rapidly, reaching his waist, chest, and soon covering his head, continuing to rise until the three-meter-high glass tank was completely filled.

Then, the clear water inside the tank began to swirl, and standing within it, Yan Luo felt as if countless hands were reaching from all directions, grabbing his skin and pulling outward.

At the same time, a vibration suddenly arose, resonating within the narrow tank, impacting Yan Luo's muscles and bones, affecting even his internal organs.

Yan Luo couldn't help but grunt, expelling some of the oxygen held in his lungs.

Fortunately, he quickly adjusted, enduring the pulling from all directions and the occasional eruptions of vibration.

This was a custom-made exercise apparatus for Yan Luo, as yet unnamed, designed to comprehensively train his whole body and enhance his physical strength.

The near-drowning state also allowed Yan Luo to strengthen his respiratory system, and might even enable him to evolve the ability to breathe without oxygen.

This body was so extraordinary, just take his blood and bone marrow for example.

When other creatures absorbed his blood and bone marrow, it wasn't so much that his blood and marrow transformed them, but more like his blood and marrow granted them some kind of authority.

No matter the amount, it could induce changes in other organisms.

With blood and marrow possessing such miraculous properties, Yan Luo doubted that the rest of his body was really that simple.

After five minutes, Yan Luo, unable to hold his breath any longer, finally took down the oxygen tube to breathe, inhaling deeply to expel all the carbon dioxide from his lungs, before placing the tube back.

Through such rigorous training, Yan Luo's physical strength gradually improved, and his breathing capacity slightly increased.

He soaked himself in the water for five hours, gradually extending his breath-holding capacity from five minutes to eighteen minutes.

Draining the water from the glass tank, Yan Luo stepped out to freely breathe the air.

His lung capacity should have increased, and his physical strength—at least his skin's resilience—also showed considerable improvement.

Yan Luo once more approached a metal striking target, clenching his fist to hit it, and punctured through the alloy steel plate.

As he pulled back his fist, his arm was still scratched by the metal, though the wounds were shallower than before. Following this regimen, by the next Abyss hunt, his skin might be able to withstand cold weapons.

Despite the pain during training, almost akin to self-torture, every session left him feeling progress, instantly turning prior suffering into joy.

Yan Luo didn't revel in the moment for long, as he was still vastly outmatched by even the lowest City-breaking Level Demons, requiring him to train harder!

Casually picking up a grip strengthener, Yan Luo squeezed it.

Boom!

The grip strengthener broke.

......

The massive footage and experimental records Sasa brought back from the Abyss shocked her teacher and classmates, even causing Li Jiongming to temporarily pause his research on the Ruby pried from the chest of the Bone-chilling Bear to study the data Sasa brought back.

Li Jiongming only watched a quarter of the material Sasa released publicly, but this made him think it was time to enter the Abyss for the second time.

The changes in the Abyss were too dramatic. Solely relying on recordings and data for research was like being stuck in one's old ways.

Sasa didn't immediately release all the data she brought back, as it was her and Yan Luo's hard-earned result and she wouldn't let others freeload, even if those 'others' were her classmates, seniors, and teachers.

The night she returned from the Abyss, Sasa wrote a paper about the proliferation of various Demons and published it, causing an immediate uproar.

While the academic community debated whether "Demon proliferation" was a serious academic fraud, Sasa had already provided clear evidence in their faces.

Overnight, Sasa became famous.

However, what's more, noteworthy was that the second author of that paper was named 'Yan Luo.'

With investigation from those with interest, it was confirmed that this Yan Luo and that Yan Luo were indeed the same person.

According to insider reports, before Yan Luo exposed his abilities to the public, Sasa had already formed a cooperative relationship with him, assisting in developing his abilities.

This time, Yan Luo played a significant role in enabling Sasa to produce the paper, since Sasa was just a pure scholar, lacking even basic self-defense skills against Demons.

Manufacturers who had signed cooperation agreements with Yan Luo secretly fueled the rumors, exposing the matter to the public so they would know that Yan Luo hadn't gone mad but instead had become the second author of a high-quality paper.

As for why he's the second author...does anyone really care?

The public would only notice that Yan Luo is the second author without worrying about what role he played in the entire affair.

Even Sasa didn't expect to rise to fame one day.

When her parents called to inquire the next day, she was still bewildered, not understanding what had transpired until she checked the internet and realized, oh my, some people had already started writing fanfiction about her and Yan Luo.

Sasa was overwhelmed, unsure of how to handle these matters.

Just when Sasa wanted to seek Yan Luo's help, coincidentally, Yan Luo, as if telepathically connected, sent her a message, though its content was completely contrary to her thoughts at that moment.

[I'm going to leave Crimson No.2 for a while and don't know when I'll return. If you want to conduct experiments, feel free to use the villa. All access rights are granted to you.]

Looking at Yan Luo's message, Sasa was utterly confused.

What is Yan Luo up to now?

The last time when he visited Mr. Qiu, at least he went after digesting all the stored Magic Power in his body. Today is just the third day since returning from the Abyss; his Magic Power shouldn't have been fully absorbed yet. Wouldn't going out now affect his body's strengthening?

Just as Sasa was about to question Yan Luo, she discovered that Yan Luo's account had gone offline. As expected, he had likely already left Crimson No.2.

The kid sure acts fast!

......

Leaving Crimson No.2 wasn't originally part of Yan Luo's plan. His initial plan was to train diligently, fully utilizing the Magic Power stored in his body to enhance his physical strength.

However, an unexpected email made Yan Luo abandon his plan.

The email was quite peculiar, unsigned, which is nearly impossible in this day and age.

The person able to do this must be a hacker.

Initially, Yan Luo intended to disregard it and send it to the junk folder, as some of his fans who are hackers liked to capture his attention this way.

But no matter how he tried to delete it, the email couldn't be removed, which frustrated him, leading him to open and glance at it.

After reading its content, he was immensely relieved not to have deleted it; otherwise, he might have never discovered the truth behind the magic tide nine years ago.

The email content was written using a ciphertext; besides possessing the cipher key, only a quantum computer could decode it.

And Yan Luo happened to know how to interpret this kind of ciphertext since his parents had taught him.

After all these years, Yan Luo had forgotten much, but certain segments of the cipher, particularly his and his parents' names, remained familiar to him.

The email contained his parents' names, prompting Yan Luo to decipher its content.

The cipher key was kept at his home in Lingquan City, necessitating his return there.

Yan Luo had a hunch that the email likely came from his 'Uncle Wen,' whose whereabouts were unknown, neither seen alive nor dead.

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