I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal

He looked at the time on his phone, which read 9:06.

Chen Yun closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

He always felt that ever since he had woken up, the information he had received was somewhat overwhelming.

It left his mind in a bit of chaos momentarily.

In any case.

Going to the hospital was definitely out of the question now.

The changes in his body had reached a rather frightening level.

Regardless of whether this was some kind of new disease that had never appeared before, or as he suspected, an extraordinary incident,

it was not something he wanted others besides himself to know about.

He did not want to be detained and studied in the name of protection, even though the likelihood was not high; he absolutely did not want to take the risk.

This was a normal reaction after an ordinary person became special.

It wasn't about becoming arrogant the moment one became special.

That was something you'd find in brainless novels.

Self-preservation was the most fundamental principle.

Moreover, Chen Yun's special features were currently only exhibited in his slightly altered appearance, and he didn't have the strength that would justify him looking down on everyone.

But looking at his much-changed body,

a touch of curiosity and excitement couldn't help but appear on Chen Yun's face.

Now,

it likely wasn't just his appearance that had changed, right?

Those newly formed, smoothly contoured muscles couldn't all be just for show, could they?

Men always fantasize about strength.

Chen Yun was no exception.

He was curious about his current limits.

Moreover, as an adult with mature mentality and logical thinking abilities,

Chen Yun was eager to figure out all the changes that had happened to his body thus far as much as possible.

It would be best to record them for easy reference.

This would be of significant importance for his planning going forward.

Of course,

the location where he recorded this also needed to be carefully considered.

Thinking like this,

Chen Yun pulled out an old, unused phone from his computer desk's drawer, charged it up, and turned it on.

Then he removed the unnecessary SIM card and disabled all networking functionalities.

By doing so,

this phone became an isolated information island without an internet connection.

After finishing all of this,

he opened the notepad on the phone and named it "Online Literature Creation Ideas".

Then, he began to record under "Online Literature Creation Ideas".

[Current Situation Summary]

[Height (CM): 173-175]

[Weight (KG): 66-80]

[Cavities, skin, hair, and nails all show signs of renewal, no alien substances found.]

[Specific physical measurements: ... (To be measured)]

[Strength: ... (To be measured when equipment arrives)]

[Speed: ... (To be measured when equipment arrives)]

[Stamina: ... (To be measured)]

[Suspected direct cause of change: Twenty hours of deep sleep]

[Suspected fundamental cause of change: To be discovered]

Writing this, Chen Yun took out a tape measure.

He quickly measured and recorded the data for chest, waist, hip, height, and weight under specific physical measurements.

Precision testing for strength and speed was a bit challenging for the moment.

Instead of going to a gym, Chen Yun preferred to order a set of equipment online for testing.

This would minimize his social interactions as much as possible.

After all, the special changes to his body meant a reduction in social contact would keep him safer.

For him, an online writer by profession, this wasn't hard to achieve.

He was also someone with a great deal of patience.

So, precise testing for strength and speed was put off for the time being.

But he tried to lift the solid wood 'Eight Immortals' table at home.

He used to struggle to lift it with both hands.

Now, he only needed one hand, and it didn't feel too strenuous.

The difficulty of lifting the table with one hand felt no different than lifting over twenty bottles of mineral water with one hand in the past.

It was nowhere near the human limit, but for him, it was a qualitative leap.

As for a rough test of speed,

it was not feasible inside his room, so he skipped it.

However, in the future when he had time to go outside, he could try running a few steps.

After completing all this,

Chen Yun set down the old phone.

Excitement shimmered in his eyes.

Next, it was time for the main event: the stamina test.

He was truly curious about the limits of his body now.

With that thought,

he immediately lay down on the floor and started doing push-ups in an incorrect form.

As a couch potato who never exercised,

he was not familiar with professional exercise postures.

However, he knew that in the past, he would feel sore after doing twenty incorrect push-ups, and fifty would be his limit.

And now, as expected,

there was no particular feeling after doing fifty.

Not to mention reaching his limit; even the soreness that should have emerged early on did not appear.

Moonlight streamed in through the window,

casting down on the continuously heaving back of Chen Yun, bare to the waist.

Time seemed to slow down in that moment.

Before long,

after completing two hundred push-ups without feeling anything, Chen Yun silently got up.

Feeling his body that did not seem to have expended any energy, a glint sparkled in Chen Yunmo's eyes.

He felt no fatigue, nor was there any sweat on his brow.

It seemed as if all the movements he had just made were as simple as breathing.

This level of physical strength far surpassed the him of the past.

Indeed, the changes in his body weren't just superficial.

The core was the most critical change.

Then...

Where were his limits?

Pondering, Chen Yun turned on his computer.

He began to search for the standard push-up forms and tutorials.

To avoid injury while exploring his limits and to use his strength more scientifically and sensibly,

Chen Yun decided to learn the proper form for push-ups.

The starting position for a standard push-up includes hands shoulder-width apart, fingers pointing forward, and arms perpendicular to the floor. Legs should be together, knees straight, and buttocks tightened. The body should form a straight line including the head, shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles.

Then, with control, lower to the bottom, keeping the forearms as vertical as possible and maintaining a straight line throughout the body. Inhale at the bottom for about 2 seconds.

Rise back to the starting position as with the descent, exhaling for a second at the peak.

The standard push-up was not difficult.

Chen Yun, following the video tutorial, quickly grasped the essentials.

Then,

Chen Yun couldn't wait to start doing standard push-ups right next to his computer.

What should have been a five-second standard push-up, Chen Yun sped up, continuously performing for ten minutes until he felt exhausted.

A total of 1,200 standard push-ups, not one less.

And without a single break, the interval without fluctuation.

He did 1,200 push-ups non-stop, like a machine.

Although this number and frequency were still within human capacity,

it was beyond reach, not just for beginners, but even for many well-trained individuals.

For Chen Yun, this was a transformative change.

And that was just exhaustion, not the limit.

Chen Yun then forced himself to do another four hundred and eighty push-ups.

Due to exhaustion, the form of these four hundred and eighty standard push-ups gradually deformed, and it became hard to complete one within a fixed time.

It took about six minutes to finish.

After accomplishing all of this.

Chen Yun lay on the floor, not wanting to get up for a long time.

His triceps, biceps, deltoids, trapezius, and pectoral muscles all witnessed waves of soreness.

The frequency and amplitude of his panting had increased significantly.

Just when he thought he would have to lie there for a while,

suddenly, he felt a cool sensation wash over his body as if drenched in sweet rain.

The soreness in his triceps, biceps, deltoids, trapezius, and pectoral muscles began to dissipate at an incredibly rapid pace.

The severity of his breathing was also smoothing out.

In less than ten seconds,

Chen Yun could no longer feel any tiredness or pain in his body.

It was as if...

he hadn't done any intense exercise at all.

This was an outlandishly exceptional strength recovery ability.

It left Chen Yun, even after getting up as if nothing had happened, still unable to calm his astonishment for a long time.

Such a rapid recovery of strength...

was monstrous!

If other aspects of his performance were still within human capabilities,

then this exaggerated strength and recovery

exceeded what was human by far.

Such an ability would allow Chen Yun to sprint in marathons, sprinting until exhausted and then resting just ten seconds before he could sprint again.

It would essentially be a full sprint marathon, akin to cheating.

Such an exaggerated strength recovery ability

was absurd and almost inhuman.

Strength consumption and recovery are extremely complex processes

that include a series of physiological processes and mechanisms.

But at their essence,

the consumption of strength is the depletion of energy reserves, and recovery is the replenishment of these reserves.

Chen Yun knew that his exaggerated strength recovery performance surely involved complex energy transactions.

And thinking of this,

Chen Yun realized a very serious issue.

Yesterday, from traveling all day from Jiangnan Province to here,

he hadn't eaten anything to save time.

After sleeping for twenty hours until now, he hadn't had any food.

In other words, it had been nearly fifty hours since he last ate.

But he didn't feel hungry at all.

Without external energy intake, his body had grown so much and exerted so much energy.

Where did the energy for the rapid recovery come from?

Silent, Chen Yun realized he had discovered a serious issue.

Did he still need to eat now?

If not, where was the energy for his recovery coming from?

Should he experiment by eating something next?

The more he thought, the more questions Chen Yun found.

After a twenty-hour long sleep,

he was overwhelmed by the multitude of problems, freezing the usually calm Chen Yun.

All he felt was confusion.

No one had ever taught him how to deal with such unprecedented issues.

This was an entirely new domain.

Unlike going to school, where you have textbooks to study gradually,

with teachers to guide you with words and actions.

Now, he could only fumble his way forward as he faced his familiar yet strange body.

His reason told him.

He couldn't take his own transformation lightly.

He must observe, experiment, and summarize with a precise attitude.

Only after gradually unraveling what happened to his body

should he try to harness it.