During dinner, Mrs. Chen suddenly said to Chen Dawei:

"Do you think we should open another restaurant? I've noticed that restaurant businesses have been doing quite well lately."

Chen Dawei patted his increasingly plump stomach and hesitantly replied:

"I don't mind, but the situation is quite unstable now. We might end up working for nothing again. Last time, we paid a rent of over a hundred thousand, and I don't even know who to ask for it back. We couldn't even find the landlord, and with the renovations, we lost two hundred thousand."

Even if there hadn't been any changes, with that restaurant's poor business, they would likely have gone bankrupt, Chen Shouyi thought to himself while eating.

"I've already checked. Rent is very cheap now, even in prime locations, it's only twenty per square meter per month. As long as business is good, we can recoup the costs in a month!" Mrs. Chen set down her chopsticks and said excitedly.

"That cheap!" Chen Dawei exclaimed in surprise. That was indeed a bargain.

"There aren't many people with spare money now, and many have a cautious mindset like you, which is why it's so cheap. People who are too timid won't make money." Mrs. Chen said proudly.

Seeing his parents wanting to get back into the business, Chen Shouyi couldn't stay silent anymore and couldn't help but say, "Mom, Dad, I think it's better to forget it. Our family isn't short on money!"

He now gives the family fifty thousand every month, enough for a family of four to live on.

People who haven't run a restaurant don't know how hard it is.

Back in Dongning, his parents had to go to the market to buy vegetables at six in the morning, and after coming back, they had to handle the ingredients. They could only rest a bit in the afternoon, and at night they would be busy again, working until after ten at night every day.

And there's no rest all year except during the New Year.

"Yes, Mom! Big brother is making money, so why should you work so hard!" Chen Xingyue quickly said after swallowing a mouthful of rice.

"I know you're being filial, but I can't stay at home all the time. I'd become sick from idleness." Mrs. Chen said. She had gotten used to being busy, and felt uneasy when she was idle.

...

After dinner, Chen Shouyi returned to his bedroom feeling a bit gloomy.

"Oh well, let them open the shop if they want. As long as they're happy.

Anyway, with my dad's poor cooking skills, it's probably going to end up like last time, not too busy."

The Shell Lady entertained herself on the bed. He hardly ever put her in the briefcase anymore since no one came into the bedroom anyway.

He drew out his sword, feeling the force of his muscles, the tip of the sword silently exhaling Sword Qi.

"Good giant, when will you go back to our place to have a look?" The Shell Lady asked with a sigh after playing for a while.

Chen Shouyi's mind wavered, the Sword Qi dissipated, and he stopped: "What, want to go back? It's very dangerous there, much more than here."

He knew that the place the Shell Lady meant was not just the little island, but the other world. She seemed to be a bit homesick.

The Shell Lady hesitated slightly, tilted her head, and said seriously: "But I can fly."

With your slow flying speed, what use is it?

If you could fly faster back then, I wouldn't have caught you.

"In a few days, let's see," Chen Shouyi said. He wasn't sure if the spatial passage in Hedong City was still open, hoping it hadn't been completely closed.

"Good giant, you're the best!"

...

At eleven o'clock, Chen Shouyi stared unblinkingly at the energy points on his attribute panel.

A few minutes later, the number that had stayed unchanged at 8.99 finally jumped to 9.00.

He let out a long breath, having waited so long, he finally reached it.

He immediately stood up, impatiently selected the Horizontal Training Thirty-Six Form for optimization, and as soon as he willed it, the energy points that had just reached nine were instantly emptied.

As the familiar dream quickly descended, a flash of thought crossed his mind.

Darn it, too impatient!

I haven't even laid down on the bed yet!

The next moment, he fell completely into the dream.

...

Who knows how long later, when he opened his eyes, he unsurprisingly found himself lying on the floor. Instead of getting up immediately, he closed his eyes again, quietly savoring the gains from the dream.

The optimization this time was quite significant, and it was completely different from the initial version of the Body Training Thirty-Six Form, with no similarity at all. Not only was the difficulty much higher and more complex, but the integration of the thirteen steps of Horizontal Training also brought more mysterious changes.

Especially, before, the Original Force from the other world, though forming a blue tornado in the Dantian during practice, would quickly dissipate afterward. But now, the optimized technique could condense this energy, forming a blue vortex...

At this moment, Chen Shouyi suddenly felt something covering his foot, hurriedly opened his eyes, and found that the quilt on the bed had been dragged to the floor by the Shell Lady.

She was currently trying hard to pull the quilt, her body continuously retreating, struggling to cover Chen Shouyi with it, her little face flushed red with exhaustion.

Chen Shouyi found it both funny and touching. It really wasn't easy for her.

Just as she seemed to run out of strength and stopped to catch her breath, she muttered to herself, "I'm exhausted. The stupid giant is getting lazier by the day, needing me to take care of him."

Chen Shouyi immediately sat up with a dark line across his forehead.

Hearing the commotion, the Shell Lady quickly turned around, her little face looked adorable as she said, "Good giant, you're awake."

"Hmm!" Chen Shouyi replied grumpily, got up, picked up the quilt and dusted it off, then put it back on the bed.

"Good giant, you shouldn't sleep on the floor. You know that could make you sick." The Shell Lady said as she quickly followed Chen Shouyi on her little legs, then jumped onto the bed and advised, "Prepared said it would make you ill."

"I got it." Chen Shouyi said gloomily, looking at the Shell Lady's serious expression, deciding not to argue with her.

Once the Shell Lady calmed down again.

Chen Shouyi, unable to suppress his itch, got up to start practicing the thrice-optimized version.

With a long and slow breath, his mind became tranquil as a still lake, entering a deep meditative state.

His entire being swelled like a giant, then slowly contracted, and at the same time, he began practicing the new Thirty-Six Form.

This optimized version was incredibly difficult, every subtle movement required coordination from a specific group of muscles, even internal organs, to work together. These subtle movements weren't complete actions in themselves.

For example, simply raising a hand required dozens of complex changes in muscles and organs from lifting to fully raised, involving almost every muscle in the body several times, many of which defied conventional movement logic.

These weren't the hardest part though, with the memory from the dream, and being in the refinement stage of meditative bodily training, slowing down and doing it gradually, he could manage awkwardly.

The hardest part was the unusual feedback from the body.

Whereas the twice-optimized version's body reaction was the accumulating prickling of electric shocks.

The thrice-optimized version's was a simultaneous assault of sore, numb, pain, and itch.

"Hiss!"

Just after finishing the seventh move, his mind trembled, and Chen Shouyi's whole body seized up, muscles twitching, drenched in cold sweat.

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