Night.

The sound of gunfire from several kilometers away echoed faintly, producing a muffled noise.

The cold moonlight poured through the window onto the head of the bed.

Chen Shouyi lay with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep for a long time.

The excitement from the battle during the day hadn't yet faded, and recalling it brought both exhilaration and a lingering trepidation.

The battle was extremely perilous, almost lingering on the brink of death. Without the Giant Transformation, the opponent could have taken him down within three to five moves.

Fortunately, he was quick-witted.

He managed to delay enough time to complete the transformation.

If the opponent hadn't fallen for his tactics, the outcome would have been entirely different.

This time, by killing the embodiment of the God of Hunting, he didn't gain any tangible benefits. Whether this was because the opponent was a True God or lacked any Divinity, unlike when he killed the Divine Creatures at the reservoir and gained substantial benefits.

The only gain was a rather unwieldy Long Sword.

He glanced at the clock on the wall and found it was only midnight.

He got up, and under the hazy moonlight, he picked up the Long Sword of the God of Hunting from the desk.

As soon as he grasped the hilt, Chen Shouyi furrowed his brow slightly.

That disconcerting sense of dissonance rushed into his heart once again. He swiftly drew the sword, and the blade, white with a hint of gold, glinted in the moonlight, looking quite beautiful.

However, after a few random thrusts, he had an urge to toss it aside. He had never wielded such an awkward sword before—even a roughly made Wooden Sword he could handle effortlessly.

It felt as if... as if the sword was rejecting him.

Chen Shouyi chuckled at his own unintended thought.

A sword with integrity!

But gradually, his expression turned serious.

The Sword Form was normal, the balance perfect, and although the hilt was etched with mysterious and intricate patterns, there was nothing peculiar about it.

Eliminate all impossible factors, and whatever remains, no matter how implausible, must be the truth.

He thought briefly and concentrated his will, thrusting the sword once more.

Suddenly, it felt as if something had struck his mind, causing a slight tremor, as if another will was confronting him.

But after barely half a second, this will utterly collapsed, and his thought instantly prevailed. An invisible Sword Qi erupted from the blade, and simultaneously, that dissonance vanished without a trace.

At this moment, however, Chen Shouyi wasn't focused on any of this.

He closed his eyes, holding the Long Sword, maintaining the thrusting posture, his body motionless like stone.

He felt his sensory perception radius had expanded almost three to four times, from the original three meters to about eleven or twelve meters, encompassing most of the hotel within its range.

He could sense the shapely silhouette of the young female communicator in the room opposite.

He could sense a rat scurrying stealthily through the hallway on the second floor, foraging for food.

Especially within the room he was in, he could almost perceive every detail here, the Shell Lady sleeping soundly on the bed, perhaps dreaming of something unpleasant as her brow furrowed and her mouth pouted.

All things in the world emitted their own complex information. Vision is merely the subjective sensation obtained through the visual system's sensory organs (the eyes), which receive electromagnetic wave stimuli within a certain wavelength range from the external environment and undergo encoding, processing, and analysis by the central parts.

Different species perceive colors in vastly different ways; dogs see the world in black, white, and gray, while flies see it in vibrant colors, so who perceives the true world?

Since gaining Perception, Chen Shouyi had specifically read books about it.

The most authoritative explanation is that the secondary attributes of objects, such as color, texture, taste, and the sounds they emit, are acquired and rely on the cognitive perception of human senses. Only by surpassing the senses can one understand their true nature, and in a sense, Perception belongs to this super-sensory realm.

This kind of perception is not visualization; it has no colors, or rather, is only an intensely clear intuition, a concept in the mind, not blocked by objects, and can even penetrate certain materials, allowing simultaneous "viewing" of the inside from the surface...

Of course, strictly speaking, Perception also cannot recognize the world's true nature. All Knowledge of physics comes from human cognition. The brain cannot surpass its own cognition to understand the world; all received information is transformed into information that humans can understand.

Chen Shouyi opened his eyes, a trace of delight flashing across his face.

"This sword..."

It's simply bewildering, entirely beyond Chen Shouyi's comprehension.

He immediately examined the attribute panel.

Strength: 16.7

Agility: 17.6

Constitution: 16.7

Intelligence: 15.9

Perception: 14.3+3.1

Willpower: 15.9

Energy Accumulation: 6.76

...

As expected, Perception increased by 3.1 points, and with a fifty percent enhancement per attribute point, it increased about 3.5 times, quite astonishing.

The expansion of Perception has great benefits; the so-called early warning akin to the cicada feeling the autumn breeze first, it acts like all-encompassing radar during combat, making ambushes or sieges nearly impossible for him.

Although combat power won't visibly increase, survival capability could certainly rise up a level.

And this is merely one part of it; Perception and Willpower are interrelated, effectively two sides of the same coin. The range of Perception is also the range that Willpower can influence, and it is also the control range of his Wind Control Ability.

To confirm this.

He focused on sensing that rat on the second floor.

Concentrating his mind and spirit.

The poor rat rapidly floated up, struggling violently in vain, squealing shrilly, then its body twisted, bones broke, and blood oozed from its mouth.

He could now use Willpower to levitate objects weighing about thirty kilograms.

Although this power still couldn't kill a Barbarian, it could easily kill a rat.

He used his Willpower to guide the rat's corpse out of the hotel along the corridor.

Then he looked at the sword in his hand, growing more delighted the more he examined it.

He had thought it was merely a sharp sword, but it possessed such a wondrous ability.

He swung it casually toward the wall, the blade slicing through the air with a slight "chi" sound.

"Huh!"

Chen Shouyi moved closer to inspect, seeing a barely noticeable slender crack on the white wall.

"Was I standing this close just now?" Chen Shouyi touched the wall, puzzled.

As a top Martial Artist, Chen Shouyi's spatial distance mastery had long been precise to the millimeter. When swinging a sword, whether to decapitate or slit a throat, the result was already known in his mind before the attack.

Even though this sword wasn't his usual Black Sword and was about ten centimeters longer than the Black Sword, the discrepancy shouldn't be this significant!

He immediately took two steps back, concentrating as he swung again, the sword tip passing twenty centimeters from the wall, leaving another four to five centimeter long slit.

"Unexpectedly, it's true; this sword can augment Sword Qi."

He took another ten centimeters back.

This time, no mark was left.

Chen Shouyi experimented repeatedly, finally determining that the length of the Sword Qi had reached twenty-two centimeters, instantly boosting it by forty to fifty percent.

ps: Thanks to "The happiest thing is not being fatter than me" for the generous reward.

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