Cultivating through increasing my stats in America-Chapter 81 - Can Eating Ice Cream Lead to
Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Can Eating Ice Cream Lead to Enlightenment?
Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Can Eating Ice Cream Lead to Enlightenment?
The place was chosen by Catina, a somewhat secluded small restaurant.
Although not luxurious in decoration, the antique bronze furniture with a sense of the era, coupled with the dim lighting, did have a romantic feel.
Today, Catina sported pigtails, wearing a pristine white T-shirt, paired with the denim hotpants loved by every girl in America, and a pair of white sneakers.
The outfit was simple, but it emanated an undiluted and overflowing youthful vibe.
It also gave Li Ang a chance to review a piece of physical knowledge, white makes one appear larger, while black is slimming.
Li Ang joked:
“If I’m treating, shouldn’t you have picked a more expensive place?”
To his surprise, Catina looked puzzled, “Why should I do that?”
Looking into her clear eyes, Li Ang suddenly didn’t know what to say.
“Do you know why I chose this place?”
Catina suddenly widened her eyes and asked Li Ang.
“Why?”
“Because they have a giant tub of ice cream here that I’ve always wanted to try, but I can’t finish it on my own, so I thought of you haha.”
“Maybe you could ask the server for some ice blocks, then take them home to eat?”
After some thought, Li Ang offered a solution befitting a pure straight man.
“No no no, my brother would beat me up if he saw, he says I should exercise more and eat less ice cream and chocolate desserts like that.”
Li Ang laughed helplessly, the logic was indeed sound.
Cakes with particularly high fat and sugar content, although also high-calorie, would quickly become cloying unless one was particularly fond of sweets.
Ice cream, on the other hand, both in appearance and taste, seemed very “safe,” and it was rare to grow tired of it unless one experienced “brain freeze.”
In fact, once the ice cream melted, you’d find it wasn’t much different from cream, with a not insignificant calorie count.
“Hello, I’d like a super-sized vanilla ice cream, please.”
Catina said to the server.
“Sure, miss, but our shop has recently introduced a super super-sized ice cream. If the two of you can finish it within thirty minutes, it will be on the house, and you’ll also get a little bunny plush.”
While speaking, the server pulled out a pink and white bunny plush from his pocket.
Seeing Catina saying nothing, but giving him a look filled with starry-eyed expression, Li Ang knew it was time to switch to the super super-sized ice cream.
This ice cream cost twenty-five dollars, presented as a mountain of ice topped with some frosting and fruit syrup.
It was indeed large; Li Ang estimated it to be at least the size of a soccer ball.
If they were to eat it slowly, two people with hearty appetites could finish it, especially once it reached a semi-melted state making it much easier to consume.
But the issue was the cunning set by the store, a time limit of half an hour. Such a large ice cream would definitely not melt in thirty minutes, and even if you wanted to eat it quickly, you had to consider if your mouth could handle it.
At the start, Catina was quite excited, eating bite after bite — it was obvious that she truly loved ice cream.
However, it wasn’t long before her mouth formed an ‘O’ shape, and she cast a pleading glance at Li Ang.
Seeing that she was struggling, Li Ang finally quickened his own pace.
The biggest challenge to eating fast was the heat inside the mouth, including the esophagus, absorbed by the ice cream. This loss of warmth, once reaching a certain limit, was very painful.
And the rate of heat loss from eating this was even greater than from eating ice.
But Li Ang, while eating ice cream just now, happened to comprehend the usage of “vital energy.”
The Internal Qigong part of his Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training, as well as the Yijin Jing, both involve the manipulation of “Qi.”
Ever since his last MRI, he had made a stage of progress in his control over this aspect.
If the places where “vital energy” passed through felt warm, then controlling the vital energy in his mouth and esophagus could serve the purpose of replenishing heat, right?
Moreover, he found that eating ice cream actually helped him complete this process.
As the heat was absorbed by the melting ice cream, it seemed as if a “black hole” of heat had formed in his body, making it even easier to channel vital energy in that direction.
Each bite of ice cream was also a practice session.
Catina, sitting across from Li Ang, watched as he suddenly closed his eyes while eating, yet his spoon continued its motion without pause.
“Li, are you alright? Maybe you shouldn’t eat anymore, I don’t want the rabbit doll.”
Frowning slightly, Catina was concerned that Li Ang might suffer some ailment from eating the ice cream.
But Li Ang simply shook his head without speaking.
The expression on his face alternated between intense concentration and relaxation.
“If you really can’t, I can treat you instead, it wouldn’t be good if you hurt your health,” Catina said, seemingly mustering a great deal of courage.
Li Ang still shook his head.
Only twenty minutes had passed, and there was just a thin layer of ice cream left at the bottom of the bowl.
Catina felt a sudden stirring in her heart; there were plenty of boys in school who wanted to treat her, but she preferred being alone.
She had encountered those who sent her flowers, spent money on her, showed off their sports skills in front of her, but she had never met someone who would eat an entire large bowl of ice cream just for a rabbit doll.
After finishing the last spoonful, Li Ang finally opened his eyes.
He hadn’t expected to achieve a breakthrough with the Yijin Jing which had troubled him for two days.
[Yijin Jing] 8/100 (Beginner)
(Trait: Increase lifespan by 10%)
The information on the panel surprised Li Ang, as he hadn’t expected the Yijin Jing to have a trait at the beginner level, nor to increase his lifespan by 10%.
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If one were to go by the average lifespan of 80 years, wouldn’t that mean an extension of eight years?
As Li Ang’s pupils dilated in shock, to Catina, he looked utterly stupefied by the cold.
His eyes were open but lifeless, and he did not speak, sitting motionless, almost driving Catina to tears.
Upon seeing the hot milk on the table, she finally thought of a solution.
The moment Li Ang shifted his attention from the attribute panel back to reality, he saw Catina, who had stood up next to him at some point, her mouth puffed out, looking very much like a little hamster.
Li Ang’s sudden glance startled Catina, causing her to spill the hot milk from her mouth. She instinctively covered it with her hand, but the milk still dripped down her chin, soaking her clothes.
If it were someone else, the milk would have simply dripped onto the floor, but she couldn’t have that.
“What are you doing?”
