I Will Grind My Way To Godhood

【Physical Strength】【Movement Speed】【Physical Defense】.

Xue Jing’s gaze flitted back and forth among the three.

There was no doubt that these three options would provide the greatest boost to his combat abilities at this stage.

The other options, like 【Reaction Speed】【Perceptual Ability】【Instinctual Intuition】, were decent but didn’t provide the immediate impact that speed, strength, and defense offered.

After some thought, Xue Jing decided to eliminate 【Physical Defense】 first.

With his passive twin resurrection effect, he didn't particularly need this life-saving ability for now. Moreover, as a Rock-throwing Sage, he would certainly avoid close combat with opponents he couldn't defeat, making 【Physical Defense】 redundant.

That left the choice between strength and speed...

After pondering, Xue Jing decided on 【Movement Speed】.

With all his current skills, his physical strength was not weak, and combined with his energy force, he could easily handle enemies of human level.

Even his senior Zhu Shanying, who was rated by the talking cat as ‘far superior to him,’ was knocked out in one go with a shoulder throw. Although she didn’t use energy defense, it illustrated the point that martial artists tend to be glass cannons — high offense but low defense.

Speed, however, was a different matter — it’s an attribute that’s always in demand and can never be too fast.

In the world of martial arts, there’s no impregnable defense, only invincible speed!

Xue Jing selected 【Movement Speed】.

Instantly, he intuitively understood how to activate the 【Twin】 active effect as if it were as natural as breathing.

“Twin, activate!”

The next moment, Xue Jing moved as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button on a video, doubling his speed instantly.

He stood up and walked over to a standing punching bag, channeling his energy into a punch that sent the bag flying through the air at an unbelievable speed.

“Huh? This feeling...” Xue Jing paused, a thoughtful expression in his eyes.

He tested it again, setting the punching bag upright and delivering another punch, once again at an astonishing speed, as if the fast-forward button had been pressed.

The bag flew out once more, crashing into the wall.

“So, this is it...” he murmured to himself.

“One last test...”

Xue Jing stepped out of his house, left the housing complex, and headed to the small park track where he usually jogged in the mornings.

It was already eight or nine in the morning, and being a Monday, most people were at work or school, leaving the park almost empty, save for a few elderly folks strolling and exercising.

Xue Jing took out his phone, opened the timer function, and, after ensuring no one was paying attention to him, he pressed start!

In an instant, he shot forward like a cannonball, reaching a speed unimaginable for humans, streaking across the track like a meteor.

In just a few seconds, he had run half a lap, then stopped and pressed the stop button on his phone.

[5.12 seconds]

“The total length of this track is two hundred meters, meaning half a lap is one hundred meters... and it only took 5.12 seconds.”

“So this is what the true nature of the ‘Twin Abilities’ active effect is?”

Xue Jing's eyes glimmered with surprise.

“Disregarding any physical laws, directly allowing one's movement speed to double…”

“It's purely conceptual, making my speed twice as fast!”

Xue Jing was ecstatic.

It's important to understand that physical training has diminishing returns.

For a person who wants to reduce their sprint time from 20 seconds to 12 seconds over 100 meters, it is relatively simple, given some time for intensive training.

But once they hit 12 seconds, due to air resistance, bodily limits, and other factors, each 0.1-second improvement requires a hundredfold, even a thousandfold, of the previous effort.

Once you enter the realm of 10 seconds, it becomes even more exaggerated, where every 0.01-second improvement is a remarkable feat, impossible without exceptional talent and abundant resources.

But now, Shuangsheng* has simply overlooked this, making his speed purely double!

From 10.24 seconds, it instantly becomes 5.12 seconds!

This is Shuangsheng, a divine skill that transcends physics!

“Unfortunately, it merely doubles the speed… the attack power remains calculated by the original physical principles.”

Speed is equivalent to weight, the faster the punch, almost analogous to greater attack power.

However, Shuangsheng only doubled his speed, which means that even if his speed becomes twice and he can throw supersonic punches, the energy generated is still the original speed's energy, not that of a sonic punch.

Nonetheless, he still feels that the [Shuangsheng Speed] can be described with the word 'invincible.'

"So, does this mean that the double effect on 'Physical Strength' and 'Physical Defense' also ignores the laws of physics?"

Xue Jing couldn't sit still the moment he thought of it.

He desperately needed to gather a dozen or more divine relics right away.

"I'm starving for it!"

He picked up his phone and glanced at Wu Youqing in his contacts.

This was his only connection to divine relics, and he wasn't sure when he would get another opportunity.

With a sigh, Xue Jing collected his thoughts.

He was about to continue testing the effects of Shuangsheng's speed, when suddenly he realized he couldn't use it anymore.

He opened his panel, only to find that the once shimmering, golden 'Shuangsheng Lv1' had dimmed.

"Huh? There's a cooldown period?"

Xue Jing's lips twitched.

He examined the 'Shuangsheng' on his panel more closely, noticing the golden glow slowly returning to the words.

"I used it for more than 5 seconds while running, plus some use earlier at home..."

Xue Jing calculated and realized he had used Shuangsheng's speed for about 20 seconds before it entered cooldown.

In this case, using this ability will need to be a bit more strategic.

Uncertain of the cooldown period, and whether the usage time would increase after leveling up.

“Is this really your limit, Ah Ban?”

Xue Jing's voice brimmed with a mix of disappointment and hope.

…

When he returned home, the cat was already awake, nestled on the couch in the living room, lazily grooming its tousled fur while watching cartoons on TV.

Upon seeing Xue Jing return, the cat yawned wide, revealing sharp teeth.

“Weren't you supposed to be at school? Back so soon?”

Xue Jing grinned and replied, “I couldn't stop thinking about our revered leader, so I took leave to return.”

This was a joke prompted by his good mood after activating his Shuangsheng skill.

However, what Xue Jing didn't expect was that upon hearing it, the cat paused, then turned its face away from him.

“Oh… is that so…”

The youthful, feminine voice seemed tinged with a bit of bashfulness, the cat's tail betraying its emotions as it swayed lightly.

Xue Jing: “…”

Would it claw him to death if he claimed it was just a joke?