Chapter 577: Spiritual Qi Recovery?

Chapter 577: The Resurgence of Spiritual Energy?

Report One: Multiple monitoring stations have repeatedly detected significant anomalous fluctuations in the planet's oxygen levels in recent days, with a trend of exceeding the normal range of around 21% and increasing toward 22%.

Regarding the increase in oxygen levels, numerous related popular science articles and debates have emerged.

Are there benefits to increased oxygen?

Of course there are benefits.

But there must be an upper limit. Some say that at 23.6% oxygen, a hyperoxic state would cause massive damage to humans; others claim it could increase to around 29%; still others propose that in today's technological age, humans could live on a planet with oxygen levels above 30% or even around 40%, meaning humanity could fully cope with the planet re-entering the era of giant insects.

There is also discussion about whether, if oxygen levels enter a hyperoxic state, humans would enter an era of rapid evolution.

Report Two: Ozone layer concentrations are increasing, and the Antarctic ozone hole has recovered in just a few days to a level that would normally take half a year. In recent years, thanks to global efforts, the Antarctic ozone hole has been recovering at a rate of 1% to 3% per year, with expectations of healing by 2065. Based on recent changes, it may be 20 to 30 years earlier.

A hole the size of Australia was also discovered over the Arctic twenty years ago, and it too shows clear signs of repair.

Report Three: The rate of Antarctic glacier melting has slowed.

Report Four...

More and more related reports are appearing, and humanity's discussion of environmental issues has entered a state of great fervor. Some are happy, while others are naturally fearful. This includes some super-popular science influencers who point out that there must be a logic behind the sudden environmental changes, and that humanity should not slack off but remain vigilant at all times.

When Meng Fan first saw these reports, he was also a bit worried—unusual events always have a sinister cause. But after seeing more reports and more professional analyses, he stopped worrying, because he knew the degree of change was only 5%, and it was an optimization at that, even if the system might not have humans as the primary beneficiaries.

As for Meng Fan personally, under this environmental optimization, his five senses, already far beyond human limits, allowed him to perceive and experience even more. Every day brought some novel discovery. Additionally, his athletic abilities had increased somewhat. This was not unique to him; in the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Institute, many athletes had recently achieved personal bests in training.

One or two such cases would be common in ordinary times, but when they clustered together, combined with the current discourse about environmental improvement, it inevitably became a major subject and phenomenon for study.

Nor was it just the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Institute; similar phenomena occurred in sports institutes across the country.

Thus, a topic naturally emerged online: whether the planet was about to undergo a resurgence of spiritual energy, or whether human evolution was accelerating ahead of schedule, or even biological mutation!

In this environment, some real mutation or cultivation events or videos actually appeared online. Although many were clearly pranks by netizens, and many had been confirmed as fake, some could not be explained for the time being—at least, the truth had not been uncovered.

Of course, no matter how the environment changed, life had to go on, and Meng Fan's world record challenges continued as well.

Compared to before, the livestream naturally had more bullet comments about environmental changes, not a few saying that Meng Fan had already mutated. At first, people took such remarks seriously, but gradually they understood and were left speechless. Not to mention whether he was already so powerful and inhuman before the environmental changes, even now, it seemed no one's "mutation" surpassed his.

Whether he mutated or not seemed not so important in his case.

Some people even imagined many stories and plots from this—for instance, that human changes or planetary biological changes, or even the resurgence of spiritual energy causing another dimension to attack Earth, and Meng Fan was most likely the one who could bring hope to humanity and also the one who could defend humanity.

He was just too powerful!

Before long, many more days passed. Meng Fan had noticeably slowed down his pace of challenging world records. Sometimes he would challenge only one item in a livestream, sometimes he would go several days without streaming. Some said he had "exhausted his talents," others said it was hard to find so many world records. The real reason was known only to Meng Fan himself: he feared that completing the [World King] achievement task too quickly might cause the system to suddenly bestow more rewards that the Earth could not withstand.

Setting aside other matters, the reward of optimizing Earth's environment by 5% had already caused a worldwide sensation. What if an even greater optimization came next, or other planet-related rewards? Could he handle it? Could the Earth endure? Would other humans be thrown into global turmoil? It was hard to say.

He had to be cautious.

Thinking about it, how surreal it was that one person could be tied to the safety of an entire planet!

Everyone could understand why Meng Fan had reduced his livestreaming and challenges recently, because everyone knew that Meng Fan and Wu Tong's wedding was approaching.

The wedding would be held in Hangzhou, not in a hotel or resort, but right in the Xizi Lake Cultural and Creative Park. The facilities were complete; after hosting so many anime exhibitions, setting up a wedding stage was no problem at all, and mainly, the space was large enough.

Although it might all be outdoors, no one discussing it ever mentioned the specifications. Even if the two of them held the wedding on the main road, it would still be called a wedding of the century by everyone.

Actually, if you considered the cost, the industry and output of the Xizi Lake Cultural and Creative Park meant that leaving it empty for a single day was an astronomical figure, not to mention that some areas of the park had already entered preparations five days before the wedding.

Five days before the wedding, some media reporters and paparazzi were already staking out Hangzhou International Airport, and many more were camped outside the Xizi Lake Cultural and Creative Park, because from that day onward, friends and family began to arrive one after another, coming several days early to join the festivities.

Meng Fan had great fame, a wide network, and many friends. Not to say he had friends all over the world, but at least he had "defeated all opponents under heaven." In the sports field, world-class athletes from many events had gradually turned from his competitors into friends who often exchanged the "Meng's Training Method."

For today's sports world, even though Meng Fan had never held any championship title, the "Meng's Training Method" would still earn him the title "King of Sports." Its significance was profound and far-reaching, known only to those engaged in sports.

It was not only useful for events like weightlifting that Meng Fan had participated in, but also for the vast majority of competitive sports, and even for human life movement science.

Besides the sports world, many celebrities and stars from other fields would also attend.

As various photos from the airport and the Xizi Lake Cultural and Creative Park were exposed, making people exclaim in surprise, "Wow, he actually came too!" the wedding's best man and bridesmaid teams also became a highly anticipated topic.

(End of chapter)