Alex was thankful that gis cultivation of bad luck wasn't visible to others. However, even if his cultivation wasn't visible to others, the sudden improvement in fleshy strength could still be sensed by a few others.
Jonas was the first to turn around and look at Alex with curious eyes. "Fatty... no wait, Alex what the f*** happened to your body?"
Alex was surprised by Jonas questioning and tried to play dumb. "What happened? I don't understand what you are talking about."
Jonas sneered. "Trying to play dumb? Take a look at yourself in the mirror before trying to act!"
Alex frowned. "What happened to my face?" He turned on his light brain's self simulation function, only to appear genuinely shocked. "How did this happen?"
In the span of a few minutes, Alex had gone from flabby chubby, to a much skinnier version of himself. All the excess fat in his body seemed to have burned off and his skin was glowing. His face had changed from chubby to well defined and Alex looked down towards his tummy and found that the bloat had disappeared.
Jonas sneered. "Continuing to act dumb?"
Alex shrugged. "I'm as shocked as you. I didn't even realize this happened."
"How did you do it?" Jonas asked puzzled. If such a magical method to reduce existed, the person who patented it would already be the biggest billionaire.
Alex shook his head. "It's not something I 'did'. I began a new treatment for my congenital heart disease. It seems like the treatment seems to have had this side effect."
Jonas eyes glowed. "So its like that! Does it mean you are fine now?"
Alex nodded. "Yes, more or less I've recovered."
Jonas laughed. "Then you can finally cultivate huh? Awesome! I'm rooting for you fatty... erm... Alex. Damn, I can't even call you Fatty anymore!"
Soon, others began asking the same questions as well. After all, Alex's changes were just too dramatic. Alex peddled the same excuse that he gave to Jonas.
Alex too found the situation very unexpected. He suddenly lost a lot of weight. While he didn't have any well defined muscles yet, but his body looked well proportioned now and without the excess fat, Alex looked taller even if his height didn't change.
As many were coming up to talk to him, Rowan, the secretive topper walked towards Alex. Everyone ignored Rowan, but Alex couldn't. After all, he knew Rowan was actually the true strongest person in the class.
"Have you begun cultivating?" Rowan asked curiously, as if he found something interesting.
Alex didn't know how he should reply. After a split second he nodded. "I just began cultivating a few days ago."
"Did you eat any treasure recently?" Rowan asked again.
Alex looked at Rowan in suspicion, what was he getting at? "I have had some.medicines for my illness, but nothing beyond it. Why do you ask?"
Rowan had a curious smile on his face. "Because, for a split second I felt a terrifying instinctual presence. I don't know if it was an illusion, but then your body suddenly changed. Which is why I asked you."
Alex inwardly screamed. This Rowan was truly perceptive. Not even the teacher in class earlier had noticed anything, but this guy actually could sense the sudden energy fluctuation within his body? Alex made a mental note to be wary of Rowan in the future.
"Oh, its possible that it could be the medicine I ate. But I didn't sense any terrifying presence." Alex wondered out aloud.
Jonas frowned as he saw Rowan acting suspiciously and suspected he was trying to coerce Alex into giving the treasure he supposedly ate as treatment.
"Rowan, are you trying to scare Alex?" He asked aggressively.
Rowan simply raised his hands to emphasize his harmless persona. "I was just curious, that's all."
Jonas squinted his eyes as he looked at Rowan. Others might think Rowan was a useless delinquent, but Jonas was suspicious that Rowan was actually hiding his strength. And this secretive nature made him doubt Rowan's origins. He didn't have a good impression of Rowan as a person.
After everyone returned to their desks, Alex quietly decided to verify his own status.
Alex Hail]
[Ordinary Grade - 3]
[Cultivation System - Crazy Immortal Sutra]
[Skills - Gun Technique (Ordinary), Hunting (Ordinary)]
After class, Alex visited the high school library. While the knowledge in the public domain was rather intensive, the school's library would have clearance to digitized archive of books and research that would otherwise be unavailable freely on the network.
Alex decided to use this network access to study any information about the Crazy Immortal Sutra that was available. The mystery and the changes he observed within himself were extremely atypical even in the world of Crazy Immortal Sutra practitioners.
After creating an anonymous client, Alex accessed the library database and began searching for all kinds of information about the Crazy Immortal Sutra. He found an interesting collection of books and research papers that he had not found on the public domain.
There had been several researches into the study of luck, and since his cultivation technique involved the manipulation of luck, there had been considerable investigation into its workings. That a simple formulation of energy could create a luck vortex was extremely counterintuitive and modifications to the technique to funnel good luck instead of bad luck had not worked.
There was even a theory that good luck was simply an illusion. That bad luck was something tangible that existed and serendipitous good luck was just a manifestation of the absence of bad luck. This theory cited the Crazy Immortal Sutra as being evidence for its validity, since the Sutra manipulated bad luck and no modification allowing good luck to be channeled into the body worked.
However, this theory seemed to be criticized because there were evidence of rare monsters and monster skills that manifested positive luck attributes, tearing the premise of this theory apart. While Alex found this interesting in itself, he was more interested in finding the cause behind his anomalous increase in strength and the mysterious triple helix energy cycle.