Becoming a life winner from infancy

With the moon landing, Fang You and the company embarked on the journey home.

The endless summer vacation has finally come to an end!

Although this summer vacation lasted only two months, for Fang You, it felt like a year or even longer.

After completing the reading goal of 100 million characters, Fang You gained a new type of energy called knowledge energy, thanks to unlocking "Mountain of Books Strategy".

Knowledge energy is an indispensable type of energy for Fang You to level up to the growth stage 8 and it also includes a new category of talent— "Knowledge Talent".

Knowledge Talent is distinct from Growth Talent and the Golden Talent for physical modification obtained from Joyous Man's lottery; these talents can be turned on or off at will, which in a sense, are approaching the existence of superpowers.

Each talent is extremely important.

"Breath Perception" turned Fang You into a human-shaped radar, greatly assisting him in martial arts and helping him find Nuo Nuo during the fireworks show.

The diminished presence from "Deeply Hidden" means Fang You no longer needs to constantly disguise his handsome features, allowing him to play the role of an inconspicuous handsome passer-by at any time.

"Domain Expansion" is a special Knowledge Talent related to the secret base 'Paradise'.

It transformed the little cabin they discovered while taking shelter from the rain into their very own secret operations base, unlocking a host of new features, and although it consumed a considerable amount of knowledge energy, this secret base can be said to be the starting point of Emperor Youyou's ambitious undertakings and is a very important existence for him.

Of course, the most important are the talents "In Father's Name" and "Eyes Like Torches".

"In Father's Name" made it possible for Fang You to share his talents with the people around him, and even though he can't yet freely control the type and amount of talent given, it made it possible for Fang You's companions to keep up with his pace.

This ability also helped Fang You assist Meng Qing, the novice elder sister of the Martial Arts Hall, in overcoming her inner demons and completing the Hall Challenge for the fashion competition, unlocking the "Eyes Like Torches" talent subsequently.

"Eyes Like Torches" appears to be a talent for discerning people's potential, helping Fang You identify formidable individuals around him. It was precisely by relying on this ability that Fang You got acquainted with Lin Qiaoen, the current world's number one Joker, Paru.

Meng Qing, Lin Qiaoen, Daddy Yu, these are new friends Fang You made this summer, including sisters and uncles, each with their unique characteristics and strengths. Fang You believes their meeting wasn't just for this summer and will definitely be of great importance in the future.

Ah right, it seems an important talent has been overlooked...
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"Rational Persuasion" hasn't been mentioned yet!

This talent was unlocked after saving Uncle Song Hang and convincing him to abandon the thought of suicide. The ability of this talent is quite unrivaled; by reasoning, if the system deems the reasoning successful, the thoughts and cognition of the other party will be disrupted by your words.

While this ability does not necessarily have a decisive effect on others, it has indeed influenced their cognition.

Therefore, this ability is considered somewhat dangerous by Fang You, as Emperor Youyou doesn't think everyone around him needs to be a puppet that follows his every command.

Beyond these new talents and friends, there have been many changes with the people around Fang You too.

Let's not talk about Nuo Nuo for now.

Uncle Xia, Xia Anyang, initially was all about supplying Fang You with energy daily, eventually getting used to it while in Qiankun City and finally letting go. Now he provides Fang You with very little energy, and it might be difficult for him to release energy in the future.

Fang You's father closed the distance between them by playing with paper planes and Paru together, and after returning from Qiankun City, he started to work hard in reflection and planning, seemingly setting targets for effort.

Ling Nai, after a long absence, was met again over the summer vacation. The days spent building the secret base were joyful, and Ling Nai revealed her dream of becoming a voice actress, showing that it's impressive to strive for a dream at her age.

As for Ayu...

It seems like everyone is eager to see what Ayu looks like, right?

Today is the day Ayu returns from Star Harbor with her dad.

After a month at sea, Luo Xianyu's return surprised Fang You and Xia Nuo who came to greet her—

She sported a sun-kissed wheat complexion, and when Xia Nuo and Fang You saw her, they almost didn't recognize her.

"Ayu! You've turned into a little yellowfish!"

"Hehe, not being dried into a fish jerky is already pretty impressive!"

Luo Xianyu placed her hands on her hips, seemingly proud of herself.

At this moment, seeing Fang You approaching, she suddenly yelled out:

"Youyou!"

"What's up?"

"Nothing, I just, just wanted to call you."

...

Ayu became strange.

She seemed to be less shy than before.

But Fang You could feel that Ayu's behavior was no longer as close to him as it had been.

After Luo Xianyu reconciled with her fish dad, although her personality became much more cheerful, she now felt somewhat estranged when meeting and talking to her dad of so many years.

In the past, she would cling to him and call out 'Dad,' but now she just calls out from a distance... is that how it is?

Ah, this is an inevitable part of the journey of growth.

This is what Nuo Nuo described as 'a girl distancing from her father,' and now I finally understand it!

The arrow Fang You shot at Xia Anyang ultimately hit his own heart.

At that moment, Luo Xianyu hugged Xia Nuo for a bit, then said, "How is our paradise? I haven't been there for so long, I want to go take a look."

"Ah! Speaking of that, I haven't been there for a long time either, Youyou, let's go together! It's a good opportunity to clean it up."

"Sure, no problem."

Fang You paused for a moment, "Though, you don't have to worry about the cleaning... I've already cleaned it up when I returned."

"Damn it, how could you sneak off to the paradise without me and not take me with you!"

Xia Nuo immediately wrapped his arms around Fang You's neck and climbed on top of him to mess with him.

...

The details of the [Automatic Cleaning] feature are still hard to explain, better gloss over it for now.

However, thinking about it, now that Ayu seems somewhat distant, and Uncle Xia has also let go, Fang You's growth must unavoidably enter a slow phase.

Emperor Youyou must realize how difficult it is for him to evolve again.

An entire 500,000 points on the growth level energy bar!

The first time I realized how important Zi Han is to me.

Maybe I should also prepare to develop some new roles to burst my energy.

Or perhaps, following the usual pattern, after achieving this growth goal, will there also be a new type of energy available for absorption?