Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 33 Titan Blood Crystal

In the air, the round pumpkin carriage looked like a pumpkin magnified many times over, with even its four wheels dyed a warm orange.

A small white horse pulls the pumpkin carriage forward, its hooves flying merrily.

Ahead of the carriage, a bridge made of candies rapidly materialized, stretching from the sky to the ground.

Although all of this was just an illusion, or rather, a manifestation of some kind of ritual magic, Xia Fa was still somewhat dazzled by it.

The pumpkin carriage landed quickly, and the doors opened.

With a "hey!" a pair of small, white feet jumped down and landed on the slightly stained long wooden floor.

The dirty floor made the delicate whiteness of those little feet stand out even more.

"Shafa, I'm back!"

Benedict waved her delicate arms vigorously at Shafa, the doll-like girl's face flushed with excitement.

A smile appeared on Xia Fa's face:

"Well, welcome back."

The candy bridge and pumpkin carriage, along with the pony, slowly disappeared behind her, but Benedict didn't care. Instead, he immediately moved closer to Shafa.

She hid her two little hands behind her back, her big eyes sparkling, looking mysterious.

"Xia Fa, guess what I found on this training trip?"

Xia Fa decided to tease her, so he pretended to be thinking:

"Hmm...that's a bit hard to guess...let me think..."

The doll-like girl was smug and was about to reveal the answer herself.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Xia Fa seemed to have a flash of inspiration and said:
"Could it be... the Mithril Holy Symbol and a high-level secret contract?"

Benedict Cumberbatch froze, as surprise slowly seeping into her golden-red pupils:

"You...you...how did you guess so accurately?"

Xia Fa chuckled slightly, pointing to the brass-covered notebook spread out on the table:

"It's written all over there, are you stupid?"

The doll girl then suddenly realized:

"Oh, I knew it! It was my first time training, I completely forgot..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the copper-cased notebook closed by itself.

A dazzling orange-red light burst forth instantly, like red-hot iron, blinding the two of them.

The light... was coming from the notebook's copper cover!
Xia Fa was slightly startled, thinking that the magical notebook was about to spontaneously combust. He condensed ice crystals in his hand, just about to make a move.

But immediately, the light seemed to "strip" off the notebook and surged towards Benedictine, the doll girl!
She closed her eyes, a look of enjoyment on her delicate face.

"This is……"

Now it was Xia Fa's turn to be puzzled. What was going on?
Soon, all the light was absorbed by Beneath. She opened her eyes, her gaze shining brightly, and countless secret runes flashed in her golden-red eyes.

Seeing Shafa's puzzled look, Benedict smiled and explained:
"It's the embers of our trials! That's how our puppet clan works. We grow stronger through repeated trials, and then we master all sorts of incredibly powerful talents and abilities!"

The embers of experience...

Xia Fa murmured to himself, finding it quite magical.

So, the doll girls don't need to sign secret contracts or absorb extraordinary power; they can just grow stronger by training and absorbing the embers of that training?
Knowing that the Embers of Trial originated from "Benise's Trial Notes," Xia Fa secretly took note and decided that he must keep this notebook safe in the future.

"Here, this is for you! I was interrupted a bit earlier and almost forgot."

The doll-like girl smiled and spoke, extending her small hand from behind her back, revealing her fair palm. In her left palm was a round, dark silver badge—the Mithril Holy Emblem.

As she opened her right hand, the black animal hide, which had been crumpled up, slowly unfolded, revealing ancient and complex secret scripts engraved on it—the very same Secret Code of the Radiant Sun!
However, to Xia Fa's surprise, there was an oval-shaped red crystal wrapped inside the black animal hide.

"What is this?" Xia Fa asked curiously, pointing to the oval-shaped red crystal.

"This is Titan Blood Crystal... Hmm, I heard from my sisters that it's very useful to giants, but not so useful to humans. Unless you can take it to a planet inhabited by giants to exchange for it, it'll only sell for about one or two gold pounds."

As Benedict spoke, he laughed:
"It was embedded in that treasure chest, I just took it off without thinking, hehe, aren't I clever?"

Without saying a word, she shoved all three items into Xia Fa's hands, and then curiously began to look around the small attic.

It was only then that Xia Fa noticed that Benedict was still wearing that brown rag, with a rope tied around her waist to secure it, which made her waist look slender and beautiful. Her smooth, long legs and delicate little feet were exposed under the hem of her clothes.

In other words, after returning to the Ingenious Castle in the Endless Realm, she was in such a hurry to find the Mithril Holy Symbol that she didn't even have time to change into a new set of clothes.

Xia Ding stared intently at her as she curiously turned her little head to examine the furniture in the room, and for some reason, a feeling stirred within him.

Composing himself, he picked up the paper bag with the rose pattern from the sofa.

"Benise, this is for you."

The doll-like girl asked curiously:
"what is this?"

Xia Fa smiled:
"I bought you a little dress and shoes."

Beneath's clear eyes suddenly lit up:
"Wow, really?"

She immediately took out the Lolita-style fitted dress from the paper bag, held it up to her chest, and then looked up in surprise:

"It fits perfectly! And it looks so good!"

She then took out black round-toed leather boots and white socks with lace trim from the paper bag.

Then, in front of Xia Fa, she began to untie the rope wrapped around her waist, which was used to secure the brown, tattered clothes.

Xia Fa was startled:
"You...what are you doing?"

Benedict, without pausing, looked up and said in a very natural tone:
"Changing clothes, what's wrong?"

"Ahem," Xia Fa coughed lightly twice before continuing, "Don't you even try to hide your clothes from people when you're changing..."

The doll-like girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, as if recalling something:
"It seems... we don't need to... all the older sisters change clothes like this."

Xiafa: ...

Okay, he forgot about that.

The Doll Girl Clan, as the name suggests, consists entirely of doll girls.

Perhaps there are also doll ladies, doll noblewomen, or even doll queens... but they are all girls, so it seems there's nothing to hide.

Suddenly, Benedict's eyes lit up, and she held up a finger, as if she had just realized something, and said:

"I remember now! My sisters said that if the contractor is a boy, there are indeed some things to be careful about at first, especially when changing clothes and taking a bath. Hmm! That's it! I'll go upstairs then~"

Seeing her lithe and tall figure swiftly running upstairs, her smooth golden hair cascading down as she ran, the strands bouncing on her snow-white shoulders and back, Xia Fa finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But he immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Wait, at the beginning?"

Before he could think further, the delicate voice of the doll-like girl came from upstairs.

"Xia Fa, I'm all changed, I'll be right down. Can you check if it looks good?"

(End of this chapter)