Bioelectric Appliance

Bioelectric Appliance

"That's it! That's it! So that's how it is. What Qigong? The word 'qi' is far too misleading!"

"It's electricity, electricity! The human body is filled with countless electrochemical signals. Whether it's thinking or the coordination between organs, none of it can function without electrical impulses."

What sustained biological activity was electricity. Electrochemical signals transmitted the brain's intentions to every part of the body.

Whether organs or muscles, their movements relied on electrochemical reactions that were constantly taking place.

Releasing such bioelectricity required heat, and heat came from the work of the body's cells.

The human body simply had no Qi Sea. Most heat came from fat and muscle. Meridians were merely a dozen or so particularly important transport routes among countless pathways, while acupoints and hidden nodes were, ninety percent of the time, intersections of vital energy—equivalent to geographical "strategic chokepoints"!

"There's no such thing as opening up meridians or acupoints, because ordinary, healthy people are naturally already open!"

"If they weren't open, people would be paralyzed! Some blockages would even kill them!"

Even if energy cultivation truly existed, there was no way breaking through acupoint barriers and opening meridians could raise one's energy level. That violated the most basic logic.

It was like a power transmission line. If the circuit itself was blocked, no matter how strong the electrical energy was, it would be meaningless. It would instead overheat and burn out the line.

"Everyone is born with Internal Energy! Not just humans—all animals have it too. It is the foundation of life activities. Only unhealthy people are blocked."

"If cultivation exists, then it should strengthen the lines' capacity to withstand power. In other words, the higher the capacity of the life-energy tree diagram I can currently sense, the stronger the energy within the human body."

It was like nuclear fusion. Humanity had clearly invented such powerful energy, yet still could not use it to generate electricity because there was no reactor capable of withstanding temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees.

Combining the information he had seen with his knowledge of biology, Huang Ji quickly grasped the true essence of Internal Energy hidden beneath all that mystical terminology.

"Heat is the foundation of life. Electricity is the foundation of living. Only with electricity and heat can there be life. It's the same as an appliance—humans are merely biological electrical appliances."

"If there really is True Qi, then it ought to be called 'True Electricity.' Qigong ought to be called 'Electrical Power.' The rhythm of each person's life energy differs. If one could strengthen the internal force—or rather, the electric field—within the body, even if not by much, then drive it into another person with a punch, one could sever their life circuits, disrupt their vital functions, and cause all sorts of mysterious 'internal injuries.'"

"For example, a light palm strike could cripple someone's kidneys... then a finger strike could cause heart failure..."

"Conversely, one could also use one's countless positive nodes to strengthen bodily functions."

The more Huang Ji considered it, the more convinced he became. He could see through anyone's life-energy tree diagram. As long as he learned how to utilize the energy within his own body, its applications would be limitless.

Not only humans had it. Animals had it too, and even plants!

Huang Ji had seen the nodes in trees. Theoretically, he could even strike a tree's acupoints.

Aliens would have them too, unless something unexpected happened!

No matter what species an alien was, it would certainly have energy and pathways that supported its life functions. At most, the energy it used would be highly unusual.

Even robots had such life pathways.

"Robots? Huh, then what about rocks? Do all things have life and death?"

Once Huang Ji entertained that thought, he instantly sensed the interwoven model of pulse signals within the computer—some internal, some radiating outward.

Not only the computer, but the lamp, refrigerator, router... even the walls, bookshelf, and floor...

"Block it! Block it!" Huang Ji immediately realized that he needed to block it out.

Yet the flood of information from that instant still made his eyes roll back. He collapsed to the floor with a thud and lost consciousness.

By the time he woke up, it was nearly evening.

Enduring his headache, Huang Ji hurried back to the apartment.

He arrived just in time for dinner. Zheng Xuan merely assumed he had spent another afternoon reading and did not ask further.

After this experience, Huang Ji had already formed a rough idea of how to strengthen his body.

He first found an opportunity to log into that martial arts enthusiast's cloud drive again, downloading and printing all the martial arts manuals, Internal Martial Arts, and energy-nourishing methods the man had collected.

He then began examining their "success rates," selecting the best cultivation methods that could regulate breathing and guide the human body's energy.

Once Huang Ji understood the true essence of "Internal Energy," he could comprehend the information in this area as well.

"What the hell is all this... The success rates are outrageously low!"

Huang Ji shook his head as he read. The criteria for success alone eliminated more than half of them!

Some martial arts had no effect whatsoever in guiding the body's electrical energy, while others had ridiculously low odds. Only fifteen of them truly produced such an effect when practiced!

And among those fifteen, thirteen had an energy utilization rate below one percent!

Only two exceeded one percent: Tai Chi and Xing Yi.

Their utilization rates were 4.57% and 3.82%, respectively.

Worth mentioning was that when the two were practiced together and thoroughly integrated, the utilization rate reached as high as 16%.

And that was only the upper limit of what they could guide—it did not mean one would definitely achieve it through practice!

It was simple. Throughout history, only twenty people who practiced Tai Chi had felt warmth, and only two had been able to release electricity outward.

As for Xing Yi, it was about the same. Throughout history, only thirty-four people had felt warmth, and only one had released so-called electricity outward!

That one person had also mastered Tai Chi and many other forms of boxing.

What an outrageously... weak result!

More importantly, one had to practice for half a lifetime, at least ten or twenty years of hard work, before it was even possible to guide the energy within one's body.

"Crude, far too crude. Their secrets for combat and exerting force are impressive, but when it comes to guidance techniques, they can only barely be considered useful..."

"But it made sense. Their founders could not sense the pathways of life energy. Even their theoretical foundation was based on meridian theory, half guessed and half improvised, with experience passed down generation after generation in mystical language. Only then had they barely created these few sets of Internal Martial Arts capable of utilizing energy in modern times."

"They misunderstood the very nature of energy. It was already impressive that they achieved such effects. These martial arts primarily focused on blood, vitality, and force. They merely achieved a guiding effect indirectly, like blind cats stumbling upon dead mice..."

As Huang Ji pondered it, he realized that simply following their methods would not work.

Perhaps these martial arts were incomplete. Perhaps that netizen had failed to collect the truly powerful methods.

But more likely... no one had ever invented high-efficiency guidance techniques at all.

It was simple. Tai Chi Boxing ranked sixth in the world and seventh in history.

A "peerless martial art" ranked seventh in history had an energy utilization rate of only 4.57%. One could imagine just how poorly all humanity had developed life energy.

For guiding the body's energy, these martial arts could only serve as references. The fact that huge numbers of hidden acupoints had never even been named showed that no one, throughout history, had ever discovered them...

They did not even have alien names, which meant aliens had not discovered them either... Of course, perhaps it was not that they could not be discovered, but that aliens simply could not be bothered to catalog humanity's Hidden Acupoints.

Likewise, because no one had ever been able to clearly see the pathways of life energy, no one had ever invented targeted guidance methods.

Perhaps aliens had such methods, but anything aliens invented would surely be suited to their own bodies and unrelated to humans.

"I can only improve it myself. But creating a cultivation method with high efficiency and rapid progress is not something even I can do easily."

"My knowledge base is still insufficient. For now, I can only use a clumsy method."

Three more days passed. During those three days, Huang Ji studied day and night. Apart from necessary sleep, he devoted himself entirely to studying medicine and improving martial arts.

His method of improvement was brutally straightforward: patchwork "fusion."

There was already a ready-made example. Someone in history had practiced Tai Chi and Xing Yi together, achieving an astonishing 16% utilization rate—four times higher than practicing Tai Chi alone.

Huang Ji's fusion method was very simple: copy.

He copied the contents of every boxing art together. If the utilization rate dropped, it meant something was wrong, so he began cutting things away...

Move by move, he cut them down. Countless forms and techniques were repeatedly combined like individual elements.

There were too many possible combinations. Over three days, Huang Ji spent a total of twenty hours and only managed to fuse a cultivation method with a maximum utilization rate of 19.89%.

Still, one could achieve minor mastery after four to five years of practice, and it had already surpassed every known Internal Martial Art.

"Something still feels wrong..."

Huang Ji knew that this martial art was already extremely powerful. In the eyes of martial artists in the real world, it was practically a masterpiece that gathered the essence of every school, extracting the key principles of over a hundred boxing styles and forging them into one.

Yet he still felt it could be better.

"Right!"

Huang Ji slapped his forehead, having realized the key point.

The founders of these boxing arts had never known the pathways of life energy. Their guiding techniques had all been built upon ignorance of Hidden Acupoints and Hidden Meridians, achieving their effects only indirectly.

Therefore, no matter how these moves were combined, they could never be perfect.

The cultivation methods did not even contain the concept of incorporating Hidden Acupoints, much less the concept of incorporating bioelectric energy.

"I have to write it myself. Based on my understanding of Hidden Acupoints, I need to create techniques exclusively for 'Electrical Power.'"

P.S. Sorry.