Deleting Human Limits

"If I could set a strength-increasing trait for my body, my brain hole absorption speed would also greatly increase."

While absorbing the magma, Bai Ge was also thinking.

There were many ways to increase strength, such as altering muscle structure, changing cellular tissue strength, or modifying bone hardness...

Possessing a trait that allowed him to lift hundreds or thousands of times his own weight.

Or setting superhuman jumping ability.

But none of these were suitable for Bai Ge.

What Bai Ge wanted was to become strong gradually, like a long, steady stream. After experiencing the benefits of growth-type traits, he no longer wanted traits that directly made him stronger.

"If I directly set my strength to be several times greater, what if it's not enough later? Should I then increase it a few more times? Again and again, each time costing more energy than the last, where will it end?"

If it were in the past, Bai Ge would have imitated ants, or Spider-Man, or even directly added superpowers to himself if he had enough energy in the future.

But now, he decided to solve the problem once and for all.

"Humans can increase muscle strength, physical fitness, body coordination, and even reaction speed through training."

"Comprehensive physical fitness, every aspect can be strengthened through training, however, the human body has its limits."

The limits of the human body were determined by its ancient survival environment; factors like oxygen content and Earth's gravitational constant influenced this.

Not only that, but it also included the nutrients the human body needed, the speed of metabolic turnover, the upper limit of cell active division, and so on.

Consuming sugar and protein determined the ultimate limit.

If humans had always needed something else, like drinking sulfuric acid or consuming plutonium, then the human body's limits would also be an unpredictable value.

"Can I directly change the human body's limit, or perhaps simply... I have no limits!"

If the human body's limit was a limiter.

A peak physical quality set by nature through its inherent laws for different species in different environments.

What would happen if this peak was removed, if this restriction was abolished?

The greatest possibility was possessing infinite potential for growth.

For example, an athlete, after several years of training, would have extremely strong physical fitness. But this growth through training would eventually slow down, or even stagnate.

The first year yielded significant results, the second year yielded average results, the third year...

He would say, "Continuing to train like this has no further effect..."

If, at this point, the limits imposed by nature were removed, then by continuing to train like this, he would gain something from every session.

The more effort he put in, the more significant the results would be; the time and sweat he invested would be directly converted into gains.

If he gained something every day, and his physical fitness improved with every workout, then... he would eventually train himself into a god!

Of course, that would be assuming he had a sufficient lifespan.

"However, wouldn't this be too slow in the early stages?"

Bai Ge pondered continuously, while also having Bell assist him in setting up and refining the details.

"Just removing the peak isn't enough; that way, I would have to spend a lot of time to become strong."

"If it takes me ten years to reach the human limit through training, wouldn't training for a lifetime be less effective than directly enhancing my strength a hundredfold?"

Bai Ge wanted a growth trait, but he didn't want such a slow-growing trait.

"Got it!"

"Make the efficiency unrelated to the foundation; the amount of exercise required for 100% training effect will not increase as my physical fitness improves."

"Using my current training effect as a baseline, lock it in. The efficiency of my first workout will be the efficiency in the future. It won't decrease because my foundational physique is too strong."

"Meaning, no matter how strong I become, every workout will forcibly have the same efficiency as the first workout."

Here, Bai Ge set up an abnormal efficiency.

Efficiency wasn't effect; it was a ratio. Base value multiplied by efficiency equals effect. Normally, training efficiency decreases with increased physical strength, but Bai Ge intended to directly eliminate this relationship.

To give a simple analogy.

If Bai Ge now undergoes a high-intensity workout, because he is currently weak, the effect will be very good. Suppose lifting dumbbells one hundred times can increase arm strength by one kilogram.

Then, if he lifts dumbbells thirty thousand times a day, he can increase his arm strength by three hundred kilograms.

Persisting daily, over a year, he could lift ten million nine hundred fifty thousand dumbbells and increase his arm strength by one hundred nine thousand five hundred kilograms.

This was obviously quite absurd and distorted.

It was just an example, but this was the effect Bai Ge wanted.

He wanted to ensure that no matter how strong he became in the future, the effect of his training would always be as significant as when he was initially weak.

What kind of situation would this lead to?

When Bai Ge was an ordinary person, running ten kilometers would have a certain effect. Then, when Bai Ge became a superman, running ten kilometers would still have the same effect!

When Bai Ge could punch and destroy an island with a single blow, the effect of running ten kilometers would still be the same.

With such a setting, Bai Ge might have a very tough time initially.

But this hardship would eventually pass.

As Bai Ge grew stronger, his training would become simpler, eventually becoming mere formalities!

When Bai Ge eventually became extremely powerful, the training he did when he was weak would become effortless.

Right now, it took Bai Ge ten minutes of back-breaking work to lift a ten-kilogram dumbbell a hundred times. But once he became powerful, he could easily do a thousand in ten minutes.

If he could become as strong as Superman, what were ten kilograms to him? He could do ten thousand in a minute.

With this characteristic of continuously growing stronger while the training effects remained the same, Bai Ge's rate of improvement would increase exponentially.

Initially like an ordinary person, he would slowly surpass normal human limits, and eventually, a single day of training would yield more results than several years of past training!

To use a more direct analogy.

In online games, experience points are needed to level up. Each time you level up, the required experience points increase, even doubling.

Bai Ge's current setup was equivalent to needing the same amount of experience points for every level as the first level.

Level one required 100 experience points, level two also required 100... level one hundred also required 100... it would always only require that much.

But his power wasn't the same! His execution ability had improved!

Once his strength was sufficient, one skill could wipe out a large group, yet his level would continue to skyrocket.

No fool would create such an online game.

The same was true in reality; this kind of 'Divine Training' would not occur in any creature.

But the terror of this abnormal setting lay precisely in this...

"It can definitely be achieved, I just don't know how much of a price I'll have to pay..."

"First of all, this setting isn't a universal setting across the cosmos, but merely my personal exception."

"Secondly, I'm just tampering with existing settings, removing what should be there, deleting what should be set."

Bai Ge continuously adjusted the details, trying to minimize his own consumption.

But every time he tried to implement it in reality, he always failed.

"As expected, even if I minimize the consumption, it's still not something I can afford right now!"

"I have too little energy at the moment, I need to save up first!"

Bai Ge shook his head and silently left the brain hole.

He stayed submerged in the terrifying high-temperature magma, continuously absorbing the surrounding substances.

At the same time, the generator set in the brain hole was also working continuously, charging his appendix.

Nearly three hours later, Bai Ge returned to the brain hole from the magma.

It wasn't because he had enough energy, but because he needed to rest.

The "calm down" command was a forced method of calming himself, and it placed immense psychological pressure on him.

The discomfort of high pressure and suffocation tormented him. Although he could still endure it and continue to bear it, human endurance had its limits. He couldn't maintain his composure indefinitely without any adjustment, otherwise, the pain from this period would become a memory that would cause him unbearable agony whenever he recalled it.

Since he could return to the brain hole to catch his breath, there was no need to torment himself into developing a psychological trauma in one go.

"Human endurance is definitely limited. This terrifying pain, being able to endure it for three hours, must be the peak of all humanity. No one could possibly endure such extreme torment continuously without breaking down."

Bai Ge's return to the brain hole, though called rest, was merely to relax his mind.

To unlock the 'limiter,' he couldn't just sit idly.

Bai Ge asked, "Are there any radioactive elements?"

"Yes!" Bell replied.

Bai Ge nodded. The high temperature underground came partly from pressure and partly from radioactive elements.

The latter would ensure a continuous source of heat for the high-temperature magma.

"Very good!"

Bai Ge said, looking at the churning magma pool. Without the high pressure of the Earth's mantle, it had turned orange again.

It was contained within the meaningless box of spacetime, a place shaped like a pool by isolating spacetime itself.

In nearly three hours, Bai Ge had absorbed a total of 5,200 tons of magma.

Once the heat problem was solved, the radiation problem was also resolved.

When radiation touched Bai Ge's cells, it would be converted into electrical energy and then absorbed.

Since radiation was itself a method of heat transfer, by resisting the spread of heat, Bai Ge was also resisting radiation.

"Change back..."

Bai Ge reverted to his original form. In the brain hole, he didn't need to maintain his shadow form; there was no pressure a million times that of the surface here.

He tied his tie into a tight knot around his neck and approached the magma pool.

The tie possessed the same characteristic as the Shadow Person, so Bai Ge didn't have to worry about it being burned. He only needed to be careful not to let it leave his body.

Waves of heat washed over him, but Bai Ge felt absolutely nothing.

He had already lost the qualification to feel 'warmth.'

He could only experience extreme cold, but would never again know the sensation of heat.

He approached the lava pool step by step, using flight.

When his hand plunged into the lava pool, he saw wisps of electric arcs dancing and surging towards his entire body.

It was a truly incongruous feeling.

He was touching lava, yet what he felt was the exhilarating sensation of electricity entering his body.

After feeling that everything was fine, Bai Ge jumped directly into the lava pool.

Bai Ge was half-submerged in the lava pool, and the terrifying high temperature did not harm him.

Bai Ge's current heat tolerance limit was fifty thousand degrees, and the lava was only a little over five thousand degrees. The heat that reached his cells was converted into electricity before it could be transferred to Bai Ge.

This caused Bai Ge to stand there, electricity dancing, encircling, and jumping around him.

To absorb it faster, immersing his entire body in the lava was naturally the best option.

Bai Ge bent down, held his breath, and remained still.

An income of one hundred thousand degrees of electricity per hour was much better than his appendix.

"Logically, the conduction efficiency shouldn't be this high..."

"That's right! The conversion speed I set back then was one hundred million Planck times, which directly amplified the heat transfer efficiency!"

"Fantastic! The importance of geothermal energy to me lies in its freeness and sustainability. As long as I'm soaking in it, I get electricity!"

"There are a large number of radioactive elements here, continuously releasing thermal radiation, which is enough for me to absorb for a long time."

Ten hours.

Twenty hours.

Thirty hours.

Every ten hours, Bai Ge would go out to test if the 'Divine Training' Growth Trait could be realized.

The trait had already been endowed upon his Earthling body. As long as he had enough energy, going out and experiencing consumption would let him know if it had been recognized.

Unfortunately, after thirty hours, he still couldn't succeed.

"How much more do I need... I won't go up until I get it!"

Thirty days later...

p.s.: I know there are many aspects involved, but everyone just needs to know that the limiter has been unlocked.