Caesar's Arrival, Hamon-style Electric Current Push! / Lisa Lisa, Hamon Has Its Limits, So I'm Giving Up Being a Hamon User!

Lisa Lisa handed the Super Aja Stone straight to Qin Qi without a care. To a human, it was really just a gemstone.

Though it had an amplifying effect, it wasn't actually practical in battle, so its symbolic significance outweighed its practical value.

"You can study it all you like, but don't damage it. There was a prophecy a long time ago: if the Super Aja Stone is destroyed, the Pillar Men can never be defeated."

Lisa Lisa gave him that warning.

"A prophecy..."

Qin Qi suddenly remembered the first part of JoJo. Uncle Zeppeli had foreseen that he himself would be when he trained in Hamon.

And now someone had even foreseen many years ago that the Super Aja Stone would be needed to banish Kars beyond the universe.

It seemed Hamon might also have the ability to peer through time and foresee the future!

"Lisa Lisa, how was that prediction made?"

Qin Qi wanted to learn that move. If he could foresee the future, he could seize the initiative in many matters, and it would be a great help in battle too.

"I don't know."

Lisa Lisa shook her head. Master Tonpetty had once been able to predict a person's future fate through touch.

But she didn't know how he did it, and neither did his other disciples. What they could be sure of was that it was a form of Hamon.

"But no matter what, I must carry out my mission from beginning to end."

Lisa Lisa gazed out across the sea. The wind swept up her long, lustrous black hair, and a trace of sorrow showed in her eyes as she looked into the distance.

She seemed to be missing her family far away, or perhaps grieving over her lonely life.

"What's with this art style?!"

Qin Qi couldn't help making the comment. No wonder JoJo the Second had peeped at his mom through a keyhole. His damn mom's looks were in a completely different art style from the rest of them.

She was already in her fifties, yet she was still beautiful and charming. Combined with her mature air, she was truly enough to set a heart racing.

If only he had come earlier, he would definitely have pursued Lisa Lisa. Damn it, how infuriating!

After a few such remarks, Qin Qi focused on studying the Super Aja Stone. It concentrated and amplified power, multiplying its might many times over.

Sounded familiar, didn't it? That was right-wasn't it just an object version of the Complete Realm?

Qin Qi planned to study it and see how he could use it to improve his control over power.

Chapter 9: Caesar's Arrival, Hamon-style Electric Current Push!

[In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Through your constant efforts, you developed a method to increase the concentration of your Hamon.]

"By injecting Hamon into the Super Aja Stone, then absorbing the concentrated Hamon back into my body..."

"It circulates once, and because of the nature of Once Proven, Forever Proven, as long as I do it once, I can definitely do it again."

"As long as I repeat this, my body can gradually master this concentrated Hamon. The next time I use it, I can directly unleash concentrated Hamon."

Qin Qi looked at the Super Aja Stone in his hand. He had succeeded, but he seemed to have taken a different path.

It wasn't the Complete Realm that improved his control over Hamon, but another path that improved the quality of his Hamon.

Well, all in all, it was a good thing.

Concentrated Hamon had stronger effects and greater power, tempered the body better, and had greater penetrating power when released.

[After mastering how to use the Super Aja Stone, you kept it on your person.]

[Although Lisa Lisa did not understand why, she trusted you and did not ask for it back.]

[Just like that, another half month passed in the blink of an eye. One day, while training on the seabed, you suddenly discovered that you could use Hamon even without breathing.]

"Hm?!"

While exercising on the seabed, Qin Qi suddenly noticed Hamon beginning to emerge from his hand. He was startled.

"The essence of Hamon is to produce ripples through breathing, thereby stimulating and gathering the life energy in the cells."

"But I can't breathe right now?!"

Qin Qi tried it many times in the water and confirmed that he could use Hamon. He could even use it to electrocute fish on the seabed!

After successfully testing it, he immediately went ashore, found Lisa Lisa, and demonstrated it to her.

"This... you can release Hamon without breathing? How did you do it?!"

Lisa Lisa was shocked too. Since time immemorial, no matter what realm one reached in Hamon cultivation, breathing had always been necessary to unleash it.

But now Qin Qi had overturned that common understanding, using Hamon without breathing!

"I'm not sure myself. I discovered it by accident too."

Qin Qi thought it might be the effect of Once Proven, Forever Proven, but he didn't know how it had been done. Over the following period, he and Lisa Lisa spent a long time studying and analyzing it.

In the end, they reached a conclusion.

"The essence of the Ripple Breathing Method is to use special breathing to make the blood vibrate, passing those vibrations along to the cells, and the cells are the body."

"Hamon gathers the life energy in the body, then gathers it in the blood, and finally unleashes it to form Hamon. That is the complete Ripple Breathing Method."

"But now my body can produce those vibrations without special breathing, thereby gathering life energy."

Qin Qi and Lisa Lisa concluded that, because the cells in his body had adapted to the frequency of those vibrations, they no longer needed breathing to-

They could produce vibrations on their own and thus transmit Hamon!

"Th-that's an incredible discovery and breakthrough!"

"Breathing has always been a Hamon warrior's greatest weakness. If that weakness can be overcome, Hamon warriors will become much stronger!"

Lisa Lisa looked at Qin Qi, some wonder and delight in her eyes. She was happy about his progress.

"There's still room to develop it further."

Qin Qi felt this wasn't the end. He could keep developing it and become stronger, more formidable, and have even greater potential!

[Over the following period, you continued developing it in this direction, gradually becoming able to release Hamon through your hair.]

[You also used the principle of cellular vibration to continuously strengthen the vibrations of your cells, allowing them to release more energy!]

[You opened up a deeper realm in the Ripple Breathing Method, which had originally reached its limit!]

[Your physical condition, Hamon strength, and quantity of Hamon all steadily improved!]

[But one day, a blond youth suddenly came looking for Lisa Lisa, claiming to be the son of an old friend of hers.]

[He brought news of his father's death and begged Lisa Lisa to teach him Hamon. He wanted to defeat the Pillar Men and avenge his father.]

[After some hesitation, Lisa Lisa agreed and introduced you to Caesar.]

"Qin Qi, this is the son of an old friend of mine, Caesar."

Lisa Lisa was feeling somewhat down. Hearing of her old friend's death saddened her deeply, but she still acted as though nothing were wrong in front of Qin Qi and Caesar.

"Caesar. Caesar Antonio Zeppeli."

Caesar looked at Qin Qi, who was a good deal shorter than him, and introduced himself very formally.

In the past, he wouldn't have said Zeppeli when introducing himself, but this time he added it, because he had discovered that the surname was actually his glory.

His father hadn't abandoned them. He had misunderstood in the past. He would have his revenge and atone as well!

"Qin Qi."

Qin Qi reached out and shook hands with the blond youth before him. "Caesar, would you like to experience what the power of Hamon is really like?"

"If you want to use Hamon against your enemies, you ought to know what it's like first, right? How about we have a fight?"

Qin Qi issued the invitation with a smile.

"Okay!"

Caesar agreed without hesitation. He wasn't afraid of fighting, and what was more, he had just experienced his father's death and needed another way to vent.

A fight was a very good way to do that.

A note here: there's a common misconception about the generation and transmission of Hamon. Generating Hamon requires the flow of blood.

So Hamon cannot be generated in places like hair, where no blood flows, but it can be transmitted through them after it has been generated.

Everyone, make sure you understand the difference. Finally, JoJo is almost over, and we'll be returning to Little Garden soon.

Chapter 10: Lisa Lisa, Hamon Has Its Limits, So I'm Giving Up Being a Hamon User!

Lisa Lisa watched the two men as they prepared to fight. Standing to the side, she opened her mouth but said nothing.

Since they had both agreed, she had no reason to stop them. Besides, Qin Qi was right: experiencing the power of Hamon before learning it was a very good choice.

"Ha!"

Once he was ready, Caesar threw a punch straight at him. Years spent on the streets had given him decent fighting skills.

But how could someone who practiced martial arts possibly beat an immortal cultivator?

"Biu!"

Qin Qi made the shape of a pistol with his thumb and forefinger. Hamon condensed into golden lightning and shot straight into Caesar at tremendous speed.

"Thud!"

Caesar first felt his body slip out of his control and fell stiffly to the ground. Then his consciousness began to blur, and the next second he fell unconscious.

"All right, find him a room and let him rest properly for a while."

Qin Qi looked at Caesar lying on the ground, then turned to Lisa Lisa and spoke.

"If you let Caesar experience Hamon like that, he won't feel much of anything, will he?"

Lisa Lisa still hadn't processed what had happened. She frowned and looked at Caesar on the ground as she spoke.

"Concern clouds the mind, Lisa Lisa. That's the state you're in right now."

"Caesar's eyes are red right now, and he agreed to fight me the moment I suggested it. That's obviously because of his father's death."

"The pressure on his mind is enormous. He can't sleep or eat, and his physical and mental condition is very poor right now."

"How is he supposed to learn Hamon in that state? If he gets too impatient, he could even hurt his own body."

"I told him we should duel only because I thought he definitely wouldn't agree if I just told him to rest. So I simply used this method to knock him out."

Qin Qi shook his head. He wasn't someone who liked fighting, and he liked picking on rookies even less. He had only done this to find a reason to knock Caesar out.

"Is that so? Phew, I misunderstood."

Lisa Lisa rubbed her eyes. She really did feel a little tired. Something so obvious had happened, yet she hadn't realized it just now.

"Just take Caesar to the room next to yours. I'm... a little tired. I'll go rest first."

With that, Lisa Lisa turned and left. Neither her mood nor her condition was very good today.

"Got it."

Qin Qi said nothing more. He carried the unconscious Caesar to the room, then took two bottles of wine to Lisa Lisa's room.

"Care for a drink?"

Qin Qi spoke.

"Okay."

Lisa Lisa didn't refuse. She sat down and drank with Qin Qi, and gradually she became a little tipsy. She began telling him how she had met Caesar's father.