62: Chapter 62 Body Force Field

Chen Mo sat cross-legged by the lake, his Mental Power sinking a layer inward.

The core change after the Breakthrough was emerging.

In the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh, his Mental Power had completed an unprecedented deep integration with his body.

An invisible Force Field had formed around his body.

He carefully sensed the boundaries of the Force Field.

It extended outward from his body as the center; its thickness and intensity changed with the injection of Mental Power and were also related to the strength of his body.

Chen Mo tried to activate it, using his Mental Power to control the Force Field.

His body felt lighter.

Something was supporting him from below.

Chen Mo discovered that his cross-legged posture had already left the ground by a few centimeters.

Chen Mo stood up and hovered in the air.

The rocks beneath his feet were already half a meter away.

He pushed upward, and his body rose steadily, crossing the lake surface and passing over the highest point of the Cape Khoboy cliff.

The lake surface shrank beneath him, and the canopies of the Taiga Forest formed a continuous ocean of dark green.

He was flying.

Not jumping, but free flight.

Chen Mo hovered above the cliff for a few seconds, then leaned forward and flew towards the lake.

At first, the speed was not fast; he was just skimming across the water surface.

Chen Mo began to accelerate.

He lowered his body, used his Mental Power to control the Force Field to accelerate, and the thrust increased suddenly.

The lake surface swept backward rapidly beneath him, and the wind pressure on his face became noticeable.

Then came a sonic boom.

The moment he broke the sound barrier, the air around his body was compressed into a conical shock wave, carving a straight white wake on the lake.

A huge explosion erupted behind him; the lake water churned from the sonic wave, and schools of fish within tens of meters beneath the surface instantly lost their orientation, floating up with their white bellies exposed.

The resistance increased sharply.

Chen Mo felt his consumption of Mental Energy rising exponentially; merely maintaining sonic flight was already more mentally taxing than his extreme underwater training.

The air was like an invisible wall blocking his path, and every acceleration was a head-on collision with this wall.

He pondered while flying.

The resistance in water was high, but during his underwater training, he had long learned how to reduce resistance by keeping his body streamlined and minimizing the frontal area.

But in the air, the main problem brought by high speed was not the frontal area, but the shock wave.

The core of the sound barrier was the shock wave surface formed after the air was compressed; the shape of the shock wave determined the magnitude of the resistance.

He used his Mental Power to touch the shock wave and perceive its shape; at that moment, it was a blunt arc-shaped wave, like a shield blocking his front.

Then he adjusted the Force Field, stretching it into a teardrop shape—sharp at the front, smooth in the middle, and tapered at the tail.

The angle of the shock wave changed, and the resistance dropped sharply.

The sound barrier disappeared.

Not breaking through, but dissolving.

The Force Field changed the way the air flowed, allowing the airflow to be guided, smoothed, and rearranged before it even touched his body.

Now, his flight did not rely on brute force to smash through the air; instead, like water flowing through a fish's gills, the air slid across the surface of the Force Field, leaving almost no turbulence.

Without the resistance of the shock wave, his speed began to climb rapidly.

The lake surface became a blue ribbon below, the Taiga Forest turned into dark green patches, and the cliff of Cape Khoboy shrank into a tiny dot.

His speed stabilized at nearly 600 meters per second, equivalent to 2,160 kilometers per hour, nearly twice the speed of sound.

At this speed, flying back to Yi City from here would only take about two hours.

Yet when he came, he had taken high-speed rail, trains, hiked across the border, and driven along the Siberian highway, spending nearly three whole days.

Chen Mo continued to explore other uses of the Force Field while flying.

He thought of light.

The Force Field could change the flow of air; could it change the propagation of light?

He adjusted the surface density of the Force Field, attempting to make it bend light rays.

Light beams hitting it no longer reflected or penetrated; instead, they slid along the curved surface of the Force Field.

Looking from his front, his body, wrapped by the Force Field, began to blur, its outline blending into the background.

But at the same time, his vision also darkened; the light outside was refracted away by the Force Field, and similarly, no light could enter the interior of the Force Field.

Invisibility was bidirectional.

He could not see outside, and the outside could not see him.

However, he had Mental Energy.

A perception range with a radius of one kilometer spread out; terrain, airflow, the positions of flying birds—all information was clearly presented in his consciousness.

His vision was temporarily blocked, but the mental field of view was more comprehensive than his eyes.

Chen Mo deactivated the invisibility, and light flooded back into his eyes.

He looked down at Beier Lake below, then made a decision.

Fly upward.

He positioned his body vertically, and the Force Field shifted to upward propulsion.

His altitude began to climb rapidly.

Ten thousand meters.

This was the cruising altitude of commercial flights.

The air was already too thin to breathe, and the temperature had dropped to minus fifty degrees, but his body no longer needed external oxygen.

spirit energy particles provided energy directly, and cellular metabolism could continue to function in an anaerobic state.

The Force Field insulated him from the low temperature and low pressure.

Thirty thousand meters.

The ozone layer became a pale blue veil beneath his feet.

Fifty thousand meters.

The sky began to darken; above his head, it was no longer blue, but a transitional color between deep purple and pitch black.

Without atmospheric scattering, the sunlight became sharp and blinding, casting a faint silver glow on the surface of the Force Field.

Eighty thousand meters.

The altitude was still increasing.

Until one hundred kilometers.

Chen Mo stopped here.

The Kármán line—the boundary between the atmosphere and space as defined by humanity.

The air was so thin it was almost non-existent; the temperature rose sharply under direct sunlight and plummeted sharply in the shadows.

The surface of the Force Field was simultaneously enduring a temperature difference of over a hundred degrees, both positive and negative.

He turned around, facing downward.

The planet unfolded beneath his feet.

The horizon was no longer a straight line.

A very thin cobalt blue halo clung to the edge of the planet's surface; that was the atmosphere's final scattering of sunlight.

Above the halo was pure pitch black; below the halo were the vast geographical outlines.

Beier Lake was like a deep blue crescent embedded in the green ocean of Siberia.

The Arctic ice cap to the north reflected blinding white light.

The Mongolian Plateau to the south and the northern plains of Xia Country stretched to the horizon.

Mountain ranges were like raised veins, and the coastlines were as clear as contour lines on a map.

There were no national borders, no cities, only continents and oceans rotating slowly.

Chen Mo hovered before this scene, silent for a long time.

He knew that one day he would stand here.

Ever since the first day he saw the white text "Infinite Growth" on his system panel.

But truly standing at the edge of the atmosphere, looking at the breathing planet beneath his feet, no language could describe the feeling of this moment.

Excitement, joy.

And a deeper kind of freedom that seeped out from his bones.

"So I can reach here."

"So I can really reach here."

He stood at the edge of space, with the entire continent beneath his feet, and nothing on his shoulders but the weight of the wind.

Then Chen Mo withdrew his thoughts.

He hovered at an altitude of one hundred kilometers, beginning to observe the environment at this altitude.

The air was so thin it could be ignored, but spirit energy particles were still distributed here; dissipated Spiritual Qi was everywhere.

Solar radiation, without atmospheric attenuation, struck the Force Field directly, and various high-energy particles continuously passed through his perception range.

Space debris streaked past nearby orbits at extremely high speeds.

Staying at this altitude for a long time required continuous consumption of Mental Energy to maintain the Force Field, and once a crack appeared in the Force Field, the vacuum, extreme temperatures, and radiation would cause immense damage to his body in an instant.

With his current strength, flying here was already his limit.

Continuing upward, truly entering orbit, would require facing prolonged vacuum exposure, stronger high-energy particle radiation, and micrometeoroid impacts without any atmospheric protection.

These were not things his current Force Field strength could withstand.

Moreover, the planet was too big.

His current speed was 600 meters per second, nearly twice the speed of sound.

It sounded fast, but on a planetary scale, this speed couldn't even reach the most basic low-Earth orbit speed.

It would take nearly nineteen hours to orbit the Earth once, and Earth was just a small rocky planet in the solar system.

Not enough.

His strength was not enough, his speed was not enough, and the intensity of his Force Field was not enough.

But this was only for now.

Chen Mo withdrew his gaze, slowly activated the Force Field, and began to descend.

Gravity took over his body again.

Dozens of minutes later, Chen Mo landed on the edge of the cliff.

His feet landed on the rocks, making a dull, soft sound.

He stood for a moment, letting his body re-adapt to the direction of gravity.

Then he sat down cross-legged and began to organize all the information gathered from this flight.

The Force Field was the most core harvest after his current Mental Power Breakthrough.

His flight speed was nearly twice the speed of sound, and combined with his invisibility ability, he could achieve optical stealth during ground observation and low-altitude maneuvering.

Regarding energy consumption, although the consumption of Mental Energy was high, his efficiency in absorbing spirit energy particles after the Breakthrough was enough to cover it.

The amount of spirit energy particles continuously absorbed during flight even exceeded his consumption, which meant he could fly indefinitely.

The real Bottleneck was not energy, but the intensity of the Force Field and the sustained concentration of his Mental Power.

He needed to incorporate the Force Field into his daily training system in the upcoming training.

Chen Mo stood up and looked at Beier Lake beneath his feet.

The lake water was still azure blue; the freshwater seal had surfaced again, its round eyes glancing toward the direction of the cave entrance.