67: Chapter 67 Beijing

After staying at home for three days, his uncle and the others had already mastered the movements for Basic Antagonistic Training.

Chen Mo had broken down the key points of force generation for each movement and taught them, ensuring that even if he wasn't there to correct them, they could still practice correctly on their own.

Before leaving, he gave them a reminder: "Keep doing it every day, and practice whenever you have time."

Then, he went to the resettlement apartment. The apartment was on the ninth floor of a fifteen-story building.

His uncle had already moved everything from their old house over.

Chen Mo stood in the living room and scanned the area, feeling quite satisfied.

At least there was a place to stay when he returned, and these things wouldn't need to be moved around anymore.

However, he probably wouldn't be coming back very often himself.

He turned around and closed the door.

It was time to leave.

Chen Mo walked out of the city and activated his Force Field behind an abandoned factory in the uninhabited suburbs.

The light bent around him, his body's outline blending into the weeds and dilapidated brick walls behind him, and then he leaped from the ground and flew towards the north.

The straight-line distance from Yi City to Jing City was about one thousand kilometers.

Half an hour later, he arrived at Jing City.

He lowered his altitude at the edge of the city, avoiding flight paths, and passed through the cluster of high-rises under the invisibility of his Force Field, finally hovering outside a thirty-story building in the city center.

It was the headquarters of the Bureau of Spiritual Qi and Evolution; rows of military vehicles were parked downstairs, and the guards at the entrance were checking the identification of those entering and leaving.

Chen Mo spread out his Mental Energy through the glass curtain wall.

The internal structure of the building emerged layer by layer in his perception.

The twelfth floor; he had found it.

Cheng Jian was in a testing room.

The room was large, with the four walls painted in light gray anti-static paint and the floor covered with athletic flooring.

The walls were covered with electronic screens, displaying real-time heart rate, blood oxygen, electromyographic signals, and respiratory rate.

Several researchers in white lab coats sat behind the equipment, staring at the waveforms constantly jumping on the screens.

Beside them were several other testers, also wearing training uniforms, who were performing a different set of movements.

Cheng Jian stood in the center of the testing room, performing a set of Basic Antagonistic Training.

His movements were very standard, and the range and duration of each antagonistic pull matched the requirements in the manual.

His force generation sequence was much smoother than it had been three months ago; his transversus abdominis tightened first, followed by the erector spinae, and then the latissimus dorsi and pectoralis major activated almost simultaneously, with the line of force transmitting from the spine to his limbs.

Chen Mo knew with just one glance that Cheng Jian's Force Multiplier had already reached 1.4 times.

In just over three months, pushing his Force Multiplier from zero to nearly 1.5 times solely through his own hard work was an extremely fast speed among ordinary people.

Based on Cheng Jian's current progress, after another one or two months of training, his Force Multiplier would be able to break through the 1.5 times threshold.

By then, he would be able to start perceiving the Rhythm inside his body.

From finding the Rhythm to truly mastering the core of the Human Breathing Method, this stage was marked in the manual as taking three to six months.

Cheng Jian now had the full support of the state, could focus on training every day, and had various equipment, so the speed should be even faster.

Next to the testing room was the research area.

Chen Mo's Mental Energy passed through the walls and saw a larger conference room.

Dozens of researchers sat around a long table, with the movement breakdown diagrams and electromyogram waveforms from the manual projected on the wall.

In the center of the conference table were several versions of comparative data for simplified training plans.

Adjustments to movement range, duration, and antagonistic pairing methods were all marked with the testers' electromyographic feedback for each item.

Chen Mo carefully scanned the comparative data.

Although they still couldn't perceive Spiritual Qi, they had already broken down the basic movements in the manual very thoroughly.

Each movement was broken down into several sub-stages, the electromyographic signals for each sub-stage were extracted individually, and then the feedback from each group of testers was compared to find the optimal movement range and duration.

This method was very scientific; by using objective data like electromyograms and heart rate to replace subjective feelings, they could iterate optimal standardized training plans even without anyone being able to perceive Spiritual Qi.

However, progress on the subsequent advanced content—Mental Perception training, respiratory Rhythm, and the core of the Human Breathing Method—was very slow.

It wasn't that they weren't working hard.

It was that they were missing a key condition.

So far, no one had truly practiced to the core stage of the Human Breathing Method.

Without samples, there was no data.

Without data, there was no way to verify the feasibility of the latter part of the manual.

The research team could only break down the text of the manual page by page, discussing each term repeatedly, trying to find a Breakthrough from a theoretical level.

But the Human Breathing Method wasn't something derived from theory; it was something Chen Mo had groped out through physical sensation while in a state of Mental Power Breakthrough 3.0 and Unity of Spirit and Flesh.

Without this state, just by looking at the literal descriptions, there would be a significant misunderstanding.

This was precisely one of the situations Chen Mo wanted to see when he handed over the manual.

The power of the state could break down, optimize, and promote the basic parts on a large scale, with efficiency far higher than any individual.

But Breakthroughs in the core part still needed to be practiced by individuals.

And once someone managed to practice it, there would be a second person, a third person.

Once different people mastered the Human Breathing Method and produced different Rhythm frequencies, he could begin comparative research: what were the differences between different Rhythm frequencies?

Which parameters were variable, and which were common?

Where was the upper limit of the Human Breathing Method?

What was the advanced path?

Cheng Jian alone could not provide the answers to these questions.

It required enough samples and enough time.

Chen Mo hovered outside the window for a moment, committing every piece of data he could perceive in the research area to memory.

The research team needed a few months to break through the theoretical barriers of the latter part, and Cheng Jian needed time to break through the 1.5 times Force Multiplier threshold.

When these two timelines intersected, he would come again.

Right now, there was no information here that he needed.

Chen Mo turned around, and the Force Field slid silently away from the outside of the building.

He left from above Jing City without continuing to go into seclusion.

It was rare to be back, so he wanted to go out and take a look, to see the world, and by the way, broaden his horizons.

Over the past few months, his range of activity had basically been limited to three locations: his hometown, Beier Lake, and the Mariana Trench.

He had only seen a rough idea of what the world had become after the Spiritual Energy Revival online and while flying over it.

The details of those abnormal changes, the ways different countries responded, and how far animals had progressed under the nourishment of Spiritual Qi—all these needed to be seen with his own eyes.

He decided to go to the nearby Wa country first, and then to the United States.

Chen Mo changed direction and flew towards the east.