75: Chapter 75 Source Power

Chen Mo activated his Force Field, his form rising from the mountain peak where he had been sitting cross-legged, hovering in mid-air.

That strike just now had exhausted all the strange power he had initially condensed throughout his body.

At this moment, every cell in his body felt like a wrung-out sponge—completely empty.

The Rhythm was still continuing, absorbing the scattered Spiritual Qi in the air through his breathing technique, but the efficiency of converting this scattered Spiritual Qi after it entered his cells was too slow.

With a thought from Chen Mo, his Infinite Growth ability operated at full power in coordination with his Mental Power.

With him as the center, spirit energy particles within a five-kilometer radius began to converge at an accelerated rate, swallowed in one gulp by his body.

Every cell was in Rhythm, and every cell was absorbing.

This time it was no longer a slow "drop by drop," but rather like a dry riverbed welcoming the first flood peak of the rainy season.

After the spirit energy particles entered the cells, driven by the Rhythm, they were compressed and condensed, regenerating that strange power.

One drop. Ten drops. A hundred drops. A thousand drops.

Chen Mo silently perceived this process.

This power was very special.

It was not simply refined from Spiritual Qi; when normal Spiritual Qi was absorbed by the body.

It would be converted into energy to support the body in continuously becoming stronger.

But this power was different.

In the process of its formation, Spiritual Qi was the raw material, Mental Energy was the catalyst, and the body's cells themselves were the reaction vessel.

The three were indispensable.

At the same time, the intensity of that strange power depended entirely on the strength of his body and Mental Power.

The stronger the body, the higher the cell conversion efficiency, and the higher the upper limit of power a single cell could contain.

The stronger the Mental Power, the higher the intensity of the Source Power produced after combining with the body.

And his body and Mental Power happened to be ridiculously strong.

This also explained the power of that tiny bit just now.

The amount of power he shot out from his fingertips just now was extremely small.

The bit extracted from his entire body likely accounted for less than one-thousandth of his total body capacity.

Yet even that tiny amount was able to blast a piercing hole through a 2,360-meter-thick granite mountain.

This was not because the power itself had a large volume, but because its quality was too high.

It was converted from his 185.4-ton physical strength and 14.7 Mental Power.

Even if there was only a sliver, its energy density far exceeded the limits reachable in the conventional sense.

Time passed minute by minute.

Half an hour later.

The strange power in the last cell in his body finished condensing.

At this moment, every cell in his entire body was filled with that pure power.

Energy was abundant. Unprecedentedly abundant.

But at the same time, his heart trembled slightly.

From complete exhaustion to full replenishment, it had taken a full half hour.

And this was while he was moving rapidly in the air and absorbing spirit energy particles over a large area.

Chen Mo knew best just how strong his body's recovery ability was.

In his daily training on the seabed.

Even when his muscles were torn, his bones were slightly cracked, and his fascia were pressed to the brink of their limit by high water pressure.

It only took three or four minutes of absorbing spirit energy particles to replenish and recover from exhaustion to full state.

This meant that the energy density contained in this power far exceeded any form of energy at the muscular level.

And at this moment, his whole body was packed full of this power.

It was over a thousand times the total amount in his body during that strike just now.

If it were all unleashed, how great would the destructive power be?

Chen Mo did not rush to test it.

Although the Beijing suburbs were remote, they were not far from densely populated areas after all, and any uncontrolled destruction could cause irreversible consequences.

Since he already knew this power had such high energy density and extremely strong destructive power.

And could be precisely controlled by his consciousness.

Then could he use it to do other things?

For example.

Tempering the body.

Since this power was formed by the combination of body, Mental Power, and Spiritual Qi, it was naturally highly compatible with the body's internal structure.

Would using it to temper his muscles, bones, and fascia be more effective than external pressure?

Once this thought appeared, he couldn't stop it.

In the seabed training ground, he used 65,000 meters of water pressure to temper his body.

The high pressure squeezed his muscles, bones, blood vessels, and fascia from all directions, forcing every cell to continuously strengthen under extreme load.

That was the most effective training method he had found, and his strength had soared from over thirty tons all the way to 185 tons.

But he would eventually hit the limit of water pressure.

And the intensity of this power would grow synchronously with the growth of his body and Mental Power.

There was no limit.

This was not an upgrade in training method; this was a qualitative change in training method.

Chen Mo did not hesitate any longer and immediately calmed his mind.

His Mental Energy turned inward, his consciousness sank into his body, and he precisely locked onto the strange power in every cell.

Then he gave it a gentle push.

That power was like a living creature being awakened, starting to flow along his will.

To his surprise, the fluidity of control far exceeded his expectations.

It was completely a part of his body, requiring no adaptation process; it was as easy to use as his own arm, striking wherever he pointed.

This power began to permeate into his entire muscular tissue.

Like an extremely high-precision energy net, it covered every part of his body simultaneously.

Then, Chen Mo activated it.

In an instant—

Intense pain spread throughout his entire body.

Every cell in his body was crushed simultaneously.

Muscle fibers were stretched from the inside, torn, and reshaped; every sarcomere was stretched to its limit and then fiercely compressed back.

His bones were also trembling.

This pain.

Although he could block pain signals by regulating hormones, he never used this ability during training.

The pain itself was a part of the training.

Chen Mo gritted his teeth.

If the water pressure at 65,000 meters deep on the seabed was a heavy hammer from the outside, then the tempering of this power was an explosive detonated from the inside.

One squeezed from the outside in, the other tore from the inside out.

The efficiency of simultaneous destruction and reshaping was also completely different.

External pressure could only impose a load on the whole body from the surface.

But this power could drill directly into every cell to temper it.

And at the same time, his Infinite Growth ability was also operating crazily, absorbing that strange power.

Every cross-section of muscle fiber torn open by the strange power was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

New myofilament proteins were synthesized, new mitochondria were proliferated, and new capillary networks were established.

The consumed strange power also acted as perfect fuel during the healing process.

It could both destroy and repair, all depending on how Chen Mo used it.

One destruction, one construction.

Destroying while reshaping.

The synchronous surge of pain and power.

Chen Mo could clearly perceive that his muscles were becoming denser, the elastic potential energy reserve of his fascia was increasing, and the load-bearing capacity of his bones was strengthening.

This speed of progress was something he had never experienced before.

One hour.

The strange power was completely exhausted.

Chen Mo hovered in place and summoned the system panel.

In one hour, his strength had increased by 159 kilograms.

Chen Mo's pupils dilated.

In the hour that he was submerged in intense pain, he could feel his body becoming stronger at a speed far exceeding his usual rate.

That feeling of muscles becoming increasingly solid and thick in the process of being destroyed and rebuilt over and over again.

But 159 kilograms.

He still couldn't help but feel excited.

The training efficiency at 65,000 meters deep on the seabed, in the last few days before he came out, had stabilized at about 55kg per hour.

That was already the strongest training environment he could find under natural conditions on Earth.

It wasn't impossible to dive deeper, but the active layer of the seabed crust had reached its limit; any deeper and only dense mantle rock remained.

And now, the efficiency of tempering with the strange power was three times that of seabed training.

And it didn't need to be done on the seabed.

The replenishment and consumption of the strange power was a closed loop; as long as the Rhythm network was running, he could start replenishing immediately after it was exhausted.

Once replenishment was complete, he could immediately enter the next round of tempering.

There was no interval between cycles, no geographical restrictions, and no environmental dependence.

He could replenish while flying.

While flying, he could use his Infinite Growth ability to absorb spirit energy particles.

Replenishing the strange power while tempering, while improving.

All day, without interruption.

Flying, absorbing, tempering.

These three things could now be done in parallel.

And the effect of tempering, in turn, continued to enhance his body's absorption efficiency and recovery speed.

Further accelerating the speed of replenishing the strange power.

He thought of those four months on the seabed; although the training intensity had already exceeded his limits.

But in the end, his range of movement was still restricted by the environment.

Now this power had directly torn this restriction to shreds.

Expanding the training ground to the entire Earth—no, to the entire Universe where Spiritual Qi existed.

Chen Mo took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

Then he looked down at his palms.

His palms were empty, with no light and no fluctuations.

But inside every cell of his palms, the pale golden glimmer of the strange power was flickering rhythmically.

Chen Mo named it in his heart: Source Power.

Because this power was composed of:

Body.

Mental Power.

Spiritual Qi.

The three as the source.

The three converged, belonging not to any one of them alone, nor were they just a piece of each of the three put together.

It was something new, the result produced after the Fusion, condensation, and compression of the body, Mental Power, and Spiritual Qi.

At this point, his ability system had completed a new round of expansion.

Furthermore, Source Power could in turn be used to autonomously temper his body, achieving a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop.

Left foot stepping on the right foot. Right foot pushing on the left foot.

Every cycle was accelerating.

Chen Mo closed his eyes again.

The intense pain of Source Power tempering still lingered in the nerve memories of every muscle fiber ending, but he had no intention of giving his body any time to catch its breath.

He had already become familiar with the flow path and consumption of Source Power during tempering in the previous round, and now he could control it more efficiently.

While tempering, he began to absorb new spirit energy particles, stitching the consumption and replenishment stages together.

Infinite Growth ability started again.

spirit energy particles were pulled over from the air.

Source Power began to condense within his cells.

A new round of tempering was about to begin.