76: Chapter 76 The Effects of Source Power

Chen Mo moved, flying towards the Kunlun Mountains.

He deliberately controlled his speed to Mach 1.

Because at this speed, the consumption rate of Source Power tempering exactly equals the replenishment rate of absorbing spirit energy particles.

Consumption and replenishment reached a delicate dynamic balance at this speed.

At the same time, the tempering by Source Power continued.

Every wisp of pale golden Source Power surged from within his cells, like billions of tiny streams.

It flowed along the fully closed paths of the Rhythm network, repeatedly scouring between muscle fibers, fascia, and bones.

Wherever it passed, muscle fibers were precisely torn, only to be instantly repaired under the dual nourishment of spirit energy particles and Source Power.

Tear again, repair again, with every cycle.

It pushed the density of muscles, the toughness of tendons, and the strength of bones to a higher level.

En route, he began to sort through the various changes Source Power had brought to his body's operations one by one.

First was endurance.

This was the most fundamental change Source Power brought to Chen Mo's survival system, bar none.

Before the Awakening of Source Power, although his body had long since shed its dependence on food.

His body could convert Spiritual Qi into usable fuel through the Infinite Growth ability with extremely high efficiency.

But ultimately, it followed a one-way channel of "external input → internal conversion → immediate consumption."

The appearance of Source Power changed this landscape.

Every cell in his body could now store Source Power.

At the same time, when the body needed energy, Source Power could replace all of the body's consumption.

Chen Mo estimated in his mind.

With his current state of being filled with Source Power, if he were to perform absolutely no high-intensity training consumption.

And only maintained basic life functions, that is, maintaining body temperature, maintaining perception, and low-intensity cruising flight.

Then this Source Power could support him in surviving for several years in an environment without Spiritual Qi.

Several years.

At this moment, Chen Mo suddenly realized a more profound significance:

If one day in the future he left Earth and entered the deep Universe where there was no Spiritual Qi, Source Power would be his trump card for survival.

As long as his body's cells were fully loaded with Source Power, he could survive a long journey in an environment without supplies.

Furthermore, after mastering the Rhythm throughout his body, every cell in Chen Mo's body was simultaneously absorbing the stray Spiritual Qi in the air.

The absorption efficiency was hundreds or thousands of times higher than the Human Breathing Method.

More importantly, this efficiency would improve synchronously with the increase in body strength.

This formed a new positive feedback loop:

The stronger the body → the higher the absorption efficiency of stray Spiritual Qi → the faster the generation speed of Source Power → the higher the tempering efficiency → the stronger the body becomes.

Then Chen Mo began to experiment with flying using Source Power.

Chen Mo disengaged his Force Field, letting his body face the high-altitude airflow directly.

He then mobilized all his Source Power, wrapping it around his body surface to form an energy membrane.

He attempted to expel the Source Power backward to generate reverse thrust.

His figure suddenly accelerated.

Mach 5, this was the limit speed he could drive using all his Source Power.

At this speed, the Source Power was consumed at an alarming rate.

High-speed flight at Mach 5 could only be maintained for two hours.

While the stable cruising speed was roughly between Mach 1 and Mach 2.

He quickly compared it in his mind with the Force Field.

The Force Field was a derivative ability that automatically emerged after Mental Energy reached 10.0; essentially, it was the perfect extension of his body in the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh.

When the Force Field wrapped his whole body, he could adjust his direction, posture, and speed at will, with flexibility almost equivalent to extending his own limbs.

The maximum speed could reach Mach 12, and the consumption was extremely low.

The essence of Source Power flight was energy propulsion, trading energy for momentum.

The efficiency was not high, and the flexibility was far inferior to the Force Field.

But Chen Mo did not feel this ability was useless.

Quite the contrary, he saw a much more profound significance.

Not everyone had a Force Field.

Without the two prerequisites of the Infinite Growth ability and the perfect Fusion of Mental Power and the body in the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh.

It was impossible to generate a Force Field at all.

The existence of Source Power proved one thing.

Subsequent evolvers, upon reaching this Realm, would be able to fly relying on their own power, and even travel to the Universe.

An hour and a half later, the outline of the Kunlun Mountains appeared on the horizon.

Overlooking from high altitude, the Kunlun Mountains resembled a giant Dragon lying across the land.

The endless mountain peaks were covered by snow and ice that never melted throughout the year.

Chen Mo found a deep mountain valley rarely visited by humans.

It was surrounded on three sides by peaks four or five thousand meters high.

Chen Mo prepared to conduct the destructive power test of Source Power here.

First test: Penetration.

Chen Mo raised his right hand, precisely extracted 1% of his total Source Power, and condensed it at the tip of his index finger.

The energy formed an extremely fine and dense energy node at his fingertip.

He tapped his fingertip gently.

An extremely thin trajectory extended from his fingertip, shooting vertically into the mountain surface below.

There was no massive explosion, no airwave sweeping up gravel.

Only a straight, extremely thin, pale golden beam flashed and vanished.

The beam submerged into the mountain, disappearing deep into the basalt.

Chen Mo extended his Mental Power perception to the limit, tracking downwards along that penetrating trajectory.

One hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters, three thousand meters, until it exceeded his perception limit, yet he still hadn't reached the end of the penetration.

The effect was consistent with previous tests, but the penetration depth far exceeded previous ones.

He immediately conducted other tests.

He fired several times in succession at different rock structures, concluding that the hardness and density of an object directly determined the penetration resistance.

The power that could easily penetrate several kilometers in granite.

Might only be able to advance hundreds of meters, or even less, in some high-density metal.

The penetration characteristic of Source Power depended on the density and energy impedance of the target substance.

Second test: Explosion.

Chen Mo extracted 1% of Source Power again, condensing it into an irregular sphere the size of a fist.

The pale golden energy rotated, compressed, and collided unstably within the sphere, like a miniature sun that had been forcibly tamed.

He propelled the sphere to the far end of the valley, a kilometer away from him, and at the moment it touched the mountain, he released the restraint.

Boom—!!

A muffled explosion detonated in the valley, air cannons dispersed, and the shockwave swept outward along the valley walls.

The gravel at the bottom of the valley was blown high into the air, and a large amount of debris was blasted into powder, scattering in the air to form a grayish-white mist.

After the smoke and dust dissipated, a hemispherical crater with a diameter of tens of meters was left on the mountain, with a visually estimated depth of about 10 meters.

The rocks at the edge of the crater were shattered radially, with cracks extending more than ten meters in all directions.

The rock surface at the center of the crater bottom was scorched into a glass-like state by the high temperature, reflecting a distorted luster.

Chen Mo's pupils contracted slightly.

This was still only 1% of the Source Power.

Then if he condensed all of his Source Power into one explosive body and released it, the destruction range should be able to cover several kilometers.

However, the single-target penetration lethality would drop significantly.

Explosion and penetration; one could pierce through tens of kilometers of mountain on an extremely small area.

The other could flatten the surface within a radius of several kilometers in an instant.

Chen Mo looked down at his own palm.

He decided to conduct a bold test.

He condensed the Source Power into a penetrating beam and fired it at the center of his left palm.

Pfft.

An extremely fine beam of energy passed through his palm, leaving a small hole less than two millimeters wide.

The pain was sharp; the nerves in his palm sent signals to his brain the moment they were severed.

The wound cross-section was extremely smooth, with almost no additional tissue damage; the penetration ability of Source Power could even leave penetrating wounds on his own body.

But a few seconds later, his palm recovered as if nothing had happened.

Immediately after, he released the same equivalent of Source Power in the form of an explosion in his palm.

Bang.

The skin on his palm turned slightly red, as if it had been heavily struck by a heavy object.

The capillaries under the skin ruptured, but that was all.

Chen Mo had a conclusion in his mind.

Penetration was for high-hardness single targets, while explosion was for large-area soft targets.

Third test: The amplification of Source Power on the body.

Chen Mo concentrated and injected Source Power into his right arm.

The pale golden energy seeped into every muscle fiber of his arm, entering an excited state.

He threw a punch into the air.

There was no target, just a pure punch.

But the wind from this punch blasted the air in a range of tens of meters in front of him into a brief vacuum, and the sonic boom caused by the sudden change in air pressure ceased abruptly.

Chen Mo felt the power fed back from his arm.

The power amplification was approximately 50%.

This number made him nod slightly.

Fifty percent was a very considerable amplification for pure physical strength.

With his current strength of over a thousand tons in a full-power punch, fifty percent meant adding hundreds of tons.

But the consumption was also great.

If he unleashed Source Power amplification throughout his whole body, with Chen Mo's total Source Power, it could only be maintained for about 30 minutes.

The reason was that a large amount of energy was wasted on ineffective release in non-target areas when Source Power erupted.

However, Chen Mo did not think this was a problem.

Waste meant there was room for optimization.

As long as he gradually polished the Source Power output paths in subsequent training.

Allowing energy to be transmitted to the target muscle groups with minimal loss, he could significantly extend the duration of the amplification.

After the tests ended.

Chen Mo calmed his thoughts and organized all the findings from this test.

The core functions of Source Power could be summarized into six aspects.

First, endurance.

Second, absorption efficiency.

Third, penetration mode.

Fourth, explosion mode.

Fifth, body amplification.

Sixth, flight ability.

These six abilities together constituted the core framework of the Source Power system.

Chen Mo withdrew his thoughts and opened the system panel.

[Name: Chen Mo]

[Age: 23]

[Height: 198cm]

[Weight: 368kg]

[Ability: Infinite Growth]

[Strength: 186.7 tons]

[Mental Power: 14.7]

[Force Multiplier: 8.7x]

[Source Power: 1106]

Chen Mo closed the system panel and cast his gaze toward the horizon.

The wind of the Kunlun Mountains, carrying snow particles, poured in from the valley entrance, blowing past his body suspended in mid-air.

He suddenly thought of a metaphor.

If the Human Breathing Method was the first cornerstone.

Letting humans learn to use breathing to leverage the deep potential of the body.

The Rhythm map was the second cornerstone.

Revealing the complete path network for humans to absorb Spiritual Qi.

Then the Awakening of Source Power was the third cornerstone.

Allowing the three dimensions of training, combat, and survival to be connected for the first time, merging into one.

He no longer needed to rely on the environment, no longer limited to Earth.

As long as there was Spiritual Qi anywhere in the Universe, he had fuel for growth.

And Cheng Jian was currently one step away between cornerstone one and cornerstone two.

The first batch of human test subjects had just found the way at the starting point of cornerstone one.

Chen Mo turned around, his gaze falling on the Kunlun Mountains stretching for thousands of kilometers behind him.

The continuous snow-capped mountains shimmered with a pale golden hue in the setting sun, and the sea of clouds surged between the peaks like a white torrent.

The world was accelerating its evolution, and he was also accelerating his growth.

And at this moment, he was just a quiet tester hidden among the peaks in this grand transformation.

He then turned and flew towards the next destination at a cruising speed of Mach 1.

Inside his body, Source Power was still silently tempering every cell.

Like the hands of a clock, moving forward eternally and steadily.