88: Chapter 88 Source Power Development

After finishing all external matters, Chen Mo began to Cultivate.

This was his daily routine, never interrupted.

He wrapped himself in a Force Field and instantly leaped from his spot.

Ten seconds later, he had passed through the troposphere, crossed the middle of the stratosphere, and arrived at the edge of the thin atmosphere, tens of kilometers above the ground.

Chen Mo concentrated his Mental Power and began to absorb spirit energy particles with all his might.

The Source Power Qi within his body rotated like a stellar vortex.

With each absorption, new spirit energy particles were drawn into this system, compressed, liquefied, and finally merged into the existing Source Power.

The speed was steady, without the slightest disorder.

The absorption continued for several tens of minutes.

The billions of cells in his body were slowly filled, like pouring a flood into an abyss.

At the same time, the tempering of Source Power within his body never ceased.

Every cell in his body was being repeatedly washed, reshaped, and strengthened by Source Power.

He waited for the Source Power to regain its balance during his flight.

Chen Mo hovered in mid-air.

The other thread of his Cultivate had never stopped.

Source Power.

Its existence had already become an instinct within Chen Mo's body.

Since his Breakthrough, he had been increasing the total amount and density of his Source Power, but his methods of using it still remained at the initial level.

Full-power bursts, large-scale coverage, and extreme penetration.

In the eyes of others, these attack methods were already approaching the mythical, but in Chen Mo's view, they were merely crude uses of Source Power.

He hung in mid-air, the Source Power within his body operating autonomously.

He sank his Mental Power into his body and began to observe the essence of Source Power.

The pale golden energy flowed through his Meridians, like liquid light, with extremely high density.

He opened his palm, and the Source Power condensed into a fist-sized sphere in his palm.

The Source Power sphere rotated steadily under the constraint of the Force Field, emitting a fierce white light, with an internal temperature of over ten thousand degrees.

He tried to use his Mental Energy to probe its internal composition; Source Power was a Fusion energy of body, Mental Power, and Spiritual Qi, essentially a highly ordered form of energy, not matter.

He tried to use his Mental Energy to change its properties.

Make it cold.

Make it heavy.

Make it transform from an energy state to a condensed state closer to matter.

He tried to make it carry different attributes: changes in electric current, magnetic force, and vibration frequency.

The results were all consistent.

Source Power always stably maintained its initial form: high-density energy, extremely high temperature, good explosiveness, but a singular nature.

It wasn't that it didn't react; every time he tried to change it, it would undergo superficial changes according to his Mental Power guidance, but this change required him to continuously inject Mental Energy to maintain.

Once his Mental Power was withdrawn, it immediately returned to its original state.

There was no natural change in properties.

This was not the first time.

Since his Breakthrough, he had tried at least dozens of ways to meticulously probe Source Power.

Temperature, pressure, structural arrangement, concentration gradient—he had tried every single one.

Source Power itself had no inherent property branches.

It was not differentiated into Fire Source Power, Ice Source Power, or Lightning Source Power.

It was purely a Fusion energy.

To achieve different effects, one had to rely on different release methods, not on differences in the nature of the energy itself.

Subsequently, Chen Mo tried to change the form of the Source Power.

He stretched the Source Power from a sphere into the shape of a sword.

Hilt, blade, tip—every detail was precisely shaped by his Mental Power.

The Source Power sword hovered in his palm, its golden light restrained but still intense.

He gripped the hilt and performed a few simple slashing motions.

The sword cut through the air, the high temperature ionizing air molecules and dragging out a pale blue plasma trail.

The power was acceptable.

But this was fundamentally no different from using Source Power for directional blasts or direct area bombardment; it was just shaping the energy and then throwing it out.

He dissipated the sword and condensed it again.

This time it was a ring.

The ring rotated at high speed, capable of cutting.

It was the same problem.

Shaping only changed the form of release, but could not change the essence of the attack; all relied on the impact of the energy itself to destroy the target.

Chen Mo lowered his eyes, looked at his palm, and began to try using his body while in the Source Power excitation state.

After his Breakthrough into the Source Power Realm, a gap had emerged between his physical strength and his Source Power attacks.

Source Power attacks could reach the megaton TNT equivalent level, capable of destroying an entire industrial park in one blow.

And his physical punch force, without relying on Source Power attacks, although also continuously increasing, had already reached the level of nearly two thousand tons.

Yet the destructive power still did not belong to the same order of magnitude as Source Power.

His physical combat power was too weak compared to Source Power.

Chen Mo had always felt that combining physical strength with Source Power was the only path to maximizing power.

Not used separately, not used in turns, but simultaneously, overlapping, and in Fusion.

Just like, "Source Power Martial Arts."

He bent his right arm, fist facing down, and began to try.

His body entered the Source Power excitation state, while Source Power condensed into his right arm and then wrapped around the surface of his fist.

A layer of pale golden light covered his entire fist.

Then he threw a punch.

The movement was crisp, the conduction chain of muscle force precise to the limit.

As the strength of his entire body concentrated into that one punch, the Source Power covering his fist also exploded simultaneously.

The impact force was restricted to a tiny space in front of his body under the constraint of the Force Field, and the reaction force was hard-taken by his body.

The vibration traveled from the knuckles to his shoulder and was then absorbed by him.

Before the force had dissipated, he had already reached a judgment: this effect was still too weak.

Physical strength had not Fused with Source Power; it was just external superposition.

It was like sticking a layer of explosives on an iron plate; the explosion of the explosives did not help the iron plate, and the impact force of the iron plate did not increase the power of the explosives.

They were independent of each other, and that was all.

No enhancement effect occurred between the impact and the explosion.

Chen Mo withdrew his fist and began to review.

He confirmed the root of the problem: Source Power was merely attached to the surface, not in Fusion.

So physical strength was physical strength, and Source Power was Source Power.

The two forces operated in their respective spaces, and the contact surface was just a point of force, not a point of Fusion.

"Not coverage."

He whispered, more like confirming in his heart where the conditions for a Breakthrough lay.

The use of Source Power, all the methods he currently mastered—extreme penetration, area coverage, physical excitation, and attachment—were still just fragments.

The true core direction for a Breakthrough had not yet been grasped.

But today was not without gains.

At least he confirmed one thing: the use of Source Power certainly did not stop at crude energy release.

There existed some more efficient and coordinated way of combination between the body and Source Power.

He had already vaguely sensed that direction, like seeing a tiny speck of light in the distance in the darkness, not yet knowing how to walk into it.

This speck of light had now been grasped.

In the following days, Chen Mo continued to try the Fusion of Source Power and his body while maintaining the intensity of his Cultivate.

Although there was no qualitative Breakthrough, every attempt made his understanding of that direction clearer.

He finally gave his own judgment in his heart.

"The path is correct."

Not "already arrived."

It was "approaching."