It's as if these energy threads, when absorbing external energy, will find safe and passable channels on their own. If that's the case, why not memorize the routes these energy threads take when they enter, and then when you want to use this energy, just let them return along the same route they came from?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ziwei became so excited that he started to dance with joy.
This made the two women hiding in the tent secretly worried, wondering if this guy had lost his mind.
Zhou Ziwei ignored the strange looks from the two women. Having finally found a feasible method, he couldn't wait to put it into practice.
Once again, he sat on the scorching hot bluestone, calming his mind and carefully absorbing the scorching energy from the outside world into his body, which then transformed into pure silver-white energy threads. After that, he stopped trying to control it and let the energy threads transformed from every part of his body gather little by little and then travel through the winding meridians in his body.
Holy crap, this is so complicated...
Feeling the fine energy threads forming within every inch of his skin, like tiny tadpoles winding their way through his body, Zhou Ziwei was immediately overwhelmed. In that instant, there were probably no fewer than several thousand silver-white energy threads forming within him. Each of these thousands of energy threads seemed to have a slightly different path, and each trajectory was invariably winding and repetitive. Even though Zhou Ziwei's brain was far more agile than that of an ordinary person, it was simply impossible for him to remember so much at once.
Left with no other choice, he could only focus his main energy on his left hand, carefully observing the circulation routes of the dozen or so fine energy threads that were gradually entering his body through his left hand.
Although the routes taken by those energy filaments were complex, focusing on only a dozen or so at the same time did not pose too much of a problem for Zhou Ziwei. Moreover, although the routes taken by those dozen or so energy filaments were all different at the beginning, they had almost completely converged into one meridian route when they rose to the water wrist, so memorizing them was not particularly troublesome.
A moment later, Zhou Ziwei had memorized the entire route taken by the dozen or so energy threads.
To avoid any mistakes, Zhou Ziwei patiently reviewed the route of the area more than a dozen times. Only after confirming that he had memorized it completely did he stop absorbing external energy and instead try to mobilize the energy in his Tanzhong acupoint again.
This time, Zhou Ziwei didn't dare to mobilize too much energy at once. He only used his soul consciousness to gather a small amount of energy, neither too strong nor too weak, and then carefully passed through the invisible barrier between the acupoint space and the physical body, pulling it out.
As soon as that energy emerged, Zhou Ziwei felt a burning sensation in his chest. He took a deep breath and hurriedly followed the route taken by the dozen or so energy threads in his memory, going against the flow.
Zhou Ziwei had already memorized the route of this meridian for a long time, and under his careful guidance, there were naturally no mistakes.
Sure enough, this energy, following the path of the previous energy threads, no longer possessed the terrifying destructive power it had previously posed to him. However, although this energy was much smaller, it was still far stronger than the faint energy Zhou Ziwei had absorbed from the outside world. Therefore, wherever the energy cluster passed, there was a warm, tingling sensation in his meridians.
Fortunately, the sensation was not very intense. For Zhou Ziwei, who often had to endure pain several times or even dozens of times greater than that of ordinary people due to heightened physical sensitivity, this pain was nothing more than a drizzle. As long as the energy flow did not cause any damage to his meridians, he did not care about the slight pain at all.
When this energy flow reversed and reached the wrist, a new problem arose again.
When absorbing external energy just now, those dozen or so energy strands rose from more than a dozen different lines to the wrist before converging into one. Now, if we want to push this energy back, do we also need to disperse this energy into those dozen or so tiny meridians?
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Ziwei immediately dismissed the idea. The energy stream he had just summoned wasn't very powerful to begin with. If it were condensed together, it might have a little bit of destructive power. But if it were dispersed into more than a dozen streams, what use would it be?
So Zhou Ziwei casually chose a route that the energy thread had previously traveled, and then let that wisp of energy suddenly surge into it...
"Hmm..." Zhou Ziwei involuntarily let out a low groan.
A thin layer of cold sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.
That was really too reckless. The energy flow rushed too fast, and before it even reached the surface of his body, it had almost completely destroyed that section of the meridian. The excruciating pain made Zhou Ziwei even wonder if his hand had been burned.
Left with no other choice, Zhou Ziwei could only send the wisp of energy that was about to break through to the surface of his body back a long way. Then he mobilized his powerful soul force to carry out emergency repairs on the part of his body that had just been damaged.
Let's try again... It has to be said that the ability of this liquid soul power to repair the body is so powerful that it's almost abnormal. Zhou Ziwei even suspects that even if someone cut off one of his arms, as long as he has enough liquid soul power to use, he can make his severed arm regenerate in a short time.
Of course, he only thought about this in his mind. As for whether it was true, that was unknown. And Zhou Ziwei would never be so brain-dead as to actually put it into practice.
He once again drew out a wisp of energy of the same size from his chest and dantian, and it flowed along the same route, quickly returning to the spot where he had accidentally injured himself.
Having learned from the previous experience, the speed at which the energy flow was mobilized was much faster this time, and... the same amount of energy flowed through those meridians, which greatly alleviated the burning and tingling sensation.
It seems this person has a terrifying ability to adapt; once they do something a lot, they can gradually adapt to it.
The energy flow paused briefly in front of the newly repaired meridians, then Zhou Ziwei gritted his teeth and immediately mobilized that energy flow to rush forward without hesitation...
"Ah..." Zhou Ziwei let out another low groan, his left hand trembling involuntarily. Without a doubt, the impact just now had completely destroyed that tiny meridian once again.
However, having experienced it once before, Zhou Ziwei was not surprised by the result. So he once again pushed the energy flow that had been stagnating in his wrist back in, and then began to use liquid soul power to restart the body repair process.
I'll adapt, I'll definitely adapt. Isn't this world all about survival of the fittest? My buddy has unparalleled soul manipulation abilities, allowing him to repair his limbs almost without limit, so what am I afraid of? For others, if their meridians are damaged, they might become crippled, but I don't have to worry about that at all. If a meridian is burned, I just rebuild it. If it's burned again, I repair it again until my body can fully adapt to this level of energy impact.
Now that I possess this incredible advantage that no one else can match, what do I have to worry about?
So, in the following period, Zhou Ziwei almost went mad, obsessively starting this endless energy circulation. Every time that wisp of energy flowed to the outside of his wrist, it would inevitably burn the tiny meridians on his hand to a horrible degree. Afterward, he would immediately consume his soul power to repair it, and then continue to mobilize the energy of the Tanzhong acupoint to launch the impact again, repeating round after round. Eventually, at least the main meridians in his body had completely adapted to this level of energy flow intensity.
When he channeled the energy flow through it again, the initial burning and tingling sensations had completely disappeared. The first time he channeled a wisp of energy from the Tanzhong acupoint to his wrist, it would have taken him at least ten seconds to carefully push it. But now, after countless practices, he no longer needed to think about the winding meridian route. Because the energy flow had been done so many times, it had almost become a habit. With a thought, the energy flow would surge through that fixed route and reach his wrist in the blink of an eye.
However, the delicate meridians below his wrists were still struggling to bear the weight, but Zhou Ziwei didn't care at all. As he burned and repaired the meridians again and again, this almost crazy method finally made the meridians in that area gradually widen and become many times stronger. Each meridian that had been repaired dozens of times no longer had any fear of this level of energy impact.
However, the meridians in this section are so narrow that Zhou Ziwei has to go through more than a dozen meridian repairs every time he pushes the energy flow forward. Therefore, advancing this distance is naturally extremely difficult.
Fortunately, no matter how long the road is, there is always an end. With Zhou Ziwei's unwavering persistence, after an unknown amount of time and a great deal of liquid soul power wasted, he repaired the fragile and delicate meridians below his wrist countless times. Finally, the wisp of energy broke through the constraints of that place and was pushed to the surface of his body.
Haha... Dude, would you say that you've opened up a meridian?
In high spirits, Zhou Ziwei pushed the wisp of energy he had finally managed to gather to the surface of his body out from the Laogong acupoint in his palm, and slammed it against a rock on the ground...
With a "whoosh," Zhou Ziwei clearly felt a wisp of energy, like a stream of air, being expelled from his palm. However, to his great disappointment, this stream of energy had no harmful effect whatsoever. As soon as it left his palm, it immediately dissipated with the wind and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Damn it... God, you can't be this cruel! I put in so much effort, wasted so much soul power, and spent so much time, and in the end... all I did was blow a breath out of my palm and that was it.
In that instant, Zhou Ziwei's eyes turned red with anger, and veins bulged on his forehead. If he had been able to draw this energy from his body without suffering so much and wasting so much time, he wouldn't have felt much disappointment even if he eventually discovered that his idea was wrong. But things were different now... To achieve this, he had damaged and repaired the tiny meridian under his wrist at least a hundred times.
After enduring all that hardship, only to find that all your efforts were in vain, even the most easygoing person would find it hard to accept.
This sense of defeat did not cause Zhou Ziwei to become despondent; instead, it brought out the stubbornness in his bones.
So he pondered that this wisp of energy had not caused any momentum or damage, wondering if it was because the energy was still too weak. If that was the case, then he would try to gather an even larger wisp!
Therefore, the energy flow that Zhou Ziwei mobilized this time was twice as much as last time. When this energy flow flowed through the main meridians in his body again, it inevitably caused Zhou Ziwei to experience new burning and tingling sensations.
However, Zhou Ziwei remained completely unmoved, relentlessly pushing the energy flow all the way to his wrist... and then once again burning away the tiny meridians that had just been repaired...
It was another relentless cycle of impact, destruction, and repair. Zhou Ziwei was like a gambler who had lost everything. Even though he knew that continuing his efforts might just be another futile effort, he refused to give up. He just kept pushing forward, even though this time the suffering he endured was even greater than the last. Completely immersed in it, Zhou Ziwei seemed oblivious to the physical pain he was experiencing.
Finally, once again, Zhou Ziwei successfully channeled this energy stream, almost twice as powerful, from his Tanzhong acupoint to the surface of his body. With great anticipation, he unleashed it once more from his Laogong acupoint in his palm… And the result… this energy stream was indeed much stronger than before. An invisible stream of air burst forth, managing to blow a few small pebbles the size of rice grains onto the ground, causing them to roll a few centimeters before settling still…
Zhou Ziwei bit his lip hard, trying to comfort himself, saying, "Not bad...not bad...the first time I felt a burst of air from my palm, and then there was no reaction at all. But this time, I can still blow a few pebbles. Not bad...not bad...I've improved...I've improved..."
Zhou Ziwei muttered to himself for a moment, then finally felt a surge of anger rush to his head, his vision went black, his body went limp, and he fell backward onto the pile of scorching hot stones.
"Ah... Director Zhou, what's wrong?"
"Ziwei, are you alright? Don't scare me like that..."
As Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang were struggling to avoid the endless heat of the giant fireball overhead, they suddenly discovered that Zhou Ziwei had collapsed on the ground. Startled, they rushed out without hesitation and, one lifting his head and the other his feet, carried him into the tent without a word.
"Ziwei, where do you feel unwell...? Come on... can you have some water?"
After carrying Zhou Ziwei into the tent, Wang Xuewei generously put her arm around him, letting him lean against her to prevent his body from coming into contact with the scorching hot stones and causing any further problems.
Chu Qiutang, without hesitation, poured almost half a pot of water—the very water she had barely tasted along the way—into Zhou Ziwei's mouth.
"Hiss... I'm alright!"
Perhaps water really can extinguish fire. After Zhou Ziwei gulped down half a pot of water, the nameless fire in his heart was finally extinguished somewhat. Zhou Ziwei opened his eyes, glanced apologetically at Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang, then broke free from Wang Xuewei's embrace, stubbornly walked out of the tent again, and sat down on the large blue stone where he had been sitting...
Wang Xuewei and Chu Qiutang had no idea what was wrong with him. Seeing the ruthless and resolute look on his face, they couldn't help but exchange glances, filled with worry. However, seeing Zhou Ziwei like this, they didn't dare to ask him a single question.
They could only pray silently in their hearts that Zhou Ziwei would be alright! Their own situation wasn't good either. Although the tent could block out the sun, once the tent was thoroughly baked by the sun, this effect gradually became negligible. Moreover, the tent was very thin to begin with, and its sunshade performance wasn't very strong.
Both women were exhausted from the scorching sun, swaying precariously in the tent. If this continued... they might not even be able to last another day...
Volume 2 The Assassin's Nightmare Chapter 386 Energy Fireball
At this moment, the huge fireball in the sky had risen to the very center of the sky, and the temperature had slowly risen again, now reaching at least fifty degrees Celsius. Under the direct sunlight... Zhou Ziwei suspected that the temperature on the stone might even reach around one hundred degrees Celsius! If you put two eggs on the stone, they would definitely be cooked in no time. Zhou Ziwei had been focused on his inner self and hadn't felt anything, but now that his mind was somewhat scattered, he suddenly felt a fiery heat outside his body, which was becoming somewhat unbearable.
Zhou Ziwei originally wanted to try to increase the output of energy flow, but at this point he had no choice but to first absorb some of the heat energy floating on the surface of his body.
Strands of heat energy were continuously converted into pure, attribute-free energy and entered Zhou Ziwei's body. After a short while, Zhou Ziwei could no longer feel any discomfort from the scorching air outside.
Hmm... To absorb energy from outside the body, I must first convert it into pure, attribute-free energy before these somewhat violent energies can be safely stored within my body. Does this mean that this attribute-free energy might not be harmful to begin with? Uh... harmless energy is like a herd of docile deer. Even if there are many deer, can they eat a tiger? Obviously not... It seems that even if I increase the intensity of my energy output tenfold, at most I can only make the wind blowing from my palm a little stronger, but it won't have any real effect.
Zhou Ziwei finally understood something. This meant that... his process of channeling the energy from his body to his palm might have been correct, but the process of ejecting the energy from his palm was completely wrong.
A knife becomes a deadly weapon because of the sharpness of its blade.
If one wants to carry this sharp knife on their person, the only way is to equip it with a scabbard so as not to accidentally injure themselves.
But if you want to use this knife to kill someone, do you want to cut the person with the scabbard on?
Attributeless energy is like a sheathed sword, which is too safe. If you want to fully unleash this power, then you naturally have to remove the sheath.
The most direct way to remove the scabbard containing attribute-less energy is obviously to transform this energy into a more lethal form.
This wasn't the first time Zhou Ziwei had converted energy properties. A few days ago, on Mount Kashgar, he had to convert the energy he inhaled into heat to keep warm.
So for Zhou Ziwei, the easiest and most convenient way to convert the attribute-less energy he spews out into offensive energy is naturally to convert it into heat energy. But... can this heat energy directly hurt people? Zhou Ziwei still has some doubts about this, but since he doesn't have any enemies to deal with for the time being, he doesn't need to be too obsessed with how powerful this attack method is.
Without hesitation, Zhou Ziwei immediately drew another wisp of energy from his middle dantian, roughly equal to the previous one, and sent it rushing towards his palm.
This current energy flow is probably the largest that Zhou Ziwei can muster at once. If there were any more, the tiny veins under his wrist would burst again.
Just as this energy flow was about to be released from the Laogong acupoint in his palm, Zhou Ziwei quickly converted this pure, attribute-less energy into heat energy with a thought.
Perhaps because he had been undergoing this energy conversion almost constantly while living on the snow-covered Kashgar Mountains a few days earlier, he was able to convert again without any hindrance, and at an astonishing speed.
However, the heat generated after the energy flow was converted was also quite astonishing. In just a moment, only a small portion of the energy flow was converted, and the energy flow condensed in the palm of the hand had already become as hot as a red-hot iron.
Zhou Ziwei was slightly startled. In the past, he only needed to convert a negligible amount of energy to meet his body's needs. But this time, converting so much energy at once naturally put him under a lot of strain.
In a flash, he quickly drew out a wisp of his soul power to envelop the blazing energy flow, thus isolating most of the heat emanating from the energy and saving his hand from being burned to a crisp.
Even so, the heat emitted by this energy flow was still beyond his ability to withstand; it felt no different from holding a ball of fire in his hand.
Zhou Ziwei dared not let this turbulent energy flow stay too far inside his body, nor did he have time to completely convert the energy flow. He hurriedly used his soul consciousness to drive the energy flow to burst out from his palm.
A scorching wave of air shot out with a "whoosh," instantly scorching and distorting the surrounding air. Then, with a "poof," it struck a fist-sized rock on the ground, burning a charred hole more than half a finger deep into the rock.
"Yay!" Zhou Ziwei saw that this method was indeed feasible. Although the destructive power of this move did not seem to be very strong at the moment, it was still quite awesome. At least it would be absolutely no problem to deal with ordinary people.
Moreover, the biggest advantage is that... this attack method does not consume soul power, but rather another type of energy that he can absorb and replenish at any time. As a result, he has fewer concerns when using it.
Then Zhou Ziwei thought that he had only converted a small portion of the energy flow just now, and it already had such power. If he could convert the entire energy flow into heat energy, the destructive power it would generate would definitely increase more than double.
However, Zhou Ziwei worried that even if he constantly protected his hands with his soul power, he would have difficulty maintaining the energy flow as it was to be converted into heat.
Of course... if he could increase the speed of energy conversion several times faster, so that the energy flow would be completely converted as soon as it entered the Laogong acupoint in his palm, and then be expelled from his palm without stopping, it probably wouldn't cause too much damage to his palm, right?
However, Zhou Ziwei then had a new idea: he could divide that energy flow into several parts and transform it. After each part was transformed, the transformed energy flow would be sent outside the body. This energy sent outside the body could be controlled with the power of his soul to prevent it from dissipating immediately.
In this way, he should be able to convert the entire energy stream step by step.
Or this might greatly slow down his attack speed, but the advantage is that it can increase his attack power several times over.
This idea was not difficult to implement. In another experiment, Zhou Ziwei deliberately slowed down the speed of the energy flow. When the energy flow reached the vicinity of his palm, he stretched the entire energy into a long, thin line. In this way, the energy flow entered the Laogong acupoint in a specific order.
In this way, Zhou Ziwei could finally calmly convert all the energy flowing through this place into heat energy. Once the energy conversion was complete, he would immediately wrap it with his soul power and exhale it out of his body, condensing it in his palm.
Because the energy had already undergone two transformations by him using his soul consciousness, it had essentially been imprinted with his soul mark. In addition, it was enveloped by soul power. Although it had escaped from his body, he could still barely maintain control over it, and it did not immediately dissipate and disappear into the air.