Gu Jianbo was stunned for a long time before he suddenly jumped up.
His hair, which had been combed and shining, had long been disheveled and drooped due to the experimental training. At this moment, his hair was standing up, making him look like a mad scientist in a TV series.
His gaze and expression gradually went out of control. Sometimes, he would grin. Sometimes, he would sit in front of the lab table and write furiously. Sometimes, he would clench his fists and strike his head. It made Meng Chao and Ma Hong's skin crawl.
"Impossible. If the answer is so simple, why didn't Zong Ye think of it ten years ago?" He suddenly stopped moving and muttered to himself.
"That's because more than ten years ago, Dragon City's medical technology wasn't this developed. Most of the medical cabins were very simple, and some of them didn't even exist!"
Meng Chao shouted loudly. "All cultivation methods don't pop up from the cracks in a rock. They require the accumulation and help of countless prior technologies!
"Perhaps Senior Zong Ye really was a genius, but in his era, medical cabin technology was still immature, and there were no medical medicine formulas that could be used as stimulation media. No matter how much of a genius he was, it was impossible for him to develop an entire technology tree by himself.
"Time, fate, and luck. Senior Zong Ye's tragedy is naturally regrettable and painful.
"But now, more than ten years later, the time is ripe. We have very advanced medical cabins. A few days ago, I fought against a Bloody Moon Wolf King and was unconscious for more than a week. I received treatment in a medical cabin, so I know just how advanced and powerful it is. If we can modify this medical cabin into a cultivation cabin, we will definitely be able to make the seed we planted more than ten years ago blossom and bear fruit!"
"Meng Chao, you're right."
Ma Hong fell into deep thought. "Over the past ten years, the medical technology in the Red Dragon Army has become more advanced. The medical cabins that I know of have been upgraded three times. Many of my comrades like to soak in the medical cabins to train. They say that the effects are really good, and they recover really quickly."
Gu Jianbo felt as if he was suddenly enlightened.
When he looked at Meng Chao, he felt like he was looking at Zong Ye in the past, and the light of hope shone in his eyes again.
A golden notification appeared in front of Meng Chao's eyes.
[Under your guidance, heroic citizen Gu Jianbo found a brand new research direction for the Ultimate Style. Increased contribution points by 666.]
"As expected, a heroic citizen!"
Meng Chao's cheeks burned, and he was ashamed.
In his previous life, Gu Jianbo should have figured out the correct research direction for the Ultimate Style a few years later.
So, did he teach the hero, or did the hero teach him?
"What you said makes sense. This direction is worth trying, but let's not talk about the medium first. The key is that clearing 1,024 minor vessels at the same time is unbearable pain for humans."
Gu Jianbo thought about it for a long time before he extended a finger and said, "The branch meridians are very thin. Every time you clear them, it'll be as painful as stabbing your finger into a needle hole. It will cause your mental strength index to fluctuate by a large degree and shake the cultivator's will. If you're the slightest bit careless, you'll destroy the branch meridians.
'It's already so bad when you clear three to five branch meridians. If you clear 1,024 branch meridians at the same time, won't you die from the pain? Or your mental strength index will instantly drop to zero, and you'll become an idiot?'
At some point in time, he started treating Meng Chao as a lab partner who he could talk to as equals.
"I won't."
Meng Chao had absolute confidence in this. "There's a limit to a human's sense of pain. Once it reaches that limit, it won't increase anymore. In other words, the pain of clearing five branch meridians and the pain of clearing hundreds or more than one thousand branch meridians in one go won't be much different."
When he saw that Gu Jianbo was still hesitant, Meng Chao suddenly extended his right leg and showed off his leg hair.
"What are you doing?" Gu Jianbo was stunned.
Meng Chao grabbed a strand of his leg hair and yanked it. He grimaced in pain.
"Big Brother Bo, do you have the experience of putting on plasters after you're injured?"
Meng Chao endured the pain and said, "Many of the plasters applied externally have amazing effects. They promote blood circulation, strengthen the bone marrow, increase cell activity, and promote muscle growth.
"There are many good things about them, but there's one bad thing. If you put them on for an entire night, they'll cool down and solidify. When you want to tear them off, you'll often pull off your hair, and it'll hurt a lot.
"This is especially true for men with a lot of body hair. Every time you tear off a plaster, it's the same as torture. If you hesitate for even the slightest bit and act too slowly, your hair will be pulled off one by one. The more you tear them off, the more painful it will be. The more painful it is, the slower it will be, and the more painful it will be. It'll be a vicious cycle.
"If you have a heart of stone, you'll tear it off instantly. No matter how painful it is, it'll only hurt for a moment."
Meng Chao's analogy was simple, crude, and neither fish nor fowl.
But Gu Jianbo understood what he meant, and he fell into deep thought.
"Pain is indeed a major problem. It will mess up your mental strength index, and it's not something that can be endured with willpower alone," Meng Chao said seriously.
"Your solution is to reduce the number of branch meridians you clear each time and try to reduce the intensity of the electrical stimulation, but I think that it's the same as slowly tearing off a plaster. It'll just lengthen the pain.
"Besides, you only clear three to five branch meridians each time. If the branch meridians shrink back in a few days, it'll be useless. If you do this over and over again, when will you ever be able to cultivate all 1,024 branch meridians?
"We can only cultivate main meridians this way because there are only a few of them. At most, there are only 108 of them, and they're strong enough. Once you clear them, you can last for a long time.
"We can't just imitate them. We can only open up another path and stimulate more than one thousand branch meridians at the same time.
Only then can we repeatedly cultivate branch meridians every day to ensure that they are cleared for a long period of time. In the end, our bodies will remember it, and we'll be considered to have completed the task.
"Of course, when we consider the limits of our bodies, we can reduce the intensity of the bioelectricity stimulation by 50%. Then, we'll be safe."
Gu Jianbo frowned. "What I said before makes sense, but if we reduce the intensity of the stimulation, the runoff in the branch meridians won't be enough, and we won't be able to create spirit energy magnetic fields to execute killing moves."
"We don't need killing moves at all," Meng Chao said.
Meng Chao said. "Big Brother Bo, killing moves are still the Overkill Style and Beast Soul Style. We're already cultivating branch meridians, so if we go and compete against others in killing moves, won't we be fighting with our weaknesses against their strengths?"
Gu Jianbo thought about it for a long time before he shook his head and said, "If we don't have killing moves, we won't have enough power. If you punch them one hundred times, it'll be better for them to use their killing moves against you."
"I won't use any major moves, and I won't give them the chance to do so," Meng Chao said quickly.
"Regardless of whether it's humans or superbeasts, when they want to release their skills, they have to create spirit energy magnetic fields. It takes up a lot of time to accumulate power, stiffen up, and cool down, so all sorts of openings will appear.
"A brand new martial artist who cultivates 1,024 branch meridians will have their speed, strength, stamina, and five senses much stronger than a normal martial artist's. They can seize these openings and destroy their opponent's spirit energy magnetic fields before they can form their spirit energy magnetic fields.
"As long as we destroy them a few times, our opponent will lose confidence and won't be able to execute major moves with ease.
"At that time, neither of us will have any killing moves, but we'll have the advantage of having our branch meridians cleared and having a lot of spirit energy. We'll also have an endless supply of normal attacks. There'll be no need to say who will win then.
"Besides, it's not as if we don't have killing moves. Cultivating main meridians and branch meridians isn't a matter of choosing between one or the other. Only children choose between them. Adults will definitely want both!
"Even broken-star superhumans have a few main meridians cleared when they cultivate 1,024 branch meridians, right? It's enough for them to have one or two killing moves.
"In truth, it's not that the Overkill Style and Beast Soul Style don't have too few offensive moves, but too many. There are millions of combinations of more than one hundred main meridians, but even if there are millions of killing moves, in the end, only one will kill the enemy, right?"
Meng Chao talked nonstop, causing Gu Jianbo to sink into deep thought and feel shocked.
Ma Hong came to a realization by the side. "Makes sense. It's just like when we fought against the undergraduate students in the canteen. They clearly cleared more main meridians and could release more than ten major moves, but we used our rich fighting experience, the terrain, the items, and the chaos to our advantage. We didn't give them the chance to create their spirit energy magnetic fields, and in the end, we won!
"If we can cultivate our branch meridians, we won't even need to cultivate them to the point where they're as strong as our main meridians. As long as we strengthen them by twenty to thirty percent, our advantage will be even more obvious. We'll make sure that they won't even be able to execute a single move!"
"That's right."
Meng Chao smiled. "That's how I imagine the future of martial arts to be. It focuses on weakening, restraining, and exhausting the other party. It shouldn't be two people standing in a stance stupidly, tossing fireballs at each other, and using major moves."
"Meng Chao, did you … really figure all of this out yourself?" Gu Jianbo asked in disbelief.
Meng Chao blushed.
When he had just returned to the past and gave pointers to Feixiong, Ning Shewo, and the Yan family, he had the thought of fishing for fame, and he quite enjoyed the dumbfounded looks of others.
But after going through so many things and knowing that so many pioneers had sacrificed themselves for the birth of the Ultimate Style, there was no way he could be so shameless as to take all the credit for it.
At this moment, he was even regretting that he had been too frivolous when he had instructed the Yan family back then.
"Old Yan Hengbo and the martial arts researchers in Yan Organization must have put in a lot of effort to develop Ripple Force, right?
'In my previous life, Yan Feirou must have suffered a lot to level up her Ripple Force.
'What right do I have to boast and enjoy everything by myself in front of the real pioneers and creators?'
When he thought of this, Meng Chao shook his head and said, "That's impossible. Even though I'm incredibly talented, smart, talented, and willing to help others, I'm still a freshman. I don't have enough experience, knowledge, and professionalism. How could I have thought of all of this?
"In truth, what I said just now was told to me by a senior known as the Old Fire Relayer in the deep web."
Gu Jianbo was a little stunned. "It's him?"
This time, it was Meng Chao's turn to be surprised. "You know the Old Fire Relayer?"
"Recently, this old senior has been really active in the deep web. He seems to be able to add a few words to any topic, and his seemingly whimsical conclusions seem to surpass the era when you think about it carefully. He's enlightening. I heard that Yan Organization is about to release Ripple Force 20, and he's the one who gave them guidance."
"Many people are guessing that the Old Fire Relayer isn't a single person. Instead, he's a research team from a mega corporation or a think tank from a secret organization. They gathered a lot of the newest information from the depths of the fog and came up with a series of cutting-edge theories in an attempt to gather more data.
"There's a guest professor in Agricultural University's resource course by the name of Ning Shewo. Recently, he suddenly brought out half of his wealth and set up the Fire Relayer Foundation. He also wants to use the resource course's refresher course to offer up all his knowledge for free. Judging by the name, this foundation is definitely connected to the Old Fire Relayer.
"Professor Ning has great influence in the field. Even he was convinced by the Old Fire Relayer, so it's only natural that I've heard about it."
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