Chapter 4503 — Super Butterfly Microsteps
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As a native of Yunjie Island, Cheng Haonan could of course never have known a term like "cells." His understanding of the human body was also nowhere near as scientific and thorough as that of the secular world. Even so, he had managed to accomplish this while knowing nothing about the underlying principles. It had to be called a miracle.
Instant stimulation of cellular vitality had appeared countless times in the scientific research of the secular world. But on Yunjie Island, it was a genuinely rare feat. The crucial point was that Cheng Haonan had not only conceived of the method, he had actually made it work. The technical sophistication involved was anything but trivial.
The more powerful a cultivator, the tougher the physical body and the stronger the vitality of its cells. But that did not mean True Qi could be used to stimulate them recklessly. A stimulus too weak would have no effect; once its intensity crossed the threshold, however, it would no longer be stimulating cellular vitality but killing cells by the thousands. Success or failure depended entirely on whether one could grasp that precise limit.
Wei Zhao had no idea how Cheng Haonan, who knew nothing about cells, had managed to accomplish such a feat. But one thing was certain: the process must have been extraordinarily difficult.
Even with Wei Zhao's astonishing talent and comprehension, and with Cheng Haonan's ready-made example before him to observe and analyze, he had spent more than half the night experimenting. Several times he had ended up in a sorry state, vomiting blood, before finally managing to grasp the proper measure by a narrow margin. Only then had he taken his first faltering steps into a wholly new level of top-tier body arts.
"If top-tier body arts work according to this principle, then Cheng Haonan's state of total blackening must be an extreme stimulation!" Wei Zhao's heart leaped with excitement.
If normal top-tier body arts provided the physical body's cells with the most suitable level of stimulation, then the level of stimulation in Cheng Haonan's fully blackened state should be the maximum his cells could withstand. The instant that limit was exceeded, True Qi would kill the cells of the physical body outright.
In fact, even without exceeding that limit, a great many cells would die after such extreme stimulation because their vitality had been exhausted. In other words, the body would have to suffer a certain degree of internal injury. It was the price one had to pay for temporary overwhelming strength.
One was top-tier body arts; the other was ultra-limit body arts. After a full night of deductions and experiments, Wei Zhao had finally glimpsed the threshold. Once he truly applied them in actual combat, his strength would inevitably surge another notch beyond what it had been.
In his current state, if Wei Zhao were to fight Cheng Haonan again, the situation would likely be completely different from before. Unless Cheng Haonan blackened his entire body without regard for the cost from the very beginning, Wei Zhao might not lose to him even without using his ultimate weapon, the top-tier bomb.
After grasping the principles of top-tier and ultra-limit body arts, Wei Zhao did not stop there. His demands of himself went far beyond simple imitation. He intended to fuse them with his own strengths and create new combinations, just as he had with the Wildfire Thousand-Blast Fist.
Compared with a specific martial technique like the Wild Sand Thousand-Blast Fist, fusing top-tier body arts with Wei Zhao's own strengths was actually easier. Just as with the Butterfly Microsteps he had conceived of now, he could add the stimulation of cellular vitality through True Qi and transform them into an advanced version: the Super Butterfly Microsteps.