Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 145: Barefoot Record Breaker

"Whoa, is that guy really flying in the sky?"

"He’s got arms and legs, and he’s wearing a windbreaker, definitely human."

"He’s not even wearing wingsuit flying gear, why can he glide in mid-air for so long? And it seems like he’s... doing a butterfly stroke?"

"Could that guy be a Daoist from the temple? Secretly practicing Sword Flight while the tourist area is empty?"

"Whatever it is, we have to capture this on film!"

They quickly raised their cameras, aiming at the human slowly "gliding" in the sky, and filmed the entire process.

But possibly due to the distance being too great, coupled with the person’s rapid speed and the peak being enveloped in dense fog.

Even though they had zoomed in the camera image and clarity to the maximum, they still couldn’t make out the person’s clear face through the footage. They could barely identify the silhouette and clothing.

They both stared at the footage on the camera.

Their expressions filled with excitement and agitation.

"Never thought we’d actually encounter an Immortal on Dragon Tiger Mountain."

"We’ve hit the jackpot this time! We’ll share this with the camera group’s friends later."

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At this moment.

After gliding for 3 minutes.

Wang Ye finally "crashed" diagonally onto the muddy ground with a loud thud.

The strong shock was majorly absorbed by the soft mud and sand.

Only a small part of the impact was absorbed by his knees and hip joints.

Although his vertical descent speed was very slow, due to his horizontal flying speed exceeding 100 yards, the impact from landing was still incredibly terrifying.

Wang Ye shook his numb knee joints, looking in shock towards the edge of the short cliff,

"I actually glided in mid-air for 3 whole minutes."

Mind you, this was a 50-meter high short cliff.

Equivalent to jumping directly off a sixteenth or seventeenth floor rooftop.

If any ordinary man from the roadside were to accidentally fall, there’s a 99.9% chance they’d suffer shattered fractures, high paraplegia, internal organ rupture, severe concussion, and die of blood loss.

Yet Wang Ye could land unscathed, without even needing to roll to absorb the impact, enduring the terrifying landing force with just his physical body.

It’s simply incredible.

Wang Ye pulled his legs out of the pit and wiped mud off his shoes with leaves and grass roots. Then he raised his head and looked at the rough cliff wall.

Due to last night’s heavy rain, the cliff wall now appeared quite slippery.

Wall-Climbing and Roof-Jumping was clearly not viable.

"I’ll have to climb up then."

After pondering for a moment, Wang Ye slightly stimulated his Qi and blood, wrinkling the pads of his fingers,

Reducing the contact surface to increase the friction of his grip.

He rubbed his fingertips, producing a slight "rustle" sound.

The texture was somewhat akin to rock.

Very hard.

In fact, ordinary people, after having bathed or soaked for too long, can naturally achieve this wrinkled skin state, though the hardness of their wrinkles would be far inferior to Wang Ye’s.

This wrinkled skin state, from an evolutionary perspective, is the brain’s response to prevent drowning death. After soaking for too long, it controls skin wrinkling to increase grasping friction, allowing better grip and swift standing, similar to how tire tread patterns work.

Through practicing the Golden Bell Shield, Wang Ye could easily manipulate the flow of blood within his body.

Naturally, he could also achieve such feats with consciousness.

Upon controlling his fingers to wrinkle, he clamped onto a dent on the rocky surface.

Starting to climb at an extremely fast pace.

The slippery rock surface posed no challenge to him given his formidable grip.

It only took a mere minute,

for Wang Ye to climb to the top of the cliff, back to the place where he leaped.

Just as he was about to pack up his things and leave,

suddenly.

Wang Ye’s gaze froze.

Seemingly having gained a moment of insight from the climb just now.

Since he could enhance climbing efficiency by controlling the wrinkling of his fingertip pads,

then perhaps he could similarly improve his running traction by controlling the wrinkling of his toe skin?

With the current hardness of his skin, he might be able to rival track spikes with his bare body.

If true, then his running performance would surpass that of 99% of marathon shoes.

Wang Ye immediately took off his shoes and socks.

Walking barefoot on the cement pavement of the corridor.

Although he had never tried walking barefoot before, due to countless enhancements to his skin’s toughness, he didn’t feel much discomfort.

Just felt the rough surface of the concrete scratching a bit numbly itchy.

Once Wang Ye slightly adapted to the feel of walking barefoot on concrete, he began to apply the Golden Bell Shield, contracting the Qi and blood in his feet. Instantly, numerous dense wrinkles appeared on his soles.

He first tried rubbing the cement surface hard with his soles.

Screech—— Screech——

The friction surface immediately emitted several piercing sounds, akin to nails scratching a blackboard.

Wang Ye could sense that the traction of his wrinkled soles was indeed strong, surpassing the grip of most running shoes, though still comparably inferior to real spikes.

Wang Ye continued to squat down to test his barefoot 100-meter sprint.

He abruptly started the stopwatch and dashed forward like a leopard.

His center of gravity stayed as low as possible, to prevent lifting off midway.

Whoosh!!!

After a fleeting few breaths.

Wang Ye reached the finish line.

He stopped and glanced at the result on his watch.

[4.92 seconds]

"Definitely improved!" Wang Ye beamed with joy.

Given such a result,

he might consider racing barefoot in the Lanzhou Marathon.

Breaking the marathon world record barefoot, just imagine the thrill.

By then, people would stop suspecting him of cheating.

Actually in marathon races, there often appear barefoot participants who seal their mouths. They challenge completing the entire 42 kilometers without any support or gear.

But those are akin to "ascetics," who generally don’t score impressively, merely finishing is considered victory. After all, racing barefoot while sealing the mouth is an immense physical and mental ordeal. It requires enduring unbelievable pain and weakness to complete such a difficult and arduous course.

Therefore, Wang Ye participating barefoot isn’t unusual. But if he could win the championship barefoot, outperforming fully equipped professional top athletes, even breaking the world record, that would be a tremendously sensational feat.

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