Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 204 - 198: Devouring Trait_2

It felt like death, or rather, like being in an undeveloped state in the womb.

"Could this be fetal breathing?" With this thought, Wang Ye's eyes lit up slightly. He had come across similar concepts in novels before.

Fetal breathing, from its literal meaning, simulates the breathing of a fetus in the mother's womb during sleep. It extends to a higher-level internal breathing centered on the Lower Dantian, also known as innate breathing. This allows one to naturally consume energy and enhance one's physical strength even in a completely unconscious and airless state. It is said that those who master fetal breathing can undergo a second development, further developing their muscles and organs from the existing foundation. Their food intake also becomes remarkably large, and their recovery of strength is extraordinary.

"Is this the main reason for my metabolism greatly increasing?"

Wang Ye rubbed the areas where scars were left from training the Golden Bell Shield yesterday.

Those areas, which originally had scabbed, had now grown new flesh.

And the color of the skin was almost identical to the surrounding areas. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

There was no trace that this area had been injured before.

Wang Ye vaguely remembered that before going to sleep yesterday, these areas were pale and weak, as the granulation tissue had just formed, and the inner fiber layers had not fully healed. But after just a night's sleep, these weak areas had become identical to the other parts.

This shows that sleep indeed improved his recovery ability.

"If so-called ultra-deep sleep is really what I suspect to be fetal breathing, does it mean I am not breathing normally through my mouth and nose during sleep?" Wang Ye felt a slight chill in his heart.

Theoretically, fetal breathing simulates the state of breathing in the womb, which means existing without breathing or eating, relying only on the umbilical cord for survival. If his sleep state is entirely fetal breathing, it would mean he is most likely breathing through other parts of his body, rather than conventional trachea breathing through his mouth and nose. If true, it will sooner or later be noticed by others as abnormal.

Although Wang Ye now has multiple respiratory organs, such as lungs and gills.

But at least in a conscious state, he can control his breathing methods freely.

Once asleep, however, his subconscious takes over his body.

Regardless of what happens during sleep, he would neither know nor control it.

Unless he is awakened by some sound or movement.

"It seems I'll have to record a video of myself sleeping tomorrow." Wang Ye put down the spoon in his hand, took a camera out from the drawer in his study, set up the tripod, and placed it beside the bed.

If he indeed breathes normally through the trachea and lungs during sleep, there should be subtle rise and fall in his chest and abdomen; otherwise, there would not be.

After setting up the camera,

Wang Ye returned to the kitchen.

He ate the cooked soup noodles.

Absorbed enough calories.

Then, Wang Ye changed from his pajamas to training clothes and sports shoes, carried a Hidden Weapons Pouch filled with steel nails and an angle grinder on his back, and prepared to go out for training.

For the convenience of his training in Throwing and Golden Bell Shield, Wang Ye's current training clothes resemble a Martial Arts Uniform, with buttons that can be undone, being very loose.

He somewhat resembles an old man practicing Tai Chi in the park.

But the difference is that Wang Ye's good figure can fill out this loose jacket. Combined with the near-perfect temperament and posture bestowed by Tai Chi, he exudes a very ethereal vibe.

Seizing the moment before dawn, Wang Ye quickly arrived at the abandoned building area.

He took out the angle grinder and the steel nails from his pouch.

Due to his increasingly absurd physical strength, every steel nail he threw would be crushed and deformed by the immense force. Thus, the consumption rate of the nails is outrageous, using up almost a box every ten minutes. Additionally, the angle grinder's wear rate is rapid. After a half-day of use, the grinding blade would be completely damaged.

So Wang Ye had stocked many boxes of steel nails and angle grinder blades in his pouch, roughly estimating over a hundred boxes of neatly placed steel nails. Along with 7 angle grinders and 50 resin cutting blades.

Those unaware might think Wang Ye works on a construction site seeing the items in his pouch. Only Wang Ye knows these machines, capable of cutting through iron like mud, are actually used on himself.

Wang Ye, following the same method as yesterday, continuously tempered his physique with these tools.

Of course, relying solely on cutting and piercing cannot completely refine the body.

Occasionally, he would also use a hammer to strike his body.

But any ordinary hammer's wooden handle would break after just two uses.

So Wang Ye specially bought a steel hammer made of threaded steel.

This hammer is not only hard but also fits comfortably in his hand.

Even exerting full Tai Chi Dan Force could only slightly twist the hammer handle.

It was very suitable for Wang Ye to use for tempering his body.

Wang Ye tested slightly, when exerting full Dan Force with the iron hammer to smash a brick, it could directly pulverize the red brick, and the cement ground beneath would instantly crack into a 3-meter radius, spiderweb-like irregular crack, as if it could collapse at any moment. It showcased how ferocious the force of this hammer was. Wang Ye even suspected that if his Innate Skill continued to evolve, he might eventually turn into a human missile, with each casual punch possessing TNT-explosion-level destructive power.

The principle of this Dan Force boils down to concentrating Innate Qi around the Dantian and channeling it to the fist peak to detonate it, creating power akin to igniting gunpowder. So, even if a person masters the Dan Force with 100 units of Innate Qi, they could only generate the destructive force to break a brick.

But now Wang Ye possesses 10,000 units of Innate Qi, more than a hundred times that of an ordinary person. That's why he can exhibit such terrifying destructive power.

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Around near noon at twelve o'clock.

Wang Ye finally finished his training.

He packed up the Hidden Weapons Pouch and prepared to return home to cook a meal.

The previous day, Wang Ye had purchased 100 pounds of ingredients at the wholesale market.

As usual, he carried more than ten filled plastic bags and ran back home.

Then.

Wang Ye quickly processed the ingredients, put them into a wok, and began stir-frying.

At noon every day, he needs to prepare the largest quantity of dishes. Because lunch not only needs to replenish the energy consumed during the morning training but also prepares for the energy consumption of the afternoon training.

Wang Ye skillfully stir-fried over the fire, and soon a heap of mountain-like ingredients were cooked into several dozen plates of beautifully colored and delicious dishes, neatly arranged on the dining table.

Just as Wang Ye was about to finish the last dish and start eating,

suddenly.

A light screen appeared before his eyes.

[You practiced Cooking, gained insight, Skill Level increased by 0.1%.]

[Your Cooking Skill Level has reached full, upgraded from lv4 to lv5.]

"Leveled up!"

Wang Ye was overjoyed and hurried to check the system panel.

[Cooking lv5 (0.02%)]

[Trait: Devour - Increases energy absorption by 10%.]

"Devour? Enhances energy absorption ability? Does it improve the efficiency or range of absorption?"

Wang Ye frowned slightly.

He tried a bite of the dish from the wok.

After the food was dissolved in stomach acid and absorbed the energy in the intestines,

a number quickly surfaced in Wang Ye's mind.

"28 calories..."

"No way, I can directly calculate the calories my body acquires from food?"

Wang Ye's eyes showed a look of shock. It's known that the only way to determine food calories is to send it to a laboratory with professional methods to measure nutrients.

Ordinary people can only rely on the calorie numbers on food packaging to estimate how many calories they consumed.

But Wang Ye's Cooking Skill upgraded to lv5 allows him to directly use his brain to calculate the calories he consumes from every bite of food!

"Since that's the case... let's see if I can gain energy from air and radiation."

Wang Ye went to the balcony, pulled open the curtains, bathed in the sunlight, and slightly closed his eyes to feel for any energy absorption from air and light.