Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 251 - 221: High-Maneuverability Flying Mode 2

Wang Ye was finally feeling a bit exhausted and decided to take a short rest.

He slumped onto the muddy ground, opened his phone, and began searching for bird flight methods,

intending to gain some inspiration and insight from other creatures' flight patterns.

It's well known that many aircraft, cars, ships, and even buildings draw inspiration from the body structures of nature's creatures.

This clearly illustrates how intricate the biological structures evolved by nature are.

But evidently, his flight relies on Qi Control, while birds rely on their wings. The two are essentially different flight modes, and the reference value is negligible.

Wang Ye looked quickly through the search interface, somewhat troubled.

Currently, bird flight forms can generally be divided into three basic types: flapping, gliding, and soaring.

Flapping is quite simple; it relies on rapid wing beats to maintain stable flight. For example, dragonflies, hummingbirds, and flies, which are small creatures, primarily use this form to fly.

Gliding is flying downward from a height, occasionally flapping to gain lift, primarily presenting wavelike flight. Swallows, geese, and sparrows, medium-sized animals, use this form for flying.

Soaring involves acquiring energy from air currents without needing to flap for energy and mainly uses horizontal air currents, or wind power, to maintain long-duration hovering. Eagles and condors, large creatures, use this method.

Wingsuit flying uses the aforementioned principle to simulate soaring. Theoretical speaking, Wang Ye is already very familiar with this flight mode. Whenever he wants, he can control his body to quickly ascend to a height of thousands of meters and then use the Wind Manipulation Skill to soar for a long time.

Although this is also a way to fly, it doesn't fit Wang Ye's internal vision of a perfect flight posture. He desires a flight mode with agility and maneuverability anytime, anywhere, which is akin to the "flapping" flight style.

"Indeed, there's nothing much to gain here." Wang Ye shook his head in disappointment. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Just as he was about to close his phone, he suddenly noticed a short article title that slightly piqued his interest.

[The Remarkable Abilities of Hummingbirds: How Do They Hover in Midair? What is the Principle Behind It?]

Wang Ye clicked open the article and quickly scanned through the thousands of words in about five seconds.

But his eyes grew brighter, as if he had discovered a new continent.

"So, the principle behind hummingbirds hovering is like this!" Wang Ye couldn't help but grin.

The reason hummingbirds can precisely hover at one location is not only because of their special wing structure but also a unique movement method.

Generally, when birds flap their wings, they accelerate on the downward stroke and decelerate on the upward stroke. This saves muscle energy, which makes sense for larger birds.

However, hummingbirds are different; their wings accelerate on both upward and downward strokes and flexibly change the angle of wing flapping, fanning in all directions to provide propulsion from every direction to their body.

This method spends more energy, but it also allows hummingbirds to more flexibly adjust flight direction and speed, even performing agile maneuvers in midair that large birds cannot, like flying backward, diving, and spiraling.

And Wang Ye's inability to stabilize his body in flight is because he's too intentional about moving in a certain direction.

Using too much force, unable to fully retract kinetic energy, naturally results in this reckless flight mode.

Thinking of this, Wang Ye had a sudden clarity.

Similarly, he only needs to simulate the flight style of a hummingbird, abbreviated and forcefully controlling Qi to flow in all directions, to quickly learn the agility and hovering techniques of the hummingbird. Like random punches can defeat a master, at this stage he doesn't need to pursue advanced Qi Control techniques, just ensure a sufficient and abundant output of Primordial Qi. Simply put, it's miracles out of brute force.

"There's one hour left until dawn, gotta seize the time." Wang Ye abruptly stood up, eyes ready and eager to try out the new thought that appeared in his mind.

He first used Qi Control to make his body hover in midair.

Then immediately adjusted his method of Qi Control from a single direction to a hummingbird-like eight-direction propulsion.

If someone capable of sensing Primordial Qi were present, they would find Wang Ye's body resembling a branching tree, with his originally clustered high-concentration Primordial Qi instantly evenly distributed to various positions within his body, filling his soles, fingertips, and head.

But since it was his first time trying this flight mode, the distribution of Primordial Qi in his body was not yet even, causing his body to begin vibrating violently.

Buzzz——

High-frequency buzzing, akin to a wasp's flight, echoed from within him.

Wang Ye hurriedly adjusted the distribution of Primordial Qi, spending more than ten seconds to finally stabilize his body.

"It's actually stabilized."

Wang Ye was pleasantly surprised, beginning to try moving forward.

Under his mental commands,

his body started steadily moving forward at approximately 10 yards, maintaining a standing posture throughout the movement, with hardly a tremor.

With the pull of Primordial Qi from all directions, although his movement was slightly slow, he could at least move with stable posture.

Upon confirming this mode was feasible, Wang Ye continued controlling his body to move front and back, left and right,

but about two minutes later, he had to land due to exhaustion.

This actively tense mode has an obvious flaw: it's extremely energy-consuming. Slightly flying for one minute is equivalent to the consumption of ten minutes, or even tens of minutes before.

This is why only tiny hummingbirds dare to use this method in nature.

Even slightly larger bodies struggle to withstand such rapid energy consumption.

While panting, Wang Ye glanced at the skill level changes on the panel.

He was astonished to find that in such a short training period, his flight skill level had dramatically increased.

This implies that under this training method, skill level advancement becomes faster!

Sudden and continuous good news made Wang Ye laugh uncontrollably.

Indeed, leveling up also requires using one's brain!

After a brief rest, Wang Ye resumed training.

With new insights, his motivation for training elevated significantly.

Each time, he'd push his physical limits before taking a break.

Under this almost reckless training regimen, his leveling efficiency increased countless times.

Until the sky completely brightened and the time in Mexico reached exactly seven in the morning.

Wang Ye reluctantly left the jungle and returned to the hotel.

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After Wang Ye cleaned the dirt off his body,

it was already past eight.

At this time, Ah Gui and others had already gotten up, came to the hotel lobby, and began organizing cave exploration equipment to prepare to head to Swallow Cave to familiarize themselves with the environment.

Wang Ye also came to the lobby and slightly checked the exploration equipment.

Although these cave exploration gears seem simple, with just a dozen or so climbing equipment,

in fact, just the ropes weigh over a hundred pounds, and the ropes are so bulky that several people are often needed to carry them.

Additionally, there are countless expansion screws and drilling tools, and enough descending equipment for them to use.

So, adventurers coming to Swallow Cave usually hire local porters to carry these things for them.

Although Wang Ye could lift these without pressure, the large volume of the ropes could easily interfere with his normal activities, causing unnecessary trouble, so he ultimately decided to hire several porters to carry these things for them.

After all, the porter hire prices here are not expensive. Hiring a porter to carry things for over ten kilometers costs only three hundred pesos, which is equivalent to over a hundred RMB.