Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi

Chapter 465 - 328: Limitlessly Soaring Power (2)

And now, cutting off oxygen intake means I have to rely on other ways to maintain my body’s metabolism, otherwise I will die immediately.

Wang Ye opened his phone and immediately searched for related information online. It took him about fifteen minutes before he gradually guessed the direction of changes in his body.

In fact, although most organisms need to breathe oxygen, not all organisms need to follow this principle. In the deep sea, among some relatively primitive biological groups, there is a special metabolic process known as fermentation metabolism, meaning they can survive in an environment where oxygen is almost non-existent. This may sound complicated, but when given a direct example, many people might understand — that’s the yeast used in making dough.

Wang Ye’s current state is not pure fermentation metabolism, but it bears similarities. Both rely on their own fermentation for metabolism, and this efficiency is no slower than aerobic metabolism. People who have made dough might know that when fermenting a dough, just add a small packet of yeast, and a fist-sized dough can quickly expand to two or three times its size within half an hour. This is the speed of fermentation; as long as the energy and heat are sufficient, the speed of fermentation metabolism can be astonishingly fast.

Understanding this special fermentation metabolism, Wang Ye’s eyes lit up.

He suddenly realized that the disappearance of lungs is an evolutionary trait,

and the benefits it brings might be more than just extending his breath-holding time.

Since he hit a bottleneck in strength, he had been thinking about how to intake more oxygen, and now the system’s evolution directly solved this issue for him, allowing him not to rely on oxygen for energy but directly depend on anaerobic fermentation.

This means he only needs to ingest enough calories to infinitely expand his strength, without being limited by oxygen content, and even if his strength grows to blow up Earth with one punch, he does not need to worry about his metabolism bearing the energy output. Because in the cosmos, oxygen might be scarce, but heat is infinite.

Any fixed star can provide him with nearly infinite nuclear fusion energy.

In the face of fermentation metabolism, unlimited energy equates to unlimited explosive power.

Thinking of this, Wang Ye’s face was already filled with excitement.

Though it seems his strength has not changed much now, since the metabolic change happened, it means his potential has significantly increased, and now going to exercise would surely be very efficient!

Luckily, now he is in Weihai, Shandong, a coastal city. He can use the vast ocean to test and train his strength and today happens to be a rest day, with no need to meet any brands, providing him ample time for training and testing.

Wang Ye immediately got up to wash,

did a simple cleaning of his body, used Bone Shrinking Skill to reduce his skeleton to a height of about 1.8 meters, and then dressed.

He opened the hotel door, ready to head downstairs to the nearby beach.

As he left, he adjusted his breathing,

trying to keep his breathing frequency consistent with other people.

Although he no longer needed to breathe, going out, he must always pay attention to maintaining breathing.

After all, he still lives in human society and cannot let people discover he doesn’t breathe.

If this were discovered, it would indeed be astonishing.

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About ten minutes later.

Wang Ye arrived beside the beach.

Seeing the familiar beach, he couldn’t help but recall that half a year ago, while traveling across the country, he also passed Weihai, Shandong,

Back then, while exercising by the sea, he accidentally got caught by the fishing net of a fishing boat on the sea and had to tear the net apart to protect himself. He wondered how the fishermen on that boat were doing now.

You have to know that a fishing net costs at least several thousand yuan, a good one could be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, which is astronomical for a group of fishermen, especially as losing a net is like losing their livelihood. So Wang Ye still felt a little sorry for those fishermen.

However, after such a long time, it might be hard to encounter those fishermen again,

unless they have always been fishing in this sea area.

Wang Ye set aside the thoughts in his mind, took off his clothes, then adjusted his body back to 1.9 meters.

He stuffed his clothes into the carried bag, placed the bag in a more hidden position on the beach, and then walked into the sea step by step. By November, it is already basically winter; the sea water now is ice-cold, and the wind keeps blowing by the shore, so almost no one would choose to swim in this season, thus no one else could be seen on the beach. But looking out at the sea, occasionally a few cargo ships could still be seen passing by.

After the water was over his abdomen, Wang Ye dove into the water and began to swim underwater. His swimming speed was astonishing; ever since his Swimming Skill broke through to lvl5 and gained a trait of increasing movement speed in water by 50%, his swimming speed far surpassed any creature in the world, becoming as fast as lightning.

He maintained a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, constantly diving deeper.

As he went deeper, the surrounding environment became darker, and the pressure from the sea water became increasingly terrifying. Due to the disappearance of the body’s oxygen intake ability, his original gill slit organs also disappeared, so diving into the water, he no longer had grotesque gill slits on his neck. And no longer filtered sea water to extract oxygen for breathing.

Although it looked no different on the surface — just transitioning from regular breathing to self-fermentation metabolism — differences were noticeable in energy consumption. Previously, filtering seawater to breathe required filtering out impurities and extracting oxygen from seawater, making the oxygen intake very low, while energy consumption during swimming was intense, so it was always in a state of oxygen deficiency. Maintaining high-intensity swimming for two hours would force him to shore due to insufficient oxygen.

Now, switching to self-fermentation metabolism, he worries no more about oxygen deficiency inside his body.

Whether it was psychological or not, Wang Ye felt his swimming speed was faster than before.

He continued diving for over ten minutes.

Finally,

Wang Ye reached 500 meters deep at the seabed.

Here the pressure is almost 51 times normal atmospheric pressure, equating to bearing hundreds of tons of pressure. Even fully armed divers find it hard to reach here, and under such circumstances, the body feels like it is wrapped in viscous mud, gaps between bones squeezed small, even small gestures are difficult to perform. Here sunlight almost cannot reach, with the naked eye seeing complete darkness, Wang Ye could only rely on touch and hearing to sense surrounding objects. He sensed countless bizarre fish racing past him.

Wang Ye raised his arm and shook it slightly, adapting to the pressure here.

"Good, this is the place."

For him, although this pressure posed no life-threatening danger,

it provided clear resistance to his movements,

and exercising in such an environment maximizes his strength stimulation, serving as training, activating the potential of the fermentation metabolism function,

the only flaw is here sunlight doesn’t reach,

making energy replenishment tough.

Therefore, after a while of training, Wang Ye had to float up to bask in the sun for a bit.

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