Guan Tong had always been circulating his Mind Power according to Shi Jingyi's "body acupoint flow thod," but it always felt a bit awkward to him.
This thod worked, but it always gave him a feeling of being very inefficient.
The reason Shi Jingyi herself could handle it with ease and master it effortlessly was because she had been practicing martial arts and exercises like circulating energy through acupoints since she was a few years old, allowing her to seamlessly switch over after Mind Power appeared.
But for the vast majority of people, they didn't have that kind of experience. Starting from scratch to learn and recognize the body's acupoints, slowly opening and circulating them, was truly a laborious task.
Although Guan Tong himself had mastered it through rote morization, he never managed to grasp the essence. If this thod could give Shi Jingyi a benefit of 10 points, then he felt he could get at most 5 points, or even less.
He believed it was the sa for others who were learning it; differences in talent and experience would lead to varying learning efficiencies.
However, through this coincidental opportunity, by outputting hundreds of thousands, even millions of Mind Power in one go, he truly understood how to utilize this energy of Mind Power.
It didn't need to rigidly follow Shi Jingyi's set of "acupoint circulation thod," because for Mind Power, the human body itself was a large channel that could be freely penetrated and moved through.
Once he grasped this point, there was no need to obsess over specific acupoints. Simply widening the channel would increase the circulation efficiency of Mind Power.
And the thod to widen it was to output a massive amount of Mind Power per unit of ti. Guan Tong would never normally have this opportunity; his Upper Limit of over three hundred and his reserve Mind Power of a few thousand were far too little compared to hundreds of thousands or millions.
Outputting over a million Mind Power instantly would stretch the channel wide open in an instant. Even after it contracted, there would be residual expansion, which, reflected on the data level, was an increase in the Mind Power Upper Limit.
"If I'm not mistaken, my Mind Power Upper Limit must have increased significantly as well... because the channel for Mind Power entering and exiting becoming wider would allow Mind Power to circulate faster and improve efficiency more quickly. It's like people with thicker blood vessels being less prone to diseases like blockages."
Guan Tong called up the Terminal panel, and sure enough, his Mind Power Upper Limit had increased by a large margin.
[Na: Guan Tong]
[Nickna: Shadow]
[Title: Civilization Observer]
[Mind Power: 386 (386) (21641)]
[Ascension Coins: 3686120]
[Overall Biotric Rating: Outstanding]
"A full increase of nearly thirty points... It seems my judgnt was correct."
Guan Tong had already figured out the logic. The usual process of inputting and outputting Mind Power was essentially continuously expanding the "channel." But that small trickle slowly scouring away was too inefficient.
Now, with a one-ti flood of hundreds of thousands or millions of Mind Power, the improvent brought was several tis, even dozens of tis greater than normal!
"As long as I make good use of the output opportunities from the following magnitude 8, 9, and 10 earthquakes, raising my Mind Power Upper Limit to break through the 500 mark shouldn't be a problem... it might even be more than I think."
Guan Tong believed the achievent of destroying a magnitude 7 Geomantic Pillar in under half a minute this ti was extrely impressive. The authorities would definitely be completely determined to mobilize all the Ascendants they could gather and transfer their Mind Power to him.
This way, the reserve Mind Power he could convert later would be even greater—several million, even tens of millions, was possible!
If he could output tens of millions of Mind Power in one go... how much could the channel be widened? Guan Tong couldn't even imagine. He felt that with a single tens-of-millions-level output, increasing the Upper Limit by 100 points might not be impossible.
……
The destruction caused by the magnitude 7 earthquake was no longer the small-scale trouble of the previous magnitude 6.
Countries around the world all suffered a certain number of casualties. Many houses and roads were destroyed, and so cities closer to the seismic source collapsed by more than half.
Beixing, due to Guan Tong destroying the Geomantic Pillar in less than half a minute, suffered the lowest losses. This couldn't be hidden, and coupled with the previous leak, it sparked discussion at the Human Consortium eting.
Many committee mbers from various countries appealed to Gao Liangwei, the Beixing representative, hoping that Shadow could not only handle Beixing Country's Geomantic Pillars but also help deal with those of other countries.
Because if teleportation-type items were used, distance wouldn't be a problem—if Shadow could destroy one Geomantic Pillar in 1 minute, in five minutes, he could destroy at least four, preventing four major earthquakes.
Gao Liangwei expressed sympathy and understanding, but ultimately refused.
Destroying a Geomantic Pillar required Shadow to expend a super massive amount of Mind Power, and this Mind Power wasn't created out of thin air; it was all provided by Beixing's Ascendants.
Beixing Country itself still didn't know if it could transfer enough Mind Power to Shadow before the magnitude 10 super earthquake erupted. Where would they find the extra capacity to solve other countries' Geomantic Pillars?
One committee mber stated they were willing to have the Ascendants in their country also provide Mind Power input to Shadow in exchange for help.
However, Gao Liangwei pointed out that their country's total population was just over a million, with less than a hundred thousand Ascendants. Even if everyone transferred their Mind Power to Shadow, it wouldn't make up for the consumption of destroying one high-level Geomantic Pillar.
Though cruel to say, that was the fact.
It was true that Human Consortium countries should help each other, but the prerequisite was first ensuring the safety of their own nation's people. Only when they had spare capacity could they help foreign countries.
Because of this, other committee mbers could only mutter a few dissatisfied complaints internally and couldn't directly criticize Gao Liangwei.
Mary, the committee mber from the Suroma Empire, then stated she could offer help.
"Our Suroma's chanical AI technology is very advanced, as everyone should know well. Many of them can be used in disaster relief and rescue. If any committee mber here needs it, we can provide it."
"Really?" a committee mber from a small country exclaid in pleasant surprise. "We need it, thank you!"
"Don't rush. These technological creations are very precious; we can't give them to you for free," Mary said. "If you need them, you have to buy them. We only accept Ascension Coins."
"This... alright, I'll discuss it with the professionals."
Upon hearing they had to spend Ascension Coins to buy, many eager committee mbers also showed troubled expressions. Nowadays, Ascension Coins were the absolute hard currency, needed for everything. Even a national governnt couldn't spend them recklessly.
"Committee Chairman Gao, your Beixing is wealthy and powerful. Don't you plan to order so?"
"We don't need it for now," Gao Liangwei said. "We also have so research in this area of robots and can achieve self-sufficiency."
Mary curled her lip and looked at the representative committee mbers from Fahe and Sakura Prayer Country.
"What about you? If you need public security-type robots, we can also provide them."
The two committee mbers looked sowhat awkward upon hearing this. Mary's words had hit their sore spots; both countries currently had serious public security problems.
Due to the central square chaos incident, Fahe had been experiencing continuous riots everywhere these past days. Coupled with the fact that the Ascendant with a "Mind Control"-like ability still hadn't been caught, controlling others everywhere to cause trouble and attack official departnts, the dostic situation was getting worse and worse. So higher-ups had even begun secretly fleeing to other countries.
As for Sakura Prayer Country, it was due to the nationwide relocation issue. Although many citizens followed the move, after the transfer was completed, they were unaccustod to everything from the diet to the climate. Under the catalysis of pressure, this discomfort quickly turned into mania, with a large number of Lone Wolf-style assault incidents occurring daily.
The earthquake disasters brought by the Rules were already hard enough to deal with; adding these man-made calamities on top was completely adding insult to injury.
Even though the pressure was imnse, both countries' committee mbers still rejected Mary's proposal. They both clearly understood that if Suroma was selling now, they would demand an exorbitant price.
As a special currency whose output humans couldn't control, the value of Ascension Coins was self-evident. Any country that remained cautious was unwilling to excessively deplete Ascension Coins to avoid a situation where expenditure exceeded inco, leading to eventual bankruptcy.
If a national governnt ran out of Ascension Coins, that governnt was basically not far from dissolution.
After the eting ended, each country made preparations according to the latest model data. Three days passed in a flash, and the magnitude 8 earthquake descended, once again bringing imnse destruction to the world.
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