Chapter 757: Chapter 597: No Need for a Charger!
At this moment, Long Yi was immersed in grueling training.
It had been a long time since he trained so intensely. During the war in the White Dragon Empire, Long Yi spent most of his time enhancing the power of the White Dragon Empire. Now, after starting this round of training, the long absent fatigue and sweat made him feel incredibly fulfilled!
Waking up early to train, then going hunting in the mountains with everyone. Coming back to train again in the afternoon—this routine felt more familiar than ever! As Long Yi spent more time here, his understanding of this world’s energy systems also increased. The most direct effect of this increase was the continuous enhancement of his own power.
In the battle creed of the Mountain Giants, individual ability isn’t emphasized, instead, they focus more on reliance on the power of the earth. The Mountain Giants have a saying—"As long as your feet stand on this earth, you are invincible." This statement is somewhat exaggerated, but it does illustrate why Mountain Giants insist on never leaving the ground at any time.
The Mountain Giants may believe in this, but Long Yi doesn’t entirely agree. In his view, only self-reliance is the most reliable. The idea that one’s feet must never leave the ground is just self-deception—otherwise, how were those Mountain Giants captured?
So, lately, in addition to studying how to better communicate with the earth, Long Yi has been researching how to rid himself of his dependence on it.
How does a cellphone rid itself of dependence on a charger?
Simply put, if you can’t generate power yourself, prepare a larger battery.
The current situation is quite odd. Including the fake Long Yi, all Mountain Giants rapidly lose their abundant rock energy once they leave the ground.
According to Long Yi’s experience, each Mountain Giant can store a tremendous amount of rock energy, but why does it dissipate?
Years of scientific knowledge reminded Long Yi that energy doesn’t appear or disappear without reason. If it’s gone, it either got used up by oneself or flowed somewhere else.
Firstly, it obviously didn’t get used up by oneself. Long Yi’s multiple tests proved this, meaning the energy definitely flowed somewhere else.
To confirm this, Long Yi experimented on himself. He prepared a wooden bed and kept lifting and setting down his feet from the ground. Eventually, he made a discovery!
Turns out, the rock energy never truly entered the Mountain Giant’s body! A portion of this energy enters the Mountain Giant while still connected to the earth! Once a Mountain Giant leaves the ground, the portion of rock energy inside them immediately retreats back into the earth.
So that’s how it is!
This is truly strange! It’s like the energy can be used freely, but can absolutely not be taken away!
After understanding this, Long Yi immediately began to figure out how to store more of this rock energy inside his body.
He first tried a "cutting" method.
He touched the ground with a finger, waited until his body was full of rock energy, and swiftly slid a piece of wood between his finger and the ground.
Reality proved his overthinking. The piece of wood couldn’t sever the earth’s energy. After several attempts, Long Yi found it impossible to disconnect it. As soon as he left the ground, the rock energy inside him immediately retracted into the earth like a frightened snail. He reckoned that except for Shadow Silver, nothing could sever the earth’s energy.
Then, Long Yi tried a "lock" method.
The so-called lock method involves using one’s own Giant Power to lock the rock energy inside the body. Theoretically, this should work, but it was clear after a few attempts that it was impossible. The Giant Power and Rock Energy clearly did not interfere with each other; no one could control the other.
What to do now?
Long Yi was worried. With less than half a month left until the Sacred Rock competition, it was completely unrealistic to completely change his habits and learn the Mountain Giant’s method of fighting by staying on the ground. In his fighting style, there were numerous maneuvers that required leaving the ground; once the fight began, instincts would take over at the right time.
After pondering for two days, Long Yi suddenly remembered how he had once infused his Mana into the ground while attempting to communicate with rock energy, and strangely it returned to his body as Mana itself!
So, Long Yi immediately tried it again, and sure enough, this time the rock energy turned into Mana and returned to his body. What was unexpected was that the excess Mana didn’t return to the earth after Long Yi left the ground!
In other words, this part of the transformed energy truly belonged to him now!
If that works, can Mana be converted back into rock energy?
Long Yi isolated the rock energy that had transformed into Mana and carefully studied it. Then, he tried to resonate it with the rock energy in his body. To no surprise, that portion of Mana turned back into rock energy.
The restored rock energy instinctively wanted to merge with his own, but Long Yi immediately left the ground. Sure enough, that portion of rock energy immediately hibernated and no longer attempted to leave his body!
