Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi

Chapter 438 - 315: Demon Wings

Moreover, the wings on his back are light enough, broad enough.

Wang Ye seems like he’s lying beneath a glider,

easily gliding through the air.

In fact, these wings don’t provide him with forward propulsion.

They only allow him to hover in the air, descending slowly in a spiral manner.

Therefore, the forward pushing force still needs to be provided by himself.

The advantage of these wings lies in their hovering capability, gaining this passive ability allows him not to constantly provide upward force, he just needs to push forward.

When gliding to the point where his body gradually approaches the ground, he only needs to exert an upward force to lift himself.

This modification is extremely convenient for Wang Ye, saving over forty percent of energy consumption and making every ounce of his strength used accurately for acceleration.

He maintained a slow speed, wandering around the mountains a few times. It must be said, the consumption of Primordial Qi was greatly saved, and surely his endurance has increased by about double. It’s a pity that within ten kilometers there are pedestrians, preventing him from testing his current maximum speed.

Wang Ye slowly landed on the ground and couldn’t help but sigh.

The worst thing domestically is the high population density and the overly perfect surveillance system.

Whenever he wants to test his limits with full force, he has to consider whether there are people nearby, or if any surveillance cameras are aimed at him.

In Utah, he didn’t have to worry about such messes; he could directly sprint at subsonic speeds on the roads.

Even if he continuously ran for dozens of kilometers, encountering a living person was impossible. The population density was as sparse as the uninhabited areas in the northwest of the country.

Wang Ye pondered for a while, planning to find a less populated area in the suburbs later to formally test how fast his flying limit really is.

After landing, he didn’t retract his wings immediately. Instead, he carefully observed the appearance of the wings behind him.

These two wings didn’t extend from the shoulder blades as traditionally imagined but extended from the ribs under the armpits. So they were positioned lower, and from the back, the root position looked somewhat awkward.

But if you don’t look closely, nothing unusual can be seen, because the wings’ area is so large that it lets one overlook many detailed problems.

For instance, Wang Ye didn’t notice while soaring that his wings were densely covered with crimson blood-like streaks. Also, they were stretched very wide. From a distance, they looked almost like a pair of fiery red Demon Wings.

Upon seeing these blood markings, Wang Ye immediately realized they were scars resulting from the tearing of skin fibers, also known as growth marks. Many fitness enthusiasts who grow muscles too quickly develop these red growth marks in areas like the biceps, pectorals, and lats. Or when teenagers’ bones develop too fast, similar growth marks appear on the waist and legs.

The reason for growth marks is that the skin experiences stretching beyond its limit. When the volume of bones, muscles, and fat increases faster than the skin can stretch, the elastic fibers in the dermis snap, forming these marks.

Pregnancy marks work the same way.

Pregnant women experience rapid abdominal expansion, causing skin fibers to tear and form pregnancy marks. After giving birth, these pregnancy marks can appear prominently across their abdomen.

Logically, with Wang Ye’s bodily adaptability, it is difficult for him to develop growth marks.

Because his skin’s elastic fibers can recover in an instant when snapped.

But just now, the speed of Wang Ye’s skeletal development was so exaggerated that in merely half a minute, he expanded a pair of wings over ten meters wide. It was like inflating a balloon to the size of a ball in a second. Given such a pace of expansion, the fact that his skin didn’t burst on the spot already shows considerable adaptability, so growth marks were an inevitable result.

Moreover, typically once growth marks appear, they accompany the body for a lifetime, unless removed by laser. But Wang Ye, who can quickly heal broken bones, naturally doesn’t worry about such minor fiber tears.

Wang Ye caressed his wings, gently raising his head along the wing roots, surveying them.

These crimson growth marks, like streams of magma, evenly spread across the surface of his wings,

And because of his inherently high body temperature, his wings were constantly radiating searing steam.

This made the wings resemble Demon Wings even more.

He suspected that portraying a Divine Being in the West wouldn’t be an issue for him now.

This made Wang Ye unintentionally fantasize that perhaps those ancient Divine Beings were Evolvers similar to himself.

However, this assumption clearly doesn’t hold, because if Evolvers like himself had appeared in ancient times,

the world would have been turned upside down long ago. He couldn’t believe all Evolvers were as cautious as he was.

Moreover, his continued caution was primarily due to the apprehension towards modern technology and the power of nuclear weapons.

In ancient times there were no nuclear weapons. It could be said that possessing strength like Wang Ye’s now would allow one to act freely back then, even destroying a dynasty single-handedly would be no problem.

Bows and arrows, cannons, spears...

Before Wang Ye, they were all mere toys.

None of them capable of even leaving a mark on his body.