GA: Chapter 257 Dragon Warrior, Po! Wuhu!
"Is that Tai Chi?"
Although Po only made a gesture, Tai Chi itself emphasizes intent over form. As fellow Taoists, even many in Shu Mountain are accustomed to practicing a set of Tai Chi in the morning, so Xu Qing was not unfamiliar with it.
What he didn't expect was to see the Shadow of Tai Chi on a panda?
"Dragon Claw Hand?!"
Before he could recover from the sight of a panda using Tai Chi, he heard an exclamation from the middle-aged monk beside him, his tone filled with disbelief.
Looking at Po again, he had leaped up from the ground, his panda right hand forming a dragon claw shape, and vaguely, a phantom of a dragon claw could actually be seen emerging.
The Buddhist Dragon Claw Hand was actually mastered by a panda?
And the power it unleashed was quite impressive?
The middle-aged monk, including the young novice, looked somewhat incredulous.
Even more terrifying was that this panda's Dragon Claw Hand was actually stronger than his own?!
The three of them then fell silent, watching as one Taoist and Buddhist martial art after another was casually used by Po.
Wudang, Emei, Quanzhen, Shu Mountain, Shaolin, Baiyun—
Palm techniques, fist techniques, leg techniques, and he even picked up a branch from the ground and performed two sets of sword techniques.
The most crucial thing was that any martial art in Po's hands seemed to turn decay into magic, unleashing incredibly terrifying power.
He easily broke through the mutated lizard's defenses, leaving marks on its body.
Although they would quickly heal, it demonstrated Po's formidable strength.
"Roar!!!"
The entire mutated lizard was on the verge of going berserk. This panda was too agile, more agile than any creature it had encountered before. No matter how it manipulated rocks or swung its body, the panda could detect and dodge in the first instance.
Up until now, it had been constantly on the defensive, not landing a single hit on the panda.
"So tired."
Po had a similar thought to the mutated lizard. Although he had inflicted many injuries on the mutated lizard, it was useless as they quickly healed. And after fighting for so long, even though he hadn't been injured, he was very tired.
He also realized that to defeat the mutated lizard, the martial arts he had just used seemed insufficient.
Since that was the case, it was time for him to use that "secret technique."
Po's eyes gradually became serious. His soft belly wobbled twice in the air, and the atmosphere gradually quieted. Xu Qing and the others also seemed to realize that Po was about to use a big move. The mutated lizard's previously agitated mood also became solemn, watching the panda warily.
"Grrr!"
The sudden sound made the surrounding atmosphere a bit awkward. Po rubbed his belly sheepishly.
"A little hungry."
"Roar roar roar!!!"
The mutated lizard let out a massive roar, slamming its claws onto the ground.
"Rumble rumble rumble"
On the ground, countless rock pillars pierced through the earth like a surging tide. Po first jumped onto a rock pillar, then felt a slight prickling sensation, and couldn't help but switch feet. He felt a little pain and itchiness again, and then kept switching feet.
"No more playing, no more playing. I'm getting serious now."
Po suddenly realized that this was no time for games. He clasped his hands together, and the spiritual energy within him surged, slowly emerging around his body, and then, under everyone's gaze, transforming from green to gold.
And Po, under the influence of a mysterious force, lifted off from the rock pillar, slowly floating in the air.
The fur on his body became fluffy and soft, and the straw hat he wore and the shorts around his waist also shimmered with a faint golden light. Immediately after, a dazzling light burst forth, spreading in all directions.
When the light faded, Po was seen suspended in the air, now wearing a training uniform. Although he was a panda, he exuded an indescribable aura of a grandmaster.
Unfortunately, this aura didn't last long.
"Woohoo, that's so cool!!!"
"Although this is my second transformation, the light effects are too cool, and this outfit is so smooth and soft, it's so comfortable to wear."
Po excitedly touched the new clothes on his body, overjoyed.
"Wait a minute, this isn't my complete form yet."
"Let me draw a dragon first."
As he spoke, Po performed a set of Tai Chi in the air. Golden threads shimmered in the air, and a soft glow outlined a dragon shape in the atmosphere.
With his final turn, Po's body was surrounded by a massive phantom of a dragon.
Standing within the dragon's belly, Po clasped his hands together and said with a majestic tone:
"I am, the Dragon Warrior!"
"The Dragon Warrior?!"
Xu Qing and the others had lost count of how many times they had been shocked by Po. It was one thing for a panda to speak human language and use martial arts, but why could it also transform? Was that outfit really part of the transformation, or did you pull it out and put it on while the light was blinding?
Also, why could a panda like you outline a dragon with Tai Chi?!
They felt like they had too much to complain about. Was this panda really a mutated beast, or had it transmigrated from another world?
Among the various abilities of mutated beasts, was this one included?
At this moment, Po was unaware of Xu Qing and the others' thoughts, instead rushing towards the mutated lizard.
The mutated lizard couldn't help but take a step back, its body even trembling slightly.
It was clearly a panda, but why did it suddenly feel like a dragon?
Although there was no instinctive suppression, the pure draconic pressure genuinely made it feel fear.
"Do you see it?"
"Do you see this divine dragon?"
"I'm just asking, isn't it cool?!"
"Hahahahaha, are you awestruck by my coolness?"
"Woohoo!"
Po excitedly swayed his body, and the phantom of the divine dragon covering his body also swayed with him, even striking several poses in the sky.
"It's simply too flashy!"
"Roar roar roar roar roar roar, owoooo."
"Is that how a dragon calls?"
"Never mind, take this!"
Po controlled the divine dragon to fly directly in front of the mutated lizard. The layer of divine dragon phantom passed through the mutated lizard's body, then suddenly solidified, lifting the mutated lizard into the air.
"Belly Bump."
Although the mutated lizard's body was enormous, Po's current divine dragon phantom was no less impressive in size, even considerably larger than it.
Its soft body acted like a spring, constantly bumping into the mutated lizard, preventing it from falling to the ground.
"Dragon Tail Whip."
"Dragon Badminton."
A tail whip sent the mutated lizard flying into the distance, then Po quickly flew over and hit it back again.
As if playing badminton, Po constantly shuttled between two places, using the mutated lizard as a ball.
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GA: Chapter 258: Scientific research is the path to the pursuit of truth, creation under the divine body system
It seemed that Abao had played enough. He drew circles with both hands, and the divine dragon covering his entire body continuously circled before rushing into the mutated lizard's body.
Time seemed to pause, and the mutated lizard's body hung suspended in the air.
Its strength seemed to be stripped away, and an irresistible drowsiness made it unable to resist.
Finally, it fell into a coma.
"I'm exhausted."
Abao landed on the ground, looking at the mutated lizard in the air and wiping away non-existent sweat from his face.
It wasn't that he didn't want to deal with this mutated lizard, but that he couldn't.
Although he had suppressed the mutated lizard on the surface, if the mutated lizard were to fall to the ground, everything he had done before would be rendered useless.
He also didn't have any moves in the air that could deal enough damage to eliminate the mutated lizard.
Its defense was too strong!
Now, they just had to wait for Zhang Hai and Ye Feng to return, and then use Zhang Hai's spatial teleportation to send it back to the Imperial Capital Spirit Energy Bureau, or to teleport Qin Tian over.
"The path of technology in this world is becoming increasingly skewed."
"But this is also an inevitable outcome."
With the advent of the second spiritual energy tide, humanity's research into the mysterious far surpassed that of science.
Or rather, they were using scientific instruments to study the mysterious, hoping to make ability users even stronger.
Compared to combining spiritual energy with technology to create more powerful weapons, this approach seems more suitable for current development?
Technology as an auxiliary, mystery as the main path.
After all, from the current development, the First Sequence is already comparable to a walking nuclear bomb, possessing unimaginable terrifying strength, and given enough time, could completely destroy a nation.
And how long has it been since the spiritual energy revival?
Ten years? A hundred years?
No, not even a year.
What a terrifying rate of development!
And now, it's only the beginning of the spiritual energy revival, far from reaching the peak of spiritual energy; they still have a vast amount of room for further progress.
Leaving Earth and entering the solar system? Or entering deeper into the universe?
How long would it take to achieve this through technology?
Unless there are several more technological explosions.
But the stagnation of technology is not so easily broken.
Combining spiritual energy with technology is even more difficult; this unknown and wondrous energy has too many possibilities, and at least some understanding of it is required to utilize it.
But who understands spiritual energy? What is the essence of spiritual energy?
Until now, although they have made some attempts and achieved some research results, those cannot even be considered the most rudimentary applications of spiritual energy; instead, they are something very intuitively created through abilities.
Whether it's the detector used by the Spirit Energy Bureau to test the talent of ability users, or the technology used to detect the density of spiritual energy during a spiritual energy tide, both are the results of ability users.
An ability user with perception, and an ability user with transformation.
The latter transforms the former's ability into technology.
And so, a machine is made.
Very easy, very simple, very casual.
But what is the principle?
How was it done?
Why can this transformation ability perfectly transfer the other party's ability to the instrument? The other party's ability doesn't even disappear?
This involves too many unknowns, completely unexplainable by existing science.
The ability user themselves doesn't know the principle; to them, it's just their ability, and they can do it.
How do you research that?
You can't research a damn thing.
Is this spiritual energy technology?
An ability user's power plus a machine, why wouldn't it be?
It's nothing!
They can't even explain the principle, so how can they have the nerve to say this is spiritual energy technology!
Over time, although research continued, the direction of research leaned more towards using technology as an auxiliary, attempting to combine abilities with technology through transformation abilities, and then creating things useful to humanity.
Principle?
Is the principle important?
As long as these ability users are alive, couldn't they have as much as they want?
That's one way to put it, but in their hearts, how could they truly want to do this?
The most important thing in scientific research is the pursuit of truth.
The result is very important, but the process of exploration in between is equally important, even more so, because this process is very likely to derive many different and interesting answers.
And not like now, where two ability users plus a machine directly skip the engineering and create a result.
"Isn't this good?"
"Even for angels, if we hadn't been on the path of technology for too long, and if our world didn't have spiritual energy, I'm afraid we would have taken this path as well."
Zhi Xin stood beside Bai Xuan, asking in confusion.
Having been in this world for so long, she was increasingly amazed by humanity's progress under spiritual energy.
In terms of combat power alone, the current First Sequence already possessed strength not inferior to third-generation super soldiers, and even surpassed them in other aspects.
And now, humanity would continue to progress at an even faster rate.
Each spiritual energy tide was a huge improvement.
Now they could already rival or even surpass third-generation super soldiers; after a few more spiritual energy tides, the strength of those in the First Sequence would likely surpass third-generation divine bodies.
How many years did it take angels to develop to this extent?
What's more, this was still far from their peak.
According to the Holy Vault's estimations and the information provided by Bai Xuan, they might very well be able to unleash enough power to destroy galaxies in the future.
Without relying on technology, even Queen Keisha couldn't do that.
Technology is the path to pursuing information and truth; the more knowledge they master, the further they go on the path of technology, and the stronger the power their civilization possesses.
Among the mysterious, there are also strong individuals who pursue knowledge and truth, but ultimately, the paths of the two sides are completely different until they reach a common point.
Of course, the most important thing is that technology and mystery are similar, having countless different systems.
The Xiong soldiers Lian's divine body system is one of them.
Although the divine body itself is not strong in combat and seems disproportionate to the resources consumed, the technologies born under the divine body system are extremely powerful.
Hand-crafted black holes, flare bombs, igniting supernovas, and the Void Engine.
The function of the Void Engine, even in Bai Xuan's opinion, is extremely powerful; it rewrites concepts based on powerful computing power, redefines every fundamental particle, and overturns the law of conservation of energy in this dimension.
Strictly speaking, it can create anything, as long as you know enough and your computing power is strong enough.
"The mutual reinforcement of technology and mystery is based on the condition that both sides are progressing."
"If only one side keeps progressing, then sooner or later, the far-behind side will be eliminated."
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