Chapter 437: Chapter 314: Improved Flying Form [Bird Shape] (2)

Once its speed reached a peak, it instantly changed its posture and dove down,

pecking at the tree trunk like a black flash.

Pa!!!

As the eagle slowly left the trunk,

it left a hole about five centimeters deep.

The eagle shook its head, clearly a bit dizzy from the impact.

Its internal bones showed slight cracks, and even its organs were injured.

However, this attack clearly didn’t cause it any fatal damage.

With the recovery from Primordial Qi, these internal injuries would heal in just a few hours.

Wang Ye couldn’t help but smile; this power and kinetic energy are comparable to some handgun bullets, definitely enough to protect his parents at crucial moments.

Moreover, in the coming days, he would continue to strengthen this eagle and impart his Innate Skill to it.

Therefore, this eagle will only grow stronger, not weaker.

Wang Ye called the eagle over and held it in his hands,

observing the eagle’s body structure and wing width.

To devise an assimilation plan for it for the next few days.

As he studied the eagle, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind.

From the test just now, the strength he felt through his fingers indicated,

that this eagle’s wing strength could reach a maximum of only about fifty kilograms.

Yet its speed could exceed one hundred kilometers per hour, faster than his own flying speed limit.

So the question arises, how can the eagle’s small strength support its body in flying so fast?

Is it because of its small size?

Yes, but not entirely.

Someone once conducted an experiment: if human-sized wings were made proportionately like a bird’s, even a machine flapping them at high speed would find it hard to achieve flight.

This is because human bone density is much higher than that of birds; under the same volume, a human’s weight is at least twice that of a bird.

Therefore, if humans want to fly, they can only rely on thrusters or large vehicles. It is impossible to achieve flight through biological wing-flapping unless the flapping frequency exceeds a hundred times per second, but that would use too much energy, making flying vehicles more efficient.

This is probably the main reason Wang Ye’s flying speed has been slow to increase. Although his flying style is controlled by telekinesis rather than wing-flapping, his own body structure is clearly not conducive to soaring in the sky, so his flying training process can only yield half the results with twice the effort.

For ordinary people, this might be an unsolvable problem, but now that Wang Ye has mastered skeletal development, why can’t he mimic the body shape of a bird for growth, thereby increasing his flying speed?

With this thought, Wang Ye immediately started observing the bones of the eagle before him.

According to his observations, the eagle’s body is streamlined and relatively flat, similar to an elliptical flying disc, a shape that helps reduce air resistance during flight. Many early aircraft and today’s commercial planes are designed with these shapes in mind.

Wang Ye squeezed the entire skeleton of the eagle with his hands and used super hearing to listen closely to the sound of its bones when subjected to impact, finding that the eagle’s bones are thin and light, hollow and filled with air, making its weight very light.

The same volume would weigh dozens of kilograms less than other creatures, in addition to having wide and powerful wings, giving it the ability to fly so fast.

Furthermore, the eagle’s chest muscles are very well-developed, accounting for twenty percent of its body.

Wang Ye searched online and found that they also have a unique respiratory system, wherein during flight, air inhaled through their nostrils partly undergoes direct carbon-oxygen exchange in the lungs, while another part is stored in air sacs before going through the lungs and being expelled, allowing birds to complete two gas exchanges with one breath during flight. This "dual breathing" is unique to birds, ensuring ample oxygen supply during flight.

However, this physiological trait is not of much reference to him, as his lung capacity is already sufficient, and Qi control does not consume his heart or lungs.

The only reference he needs is the eagle’s shape and the idea of lightweight bone structures. Like making steel pipes longer while maintaining the same diameter, they become thinner. This allows the body’s "area" to be wide enough to achieve a gliding posture, reducing energy consumption during flight.

With this in mind, Wang Ye’s eyes gradually lit up.

He should have thought of this earlier; even modern aircraft are improved based on the physiological structure of birds.

He mastered the ability of skeletal development,

so naturally, he need not be confined to flying in human form.

However, with his body density of three hundred kilograms, the fully expanded wingspan might be astounding, comparable to the mythical Kunpeng. The villa would definitely not accommodate it, so the current wilderness and forests are the best testing grounds.

Wang Ye placed the eagle on a nearby branch and began controlling the development of his skeleton according to his thoughts.

Hiss hiss hiss...

His spine, arm bones, leg bones, and other structures gradually emptied out, transforming from solid to hollow bones. While this inevitably reduced hardness, the newfound structural support wouldn’t necessarily weaken to the point of brittleness.

The bone material removed was converted into metallic elements,

transported elsewhere in his body for the next stage of modification and growth.

He saw his backbone and ribs gradually contort like modeling clay.

Remarkably, they slowly unfolded, expanding behind him into something resembling wings or a wing-like structure, with an incredibly exaggerated growth in area and width. Wang Ye roughly estimated them to be over ten meters wide. However, these wings aren’t meant for flapping but for gliding, looking more like bat wings, with bony protrusions in some areas.

Wang Ye didn’t choose to modify his arms,

because when soaring, he’d still use his arms to grasp things,

a key human trait that can’t be abandoned.

So he opted to broaden the original ribs further, even extending two terrifying bone wings from his back. Although this rib-extended structure is immobile, its gliding performance is adequate.

If a full-length mirror had been placed before him now, he would have noticed that he resembled a Western Demon from mythology, with bat-like wings sprouting from his back.

Moreover, the wingspan of these two wings is over ten meters, about six to seven times his height.

As a result, his wings look incredibly exaggerated, completely out of proportion to his body.

Yet this perfectly highlights the eerie aura associated with Western demons.

Because this disproportionate physique instinctively invokes fear from deep within one’s genes.

Similar to the widely circulated "pseudo-humans" on the internet in recent years, their popularization and widespread panic stem primarily from exploiting human fear psychology, particularly the "uncanny valley effect." This effect refers to discomfort and fear caused when an object or image resembles a human but is not quite human.

While Wang Ye may not induce the uncanny valley effect now, he can evoke biological fear embedded in genes.

Once his skeletal structure fully formed, he gently mobilized the Primordial Qi within, propelling himself into the sky.

The moment his wings touched air, a noticeable hang time was generated. Like a parachute, even if he wanted to descend, this force would hold him up. During his gliding, this hang time greatly conserves energy. This explains why mainstream aircraft have "wings" designed even if they don’t flap like a bird does.

Wang Ye attempted to glide gently between the mountains for half a minute, avoiding drawing too much attention,

and although he still weighed three hundred kilograms, he was now better suited for flying.

Because fifty percent of the weight had been allocated to his wings.

The weight remaining in his body was just over a hundred kilograms.