Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 293 - 242: Double Blessings—Two New Skills (Part 2)

[Cough, cough, just to clarify, we Chinese people don't know either.]

[I was still wondering when Qi Refining Brother would return to China to spread his teachings.]

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After learning that Wang Ye shone brightly in private challenges.

Li Weimin and the others just smiled wryly in private without blaming Wang Ye.

After all, they ultimately gained a lot from this and didn't lose anything.

However, the challenge itself was extremely dangerous. One must know that Wang Ye was in the preparation period, his body was more precious than gold, and powerlifting is a high-risk sport. Especially when pushing the limits, it's easy to damage bones and joints. If anything unexpected happened to Wang Ye during the challenge, the upcoming competition would be completely ruined.

Fortunately, in the following days, almost no one came to provoke him again.

Wang Ye could train in Running, Cycling, and Surfing with peace of mind,

until the day of September 23rd.

After riding a track bicycle around the circuit for about 108 laps,

his Cycling Skill level finally maxed out, upgrading to an Extraordinary Skill.

At the moment of the upgrade, a flood of information surged into Wang Ye's mind, causing him to be dazed for a moment.

When he came back to his senses, he had already fallen off the bike, sitting on the track.

Luckily, he had Gang Qi protecting him, so he didn't worry about injuring his body from the fall.

He took his shoes off the pedals and immediately checked his upgraded skill.

[Your Cycling Skill Level is full, promoted to "Riding."]

[Riding lv1 (0.0%)]

Riding means fully utilizing the power of vehicles and horses, making them completely submit to your will, extending to mastery, control, dominance, and full application. If the focus of Cycling is on "riding," moving forward, then the focus of Riding lies in "control," which is about controlling the vehicle.

In plain words, it's about moving from extreme acceleration to extreme control. Wang Ye remembered a movie line that went something like: "It's only truly fast if you're fast through the curve, who can't step on the gas in a straight line?" And he's now transitioning from studying straight-line acceleration to mastering the complexities of curves.

As Wang Ye browsed through the newly acquired knowledge in his mind, he suddenly realized that his progress wasn't limited to cycling techniques. He seemed to have also learned driving techniques for cars, motorcycles, and even more outrageous riding skills.

Wang Ye had gotten his driver's license about 12 years ago during his university days, but later, due to not having money to buy a car, his driving skills became rusty and almost completely forgotten. However, after acquiring the Riding skill, he bizarrely recalled all the operations of driving a motor vehicle, mastering techniques including complex racing stability, tracking, throttle control, shifting timing, braking skills, steering accuracy, cornering speed, cornering efficiency, and extreme control with great proficiency.

"I could participate in a racing competition now..." Wang Ye rubbed his somewhat sore head, digesting the vast amount of new knowledge in his brain for a while.

A few minutes later, he got back on the track bicycle to test the obvious boosts the new Riding skill had on cycling.

He locked his shoes onto the pedals and exerted his right leg to pedal hard.

Buzz — the track bicycle under him accelerated suddenly, shooting forward like a rocket.

In an instant, Wang Ye felt as if he and the bicycle were combined into one. The parameters like the bike's wind resistance, stack height, seat tube angle, wheel diameter, and gears became as clear as day, precise to several decimal places. He seemed to be able to precisely control direction and route area, with each subtle turn allowing the front and rear wheels to travel along the most efficient and closest line. He even knew how to pedal in a way that would cause minimal damage to the frame and gears, and what cadence would explode the fastest speed with the least power.

Wang Ye's speed gradually increased to over 300 mph, which was his fastest speed achieved through brute force pedaling before. But now, his driving technique had improved a notch, the extreme speed broke through 350 mph, reaching 388 mph.

Yet the components of the track bicycle were not suffering severe damages like a few days ago, instead, were wearing out at a normal rate.

About half a minute later, Wang Ye had completed countless laps around the field.

He gradually slowed down and eventually stopped at the starting position.

While panting heavily, he calculated the time he spent,

"About five to six seconds faster than before, the improvement is quite obvious."

The results were expected, indeed much faster.

This showed that driving skills significantly increased speed, achieving 120% of the performance with the same power and equipment.

Wang Ye estimated his driving skill should now be at a level above the human peak. If he participated in international racing competitions now, even with a very ordinary car, he could easily break world records.

Because he not only mastered excellent driving skills, but his instantaneous brain calculating and reacting ability was also more than ten times the standard of ordinary people, allowing him to instantly respond and take very reasonable measures in emergencies.

During driving, he could also find the utmost braking point and turning point, though the improvement was negligible, countless turns on a normal track could significantly improve the time.

Though the skill seems somewhat useless on the surface, many of the theories could provide him with valuable experience and be used to improve other skills.

However, Wang Ye gradually discovered that as his skills became more proficient, the techniques of various skills overlapped significantly. For example, techniques to avoid wind resistance in Riding, Rushing, Rapid Step, Wind Manipulation, Surfing, etc., were almost identical, even the posture was nearly the same, similar to birds.

This must be the so-called simplicity through complexity. Once you master one skill, you can nearly master another without much learning.

After finishing Cycling, Wang Ye checked the track bicycle. Due to high-intensity cycling these days, the frame and parts of the bike were worn out to near scrap, plus the recent intense ride, it probably couldn't be ridden anymore.

"Forget it, I'll ask Bright to repair it tomorrow."

Although Wang Ye mastered cycling, he was still not very adept at bike repairs.

So every time the bike broke down, he asked Bright for help with repairs.

Wang Ye quickly changed from his cycling gear into regular clothes, preparing to go for a run.

It was now after nine, with an hour and a half left until the surfing session at ten-thirty.

Plenty of time to run a lap on the marathon track.

Just as Wang Ye arrived at the marathon route to log some running miles,

a new upgrade window unexpectedly appeared in front of him.

[Your Rushing Skill Level is full, and due to some overlapping functions with the Rapid Step skill, cannot be upgraded. Would you like to fuse the two skills?]

"They can be fused?"

Wang Ye's eyes lit up. He had long felt the panel was a bit cluttered.

Planning to clean it up but not knowing how to do it properly,

he didn't expect a fusion option to appear now.

"It's easier if they can be fused." Wang Ye smiled,

He always felt that the Rapid Step and Rushing skills had overlapping functions,

Even without the Rapid Step skill, the Rushing skill could give him remarkable movement speed,

Now that they could be fused, he naturally had to do it. After a brief contemplation, he said, "Fuse."

Instantly, the panel in front of him turned into a phantom,

About three seconds later, the text on the panel reappeared.

[Fusion successful, promoted to "Divine Speed."]