Number One Dungeon Supplier

Chapter 81 - 85

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Jin sat near the copper hoe for a break. Even though he had the chi of the treant, he was losing too much due to the lack of control.

"Perhaps, I can circulate my chi around the magnetic bands? I wonder if that will help?" he thought of the way magnetism works, the stuff he learned in university and high school and wondered if he could stimulate chi energy into electromagnetic force.

However, he later abandoned the idea as he realised that magnetic force was a force that was too complicated without proper computation of numbers. He also had to derive atomic structures and electrons to simulate the magnetism through his chi. If he could not control his chi to that kind of degree, he might as well think of something else.

Right now, all Jin was doing with his chi was counteracting the effect of the magnetic bands through brute force. Forcing all his chi to move throughout his muscles so that he could withstand the repelling and attraction of the magnets.

The brute force method would actually have worked if he had substantial understanding of the anatomy of his body in relation to his chi points. Unfortunately, he was not a medical student nor was he well versed with the chi points of his body.

He knew the basics but not enough to make much of a difference. However, assuming he had an unlimited amount of chi, the brute force method would actually work. All he needed to do was burst his chi throughout his body. Even if he did have an unlimited amount of chi, maintaining it required a tremendous amount of chi and the extent of the strenuous damage to his body would eventually kill him within a day.

At the moment, as he was using his own chi to control his muscle movements, he was able to cope with the strain using his current cultivation grade but he would not be able to maintain it all the time for five days consecutively. The way his chi flowed wastefully out of him into the surroundings made him feel like he was an overheated piece of metal just out from the furnace.

"Overheated....that's right! Magnets might lose their magnetism if intense heat is applied to them. Or maybe it could reduce the strength of magnetism. Argh, I guess I really returned what I learnt back to my lecturers." Jin sighed even though he finally remembered a part of his studies during his high school days. The reason why heat could destroy magnetism was that magnetism followed a strict degree of order. If one creates chaotic movement in the atoms, the atoms in the metal would lose their electron pairing.

"But I don't exactly remember the right temperature. All I do know is that the correct temperature is somewhere around water's boiling point for ferromagnetic materials. Let's see if the method works....if I can concentrate enough chi to produce heat near the bands and not scald or burn myself in the process hahaha!" Jin bitterly laughed to himself.

Jin went further away from the campsite, in case he accidentally burned the whole place down. When he felt that he had adequately distanced himself away from the campsite, he concentrated his chi circulation and focused it on his hands. At first, it started to get warm slowly but at approximately 50 degrees Celsius, not only his hands got hot, the surroundings were scorching too.

"Damn, I should focus it within my palms and not radiate it out. Or else I will be the one burning up and not the magnet." Jin wiped his sweat away with his sleeves.

"What if I follow those useless motivational workshops that I had to attend in university for points. Those image training exercises to attain a specific goal." Jin thought to himself before he took a deep breath and tried again.

With an image of carrying a bowling ball, he imagined concentrating the chi between his three fingers. He figured that it was better to think something smaller and detailed than abstract ideas like being rotated in a microwave or imagining that you were one with the chi. Jin was a science oriented person, he needed theory and hands-on experience to understand something fully. However, when it comes to the mysterious system that he was bestowed with, he could only grudgingly accept the fact that trying to understand it would be a waste of time for now.