Chapter 2 Come to Life
About thirty years ago, James entered the realm of fist transformation for the second time, repelled the pollution of the blood clan, and perfectly controlled the power of the current body. Judging from his martial arts cultivation system, the next step is the so-called "Bao Dan" level, and at this point, James is not in a hurry.
While concentrating on dealing with and building the industrial empire of the Howlett family, he completed the manufacture and use of gasoline internal combustion engines more than ten years ahead of schedule, and under the impetus of this technology, he became the world's number one industrial oligopoly, and in that era when anti-monopoly laws had not yet appeared, the entire Western industrial capital was overwhelmed for a while.
James screened and co-opted several European and American capital giants very early, bound to his own chariot, and did not try to eat the entire capitalist world purely by his own strength, as for the secret means, he was even more fearless.
On the other hand, he devoted himself to the study of the history and culture of many ancient peoples, and traveled all over the world, studying at various European academies for many years, re-studying his various spiritual practices, and looking for a training model that was more suitable for mutants or other transcendent races.
Over the years, he has consciously collected human mutated individuals through the power of the Howlett family and his own travels, most of which are only congenital or acquired physical deformities, and a few have signs similar to mutants, but their abilities are very low, such as flexible long tongues, mildly corrosive body fluids, etc.
It wasn't until he met Asazzo that the adopted child became his best teaching subject, and it went quite well.
Based on his ability to mutate and compare with Asazzo, he found that mutants would have two paths in terms of ability and the improvement of their own body. For example, the strength of Wolverine or Sabertooth Tiger is itself a hand-to-hand ability, and practicing boxing can not only improve the control of mutant abilities, but also greatly enhance the ability to destroy and kill.
If Asazo or other people with all kinds of magical and treacherous mutant abilities have the essence of their power being the ability itself, rather than the physical destructive power of the body, if this type of mutant wants to improve their own ability, they do not necessarily need to practice boxing, but need to purely practice the control of their own body, consciousness, and spirit.
Therefore, James himself reached a certain height of physical cultivation, turned over the plate from a high vantage point to see through the essence, and re-studied a set of cultivation methods that focused on his own control.
It is a combination of physical and spiritual practices such as fisting, meditation, breathing, and yoga chakras, similar to the process of martial arts from Ming Jin to Hua Jin, and is divided into three stages. However, the purpose of self-cultivation is to start from controlling the physical body of the self, so as to further control the mental consciousness and emotions, and improve the cognition and control of the ability of self-transformation.
Asazzo's practice over the years is almost identical to what James himself had come to expect from this practice.
In the first stage of practice, the mutant ability will no longer easily get out of control, the second stage will be able to master the power freely and use the mature use of one's own mutant ability, and the third stage should be able to develop and perfectly use all of the current self-mutant superpowers to the greatest extent, and may even exceed the current ability limit to a certain extent.
Asazzo is now in the second order, and has refined and mature control over the ability to teleport in terms of frequency, distance, accuracy, and quality of teleportation. It's no longer like the first practice when I was a child, and the teleportation direction can only be approximated.
He has not yet reached the third stage, so James does not have a very objective and accurate sample reference, and those years of study in Europe have given him more or less the thinking of academic research.
And under James's thinking system of all mutant ability cultivation, these three stages are only the first level, and as for the next level, he needs to complete the last level of today before he can start exploring.
According to the Taoist world view and outlook on life, martial arts practice to this stage is called "Bao Dan", the so-called swallowing of a golden pill into the abdomen, my life is up to me. In fact, this stage is when the cultivation of the human body has reached the perfect grasp of the body's qi and blood, and the so-called strength, blood, and essence of the whole body are compressed and condensed at a single point, and through this point, the body is stimulated to further improve, just like a second development, reborn.
But the question is, where is this so-called point?
It varies from person to person, from practice to practice, and even from time to time and place. So James didn't know where it was, after all, he had never reached this realm in his previous life, and his teacher and fellow disciples had never been masters of this level.
Therefore, he could only experiment little by little based on his martial arts cultivation knowledge and understanding of the human body.
For others, this is purely a suicidal act of gambling with his own body to gain a 1 in 10,000 probability of survival, but for James, it is extremely easy, which also allows him to accumulate extremely large experience in the internal damage of human cultivation.
Every time the qi and blood condensation is wrong, his internal organs will quickly fail and die, and there are many different situations. And his self-healing ability will be restored in an instant.
So for many years, James sat cross-legged every day like a daily exercise, condensed his luck, and then vomited blood in his mouth, pierced his intestines, and tried another point again without any damage after a while.
He experimented with almost all the acupoints, qi and vein nodes, internal organs, bones, blood vessels, and other body tissues. Each failure is a record of how the body reacts to the position, what useful help may be possible with the right and careful stimulation, etc.
Someday, these experiences and studies will become treasures of human physical evolution and research exploration.
And after so many years of practice experiments, of course he has succeeded, but when James first found the correct condensation position, he thought about it and stopped, and did not continue to practice.
"Who said that the human body can only form a 'golden pill'?"
With this doubt in mind, James decided to continue his experiment, and he planned to practice every part of his body to see if a person had a second, third, or even more hugging knots.
That's why, it took more than a decade for James to finally decide to enter this new realm today.
Asazzo looked at his father for a moment, and after a moment of dead silence, the skeletal muscles of his body began to stir regularly, starting from his cervical vertebrae all the way down to the tail vertebrae, nine egg-sized, red and faintly bouncing dots staggered along James's vertebrae.
His body shook more and more violently, the bones under his skin clicked, the flesh began to crack and peel off, the new skin grew rapidly, his mouth vomited some blood clots and turbid fluid from time to time, and his teeth fell out again and grew again. The whole picture is like peeling the skin of a person layer by layer, and then watching him grow again, it is simply creepy.
The rapid self-healing mutation ability allowed this process of rebirth, which would have lasted more than 100 days, to be completed quickly in a very short period of time.
James's size began to shrink, and even when he sat cross-legged, his tall and thick body began to shrink a little, and the process was accompanied by a tooth-aching sound in his bones.
After another moment, all the dry flesh and bones, the dripping and vigorous changes were over.
James stood up, his skin was as delicate as jade, it seemed that there were no pores, his hair and beard body hair fell out again, and each new hair strand would be four or five times thicker than normal hair strands if you looked at it carefully, and the body hair and skin pores were the same, disappearing.
His face is as majestic as a sculpture and delicate, a little bewitching, his skeleton has become extremely thick and wide, but the body can no longer see the muscle bulge, the texture of the skin and flesh is like a new tissue structure, and the lines of ordinary human muscle distribution are a little different but full of a strange sense of strength.
James looked at the various body tissues and filth that had fallen off his body around him, glanced at Asazzo, who was mentally stimulated and had nothing to love, and said briskly.
"Smash, dad is not handsome."