Chapter 100: Betrayer, Thief, Poisoner
Paike didn't mind making a detour. After all, he had planned to visit the cave soon and investigate how it might have affected his battle trance. There might have been some connection to how he felt afterward. That lingering mental effect seemed connected somehow.
"Do you think that extra momentum came from the attunement?" Paike asked.
"No," Elder Song said. "If I were forced to guess, I would think that you were applying bursts through your physical cultivation. Now, could that exceed the maximum top speed you can achieve on your own? It would be interesting if that was the case, but I will need to test that. If that is the case, then we have all sorts of other testing to see what I was missing about the nature of our interactions with qi and its fundamental nature."
"Well, with the collision experiments, I had to break qi down to the previous realm; I was certainly able to increase the speed beyond my normal limits," Paike said.
"And I'm eager to see and test that for myself," Elder Song said. "I had no idea that was even possible. However, did you think of doing that in the first place? Never mind that; how well were you able to control the Ruby qi? What happened to it?"
Paike started to fill her in. He wished he had all his notes on him, but didn't want to take the time to go back to his house for them. He knew the Elder's time was limited.
"Interesting," She said once he had finished. "You certainly have a strange ability to test the limits of theory."
"Your thoughts?" Paike asked.
"If we take qi realms as a combination of lesser qi particles instead of a qualitative change in its fundamental nature, there are certainly consequences. I'm glad you haven't done something like disprove qi's particle status. Then I would assume that the additional energy in the system comes from the qi combining; however, is this true for all stages? I think there might be some point where you might actually get less energy after splitting. When qi is upgraded in the higher realms, there is a well-documented phenomenon of energy being ejected from that breakthrough. Sometimes to catastrophic effects. This might be an explanation, but in reverse. I have no basis for this theory, but if we try your experiment on qi of different realms..."