The Omniscient

Chapter 16: Bioelectric Apparatus

“That’s it! That’s it! So that’s the truth—there’s no such thing as qigong! The term ‘qi’ is too misleading!”

“It’s electricity. The human body is filled with countless electrochemical signals. Whether it’s thought or coordination between organs, everything depends on electrical impulses.”

The force behind biological activity is electricity. Electrochemical signals transmit the brain’s will to every part of the body.

All movement, whether in the organs or muscles, relies on the ever-present electrochemical reactions. To release this bioelectricity, the body needs heat, which is generated by cellular activity.

There’s no such thing as a "sea of qi" in the human body. Most heat comes from fat and muscle. Meridians are nothing more than major pathways among countless routes, like highways in a transportation network. Acupoints and hidden nodes are 90% energy cross-points—akin to geographical "strategic chokepoints."

“The idea of ‘unblocking meridians and acupoints’ is a fallacy. In a healthy person, they are naturally unblocked! If they weren’t, the person would be paralyzed—or worse, dead!”

Even if energy cultivation were real, the idea that breaking through acupoints and clearing meridians enhances energy levels defies basic logic.

It’s like an electrical circuit—if the circuit itself is broken, no matter how strong the energy source, it will only cause overheating and destruction.

“Every person is born with internal energy! Not just humans—all animals have it too. It’s the foundation of life. Only in unhealthy individuals are there blockages.”

“If training exists, it should aim to strengthen the capacity of these pathways. What I’m perceiving now as a tree-like diagram of life energy—its strength determines the body’s energy levels.”

It’s similar to nuclear fusion: though this immensely powerful energy has been discovered, humanity cannot yet use it for power generation due to the lack of reactors capable of withstanding temperatures of millions of degrees.

Combining his information perception with biological knowledge, Huang Ji quickly unraveled the truth behind the mystical language of "inner energy."

“Heat is the foundation of vitality, and electricity is the foundation of life. Without electricity and heat, there is no life. It’s just like a machine—humans are bioelectrical devices.”

“If there must be such a thing as true qi, it should be called ‘true electricity.’ And qigong should be called ‘electric work.’ Every person’s life energy operates on its own rhythm. If one could strengthen their internal power—or rather, their bioelectric field—not excessively but just enough to channel it into someone else with a strike, it could sever their life circuits, disrupt their vital processes, and create the so-called mystical ‘internal injuries.’”

“For example, a light palm strike could cripple someone’s kidney function. A precise finger jab might induce heart failure…”

“Conversely, one could use positive nodes within their own body to enhance their functionality.”

The more Huang Ji thought about it, the more it made sense. He could see anyone’s life energy tree diagram. If he could learn to harness his body’s energy, its applications would be limitless. ŕÅɴỖ₿ƐŜ

And it wasn’t limited to humans. Animals had it, too—even plants!

Huang Ji had observed the nodes in trees and, in theory, could apply acupoint techniques to them.

Aliens, if they existed, would undoubtedly have something similar! Regardless of their form, their life processes would require energy and pathways to sustain them. The only difference might be the type of energy they utilized.

Even robots would have life-like circuits.

“Robots? Hmm, what about stones? Is everything alive in some sense? Everything has its birth, and everything has its death…”

When this thought occurred to him, he suddenly perceived the pulse signal network of his computer. Both internal and external signals were visible.

It wasn’t just the computer—he saw the same for the lightbulbs, refrigerator, router, walls, bookshelves, and even the floor.

“Block it! Block it!” Huang Ji immediately realized he needed to shield himself.

Despite his efforts, the flood of information overwhelmed him. His eyes rolled back, and he collapsed, unconscious.

When he awoke, it was nearly evening.

Enduring a splitting headache, Huang Ji rushed back to the apartment, arriving just in time for dinner. Zheng Xuan merely assumed he had spent the entire afternoon reading and didn’t question him further.

After this experience, Huang Ji formed the beginnings of a plan to strengthen his body.

Finding an opportunity, he logged back into the martial arts enthusiast’s cloud storage. He downloaded and printed every martial art, internal technique, and energy cultivation method they had collected.

Next, he began analyzing their "success rates," filtering for the most effective techniques capable of regulating and guiding the body’s energy.

With his newfound understanding of the true nature of "internal energy," Huang Ji could finally make sense of these techniques.

“What is this nonsense…? The success rates are abysmal!”

As he reviewed the materials, Huang Ji shook his head repeatedly. He discarded over half of them immediately based on their lack of measurable success.

Some martial arts had no ability to guide bioelectricity or had an extremely low probability of doing so. Of all the collected techniques, only 15 were remotely effective.

Among these, 13 had energy utilization rates below 1%.

Only two surpassed that threshold: Tai Chi at 4.57% and Xingyi at 3.82%.

It’s worth noting that when Tai Chi and Xingyi are practiced together with true integration, the utilization rate can reach as high as 16%.

However, this is merely the theoretical upper limit of what the techniques can guide—it doesn’t guarantee success just by practicing them.

Historically, only twenty people practicing Tai Chi have reportedly felt the "warm sensation," and of those, only two managed to emit bioelectricity externally.

As for Xingyi, the results are similarly disappointing: thirty-four practitioners felt the "warm sensation," but only one person ever achieved the supposed bioelectric discharge—and that person was proficient in Tai Chi and many other martial arts.

These outcomes are appallingly… weak.

More crucially, achieving such results takes a lifetime of effort. At minimum, one would need at least 10–20 years of rigorous training to potentially guide internal energy.

“It’s crude, far too crude. While their techniques for combat and force generation are impressive, their energy guidance methods are barely functional…”

“But it makes sense. The creators of these styles couldn’t perceive life energy pathways. Their theoretical foundation was a mix of meridian theories, guesswork, and experiential knowledge passed down in esoteric language over generations. That they managed to develop energy-utilizing internal martial arts at all is impressive.”

“They misunderstood the nature of energy, yet they still achieved these results. These martial arts focus on qi and jin (physical force), but their guidance effects are indirect—more like blind luck.”

Reflecting on this, Huang Ji realized that directly training in these arts wouldn’t work for him.

Perhaps the martial arts themselves were incomplete, or perhaps the online enthusiast hadn’t collected the truly effective methods.

But the more likely reason was…

Nobody had ever invented a truly efficient energy-guidance technique.

Consider this: Tai Chi is globally ranked sixth among martial arts and seventh in historical rankings. Yet, its energy utilization rate is only 4.57%. This starkly illustrates how undeveloped humanity’s understanding of life energy is.

When it comes to guiding human energy, these martial arts are, at best, reference material. The vast number of unnamed hidden acupoints alone indicates that many have never been discovered throughout history.

Even aliens might not have noticed them. If they had, it was likely because they saw no need to catalogue every hidden node in the human body.

Consequently, since no one has ever seen the life energy pathways clearly, no one has ever invented a guidance technique targeting them specifically.

Perhaps aliens have such techniques, but they would be designed for their own physiology and irrelevant to humans.

“I’ll have to create it myself. But designing a highly efficient, fast-progressing method, even for me, won’t be easy.”

“My knowledge base is still too shallow. For now, I’ll have to use the brute-force approach.”

Over the next three days, Huang Ji devoted himself entirely to studying medicine and refining martial arts, pausing only for essential sleep.

His approach to improvement was straightforward yet aggressive—fusion through brute force.

He already had historical examples. Tai Chi and Xingyi, when combined, achieved a 16% utilization rate—four times that of practicing Tai Chi alone.

Huang Ji’s fusion method was even simpler: copy and paste.

He merged the content of all martial arts into a single system. If the utilization rate dropped, he would know something was wrong and start removing elements.

He meticulously eliminated one technique at a time, treating each move and method as an independent variable to be tested and recombined.

After three days and twenty hours of intense work, Huang Ji succeeded in creating a technique with a utilization rate of 19.89%.

It required 4–5 years to achieve basic mastery, yet it surpassed all known internal martial arts in energy efficiency.

“This still doesn’t feel right…”

Huang Ji knew this martial art was already incredibly powerful. To those in the martial arts world, it would seem like a masterful synthesis of the essence of a hundred styles—a monumental achievement.

But he felt it could be even better.

“That’s it!”

Huang Ji slapped his forehead as the key realization struck him.

The creators of these martial arts couldn’t perceive life energy pathways. Their energy-guidance techniques were built without knowledge of hidden acupoints or meridians, relying instead on indirect methods.

So, no matter how these moves are combined, they can never achieve perfection.

The techniques themselves completely lack the concept of hidden acupoints and make no use of the idea of bioelectric energy.

“I have to create my own method—a technique tailored specifically to my understanding of hidden acupoints and the principles of ‘electric work.’”

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