Seeing that Chen Yiming was about to return to his room, Dai Yuanhang suddenly said, “I just encountered a problem. I couldn’t think of anything after a whole day. Can you help me with it?”

For the whole week, all of them just did their own thing.

Why did he suddenly encounter a problem?

Chen Yiming glanced at him and said, “Tell me, what’s the problem?”

Dai Yuanhang pushed the information in his hand in the direction of the stone table near Chen Yiming. He pointed at the spot he had drawn and said, “Here.”

Chen Yiming swept his gaze across the document. Coincidentally, it was a question similar to Su Mo’er’s.

“When testing the lethality of the combination of the steam internal force and the black fog internal force from 1:9 to 9:1, an unexpected phenomenon occurred. Whether the ratio is 7:3 or 9:1, the lethality will be weakened compared to the steam internal force alone. As for the ratio of 3:7, although the lethality will also decrease, the range of the attack will increase sharply.”

He suspected that Su Mo’er had also consulted Dai Yuanhang. Otherwise, why would it coincidentally be such a similar problem?

Seeing that Chen Yiming was silent, Dai Yuanhang thought that he had asked about something that the other party had never heard of before.

“Generally speaking, the steam internal force is mainly used to deal damage. The black fog internal force is used as a secondary force for concealment. Under normal circumstances, it should be at a ratio of 9:1 to conceal one without reducing the lethality.”

After less than two seconds, Dai Yuanhang said in a low voice, “It’s alright. I asked Division Head Zhou, but he wasn’t sure why either.”

However, things were often unpredictable.

Chen Yiming suddenly nodded and said, “Internal force is a type of superpower. It can’t be understood purely from observing natural phenomena. Whether the black fog internal force accounts for 10% or 30%, it’s equivalent to having impurities that can seriously disrupt the basic structure of the steam internal force.

As for the black fog internal force, there’s no such problem. Instead, it will provide a certain amount of enhancement because it’s also in the form of a gas.”

He did not need to think too much to know that the senior who raised this question had subconsciously applied the laws of nature to the internal forces.

However, this senior should only be an ordinary warrior. He had not mastered the transformation of internal force and was relatively isolated from the martial arts world. Most warriors would not share their precious experience with him.

Naturally, he couldn’t randomly combine the two types of internal force like Chen Yiming. He was not able to consider the problem from the perspective of the compatibility of the two types of internal force.

“Impurities? That seems to make sense.”

Dai Yuanhang’s eyes widened and his mouth fell open as he thought it over in his mind.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Chen Yiming had hit the nail on the head. This was something he had never thought of, or rather, was completely unfamiliar with.

“That’s right. Unless one has mastered the transformation of internal force, the internal force in one’s body is just like water in a water tank.

Although the black fog internal force doesn’t conflict with the steam internal force on the surface, it has actually become an impurity. It will hinder the explosion of the steam internal force,” Chen Yiming explained.

He had never encountered such a problem before because the figure in his mind was clearly stronger than all the people that Chen Yiming had encountered so far.

Even before he mastered the transformation of his internal force, the figure in his mind could still forcefully suppress the two different types of internal force.

After reading the information left behind by his seniors in the library, he instantly understood what he could not comprehend in the past.

“How did you think of this?” Dai Yuanhang asked suspiciously.

He did not believe that he, who had ascended the mountain earlier than the other party, would be inferior to him in the field of martial arts research.

“I learned it from the information in the library this morning,” Chen Yiming said calmly.

Dai Yuanhang frowned and said in a low voice, “Is that so? It seems that although I’ve read all the information in the library, I’m still far from understanding it completely. I’ll have to spend more time studying in the future.”

Dai Yuanhang had always firmly believed that talent was only a shortcut to success for geniuses.

Geniuses often could not completely understand the reason for their breakthroughs.

For example, at the moment of life and death on the battlefield, one’s potential would be instantly unleashed, and one would be able to break through to the next level in an instant.

As for genius researchers like him who had completely figured out the relevant principles, they would one day be able to completely solve the mystery of cultivation and turn breakthroughs to the next level into something that was no longer limited to geniuses.

This was not just his imagination as a mere warrior. A human at the master realm had once said something similar.

Chen Yiming glanced at Dai Yuanhang. One moment, he seemed to be on steroids, and the next, his expression was solemn as if he was deep in thought.

He stood up from the stone table and returned to his room. He simulated the combination of the strength-based internal force and the black fog internal force in his spiritual world.

…

It was evening.

Chen Yiming registered at the mountain gate and descended the mountain.

Because he was not sure when he would be able to return, or if he would be able to return that night, he did not plan to sneak out. Instead, he registered to prevent anyone from finding out that he had gone missing and causing unnecessary trouble if he did not return in time.

When he arrived at the small town at the foot of the mountain, the sky had yet to turn completely dark. Chen Yiming entered a restaurant and ate dinner while waiting for night to fall.

At this moment, there were many customers in the restaurant, chatting about the latest news from the past two days.

Most of them were martial arts practitioners who were doing business with the Myriad Phenomena Sect. They mainly helped the shops in the town to transport the goods from the surrounding cities.

Then, the shops would sell their goods to the disciples of the Myriad Phenomena Sect who were unwilling to travel far.

As they were running back and forth between the surrounding cities and the Myriad Phenomena Sect, nothing that happened along the way could escape their eyes.

“Yesterday morning, the masked man who caused a storm in Jiangnan province made a move again,” a burly middle-aged man shouted at his companions at the dining table.

An old man at the table next to the middle-aged man interrupted, “What are you shouting about? It’s been almost a day. Did you think that any of us had not heard the news?”

Chen Yiming was eating at one of the tables and was confused.

How dare someone impersonate him and ruin his reputation? Even if Chen Yiming killed someone, it would be because they provoked him first.

Even for the porcelain bowl, it was a treasure that belonged to the Yue clan. Mo Yanfei used to be a part of the Yue clan, so after the Yue clan was wiped out, it was naturally hers to inherit.

Mo Yanfei was now his woman, so it was not a problem for him to keep the porcelain bowl.

The middle-aged man was a little angry and shouted at the old man, “Can’t we talk about it if it’s something you already know? Why are you meddling in other people’s business?”

The old man ignored him and picked up his chopsticks to eat. As he ate, he took a sip of wine.

The middle-aged man’s companion reminded him softly, “That’s the head of the Green Mountain Sect. Don’t get too excited.”

The flames of anger in the middle-aged man’s heart were mostly extinguished when he heard these words.

Although the Green Mountain Sect was only a small street faction in Jiangnan City, it was still a warrior faction.

Those who were in the ordinary warrior realm but were not from a large sect were not considered important figures in Jiangnan City, but their status still far above that of those in the disciple realm.

Fortunately, the old man did not take further action in response to the middle-aged man’s rude words. The restaurant quickly returned to its normal atmosphere, and the customers started to chat to pass the time.

Chen Yiming stayed a little longer.

From the other diners’ conversations, he found out that many people were pretending to be the masked man.

There were several successful cases of those pretending to be the masked man and using his reputation to intimidate others.

The families, clans, and sects who had been targeted were all frightened out of their wits. They were afraid that the masked man would start a massacre, so they did not put up any resistance and allowed the fake masked men to steal their treasures.

Of course, although there were those who had succeeded, there were even more who had failed. As cases of those who pretended to be the masked man and used his identity to intimidate others continued to be exposed, such foolish actions began to disappear.

Throughout the entire process, these fake masked men, whether they succeeded or failed, became Chen Yiming’s tools and helped him toy with the Kunshan Sect and the Blue Cloud Sword Sect.

From the tone of the other diners, Chen Yiming could tell that the two factions were extremely angry.

This was especially true for the Kunshan Sect. At the start, the sect master had personally made a move, but they all turned out to be fakes.

Many of the unlucky fake masked men were killed on the spot by the sect master of the Kunshan Sect. However, they still could not completely deter those who tried to steal the limelight by pretending to be the masked man.

After all, in martial arts, without absolute talent, one had to rely on hard work to earn money.

Many of the fake masked men had the intention to gamble on it. If they succeeded, they would become rich overnight. If they failed, they could just think of a way to escape.