If I made you a special forces soldier, would you become a terrestrial god?

Professor Li Yuanchao stared at Su Chen, his cloudy eyes flashing with an unprecedented brilliance.

"Something older, something more essential... what do you mean?" His voice was hoarse with excitement.

Instead of answering directly, Su Chen asked, "Professor, do you believe in the existence of 'Qi'?"

"Qi?" Professor Li was stunned, then chuckled. "You mean... that kind of 'true qi' from martial arts novels, the kind that allows you to fly and teleport?"

"Not entirely," Su Chen explained calmly. "In traditional Chinese medicine and ancient Taoist theories, 'Qi' is the fundamental energy that constitutes life and the universe. It is formless and intangible, yet omnipresent. I believe it is a higher-dimensional flow of energy particles that humans cannot currently observe with instruments."

These words sound like metaphysics.

But hearing it from Su Chen, this "monster" who had created countless miracles, made Professor Li fall into deep thought.

He remained silent for a long time, then suddenly slapped his thigh: "I don't care if it's called 'gas' or 'God particle'! You mean, you can...control it?"

"That's one way to understand it," Su Chen nodded.

"Let's go!" Professor Li said without hesitation, grabbing his coat and heading outside. "Come with me to a place!"

He led Su Chen through multiple security gates to a national key laboratory located deep underground.

This is one of the most advanced weapons research and development centers in the Dragon Kingdom.

"This place has the best equipment and top experts in China," Professor Li said to Su Chen, pointing to the holographic control panels and sophisticated robotic arms shimmering with a deep blue light in the laboratory. "Use whatever you need! Ask whoever you need to cooperate with! I only have one request: get that 'thing' you mentioned out there!"

Su Chen nodded and walked to an empty control panel.

Instead of touching those complicated instruments, he brought up a blank 3D modeling light screen.

His fingers began to dance rapidly on the light screen.

Professor Li and several white-haired weapons experts who rushed over upon hearing the news gathered around, looking on with curiosity.

They had expected Su Chen to draw some complex circuit diagram or mechanical structure diagram.

However, what appeared on the light screen was a pattern that... they couldn't understand at all.

It was a three-dimensional network composed of countless delicate and mysterious lines. It looked like both a complex meridian diagram of the human body and a miniature galaxy map that followed some mysterious laws.

"What...what is this?" An academician in charge of energy science looked on, completely bewildered. "It's not a circuit, nor an energy matrix...this doesn't conform to any known physical model!"

Su Chen didn't explain; his hands moved so fast they left afterimages as he continuously added and modified nodes and lines on the "meridian diagram."

His brain was like a super biological computer running at full power.

The Undying Dragon Elephant Golden Body Technique provides the structure of power, the Tai Xuan Scripture constructs the natural model of the Dao, the Northern Darkness Divine Art defines the absorption and transformation of energy, and the Sacred Heart Technique gives all of this the core of life!

What he needs to do is not to manufacture a part.

Instead, he used modern technology to replicate a miniature dantian that could contain and amplify his "true qi"!

An hour later, Su Chen stopped.

On the light screen, the mysterious "meridian diagram" has taken shape.

"Based on this model, use 3D micro-carving technology and the 'zero superconducting crystal' as the material to print it," Su Chen instructed.

The experts looked at each other, completely bewildered. Although they did not understand the principle behind the model, they immediately mobilized the robotic arm and began working.

After half an hour of meticulous work by the laser beam, a translucent chip, no bigger than a fingernail and with an internal structure so intricate it was terrifying, appeared on the tray.

It looks ordinary, like an exquisite ornament.

"This is what you were talking about..." Professor Li picked up the chip, looked at it from left to right, but couldn't figure it out.

Su Chen took the chip, then casually picked up a standard-issue rifle from the lab table next to him and cleverly inserted the chip into a groove in the rifle.

With a click, it fits perfectly.

"Professor, may I borrow the shooting range?"

Five minutes later, at the end of the underground firing range.

A target made of the latest composite armor slowly rises. This armor is strong enough to withstand close-range fire from armor-piercing rounds.

Su Chen picked up the "modified" rifle, still in that casual posture.

Everyone held their breath and stared intently.

Su Chen took a deep breath, and a wisp of golden internal energy from the "Undying Dragon Elephant Golden Body Technique" flowed through his arm and into the chip in the gun.

hum-

The tiny chip instantly emitted a barely perceptible light.

boom!

He pulled the trigger.

The moment the bullet left the barrel, everyone witnessed a scene they would never forget.

The ordinary rifle bullet was enveloped in a faint, visible golden aura the moment it left the muzzle!

Even more terrifying, after flying fifty meters, the bullet's trajectory drew an extremely tiny, but absolutely real, arc in the air! It precisely bypassed a virtual obstacle in front of it and slammed into the target!

It violates Newton's laws!

boom!!!

Instead of a crisp metallic clang, there was a muffled explosion!

The composite armor target, which was strong enough to withstand armor-piercing bullets, developed a spiderweb-like crack starting from its center the moment it was hit by the bullet!

Immediately afterwards, a layer of visible white frost spread wildly from the point of impact, instantly freezing the entire target into an ice sculpture!

Click...

With a crisp cracking sound, the entire armored target turned into countless ice shards, scattering all over the ground.

The entire firing range was deathly silent.

Professor Li and those national treasure-level academicians all gaped, their eyes wide like copper bells, as if they were petrified.

After a long while, an academician pointed with trembling fingers at the pile of broken ice, his voice shaking as he said:

"The bullet... it's turning in mid-air... This is... this is controlled repulsive field guidance?"

"No! That explosion! That wasn't kinetic damage! It was energy annihilation! It was the release of energy from a higher dimension!"

"And that frost! Instantaneous absolute zero! This is... this is the theoretical effect of phase change weapons! A problem we've been researching for thirty years without success!"

Professor Li snapped back to his senses. Like a raging lion, he charged at Su Chen, gripping his shoulders tightly with both hands, his eyes bloodshot, and roared, "Tell me! What is this?!"

Su Chen calmly put down the rifle and uttered a few words indifferently:

"I call it the True Qi Resonance Amplification Module, the first generation."

Professor Li's body went limp, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

He looked at the unremarkable rifle, then at Su Chen's excessively young face, and muttered to himself:

"This...this isn't modification...this is fucking...this is creation!"

He suddenly grabbed the encrypted phone next to him and, with the highest level of access, connected to a number he wouldn't dare dial easily.

"Report! Report to the 'Kunlun' Preparatory Office! This is Laboratory No. 7 of the Dragon Science Institute! We...we may...have found the scepter of 'God' ahead of schedule!"