While Shinomiya Kaguya was choosing her future path, Miyauchi Hikage, on his side, was receiving today's reward with great anticipation.
[You have drawn Hamon (from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure).]
The moment the prompt sounded, Miyauchi Hikage felt a wave of unfamiliar knowledge flood into his brain.
As he closed his eyes and accepted this memory with his heart, his breathing rhythm unconsciously began to align with the one in the memory.
And this change in breathing rhythm was no small matter.
Hamon was a technique developed by ancient humans that used the rhythm of breathing to control the flow of the body and blood, allowing one to stimulate the body's own life energy in the form of solar energy.
Simply put, Hamon was a breathing method that allowed people to use solar energy.
And Miyauchi Hikage, who possessed the Pure-Yang Body, was undoubtedly the person most compatible with Hamon.
Even just subconsciously adjusting his breathing to the rhythm of Hamon, the ripple energy that surged within his body had already far exceeded the limits of an ordinary person. Even the skin on his body's surface began to emit a dazzling golden light due to the overflow of ripple energy!
Fortunately, he was trying this in his own bedroom. With the door closed, no one saw this scene. Otherwise, he would probably have been worshiped as a god by the villagers.
Miyauchi Hikage hurriedly controlled the ripple energy according to the memory in his mind.
"This is killing me. I didn't expect the Pure-Yang Body to have such a huge buff for Hamon. I just don't know how it compares to Kars in the manga after he became the ultimate lifeform."
In the manga, after Kars became the ultimate lifeform, his first use of Hamon could directly melt a human body. As for him, his first use of Hamon had turned him into... uh, a lightbulb.
Of course, this was just because the method of using the ripple was different.
In his memory, the technique that could produce high temperatures should be the "Scarlet Overdrive." He planned to find a chicken tomorrow and try it out by the river, to see if he could roast it with his bare hands under the effect of Hamon.
Speaking of which, besides bringing the user a physique and combat power far exceeding that of an ordinary person, depending on the rhythm of the breathing, ripple energy also had many other uses.
Stimulating human potential, slowing down aging, healing external injuries, promoting plant growth, controlling living beings, and so on—these were all abilities that had appeared in the manga.
"But Hamon is clearly a technique that uses solar energy, yet I didn't seem to show any signs of getting carried away just now. In fact, I even felt a lot more comfortable. Could it be that Hamon can control the side effects of the Pure-Yang Body?"
Sensing this, Miyauchi Hikage's eyes couldn't help but light up.
The Pure-Yang Body originally only had the function of passively repelling evil. But Hamon had infinite possibilities. If Hamon could really control the power of the Pure-Yang Body, then he would truly have the ability to protect himself in this world.
Moreover, from the current looks of it, the probability of his guess being correct was very high.
A person with a Pure-Yang Body has extremely potent yang energy within them. The Chongyun from Genshin Impact couldn't find a way to channel the yang energy in his body and could only rely on his Cryo Vision to suppress it, and then carefully avoid all things that might cause the yang energy in his body to go on a rampage.
But the principle of Hamon was not suppression, but using the rhythm of breathing to stimulate the body's life energy.
Yang energy itself was life energy close to solar energy. It wasn't strange that it could be stimulated by Hamon.
Thinking of this, Miyauchi Hikage carefully tried it again and confirmed that Hamon could indeed regulate and channel the yang energy within the Pure-Yang Body to a certain extent.
The only problem was that the light of the ripple would inevitably be produced during the channeling process.
"In other words, as long as I can find a way to hide the ripple's light and then maintain the ripple breathing at all times, I should never have to worry about the yang energy going on a rampage again."
It sounded easy enough, but doing it would be very troublesome.
An ordinary person might not have this problem. After all, they didn't have such a huge amount of life energy in their bodies. Even if they maintained ripple breathing at all times, nothing unusual would happen.
But the yang energy in Miyauchi Hikage's body was too much and too pure.
If life energy were to be quantified, a normal ripple user would use 1 to 2 units of life energy to convert into 1 unit of ripple energy. But the yang energy in his body could achieve a conversion of 1 to 1.5 or even more units of ripple energy.
His original yang energy was already in surplus. Naturally, he couldn't store too much of the converted ripple energy.
"At least I've found a place to vent it. Tomorrow, after I test the combat power of Hamon, I'll go to the fruit orchard on the mountain behind my house and force-grow a wave of them. I should be able to control the yang energy in my body to a normal level. I just don't know what kind of fruit the trees will bear after being force-grown by ripple energy."
Miyauchi Hikage had even thought that if the promoting effect of the ripple was good, he would get some ginseng seeds in the future to cultivate in secret.
"To draw the best combination of Pure-Yang Body + Hamon at the start, it seems my luck is quite good after all," Miyauchi Hikage, who was complaining about the diary's reward just yesterday, had a completely different attitude today.
"Speaking of which, the training conditions for Hamon are not that harsh. You just need to maintain a fixed breathing rhythm. This is much more reliable than the 'ki' in Dragon Ball that you need to feel with your heart."
Compared to other superpower systems, besides having a few more little tricks, the combat performance of Hamon could only be said to be so-so.
Let alone comparing it with the world-destroying ki, even when compared to the Sun Breathing from Demon Slayer, which was the most similar in nature to Hamon, the performance of the two was vastly different.
But the breathing methods in Demon Slayer were suspected of draining life force, and even had the debuff of not living past the age of 25 after opening the Mark.
But Hamon, at least in the manga, had never shown any negative effects. Even Joseph, who had crazily exploited his own potential when he was young, could live into his nineties even after neglecting his ripple training in the later stages. It could be considered a fairly safe method of preserving health.
"Even if given to an ordinary person with no talent to practice, it can enhance their physique and slow down aging. For girls, this should be the ability they dream of, right?"
Thinking of the 50-year-old Lisa Lisa in the manga who still maintained the appearance of a 20 or 30-year-old, Miyauchi Hikage rubbed his chin. He felt he already knew what to write in his diary tomorrow.
Just write down the training method for Hamon and some training tips. Which of the girls reading the diary could resist this temptation!
Miyauchi Hikage didn't know if, without anyone's guidance, those girls could successfully cultivate the ripple based on text descriptions alone.
Nor did he know to what extent they could cultivate Hamon with their aptitude.
Anyway, if one can succeed, that's one. Besides preserving health and youth, it can also be considered a last resort for self-protection when encountering danger.
As for whether it will affect this world?
Miyauchi Hikage curled his lip.
What a joke. They already have the diaries. Do they still need to worry about a little Hamon?