"Well, I went to the Kingdom of Flowers to learn about it when I was young. After all, Qigong therapy was considered very mysterious back then."
Cheng Lang took note of it silently.
Nami, who had been watching for a long time, pointed curiously at an abstract human body diagram on the notebook.
"Is this a diagram of the basic movements of Qigong?"
Kulokas nodded. "It's a basic Qi-inducing exercise. It can strengthen the body and is considered a good health-preserving exercise. I do it every day."
With that, Nami started practicing on her own.
Cheng Lang was a little surprised: "Are you interested?"
"It's not that I'm interested. I just watch Alrita and Kua Mi training every day. I can't just watch them." Nami stretched her waist and answered.
Cheng Lang was surprised, but it also made sense. When everyone around was working hard, the atmosphere would always encourage those who didn't want to move to move.
Of course, the opposite is also true, but it is obvious that Nami was led by the two girls.
Thinking of this, Cheng Lang also stretched his body and prepared to give it a try.
And he was curious too.
After finishing a set, Cheng Lang felt that something was constantly flowing out of his body. He no longer felt tired, and even felt more energetic.
On the other hand, Nami was sweating profusely and her breathing was slightly rapid, but she was looking at her hands at the moment.
"Is this Qi? So magical..." Nami closed her eyes and felt it carefully, then looked at the sky with a frown.
"It looks like there's going to be a hurricane over there."
As soon as he finished speaking, a violent storm broke out in the distant sky.
Chapter 63: Guiding Development, Luffy's Second Gear
Crocus looked at Nami in shock.
"how did you do that?"
"I just... felt that the wind over there was not right." Nami said as a matter of course.
Crocus sighed, "You have an extraordinary talent for weather forecasting. With a sailor like you, the journey should be relatively smooth. After all, the most dangerous aspect of the Grand Line isn't the enemy, but the weather. If you're not careful, you could be caught in a storm or a massive underwater whirlpool, and end up buried at the bottom of the sea."
"Don't say such terrible things." Nami complained unhappily.
Crocus smiled and shook his head. "This sea is just so dangerous. Forty percent of pirates and merchant ships disappear inexplicably at sea."
Then he looked at Cheng Lang.
"Your vitality is so strong, it's like there's a furnace inside you, it's constantly burning."
Cheng Lang was also somewhat puzzled by this. Could his special physique be due to the MC fruit? After all, when his hunger bar was full, he would not feel tired or anything like that.
But..obviously this has nothing to do with status.
"I think I know the reason..." Cheng Lang pondered. He had always been curious about where his chicken legs and the food he continued to eat after his stomach was full would be stored. Would they disappear out of thin air or was there a way to store his stomach that he couldn't see.
But now he understood that the excess satiety from eating was stored in the body in another form and did not disappear.
Feeling the surging energy in the body.
Cheng Lang just moved his mind, and the energy quietly concentrated in his left hand, and he threw a punch forward.
Snapped.
The air was hit with a sonic boom.
Cheng Lang's eyes flickered at this, and the next moment, he disappeared from the spot.
Nami was confused.
And Kurokas was looking at the sky.
At this moment, Cheng Lang had already flown more than ten meters into the sky.
Snapped..
Cheng Lang stepped on the air, creating a wave of air.
"Moon Step?!" Kurokas was surprised.
Then Cheng Lang was seen using the Moon Step to go straight up.
Finally, he disappeared from Nami's sight.
"This... is flying?!" Nami finally reacted.
But less than a minute later, Cheng Lang fell down quietly.
"I didn't expect that this Moon Step is so tiring." Cheng Lang sighed as he fell down.
"How did you do that?!" Nami was a little curious. Not only her, but everyone else was awakened by the sound of Cheng Lang stepping on the air.
Among them, Alrita and Kuya Mi are very curious.
"Qi... should be considered a kind of return of life. I concentrate my power in my hands."
Snapped.
The air was hit with a sonic boom.
"Like this, I hit the air, creating an explosion, and I use the reaction force to soar into the air. Because it's in the air, relaying is a bit difficult. It requires some skill and a high degree of body control."
"My approach is a bit of a cheat. It's like I learned to run first and then started walking." Cheng Lang explained.
The others came over curiously and began to feel the energy, then they saw the Straw Hat Pirates start to draw a big watermelon on the left and push and draw cards on the right.
Luffy and Mi had already mastered the basics of life restoration and were able to get started quickly, but the others only had a vague understanding.
Although I can feel the energy, it is just a feeling. I still need to adapt to how to use it.
Of course, the biggest improvement is actually the rice, after all, the qi is very helpful for her transformation.
The price Cheng Lang paid for taking shortcuts was that he became hungry extremely quickly.
At night he was hungry again and went to the boat to eat some fruit.
When Luffy saw Cheng Lang eating, he also ordered a lot and started eating.
"Speaking of which, Luffy, you also felt the return of your energy and life, so you should be able to speed up the flow of energy in your body."
"Hmm? I think so."
"Try?"
Later, under Cheng Lang's deliberate development.
Luffy's body began to turn red, and wisps of steam began to emerge from his body surface.
"As expected..."
In the original work, Luffy squeezes the extremities of his limbs to create an effect similar to a second heart, thereby speeding up his metabolism. However, the negative effect of high temperature and high-speed blood flow is a shortening of his lifespan.
In fact, the principle of shortening lifespan is the same as that of a high fever that will damage the brain and cause organ failure. When the temperature of human cells exceeds 40 degrees, they will suffer varying degrees of damage.
"It's so tiring. I have to control myself all the time and it's hard to do other things."
"Use your rubbery abilities, such as squeezing your arms and legs to passively increase your metabolism."
Luffy started the experiment without thinking much.
Later, Luffy successfully developed the second gear, but it was not like the first second gear in the original work.
"Okay? And...I feel it's much faster." Luffy was happy.
Cheng Lang looked at Luffy in this situation. There was much less smoke coming out of his body, but his overall skin was slightly red, a bit like the second gear developed by Luffy two years later, which was already perfected and caused less harm to the body.
Obviously this is related to active and passive.
Cheng Lang thought, when he first developed the second gear, it was almost impossible to control and was a forced drive. Now, because of Cheng Lang, Luffy took the initiative to think about how to eat more and began to develop his rubber physique and vitality. Has he made great progress?
As expected, Luffy is serious about eating.
But the result was that Luffy ate more.
Looking at the fruit that is almost gone.
Cheng Lang felt helpless.
It looks like we'll have to work day and night to ripen the fruits and trim the leaves.
The time came the next day.
The group prepared to set off.
Naturally, in order to repay the other party for the notes he gave, Cheng Lang made a lot of boxes and fishing rods, and dug out a 30*30*4 space in the Red Soil Continent.
It's not that Cheng Lang doesn't want to continue expanding, but Kurokas said there's no need, and he spends most of his time in Lab's belly.
In response to this, Cheng Lang had no choice but to make more fishing rods and leave behind a lot of MC-ized fruits.
As for the transformation of the iron island? Just add some platforms, and nothing else needs to be changed.
"Then let's go!" Luffy stood at the bow and waved his hands.
Lab and Kulokas watched the group leave.
"What a warm-hearted fellow, Rab."
"Hey~"
Rab also nodded.
"The sea is about to get lively."
...
The Straw Hat Pirates officially entered the Grand Line and also felt the wonderful weather changes in the Grand Line.
It was sunny one second and hailstorm the next, but before we could recover, there was a blizzard.
The temperature difference is so big that I don't know whether to wear short sleeves or cotton clothes.
"This is the key to the different climates of each island in the Grand Line. However, this is only the case in this section of the sea. After all, the magnetic fields of the seven islands overlap and interfere with each other, creating such a situation. After that, the sea becomes relatively stable." Vivi explained with a smile.