Chapter 153: The Magnetic Cannon King

As for Bai Yuxi, he had not spent these past few days developing any new manga-inspired combat techniques. Instead, he had been pondering an idea that had struck him like a flash of inspiration during his previous battles: a technique to manipulate the density of free-floating X-particles in the surrounding space by utilizing the natural gravitational pull of his pheromones on these particles, thereby indirectly amplifying the power of his particle strikes.

Additionally, that "Ultimate Plasma Cannon"—an accidental release that had nearly pierced through a mountain—had left a profound impression on him. If he could master these two combat techniques, his current combat power would likely increase by several times over!

Bai Yuxi had not forgotten the assessment of the genius scholar Su Xiaoke, who had estimated that the difficulty for him to level up his combat power was likely more than forty times that of an average Transcendental warrior. This meant that while he might currently be invincible at his level, or even capable of fighting above his weight class, the amount of super-energy particles required for advancement would increase exponentially by the thousands as his power grew. Consequently, his rate of improvement would slow down until it eventually stagnated.

In the short term, since his combat power level could not be increased, he had to rely on enhancing the destructive force of his existing techniques to effectively boost his strength.

Unfortunately, controlling the density of free-floating X-particles via pheromones was far more difficult than generating a particle strike. After all, the pheromones emitted by Transcendental individuals were like human body temperature—a natural fluctuation of the organism. While he could manage to suppress or release them as a whole through practice, precisely controlling them to gather at a specific point to increase the density of external X-particles was incredibly difficult.

Left with no other choice, Bai Yuxi could only list both increasing the density of external particles and increasing his particle strike multiplier as the next problems to be solved.

Just think: if he could increase his particle strike multiplier from 1x2 to 1x4, and simultaneously increase the external free particle density from 1x2 to 1x4, the result would be staggering. It might seem like a small increase—going from one super-energy particle colliding with two free particles to one colliding with four—but when stacked over nine consecutive particle strikes, the difference would be astronomical:

(1x2)^9 = 512
(1x4)^9 = 262,144
(1x4x4)^9 = 68,719,476,736...

The disparity was immense. Bai Yuxi suspected that if he could master this dual-layer internal and external stacking technique and continue to develop it persistently, he might one day be able to shatter the Earth with a single punch!

However, for now, he could only dream. With his current physical durability and brain overclocking capacity, he estimated that if he threw such a punch, he would likely collapse into particles himself before the enemy ever did.

As for the accidental "Ultimate Plasma Cannon," although Bai Yuxi still did not fully understand how he had pulled it off at the time, several days of research had revealed a pattern: by replacing the self-contained X-particles of a "Particle Strike" with the electrically charged, hyper-active particles generated by his right arm, he could convert the attack into plasma. The reason it had looked so powerful was simply that the energy released by the charged particles ionized the gases within the surrounding electromagnetic field, instantly forming an astonishingly high-temperature plasma. It was merely a simple "transformation of properties," with no difference in principle from the original "Particle Strike." Perhaps, to distinguish it from the standard "Particle Strike," he could call this "Electromagnetic Strike."

Furthermore, "Electromagnetic Strike" did not actually require him to rely entirely on himself to convert hyper-active particles into charged particles. During the process of the strike, the charged particles he released could themselves assimilate external free particles into charged particles. This meant that the next time he used an "Electromagnetic Strike" against an enemy, he would not have to desperately pump massive amounts of hyper-active particles into his "Kirin Arm" to pursue higher power.

What surprised Bai Yuxi the most, however, was not the discovery of the mystery behind the "Electromagnetic Strike," but the fact that he had accidentally mastered electromagnetic abilities while studying it! He had realized this when he had a sudden inspiration to imitate Xia Youyou’s "Rain of Pears" technique, attempting to manipulate metal using the electromagnetic field formed during an "Electromagnetic Strike."

When an electromagnetic field formed around his body, he could control objects influenced by electromagnetism to a certain extent, without even needing the strong magnetic gloves that Xia Youyou relied on! He first used this new ability derived from the "Electromagnetic Strike" while sparring with Xia Youyou, attempting to interfere with her control over her iron spikes using his electromagnetic field. To his surprise, he ended up snatching all of her short iron spikes away. Even worse, because he couldn't control it well, the conductive iron spikes formed an electric grid that nearly turned both him and Xia Youyou into two charred, crispy "electric roast chickens!"

This turn of events gave the partners of the Seventh Squad a massive fright, and Xia Youyou, feeling utterly defeated, spent the entire afternoon in a corner drawing circles on the wall!

If that were all, it would only have provided Bai Yuxi with a few extra means of interference in environments containing metal. After all, his range for controlling metal was limited, and it was quite cumbersome to use, requiring him to create an electromagnetic field first before he could influence the metal through electromagnetic force.

The truly terrifying part came when the genius scholar heard the news and conducted a test on him. She gave him a tablet with an unusually strange expression, telling him to watch a girl-style anime called *A Certain Scientific Railgun*. To be honest, although Bai Yuxi had been a professional otaku, he had mostly watched blood-pumping, mainstream shonen works; he had never actually seen this kind of girl-oriented anime.

Before he could carefully study why the genius scholar had asked him to watch it, Willy, having made some connection, jumped up in terror and pointed at Bai Yuxi, yelling frantically, "Is Xiao Bai going to evolve into 'Railgun Girl'?"

"No! It should be the Magneto version of the Railgun Girl... uh, Railgun Bro?"

"Let's just call him the 'Magneto-Railgun King'!"

After figuring out what was going on, Bai Yuxi spent a long time researching and realized that although he could imitate Xia Youyou in launching metal, he could neither control metal at will like Magneto nor release the so-called "Railgun" like the girl in the anime. He lacked such precise control; it was merely a barely functional long-range attack method that compensated for his lack of attack range.