Chapter 770 - 481: Using an Entire Planet as a Slingshot

Chapter 770: Chapter 481: Using an Entire Planet as a Slingshot

After sorting out his thoughts.

Wang Ye prepared to begin implementation.

His body gradually floated in the air, and in an instant, he calculated the upcoming direction and speed of his flight,

He needed to adjust his flight trajectory according to Earth’s orbit, flying in the direction of Earth’s revolution, approaching Earth’s far side tangentially.

The minimum leap height should be 205 kilometers, as it is necessary to avoid atmospheric resistance affecting speed while maximizing the gravitational gradient.

At the same time, the initial speed needed to match Earth’s gravitational field to ensure the hyperbolic trajectory intersects,

Moreover, the angle between Wang Ye’s speed vector and Earth’s should be about zero degrees, so he can follow the orbit completely and leverage the gravitational slingshot effect to maximize the final speed.

Only through such operations can he achieve the theoretical maximum gain, which is twice the Earth’s orbital speed, 173 Mach.

After hours of soaring, Wang Ye finally reached the vicinity of Earth, hovering on the sun-side rotation ecliptic side, able to see the night-covered cities below, where dots of light spread out like fireflies on the ground. The blue-white vortex surged eastward at 29.78 kilometers per second.

His body was slightly bent like a bow, adjusting the route of energy transmission within his body. The Samadhi True Fire energy gathered at the Spiritual Snake in his lower abdomen,

After half a second of charging, his body shot out like a stream of light, adjusting his speed to the theoretical optimal and flight trajectory to a zero-degree angle with Earth’s direction of revolution.

With Wang Ye’s brain operating at high speed and careful control, his altitude reached the 205-kilometer mark, the thin edge of the atmosphere brushing past him, ionospheric particles crashing against his Biological Force Field and Plasma Flame, causing countless ghostly blue glows, and the surrounding temperature soared to 3,000 degrees Celsius, giving him a sense of heat. At the same time, he could feel Earth’s gravity grabbing him like an invisible giant hand.

Gradually, Wang Ye’s body began to shift, the intense gravity gradient applied tremendous pressure to his body in an instant, but it caused him no harm.

In the blink of an eye, he swept across half the Earth, arriving in the sunlit direction, the glaring sunlight streaming over him, yet Wang Ye’s speed surged like a thermometer in boiling water, breaking through Mach 100 in an instant.

Wang Ye gritted his teeth: "The last step."

If all the previous steps were about drawing the slingshot and accumulating energy,

then the next step is to aim well,

and release!

If Earth is compared to a slingshot, then the moment he leaves the slingshot, his speed would instantly jump to the limit.

Wang Ye, burning his internal powers madly, increased his speed further, and when his relative speed to Earth reached 42 kilometers per second, he finally departed Earth’s gravitational field, lifting his speed to the ultimate limit of 173 Mach!

Buzz!!!

Everything around turned into afterimages, and Earth and Wang Ye quickly receded behind him.

He completely embarked on the path of cosmic exploration.

Feeling the forcibly increased speed, Wang Ye couldn’t help but marvel at the power of the Cosmos.

In fact, human science is not without methods like the gravitational slingshot to increase extremities using skillful force,

This method, to put it plainly, is Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds.

This approach is not just present in Tai Chi,

since ancient times, human philosophy and later-developed science contain the deep-seated reasoning of Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds.

It can be said that the skill humans master best is this — to move a Universe a billion times larger with a frail body.

Remember, the furthest place humans have set foot on so far is only the Moon.

Even counting probes, the farthest Voyager 1 is only 25 billion kilometers away, just over two light-years from humanity.

Yet, the observable Universe’s diameter is as long as 93 billion light-years.

Is this the limit of what telescopes or detectors can observe?

It is not; this is data achieved by humans through countless technologies using Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds.

Moreover, humanity knows not just the diameter of this vast Cosmos. Even the age of the Universe, the number of planets in the observable Universe, the scenery, temperatures, and material compositions under each planet’s atmosphere, or even the areas of unobservable black holes, humans can calculate scientifically. With increasingly precise observations of cosmic microwave background radiation, humans are gaining more precise understandings of the Universe’s age, and based on theories of cosmic expansion, Hubble’s law, Hubble constant, recession velocities, and redshift amounts, humanity has gained its current understanding of the observable Universe’s scope.

Even for Wang Ye, it is not by relying solely on his abilities that he can traverse the Cosmos at nearly 200 Mach.

His current strength barely reaches that of several thousand people.

If he hadn’t mastered any skills,

even ten thousand people combined could crush him to death.

And Earth has a total population of 8 billion.

Why is it that only Wang Ye among the entire Earth’s population can escape Earth, while the other 8 billion cannot?

The biggest difference, of course, is skill.

Which is the Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds.

As Wang Ye’s power increases, he knows he will inevitably touch the realm of the speed of light in the future.