thedancenovel Chapter 448 - 320: Return to Shenzhen, Seeking the Tai Chi Association
Chapter 448 - 320: Return to Shenzhen, Seeking the Tai Chi Association
After returning home.
Wang Ye specifically asked his father whether he needed to buy a car for transportation.
But the answer he received was negative.
This came as a surprise to Wang Ye.
He thought that someone of his father’s age would want to have a decent car. Unexpectedly, his father turned it down.
His father didn’t offer any practical explanation, just said he didn’t have the intention to buy a car for the time being.
Wang Ye didn’t press further, but sat at the dining table,
eating and chatting casually with his parents.
In the conversation, he gradually discovered that his parents’ mindset seemed to be aligning with his own.
Namely, they were becoming indifferent and desireless, pursuing a higher level of satisfaction.
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, at each stage in life, one need predominates, while others are subordinate. Human needs are divided into five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love, esteem needs, and self-actualization. Needs are formed and satisfied progressively from low to high.
Most people who are well-fed and well-clothed are in the third or fourth level of needs, so most still have a strong desire for money because they need money to satisfy esteem needs.
Only a very few reach the fifth level of needs, self-actualization. These people typically have reached the pinnacle of a certain field or are wealthy tycoons.
Now, apparently under Wang Ye’s energy transfer, his parents have reached this level as well. They have little desire for money and power.
Wang Ye thought carefully and felt that this so-called hierarchy of needs couldn’t be fully applied to his own situation. His current core needs might be several dimensions higher than the highest self-actualization needs. Even he himself couldn’t fully grasp or comprehend them.
If the need for self-actualization involves an individual’s various talents and potential being fully realized in a suitable social environment, fulfilling personal ideals and aspirations, and achieving full personality development and harmony, then Wang Ye’s current core needs are no longer confined to individual ideals but lean toward realizing overall unity and balance, like the Divine looking down on all creation from the heavens.
Wang Ye calls this Divinity.
Of course, having core needs doesn’t mean other needs will completely disappear.
In other words, needs are not fixed at one level, but fluctuate up and down with changes in mindset and random changes from the outside world.
For example, even a billionaire who has everything might occasionally experience physiological and esteem needs.
Therefore, it’s normal for Wang Ye to occasionally have other needs,
since he still has some distance to go before truly reaching Divinity.
After dinner,
Wang Ye routinely took his parents to the nearby playground for a bit of training,
today being the third day he transferred energy to them.
Most likely also the last day.
Because Wang Ye would be leaving for another place either tomorrow or the day after.
Looking at his parents’ physical condition, able to smash solid steel pipes with one hand,
his worries about their safety eased somewhat.
Such physical condition can survive any danger or accident,
Wang Ye even suspected that if he trained their skills a bit more, they might have a good chance of dodging bullets below rifle level, but since time was running short, it was better to invest it in further strengthening their physique. With Wang Ye’s experience in challenging numerous extreme sports, he was very aware that as long as the physique is strong enough, one force can overcome a myriad of techniques.
After training,
Wang Ye stopped them, handed them the keys to the villa, and instructed, "I’m leaving for another place tomorrow. This is the key to a villa in the suburbs, which contains some important equipment and experimental records. You can occasionally go over and take care of them."
His parents were puzzled upon hearing this, with his mother speaking up first to ask, "Xiao Ye, what is the equipment inside used for?"
Wang Ye answered truthfully, "Used for training and research. You will understand when you go there next time."
After hearing this, the parents seemed more confused. Why would training require specially buying a villa in the suburbs? And why must such training be conducted in such a remote place?
However, they didn’t question him upfront, as Wang Ye had said they would understand it when they went there themselves.
From their conversation, it was clear Wang Ye didn’t particularly want to explain this behavior directly, perhaps due to some hidden secrets. Since this was the case, not questioning openly was beneficial to both sides.
After their brain was reinforced by Primordial Qi, their insight into people’s hearts seemed significantly enhanced. Nowadays, many things didn’t require Wang Ye to explain, as his parents could understand on their own.
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The next day,
Wang Ye left at six in the morning,
taking out hundreds of kilograms of stored chromium in the villa.
He prepared to "dispose of" the chromium he had purchased over the past few days.
Having mastered the ability of bone development, storing enough chromium elements within the body was only beneficial, no drawbacks. At crucial moments, instantaneous development of the bones could absolutely turn the tide in battle.
Especially with such a large amount of chromium.
If all this chromium were stored inside the body and mobilized during combat, developing evenly into the entire skeletal structure, then Wang Ye’s size would at least increase fivefold, transforming into a small giant. If all were transformed into wings, it would be even more terrifying, possibly exceeding fifty meters wide.