Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 162: Ozaki’s Eight

Even when Wang Ye was riding uphill, his speed was no slower than others cycling on flat ground.

He could still maintain a speed of 40-50 mph on a 40-degree uphill slope.

This left the few riders who were mocking Wang Ye for being an equipment enthusiast into silence.

There’s no fear of an equipment enthusiast showing off their gear, but what if the enthusiast truly has strength?

Today’s temperature at Wei Sea was very high, about 35℃.

The scorching afternoon sun was so fierce that it felt like being in a steamer under its rays.

Yet, Wang Ye, in such weather, raced uphill without breaking a sweat.

This made the people around him even more astonished.

Could it be that even this steepness posed no pressure on Wang Ye when riding at high speed?

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In the blink of an eye,

Wang Ye had left those riders behind.

He reached a higher terrain.

The weeds and rocks on the road were visibly more than before, and the road conditions were more complex and changeable.

This complex terrain posed a significant test for every mountain biker.

Fortunately, Wang Ye’s vision had evolved to five times that of an average person, with exceptional dynamic vision, able to precisely spot and avoid obstacles even when nearly reaching 100 mph on flat ground. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Simultaneously, Wang Ye found that racing through such complex mountain roads increased his Cycling Skill Level efficiently.

Not less than when exerting power on a training bike.

Even higher.

Just as Wang Ye was preparing to ride a few more laps on the mountain road before heading back,

suddenly, he noticed a rather concealed fork in the mountain road,

a fork whose gradient was significantly more dangerous and had more obstacles than the normal section.

Wang Ye became intrigued and rode towards this fork.

The gradient of this fork wasn’t high, but the bumps and pits were particularly many.

Wang Ye could clearly sense that after entering the fork, the improvement in Cycling Skill Level was faster.

But before he had ridden for long, he found an extremely steep downhill ahead.

The slope was about 60-70 degrees, not much better than a vertical cliff.

Wang Ye immediately braked to a stop.

He carefully inspected this extremely steep downhill.

And found that there were clear tire tracks on this downhill.

The tracks were long and relatively stable, clearly indicating someone had specifically ridden over it.

"Could someone have attempted a downhill ride here?" Wang Ye muttered to himself.

Downhill cycling, referred to in full as "DownHill" in English, abbreviated to "DH," meaning to ride swiftly down from little mountain trails and gravel paths. It’s said that the world record for extreme downhill cycling reached 333 km/h, where even a slight error could result in catastrophic consequences.

In downhill cycling, riders are in a high-speed descent among complex and ever-changing environments and road conditions, with no repeatability or uniqueness, requiring riders to have excellent emergency response capabilities.

Speaking of which, one must mention a famous movie-virtual setting within the extreme sports circle called "Ozaki’s Eight". It was a challenge set by movie character Ozaki Konno as a tribute to nature’s power, claiming that those completing all eight challenges could achieve Nirvana Rebirth.

But the difficulty of each challenge was extremely high, and until now, no one in reality had truly completed these eight challenges. Some netizens calculated that several of these challenges had fatality rates close to 100%. Even the character proposing this concept completed only three challenges.

When Wang Ye learned about this setting on a short video platform, he was utterly shocked and thrilled by the eight extreme challenges. But at the time, as an ordinary person without the strength to truss a chicken, unable to even run five kilometers, how could he dare dream of completing these challenges?

However, now Wang Ye possesses strength and technique beyond human limits.

Maybe in the continuous pursuit of the limits of life, he could manage to complete the legendary Ozaki’s Eight?

It’s worth noting that among Ozaki’s Eight, the first, "Emergence of Power," is indeed riding down a mountain ridge swiftly.

Just when Wang Ye was in deep thought.

Suddenly.

A shout came from not far away.

"Hey! Buddy! What’re you doing standing there? Don’t think about it!"

"That place is where the daredevils train for downhill; it’s deadly dangerous, with people having crashed to death! Quick, take a detour down!"

"Your bike must cost at least tens of thousands, right? Would be a shame to ruin it!"

Wang Ye looked over upon hearing.

And found that these riders attempting to "rescue" him were the same ones who had mocked him as an equipment enthusiast earlier.

"Never underestimate the strength of any equipment enthusiast," Wang Ye grinned. He mounted his mountain bike and then rushed down the nearly 70-degree slope.

In the instant he descended the steep slope, a powerful gravitational force pulled him down, quickly accelerating his speed from zero to over 100 mph, even though Wang Ye didn’t pedal further, the speed continued to rise.

At such speed, making a turn or avoiding obstacles could only be done using drifting techniques, forcibly twisting the handlebars.

Soon, Wang Ye encountered his first obstacle—a protruding tree root across the steep slope.

Faced with this sudden situation, he didn’t show any panic.

Instead, he sharply twisted the handlebars, executing a nearly 90-degree drift.

In a flash, the tires scraped the gravel road surface at lightning speed, producing a terrifyingly ear-piercing friction sound.

Screech!!!

A cloud of dust rose instantly, soaring four or five meters high.

This intense commotion immediately caught the attention of all the riders present.

When they saw a mountain bike plummeting down at speeds over 120 km/h,

they couldn’t help but pause in shock for a few seconds.

"What the hell is he doing?"

"Damn, is he really going for a downhill ride?"

"Did this guy drink Red Bull? Does he have a death wish?"

"We just told him not to rush, and he’s still rushing down???"

"Do all equipment enthusiasts have a screw loose?"

"Damn, better make an emergency call in advance, in case this guy crashes to death."

At this moment.

Wang Ye felt no panic whatsoever, instead, he became more and more excited. As he consciously increased the cadence and pedaled harder to speed up, his downhill speed got faster and faster, from 120 mph to 150 mph, eventually approaching 200 mph. At such speeds, encountering any obstacle would mean certain destruction, but he managed to precisely handle the handlebars and navigate around the obstacles.

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