Yes, this is also my take on it. Like a goat, Ye Zun can digest pretty much everything - as long as it's a gradual absorption. This is why it was so important that Lin Jing stab Shen Wei to release all of his (mostly) Haixingian energy at once.
I also had the impression Shen Wei directed the energy so it was released in a particularly destructive way - which was why it was good Lin Jing was there to do the stabbing, so Shen Wei could concentrate solely on directing the energy rather than stabbing himself, too.
No Haixingian would have this massive amount of energy in the usual run of things, and it would never usually be released this suddenly and well-directedly. So Ye Zun could eat as many Haixingians as he wanted without worry, I'd say. ;-)
However! Perhaps a Haixingian serum mutant who took a concentrated dose of the serum - like Zhao Yunlan - could have achieved the same effect, if they'd known to release the energy all at once.
likealeafonthewind: And then, along the lines of how Shen Wei got some Haixingren energy - was it a trade-off?
I think it was a connection more than a trade-off. I’m not sure about the equilibrium… it’s very hard to say! I tend to think the energies can’t really mix enough to achieve equilibrium, and that Shen Wei was instead gradually changing himself entirely to Haixingian energy, and had to keep the Dixingian energy very carefully in check (and away from Zhao Yunlan) in the meantime. A Dixingian with less control over their energy would probably immediately have exploded when linked to a Haixingian like this. If Shen Wei had lived, he would simply have changed to using entirely Haixingian energy, and might have been less powerful. His powers would probably have changed, anyway.
And the connection does seem to stay open, since they both have a sense of the other being in distress afterwards (can’t think of which ep this is right now, but Shen Wei goes running off at some point because he senses ZYL is in danger, and of course Zhao Yunlan wakes up when Shen Wei is cutting himself to bleed off some dark energy when the two energies are mixing dangerously).
So they’d have ended up using the same kind of energy, and linked. Which I think is a pretty neat thought, because who knows what that might have turned into? Maybe ZYL could have drawn on Shen Wei’s powers in a pinch. Maybe Shen Wei would have suddenly gained incisive insight into people’s motivations at key moments. ;-)
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Date: 2019-03-25 11:44 pm (UTC)I also had the impression Shen Wei directed the energy so it was released in a particularly destructive way - which was why it was good Lin Jing was there to do the stabbing, so Shen Wei could concentrate solely on directing the energy rather than stabbing himself, too.
No Haixingian would have this massive amount of energy in the usual run of things, and it would never usually be released this suddenly and well-directedly. So Ye Zun could eat as many Haixingians as he wanted without worry, I'd say. ;-)
However! Perhaps a Haixingian serum mutant who took a concentrated dose of the serum - like Zhao Yunlan - could have achieved the same effect, if they'd known to release the energy all at once.
And then, along the lines of how Shen Wei got some Haixingren energy - was it a trade-off?
I think it was a connection more than a trade-off. I’m not sure about the equilibrium… it’s very hard to say! I tend to think the energies can’t really mix enough to achieve equilibrium, and that Shen Wei was instead gradually changing himself entirely to Haixingian energy, and had to keep the Dixingian energy very carefully in check (and away from Zhao Yunlan) in the meantime. A Dixingian with less control over their energy would probably immediately have exploded when linked to a Haixingian like this. If Shen Wei had lived, he would simply have changed to using entirely Haixingian energy, and might have been less powerful. His powers would probably have changed, anyway.
And the connection does seem to stay open, since they both have a sense of the other being in distress afterwards (can’t think of which ep this is right now, but Shen Wei goes running off at some point because he senses ZYL is in danger, and of course Zhao Yunlan wakes up when Shen Wei is cutting himself to bleed off some dark energy when the two energies are mixing dangerously).
So they’d have ended up using the same kind of energy, and linked. Which I think is a pretty neat thought, because who knows what that might have turned into? Maybe ZYL could have drawn on Shen Wei’s powers in a pinch. Maybe Shen Wei would have suddenly gained incisive insight into people’s motivations at key moments. ;-)