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haegar
^ I was thinking a simmilar way to keep his meridians/Ki channels in use and to thus also repeatedly kick in his Ki center for a brief time would be the Elders doing what Sera's grandmother did: transfer their Ki into his body, and do so for a couple of weeks once a day or so, takeing turns to shift the load.(btw would be very interesting to know just how many days high level masters like the Sun-Woo Elders or Sera's grandma who have fully excerted/used up their Ki would need to "refill" their reserves...)
I might be wrong about this but it seems to me the Ki-center is kind of conceptualized as the battery/dynamo/Ki-generator thingy. Due to Shioon's special condition, his whole body, cells, vessels, blood and everything are infused with Ki, especially now after the Doc "purified it" prior to extracting the blood, thus he can heal abnormally fast physically - however, it seems Ki must be 'in flow' from the Ki center outward through the meridians in order for a murinim to function properly during a fight.
Temporary Ki-boosts, be it from the pills or from the full-power Ki-transfusion of a high-level master seem to give him the ability to use his Ki normally for a limited amount of time. I am thinking maybe we could look at the Ki-center as a "container" or "vessel" - one that in his case has a honkin big hole in it through which the Ki "leaks out" or "dissipates" before he can channel it out into the meridians, makeing it unusable... it also seems as if his recuperative powers cannot be used on the Ki-center itself as it is devoyed of Ki in it's damaged state...
Maybe the pills and the high level transfer "force more Ki into the container than can leak out through the hole" - if that were so, one might speculate that during those times that the container is temporarily re-filled some slow-going process of healing the damage done to the Ki-center itself might be at work - that would btw nicely explain how it can be possible that Shioon definetely has improved his level during New Waves - every time he uses some "booster" and performs proper martial arts and thus proper circulation, the hole in the container gets a little bit smaller...
This would also be a nice way to go with regard to future power levelling: I am all for him going more badass asap as atm he is pityful - however if his Ki-center were to be restored completely just now he'd have a simply enormous powerup coming in, in all likelyhood having mastered Smashing Fist and Feet Tech on a much higher level than he had back at the end of Breaker 1 with his Ki center intact PLUS possibly gaining Seismic Step and the lowest level of Black H&E threshold as an added bonus. That would put him up pretty high, maybe higher even than I would like to see him just now.
As I see it the story design currently offers two opptions for him to remain somewhat "limited" in his development, aka not get an overly ridicolous powerup:
a) the drawbacks of a failed Black H&E tech might make him much more careful in executing high level stuff, so he would limit himself or it might turn out he cannot yet truly perform threshold level1 properly after all
b) his Ki center gets "repaired" - but in a delayed kind of fashion: What doc did and him probabaly being about to use the threshold once with whatever success will speed up the Ki center repair, maybe the Ilwolmoon head even adds to that with his own medical arts - but it still might be that he can only use his Ki "so much" or "tires out" after a time - think of it as analog to certain physical injuries, you might be able to walk again on a complicately broken/shattered leg two months after operation - but it will take you 4 months till you stop limping and maybe a year till you can run the good ol' marathon again ....
edit: this would maybe also depend a bit on with whom he will be matched up for the final fight of New Waves, assuming their will be a part three I am thinking the confrontation with his master is for laters - so for this arc one might except him to go up against either one of the Chundomoon badasses - for that I guess he would need to master the threshold level1 in order to prevail? I cannot quite gauge the difference between the two of them but I think the older asshole is weaker than the younger guy Shioon already fought once in vol4? Not sure though, it was foreshadowed back then that they would fight again - but somehow I don't see the younger one as a bad guy, I think he needs Shioon's version of naruto-talk-no-jutsu and in the end will join Shioon's side - especially since the older Chundomoon head seems to be the one who is mainly behind SUC (together with the older mustache master Elder Kwon fought) - So I'm thinking Shioon's real opponent for New Waves might just be that guy ?
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) will have to come at some point, it was foresdhadowed so strongly one might call it inevitable - I wonder though if it truly will be under the pretext of this current confrontation of Sunwoo and Chundomoon we seem to be headed for - we might be getting red herringed with the foreshadowing from Breaker 1. 
