Chapter 95: Growth Shortcuts and Innate Abilities
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Star City Shelter, in front of the database control panel.
Feng Qi stared at the analysis of Rune Transformers on the big screen in front of him and fell into deep thought.
His earliest understanding of Rune Transformers was in Old Wang’s history class.
In the early stages of the Rune Transformers Project, humans’ exploration of cultivation was still in its infancy. Someone had just proposed the concept of whether they could channel the Spiritual Qi that filled the world into their bodies.
During the dissection and exploration of the body structures of the domain creatures, the researchers discovered that the rune crystal embedded in their bodies contained great power.
Therefore, someone suggested a hypothesis if the rune crystal could be embedded into the human body, could humans also obtain terrifying strength comparable to domain creatures?
With that, the Rune Transformers Project was officially established.
This school of study prevailed over cultivation at the time and became the main research direction of society.
However, the disadvantages quickly surfaces.
Those humans who had been implanted with rune crystals indeed obtained powerful strength in a short period of time. They could even rely on the rune crystals to absorb the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to strengthen themselves.
However, rune crystals came from different domain species after all. They were not perfectly compatible with the human body.
The first batch of people who participated in the experiment began to show rejection one after another. They even went crazy and their temperaments changed drastically. They gradually lost control, causing a considerable safety hazard.
As for what went wrong, the reasons could not be found.
The serious potential risks caused the research of the once-glorious Rune Transformers Project to reach a bottleneck and gradually withdraw from the mainstream stage of history.
Subsequently, safe and reliable cultivation began to rise and eventually became the mainstream school of thought.
During this period, it continued to expand into new fields, forming modern cultivation techniques, spells, body cultivation studies, talisman array formations, spiritual therapy, and so on.
As for the Rune Transformers Project, it was buried in history. It could only be heard about occasionally in history classes, but it was glossed over and would not be explained in detail.
However, what puzzled Feng Qi was why the Scarlet Research Institute was still carrying out the Rune Transformers Project.
Why did Mu Qing, who established Dawn in future history, want to restart the Rune Transformers Project? Was there some undisclosed secret?
The analysis article on the screen about the Rune Transformers allowed him to understand part of the truth.
The article first detailed the evaluation of the strength of domain creatures. From low to high, it was divided into five levels: Yin, Evil, Fang, Shokuin, and Chaos.
Each level was also further divided into low, intermediate, and high levels.
Every increase in strength was equivalent to a leap in life level and strength.
In the current information, the domain creatures at the Chaos level were only hypothetical concepts. In fact, they had never been discovered, but Shokuin-level domain creatures really existed in reality.
It was in the ocean and descended with the domain field. One part of its body was illusory, and the other part formed an island on the ocean.
As the domain field expanded, this terrifying creature gradually took shape. Every movement could set off huge waves.
This terrifying Shokuin-level domain creature was currently in a deep sleep and had not caused any damage to human civilization.
However, its existence was like an explosive that could go off at any time. Once it showed its might, it would definitely cause a frightening disaster.
Among them, there was no lack of special species with intelligence.
For example, the goat-headed demons he had encountered previously were clearly a domain race with intelligence.
Ordinary domain creatures would not leave the domain field they were in. Domain creatures who left the domain fields were like fish leaving water. They could not adapt to the natural environment outside.
However, the situation for intelligent domain creatures was completely different.
They were also known as domain transcendent creatures. They would often appear outside the domain fields to hunt humans. They were the most troublesome enemies of humans.
As for how to adapt to the natural environment outside the domain fields, domain transcendent creatures had their own methods.
Just like how humans could create diving equipment, they could also use the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to create a rune crystal in their bodies to adapt to the natural environment outside.
Just because they had intelligence, they knew that humans were a stumbling block in the expansion of their domain fields, so their targeted destruction of human development had never stopped.
For example, large-scale destruction that happened from time to time often happened.
In this article on the analysis of Rune Transformer, other than describing the hidden dangers of the rune crystals fusing with the human body, it also detailed the advantages it could bring.
One of the advantages was that it could strengthen one’s physical fitness.
For example, after an ordinary person successfully implanted a rune crystal in their body, their physical strength would be enhanced in a short period of time.
Just like when cold water meets hot water, the temperature will adjust accordingly.
Similarly, after rune crystals were embedded in the human body, the power inside the rune crystals would automatically adjust the body, increasing its strength.
Compared to cultivation, which required a long time to accumulate, embedding rune crystals was undoubtedly a shortcut to boost one’s strength.
Apart from that, the greatest advantage of embedding rune crystals was that they could allow the implanter to obtain the innate ability of a creature in this domain field.
For example, the ability to control nature, the ability to move things with telekinesis, the ability to metalize the body, and so on.
The most representative example was Mu Qing.
As the only human who had perfectly fused with the rune crystal, she had inherited the characteristics of devouring and growing from an unknown domain creature. As long as there was food, she could strengthen and grow indefinitely.
The article also gave its guess about the rune crystal embedded in Mu Qing’s body.
The author of the article felt that the rune crystal in Mu Qing’s body was very likely obtained from a Shokuin-level domain creature, allowing her to possess an extremely terrifying growth talent.
However, he was only guessing and could not provide detailed evidence.
After reading this article, Feng Qi learned two key pieces of information.
Growth shortcuts and innate abilities.
Excluding potential hidden dangers, the Rune Transformers Project was the easiest way for humans to obtain powerful strength.
Was there such a possibility?
Mu Qing had restarted the Rune Transformers Project because she was eager to create a powerful army to resist unknown potential forces. Moreover, she could no longer care about the potential risks of rune modification.
There was no way to know about this information for the time being. He decided to leave his email to Mu Qing next time and let her answer his doubts.
After closing the analysis article on Rune Transformers, he began to search for knowledge in the biological sciences.
If he chose to go undercover in the Scarlet Research Institute in the next future time line, this information would help him to blend into the Scarlet Core Circle.
During the search, he found a piece of information about “Limb Regeneration”.
This document talked about research direction and results of using genetic technology to complete the regeneration of incomplete parts of the human body.
The main inspiration came from salamanders. After their limbs were cut off, they would grow back. However, humans did not have such limb regeneration ability.
This information immediately piqued Feng Qi’s interest.
If the limbs could regenerate, it would definitely contribute to human civilization’s resistance of the expansion of domain fields.
Every year, a large number of cultivators in reality get injured in the domain fields and have their limbs crippled. They could only choose to retire helplessly.
If there were mature limb regeneration techniques, this problem could be resolved. The personal safety of domain warriors could also be relatively guaranteed.
If they lacked a hand, a new hand would be nurtured. If they lacked a leg, a new leg would be nurtured.
Salamanders possess a strange enzyme that regenerates their limbs and organs. Scientists in the document believe that synthesis of this enzyme has the potential to regenerate new limbs and organs in people who have lost limbs and certain organs.
Tests conducted on human skin during this period showed that the wounds did heal faster and skin regenerated faster than before.
The technology in the information was still in the semi-mature stage, but for Feng Qi, this was enough.
With the future database in hand, he could completely accumulate and advance this research technology.
If one time was not enough, then two times… Each time, it would develop for 1,500 years with the future technology as the starting point. They would definitely be able to completely perfect this technology.
However, because the information was too long, memorizing it was very difficult.
After reading the opening chapter, he read it again and immediately felt that his brain cells were lacking.
There were many professional terms and nouns in it that confused him.
However, he still decided to memorize all this information first and read the relevant information to understand the details when he returned to reality.
The journey of a thousand miles began with a single step. He could only slowly understand the knowledge of unknown domains. Rome was not built in a day.
[I suddenly feel that you have to learn everything now. If you obtain the ability of infinite memory, won’t you become a super genius in various fields?]
Hearing this, Feng Qi could not help but be stunned.
Thinking about it carefully, the situation seemed to be as the narrator had said.
Cultivation, mechanical technology, biological sciences. There might be many new systems that he had to learn in the future.
However, at this stage, he paid the most attention to the development of cultivation.
He learned cultivation techniques to lay the foundation for human cultivation. Every time he brought back new cultivation techniques, it was to promote the improvement and perfection of cultivation techniques.
If not for the fact he was restricted from reading cultivation techniques rated 3 stars and above, he planned to study one such cultivation technique and plagiarize it to perfect it into a divine-level cultivation technique.
For example, in the case of the cultivation exercises that he had used for laying the foundation, he could totally bring it infinitely close to perfection through improving it over multiple periods of 1,500 years .
After he read the opening chapter of <Limb Regeneration^ the battle between Suction Cup and Blackie was still ongoing.
In the remaining time, he decided to read the information of the super geniuses of his era. They were all pioneers of the era and would contribute importantly to the growth of human civilization. They were the focus of his attention.
Or check the information of the dispelled domain fields. In his eyes, this information was all domain field clearance guides and secret manuals. If he grasped this information, it would help him develop and dispel domain fields in the future.
Before that, out of curiosity, he decided to go to the surface to take a look at the battle situation between Suction Cup and Blackie.
Perhaps the violent Suction Cup had already killed her opponent.
At this thought, he immediately turned around and walked towards the metal passageway.
A moment later, he appeared outside the shelter.
Looking around, he quickly spotted the figures of Suction Cup and Blackie. Their battle was still ongoing.
Blackie, who had transformed into a black fog, was like a black hole. Wherever it passed, everything was devoured. Only the powerful body of the Suction Cup could withstand it.
“Narrator, do you think I will also gain an almost immortal ability after killing Blackie?”
[Puil]