Chapter 160: Mixed Cyber Mortal
Chapter 160: Mixed Cyber Mortal
The magic weapon laboratory is located on the seventeenth underground floor of the Jinling Sect’s base.
The Hunyuan Banner is inserted into the bracket, various lines connect this magic weapon, and there are sophisticated detection instruments all around it.
"Begin the test to see if the magic weapon can be activated through simulation."
As Wen Rui issued the command, spiritual power was channeled into the Hunyuan Banner through the line. There was no reaction at first, but as the total amount of spiritual energy input increased, a purple cloud floated above the banner.
Activation is not difficult.
Of course, if you want to control the Hunyuan Banner to exert its magical effects, it will not be so easy. The amount of spiritual energy introduced will probably be an astronomical figure.
The top magic weapons in the prehistoric world do not have very strict restrictions on their use. There is no situation where one cannot use them at all due to a low level of cultivation. Those with low cultivation can use them even if they get them, but their power will be much weaker than that of those with high cultivation.
For example, during the Battle of the Gods, many Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect bestowed high-level treasures on their disciples who had just completed their training and completed their apprenticeships, and the disciples were able to use them with ease.
The first step was successful, Wen Rui had achieved his goal, and terminated the experiment with satisfaction.
He originally just wanted to use the Hunyuan Banner as a Hunyuan Qi generator, with the goal of obtaining a steady supply of Hunyuan Qi to use as research consumables.
After confirming that the Hunyuan Banner could be used as a generator, Wen Rui began to prepare the second consumable material and ordered Jarvis: "Send the clones over through the transmission channel. Remember to replenish one immediately after consuming one."
As he gave the order, a "corpse" slid out of a pipe nearby.
This "corpse" looked exactly like Wen Rui, except that its eyes were dull and it did not move, with its chest rising and falling steadily.
These corpses are the skins cultivated by Wen Rui using autologous cell cloning technology. Except for the lack of souls, they are exactly the same as the original bodies.
The ability to mass-produce clones that are exactly the same as the original is due to the fact that Wen Rui's cultivation level is low and he is still a mortal.
If he had reached a certain level, such as a golden elixir, the cost of producing a large number of clones would be very high.
This is because the body created by cloning technology can only reach the mortal level. There is a prerequisite for improvement, which is that there must be a soul. Even if there is a soul, each upgrade to a certain level will cost a lot of extra spirit stones.
This kind of skin clone was originally created by Wen Rui based on Lao Rui's Phoenix Project, in order to give himself a resurrection buff, but after careful study, he found that the system was soul-bound.
The Phoenix Project has an extremely high failure rate. It is very likely that after death, the soul will be thrown directly into hell by the system instead of being loaded onto the clone.
However, the project has already involved huge investment, and it would be a pity to abandon it, so Wen Rui started to recycle the waste.
Part of his skin was stuffed into a metal mechanical skeleton, acting as his own shadow warrior.
The other part is used as consumables for testing genetic modification technology or spiritual root replenishment technology that is harmful to the body.
The Mother of Lishan thought that he was taking great risks in studying Hunyuan Qi and was courting death, but in fact the safety factor was very high and all that was wasted were the physical consumables.
Wen Rui sat on a metal chair, wearing a fully enclosed helmet of the same type as the battery man in the jar at the new energy base. He turned on the six senses synchronization function, and fell asleep with his head tilted.
The "corpse" was resurrected at the same time, crawled out of the pipe trough, and walked into the metal can next to the Hunyuan Banner bracket.
This metal can is actually a safe house converted from a high-intensity incinerator. It is mainly used to prevent accidents during the Hunyuan Qi experiment. If the energy level is too high and there is a risk of explosion, the safety system will be automatically triggered and the metal can will be instantly thrown into the sky above the Jinling Sect.
Then an explosion that could have destroyed the base would have become just a big firework set off over Lishan Mountain.
The chip implanted in the skin man's brain means that all five senses and six consciousnesses are controlled by Wen Rui who is wearing a brain-computer interface, as if he has become another Wen Rui.
Rubbing his hands, Wen Rui first felt the realism of the alien controlling the skin man. He could not tell the difference from the original body at all. Then he started the next step of the suicidal experiment.
The Hunyuan Banner was activated again, and a wisp of purple air was input into the metal can and sent to the skin man.
Without hesitation, he absorbed the wisp of purple air in the same way as refining spiritual energy. The next moment, Wen Rui felt as if his internal organs were burning. Endless pain stimulated every nerve ending, but the pain lasted only a short time, and the skin man turned into a pile of ashes.
"The immortal energy can be endured by mortal bodies, and mortals can directly become immortals. There are many examples in the prehistoric world, but the primordial energy and the immortal energy are completely different in nature."
Wen Rui took off his helmet, and recalled with lingering fear the pain that the skin man had suffered before he turned to ashes. He murmured, "No wonder he only began to realize Hunyuan at the Golden Immortal Realm. His immortal body has not reached the level of Vajra Indestructibility, so he simply cannot withstand the high-density pure energy of Hunyuan Qi."
After thinking for a moment, he put on his helmet again and ordered Jarvis to continue providing skins.
Scientists are never afraid of experimental failure, but rather fail repeatedly and learn from failures. Even if it is only a slight improvement in cognition, it is worth it.
Wen Rui has plenty of cloned skins, and the biochemical factory is fully operational, so there is no limit on the supply. The only drawback is the pain he suffers when his skin turns to ash, but for Wen Rui, who experiences hell once a week, this little pain is nothing.
One after another, skin bags slid out of the pipe, stood up and walked into the metal tanks and turned into ashes, one after another, in an endless stream.
After the 1,764th skin was consumed, Wen Rui took off his helmet again. It was not because he was tired, but because he noticed something unusual during the hundreds of tests and began to summarize and think.
"The Hunyuan Qi is a power that only saints can control. The Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian who is half a step away from being a saint can also use this power. Mortals can also become saints, which is the way to become a saint through merit."
Wen Rui organized his thoughts and muttered to himself, "Merit is a property bound to the soul, which can be carried over to the next reincarnation. The cloned body has no merit at all, and if it is simply tested, it will definitely burn up."
When his thoughts reached this point, Wen Rui became confused.
He has immense merits, but it seems that he is still a little short of becoming a saint, and the Heaven has not shown him any signs of enlightenment.
It is also possible that he did not take the initiative to offer sacrifices to heaven, make great aspirations, ask for instructions from heaven, and establish a saintly position for himself.
In short, quantitative change has not yet led to qualitative change, and there is just a little bit of opportunity left to become a saint.
Although there are many benefits to becoming a saint through merit, there are also great limitations, especially for mortals, who cannot increase their strength much through merit.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the best that can be achieved is a golden body with immortal merits.
The meritorious saints Nuwa, Jie Yin and Huai Ti were already extremely powerful before they were canonized, and becoming saints was the icing on the cake.
Even if he, a mortal, is canonized as a saint and obtains an eternal and immortal golden body of merit, it is very likely that his actual combat power will still be weak. He will not be killed, but he cannot kill anyone either.
After the sainthood is established, one cannot mess around, otherwise the heaven will definitely punish him. The most important thing is that no girl dares to be naughty with the saint...
Blasphemy against a saint is a crime punishable by national destruction. One cannot even die without it, but will be buried with the entire dynasty.
Since one can neither become a saint through merit nor obtain a golden body through cultivation, this path seems to be completely blocked and the Qi of Hunyuan cannot be used at all.
Is it possible that the "Hunyuan Mortal" experiment is going to fail right at the very beginning?
Wen Rui is not a person who gives up easily, but if he wants to test whether the body of a mortal with merits and virtues can bear the Qi of Hunyuan, he must take the risk himself. Wen Rui will never take such a risk.
In this magical world, souls with great merits will have great blessings in the next life, but he is different. After his death, no matter how many merits he has, he will go to hell and never be reborn.
Then, we can only refer to the principle of fusion power generation, use some force to confine the Hunyuan Qi in a vacuum, and then absorb it into the body.
Wen Rui just happened to have the technology for restraint, which was traction beam technology. He used gravitons to form a miniature gravity well in his body, warping the space to form a void gravity bubble that stored pure energy.
In this way, he is moving further and further towards the path of a cybernetic human. After all the modifications, it is hard to say how many original parts are left on his body.
The first thing to do is to dig out the digestive system, that is, the large and small intestines, which are no longer of much use, and install a miniature Bagua furnace made of top-grade spiritual gold and fairy stone in the abdominal cavity as an artificial Dantian.
Then replace the meridians in the body with diamond material catheters to conduct the Hunyuan Qi to the artificial Dantian.
The acupoints on the body surface must also be reinforced to prevent the fragile flesh cells from being contaminated when absorbing the Hunyuan Qi, thereby causing large-scale cell apoptosis.
After the installation of this cyber energy system is completed, a weapon system must be designed that can emit the Hunyuan Qi and transform it into various incredible magical powers, or directly project energy to destroy the target.
Otherwise, even if you absorb a large amount of Hunyuan Qi and store it in the body, it will be useless.
When you can safely carry the Hunyuan Qi with your own body, you can start the next experiment, which is to test whether merit can help the mortal body refine the Hunyuan Qi, gradually increase the mortal body's tolerance to the Hunyuan Qi, and continuously temper the body with the Hunyuan Qi.
If this whole set of operations is completed smoothly, it is possible to obtain a mortal Hunyuan Cyber Golden Body. I wonder how it is different from the immortal body of Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian.
The reason why such a cyber cultivation system has not been developed specifically for spiritual energy is that the Dantian will undergo physiological structure changes in each stage of foundation building, golden elixir, return to emptiness, and transformation of the spirit. The immortal body after becoming an immortal is completely different from the body of a mortal. It is impossible to change a system at each stage, not to mention that it is still unknown whether this system can survive the thunder tribulation.
To cultivate immortality, one still has to go the route of genetic evolution, while cyberization is a difficult path that is filled with repeated setbacks.
However, if one uses the highest level of Hun Yuan Qi in one go, since there is no further advancement except becoming a saint, one might as well finalize it once and for all, and then continuously adjust and improve on this model. This is very much in line with the research and development concept of leapfrog development and overtaking on curves.
It is said that there are three thousand great ways, all with the same destination. Without practicing Taoism, can't you directly attain the Great Way of Hunyuan?
Wen Rui felt that this route was worth a try. There were plenty of cloned skins anyway. He could first build the artificial Hunyuan Dantian Bagua Furnace and artificial Hunyuan Meridians to see if the mortal skin installed with this system could withstand it.
(End of this chapter)