Life Form Editor?
That was an interesting term, one that set the imagination running wild.
Shi Tiexin was no stranger to so-called Life Editing. What ran through the entirety of Martial Arts cultivation was the transformation of one's life form. This was especially displayed to the fullest in body tempering.
The five major stages of Second Heavenly Layer body tempering—Physical Reshaping, Structural Reshaping, Ecological Reshaping, Gene Reshaping, and Energy Reshaping—were precisely the process of strengthening oneself step by step, evolving from a surface-dwelling organism into a cosmic organism.
Physical Reshaping had already been discussed: shaping oneself into one's theoretical developmental form. Structural Reshaping, meanwhile, meant shaping oneself into the theoretically optimal structure.
What was a theoretically optimal structure? There was no definitive answer, because it was difficult to say what "optimal" truly meant. But humans were born with many structures that were plainly wrong. That was beyond doubt.
For example, the human retina was installed backward. Not only did it create blind spots, it was also prone to detachment. If the brain had not been so skilled at filling in blanks and interpolating frames, everyone's field of vision would contain a black hole they could not see through.
Then there was the human immune system's "inflammatory storm." So long as certain viruses spread rumors within the immune system and exaggerated the enemy's numbers, the immune system would enter berserk mode and activate its final protocol. Countless immune cells would hack at any cell they saw, friend or foe alike, until they killed themselves.
The countless bugs of this kind were all proof that human evolution was incomplete. To optimize them naturally would likely require millions of years of brutal natural selection. But now, so long as one underwent Structural Reshaping, and the reshaping method was correct, all those bugs could