QL-IE99M Trinocular Metallographic Microscope.
Xie Zhe had given it to Yan Anqing for his twelfth birthday...
Secondhand.
It was fully functional and more than sufficient for the upcoming experiments.
Amateur experiments did not need to follow too many laboratory rules and regulations, as long as he could ensure his own safety.
After tidying up his room, Yan Anqing went out and bought some materials necessary for the experiment.
White mice, slides and cover slips, droppers, staining solution.
None of these were contraband. He only needed to visit a few places to gather them all, and they did not cost much.
Even if he needed some advanced experimental equipment that ordinary people found intimidating, Yan Anqing had countless ways of making money.
For instance, he could buy a piece of low-quality jade, use image-editing software to modify it into the finest Imperial Green jade and Vermilion Bird Blood jade, then resell it for a profit thousands of times greater.
However, Yan Anqing had properly planned out his future, so he presumably would not need such methods.
Once all the preparations were complete, Yan Anqing began his first true living-subject World Remastered experiment.
The previous red moon incident had only affected the lucky ones outwardly.
Golden pupils, changes in physique, improved looks...
These three unusual changes were the most eye-catching.
Yet they had not touched upon the essence of humanity.
The Golden-Eyed Ones across the world had not gained any supernatural abilities because of it.
For example, strength beyond human limits, running faster than sound, controlling water, fire, lightning, and electricity...
Yan Anqing believed that gradually remastering the world into the form he liked was an extremely interesting thing.
You had to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.
There was no way he could create a creature capable of moving mountains, filling seas, and blowing up stars barehanded right from the start.
The purpose of this experiment was to create a vital foundational element found in countless xianxia and fantasy novels, as well as hot-blooded manga!
Internal Force, True Qi, Spiritual Power, magic power, Chakra...
Whatever they were called, they shared the same essence—the foundation of transcendence!
Yan Anqing had designed a total of five possible methods to forge such a foundation.
Now, due to the crude experimental conditions, he chose the simplest and most feasible one.
The experimental procedure was not complicated. Any student with roughly a middle-school-level understanding of biochemistry could do it.
He took out a clean slide, used a dropper to apply Janus Green stain, then scraped liver cells from a white mouse onto the slide with a puncture needle and covered it with a cover slip.
A crude temporary liver cell smear was complete.
He switched from the low-power lens to the high-power lens for observation.
After a long while, Yan Anqing finally found what he was looking for.
Mitochondria!
These existed in most cells of eukaryotic organisms and were responsible for oxidative metabolism and energy release.
Yan Anqing transferred the image into the image-editing game...
Edited it!
Then he injected the altered cells from reality back into the white mouse.
Time flew by in the blink of an eye.
In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.
Over the past few days, Yan Anqing had killed dozens of experimental white mice.
And now, he had finally obtained a successful World Remastered product!
Form determined function.
Within the mitochondrial intermembrane spaces of the specially modified white mouse liver cells, Yan Anqing had added a structure he named the "Superpower Cavity."
Drawing upon the structure of fat cells, it had a more complex form and function, allowing it to compress and store biological energy.
In theory, the Superpower Cavity's biological energy conversion efficiency was roughly fifty times that of fat cells of the same mass.
When needed, it could rapidly release energy and provide a lifeform with tremendous kinetic power!
The Superpower Cavity was the real-world substitute for True Qi, Internal Force, Chakra, and Spiritual Power!
It sounded simple, but carrying it out was complicated enough to make someone lose their hair.
Even with the cheat's "Reasonable Modification" function for mapping edits onto reality, this experiment had cost Yan Anqing an enormous amount of effort.
Yan Anqing named cells with mitochondria containing the Superpower Cavity structure Fuxi Cells.
They were unlike cancer cells and would not replicate endlessly.
Nor were they foreign invaders to the immune system, so they would not trigger rejection by the body.
Only after being affected by external stimuli would Fuxi Cells replicate, assimilate other cells, or gradually diminish with the passage of time.
Just like muscles: use them or lose them.
The weak white mouse initially used exclusively for experiments had not changed much in appearance, but according to Yan Anqing's records, its overall strength had increased by roughly 55%!
If it received sufficient nutritional supplements while being kept in a state of high-intensity exercise, all of its physical data would continue soaring!
This was...
A fine beginning for a transcendent Power System!
At that moment, two notifications suddenly popped up on his phone.
The Little Panda, resembling a black-and-white dumpling, slowly crawled onto the main screen and blew out a string of text bubbles.
"Congratulations, player, on obtaining the achievement: The Beginning of Transcendence." "Based on your own experience and knowledge framework, you have pioneered an individual path toward transcendence with an uncertain future. You have also taken a firm first step and successfully created a Tiered Lifeform." "The first stage of the Main Quest has been completed." "Rewards are as follows: ① The trial period has ended. This app will bind to the host's soul, and no lifeform other than the host will be able to observe this software. ② A new game option, Cross-Sectional Mapping, has been unlocked."
After Yan Anqing finished reading the message, his phone gradually transformed and melted away, becoming a small sphere that flickered with dim white light before swiftly entering his glabella.
"So this is what soul binding means?"
Yan Anqing raised an eyebrow slightly, finding it rather marvelous.
There was now a phone in his mind, yet his body felt no discomfort.
It felt as though he could use his consciousness in place of his fingers to swipe across the touchscreen, while his eyes had taken over the phone camera's function.
He would never have to worry about his phone being stolen again.
From now on, this cheat that claimed to have only one player across the endless planes would be bound to him forever.
His thoughts flowed freely!
Furthermore, a button called Cross-Sectional Mapping had appeared on the game's main interface.
He casually opened a saved image from the game's database.
It showed a young man standing 1.95 meters tall.
He had a burly build, brilliant golden eyes, an imposing air, and an exuberant spirit between his brows.
The image file was labeled with the identification code "Yu Hongyi."
Using a tendril of consciousness to tap the Cross-Sectional Mapping button, Yan Anqing discovered that he could see the flesh, bones, and nerves beneath Yu Hongyi's skin.
It was practically X-ray vision.
"Very good!"
The corners of Yan Anqing's lips lifted slightly. This new function would be immensely helpful for his future plan to remaster the entire world.
The only regrettable part was that he had no way, for the time being, to spread the newly created Fuxi Cells among the Golden-Eyed Ones.
Suddenly, the Little Panda acting as customer service popped into Yan Anqing's field of vision again.
It blew out a string of text bubbles. "The second stage of the Main Quest has been issued: Obtain 10 achievements."
"Current progress: 3/10."
"Rewards: ① Unlock a new game option. ② Basic general knowledge of Power Systems across the endless planes."
Looking at the rewards section, Yan Anqing frowned slightly as he recalled the description and evaluation of The Beginning of Transcendence.
Tiered Lifeform.
His gaze fell upon the World Remastered white mouse...
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