[Alliance Leader bonus chapter 4/10]
What did less than a single protein molecule even mean?
The smallest viruses discovered on Earth—collectively known as Parvoviridae—were tiny icosahedrons between sixteen and twenty nanometers in size. Their protein shells consisted of sixty copies of capsid proteins, with molecular weights reaching three digits.
This Microbeast-grade Beast Mechanism was even smaller than that. Even if ordinary cultivators kept watch with spiritual sense, it would be difficult for them to guard against something on such a tiny scale—if they set their vigilance threshold that low, even a speck of dust would disturb them in everyday life.
And once these tiny things entered a cultivator's body and wreaked havoc, they could probably damage many of the cultivator's somatic cells in a very short time. Wang Qi even wickedly thought that he could use them to bypass reverse transcription and directly edit the opponent's genes.
The bloodline he edited into existence naturally would not be any superior bloodline—whether the victim could even survive would be another question.
The only thing to watch out for was that these things were simply too small. Their individual strength was insufficient, and if a cultivator truly went all out, they could still refine them away.
But compared with their concealment, this one weakness was not worth mentioning.
The only thing likely to catch a cultivator's attention was the powerful spiritual power contained within these tiny things.
After activating them, Wang Qi sensed undisguisable spiritual power fluctuations emerging from the black lump. He directed the tiny Beast Mechanisms to construct a macroscopic structure that locked down spiritual power, suppressing those conspicuous fluctuations.
There was no helping it. Those Beast Mechanisms were incredibly tiny, yet at the same scale, nothing was more complex than they were. They were bound to carry intense spiritual power