—Could it be... that the Yellow Crystal pathogen... had no nucleic acids at all?
The moment this thought arose, it blazed through Chen Feng's mind like a prairie fire.
Its minimum cross-sectional diameter of ten nanometers left too many things unexplained.
For instance, such a narrow space, no matter how long it was, could not allow nucleic acids to fold.
But if it had no nucleic acids...
If its bloodline was not composed of nucleic-acid-like substances...
That was right, that was right. The Divine Land had prepared for this possibility long ago. When the existence of the Immortal Path became known, there had already been theoretical hypotheses that not all bloodline spiritual resonances were recorded upon nucleic acid systems.
Yet thus far, among all carbon-based living beings, none had been discovered beyond this range.
The bloodlines of all carbon-based living beings were recorded upon nucleic-acid-like substances.
The reason was simple. The hereditary substance that inscribed bloodline spiritual resonances had to be stable and resistant to changes in material properties, yet not so stable that "evolution" could not occur. At the same time, it also needed to be capable of self-replication.
Indeed, systems that used sugars, lipids, or the Path of Living Beings Source to carry bloodline spiritual resonances could theoretically exist. That was also one possible choice.
But such substances were either insufficiently stable, excessively stable, unable to form complex systems, or formed systems that were far too complex.
Over the course of evolution, these systems held no advantage over nucleic acids.
Before beings whose bloodline roots were based on sugars could even begin to evolve, their ancestors had already been wiped out by the ancestors of modern humanity—some primitive bacterium founded upon nucleic acids.
This was also why the Transforming Method possessed such broad applications. One of this cultivation