Extraordinary Power

"What should extraordinary power look like?"

Lu Zhiyu had been pondering this question. In his vision, such a lifeform should not merely control its own body; it should also interfere with external rules using mental power. This was the true posture of an extraordinary being, and the genuine way to utilize mental power!

Applying the rules of the external world requires profound knowledge. The only thing Lu Zhiyu could think of at the moment was temperature. What is temperature? In common sense, it is a physical quantity representing the degree of hotness or coldness of an object, but from a microscopic perspective, it is the intensity of the thermal motion of the object's molecules.

From the viewpoint of molecular kinetic theory, temperature is a marker of the average kinetic energy of an object's molecular motion. Temperature is the collective manifestation of the thermal motion of a vast number of molecules. The mental control of a Deified Creature can observe the molecular level—it is observation, not control.

"Observing the molecular level is one thing, but wanting to fully control molecules and suppress their instinct for motion is still quite impossible!" Lu Zhiyu shook his head. Directly controlling molecules was still unrealistic for Deified Creatures of their level. Furthermore, from a microscopic perspective, the number of molecules in a single cubic meter cannot even be expressed in digits. To control so many molecules simultaneously, to what extent would one have to strengthen and subdivide their mental power?

Lu Zhiyu immediately changed his train of thought: "Actually, there is no need to control the molecules directly. You only need to mobilize your mental power to push the inertial motion of the molecules, accelerating a portion of them to move violently. This would trigger a group effect, influencing a large area, and could raise the temperature indefinitely. The stronger the mental power, the wider the range of temperature control; the higher the precision of the mental control, the higher the temperature can be pushed."

"Conversely, if you can control the molecular motion to be slower, the temperature will be lower. If your mental power is strong to the extreme, capable of suppressing the instinct of molecular motion, you could reach absolute zero."

The more Lu Zhiyu thought, the more excited he became, feeling that his first superpower and Mythical Creature Template were about to be developed. Lu Zhiyu looked at Sakun in the biological chamber; it was still slamming against the walls, constantly howling, its mind radiating chaotic consciousness. It certainly wouldn't understand how to control temperature, but it was enough that Lu Zhiyu knew.

As long as Lu Zhiyu developed the life template for temperature control and performed genetic tuning to transform it into a Mythical Creature capable of controlling temperature, then controlling temperature would become its instinct. It wouldn't need to understand the principles or the methods of how temperature is generated.

"It seems only I can perform genetic modification. Otherwise, even if you had mental power capable of reaching the atomic level, you wouldn't be able to perform targeted modifications to genes, or even set life templates at will!"

"For other Mythical Creatures, their mental power is merely an extended tentacle; they are fundamentally unable to modify their own life templates. If they want to evolve into Mythical Creatures, there is only one path: finding the genes of other Mythical Creatures to fuse with, or using parts of those genes to tune their own!"

Only at this step could Lu Zhiyu deeply feel how powerful his mental talent, Information Transmission, truly was. To an ordinary person, it might seem weak because it only transmits and modifies information without any direct power, but to Lu Zhiyu, it was simply an artifact!

In the following months, Lu Zhiyu brought Sakun into the Space Castle and began designing the Mythical Creature Template for it. Sakun's prototype was a squid, and its ability was temperature control. Regarding the external manifestation, Lu Zhiyu decided to name this biological template the Zero-Degree Sea Monster!

Once decided, Lu Zhiyu immediately extracted Sakun's Deified Cells and began the tuning process. However, when Lu Zhiyu probed his mental power inside, he discovered that the Deified Cells were resisting his intrusion and modification.

Moreover, at the moment of contact, Lu Zhiyu could feel a chaotic will interfering with him. Lu Zhiyu dared not touch these Deified Cells lightly; after all, he had only deified his brain, and the rest of his body remained in the state of an ordinary organism.

If Sakun's Deified Cells were to come into contact with him, they might very well erode his own genes. Such a lifeform was extremely dangerous to ordinary life!

Lu Zhiyu immediately thought of some of Sakun's cells he had preserved from before it became a Deified Creature, but he immediately shook his head: "No, those ordinary cells could never withstand this Mythical Creature's life template; they would collapse in an instant!"

With no other choice, Lu Zhiyu could only use his mental power to radiate goodwill toward Sakun, coaxing it to let go of its mental defenses. After many attempts—and while still in the top-floor botanical garden—he helped it build a massive pool, dozens of meters wide and long, for it to play in, and fed it every day!

Whether it was because his actions truly made it feel goodwill, or because its chaotic will had fallen into a state of madness, the cellular mental resistance eventually vanished.

Lu Zhiyu immediately probed into Sakun's genetic level and saw the genetic information within its cells. Just like his own, after becoming a Mythical Creature, the genes would eliminate most useless genes and ancestral life templates, leaving only a single template of information: Sakun's current life template.

Lu Zhiyu seized the opportunity to imprint the Zero-Degree Sea Monster Mythical Creature Template into it and immediately withdrew. Lu Zhiyu could then see the drop of blood he had extracted begin to undergo drastic changes.

Lu Zhiyu immediately injected it back into Sakun's body, and he saw Sakun's form undergo a violent transformation. Its head became more streamlined, its original tentacles grew longer, and its body and organs were constantly altered according to the settings of the life template, with different cells forming different organs.

Gradually, its unique internal organs and hard shell formed. Lu Zhiyu could see its appearance twisting constantly until it finally settled, becoming the Zero-Degree Sea Monster as Lu Zhiyu had designed.

"Success!"

Lu Zhiyu saw his Zero-Degree Sea Monster take shape, exactly as he had designed: a black exterior, a streamlined body, looking extremely beautiful, and its body had become much harder.

It rolled violently in the pool, its body striking the pool wall like a bullet, actually leaving a large dent in the stone while its own body suffered no damage.

"As expected, the layer of armor covering the outside is equivalent to an alloy; the hardness is very high!"

Lu Zhiyu observed Sakun's movements and was very satisfied with the Zero-Degree Sea Monster's biological template. However, its most important point had yet to be displayed. At this moment, Sakun leaped up and let out an angry roar at Lu Zhiyu.

"Sakun!"

Lu Zhiyu felt a strong mental fluctuation ripple out. He knew Sakun had activated its ability and immediately covered his surroundings with mental power to block Sakun's ability from reaching him.

As Sakun's mental power activated, the molecules in the surrounding dozens of meters began to move violently. Lu Zhiyu could see the water in the entire pool evaporate in an instant, creating a violent explosion, and steam burst throughout the botanical garden with a boom.

The intense temperature even scorched the stones red, and the temperature of the entire floor rose to several hundred degrees in an instant; no human could survive inside.

However, as the smoke cleared, Lu Zhiyu walked out from within. The ability he had bestowed upon Sakun was not difficult for him to use; it was just that because it wasn't imprinted into his own Deified Cells, mobilizing it was very complex and troublesome. But simply calming the temperature around himself was no problem at all; Sakun could not harm Lu Zhiyu.

Sakun then whipped its tentacles, and the temperature dropped instantly; frost formed on the ground and walls, and the entire space turned into a frozen world.

Lu Zhiyu looked at the scene Sakun had created and was very satisfied: "Not bad, not bad. This is a true Mythical Creature!"

Sakun was currently only in its juvenile stage. If its mental power grew stronger and it continued to increase its size and the number of its Deified Cells, its abilities would surely become even more powerful, eventually reaching the point of burning mountains and boiling seas, or freezing the earth. But reaching that point would certainly not be a matter of a few decades or centuries!