Endless streams of related information interacted, collided, fell into silence, and were reborn in nirvana at this very moment!
In an instant, countless phantoms of light manifested around Zhao Cheng: giants with a hundred heads and a hundred arms; azure dragons as vast as galaxies; ever-changing great fish that became fish upon meeting water, birds upon meeting air, and beasts upon meeting earth; star spirits that took planets as their bodies; cold steel; blazing magma...
Even more forms of life possessed no flesh-and-blood bodies at all, nor did they have genes in the conventional sense. Yet wherever there was form, there existed a genetic sequence!
The essence of a genetic sequence was an informational structure that constituted the material vessel of a life-form.
Without a genetic structure, something called a human could be said to be merely a pile of protein and calcium. But protein and calcium alone could never represent a human.
Before raw materials were processed according to a blueprint, they were simply a heap of materials. No matter how excellent their properties were, they remained nothing more than materials. They could only determine the lower limit, while the genetic sequence represented the upper limit.
After all, in terms of materials, the raw components of humans and dogs were actually very similar. Yet among the final products, some dogs were smarter than humans, while some humans were worse than dogs—though naturally, the reverse was also true.
The sublimation of life was a process of constantly remaking oneself. The cultivation of the Body Spirit was a process of continuously optimizing one's blueprint.
As for raw materials, that belonged to the domain of the Matter Body. Though Zhao Cheng had yet to surpass the limits of the universe in this regard, through unrelenting effort, he had refined his own raw