Modification and Basic Flesh Alchemy

[Little White (Snowfield Wolf): Healthy] (Subordinate)

[Age: 6]

[Strength: 7]

[Mental: 7.5] (Death allowed you to break through your limits)

[Constitution: 7]

(The Snowfield Wolf's limit is 7)

[Psychology: Normal]

[Sanity: 200/200]

[Abnormal Statuses: Where the Heart Finds Peace, Wail of the Dead]

[Talent: Snowfield Howl (Active)

Effect 1: Consumes Sanity (1 point per second) to cause snowfall within a radius of (Mental points × 10 meters) around the user. Within this range, hostile units must undergo a Sanity check (current Sanity < 200 results in failure). Upon failure, they lose (200 - the enemy's current Sanity)/100 Sanity per second. At the same time, those within this range suffer from cold (physical movements become sluggish).

Effect 2: Within the Talent's range, allied units recover Sanity 200% faster, some abnormal statuses are blocked, and their psychology remains permanently Normal.] (Allies and enemies are judged proactively by Little White) (Talent has just awakened)

[Description: It is willing to give everything for you, even its life.]

Little White's attributes were not particularly high, but they had already reached their limits. Its Mental stat had even directly surpassed the limit.

Combined with its sky-high 200 Sanity, Little White's Talent was extremely powerful whether it came to crowd control, dealing damage, or providing support.

Bai Yi happily patted the wolf's head, then lay down on the operating table himself.

[Basic Physical Modification: Iris Color Change Surgery about to begin.

This modification will take 15 hours.

Begin?]

Just as Bai Yi was about to select "Yes," another message suddenly popped up:

[The final portion of "Basic Alchemy" has been converted into "Basic Flesh Alchemy." Would you like to study it during the surgery?]

Bai Yi had thought that "Basic Alchemy" had already disappeared, having been completely transformed into "Basic Physical Modification." He had not expected such an unexpected bonus!

Without another word, he selected yes to everything.

[This modification consumes 2360 Flesh and 1150 Bones.]

[Current Flesh: 809/1000. Bones: 1031/1000.]

The operating table slowly rose. Then sheets of flesh membrane extended from above and connected to the table, forming an enclosed space.

Yellowish-brown nutrient fluid was pumped inside. Before Bai Yi was anesthetized, he curiously examined the changes around him.

At that moment, a mask slowly floated over to his face. A tiny tentacle pointed at the mask, then at Bai Yi's face.

Bai Yi immediately understood and put on the mask. The feelers inside it extended, entering Bai Yi through his seven orifices and slowly making contact with his brain.

At first, Bai Yi felt slightly nauseated and suffocated. But soon, he felt extraordinarily comfortable. His body seemed weightless, as if he had returned to the embryonic stage.

By then, the tentacles that had extended inside had fused into Bai Yi's cerebral cortex, severing the connection between his brain and the outside world.

Then, waves of strange power entered Bai Yi's brain through the feelers, leaving imprints beneath his cerebral cortex.

Bai Yi knew that this was the converted "Basic Flesh Alchemy." Knowledge that originally required Sanity potions to read had been cleverly bypassed by the shelter through this method.

While Bai Yi absorbed the knowledge, the modification outside proceeded simultaneously.

Bai Yi's body was meticulously dismantled. Every bone, every muscle, and every inch of skin was neatly taken apart according to its original position.

Countless tentacles methodically modified different parts of his body.

While increasing in density, his bones were also filled with many honeycomb-like cavities. This enhanced their load-bearing capacity and sturdiness without increasing his body weight.

In addition to connective tissue, a new type of fibrocartilage was added to his joints, making them sturdier and less prone to damage.

After his muscle cells were extracted, stronger and more perfect cells were cultivated and used as replacements, increasing the explosive power of his muscles and accelerating lactic acid breakdown.

His blood vessels and heart were thickened and pressurized, allowing blood to flow faster and strengthening his metabolism.

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The ends of the neurons in every nerve cell were connected by nanometer-scale strands of flesh. When electrical signals were converted into neural signals for transmission, this allowed synaptic vesicles to move more quickly between the flesh strands. It was an entirely new method of transmission.

The surgery lasted fifteen hours.

The tentacles and bone blades all retracted. The nutrient fluid slowly drained through small holes that had opened in the operating table. After sterilization and purification, the fluid would be recycled for reuse.

The mask opened.

"Hisssss—"

As the flesh membrane withdrew, large amounts of white mist rose into the air. Bai Yi opened his eyes, his dark golden pupils deep and indifferent.

With a light exertion of his arms, his entire body rose into the air. After landing steadily, stark naked, Bai Yi put on his clothes and walked out of the modification room.

The sudden increase in physical ability did not leave him feeling unfamiliar with his body at all. During the surgery, Bai Yi had already undergone simulated physical training in his mind with the shelter's assistance.

Bai Yi's thoughts stirred, and he brought up his status panel.

[Bai Yi: Healthy]

[Age: 30] (The average for an adult's attributes is 3, with 10 being the limit.)

[Strength: 12]

[Mental Strength: 9.1]

[Constitution: 12]

[Mental State: Normal] (Only negative mental conditions are displayed.)

[Sanity: 100/100]

[Abnormal Statuses: Where the Heart Finds Peace, Wail of the Dead]

[Talent: Steel Spine Will

Effect 1 (Active): Once activated, as your Sanity decreases, the hardness of your spinal bones increases until it rivals steel. Your Strength and Constitution will both increase greatly, by up to three times. Lasts ten minutes. After it ends, 100% of lost Sanity is restored, and the skill enters cooldown. Cooldown: 12 hours. (Forcibly activates when Sanity reaches 1.)

Effect 2 (Passive): When your Sanity falls to 1, your Sanity is forcibly locked. You become immune to all negative statuses. At the same time, your consciousness will suffer immense pain. The pain decreases as your Sanity recovers, and vanishes once Sanity exceeds 30.]

[Knowledge Mastered: Basic Flesh Alchemy]

[Equipment: None] (Only items carried on your person will be displayed in detail.)

[Description: An unknown species wearing human skin]

At this point, Bai Yi had undergone a complete transformation!

And the increase in his physical attributes was not even Bai Yi's greatest gain this time.

"Basic Flesh Alchemy..."

Bai Yi murmured as he stroked Little White's wolf head. It had been guarding the entrance to the modification room all along.

[Alchemy Variant: Basic Flesh Alchemy

1. Boiling Blood: Consumes five Sanity per second after activation. Your blood will boil and burn. While burning, your body remains permanently at peak condition, and your blood becomes flammable.

2. Flesh-Bone Conversion: Consumes Sanity to convert flesh (bones) that your body comes into contact with into bones (flesh). The amount of Sanity consumed depends on the scale of the conversion.

Pending study...]

That was right. Although the relevant knowledge of alchemy had already been implanted into Bai Yi's mind, its foundational knowledge was simply too vast and complex, making it exceptionally difficult for him to learn.

It was like a mathematical formula: he recognized every letter, but when they were put together, he could not understand any of it.

That was Bai Yi's current situation. His head was full of knowledge, yet he could not understand it at all. Nor could he casually explain it to others, because in the Misty Land, knowledge was poisonous.

Others might not even finish understanding before their Sanity dropped too quickly and they fell into permanent madness.

Fortunately, the shelter existed. It could assist Bai Yi in studying and deducing the knowledge within his mind.

That was how Bai Yi had learned the two beginner spells contained in Basic Flesh Alchemy.

It was already 9:40 in the morning of the next day. Over the past dozen or so hours, Zhang Zhen had unlocked the team, and only Bai Yi had yet to join.

At the same time, Bai Yi's private messages had long since become a complete mess. The members of the team he had joined yesterday had sent him many messages:

"Wang Ziyi is in danger! Dog Bro, get here now!"