"...Chu Minghao's ascension stability had always been excellent. His deviation value was between 0.3 and 0.5. His self-perfection was condensing, and it would successfully take shape within a foreseeable forty-eight hours. However, condensing a Perfect Ascendant Body required a vast amount of matter. This happened to be the Absolute True Layer, and we are inside a star system. Matter is absolutely not in short supply!"
"Liang Min, on the other hand, once reached a deviation value of twelve percent. Although it has now stabilized at around five percent, that number..."
A bald man—or rather, a monk—stood in Gaia's newly constructed Ascension Observation Chamber and spoke with worry on his face.
Behind him, dozens of Gaia Humans' top scientists were recording data. One scientist asked, "We understand the deviation value issue your side has raised. It is an anchor value for self-cognition. Once the deviation value becomes too large and one's self-cognition becomes unclear, ascension will fail. But how does such deviation arise? By our understanding, if genetic deviation reaches over five percent, the difference would be greater than that between a human and a dog!"
The monk shook his head. "What you are talking about is mortal genetic engineering. But once one becomes extraordinary, the genes of the physical body no longer occupy the core position in constructing the foundation of life. As one grows stronger through extraordinary paths, that core gradually shifts toward those paths. Once one reaches the Ascendant Body stage, that core directly transfers to self-perfection. The core of constructing self-perfection is self-cognition. Do not continue viewing this issue through the lens of genetic engineering for mortal life."
The dozens of top scientists all looked thoughtful. One female scientist said, "It is a pity that we have been exposed to the extraordinary field for too short a