The button was pressed, and the Full-Spectrum Information Analyzer immediately started. The giant instrument that occupied most of the room did not make a roar or vibrate, but only a deep hum that continued continuously, like a giant loom running at a constant speed.
The row of unopened Soul Spirit Ball on the tray were fed into the injection port one by one by the robotic arm, and a dense stream of data began to appear on the soul guidance Monitor on the side of the instrument.
Mo Yuan stood in front of the control panel, his hands resting on the edge of the panel, his eyes never leaving the Monitor.
The data stream was being reorganized extremely quickly, but in his eyes it was practically the same as slow motion.
He can accurately capture the key signal nodes in each frame and then transform them into a part of his own consciousness model.
This is his greatest ability: to rival supercomputers with the human brain.
Of course, to be on the safe side, this information will also be input into " Amber's" mainframe for synchronous analysis. The two processes complement each other to ensure that the analysis will not encounter any problems.
Gu Yuena stood about two steps behind him.
To be honest, she couldn't understand the curves and spectrum diagrams on the Monitor at all, only finding them incredibly profound and mysterious. However, she could sense that the energy field inside the instrument was undergoing a certain regular fluctuation—the energy released from the Soul Spirit Ball was being disassembled, layered, and archived by the instrument one by one.
The process made her vaguely uncomfortable, as if she were watching the corpses of her own kind being sent to the dissection table, but reason told her that these were just Artificial Soul Spirit.
Even if they were real Soul Beast, they wouldn't be related to her; she is a dragon.
So she watched silently, without saying a word.
The first set of data was generated approximately three minutes after the computer was powered on.
This is the analysis provided by " Amber ".
Mo Yuan reached out and zoomed in on a detailed area on the Monitor. It was a sequence fragment of about two thousand base pairs, and its arrangement was structurally different from the human gene sequences he had seen before.
He labeled this sequence "Sample A-01" and then retrieved another set of control data based on the source of the Soul Spirit — Natural Soul Beast gene samples that he had previously collected through other channels.
Although Soul Beast are on the verge of extinction, it doesn't mean there's no way to obtain their genetic samples.
For example, Soul Bone, and those Ancient-Method Soul Spirit passed down from ancient times.
Even if all else fails, you can choose Sea Soul Beast Soul Beast, which has never been greatly affected.
There are always more solutions than problems.
The comparison results came out quickly.
"This sequence is about 92% similar to the genes of Natural Soul Beast, and the remaining 8% is a man-made, synthesized fragment," Mo Yuan said.
"But what's interesting is that what they call 'artificial' is essentially splicing together existing Soul Beast genes. They didn't create new genes, but rather disassembled gene fragments from different Soul Beast, recombined them, and then packaged them into an artificial hibernation device for Soul Master to absorb."
Mo Yuan had a rough idea of the origin of the Artificial Soul Spirit. It seemed that these Artificial Soul Spirit were originally created by an accident, or perhaps intentionally.
The Spirit Pagoda mixed the complete genes of the collected Soul Beast together, like a big pot of stew, and then spliced and recombinated these genes.
Most genes cannot be expressed due to conflict, but there are always a few exceptions.
In short, they were probably lucky. The Spirit Pagoda cultivated a successful individual through a certain part of the genes, and then they reverse-engineered it to find the corresponding genes from the gene bank. This is a kind of Artificial Soul Spirit.
As for the subsequent technological path, it's estimated to be roughly the same.
"No wonder the Spirit Pagoda has never been able to create Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit."
The higher the level and the older the Soul Beast, the more complex its genes, and therefore, the less likely it is to be obtained through simple random experiments.
Mo Yuan shook his head, no longer thinking about it, and switched the screen to another display, which showed the second set of analysis results.
The skeletal structure of this sequence is completely different from that of the first one, but the arrangement of certain segments shows significant homology with several regions marked in the first sequence.
Mo Yuan marked several points on those areas, then grouped them into a new folder named "Power-type Regulation Fragments," and subsequently noted the types of Soul Beast from which the genes originated.
Gu Yuena walked to his side. "These things look so complicated."
"As long as you have eyes, that's enough." Mo Yuan's answer was brief.
He did not elaborate further.
His attention was completely absorbed in the data, and his Brain was processing the sequence information at a speed hundreds of times faster than that of the average bioinformatician.
Those clips scrolled and flipped across the Monitor, but in his eyes, the real information was far more than that.
He is doing three things simultaneously:
First, each gene segment is matched with the characteristics of known Soul Beast types;
Second, determine the corresponding ability type based on the expressive regulation region of the fragment;
Third, it is speculated whether the way these fragments are combined in the Artificial Soul Spirit affects the original talent and ability performance of the Soul Beast.
Five minutes later, he completed a full scan of the first batch of twelve Soul Spirit Ball.
This amount of data is already quite large, but what truly interests him is not the sheer volume of information, but rather the patterns that emerge within it.
He selected three groups of gene fragments with similar characteristics, placed them side by side, and highlighted their key sequence segments.
The three sets of fragments are not identical in overall structure, but six short sequences of about one hundred base pairs in length are completely consistent among them—regardless of the type of Soul Beast from which they originated or how long they were, those six short sequences repeat precisely.
He marked one of the sequences and looked up its functional annotation in reverse. The result quickly popped up: The material structure produced after this sequence is expressed will enhance the sensitivity of the recipient cells to Soul Power fluctuations, making the energy utilization rate of the Soul Master higher when using Soul Skill.
"This section is 'efficiency enhancement'," Mo Yuan muttered to himself, casually labeling it. "It should correspond to those Soul Beast with high innate affinity—for example... some plant-type soul beasts, and some beasts with strong elemental affinity."
Gu Yuena's gaze flickered slightly upon hearing these words.
She didn't speak, but her gaze shifted from the Monitor to the actions Mo Yuan was performing.
Mo Yuan then scrolled down.
He flipped to another set of sequences, which had completely different characteristics from the previous one.
Its structure is more compact, the connections between gene segments are denser, and its ends contain a distinct signal peptide coding region.
He conducted a preliminary Analysis of this region and quickly confirmed its function: the protein it expresses directly acts on the myofibroblasts of the absorber, increasing the contractile strength and density of the myofibroblasts.
"Power enhanced." He tagged it. "This fragment has been found in the Soul Spirit Blood Tiger, Rockland Bear, Vajra Ape. In Artificial Soul Spirit, this fragment is usually pieced together on the outer edge of the core energy layer, like a 'patch' to compensate for the initial lack of power caused by the Soul Spirit's lack of natural activity."
He went through several more sets of data and gradually identified the corresponding characteristics of more fragments: there were sequence fragments that specifically regulated the sensitivity of Mental Power, usually from mental-type Soul Beast, such as the Dark Night Spirit Cat or the Moonshadow Fox; there were sequences that enhanced the precision of elemental manipulation, from element-affinity Soul Beast such as the Earth Bear or the Crystal Ice Phoenix; and there was also a fragment that regulated the rate of cell regeneration, from Soul Beast with extremely strong vitality, such as the Emerald Swan or the Azure Mysterious Tree.
He also noticed an interesting phenomenon: the length distribution of these fragments was not uniform.
The segments responsible for basic attributes are shorter and more stable, and they are almost identical across all samples, like the standardized, mass-produced parts of the Spirit Pagoda; while the segments responsible for rare abilities are longer and less stable, with much greater variation and relatively low homology across different samples.
This indicates that the Artificial Soul Spirit technology of the Spirit Pagoda has reached the "basic module standardization" stage.
"It seems the technology of the Spirit Pagoda isn't so outdated after all," Mo Yuan murmured.
It's normal for a powerful, millennia-old force to produce a few geniuses, and for them to discover something different.
"Therefore, within the Spirit Pagoda's system, Soul Beast genes are broken down into functional modules. The basic ones are used to ensure the Soul Spirit's basic usability, while the higher-level ones are still in a state of random addition, since they themselves haven't fully understood them."
This is normal. Although both involve electrical discharge, the discharge of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and the discharge of the electric eel cannot be exactly the same. All of this requires further research.
Mo Yuan displayed several sets of key data side by side on the largest Monitor, then leaned back in his chair, interlacing his fingers in front of his abdomen. "If I can reverse engineer the optimization logic of these functional modules, then I can recombine them in a better way."
This is the most basic research, and it forms the foundation for studying Super Mutation Factor.