Gu Yuena spoke again after the silence, "So you want to create Soul Spirit even better than the Spirit Pagoda?"
Mo Yuan glanced at her sideways. "There's no need for that, although I can do it now."
His tone was calm, without any boasting; he was simply stating a fact.
But Gu Yuena sounded devastated. She was silent for a moment, then asked, "So what do you plan to do now?"
"To correct a misconception of yours, many experiments don't necessarily aim to produce a specific product; they may simply be basic theoretical research. However..."
Mo Yuan turned back to the Monitor.
He opened a new page that listed a brief categorization table:
Power-amplifying type: The sequence characteristic is the terminal signal peptide coding region, and carriers are mostly power-type Soul Beast. The mechanism of action is aimed at increasing muscle fiber density and strength, and the relevant gene fragments can be independently transplanted into Artificial Soul Spirit. The duration is directly proportional to the expression level, and the control methods are adjustable.
Efficiency Enhancement Type: The sequence is characterized by short, homologous repetitions, commonly found in Soul Beast with high affinity. Its mechanism of action is to improve the efficiency of Soul Power power utilization. This segment has almost no cross-species rejection and is one of the most core standardized modules of the Spirit Pagoda. It has the highest weight among Artificial Soul Spirit.
Elemental Affinity Type: The sequence is characterized by a nested structure of multiple regulatory regions, and its carriers are mostly elemental-affinity Soul Beast. The mechanism of action is related to the precision of elemental perception and the stability of manipulation. This segment is the longest and most complex in structure, making it the most difficult to transplant. Currently, it manifests as an "unstable additional item" in Artificial Soul Spirit, and is one of the directions that the Spirit Pagoda has not yet fully conquered.
Mental type: The sequence characteristic is a short gene without introns, and carriers are mostly mental-type Soul Beast. The mechanism of action is related to the sensitivity and output efficiency of Mental Power. The expression of this fragment in its natural state is strongly correlated with the host's Mental Power, and in Artificial Soul Spirit, it often requires additional stabilizers to remain usable. In other words, the Spirit Pagoda has not yet mastered it and can only perform random replication.
Regenerative type: The sequence is characterized by a long non-coding region near the telomere, and carriers are mostly high-vitality Soul Beast. The mechanism of action is related to the speed and precision of cell regeneration and repair. This fragment is strongly linked to the overall vital signs of the host, and it cannot be independently transplanted into Artificial Soul Spirit at present - the Spirit Pagoda has most likely not yet made progress in this direction.
Gu Yuena leaned closer to look at the classification table.
She could read, but she didn't fully understand the biological logic behind the labels. However, she could connect the concepts of " Artificial Soul Spirit," "gene fragments," and "correspondence of abilities," and her level of understanding was enough for her to realize the significance of what Mo Yuan was doing.
She looked up at Mo Yuan, then at the densely packed sequence data on the Monitor.
"So, is it possible to recreate Soul Beast using this experimental data?"
"I'm sorry, no, it's not possible. This is just some basic research. Creating new life is not that simple. I advise you to give up."
The cold words fell in the empty underground laboratory, carried far by the low hum of the instruments.
"Oh..."
Gu Yuena lowered her eyes in disappointment.
Mo Yuan saved the classification list, then turned and walked to the table next to him, picked up a pen, and wrote a few short annotations on a blank sheet of paper.
The Monitor of the Full-Spectrum Information Analyzer was still lit up with the last few sets of data, and Mo Yuan did not turn it off immediately.
He stood in front of the control panel, pulled out the several sets of White Armored Earth Dragon gene sequences extracted and sorted from a century-old White Armored Earth Dragon Soul Bone, placed them on the main Monitor, and examined them segment by segment.
White Armored Earth Dragon.
As a top-tier sub-dragon belonging to the earth dragon family, its keel is solid and heavy, and the keratinous scales covering its skin harden instantly when subjected to heavy impact, forming a physical barrier that is almost impossible to penetrate.
It has no fancy elemental manipulation abilities, nor any special spiritual talents, but it possesses something extremely pure—defense, and immense power.
The stress-induced hardening reaction of that layer of scales upon impact is faster than any known Soul Guidance Shield, and it consumes no additional energy; it is purely a biological instinctual response.
Mo Yuan swiped his finger across the Monitor, marking out the gene region related to stress-induced hardening of the scales.
This sequence, comprising approximately four hundred base pairs in the genome of the White Armored Earth Dragon, is compact in structure and has a clear expression pathway, encoding a special keratin protein. When subjected to external impact, this protein undergoes a conformational change within milliseconds, transforming from a flexible folded state to a rigid crystalline arrangement, thereby instantly increasing the hardness of the scales.
"A purely structural protein, not relying on Soul Power to activate it," Mo Yuan muttered to himself. "If it were integrated into the human body, theoretically, it could allow the human skin to produce a similar instantaneous hardening reaction when attacked."
Of course, that's not all. In addition, there is another segment in the White Armored Earth Dragon's genes that allows it to actively complete this change by stimulating it with Soul Power, and even produce a faster and more complete reaction.
The combination of these factors ultimately created this earth dragon with exceptional defensive capabilities.
He pulled up the Super Mutation Factor Technology that he had previously compiled.
He had kept that document locked deep inside his Storage Soul Tool for quite some time, only unearthing it again last night.
The document's title page reads, "Technical Reliability Demonstration of the Super Mutation Factor," with a smaller note below. "A Localization Adaptation Scheme Based on the Principles of Previous Era Biological Augmentation Technology."
The essence of the Super Mutation Factor is a Biological Augmentation Agent.
In the pre- Previous Era system, its function was to create a " Compatibility Layer " in the human body, allowing foreign Honkai Beast gene fragments to bypass the human body's immune rejection system and fuse with the host's genes.
Gene fragments from Emperor-class Honkai Beast rewrite the human genome through this fusion method, forming a human- Honkai Beast Symbiotic Gene Chain within the body, granting Honkai Beast exclusive abilities, super-high self-healing, super-long lifespan, and super-strong Honkai Energy resistance.
However, the side effects of this technology are also clear: it can cause considerable psychological stress and raise ethical issues.
However, for the people of the Douluo Continent, it doesn't seem to pose such a big ethical issue...
Mo Yuan turned to the back pages of the document, where he found his improved ideas, which he had re-derived based on the information in the Herrscher of Reason Core.
The root of the problem with the Super Mutation Factor Technology of the Previous Era lies in the inherent incompatibility between the Honkai Beast genes they fused and human genes.
Honkai Beast are silicon-based life forms, while humans are carbon-based life forms. Their underlying biological structures are different, and forcibly fusing them will inevitably lead to rejection and loss of control.
However, the material he had was Soul Beast genes—which, like other carbon-based life forms, were much more closely related to humans than Honkai Beast.
This difference means that the adaptation risk of the Super Mutation Factor can be significantly reduced.
He extracted the genes from the White Armored Earth Dragon and performed a Simulation fusion in a virtual model.
The results showed that the protein expressed after this sequence entered the human body did not conflict with other known human proteins in terms of structure and function, and the probability of rejection was within an acceptable range.
"We can give it a try."
He turned and walked toward a separate workbench deep inside the laboratory.
Several items were already prepared on the table: an empty sealed test tube, a set of basic culture medium, and a gene synthesizer he had specially made.
This instrument was created directly by him using the [ Reconstruction ] power, and its precision far surpasses any similar device on the Federation market.
He input the genetic sequence of the White Armored Earth Dragon into the synthesizer and then pressed the start button.
The microfluidic chip inside the instrument begins to operate, connecting the four base monomers one by one in a predetermined order.
Mo Yuan used a pipette to transfer it into the culture medium, added a set of stabilizing buffers he had prepared himself, and then placed it in an incubator to stand.
The next step is to prepare the Super Mutation Factor.
However, a stable platform is needed for that.