The price of the exchange was not a change of sex.
This time, the Witch would only exchange knowledge, without implanting her power of faith, so the emergence of Witch Cult followers could be avoided.
The real side effect was a shift in cognition. After acquiring supernatural knowledge, the body might undergo some kind of abnormal transformation, commonly known as mutation.
The Witch had traveled through the void for many years.
She had visited many planets.
She had also encountered many civilizations.
Some civilizations were thriving, and their knowledge was delicious.
Others had only just begun to develop. Their knowledge was too primitive, leaving her feeling that she had gained nothing.
Everyone who exchanged knowledge would experience some degree of bodily mutation.
For example, a palm might turn into something like steel, or an arm might become a bizarre, indescribable appendage.
An eyeball might develop double pupils capable of firing lasers.
The brain might split open, allowing it to receive external light.
The skin might mutate, enabling a person to photosynthesize.
In short, the mutations varied from person to person.
When Li Shen heard about this effect, he was honestly a little afraid. His intuition also told him that this would be a dangerous experiment.
But he also had a feeling that if he did not take that step toward the supernatural, this might be as far as he would ever get. Further progress would be difficult.
Some might argue that sufficiently advanced biotechnology could likewise achieve inhuman levels of modification through genetic engineering.
The problem, however, was that Orange Star's biotechnology had not yet reached such an extraordinary level.
It was merely a planet that had just entered the interstellar era, not an intelligent civilization with tens of thousands of years of history.
Now, the Game World was developing