Chapter 292: The Trailblazer
"When do you plan to assault the Chemosynthesis stage?" Wen Jian shifted the topic, asking, "Facing him, we are still too passive right now."
"I'll wait a bit longer. I always feel that the method he provided might not be the best." After such a long period of contemplation, Chen Bo felt as if he was just a single pane of window glass away from the truth; before fully comprehending all the critical junctures, he had no intention of breaking through. After all, this was a matter of life and death.
"Are you implying that his method is flawed?"
"No, it's just that I believe I'm on the verge of conceiving a better method. Right now, everyone is just feeling their way across the river by touching stones; there's no standard answer. I always feel that the idea of abandoning all the DNA in one's body is excessively radical, and it's highly probable that I would become increasingly ruthless, just like him. I don't want to become a saint devoid of all emotion and human nature."
"He isn't the only one who can forge a path."
Wen Jian, who entered the Xuanhua Stage relatively later, still had considerable room for improvement, and for the matter of Chemosynthesis, he didn't need to trouble himself too much for the time being.
In the time that followed, the two continued to discuss matters of state affairs, as there were simply too many issues to handle when governing such a vast nation.
However, both hailed from military backgrounds, possessing a stronger conviction than ordinary people when it came to making their homeland more powerful. It was precisely this conviction that gave them the courage to implement more reforms after gaining power, crushing a multitude of vested interests that hindered progress, and making room for new blood.
"Xiao Bo, you're back?" Passing through the layers of security, Chen Bo returned to his large compound, where he saw his mother feeding fish.
"Mm." Chen Bo nodded, and then walked towards the study.
"When will you finally give our Chen family a big, chubby grandson..." Watching the solitary Chen Bo, Xu Li Tai simply muttered to herself; her son, who was busy with countless affairs every day, rarely came home.
With his hearing, he could naturally pick up every rustle of wind and blade of grass within the entire compound, and this muttered thought also fell into Chen Bo's ears. Rather, she intended to use this subtle way to remind Chen Bo.
He could understand his mother's feelings, but finding a truly suitable person was easier said than done. Even though he didn't specialize in perception abilities like Bai Mo, at his current level, a partner would need to be at least a Life Field Stage evolver for the pores and other blemishes on their skin to go unnoticed by him—that is, for them to still appear like a normal person.
However, this wasn't a major issue. This circle had nearly ten million people across Huaxia. After the baptism of Spirit Qi, those who could enter the Life Field Stage would see improvements in various details like their appearance and skin, guaranteeing at least an average attractiveness.
But what Chen Bo had always sought was someone congenial, and this was exceedingly difficult. Furthermore, his status was built on his own power, not any family influence, so he had absolute freedom in personal matters and thus didn't need to consider marriage alliances.
Coupled with his increasingly prolonged lifespan, he had sufficient patience to search for a truly suitable person. Ten years wasn't enough? Then twenty.
"Child..." As he walked through the living room, Chen Bo kept muttering this word. He seemed to have thought of something, and so he froze in place, deep in thought, maintaining the posture of having one foot already over the threshold of the study door.
This was the fourth time Xu Li Tai had seen Chen Bo suddenly stop mid-stride and fall into deep contemplation during this period. She didn't approach to disturb him, but simply continued with what she was doing.
"Perhaps I can first extract a portion of my genes, then replicate enough samples, and then undergo this tribulation. After the genes within my body collapse, I can re-implant the pre-prepared copies. With my control ability, this shouldn't be too difficult."
These past few days, whenever he had a spare moment, he would ponder over matters of genetics. This time, starting his association from the word "child," he thought of genetic transmission, and then the aforementioned idea emerged.
"I just don't know if the gene fragments outside the body will be affected during the tribulation?" He quickly thought of this problem again.
Nevertheless, this was a seemingly feasible approach. Thus, Chen Bo began instructing his secretary to contact experts from subordinate biological engineering research departments, and assign them relevant tasks...
"What do you think? Do you find this idea feasible?" For an experiment that concerned his own life, Chen Bo had no intention of keeping it private. He wanted to hear the opinions of more people at the same level.
"The chances of success are high. At least there won't be any problems with the sample replication step. As for whether it will be affected during the tribulation, that will depend on Heaven's will. A breakthrough to the Chemosynthesis stage cannot currently have experimental subjects to scout the path, because we are the trailblazers." Bai Mo, having received the notification, arrived at the conference hall.
"Your method should be better." He then added.
Back then, during his breakthrough experiment, Bai Mo had absolutely not anticipated his DNA strands would all suddenly rupture. There were simply no contingency plans for such an event. Had he known beforehand, he would have pondered similar matters and made every preparation. Fortunately, his luck was good; he narrowly survived in the end, avoiding becoming a martyr like Hua Taishan.
As for the sequelae of losing his bodily genes, he had subtly discovered them over the years. It wasn't just his personality gradually becoming ruthless; there were also hidden injuries of a sort, affecting his body's ability to unleash its full potential. However, all of this was not yet an issue in the face of his rapidly increasing power.
Every step forward taken by the system was a gamble made by these seekers of the Dao, betting their lives.
"Let's hope so."
"Why does your avatar look so much weaker?" Wen Jian, also present, steered the conversation elsewhere.
Historically, the strength of an avatar was directly correlated with its main body. As the main body grew stronger, the avatar's power would also rise proportionally, and vice versa. Therefore, he suspected that Bai Mo had suffered severe injuries in the great battle in Maysuo, leading to a significant decrease in his combat power.
"Regarding the direction of the fourth layer of the Ten Thousand Phantoms Sutra, my idea is to begin consciously inducing the differentiation of avatars. This allows a portion of avatars not involved in combat to develop other specialties. After all, combat power isn't everything."
"My Shadow Sword Dao philosophy is different; it's purely designed to enhance combat power." Wen Jian also made significant modifications to the original version of the Ten Thousand Phantoms Sutra based on his own circumstances. He transformed his avatars into a multitude of sword qi that flew at supersonic speeds and could be controlled. These carried his martial will, capable of slaying enemies from a thousand miles away.
And due to the simple structure of the sword qi avatars, he could control a much larger number. Through actual testing, a single storm of sword qi could completely obliterate a modern armored division from hundreds of kilometers away, with virtually no chance of escape..
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