Enter the Immortal Cultivation

fail.

fail.

Failure failed failed failed failed.

By midsummer, there was only the smell of failure in Tianling Palace. Even monks who are not afraid of the heat feel that the sun is a little anxious.

——Even if they have this feeling, they basically stay in Tianling Palace throughout the day without seeing the sun.

For them, this summer has been a real shame.

The Yuan clan's cultivation method that Zheng Angel worked so hard to obtain was completely useless. No one entered the door.

The analysis of the Citrine pathogen has also come to a standstill.

The Huang Jing pathogen obtained from the Yuan Clan individual "Aguimu" of the Third Yuan Prison is indeed the same pathogen as the Huang Jing pathogen controlled by the Yuan Clan's banished immortal Alu'er. It has been shown in most of the tests that Amazing consistency.

But they were completely unable to analyze it.

As for the analysis process of the exercises...

It also came to a standstill.

Because it is really just an introduction to the ordinary Nascent Soul Technique with a rather strange path. If you cannot cultivate the magic power described in the description, the reason must lie with the practitioner.

"It seems that the Yuan clan has sealed all their achievements in their own bloodline... No, they have sealed them in some kind of heritable trait, and the skills are just the key to unlocking these achievements."

After getting this result, the Spiral Twins wrote in the report: "For ordinary monks of the Yuan clan, the process of cultivation is not only the process of 'creating spiritual organs' to obtain immortality, but also the process of unlocking the seals of ancestors in one's body. Various legal processes.”

"This idea may also be used as a method for the human race to popularize immortality. However, it should be noted that this technology seems to easily lead to bloodline differences, leading to turmoil in the society, and reducing it to the point where bloodlines are used to distinguish noble from humble."

"Considering the attitude of the Dragon Clan, this change is more of a disaster than a blessing for the Human Clan."

"In addition, the research on the Yuan Clan's exercises has completely failed."

"We can no longer break through the 'fog' on the topaz pathogen through the Yuan clan's techniques."

At the same time, there was another whole place in Tianling Ridge, a place that no one paid attention to.

Song Shufu failed again.

He simply couldn't sense the corpse-refining horse plague in those ponies through the witchcraft found in the Immortal Burning Book.

"Am I really mistaken?" Song Shufu murmured, "Why..."

In his empirical department, there are fifty sick horses and more than twice the number of sick sheep.

The Corpse-Refined Horse Plague originally affected Northern Wilderness Red Horses and Northern Wilderness Horses. In Northern Wilderness Horses, the incubation period of Corpse-Refined Horse Plague exceeded 450 days, while the artificially selected Northern Wilderness Red Horses had a slightly longer incubation period. Bad, but there is an incubation period of about 400 days. This is just an average number. If you are unlucky, this corpse-refining horse plague will remain dormant for several years.

And Song Shufu's first task after becoming independent was to re-select the real life.

The Central Plains ponies were creatures used by nobles for entertainment in ancient times. After artificial selection, the Central Plains pony is no more than three feet tall [less than one meter], and its lifespan is even shorter, only one-quarter of the Northern Wilderness red pony. The difficulty of breeding Central Plains ponies and their development speed are more suitable for use as empirical creatures.

Moreover, the incubation period of corpse-refining horse plague on Central Plains ponies is only a mere two hundred days.

This took Song Shufu nearly ten years of effort.

However, the verification speed is also more than twice as fast.

But despite this, a verification cycle of about two hundred days is really too scary.

If it weren't for his long life, he might not have dared to make such a demonstration at all.

Even so, he still had to verify it among several other creatures such as hamsters, mice, rabbits, and monkeys.

Therefore, what Song Shufu is doing now is raising several batches of sick horses at the same time, killing one batch and re-infecting another batch.

But now, he can't sense the pathogen in these sick horses.

It’s certainly not true that there are no pathogens.

The symptoms of those sick horses are extremely obvious.

The only problem could be his spell.

But...what exactly is the problem?

During this period of time, in addition to reading Tianling Palace's research reports, Chen Feng had been learning about Song Shufu's past research.

——Ten nanometers.

——No nucleic acid.

These two years flashed through his mind from time to time. He almost suspected that he was going crazy.

There is no method of refining the mind that can suppress this kind of doubt that bursts out from the heart of the seeker - because that may be the path to "reality".

Even for individuals, the "reality" is as cruel and cruel as the devil.

Without nucleic acids, many phenomena can be explained.

Indeed, the minimum cross-sectional diameter of ten nanometers determines that there is no space for nucleic acid to fold within the "bioplasm shell" of the citrine pathogen.

But what if there is no folded nucleic acid at all... or even no nucleic acid at all?

What if there is only one substance in this area, the source of life, and these ten nanometers are what the source of life looks like after folding?

In this way, it is understandable that the citrine pathogen and the corpse-refining horse plague pathogen have particularly outstanding ultraviolet resistance.

But……

Regardless of the citrine pathogen, the poison of the corpse-refining horse plague undoubtedly comes from China, and it relies on the flesh of horses or other animals to reproduce, so it must be a part of the life circle of China.

It's hard to imagine that it's something from outside.

And any creatures that do not use nucleic acids as their genetic material - if they ever existed - then they must have been destined by heaven to lose to the ancestors of the human race and to today's people because of the existence of the "Law of Large Numbers" The ancestor of all living things in the world lost to the "original cell"

Even the mitochondria and chloroplasts that have now become symbiotic organelles for the descendants of "that cell" also use nucleic acids to inherit their own independent bloodline and coexist with the descendants of "that cell".

But how could the corpse-refining horse plague be an "accident"?

And, even if that's the case...how does it copy itself? By what means?

Why does this process have to be completed in the body of a specific creature?

besides……

How original is it at such a small size?

How could something so primitive...with such low complexity become a living thing?

——Complexity...yes, complexity!

If the idea of ​​"polar complexity" is true, then it is understandable that "Flame of Fate" has very little or even no effect on it. Because it is close to the "border of life", it is difficult to be blessed by the Flame of Fate!

But what is life?

What kind of phenomenon is life?

Chen Feng fell into deep thought. And his thoughts began to be reflected on his body. The mana gradually changed in quality, and something began to disintegrate.

He began to doubt the past.

"Hello!"

Suddenly, a hand suddenly patted his back. Chen Feng woke up suddenly and found Song Shufu looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"Senior Brother Song?"

"You are going crazy!" Song Shufu said: "What are you thinking about? Huh? When the new theory has not yet been established, even if you have doubts about the old theory, don't deny it to your own body, but make subtle adjustments to your body. Body, get ready!”

Chen Feng was suddenly startled and realized that he seemed to have some demonic obstacles in the past few days. He whispered: "I'm sorry, senior brother... I just..."

Just what?

A person who speaks softly?

Still don’t dare to express your guess?

"Say what you have to say." Song Shufu pulled Chen Feng out of the empirical department, then filled two bowls of ice porridge, and each person sipped one bowl at a time: "Tell me."

Chen Feng was silent for a moment and said: "I suspect... that the poison of the corpse-refining horse plague actually... has no nucleic acid at all."

"Well." Song Shufu sprayed rarely: "No nucleic acid ... you can think of it! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, how is it possible? Hey, younger brother, you will never study the inheritance of modern blood veins. Dao? Or you haven’t studied it yet?”

"No..." Chen Feng opened the calculator and extracted many of Song Shufu's reports, divided them into two groups, and compared them: "Senior Brother Song, these are your public records. You still remember them, right? ?”

"Well, that's right." Song Shufu nodded.

This was all his hard work over decades, how could he not remember it?

"Then take a look. The corpse-refining horse plague immediately loses its pathogenicity when it comes into contact with the metamorphic agent of the source of life, right?"

Song Shufu nodded: "Yes, this is a characteristic that plague poisons also have. For most living things, the cell membrane is a little difficult to change, but it is relatively easy to inactivate the living substance shell of plague poisons. It’s much easier to say.”

The capsid of the source of life is the guarantee for the plague to pass through the cell membrane. Without the protection of this layer of capsid, the ribonucleic acid directly exposed will be easily destroyed.

The function of the life essence-changing agent is generally to destroy the secondary or tertiary structure of the life essence through changes in physical properties, and change the nature of the life essence.

Once the nature of the biological source of the plague capsid is changed, it will easily lose the ability to penetrate cell membranes.

"But..." Chen Feng held up another set of reports: "Look, in the face of ultraviolet light that destroys nucleic acid substances, the pathogen of corpse horse plague has incredible resistance. Unless the leaching fluid of the pathological tissue of the affected horse is All the living things in it will be inactivated, otherwise, ultraviolet rays will basically be unable to prevent the infection of corpse-refining horse plague. "

"Well, that's why I suspected that this thing has a very thick capsid, and the capsid has a special structure and can protect nucleic acids very well in a strong ultraviolet environment."

"But from an evolutionary point of view, this function is very unreasonable!" Chen Feng said: "The earth element magnetism in the back of China is abundant, and the Jiutian Gangfeng layer is thick. There is no need to resist strong ultraviolet rays. This wastes a large number of living creatures' element beads to build the capsid. The shape obviously doesn’t bring any advantage over the competition! On the contrary, it’s a disadvantage!”

"Logically speaking, it should be 'there is no nucleic acid in the pathogen of the zombie horse plague at all'!"