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Chapter 302 - 177: Why Does This Sect Leader’s Enthusiasm Give Off the Illusion of a Wealthy and Prosperous Family?

Chapter 302: Chapter 177: Why Does This Sect Leader’s Enthusiasm Give Off the Illusion of a Wealthy and Prosperous Family?

"This owl can actually control the wind, that’s so unscientific."

After several days of dissection, Gu Shanhai finally concluded that under normal circumstances, this seven-ton owl couldn’t possibly fly. However, it seemed as if radiation had altered its body structure and formed something akin to an innate divine ability.

This world war had not only allowed cultivators to ascend mechanically, but it had also changed the original ecosystem. Given this trend, the mutations in these animals and plants would eventually be adapted to, ultimately resulting in various mythical creatures with divine skills.

Whether the animals and plants could turn the tables was an unknown factor. Mechanical cultivators wouldn’t let go of these creatures with various innate divine abilities. If they could thoroughly research them and create corresponding devices, it would form an entirely new system.

Just like the relationship between radar and bats, mechanical cultivators, who have reached a modernized society, naturally possess enough learning ability.

And Gu Shanhai had also figured out the owl’s ability to control the wind. To him, it was quite a useless accessory; mainly because the owl’s control over the wind relied on its own radiation-induced mutations. If a mechanical cultivator were to research it, they could potentially create relevant mechanical devices and embed them within themselves to obtain the ability to control the wind.

But that was not feasible for Gu Shanhai. Unless he modified his own body, there was no way for him to gain that ability.

Luckily, he didn’t need it. His own Eight Diagrams·Xun Wind was sufficient. Although the principles behind the two were completely different, the effect was the same.

As for abilities like flight, Gu Shanhai didn’t need them either. He could fly himself and he usually didn’t bother; after all, Little White was there for that.

"All set, now the next issue is that this cultivator’s cancer seems a bit tricky to research..." Gu Shanhai froze the owl’s corpse and stored it in the laboratory’s cold storage, to be used when necessary.

He had originally planned to study the cancer cells extracted from the cultivator, but he had been delayed by the mutant owl. By the time he resumed this research, it was already too late.

The Xuanwei Sect was about to arrive; they would reach the base in just another hour or so. It was too late now to continue the research.

He could only continue to culture them. These cancer cells were unusually tough, not only possessing the three main features of ordinary cancer cells: unrestricted proliferation, the potential for transformation, and a tendency to metastasize, but also a certain degree of energy consumption and adaptability. Even outside the human body, without a suitable living environment, they could still survive for some time and divide. Their dietary range was absurdly broad.

Gu Shanhai initially suspected that this was due to a combination of mana and radiation; otherwise, it wouldn’t be so outrageous.

It was also because of these abilities that Gu Shanhai found it relatively easy to cultivate them. He just needed to calculate the proper amount of nutrient solution to feed and ensure a pollution-free environment to keep these creatures alive.

Transplanting them into himself was out of the question. Gu Shanhai certainly didn’t want to turn himself into a lump of flesh.

Instead, he planned to apply fleshcrafting technology to see if he could create something similar to the T-virus or the Blacklight virus.

The main problem was the lack of infectiousness, which was a real headache for him. Being able to split but not to spread was of no use, and if no one took care of them, they would die after prolonged exposure to the environment. No kind of cancer has infectiousness, and even with mutation, it wouldn’t manifest in this way, since human cells are not viruses or bacteria, and they elicit an immunological rejection response.

Despite their imposing features, they were still just human cells, not divine flesh or Demon’s Blood. Even if extracted from a cultivator, at the end of the day, they were merely a mutated kind of cell, far from anything glamorous or sophisticated.

If Gu Shanhai wanted to, he could artificially create and extract some for himself.

"Hiss—on thinking about it, can I not just create... damn, my brain’s glitching again. What do I need cancer cells for?" Gu Shanhai complained. Cancer cells were not without cost.

His idea was to use cancer cells as fertilizer for the Spirit Plants, but on second thought, cancer cells were perverted cells, so using his own life force as a nutrient was just as good. As for the unlimited proliferation of cancer cells, that was even more absurd, as proliferation and division also required nutrients, which would definitely come from Gu Shanhai himself.

If he were to use cancer cells as fertilizer, wouldn’t that be redundant? He could just directly provide nutrients to the Spirit Plants without the cancer cells acting as a middleman and skimming profits.

So, using them against enemies was fine, but for personal use, it was terribly inefficient.

Another factor was unlimited proliferation, which sounded impressive, but the issue was Gu Shanhai already possessed this ability. Relying on his Spirit Root Ability, his life force was extremely robust, and abilities like limb regeneration and rapid self-healing put this power to use. So, even if Gu Shanhai was reduced to a puddle, missing a lot of internal organs, bones, and flesh, he could regrow them and recover, which was much more useful than the cancer cells’ unlimited proliferation.

If his life force were to wither away, the cancer cells wouldn’t have nutrients to proliferate anyway.

"I thought I had discovered an incredible ability, but it turns out to be nothing much..." Gu Shanhai felt a bit deflated. He didn’t lack methods to defeat enemies; rather, he hoped for more ways to become stronger. After all, once he was strong enough, methods to challenge enemies would become irrelevant—a single powerful move could blow up the world, leaving no enemies to deal with.

"We’re almost there, Little White. Find a place to land," Gu Shanhai estimated the remaining distance and told Little White.

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