Chapter 1304 - 443: Deep Diver?

"As expected, the gene has been modified...

But what exactly is going on? I clearly haven’t undergone any modification, and the modification speed is so slow.

Could it be because of the mother hive’s growth, which has feedback to my superpower, causing it to gradually spiral out of control, resulting in automatic, uncontrolled dissipation?"

After perceiving the genes of several spiritual beasts with her superpower, Bai Yi immediately drew a conclusion.

Just as she had guessed, the genes of several spiritual beasts were altered to varying degrees.

And it wasn’t just a simple modification; even the genes on each spiritual beast were different, and Bai Yi hadn’t seen any repeated genes among them.

However, it can be confirmed that these genes belong to her.

Just because of the varied pace of changes due to Genetic Fusion, their manifestations are somewhat different.

Take the fastest Spirit Tiger for example, seemingly due to its own excitability and as a long-range spiritual beast, drawing too much spiritual power in battle, accelerating its body’s metabolic rate.

Hence, the adaptation to the Annihilation Energy and some body enhancement-related genes manifested extraordinarily quickly.

During battles, it already demonstrated basic effects, not only causing noticeable changes in the Spirit Tiger’s body but also enhancing its body attributes and mastering Annihilation Energy.

As for the other ones with slower transformation speed, their genetic effects have only just started to show.

Not only has their external appearance not started to change, but even the changes in their body attributes aren’t obvious.

"But this shouldn’t be the case, not to mention that I’ve completely mastered the superpower, is it possible for the power of the superpower to dissipate.

Even if it does dissipate, it wouldn’t manifest as gene alteration, but rather as enhanced Life Force or accelerated development.

Even if it indeed resulted from the dissipation of the superpower, these spiritual beasts haven’t been with me during this period.

They have always been outside with the Sea’s Children, where would they have had the chance to be influenced by me...

Wait a minute, could it be..."

Bai Yi suddenly thought of a possibility.

She immediately categorized the genes she had discovered from those spiritual beasts in her mind and soon found a matching option within her own species’ genes.

And this species was precisely the Sea’s Children!

"Indeed, I felt these genes were familiar when I looked at them just now, but couldn’t figure out exactly what they were at first.

It turns out that they are genes stored in the gene bank for the offspring prepared by the Sea’s Children, which were all reinforced before coming to this world, no wonder they seem familiar..."

Once the origin of the genes was identified, the problem that had been troubling her was immediately resolved.

After all, she was most familiar with the capabilities of the species she had cultivated, and she quickly figured out the most probable scenario.

Since the genes came from the gene bank of the Sea’s Children, it can only be that something went wrong with the Sea’s Children.

And the Sea’s Children had numerous ways to integrate genes into other Life forms.

From the process of nurturing offspring inside their bodies and selecting genes for them, to modifying genes for existing offspring, and even when the offspring returned the evolved genes to the Sea’s Children.

The foundation of almost all abilities of the Sea’s Children relies on Genetic Fusion and alteration.

And everything is based on those spores akin to those of a witch.

Now thinking about it, it’s probably because the recent tasks for the Sea’s Children required them to modify numerous offspring.

And being closest to the Sea’s Children but not yet undergoing modification themselves, these spiritual beasts, by staying among the spores for a long time, unwittingly absorbed some of it, leading to passive genetic modification, which is understandable.

Especially this time, in order to disguise an exploratory war by the spiritual beasts, the Sea’s Children also conducted a massive modification of a batch of offspring under the guidance of these spiritual beasts.

The transformations of these offspring were, of course, not all reabsorbed and remade within the body but conducted externally through spore transmission.

During the modification process, a large number of genetic spores were released, thus allowing these spiritual beasts present who were guiding the process to absorb even more.

However, because they had all reached high-tier levels, without intentional modification, their bodies naturally resisted the invading genes, and the speed of gene acceptance wasn’t fast.

Hence, their bodies exhibited only slight changes, not reaching the extent of complete transformation.

This also explains why all spiritual beasts have different genetic fusions.

After all, the genes allocated to the offspring were diverse, and the fusion itself had a probability, so it wasn’t guaranteed which spore containing which gene would be absorbed, making it appear very random.

Only genes related to body attributes, due to the vast variety, had much higher fusion probabilities.

Even with randomness, these spiritual beasts each acquired some genes that manifested differently but ultimately resulted in a similar increase in body strength.

Essentially matching the current physical changes of these spiritual beasts.

"Who would have thought, it was actually an issue with the spores of the Sea’s Children...

I never planned on modifying them so soon, yet they unexpectedly came together on their own.

But... this does remind me."

Originally, when designing the spores for the Sea’s Children, she hadn’t thought much about it, just intending them to mimic her superpower’s Genetic Fusion, and also as a medium for gene transfer between the Sea’s Children and their offspring.

Never did she consider other applications at all.