Chapter 278: Sixth‑Rank Infinite Cells, Repair and Replication

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye it was the next day.

Only when the sun was high did Su Hao slowly get up.

He went to the table, checked the progress of the magic elixir's preparation, found it still needed an hour or two to finish, then went downstairs to eat breakfast.

As the territory's construction was completed according to law, the variety of food increased, and all ingredients used were supernatural materials.

Although Ling Xue'er and the others' cooking skills were not bad, they lacked any talent or ability related to cooking.

As a result, the food made from these supernatural materials, aside from the materials' original effects, merely tasted slightly better.

"I recall there are some supernatural beings skilled in cooking who can use supernatural ingredients to make special dishes..."

Su Hao stroked his chin, showing a hint of thought.

Now the territory's safety is fairly sound, resources are abundant, and it can easily accommodate more people; Su Hao thus planned to recruit one or two chefs whose supernatural abilities are related to cooking.

Otherwise, using these supernatural plants as they are would be truly wasteful; if there were a supernatural chef, perhaps they could further unleash the plants' effects.

No matter how powerful the supernatural plant's effect, if it does not possess the food-supplement type skill,

once a certain supernatural plant is consumed too much, the body will produce antibodies, making its effect deteriorate and eventually become completely ineffective.

The second-rank Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Bamboo and second-rank Blazing Fire Dragon Fruit are now basically useless to Su Hao.

But if there were a supernatural chef, perhaps through their cooking these already ineffective supernatural plants could still provide some improvement.

After finishing breakfast, Su Hao found Ling Xue'er, told her this request, and had her try to recruit a few supernatural chefs.

Anyway, as the territory keeps expanding, we also need a few chefs dedicated to food matters; it's perfect to settle this in advance.

Afterwards, he headed toward the T235 Experimental Base.

Calculating the time, the infinite cells had nearly finished synthesis.

It was quite a coincidence; shortly after Su Hao entered the room where the infinite cells were being replayed, the golden light ball wrapped around the infinite cells burst out a dazzling beam of light.

After the golden light faded, the three portions of infinite cells originally used for synthesis had completely vanished, leaving the tabletop empty, with nothing left behind.

"What's going on? Could the synthesis have failed?"

Su Hao frowned slightly; normally, when synthesis ends, the materials used disappear, but a synthesized item appears.

But this time, the three portions of infinite cells used for synthesis had disappeared, yet no new item appeared; the tabletop remained empty, a situation Su Hao had never seen before.

Just as Su Hao was puzzled, he suddenly noticed that the other fifth-rank infinite cells in the room were shrinking in volume at a visible speed, as if some unknown force were drawing out their essence.

Immediately afterward.

On the previously empty tabletop, a fresh red meat chunk the size of a hair suddenly appeared; if Su Hao's physique and spiritual power had not both reached the supernatural fourth rank, he would not have noticed this meat chunk's appearance.

"Could it be that..."

Looking at the meat chunk on the tabletop slowly increasing in volume, Su Hao had a faint guess.

From the appearance of this tiny meat chunk, one thing could be confirmed: the synthesis had not failed.

This meat chunk, which started as the size of a hair and has now grown to the size of a grain of rice, is very likely the product of the three infinite cells after synthesis.

It was merely because, at the moment of synthesis, its volume was too small—likely just a cellular form—so Su Hao failed to notice its existence.

Immediately, without changing his thought, he used the Item Appraisal Technique on this meat chunk.

【Infinite Cells】

Supernatural Grade: Sixth Rank

Effect 1—Self‑proliferation: Take a piece of infinite cell, place it among infinite cells of sixth rank or lower, and it can be converted into a sixth‑rank infinite cell.

Effect 2—Body replication: After consuming sufficient sixth‑rank infinite cells, any damaged body can be repaired completely and duplicated, usable at most on a supernatural sixth‑rank body.

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"Holy shit!"

Seeing the appraisal result, Su Hao's face twitched slightly; he hurriedly picked up the sixth‑rank infinite cells that had grown to the size of a fingernail and went to the farthest other room.

The sixth‑rank infinite cells differ clearly from the other infinite cells.

First‑ to fifth‑rank infinite cells can assimilate any fresh flesh uninfected by an ominous curse into infinite cells.

But supernatural sixth‑rank infinite cells are not like that; he can no longer use fresh flesh to achieve self‑growth, and must instead convert lower‑rank infinite cells to increase his own volume.

This is why, as the sixth‑rank infinite cells' volume grows, the other infinite cells in the room seem to have been drained of water, their volume rapidly shrinking.

Moreover, as the sixth‑rank infinite cells' volume increases, the shrinkage speed of the other infinite cells in the room becomes ever faster.

If this continues, at most another half hour will pass before the other infinite cells in the room are completely drained by the sixth‑rank infinite cells.

Once that happens, thereafter the infinite cells will be unable to self‑proliferate at all.

Therefore, the sixth‑rank infinite cells must be stored separately from ordinary infinite cells.

Once the ordinary infinite cells have proliferated to a certain amount, then have them bring them over for the sixth‑rank infinite cells to use for proliferation.

Although the requirements for sixth‑rank infinite cells' self‑proliferation have risen, its effect has become even stronger.

Previously, infinite cells could only duplicate a specific tissue of a flesh‑and‑blood organism, and only existing tissue at that.

Sixth‑rank infinite cells are different; according to the appraisal result, their replication target is no longer limited to flesh‑and‑blood lifeforms, but all bodily tissues can be replicated.

Even elemental lifeforms and spirit beings can be replicated, merely consuming different amounts of infinite cells.

Besides that, sixth‑rank infinite cells possess an additional extremely powerful function.

It now not only can duplicate a single bodily tissue, but can also repair a damaged body and replicate an entire complete body.

"A damaged body..."

"If only a finger remains, does that count as a damaged body?"

Su Hao stroked his chin, his eyes flickering slightly as he showed a hint of thought.

If only a finger remains, it also counts as damaged bodily tissue.

Does that mean, by consuming enough infinite cells, one could restore a complete body from just a finger? If that were truly possible, wouldn't it imply that if Su Hao took a liking to someone's body,

or any organ within that body, as long as one chops off a finger or any other tissue from them, one could use infinite cells to restore and replicate an entire body.

Unfortunately, the volume of the sixth-tier infinite cells is still too small; we need to let it increase in value for a period of time before starting the experiment.

Su Hao shook his head, walked out of the room, and locked the door behind him.

If it truly could be as he imagined, then wouldn't it mean that, after consuming enough sixth-tier infinite cells, the black dragon's heart in Su Hao's hand could repair the black dragon's entire body? At its peak, the black dragon was a sixth-tier supernatural being, so its body certainly wouldn't consist of only this one good part—the heart.

Thereafter, Su Hao suppressed his excitement and returned to the room where the fifth-tier infinite cells were placed.

To accelerate the proliferation speed of the sixth-tier infinite cells, more fifth-tier infinite cells are needed.

The self-proliferation method of fifth-tier infinite cells is relatively simple: as long as they are not infected by the unwanted curse and have fresh flesh and blood, they can be used to increase the volume of the infinite cells.

Furthermore, if sufficient energy is consumed during the self-proliferation process of the fifth-tier infinite cells, the growth speed of the infinite cells can be further accelerated.

Moreover, as the number of infinite cells themselves increases, the upper limit of their growth speed also increases accordingly.

In other words, as long as there is enough fresh flesh and blood and energy, the fifth-tier infinite cells will change and increase rapidly in geometric multiples.

Su Hao didn't worry about the source of fresh flesh and blood, for with a corrupt source present, as long as there is sufficient energy and any material, it can continuously produce corrupt flesh and blood.

The 'any material' referred to here includes soil, air, and sunlight.

Roughly speaking, the quantity of sixth-tier infinite cells depends on how many energy crystals are in Su Hao's territory.

"We need to speed up the mining of the energy crystals."

Su Hao immediately decided that, after completing the advancement of the supernatural sequence, he would go to the Airen Buluo to have them accelerate the mining of the existing energy crystal deposits and try to find other energy crystal deposits.

The emergence of the sixth-tier infinite cells further increased Su Hao's demand for energy crystals.

However, the most pressing matter at present is still to complete the advancement of the supernatural grade.

Thereafter, Su Hao instructed Andrew Grandpa to accelerate the proliferation of the fifth-tier infinite cells, then left the T235 No. 5 Experimental Base, took a stroll around his territory, returned to his room, waited a moment, and the synthesis of two bottles of potion was completed【Third-Tier Healer Potion】.

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: After use, one obtains the supernatural sequence—Third-Tier Healer, but there is also a certain chance of degenerating into a mindless sutured amalgamation monster.

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【Third-Tier Blood Mage Potion】

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Su Hao glanced at them, confirmed the potions were fine and indeed the two he wanted, and then began further synthesis.

First, he combined the supernatural third-tier demon shard bone with the third-tier necromancer potion, obtaining a sequence rune of a third-tier necromancer bone mage.

Next, he took out a supernatural third-tier crimson heart and combined it with the third-tier blood mage potion, obtaining a sequence rune of a third-tier flesh controller.

Finally, he combined the sequence rune of the third-tier ancient necromancer that had been synthesized with the sequence rune of the third-tier flesh controller, obtaining a sequence rune of a third-tier crimson bone demon.

【Crimson Bone Demon Sequence Rune】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: After use, one can obtain the third-tier crimson bone demon sequence rune, with no adverse effects.

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Although the appraisal results did not describe the effects of the third-tier crimson bone demon, Su Hao still felt that, while mainly similar to the second tier, all aspects had noticeably improved.

As long as this sequence rune is used, Su Hao's supernatural grade can be raised to third tier, granting him stronger survival abilities and enabling him to exert greater strength.

This is also a common advancement method used by ordinary supernatural beings: using potions or runes of the same sequence for advancement carries the smallest risk.

However, relatively speaking, the increase in strength is also relatively small, and Su Hao naturally could not be satisfied with this approach.

He placed that sequence rune aside, picked up the third-tier healer potion on the table, and then took out a huge worm nest from his storage bag.

This huge worm nest is the incubation core of the crimson mother nest; after consuming the corresponding supernatural blood, it can summon a flesh-and-blood monster of comparable strength.

According to Su Hao's speculation, the main ability of the third-tier healer is to efficiently heal injuries and to modify the body.

Su Hao is still fairly satisfied with his own body and has no intention of modifying it.

Su Hao chose the incubation core of the crimson mother nest as the synthesis target because he wanted the healer's sequence rune, after synthesis, to have the ability to summon flesh-and-blood lifeforms.

Then, by using these summoned flesh-and-blood lifeforms for modification, he could thereby bring out the abilities that this sequence ought to possess.

However, whether it will indeed be as he imagined can only be known after taking it.

In doing anything, it's impossible to go completely smoothly; this risk he can fully bear.

Even if the final result differs from what he imagined, as long as the healer's ability to speed up bodily recovery remains, it will not greatly affect his strength.

After about half an hour of synthesis, another brand-new rune appeared before Su Hao; after glancing at it, he did not look further.

Thereafter, Su Hao took a deep breath, picked up the crimson bone demon's sequence rune, and pressed it against his forehead.

The next moment.

This rune then turned into a special energy that merged into Su Hao's flesh and blood throughout his body.

Under the influence of this energy, Su Hao's flesh and blood began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye.

Su Hao went from being a 1.8-meter-tall tall person to becoming a massive flesh mass occupying most of the room.

Judging by appearance, Su Hao no longer looked human; his limbs were invisible, and only a huge flesh mass resembling a head could be vaguely seen.

On top of the flesh mass, countless wriggling meat buds grew continuously; an ordinary person glancing at it would likely feel their sanity plummet.

Immediately afterward.

Black bone spurs protruded from the flesh, and wisps of black gas drifted from the black bone spurs, exuding a deathly aura, making it look like a black spiked ball.

Su Hao wasted no time, hastily using his mental power to control another rune on the other desk, making it merge into his forehead.

After merging into Su Hao's forehead, just like the flesh controller's rune, it turned into a special energy that merged into his entire skeletal system.

In merely an instant, Su Hao's soul deep in his mind turned into a black mist, drifting around his body.

At the same time, flesh-colored lines appeared both inside and outside Su Hao's body, passing through each of his cells.

After about half an hour, within Su Hao's soul, the original crimson bone demon sequence rune became more complex, and additionally a brand-new rune appeared.

But that wasn't the end; as Su Hao's thoughts turned, these two sequence runes were enveloped by a golden light, forming a golden orb, and the synthesis of the sequence runes began.

Meanwhile, this is also the final stage of this sequence's advancement.

(End of chapter)