The next day, Bai Yi, who had just woken up, received an over-ranking message from the Swarm Network.
"Hmm? They’re in such a hurry?"
Originally, Bai Yi thought that the Lord would at least hesitate a bit. Who knew that just by the next morning, his Avatar had already submitted the application to transform his Avatar into a witch.
Since it was an individual that Bai Yi had specifically instructed to be marked, this application was directly escalated by the vigilance Insect Clan as soon as it was submitted, delivering it straight to Bai Yi’s hands.
Since it was a plan already scheduled in advance, Bai Yi agreed to the application at once.
"Huh, using the soul of the Lord to turn a soul slice into a witch, while the rest of the main body maintains human cognition.
Then build a connection between the two souls, maintaining empathy.
In the end, will the human part that serves as the soul’s main body take the upper hand, or will the networked soul slice infect the main body first?"
This was an experiment that she impulsively came up with last night, in order to test the soul empathy based on the Swarm Network, as well as the mutual influences.
Matters concerning the soul still need to be closely watched, and not the slightest negligence can be allowed.
She possesses such a vast Swarm Network and knows quite well how terrifying this kind of mental influence can be.
Even last night, she had already crafted both her War Tree People Avatar and witch Avatar, but she still did not tamper with her own soul.
Without sufficient experimental support, she would not dare to take this risk.
Hmm, it’s definitely not because she is afraid of the pain of Soul Cutting!
However, although there has been no progress on the soul Avatar, last night through cultivating the Avatar, she once again improved the genes of the current Witch Clan and Tree-man.
This was also because when nurturing those Space Cats, most of her genes had already been enhanced to the Level 5 tier, which allowed her to complete the gene enhancement of witches and Tree-man in just one night.
Most of the time spent was on adding new genes to the two races, as well as adjusting and enhancing the unique genes.
For example, she added the enhanced Adaptive Evolution to the lagging Tree-man, fused it with You’s energy control superpower, and the Swarm Network also strengthened it anew with the unique genes brought by the Level 5 Erosion Worm.
Today’s Tree-man can certainly live up to its name. With specialized enhancement, the Strength Attribute has reached Level 6, the defense and resistance have completely shed the limitations of Tree-man, and they are no longer afraid of ordinary flames and high temperatures.
However, solely on the Agility Attribute, due to the inherent limitations and gene conflicts of the Tree-man themselves, they couldn’t be enhanced to the same level. As a substitute, the Strength Attribute was piled up to this extent.
After all, you can’t expect a man in full armor to perform ballet...
Bai Yi was already very satisfied with an Agility Attribute around a hundred points.
Moreover, despite a lack in long-distance methods, the pure physical combat strength has truly reached an unrivaled Level 6, and can absolutely be called a war machine!
Using it simply for home defense, Bai Yi feels it’s more than enough.
However, these enhancements currently rely solely on superpower and have only been implemented in You. The other Tree-man in White Poplar Mountain acting as the territory boundary have not had the chance to be enhanced yet.
Due to the nature of Tree-man plants, the efficiency of spore infection is really too low.
In fact, not only is it ineffective for plants, Bai Yi also knows about the shortcomings of high-degree integration of Infection Spores, like those of the witch, being ineffective for other life forms, and she’s already working on improvement.
On the witch side, in addition to the enhancement from the Space Cats, Bai Yi also enhanced the Superpower Adaptability extracted from Bai Fa and the others.
The baseline for acquiring superpower has been reduced from Level 4 to Level 3, and the awakening strength of the superpower has greatly increased.
However, as it must be triggered during a breakthrough, it may not be of much use to the current witches who have mostly advanced to Level 5 and each acquired a small superpower.
But looking to the future, once witches begin to reproduce offspring, it would be an excellent enhancement.
Having fused the corresponding genes into herself, Bai Yi had found witches last night and spread the corresponding spores.
By now, the gene iteration between witches should be essentially complete.
With the gene base enhanced by the combination of two races, Sea Sons and the Insect Swarm, which also share a large number of overlapping genes, naturally moved up the agenda.
After getting up and grooming herself, Bai Yi first completed the simplest Sea Son update.
It took less than half an hour to cultivate the corresponding Sea Son Avatar, extract the spores, and have the Insect Swarm send them to the front lines for Bai Sheng to arrange the update task.
Afterward, Bai Yi then focused all her attention on updating the Insect Swarm.
As early as when she advanced to Level 5, she had plans for the Insect Swarm, intending to integrate Space Ability into them, giving each member of the Swarm their own Space Pocket.
However, due to the preliminary experiments, it had been delayed until now, finally having time to begin the Insect Swarm update.
As a testing ground for the accumulation of various genes by Bai Yi, it was not until noon that the cultivation yielded preliminary results.
"The Poison Blood of the Insect Swarm seems to only be improved through acquiring new genes; no matter how much it’s enhanced, it can only increase the secretion speed.
This is like the physical attribute, where genetic adjustment can only amplify a certain trait, neither creating something out of nothing nor violating fundamental rules.
Poison Blood cannot gain new abilities out of thin air; without new bodily structures, it’s impossible to enhance the agility attribute of fully defensive Tree-men...
Just as a steam engine cannot evolve into an internal combustion engine out of nowhere..."
Although she encountered setbacks in one aspect, Bai Yi was not discouraged.
Because her other test was a great success on the Insect Swarm, confirming her ideas.
"Indeed, as long as there’s a way to anchor the Superpower Gene to a specific organ and isolate the influence between superpower organs, it is possible to stack multiple conflicting abilities within one body!
However, each addition requires extra calculations or even a reduction of some effects to coexist while ensuring the effect..."
On her current cultivated Insect Clan Avatar alone, there were already more than 4 different superpowers.
The Spiritual Series located in the brain, the Wind Series located in the wings on the back, and the Space Series and energy control located separately within the body.
The newly added Wind Series was to compensate for the weakened flying ability of the Swarm due to increased size, while the Space Series naturally endowed the Insect Clan with Space Pockets, also enhancing the original Armor-breaking Ability.
After testing the various abilities of the Insect Clan Avatar, Bai Yi then summoned the Insect Clan waiting outside the door, instructing it to absorb the spores and prepare to spread this update throughout the Swarm as the "maternal" source.
And Bai Yi herself began planning the cultivation tasks for the afternoon.
"Currently, the races within the territory have been mainly updated, with only an Engineering Ant left, which will be quickly completed with the Erosion Worm’s gene.
According to the plan, this afternoon I need to try cultivating a brain worm that can store souls, which may also serve as a temporary Swarm commander or a biological computer, and perhaps even as a biotech machine...
Wait, what is this?!"
Bai Yi suddenly turned around in surprise, looking at the Erosion Worm that was undergoing gene updates, as if she had discovered a new continent.
War Tree People: Tree-men generally are lovers of peace, but there are always exceptions. The Witch Alliance’s Sixth Group Army accommodates those Tree-men who enjoy warfare. They claim to represent the wrath of the Lord, meting out punishment to all unkind, but once good relations are established with them, they are still very simple and lovely...
[Note: Why would you think a bunch of Tree-men who enjoy swinging gates and smashing skulls are cute?]