"Did I accidentally come up with a weakened version of the relic system?"
After collecting and inspecting all the artificial abnormal objects, Bai Yi posed this soul-searching question (in the physical sense of the soul).
Even though she was quite surprised herself, these abnormal objects, which incorporate soul armament and parts of failed experimental souls and are integrated onto objects, are evidently very similar to the relics left behind by the transcendent after death in the Divine Fragment system.
After a moment of silence, Bai Yi summoned an Insect Clan member, ordered it to swallow, attempting to devour it by digesting the relic.
As a Tier Six Insect Clan, unlike the ordinary humans in the previous experiment, it did not undergo the mutations or unbearable mental strain experienced by the experimental subjects.
This is because these artificial abnormal objects were not specifically crafted by her and were all fused onto ordinary objects. Even if they seemed to have gained some value after fusion, their material was not considered strong.
At least under the power of the Insect Clan, these abnormal objects couldn’t be said to be as solid as a rock; they could only be described as being as fragile as paper.
Soon, the devoured abnormal object was crushed and swallowed, digested completely in an instant inside the body.
Once the vessel was destroyed, the soul armament, having lost its vessel, instinctively sought a new one according to the soul’s nature.
Inside the Insect Clan, this choice was already fixed to just one.
And from the soul’s perspective, the soul armament immediately combined with the Insect Clan’s body, becoming compatible with its soul, with a state just like the successfully integrated Vlad earlier.
It seems that just giving it a bit more time would allow it to fully merge.
With this result, Bai Yi had no qualms about continuing to test the capability.
The resulting data was no different from what she received earlier; the amplification for the Insect Clan wasn’t significant due to a large overlap of "multiplicative zones."
But at least it can be confirmed that this artificial abnormal object indeed exerted a relic-like effect, enabling it to be left behind after death, and re-devouring could continue to create a transcendent.
As for the fusion process...
After all, the Insect Clan’s strength is overwhelming, and the mental aspect also has a huge network to buffer, leaving no chance for any accidents.
One thing to note is that some of the soul fragments adhering to this soul armament also merged into the Spirit network during fusion, allowing her to gain partial memories of the failed experimental subject where this soul armament originally belonged.
Other than that, there were no additional sensations.
This is also why Bai Yi initially did not experiment on her subordinate clan, but instead directly sought out ordinary humans.
Because her subordinate clan is too powerful, many unexpected happenings in experiments are smoothed out, making it impossible to gather much useful information from them.
On the contrary, with the quality of ordinary humans, as long as the experiment succeeds on them, replicating it on any clan would pose no problem.
Moreover, this plan was originally meant to be implemented on ordinary people within the starry sky, to develop her Starry Sky lower route. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by novel⁂fire.net
Experimenting on ordinary people was quite appropriate.
Of course, this isn’t the only problem, but it is the main one. Solutions must be approached one at a time, just like eating must be done bite by bite.
"It is indeed very similar to relics.
From the current results, it seems that the leap from ordinary people to the Second Tier in one go was too large, leading to so many failed cases.
Perhaps the relic system can be directly referenced to create more detailed advancement ranks, thus promoting step-by-step enhancement!
Yes, that Vlad from earlier also needs continued observation to see the subsequent test results."
Bai Yi had a direction for improvement, used Space Ability to collect the remaining experimental items, and several on-going test subjects and a few Avatars immediately began attempts.
Indeed, she was not the original self but the combat suit that hosted the battle of Xuanxing last time.
The reason is straightforward; compared to other Avatars, she has the least interest in research, and she did a good job handling tasks last time.
After internal discussions among other Avatars, the organization decided to let her handle the mission to the Star Sky Transfer Zone this time as well.
However, the matter of the starry sky is secondary; the more important task lies in the second phase completion of the two stellar megastructures this time.
Especially the flesh nest tightly related to her, which, after successfully merging with the Insect Clan, was confirmed to obtain telekinesis-type abilities, not the Mutation produced after Vlad’s fusion.
This suggests that there is only one possibility, which is that the issue lies within the flesh nest as the source of power.
When this plan was just finalized, the flesh nest hadn’t even completed the second phase, so unexpected occurrences were normal.
The second-phase flesh nest primarily eroded downward into numerous cavity structures while upward it grew many giant Fungus Umbrella, with some reaching the Star Ring.
The previously unexplained cavity structures now finally reveal their purpose; larger cavities allow for arbitrary environmental parameter adjustments within a certain range, serving as special miniature worlds for nurturing life.
The smaller cavities possess the original functions of the flesh nest, enabling the nurturing of organisms.
On the capability level, further elevating the rank judgment of superpowers is a certainty, allowing Tier Seven to directly utilize Genetic Fusion without detours involving spore infection.
In terms of the range of superpowers, this time it has successfully extended to the starry sky, encompassing the Star Ring.