Ten thousand I am across the heavens

After a full week of qualifying matches, Mo Chengzi's physical condition had essentially reached its peak. Gaining more weight or improving his physique in the short term was practically impossible. He was beginning to feel the pressure. In the final matches of the qualifying rounds, he faced only professional players.

They are no longer ordinary people who rely solely on exercise, but rather those who have undergone specialized training and received various injections of drugs. There isn't an ounce of excess fat on their bodies; almost their entire physique has been transformed into muscle. Their explosive power, honed through long-term training, far surpasses that of ordinary people. Although their muscle utilization rate is still lower than his, their total muscle mass is greater. They have sacrificed agility for significantly greater strength.

If it weren't for his significant advantage in skill, he might have actually failed against these people.

Facing the group, Mo Chengzi had to reveal some of his hidden strength. He couldn't be as effortless as before, defeating his opponents by standing still. However, his fighting style remained incredibly arrogant. It looked as if a master was cleaning up small fry. Although he wasn't standing still, he seemed to be strolling around as if it were a leisurely walk. His seemingly strong opponents fell before him.

His overwhelming victories amassed a massive following, and fans easily discovered his background: an ordinary student from a humble background. Typically, players from such backgrounds who want to gain popularity in competitions often resort to self-sacrifice or dramatic displays of weakness.

In other words, every victory seems incredibly hard-won, achieved through sheer willpower and unwavering faith and courage. They often fabricate dramatic, tragic stories for themselves. For example, they might claim their mother is battling a serious illness and needs expensive surgery, and they are determined to win the match no matter what.

Or perhaps your childhood sweetheart is about to be snatched away by a rich man. You must quickly earn a fortune to prevent your sweetheart from having to submit to a rich second-generation heir to help him pay off his debts.

Of course, there are also those driven by curiosity. For example, one contestant claimed that his mother had been defiled by a rich man, and he wanted to win the competition, get the prize money, prove himself, and then formally become the rich man's godfather.

Although the story here is simply phenomenal, such phenomenal events, when they reach a certain level, actually make one want to see where the plot will lead.

Regardless of the backstory they fabricate, as long as they're from the lower classes, the events on the field are basically the same: they fight to the death for their goals, even at the cost of their lives.

After all, if they were to play a different role, say one where a master easily crushes their opponent, they wouldn't be able to keep up the act. Their opponents wouldn't cooperate; everyone wants to win. Without truly overwhelming strength, their carefully crafted persona would be instantly exposed.

In contrast, those who are beaten to a pulp but persevere and continue fighting until they defeat their opponent are relatively easy to beat; there's too much acting involved. Sometimes it's not acting at all, because they genuinely can't win and are truly getting beaten black and blue.

Mo Chengzi was qualified to change scripts because he had enough ability, and the facts proved that the script he changed to was quite effective. Audiences are tired of watching melodramatic performances and inspirational dramas featuring people from the lower classes. Now they want to see some simple, straightforward, and satisfying dramas.

Mo Chengzi's utter domination was perfectly in line with their current aesthetic. It's rare to see such a pure and satisfying crushing victory in other games. Because true seeded players wouldn't be matched with these lower-ranked individuals during the matchmaking process; the organizers, considering viewership ratings, wouldn't broadcast these predictably one-sided matches.

Therefore, even if the seeded players aren't evenly matched with equally matched opponents, they are all at least somewhat skilled. It's practically impossible for them to consistently display such overwhelming dominance in every match like he does. Seeing such absolute, crushing victories is truly unique to him. Not everyone is rational enough. Most people believe that if he can beat those ranked higher, and domineeringly so, he can definitely keep winning. They don't consider the huge skill gap between players of different rankings. But it's precisely because of these irrational views that the audience greatly overestimates his ability. Some even thought he could break into the top 50 in terms of raw skill, or even higher. Because even among the top 50, it seemed impossible to find someone with a better performance than him.

He's like a learned professor doing an elementary school math test. Getting a perfect score doesn't mean his ability is 100%; it means the test itself is only 100%. He hasn't lost a single time, and he hasn't even used any extraordinary methods. It's all about the power of an ordinary person.

This means that no one can estimate his current potential. Everyone knows that his performance in every competition is flawless, without the slightest hint of weakness. He never uses his full strength, making it impossible to see his true capabilities. This has even led to an overestimation of his abilities. Some believe his skill ranking far exceeds his advertising value ranking. This is indeed true, given that he has only been building his fanbase for a relatively short time. His commercial value has not grown as rapidly as his skill has.

After so many days of effort, he and Zhou Yu successfully built up their popularity to a point that attracted the attention of the Holy Spirit Life Science Center.

He received a private message from the Holy Spirit Life Science Center in his inbox, inviting him to participate in a promotional project. He was offered a free trial of Evolution 1 and to advertise Evolution 1 in upcoming competitions.

This was the opportunity he had been waiting for. Compared to Dawn 1, Purification 1 better met his requirements. However, before that, he responded to the Holy Spirit Life Science Center, hoping to obtain a small number of samples and some publicly available product research data.

These are also things that professional players' support teams need, to ensure the safety of the drugs they use. This is to prevent the players from suffering serious damage or experiencing a decline in performance due to drug use.

Although Mo Chengzi was an individual contestant, it wasn't surprising that he made such a request. The relevant identification and testing could be conducted by a third-party organization, ensuring a certain level of accuracy. Mo Chengzi sent his request and received approval shortly after. The sample would arrive quickly, and in the meantime, he frantically studied the biology of this world.

To his relief, while the biomedical knowledge of this world differed from his original world, the general principles were largely the same. The only differences were the absence of Gu worms, the absence of orifices, and the lack of various exotic plants. However, in terms of the human body and ordinary animals, the differences were minimal.

Dao traces are essentially superimposed on the textures of muscles and other tissues in the body, and their complete disappearance will not affect the normal functioning of the human body. Therefore, the basic level is actually the same.

What he didn't know was that the similarity of various physical rules was not because the same was true between real parallel worlds, but because the Ghost Demon Lord's ability was insufficient to construct a worldview that was completely different in its underlying physical structure but could still give birth to humanity.

Mo Chengzi benefited from this. He could apply much of the knowledge he had acquired to this world. Through this knowledge and the rented laboratory, he successfully explored some of the properties of these drugs. Besides confirming that the drugs themselves were not problematic, he also confirmed their mechanisms of action through experimental reports and his own testing. Having obtained this basic information, he could then use it to devise the most suitable method for absorbing the drug's effects.

In this way, while strengthening his body, he could also maximize control over the direction of the strengthening, gaining his primary enhancement ability. After confirming the general method of absorbing the drug's effects, he replied, indicating that he could accept the contract and receive the remaining complete version of the drug. This way, you can take the entire dose, which will be enough to adjust your physical functions to their peak at this weight, and simultaneously evolve the superhuman abilities you need most.

The medicine arrived in his hands shortly afterward. The production cost of the medicine itself is certainly not very high. It's simply a combination of various chemical substances. Once the research is mature and the production process is designed, the final cost won't be too high.

After receiving it, he briefly examined it and chose to take it, simultaneously beginning electrical stimulation of his body according to his needs. While circulating his electrical energy internally, electrode patches were attached to his skin, controlled by a pre-programmed intelligent system. Norrell was responsible for overseeing the process, controlling the intensity and duration of the electrical stimulation.

In this way, the process of the drug modifying his body can become gradual and under his control. During this process, he can find opportunities to fully absorb the drug's enhancements to his body without causing a true genetic collapse.

This drug has a certain mortality rate. Although the possibility of death has been greatly mitigated technically, his estimate is that the user mortality rate is around 10%, which is quite high. This is why the product cannot be directly launched to the market; further modifications are needed. In addition, there is nearly a 50% probability of developing malignant or less useful mutations. Only about a 40% probability of obtaining a mutation that provides sufficient benefits to the body while enhancing physical attributes.

Fortunately, he already had a certain understanding of drugs, and his control over his body was unparalleled. After feeling a powerful surge of heat coursing through his body following the injection, he actively guided this heat, directing it along a predetermined strengthening pathway through blood flow and nerve signals. This gradual strengthening, following this pathway, not only avoided any life-threatening risks but also allowed his body to become stronger from the inside out, rendering it without weaknesses.

A large amount of water and food were laid out in front of him, all to quickly replenish his nutrients while he was taking care of his body. After all, he was currently undergoing genetic modification, with the genes of every cell in his body undergoing a complete overhaul. This process consumed a tremendous amount of energy. The recombination of genetic material within diseased cells follows the law of conservation of matter; even if broken genetic material were pieced back together, it is theoretically possible. However, the effects of the medication are limited in time. To collect all the broken DNA and piece it together within that limited time is practically impossible.

It is essential to replenish the body with plenty of nutrient-rich foods in a timely manner. Genetic material itself is one of the most useful trace elements in natural foods. Synthetic foods lack cellular structures and therefore do not contain the extremely small amounts of genetic material found within cells. Theoretically, the human body can synthesize some of these substances, but it is not so easy to synthesize them all.

In normal individuals, regular contact with natural foods makes it easy to access fragments of genetic material, which are then digested and absorbed. However, if this process is absent from childhood, then a large amount of natural food is needed to compensate for the deficiency.

The drug's power surged through his body, gradually coming under his complete control. It began to systematically strengthen his physique, making him stronger and more powerful.

At the same time, he felt his neural network becoming increasingly developed. Metallic structures began to emerge within the nerve fibers of his body. This is a structure found in very few organisms. Meanwhile, a special tissue grew within his body, similar to the electrical discharge of an electric eel.

Extremely fine metallic wires replaced some of his nerves. His nerve signals could then travel at supersonic speeds, maximizing his nerve reflexes. The tissue cells capable of releasing high-voltage currents acted as channels for energy release from his nerve fibers. Furthermore, these fine metallic wires, constructed from cells, became a special secretion, rapidly secreted and grown by certain glands. When needed, they could be ejected. These glands were located on his wrists, meaning he could eject ultra-fine wires almost invisible to the naked eye. The wires themselves weren't particularly strong—even a child could break them—but the material itself was conductive. This gave the current generated within his body the ability to launch long-range attacks.

[To be continued]

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