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Chapter 67: The Experiment's Direction Was Too Correct

"breakthrough?"

"Can psionic levels be broken through?"

Lu Shang was completely shocked. It seemed that the generation of psionic energy was due to brain structure. Wouldn't the increase in the psionic energy level of these creatures be equivalent to changing their own brain structure?!

Your psionic level is determined at birth.

Because not everyone can be like a bee colony, whose brain can be replaced as easily as any part of its structure.

The previous psionic slime civilization cultivated only a few individuals with level twelve psionic abilities through a process of natural selection.

As a result, the civilizations in the Ring World are quite something; their psionic levels can be broken through!

"That's the case according to the scouts' reports," the rabbi said.

Lu Shang asked in astonishment, "How did they do that? Did they take out their partner's brain, modify it, and then put it back in?"

Due to the sheer volume of information, Lu Shang didn't bother browsing the messages relayed back by the scouts within the experimental zone and directly questioned the mastermind, Rabi.

The rabbi replied, "They used psychic energy to create a second brain in other parts of their bodies, and through this reconstructed new brain, they transcended the biological limitations of psychic energy and completed their self-modification."

Good guy!

This truly touches on Lu Shang's blind spot in knowledge: one body with two brains... wouldn't that lead to personality splitting?

Sure enough, life always finds a way out. This was only the second time time accelerated, and life found another way to overtake others through psionic upgrades.

That's so cool of me, I can actually come up with such a brilliant idea!

However, there's a problem here...

Lu Shang asked Rabbi, "Since there are two brains... does that mean that if the two brains use psionic energy to maintain their brain structure, it will be very difficult to destroy them?"

If this were true, then we would be directly achieving entropy reversal!

Why would we need to eat to absorb nutrients? In the end, it's all about maintaining brain cell activity. Why can't we rely on psychic energy to maintain that activity?

The two brains absorbed each other's spiritual energy, making them immortal!

"The brain is not a simple object, but a complex chaotic structure. The slightest touch will cause an unpredictable reaction to the life form. Psychic energy can control the movement of particles but cannot simulate chaos. The second brains that the life forms in the test area built with psychic energy do not have the ability to think. If the original biological brain is destroyed, it will die." Rabi's explanation brought Lu Shang's runaway imagination to a halt.

The second brain does not possess the ability to think, nor even biological characteristics; it is a material structure composed of particles governed by psychic energy.

It can be understood as a structural extension of the original biological brain. The original biological brain provides the free will to control spiritual energy, which is input into the second brain, and the second brain is responsible for outputting spiritual energy.

"Then isn't this second brain just a kind of psionic amplifier created using psionic energy?" Lu Shang said with some disappointment.

"That's one way to understand it, but I think it makes it easier to explore psionic brains of level twelve or higher," the rabbi offered his opinion.

"Why?" Lu Shang asked curiously.

The rabbi replied, "Because it is more proactive. Compared to mutation breeding or species evolution, the second brain is completely devoid of randomness and is constructed entirely by the subjective will of intelligent life. Perhaps a complete psionic system can be summarized from this."

A complete psionic system...

Lu Shang felt his expectations weren't very high, after all, even the Star River Alliance hadn't figured out anything.

Needless to say, the Babel Tower bee swarm's level was entirely pushed up through lotteries, and the application of psionic technology still relied on his ingenuity.

But regardless, complete psionic technology is still very tempting. Lu Shang sighed, "If that's really the case, then it's pretty good... Huh? There's movement!"

Just as Lu Shang and Rabi were communicating via the psionic network, there was movement in the tunnel of the test area.

A wooden spaceship passed through the tunnel and reached the outside of the test area.

Without Lu Shang's command, the planetary creatures that had been waiting immediately used their immense psionic energy to imprison all the molecules on the spaceship.

At the same time, they used psionic energy to compress the space around the spaceship, creating a time deceleration zone with a flow rate far lower than normal spacetime.

"Did you come out alone?" Lu Shang asked.

"Yes, this individual life form overcame gravitational pressure and passed through the tunnel on its own."

"Immediately confirm the psionic level," Lu Shang said.

"Psionic Level 11"

Piloting a spaceship alone through a tunnel, yet only possessing level eleven psionic abilities?

Upon hearing the report, Lu Shang frowned and immediately ordered, "Find the second brain within this organism and confirm its psionic energy level."

Shortly after, a report came from the swarm network.

"Psionic level thirteen."

It's because the second brain has reached level twelve or higher!

Overjoyed, Lu Shang contacted the mainframe, Rabi: "Rabi, is this alright?"

The second brain binds molecules together using psychic energy; if it loses the support of psychic energy, it will naturally disperse.

The question then becomes how to incorporate this substance into the bee colony's genes.

Rabbi replied, "It's a minor issue. Ultimately, its second brain is also constructed from molecular matter, only its structure is maintained by psychic energy. By replacing the psychic energy-maintained part with molecular chemical bonds and expressing this brain structure blueprint in the genetic language of a bee colony, one can obtain a copy of the genes of a level thirteen psychic brain."

"Overall, it is much easier than being compatible with Bahadun's basic crystal units."

Compared to the time when the genes of the crystal were absorbed, this second brain was indeed not difficult. At least there was no need to consider the issue of active temperature. It was simply a matter of replacing the places where psionic energy connected matter with chemical bonds.

"That's good."

……

Even in the Pantheon, where powerful figures abound, Grand Master Slan is a figure at the very top.

That time, the nine newly promoted Level 12 Psionic Supremes issued an exploration declaration in the Pantheon, and a large number of Level 12 Psionic Supremes went to the outermost ring of the Ring World.

After traveling and searching for over three hundred years, they finally found the "gate" that the Holy Ancestor had inscribed on the crystal tablet.

They could have found it much earlier, but the civilization in the outer ring harbored hostility towards them, which severely hindered their search for the door's location.

After discovering that only those with psychic powers of level 12 or higher could pass through the door, the psychic powerhouses of the Core Ring World built a foothold outside the door and chose to cultivate in seclusion there.

Subsequently, the Core Ring World announced that it would demarcate a boundary zone on the Core Ring to accept the inhabitants of the Outer Ring World, and promote the unity of the Ring World, hoping that all the powerful psychics in the Ring World would generously exchange their cultivation experiences in order to break through to the thirteenth level of psychic power.

Under the threat of civilization's end, many powerful psionic beings from the Ring World flocked to the outposts built outside the gates of the Core Ring World, setting aside past grievances and deep-seated hatred, and generously sharing their cultivation achievements.

(End of this chapter)