Free Web NovelChapter 548: Chapter 49: What Did the Rabbit Ever Do to Deserve This?
Objectively speaking, Wang Jiu is not an expert in biotechnology.
His greatest strength lies in Swordsmanship; in terms of knowledge about Swordsmanship, no one in the Myriad Realms can compare to him. In fact, one could argue that the Celestial Divine Sword itself is the embodiment of the true principles of Swordsmanship, leaving its authoritative status beyond question.
However, outside the realm of Swordsmanship, he holds no special privileges and is just an ordinary person.
For instance, despite possessing unmatched intelligence, his understanding of social affairs is sometimes even inferior to someone with a mild intellectual disability. In terms of Immortal Dao theory, Wang Jiu only learned some superficial knowledge after meeting the Jiu Immortal Venerables.
The time was limited, and the brief few years with the Jiu Immortal Venerables were far from enough to make Wang Jiu an all-knowing Immortal Dao Venerable, not to mention that he has always had little interest in the world outside Swordsmanship. Additionally, Xiangzhou and Jiuzhou differ in many aspects, so the knowledge from back then cannot be directly applied now.
Yet, even so, Wang Jiu remains the only one in his research team capable of designing cross-species characteristic transplantation technology in a short time. His exceptional intelligence score of 9, along with his long-term cohabitation with Shen Qingming, gives him an incredibly profound understanding of the human body.
In just three days, Wang Jiu led the team to complete the first step of the experiment.
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"We did it, it really worked!"
In the test field, Ji Changle, the head of the material group, exclaimed with joy, accompanied by the sound of air bursting as he ran through mid-air.
Without relying on any Immortal Techniques for assistance, he used the pure power of his feet to step on the air, instantly compressing the intangible gas into something as solid as a brick, then using the recoil force to walk in the air.
Even for cultivators, such physical prowess is extremely rare, especially for the Cyan Lotus Scholar who has always been neglectful of physical training.
Ji Changle had never dreamed he would one day possess such foot strength... Although it seems to lack practical significance, given his True Essence Realm, he could easily utilize a dozen types of flying Immortal Techniques, which are definitely more efficient than walking on air...
However, possessing such explosive leg strength means he can use this leg as a medium to unleash even more powerful Immortal Techniques, combining physical and Immortal Technique powers to erupt with greater force, even using his legs as a Flying Sword to perform sharp and skillful Swordsmanship at will.
Ji Changle doesn’t enjoy fighting with others, especially not the bloody clashes of real battle. He has always trusted the sharpness of words over the blade, which is why he used sharp words as his main weapon when bullying Zhang Tie. But now, with such powerful weapons truly in his possession, the hot blood deep within his heart instantly boiled over.
"Dean, can I learn the Earth-Splitting Sword now?"
"Yes." Wang Jiu nodded, "However, we’ll need to adjust the details of the standard version of the Earth-Splitting Sword to accommodate the shape of your knee joints."
"Uh..." Ji Changle’s excitement was instantly halved.
The cross-species fusion transplantation conducted by Wang Jiu is ultimately just an alternative to the Immovable Tyrant Body. Apart from having significant performance differences compared to the original Immovable Tyrant Body, it also has certain side effects.
While Ji Changle’s leg strength was greatly enhanced, his knee joints turned into reverse joints like a rabbit’s... However, as a side effect of significantly enhanced performance, such minor morphological changes are really negligible.
Moreover, based on theoretical calculations, the side effects from the rabbit characteristics are not entirely negative. For instance, Ji Changle has also inherited another characteristic of the rabbit: an extremely short mating time, capable of completing the act in just about three thrusts. For a cultivator committed to theoretical research, this certainly saves a lot of time, especially since Ji Changle has no opportunities for mating, so this side effect is also trivial for him...
"Time is running out. Next, we need to prepare for the heart and lung function enhancement test. In addition to boosting overall metabolic efficiency, we’ll incorporate a Biological Spirit Sail structure into the lungs so the test subject can directly harness the Power of Heaven and Earth Spirit Wind, enhancing breathing efficiency. As of now, the following organisms can confer this ability..."
After succeeding in the first step of the experiment, Wang Jiu had no intention of celebrating and directly started advancing the second step.
Strengthening limbs, strengthening internal organs, strengthening the immune system... With only 13 days, every second counts to barely complete these experiments.
Then, using these experiments, he’ll transform his chosen target into a warrior capable of rivaling the Mad Sword Cultivator.
Thinking of this, Wang Jiu once again opened a thin handbook.
"Wuxiang Sword Academy Internal Journal" 2018 Issue No. 25.
This is an internal magazine obtained from the hands of the Saint Sect Leader, which details the recently successful Sword Species Plan.
As the most combat-oriented of the Three Academies, the Wuxiang Sword Academy has never been satisfied with their achievements—despite their undisputed dominance in many arena battles, they still feel their lead isn’t vast enough.
Some say that so-called combat is no more than arena combat, and compared to those Shen Family members who have been through life and death on the Chaos Battlefield for years, Wuxiang Sword Academy is just strong in utilizing rules; in terms of raw strength, they’re inferior. In Swordsmanship theory, Wuxiang Sword Academy only began to shine in recent years, previously overshadowed by Cyan Lotus Academy. As for top experts, Wuxiang Sword Academy only boasts arena swordsmen with astonishing prowess but has hardly ever produced a true number one expert in 2000 years, whereas the Seven Great Families frequently produce brilliant talents—like the recent Zhao Chenlu. Along the path of these up-and-coming geniuses, the arena masters of Wuxiang Sword Academy often serve as the best backdrop...
For various reasons, the people at the Wuxiang Sword Academy developed a strong sense of dissatisfaction, but it was impossible to reverse two thousand years of tragedy overnight, so the former head of the Sword Academy devised the Sword Species Plan.
Gathering decades of the academy’s accumulated resources to train a group of combat masters with strength far surpassing the average of their peers, to stun the world in one strike.
These cultivators did not need high theoretical cultivation or to handle the internal management of the Sword Academy; their sole mission was to practice swordsmanship, to become stronger than anyone, to reach the point where the Sword Academy’s supreme status in Sword Dao could not be denied.
Aside from the necessities of eating and drinking, all their time was spent on training within specially designed environments. Almost within the first year, their temperament changed dramatically, and after fifteen years, when they emerged, the reputation of the Mad Sword Cultivators spread far and wide.
According to the Sword Academy’s internal publications, these Mad Sword Cultivators’ True Essence Realm was not particularly high, with the outstanding ones only reaching the early stage of the Rain Cover Realm, the youngest still at the mid-stage of the Cloud Flipping Realm. This seemed disappointing for fifteen years of the academy’s hard nurturing... But on the other hand, when these people were being treated as Sword Species, they were only around 10 years old, having broken through the Wind Barrier not long before. After fifteen years of cultivation, they were only about 25 years old.
To achieve the Rain Cover Realm at under 30 years old, such an accomplishment would indeed be considered outstanding, not to mention their combat prowess far exceeded their True Essence Realm.
After these Mad Sword Cultivators emerged, the Sword Academy held a martial arts tournament where several renowned Sword Dao experts faced off against the Mad Sword Cultivators.
Xun Wuyou, 32 years old, mid-stage of the Rain Cover Realm, a genius sword cultivator famous within the Wuxiang Sword Academy.
Li Diancui, 35 years old, mid-stage of the Rain Cover Realm, and a rival genius to Xun Wuyou.
Weng Xi, 39 years old, mid-stage of the Rain Cover Realm, a core strength with extremely stable and reliable swordsmanship...
All these individuals had made a resounding name for themselves within the Xiangzhou sword cultivation circle and were considered by many as the future of the Wuxiang Sword Academy. With the current generation of the headmaster and elders retiring to the background, these individuals would inevitably become the helmsmen of the Sword Academy.
And in their past Sword Fighting history with the Cyan Lotus Academy, they had maintained a perfect record.
However, these very experts were nearly humiliated in their defeat by the new generation of Mad Sword Cultivators in the internal martial arts tournament of the Sword Academy.
The Sword Species who were secretly trained for fifteen years faced their remarkable senior brothers and sisters, challenging them fearlessly despite the disparity of two or three True Essence Realms. Their True Essence was lacking, their age and experience trailing behind, but their swords were in no way inferior.
In both their Sword Dao mastery and their utilization of the arena and battlefield environment, the Mad Sword Cultivators demonstrated an overwhelming advantage, as if professional experts were wantonly bullying amateurs.
Seeing the words and images in the weekly magazine, Wang Jiu dimly saw a reflection of his younger self in those Mad Sword Cultivators.
Similarly devoted to the Sword Dao with single-minded focus, their Sword Dao mastery far surpassed their peers... The only difference being that his talent exceeded these Mad Sword Cultivators by a million times, as if they were not even of the same species.
However, to the cultivators of Cyan Lotus Academy, these Mad Sword Cultivators were already too overwhelmingly powerful, utterly invincible.
Even the application of cross-species technology provided no chance of turning the tables, given the current foundations of the scholars.
Therefore, they could only look for solutions elsewhere.
Closing the weekly magazine, Wang Jiu’s gaze once again turned to the No. 7 Test Field, where rare exotic beasts from other test fields of Senluo continued to be delivered.
And in the eyes of the Celestial Sword Spirit, these exotic beasts were no longer complete creatures but countless independent, excellent fragments, all carefully extracted by him, to ultimately fuse into a superior host.
As for that host... Wang Jiu had, of course, already prepared it.
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Another nine days passed.
"Finished, finally finished!"
At this moment, Ji Changle, with wings on his back, bent legs, and exposed fangs, excitedly somersaulted in the air, celebrating the successful completion of the final cross-species transplant experiment. During these dozen days, both the research team and the materials team had to pour in everything they had to barely keep pace with the new headmaster’s progress.
Now that the grand work was complete, everyone felt a heavy weight lifted from their hearts. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
Only Wang Jiu slightly nodded: "You all continue with the experiments, I’ll be right back."
With that, Wang Jiu used his headmaster’s privileges to directly open a passage within the No. 7 Test Field, arriving at a secluded valley behind the academy.
