My Dream Connects to 3000 Years in the Future

‘As for the time that remains!’ After a moment of thought, Chu Bamboo made his decision. He would, of course, continue to cultivate and accumulate power.

Time reset, again and again.

Soon.

Chu Bamboo felt himself reaching his limit.

His brain throbbed with pain, his thoughts a chaotic mess…

…

“Lin Xia, I need you to find someone for me, to perform a Fourth Realm Genetic Modification on me!” Chu Bamboo stared intently at Lin Xia.

He saw Lin Xia’s expression change slightly, guessed what he was thinking, and quickly added, “I know my strength isn’t at the Fourth Realm yet, and undergoing this kind of modification will have serious consequences… but I know what I’m doing! This is part of the plan.”

Lin Xia gave Chu Bamboo a deep look, and after a moment of thought, he looked toward Huo Yuan.

Chu Bamboo: “?”

“…Actually, for this kind of thing, it’s best to find someone from the current era to do it.” Huo Yuan silently grumbled. “I learned a lot following Teacher Guan, but the problem is… my knowledge is already outdated! I can perform the Fourth Realm modification, but the sophistication of my procedure… well, there are probably a lot of shortcomings!”

Chu Bamboo’s brow furrowed, and he stared at Huo Yuan in astonishment. “You… you specialize in genetic science?”

“…And aerospace engineering!” Huo Yuan cracked her knuckles. “You could say I’m a jack-of-all-trades, barely… Don’t look so surprised! If I didn’t have at least this much ability, I wouldn’t have been able to join the Time Club.”

“Yeah, she can do everything, but she’s not at the cutting edge of anything!” Lin Xia’s expression was complicated. “Miss Huo is… um, a follower on every path… She’s not a pioneer on a single path like Dr. Guan! Nor is she a technocrat like Mr. Huo, who can integrate his academic knowledge with industrial application! She’s more of a… a car jack, right?”

“…What do you mean, a car jack!” Huo Yuan’s expression turned hostile.

“I see!” Chu Bamboo was lost in thought. ‘So I still have to find Guan Xinlin?’ But then he asked, “Huo Yuan, they could perform Fourth Realm surgery in your era… so in this current era… why are things still like this?”

“??? What?” Lin Xia was stunned. “You mean, they still can’t perform Fifth Realm Genetic Modification out there? That’s impossible!”

A flash of surprise appeared in Huo Yuan’s eyes, but after a moment’s thought, she exhaled. “In a way… that’s reasonable! Frankly, I’m already surprised they even managed to figure out the Fourth Realm genetic surgery!”

“?” Chu Bamboo was a little confused.

“Let me give you a simple analogy.” Huo Yuan organized her thoughts before speaking. “For example, what do you think is the difference between the Fourth Realm and Third Realm modifications?”

Chu Bamboo recalled what he had learned from Guan Xinlin and said cautiously, “The First Realm is normal Genetic Modification! The Second Realm requires an infusion of a Third Realm Cultivator’s bloodline factor! The Third Realm modification requires a complete blood transfusion… replacing eighty percent of one’s own blood with the same blood type from a Third Realm individual…”

This is why Genetic Modification is relatively easier for Third Realm Cultivators… because they can skip the blood transfusion step and proceed directly to the nine genetic modification surgeries!

After speaking, Chu Bamboo paused for a moment and asked tentatively, “So for the Fourth Realm, do you have to get a blood transfusion from a Fourth Realm expert?”

“Completely wrong!” Huo Yuan’s face held a trace of mockery, which was naturally not directed at Chu Bamboo, but at the Fourth Realm surgery itself. “The biggest difference between a Fourth Realm Cultivator and a Third Realm Cultivator is that the energy inside a Fourth Realm practitioner’s body transforms from the pure power of the nucleus to the power of antimatter!”

Chu Bamboo’s pupils suddenly widened.

“That’s right. The Fourth Realm Genetic Modification requires…” Huo Yuan held up her fingers, “turning the heart into an Antimatter Heart Engine! With every beat, the heart doesn’t just pump blood… it also draws Antimatter Energy from the void, infusing it into the bloodstream, which then carries it… throughout the entire body!”

“Implanting a Super Microscopic Quantum Computer into the brain! This gives the Genetic Modifier unimaginable computational power…”

“And finally! You need to kill a Fourth Realm Cultivator.”

Chu Bamboo: “?!”

Chu Bamboo almost thought he’d misheard. Then he heard…

“You forcibly extract the Divine Technique from that Fourth Realm Cultivator and implant it into the Quantum Computer!”

“That way, by using the Antimatter Energy flowing through your body to power the Divine Technique, you can use it yourself—and what’s more, the power you wield with that Divine Technique will be even greater than its original owner’s. Surprising, isn’t it?”

Meeting Chu Bamboo’s flickering gaze, Huo Yuan raised her eyebrows. “Ultimately… with a Super Microscopic Quantum Computer, your computational power will be far, far greater than that of an ordinary Fourth Realm Transcendent! You can utilize one hundred and twenty percent of every bit of your power.”

“A Divine Technique, a Quantum Computer, an Antimatter Heart Engine… combined with eighteen genetic surgeries!”

“The failure rate is over seventy percent!”

“But if you succeed… it’s equivalent to a combination of a Body Cultivator and a Transcendent! Your strength will be among the top tier of Transcendents in the same realm… The only drawback is, you’ll have no future path!”

“…” Chu Bamboo now understood why the creation of a single Fourth Realm Genetic Modifier required the productive equivalent of at least one hundred trillion in funds… It was truly terrifying!

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Chu Bamboo asked calmly, “So… if I want to complete the Genetic Modification within two hours, it’s going to be very difficult?”

“…Two hours! You couldn’t even build a compatible Antimatter Engine and Quantum Computer in that time.” Huo Yuan rolled her eyes. “You didn’t think you could just whip up any random one and have it work, did you…”

“The Antimatter Engine and the Quantum Computer both need to be custom-built according to your personal biometric data!”

“All in all, an operation like this… requires ten years of preparation in advance… Hmm, of course, that’s based on my experience! As for whether this era has any innovations, I wouldn’t know…”

…

Slowly opening his eyes, Chu Bamboo stretched, feeling as if he could still hear Huo Yuan’s words.

‘This life… it’s really something else.’

Sighing, Chu Bamboo’s brow tightened. ‘But it’s not like it’s completely impossible to do the Genetic Modification!’

‘It needs ten years of prep time…’

‘So, what if he had his good brother or the people in the Memory Domain start preparing in advance, timing it just right for when he crossed over?!’

‘And even if it doesn’t work the first time, if they try a few more times… it should be fine!’

‘Besides… even if they can’t figure out Fifth Realm Genetic Modification in the future! The Fourth Realm Genetic Modification… is still extremely useful!’

‘Putting aside everything else, the terrifying boost in computational power from the Quantum Computer, allowing one to utilize one hundred percent of every bit of power… what did that even mean? For Cultivators of the Fifth, Sixth, or even higher realms, it would probably be quite useful…’

‘Hmm, and besides that,’ Chu Bamboo’s thoughts shifted to another matter as he calculated internally, ‘Based on the final amount accumulated from the dozens of resets this time… I estimate that after about ten days pass in the real world, my accumulation in the Dream World should be just about enough!’

Meaning, he would reach the absolute Peak of the Third Realm!

‘But… there’s still one more problem!’ Chu Bamboo rubbed his temples. He had originally planned to have his good brother record how to steal the Holy Relic from the Golden Dawn.

However, according to the information he got from questioning Lin Xia at the end, the latest attempt to steal the Holy Relic was a total disaster.

The twelve-person special ops team was wiped out completely!

The reason, of course, was unknown… after all, everyone was dead.

But having spent so much time in the Memory Domain, Lin Xia had repeatedly mulled over the intel he’d received back then and had come up with a rough guess.

“…A Prophet?” Chu Bamboo looked up at the sky, then shook his head, clearing all the stray thoughts from his mind. He stood up abruptly, his expression turning serious. “According to what Lin Xia said, it’s time for me to go receive that ‘Artifact’.”