The Martial Unity

“Thankfully, the cancer is easier to deal with.”

The cancer had a gene that controlled it. It would automatically deactivate outside of the presence of the gu. The gene gave his cells receptors that would detect the gu and immediately trigger an explosive cancerous outgrowth. Thus, the moment the gene was removed, the gene would no longer be triggered, and cells would return to normal.

How else would he be able to use the gu in battle? After all, when he fought with the gu, it was entirely removed from his body to attack his opponent.

He quickly sent a message to the director with his new demand before returning to his isolated meditation. Having solved the problem of the gu and the cancer, he could hope to peacefully metamorphosize his entire body without too much of a problem.

“Once my immune system has thoroughly grown acclimatized to the evosapien stem cells, I can immediately commence with the stem cell replacement process.”

He could begin replacing stem cells in his outer skin and flesh with evosapien stem cells and study the process and gain knowledge and understanding as to what the variables were that controlled the outcomes. He didn’t assume that it was a given that this would naturally lead to a fifty-fifty division.

For instance, it was possible that evosapien stem cells replenished faster than human stem cells. If that were the case, then replacing half of his epithelial stem cells, stem cells of the skin, would lead to more than half of his body becoming evosapien.

That was an undesirable consequence. He didn’t want his Martial side to become the less dominant aspect of his body.

On the other hand, it was also possible that evosapien stem cells replenished cells at a lower rate than human stem cells, in which case only a small portion of his body would become evosapien.

That was also an undesirable outcome.

He wanted it to be perfectly fifty-fifty.

Normally, this would take either an endless amount of trial and error or a scientific study on evosapien microbiology. He would need to travel to Moridia and meet with their microbiologists to understand the nature of evosapien stem cell replenishment.

He would need to tally up the rate at which evosapien stem cells replenish across different biological systems in the body and account for that when choosing how much to replace his stem cells with evosapien stem cells.

This alone would take quite some time under normal circumstances.

“Thankfully, I don’t have to do either because of the Eye of Prophecy.”

It would allow him to see the future of every decision he made within his body. It was especially useful in this context because the Eye of Prophecy was limited by the scope of information.

Thankfully, computing replenishment rates was not that information-intensive. When equalizing for certain biochemical complications, it was actually very elementary mathematics of multiplying the replenishment rate by the proportion of stem cells in the body that were evosapien.

The Eye of Prophecy would allow him to see the outcome well ahead of time, allowing him to do a hyper-accelerated trial-and-error process and get to the right solution.

There were also other complications that he needed to deal with, such as autophagy.

He had long trained and harnessed the power of Hungry Pain in his body, where his own body would consume his dead or dying cells to increase the supply of energy. How would evosapien stem cells react to this? They were stem cells with a high level of adaptive evolution, which meant that there was a chance that they would adaptively evolve to resist autophagy.

This was a deeply undesirable outcome.

And even if he overcame all of that, he would need to figure out how to deal with the interactions between evosapien stem cells and the gu he was going to remove and the cancer he was going to deactivate.

“Thankfully, Anthea had already developed a solution as he ascended to a higher level of power,” Rui mused.

The fact that Anthea had adaptively evolved to an extremely lethal dose of the gu at his age when the gu was highly antithetical to him spoke to just how powerful the man was. If not for the fact that he was near the end of his life, Rui wasn’t sure he could have defeated him back then.

But it also meant that Rui had access to his solution to the gu, which was to simply ’trick’ the gu into thinking that the evosapien cells were not alive, and thus would become categorically immune. It was a much more elegant solution than Rui’s cancer solution, which was brute-forced.

Of course, Rui’s cancer solution came with the fact that his flesh was constantly evolving against death itself through Darwinian evolution. At the same time, his gu was constantly growing stronger within his body as well, which meant that he could grow stronger just by existing.

“I will leave that solution aside for the evosapien stem cells. I don’t think they can even undergo cancerous growth, considering that such cells can simply self-correct.”

It was why incestual reproduction was not a taboo in evosapien society. Any genetic deformations and irregularities were simply fixed by the DNA-manipulating nucleus of the cell.

“There are probably still lots of variables that I’m unable to account for, so I will stick to my method of going system by system, starting with the epithelial system.”

This way, his Eye of Prophecy could be more potent with one target at a time over the other. He would be able to minimize risks and could avoid the problem of multiple things going wrong at once. If it turned out there was something fundamentally wrong and dangerous with his approach, then the problem would be confined only to his outer flesh and skin, instead of his entire body, which would be much, much harder to fix.

“Once I have fully replaced half of my body with evosapien stem cells in this manner, then and only then will I deal with the most dangerous part of the procedure: the brain. I will need to make preparations for many before that happens, however.”