My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1010 Believing in Jiejiao is equivalent to believing in science

Now, the body of this ancient deity is nearing completion.

After the massive amounts of immortal jade and immortal pills were spent, their cultivation level rose from the Heavenly Immortal realm to the Golden Immortal realm.

Because of its excellent genetic foundation and the fact that it was born in the celestial realm, this clone had already formed a nascent soul and reached what mortal cultivators call the "Nascent Soul Realm" when it was just formed as an embryo.

As the embryo grows, its cultivation level can be improved every few days. Once it develops into an adult, it reaches the Celestial Immortal realm.

Lower realm cultivators who wish to ascend to immortality must undergo a tribulation of lightning controlled by Wen Zhong. This clone, however, did not even need to undergo a tribulation. Before the thunderclouds could even form, it automatically dissipated due to a bug in the system, as it sensed that the person facing the tribulation was the Heavenly Venerable himself, who controlled the laws of lightning.

The embryo, already at the Celestial Immortal realm, was continuously infused with immortal power and elixir solution in a petri dish. In just a few years, it broke through multiple major immortal realms, eventually reaching the Golden Immortal realm.

Everything is ready except for the final step, but Wen Rui is stuck here—the soul transfer.

To transform his original body into a bio-engineered demon, Wen Rui did not use soul transfer or replacement, but rather performed genetic modification based on his own body.

The original body was too bad, so there was nothing to regret about modifying it. But Wen Rui was really reluctant to modify this bio-engineered demon body.

The Mosquito Taoist's talent of absorbing and transforming everything was incredibly useful. Over the years, Wen Rui had thoroughly cleaned out his inventory, feeding all the miscellaneous demon cores, magic stones, magic crystals, and spirit stones he had collected before, as well as the relics and magical artifacts that the Mosquito Taoist had seized during his attack on the Western Sect, to the Biochemical Demon Body, transforming them all into the purest life energy.

This bio-engineered demonic body is equivalent to the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, and its physical body is even higher than its cultivation level, reaching the realm of physical sainthood.

If one were to transform their bio-engineered demonic body into an immortal body, not only would their strength decrease instead of increase, but they would also be unable to revert back to their original state.

The genes of the ancient gods are extremely powerful and highly exclusive; modifying their genes would lead to unpredictable and serious consequences.

The most typical example is the Five-Colored Witch created by Mosquito Taoist using five fairies as embryos. After the creation was completed, she no longer resembled a human and became a monster made from piles of shit code.

This is exactly what many legends refer to as "divine evil," a cursed species born out of nowhere.

Wen Rui spent a lot of time researching gene therapy to restore the five witches, but he made no progress. Their genetic disorder problem had transcended the material level and was like a curse, invisible and untraceable.

After deceiving the gods and Buddhas by downgrading his own body, Wen Rui felt increasingly cheated, which is why he created this clone.

The plan was good: to control the clone by having a clone possess it or by installing a control chip in its brain, just like before. However, it was tragically discovered that this body was too high-level. The Golden Immortal body couldn't implant any external objects, let alone control the brain of a god. The compatibility was far inferior to that of the Demon body.

Even if a clone possesses a body, it cannot possess such a high-level physical form. The clone's own mental shield is enough to easily prevent the clone from invading the sea of ​​consciousness.

Wen Rui tried many methods, including introducing a pure soul extracted from the Tathagata Qiankun Mirror into the clone, but all of them failed.

With a body that is too powerful and a soul that is too weak, one is simply not qualified to be the master of this body.

After eliminating all the incorrect options, only soul transfer remained as the last correct answer. When Wen Rui was developing Project Phoenix, he had studied the soul transfer technology he learned from Lao Rui, but this technology was awkwardly effective on all souls except his own, and his soul could not be transferred.

When Lao Rui applied this technology, it was incredibly easy and enjoyable. He could seamlessly switch between various skins using any modified memory extraction device.

Wen Rui took a huge risk to replicate the same soul transfer device, but when he pressed the start button, his soul was in hell when he opened his eyes, which was equivalent to enjoying a hell experience card in advance.

Fortunately, after a period of torment, his soul returned to his original body, and he wasn't left in hell forever because of the bug.

Clearly, his soul had been tampered with by the system and anchored within his original body; any attempt to transfer it would end in failure.

Wen Rui sat on the throne of the Heavenly Venerable, staring at the handsome face of the clone in the petri dish, feeling troubled. The silent cost of creating this body was too high, but it couldn't be activated at all.

What use is a Golden Immortal body that cannot be awakened?
Was he impersonating his own corpse?

Or feed it to the Mosquito Taoist, so that she can use her innate supernatural power to suck it dry and eat it as dessert after a meal.

After racking his brains for a while, he still couldn't come up with a good solution. He was also really reluctant to give up the huge amount of resources he had invested in the early stages. Wen Rui felt like he was being scratched by a cat, and he was extremely uncomfortable.

Just as he was feeling down, something suddenly occurred to him. With a thought, a light screen that only he could see appeared in front of him.

The screen displayed the system panel.

Wen Rui hadn't opened the system panel for a long time. Ever since he dehydrated and absorbed all living beings in the mortal world, he had neglected the progress of the system tasks.

The reason is simple: the mission is to revive the Jie Sect. He has taken in both existing and potential followers. The mortal world is in chaos, so how can the mission possibly make progress?

The situation is different now. Ten years ago, the plan to restore the mortal realm was launched, and thirty years ago, the plan to support education for the intelligent insectoid race was launched. It is estimated that the number of disciples of the Jie Sect has recovered to the number before the outbreak of the demonic calamity, or even far exceeded it.

Several human autonomous regions established within the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Southern Continent were undergoing the transformation of the Jie religion, and countless human children of school age began to receive enlightenment education on the new knowledge of the Jie religion.

It can be said that the Central Plains is now under the control of the Jie Sect, and the number of Jie Sect followers has probably grown from one million back then to tens of millions.

Conversely, the Western religious tradition and even the divine rule of the Heavenly Court have almost reached their lowest point in history.

In the human autonomous region and the demon alliance city, believing in the Jie Sect can be equated with believing in science in the real world. As long as people have received compulsory education and have normal values, whether they are demons, humans, or monsters, they will no longer be superstitious or blindly follow others.

When encountering difficulties and questions in work or life, instead of seeking divine intervention or consulting divination, it is better to look up new knowledge books of the Jie Sect, from which you will surely find reasonable explanations and solutions.

In recent years, Wen Rui has focused on developing Golden Immortal clones, but he has neglected the rapid development of the mortal world. He really doesn't know how far the Jie Sect's faith has spread in the mortal world, or whether the progress bar for the task of reviving the Jie Sect has increased.

(End of this chapter)