There's something wrong with me

Chapter 230: Half-step Nascent Soul!

Approximately one day later, the giant insects and dinosaurs were separated.

The mutated wealthy businessmen all left happily, one after another.

Their happiness stemmed from the Data Center and various official bodies agreeing to share biotechnology with them in the future.

Their sadness came from not only having to raise these prehistoric babies, but also from having to compensate the Data Center with future earnings from Jurassic Park and other exhibitions.

This compensation did not include previous free supplies.

In short, it was about how much pressure could be applied and how to apply it.

Moreover, they dared not resist; not to mention whether they could defeat Zhang Feng, the technological achievements alone had already brought them enough benefits.

After they left,

Zhang Feng also retrieved some data from the City.

Upon meeting these people, Zhang Feng realized that ‘rune tattoos and body modifications’ were not exclusive to them.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before it became universally popular.

At that time, it would truly become a cultivation rune civilization.

Everyone on Earth would be a rune and modified warrior.

Once their strength increased, reaching 1K physique, and their body surface was covered with Superconducting material, allowing them to bear some compressed formations,

this scene would no longer be just a sci-fi movie; it would be considered science fiction even within sci-fi movies.

Imagine a civilization that is not only technologically powerful, but whose individuals can move at a speed of thousands of meters per second, whose strength is comparable to a walking box, and who cannot even be harmed by a box.

This is inherently unscientific.

At least, it doesn't exist in many interstellar movies.

After all, if such a group of people were to go, there would be no need for interstellar weapons; their personal strength alone would be enough to sweep through a civilization that had entered the interstellar age.

This is simply unwinnable; it's a complete individual combat power碾压.

A single rune warrior could destroy the former Earth many times over.

However, within a scientific understanding, if technology is powerful, then individuals must also be powerful.

This is also something that will definitely happen.

If it hasn't happened, it can only be said that the other party is too specialized.

Zhang Feng thought about it and felt it was quite normal.

The combination of biological modification and condensed formations, along with existing technology,

had already made his civilization immeasurable by ordinary interstellar civilization standards.

The only remaining weakness was defensive fragility.

While they might easily crush some planetary civilizations, if the other side had Orbit Cannons or similar weapons, they would be finished.

The question of whether they could withstand interstellar weapons had now become a secondary research topic in reality.

...

Two days later.

With real-time dynamic data of prehistoric creatures sent by various agencies,

the research into biotechnology quickly got on track, and under observation in the real world, the virtual world also simultaneously filled some gaps in biotechnology.

Under Zhang Feng's instruction, Yin-Yang Eye was listed as one of the main research topics.

Secondly, the optimization of 'root bone and Martial Arts' talent.

His current talent was already quite high, so gaining a few more tenths of a percentage in talent wasn't very significant.

Therefore, attributes like Yin-Yang Eye, which could significantly enhance his own state, were naturally prioritized.

After that, Zhang Feng stopped interfering.

The daily nurturing of reality was for this moment.

Even the research on condensing runes had been handed over to the interstellar battleship research in World 02 a few months ago.

However, such a sudden ‘iterative upgrade’ of all runes naturally required some time to digest.

This was because various technologies of the original battleship had to be upgraded or some parameters modified to regain balance.

Technological upgrades are slow like this.

It's not a matter of simply pressing a button to upgrade; rather, stability is even more crucial during the process of advancement.

This includes the Orbit Cannon, the runes within the Data Center, the Virtual Small Building, and various industrial facilities.

All of these require continuous updates and iterations during this period.

This is an immense practical engineering project, no less demanding than biotechnology, which requires immense computing power.

These two items alone have once again strained global human and material resources.

Fortunately, more than two decades ago, when Zhang Feng reintroduced runes, global rune courses had already begun.

Now, several batches of university students specializing in runes and cultivation have graduated.

With them as the foundation, some human resources can be alleviated, and through their hands-on practice, their experience and knowledge are also increasing.

Including the traditional construction industry, it's no longer about molding mud to build small buildings.

Now, to enter the elite tier of this profession,

on top of the existing construction industry, one must at least master either Superconducting or runes.

There are even specialized fields like 'Superconducting Civil Engineering' and 'Rune Civil Engineering'.

Furthermore, within the Planning Department's plan, specialized teaching for 'Dome Civil Engineering' is also being planned.

Zhang Feng could also foresee that future housing would likely be a mixture of all three.

The Dome provides absolute seismic resilience and absolute corrosion resistance.

Superconducting is for signal transmission, power grid coverage, and Z1 energy supply.

Runes, on the other hand, are versatile; concentrated fire can be used with Superconducting for heating, or for cooking, while concentrated water is for bathing and cooking.

Including other reinforcements and so on, they all have their respective uses.

This ideal building is what the current Data Center looks like.

Zhang Feng also decided to build it on the mechanical platform first.

Regarding the residents,

all of them were given to the people who previously lived in the City.

After all, they were forced to leave their homes before.

This certainly requires compensation.

Including future construction, it will also be in this row-by-row format, allowing every household to live in a ‘three-in-one small building’.

Zhang Feng could also foresee that this would be a massive project, no less significant than the rune replacement.

The rest can only be left to the civil engineering brothers.

The large-scale 'teaching and soldier production' of construction workers in the past few decades,

are now all put to good use.

Furthermore, this large-scale rune paving is also a form of big data collection for rune rule information.

The most intuitive example is that if a resident uses a concentrated fire rune to cook, the flame shapes produced by manipulating it from different angles will vary.

This falls under the category of variable data in talisman results.

If a million people cook,

it's equivalent to simultaneously observing a million people casting fire-attribute spells.

Just like a million people practicing Martial Arts, it's a form of data supplementation.

This allows for a better understanding of spell forms.

And based on these forms, the taste of the cooked food, or environmental impacts, etc., can then reveal the manifestation of 'causality'.

The more causality and real-world data are supplemented, the more realistic the virtual world becomes.

The more realistic the virtual world becomes, the more it can deduce.

The more it deduces, the more profound the ‘cooking spells’ used by Federation residents become.

The more profound the cooking spells, the more advanced causal data can be obtained and fed back to the Virtual Small Building.

Then it enters an infinite loop of refinement and optimization.

Then, even higher-level spells are fed back.

Compressed runes for Orbit Cannons, talismans on interstellar battleships, and some strange talismans Zhang Feng used in his previous world were all fed back this way.

Reality has become an adventure world that continuously provides powerful knowledge.

...

One month later.

Zhang Feng sat in his office; the white bear Qing Mountain was no longer in the room.

He followed the base personnel to a specialized cultivation room beneath the base to cultivate.

And a few years ago, he also opened his Spiritual Sense, bringing some research results to the field of neuroscience and demon beasts in reality.

That's why, before quantum communication was completed, he opened global virtual communication, which, although delayed, made up for some gaps.

Although he still looked like a bear, he had begun to 'read'.

He was very fond of demonology and genetics.

So Zhang Feng let him follow a few burly researchers to study diligently in his spare time.

Perhaps in the future, he could even become a 'Dr. Bear' for the base.

Also today,

besides checking on him with his Spiritual Sense, Zhang Feng once again entered World 02 with the highest authority.

At this moment,

Zhang Feng stood above a group of people, looking at the cosmic battleship whose hull had been extended by another three kilometers.

The others were also engaged in research, with virtual screens floating around them, observing data.

Despite being data administrators in the virtual world, they were completely unaware of Zhang Feng's presence.

Zhang Feng didn't disturb them, instead observing the condensed compression runes on the ship's hull.

Compared to before, its quantity had increased sevenfold, reaching nearly 'ninety million runes'.

Although eighty million of these were scattered throughout the battleship, inside and out, and not centrally coordinated,

the balance problem of a single ten million centrally coordinated runes was already completely beyond scope.

Even with the world's top scientific researchers and various instruments, it couldn't be calculated in a short time.

At least Zhang Feng could see many researchers on the ground 'spacing out' and 'daydreaming' right now.

This level of calculation made them feel like they were reading a heavenly book.

Like elementary school students looking at a college student's equations.

But our scientific researchers are adorable precisely because if they don't know something, they'll stubbornly learn, memorize, and then try to find similar equations, equations they are familiar with, and finally, through careful verification, try to draw inferences from other cases.

Currently, the researchers on the ground are all learning this way.

From time to time, a figure would suddenly disappear.

This was due to overthinking, and under the protection of the virtual world, their materialized insights were saved while they were forced to rest.

This rest wasn't just about them going offline.

At the same time, in reality, the room they were in would release a type of spirit-nourishing medicinal spiritual energy, causing them to fall directly into deep sleep.

If he was in the research hall, nearby security would also receive orders and force him to sleep.

Zhang Feng secretly nodded in his heart after seeing these scenes of forced execution with his Spiritual Sense.

Although this would be slow, it guaranteed their lifespan.

And now, after decades of time.

Zhang Feng had cultivated five expert-level scientific researchers.

Currently, at the battleship site, there were two: one in materials science and one in Superconducting studies.

They were that 'research family couple'.

They were now also lead group leaders, one of the people in charge here, commanding their respective large groups.

It was just that their son had not yet been admitted to the Data Center.

Zhang Feng had also paid attention to him; he was now over forty years old.

From the beginning, he served as a research group leader at a Superconducting Factory.

After nearly thirty years of ups and downs, he currently serves as the second-in-command at an official research institute in our imperial province.

He also concurrently serves as the general head of Superconducting and Dome material manufacturing throughout the entire province, belonging to the practical faction.

He also frequently visits the site, and his command and management experience are first-rate.

However, he has only published one 'imperial-level' report, which does not meet the minimum recruitment standards of the Data Center.

Of course, with technology advancing rapidly nowadays, it is truly difficult to publish world-class work.

Furthermore, his command experience, as well as some general technical knowledge.

Also did not meet the standard.

He is currently, at most, considered to have just entered the 'intermediate minor completion' within the written texts, which is equivalent to a world-class top scientist in a normal world.

However, the Data Center's standards are rising, and it is now 'intermediate major completion'.

Don't think the standard is high; there are no less than a hundred people who can pass the exam each year.

The popularization of the virtual world has increased people's ability to learn knowledge countless times over.

Some geniuses who were once buried in the mundane world now basically have no risk of being overlooked.

......

In a blink of an eye, two years later.

The Nascent Soul integration reached 99%.

On this day.

Zhang Feng, who had always been a homebody, went to the City.

He was about to break through, and Zhang Feng was actually a little excited and expectant.

So, finding friends to relax with was also a way to relieve emotions and maintain a natural state of mind.

Only.

When he blurred his appearance with spiritual energy and arrived at the outskirts of the City.

Zhang Feng looked at the city full of floating buildings, the security checks for entry, and the long line of flying cars queuing in the sky.

This City was not easy to enter.

Including the entire city's periphery, there was also a circle of rune isolation walls.

If one did not have permission to enter the city, they would be gently bounced away.

Especially at this moment.

Zhang Feng looked around and saw that the suburban streets, which used to be bustling with people, had virtually no 'walking' pedestrians anymore.

“I'll be there soon...” Some people were stepping on a circular disc, not holding a phone, but using Superconducting chips to communicate via virtual calls.

There was also a strange flying car similar to a motorcycle in the sky. The driver, while cutting into the autonomous driving queue, suddenly leaned back, his mind entering the virtual world.

Whoosh—

Its seat also suddenly opened up, forming a soft small bed, accompanied by several highly flexible cloth strips extending from both sides of the seat, securing the driver to the motorcycle.

Everyone seemed very comfortable.

This was also due to the popularization of the current Virtual Small Building, coupled with the popularization of the robots it controlled, which, after achieving mass production in cultivation, had already met the basic living needs of most humans.

Except for individual projects like rune and Superconducting architecture, which still require manual operation.

Currently, most of the technology from fifteen years ago has been implemented in machine assembly lines, liberating global labor.

Including the price of ordinary Ling Stone, which has now dropped to one hundred pieces per stone.

However, the actual cost, Zhang Feng had seen the top-secret report, was actually only twenty pieces.

Such a large-scale profit was also to gather funds and balance the Data Center and various treasuries.

It was also due to the large-scale construction in previous years, which made everyone rich, leading to some fluctuations in the market economy and overall inflated prices.

So, it was also a slight adjustment to recall the Federation currency that had been issued in large quantities previously.

Furthermore, the three-in-one Virtual Small Building and rune replacement, these major projects, all require wages to be paid.

But now, all parties involved in researching biotechnology and condensing runes have run out of money.

After all, within the plan, the Federation currency is issued with relatively limited increases.

Now, they are all in the normal market of Federation citizens.

Naturally, they need to be recovered.

Of course, under this excellent limited model.

All parties still adhere to the previous principle, not saying that when the Federation runs out of money, they will print it heavily.

This is a temporary solution, not a permanent one.

It will only affect the Federation's reputation.

......

After observing for a while.

Zhang Feng ultimately chose not to go to the City.

Because now there was a large-scale recall of money, which made economic islands like the City an even more severely concentrated area for collection.

A catty of ordinary meat in the vegetable market was no longer one hundred yuan, but had reached two thousand yuan under the allocation of various parties.

If the Gym Owner were to treat them, although he could afford it, it always felt a bit awkward and funny.

And with Master Wang's personality, he would even complain about the entire meal, feeling that he, representing the Federation, was taking the lead in making them suffer.

Although these were all jokes, Zhang Feng already knew what they would say, so he didn't go.

Mentally, he had already finished eating.

It was a 'stream of consciousness' meal.

And in the base's bedroom.

In the middle of the night.

Zhang Feng found it quite amusing when he thought of this, even laughing out loud.

It was also at this moment that the Nascent Soul reached completion, which was roughly the time Zhang Feng had calculated.

He had originally planned to eat dinner in the evening and break through in the middle of the night.

However, for the rest of the people in the Data Center.

The moment Zhang Feng broke through.

Everyone, every instrument, saw the spiritual energy of the entire Data Center form a silent storm of backflow, converging frantically towards Zhang Zong's direction.

This strange scene surprised all the staff.

And the alarm for the spiritual energy density index also sounded throughout the entire base.

Because in a Data Center comparable to a small city in area, the spiritual energy was usually around 2.1.

But now, it had dropped to 0.3 overall in an instant.

“Zhang Zong... has broken through?” At this moment, all personnel looked towards Zhang Feng's direction.

They knew that Zhang Zong was a Gold Core cultivator before, so now he should be the legendary 'Nascent Soul'.

He had achieved his true self, and his soul could possess a body and be reborn.

Such a person already belonged to a disguised form of longevity!

At the same time.

In the bedroom.

The spiritual energy storm swirled in the room, then, like a vortex, surged frantically into Zhang Feng's middle dantian.

Chirp...

Even amidst the violent fluctuations, the invisible spiritual energy produced a tearing sound similar to a storm.

Zhang Feng, however, sat cross-legged at the center of the storm in mid-air, ignoring the immense spiritual energy wind pressure, and instead used his Spiritual Sense to see the 'three souls and seven corporeal souls' completely merge with the Gold Core.

The soul entered the fourth dimension.

And the Gold Core gradually changed its talisman structure from within, forming a miniature version of himself that existed in reality yet was ethereal and unpredictable.

'He' was composed of rule runes, inherently possessing a 'spirituality' that commanded spiritual energy.

This instantly brought about a manifold increase in Zhang Feng's own perception, Spiritual Sense, and various bodily functions.

His physique surged from 2.9K to 3.9K.

His Spiritual Sense doubled from thirty li, extending to eighty li in circumference.

The various attributes he cultivated—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Yin-Sha Thunder—also transformed into strange colored talisman robes at this moment, draped over his true self.

Under the radiation of the Nascent Soul, his telomeres were rewritten again, granting him a lifespan of two thousand six hundred years.

However, the 'Nascent Soul', which resembled an embryo and an infant, had no consciousness, like a 'dead object' that could only command various spiritual attributes.

If 'he' were to possess another person, extending life through reincarnation, that would be the intractable 'mystery of the womb'.

'He' was merely the visualized four-dimensional manifestation of one's soul, not one's spirit.

The Nascent Soul is merely the life imprint of the true self, a variant of a rule talisman.

The spirit is the imprint of one's personal thoughts.

Zhang Feng also suddenly had a thought.

If one could use the spirit to command the Nascent Soul, to merge with four-dimensional rules, then it would be a heavenly dao talisman with its own consciousness, or a five-dimensional entity that 'influences reality with spirit'.

Transformation God is the fusion of the heavenly dao talisman, which is also the fusion of one's own 'dao and fruit'.

Before Transformation God, everything was 'cause'.

At this moment.

After forming the Nascent Soul, Zhang Feng also gained a deeper understanding of the Nascent Soul's rules and found that his Spiritual Mind could try to merge with the Nascent Soul.

Long-term cultivation of the mind and spirit allowed Zhang Feng to transcend certain rigid rules, not requiring the Nascent Soul to be complete, nor any enlightenment.

As long as the Nascent Soul is formed, one can attempt to merge with the Spiritual Mind.

Because the previous cultivation of the mind was originally the cultivation of life and the true self's soul.

Cultivating the spirit is cultivating thoughts and Spiritual Mind.

These are all 'causes', and also the embryonic form of the heavenly dao talisman.

As a result.

Zhang Feng's past unconventional approach, experiencing life in the adventurous world, also received its long-awaited greatest 'fruit' today.

Upon achieving the Nascent Soul, he also simultaneously embarked on the path of 'True Self Transformation God's' fusion with the heavenly dao.

Currently, he is at 57% of the Transformation God realm.