The remaining ti partly went into illusory training. Rui understood the consequences of not training or even exercising for a decade. His muscles would atrophy, and his muscle mory would erode.
The forr could be averted with his Martial Soul’s control over his body, but the latter was more inevitable. This was exactly what had happened after his battle against the eldritch chira.
When he woke up after his long, long nap, he had experienced the deprivation of his muscle mory impeding him.
"I can’t allow that to happen this ti. Pursuing higher forms of adaptive evolution should not co at the cost of the foundation of Martial Art that I have built over years of enduring battles."
Thankfully, it had not proven to be an insurmountable problem.
"Hypnotic Battleforger."
It was a technique that he had created with his Forge of Creation. The technique relied on the Martial Soul to create a chokehold on his spinal cord to prevent any ssages from his conscious mind from reaching his body. Simultaneously, it allowed him to control what his mind received from his senses, so he could simulate battles and even have his mind partake in it without needing his body to move.
He did this just enough to ensure that his muscle mory in his cerebellum remained reinforced frequently enough to ensure he didn’t suffer any loss in ability.
It certainly reduced how much ti he could spend on his tamorphosis, lengthening the process by an extra year for a total of three years, but it was worth it, as far as Rui was concerned. Once he completed integrating evosapien physiology into his exterior flesh, he resisted the urge to try to control it to adaptively evolve.
After all, until he completed renovating his nervous system into a partial evosapien nervous system, he would not be able to control the genetic adaptive evolution ability of the evosapiens.
The rest of his ti went into forming predictive models on each of his neurons, a process he automated in his subconscious mind with the Martial Soul. It was rely tedious, ti-consuming, and energy-draining. He had created so many predictive models in his life that there was nothing novel or interesting about the process. he would much rather direct his conscious mind to sothing as brand new as the tamorphosis project.
He imdiately moved on to the next phase of the project, which was the second least risky organ to tamorphosize.
"Let’s go with a kidney."
That didn’t an that kidneys were the second least important organ in general, certainly not. But the reason he had chosen to go with a kidney was that there was no threat to his life even if one ruptured, for he had another one. There were plenty of people who could survive and even be healthy with only one kidney.
That was why he imdiately moved to his kidney.
"This ti, it should be a bit smoother since I have ironed out so of the universal problems with the tamorphosis process in the first three years," Rui mused. "Still, I’m sure that each organ cos with its own set of unique challenges."
He transford an evosapien skin cell into an evosapien stem cell, like before, except this ti he had made sure that it was adaptively evolved to have protein compatibility and other solutions he had prepared.
He imdiately dived into the process with the Eye of Prophecy active, ensuring that he could foresee solutions for any problems that arose.
And problems did arise, without a doubt.
Rui firmly kept his composure, diving into the kidney to fix all of them one by one over days, weeks, and months, all while ensuring he never lost any muscle mory.
It was a tough, grinding process, but it was one that Rui grew increasingly better at the more he did.
"I’m learning biology in the most experiential manner possible."
Experiential learning was the most effective form of learning, especially compared to more theoretical knowledge that was limited to books. Rui’s knowledge of biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, and general biology grew by enormous strides as he started internalizing a profoundly deep understanding of the human body.
It vastly surpassed what anybody would learn from several degrees. Its depth increasingly surpassed even PhDs as he understood biology on a level and depth that no non-pathwalker could ever even begin to fathom.
He increasingly understood the causality of it by just the fifth year of it when he completed the kidney, rapidly moving on to the other kidney, which he completed in a much shorter tifra, having already finished all the problems for that particular organ.
He then shifted to the spleen and the pancreas, another set of low-priority organs that were less risky compared to several other organs, completing both of those in less than two years.
He shifted to the skeletomuscular system of his body. Perhaps the system that was most directly important and relevant to his Martial Art, serving as the basis of almost all Martial Art techniques.
With each muscle and bone he tamorphosized, his understanding deepened.
With each organ he tamorphosized, his intuition of biology deepened.
This was different from the academic knowledge that he had accrued over his previous life.
It was more Martial in nature.
Martial Artists understood high principles differently from academics, who could write down equations and mathematical models describing reality.
They understood reality intuitively, instinctually, and subconsciously.
For the first ti, Rui truly had partaken in a Martial understanding of reality rather than an academic one. The more he tamorphosized his body over the span of many years, the more he gained a subconscious understanding of biology.
And the patterns that underlay biology.
These were the patterns of life itself.
Every cell was an individual life. They ca together in large systems that gave birth to even higher forms of ergent life. But at the very root of it all was rely cold, unliving organic chemistry.
Life appeared to be an ergent phenonon.
Ordinary compounds like water or even the extensive organic chemistry centered around carbon were surely not alive. Yet, when they ca together, they could form life.
Not all chemistry that ca together ford life, however, certainly not. There were plenty of extrely complicated chemical systems that were not alive.
He was naturally aware that there surely existed so unfathomable line in chemistry that separated life from non-life, but he had never thought too deeply about it because it was not relevant to his interests and certainly far beyond his fathoming.
But now that it stared him right in the face as he gained a profound understanding of biology, the question couldn’t help but present itself.
"What is life?"
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