The Martial Unity

Thankfully, once he replaced the appropriate amount of stem cells across his body to result in a perfect fifty-fifty hybrid, his mind would be free to think about whatever.

After all, stem cells replenishing new cells was a process that happened naturally without the intervention of the mind or the soul. This left him plenty of time to deploy his mind to the most crucial and important parts of the entire process.

“Creating predictive models for hundreds of billions of neurons and glial cells.”

This was the truly difficult part that would take him many years, if not more than a decade, to fully complete, even with his supreme intellect. The brain was the most complicated machine in the entire universe, and even with his cognition, it was overwhelming.

There was a reason that NOVA had gone into hibernation for as long as she had when transferring her consciousness from brain to computer in a pure and perfect manner. The vast gulf of information that needed to be perfectly preserved took her a century to fully complete.

What Rui intended to do was much easier. He only needed to focus on half his brain, and the change from human brain cell to evosapien brain cell was not as drastic as what NOVA had done to herself.

Thus, while he didn’t need a century, it would still take at least a tenth as long.

“It won’t be enough just to map all these cells perfectly accurately; it will also be important to ensure that all the new evosapien neurons behave exactly as my existing human stem cells.”

Meaning he would need to manually ensure each neuron had the exact same neuron plasticity as the old neuron and had the same developed connection to generate the exact same output to the exact same inputs.

“This process needs to be perfect,” he muttered to himself. “Or I’ll lose my Enlightenment of Self. But consequently, I can also use my Enlightenment of Self to measure how much I’m changing and keep track of it at all times.”

There was one major issue that he wasn’t sure how to deal with, and that was the fact that mapping out half of his neurons would mean that any changes that they underwent after that would not be accounted for.

For instance, if he spent ten years recording neurons, the changes that they underwent in the next ten years while he was submerged within a medical cocoon would not be retained, while the other half that wasn’t being replaced would retain their memories.

“This could cause some memory loss problems.”

He wasn’t sure how to fix that, either. Even measuring his neurons would cause them to change ever so slightly because of the measuring. Then, if he measured the new change, he would cause another new change, making it impossible to record the updated state.

This meant that his new evosapien cells would contain outdated memories and information, while his human cells would contain updated memories and information.

Under normal circumstances, this would easily cause him to lose his Enlightenment of Self.

“Thankfully, I have the Large Soul Model that I originally used to break through to the Sage Realm. I can keep that running in the background to manually ensure my Enlightenment of Self remains ’backed up’ through this system of thought.”

Still, he was playing with fire.

He knew that.

“It would be prudent to use the Eye of Prophecy empowered with Megamind just to verify these results and ensure that there is no severe risk or danger that exceeds my threshold of tolerance.”

Rui had no intention of messing around this time. Unlike with his other spurious attempts at innovating through action and attempts rather than systematic trial and error, he intended to be as thorough as a scientist in this particular case.

“The partial memory loss is likely inevitable, however,” he remarked with a grim tone. “The only upside is that all the memories lost will be brand-new memories. New memories forged since starting this isolated metamorphosis.”

In other words, they were memories of the training, the metamorphosis process, and the chamber around him.

Not important core memories that defined him.

And they would be partial, since half his brain would still remain.

If not for the Large Soul Model allowing him to guarantee that his Enlightenment of Self would remain, this was an extremely scary prospect. Thankfully, Rui had managed to codify Enlightenment of Self into a system of thought that he could reinforce and back up any time.

If he had to imagine what it would feel like once the metamorphosis was done, he would likely have blurry recollections of the prior ten years he spent during the metamorphosis period. But theoretically, he would be acting largely the same, thanks to the predictive models ensuring half his brain behaved exactly as it did now.

Countless considerations flew through his mind as he continued ironing out his plans. The sheer complexity of just Project Evosapien was extremely high, let alone Project PluriBody, which introduced another variable that he needed to account for. Considering how toxic the substance was, he needed to be careful since he didn’t know how evosapien cells would react to the substance.

He also needed to consider the energy sources that evosapien cells made use of, which were mitochondrial and nuclear fusion. Martial Sages converted matter into materia prima through efficiency, and he did not intend to change that.

“I will need to get rid of the cold fusion nonsense ahead of time.”

He wanted the evosapien physiology because of its adaptive evolution, not its energy source. Getting rid of the cold fusion mitochondrial DNA would ensure that his evosapien stem cells would end up being a lot less burdened and a lot freer, since it consumed a lot of adaptive evolution freedom to maintain it.

He could potentially even surpass Anthea when it came to genetic adaptive evolution, thanks to not needing this source of energy due to his Martial Path and the Sage Realm.

“I can’t wait to see just how strong I get!”