Chapter 668 - 430: Overturning the Sea!
Wang Ye had no choice but to block out the pain in his right arm,
otherwise, this negative state would easily prevent him from concentrating on interfering with the molecular structure of his muscle fibers.
If observed from the outside, one would find his right arm seemingly swollen into a hideous tumor,
with the surface covered in countless root-like blood vessels and thick muscle fiber bundles, constantly pulsating with his breath.
This is due to the evolution of high-elastic muscle fibers forcibly triggering his fermentation metabolism function, causing his body to produce large amounts of carbon dioxide gas.
Just when Wang Ye thought the evolution would continue smoothly,
suddenly, his right arm muscles exploded with a "boom," scattering blood.
Through his Microscopic Focus, he saw his snapped myofibrils floating in the blood mist like scattered springs.
"An explosion?!" Wang Ye was astonished.
He couldn’t understand why the evolving muscle fibers had suddenly exploded. What had happened?
His muscle fibers were indeed fragile, but supported by the body’s recovery ability, they had notable toughness,
otherwise, he couldn’t have used fermentation metabolism to grow into a thirty-meter giant.
But now, his body wasn’t visibly swollen, only the molecular structure had changed slightly.
Why did it suddenly explode?
Wang Ye quickly paused the evolution, then used Microscopic Focus to check the exploded muscle fibers and those high-elasticity fibers that hadn’t yet exploded.
After some observation, he finally understood that the main cause of muscle explosion was actually the collapse of the molecular structure.
Wang Ye barely achieved molecular-level manipulation by stimulating a microscopic energy field through the Crystal Cluster Fragment, but his Primordial Qi’s precision and strength were still lacking for stable control of such precise structures.
The molecular hinges and energy storage springs needed for high-elastic muscle fibers far exceeded his evolutionary limits, forcibly recombining them could lead to imbalanced stress at the microscopic level.
Moreover, after formation, maintaining the structure also requires certain pressure; while the stress load brought by a dozen muscle fibers might not be eye-catching, when the number swells to ten thousand or even a million, the load would be too much for Wang Ye to support and could ultimately cause a rupture.
The Megalodon can maintain such high-elastic muscle fibers because it lives in the deep-sea area and has a massive size; the high pressure underwater helps it adapt to this stress imbalance.
Therefore, Wang Ye couldn’t control the Megalodon to swim to shallow sea areas previously, because if it ever reached shallow waters, the reduced pressure would cause its body to collapse and die instantly.
Evolving a dozen high-elastic muscle fibers might not be enough to cause his body to collapse, but with the system’s support, his high-elastic muscles are almost covering the entire right arm.
This number far exceeded his control capabilities, naturally causing the entire muscle to collapse.
Additionally, mitochondrial mutations caused him to be unable to rely on ATP for energy supply normally; this instantaneous change in energy supply leads to a sudden drop-off, making his recovery ability noticeably weaker, even unable to ensure the body’s integrity, resulting in the rupture during evolution.
The main reason Wang Ye failed to predict the body’s collapse was his active blocking of pain, missing the increasingly obvious swelling pain in his right arm, letting his body continuously evolve towards an uncontrollable direction, which eventually caused his entire right arm to explode.
Essentially, this explosion was an energy loss of control triggered by cross-dimensional evolution, a massive gap between Wang Ye’s current evolutionary level and the target structure.
The high-elastic muscle fibers of the Megalodon were induced by the Crystal Cluster’s radiation over millions of years to form a stable state, perfectly adapting to the existing environment of thousands of meters deep sea; while Wang Ye attempted to replicate this in a low-pressure environment on land through short-term mutation, inevitably facing the risk of collapse.
"Do I have to live forever in the deep-sea area if I want to evolve such high-elastic muscle fibers?" Wang Ye couldn’t help but frown.
With his abilities, he certainly couldn’t simulate deep-sea pressures on land.
Even if he could simulate it, maintaining such pressure would result in more energy consumption, definitely outweighing the gain.
Wang Ye pondered painstakingly for a while, ultimately coming up with an optimal solution—gradual stage evolution.
Since the system can accelerate and compress the process of millions of years of natural evolution into seconds, he can rely on this high-speed natural evolution to first transform small groups of muscles, gradually expanding, avoiding an uncontrolled full-body transformation; additionally, he can start evolving in deep-sea areas and gradually ascend to shallow sea areas, allowing his body to step out of the comfort zone step by step, relying on the system’s high-speed natural evolution to adjust muscle fiber structure gradually according to pressure reduction, making it easier to adapt to low-pressure environments.
Taking advantage of the system’s evolution not yet ended, Wang Ye immediately left the cultivation chamber, activating Vertical Earth Golden Radiance to accelerate to multiple times the speed of sound, arriving in a nearby sea area within a short time with a tremendous sonic boom.
Then he dove directly to a depth of two thousand meters, placing the fragment in front of his chest, causing a chemical reaction with the seawater.
"Continue evolving." Wang Ye closed his eyes and continued to control the spread of high-elastic muscle fibers throughout his body.
Sure enough, after reaching the deep-sea area, the molecular structure of the high-elastic muscle fibers was noticeably more stable. Wang Ye’s right arm quickly recovered, and the high-elastic muscle fibers continuously multiplied in thousands, spreading more and more in all directions.