Chapter 567: Test Subjects? Extremely Willing
After instructing Yashan and Feng Cheng to classify and study various mental traits related to mental strength, Su Hao gave them access to a new research function – the mental movement simulation function.
In simple terms, Yashan and Feng Cheng could record the mental movement information of the test subjects within a short period of time through mental scanning, store it in their respective ‘knowledge platforms,’ and then extract corresponding data from their knowledge platforms using the computational power provided by the pinball space to simulate it in real-time.
This function seemed trivial, but when combined with their mental thoughts, it became very powerful, like giving them special abilities.
It was more than enough for studying mental characteristics.
However, what Su Hao didn’t expect was that Yashan quickly identified a specific mental frequency band.
What are mental strength traits?
In Su Hao’s definition, mental strength traits are not commonly mentioned traits like ‘nerd,’ ‘good person,’ ‘gentleman,’ ‘cool,’ ‘daring,’ ‘timid,’ etc.
Instead, it is a natured manifestation that appears after mental movements, similar to how a magnet has a magnetic field, matter has gravitation, and water has solid-liquid-gas states.
Since every existing entity must follow certain universal rules, mental strength is no exception. If it exists, it will adhere to certain rules and exhibit specific traits. Su Hao’s task was to identify these traits, classify them, and experiment one by one to understand their interaction with the source.
Su Hao finished describing, Yashan immediately understood his meaning, and they started discussing how to classify the mental power traits.
Feng Cheng on the side was completely confused, thinking to himself, “Truly the bosses Wei and Yashan, discussing something, I can’t make head or tail of it…
What ‘the expression of mental power, fundamentally a law of motion’, ‘different thoughts have different ways of moving, different ways of moving will create different field influences’, ‘searching for mental traits, first classify the thinking movements, then continuously break them down’, ‘naming different movements as mental frequency bands’…
Feels like they’re having an amazing conversation, really want to join them! Hmm, once I finish my chores, I will make time to study hard too! The gap between me and the two bosses is too large.”
After passing by Su Hao and Yashan this casual chat, Feng Cheng felt a sense of urgency, as if he had just started learning about immortal cultivation in the previous life and was self-doubting due to being thrown off track by Boss Wei, the grandmaster.
He even started doubting his own intelligence again…
In the past six months, apart from experimenting and recording data on the mental powers and sources of Xiao Hui and Ah Ming, the two phantom source magicians, Feng Cheng had been utilizing the universal assistant, following the learning plan given by the assistant, tirelessly studying and practicing, making rapid progress.
However, with the genius brain of a ‘Prophet’, he quickly excelled in scientific subjects, but after studying ‘philosophy’, Feng Cheng hit a wall again!
What the heck is this! So hard to comprehend! And the fact that one needs to learn philosophy to independently conduct experiments and research, it’s a challenge…
Not to mention how Feng Cheng spent nights studying, upon learning that Yashan had preliminarily identified a strong connection between certain mental frequency bands and sources, Su Hao immediately set aside the data in his hand and directly approached Yashan, asking, “Are you sure the specific manifestations of mental thought movements have a guiding influence on the sources? Explain in detail.”
Yashan replied, “Boss Wei, at the moment we can only confirm it’s related to specific mental movements, so whether the fluctuations generated during the movement process have an impact on the sources, it’s still uncertain, as even divine thoughts can’t observe those invisible fluctuations and can only deduce from the phenomena, which is expected to take a long time.
But the good news is, I have circled that special frequency band using cross-validation method, it’s located within the thirtieth second block of movements, directly confirming our speculation about mental traits, and now all we need to do is keep narrowing it down step by step to pinpoint that final small frequency band.”
Su Hao remarked, “Indeed, this way, it makes sense how some animals can easily grasp the sources, leading to transformation and displaying various effects without needing a brain as intelligent as humans’, as long as the brain happens to possess that specific frequency band.”
Under conditions of disaster, organisms possessing the special frequency band corresponding to the source can evolve into powerful source beasts, able to freely control the sources formed within their bodies, while those without the special frequency band will gradually evolve into natural disasters, unconsciously impacting the surrounding environment.
Yashan added, “That’s true, but to pinpoint that most crucial frequency band, we need source magicians as experimental subjects, as regular source beasts won’t cooperate with our experiments, making it quite challenging.”
Su Hao inquired, “How many experimental subjects are estimated to be required, and the latest timeframe to pinpoint the final frequency band?”
Pinpointing the final frequency band doesn’t mean being able to control the transformation of sources at will, systematic classification research is also needed, involving time and effort to experiment and eliminate step by step.
Yashan answered, “I need a minimum of one thousand source magicians from each system, for cross-experiments to provide sufficient data. With enough experimental subjects, I estimate we can pinpoint the final frequency band within three years at the latest.”
Though narrowing down to a specific mental frequency band significantly reduces the scope, the complexity of human thought surpasses imagination, even this small band can further subdivide into units of billions, requiring experiments that cannot be completed overnight.
Su Hao was fine with the three-year timeframe, nodding, “Alright, I will figure out the matter of experimental subjects for you, Zhi Peng has many friends, there should be no shortage of over a thousand experimental subjects.”
To be willing to go the extra mile for a friend, becoming mere experimental subjects, isn’t that a delight?
At the mention of Zhi Peng, Yashan smiled slightly, showing his positive feelings towards Zhi Peng, as if he saw himself from the days of being unjustly treated, driven by a desire to change the world on his own, and luckily meeting his true god, Boss Wei.
So many commonalities nearly made Yashan become good friends with Zhi Peng!
Thankfully, with Su Hao’s early reminder and preventive measures in place, Yashan, this immensely powerful Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, might have ended up as Zhi Peng’s bodyguard, had he not been careful.
Yashan chuckled, “Haha, with Zhi Peng around, our experiment progress is unexpectedly fast!”
Su Hao gave a mysterious smile, “Even without Zhi Peng, our experiments wouldn’t be slow, there are so many source magicians after all.”
Yashan agreed, “That’s true.”
Over the past six months, there had been quite a few teams of source magicians investigating the Lao Wang incident in Huai Shui Town. Those who dared to cause trouble were captured by him for experiments, of course, the hot-headed ones, Yashan had long forgotten where he buried them.
Upon reflection, Su Hao then granted Yashan the ability to communicate with Zhi Peng’s parrot on his shoulder using the universal assistant, so he could contact Zhi Peng at any time and get a continuous supply of experimental subjects from him.
Of course, Yashan would never describe Zhi Peng’s friends as ‘experimental subjects’, with a little glossing over, it could be phrased as: your friends are all good helpers to help you clear the Wang Clan, but they are too weak, send them to the Hu Lu Dao first, we will give them a comprehensive training and soon they will become qualified members of the Illuminating Society.’
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As time passed, Yashan gradually matured and could be considered an excellent assistant. In other words, he had become a capable commander.
This brought great joy to Su Hao, as he hadn’t invested so many years in grooming Yashan in vain.
Handing over the research on mental power traits to Yashan was because Su Hao had a more important project to focus on, which was how to transform matter into pure sources.
This was his utmost concern, directly involving the next world and whether he would be able to gain access to sources or not, thereby affecting his transformation.
In simple terms, even though he had uncovered the research on mental frequency bands and acquired source abilities from all systems, without the ability to convert matter into sources, upon entering the next world, he would essentially have nothing. All the research done in this world for centuries would be in vain.
Conversely, if he could devise a method to transform matter into sources, even without mastering the mental frequency bands, he would still have plenty of opportunities to study in the next world.
That was the difference.
Unfortunately, despite making some progress in this area, he had hit a bottleneck.
The task of converting matter into pure sources turned out to be much more difficult and complex than anticipated!
“Under what conditions does matter transform into a source?”
