"Hey! It's time for our good buddy to make a grand entrance!"
After Sebastian returned to The Boys world, he quickly changed his attire and disguise, then immediately went to find his uncle, Sandra.
He successfully requested a hundred volunteers willing to act as experimental subjects and then began the data comparison work.
In the Super Criminal Alliance, there were countless canon fodder like this who were willing to undergo modifications and yearned for powerful strength.
For them, life and death were no longer important. They had nothing to lose, so they might as well go all out—maybe even turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
If they unfortunately failed the modification and died, that could even be considered a form of liberation. After all, continuing to live aimlessly was utterly boring.
In this world, people were divided into different classes, and some were destined to live at the bottom of society.
These people had neither received a good education nor possessed wealth or status. They could not even guarantee their basic dignity.
If they showed even the slightest sign of resistance, they would be mercilessly thrown into "Time Hell" by those so-called Super Heroes, becoming pitiful piglets.
There, they were forced to perform labor more exhausting than that of donkeys while receiving less food than chickens.
Therefore, when these people received an experimental invitation from the Super Criminal Alliance, they joined without hesitation, even without monetary compensation.
The reason was simple.
Every year, a large number of Super Criminals successfully gained unimaginable Super Powers by becoming experimental subjects. They instantly became formidable rivals and sworn enemies of Super Heroes.
Some even rose to become legendary criminals responsible for countless crimes—figures so powerful that even Super Heroes found it difficult to deal with them.
Thus, everyone held onto a gambler's mentality, hoping to become that lucky one.
"Let's begin!" Sebastian said softly, putting on a white lab coat and rimless glasses, a gentle smile on his face.
He walked to the operating table, ready to modify the patient lying upon it.
"Relax. Dizziness is normal."
Seeing that the patient was getting too nervous, Sebastian spoke to comfort him.
"Yes, sir!"
Sebastian's words seemed to possess magical power. The Hi-Bros instantly calmed down and quickly fell asleep.
"Hehe~~"
As Sebastian continuously injected Cyber Aura into the sub-patient's body, his aura soared like a rocket.
In less than a minute, the patient completed the transformation from mortal to cultivator.
He first broke through the Qi Refining Stage, then successfully established his foundation, and finally condensed a dazzling Golden Core.
However, this was only a small step in the entire modification process.
The next and most crucial step was opening the Soul Armament Space.
Sebastian focused his mind and used his mental control techniques to enter the Hi-Bros' spiritual world, guiding him into a deep meditative state.
Under the fierce impact of immense energy, the Soul Armament Space rapidly took shape at an astonishing speed.
Sebastian carefully recorded every detail of the Soul Space's formation and studied the exact process by which the soul transformed under the influence of the meditation technique.
Compared to meditation methods that relied entirely on individual talent, Sebastian preferred discovering their rules through scientific observation and developing safer, standardized technological approaches.
Once the Soul Armament Space stabilized completely, Sebastian attempted to transplant the Golden Core from the Patient's body into this new space.
A low humming sound emerged.
The moment the Golden Core entered the new environment, it produced a strange resonance.
It continuously released surging energy, as if trying to fill everything around it.
That profound fullness—emanating from the depths of the soul—caused the Hi-Bros' entire body and mind to relax.
Even his soul gradually strengthened as the energy filled it.
The strengthening of the soul caused Sebastian's eyes to light up.
Wasn't the cultivation method for the Nascent Soul Stage right here?
However, now was not the time to study that.
Sebastian steadied his mind and continued the experiment on the integration between the Soul Armament Space and the Golden Core.
He attempted to sense the Golden Core within the Soul Armament Space, urging it to release energy outward and activate the Hi-Bros' cybernetic body.
He discovered that the Golden Core's energy flowed smoothly and obeyed commands freely, no different from when it had been inside the body.
"Hahahahaha! It worked! I, this Daoist, have succeeded!"
Sebastian's face filled instantly with boundless joy.
In his perception, when the Golden Core released energy within the Soul Space, the cybernetic body's operational efficiency was even higher than when the Golden Core had been inside the body.
This astonishing discovery left Sebastian ecstatic, cheering and gesturing wildly.
Next, Sebastian conducted more than a dozen comparative experiments, finally confirming that combining the Soul Armament Space with the Golden Core was feasible and not merely a rare special case.
After confirming this, Sebastian's next step was to transform the Soul Material Space.
He wanted it to permeate the entire body in the form of a Soul Core and meridians rather than remain limited to six simple equipment slots.
Originally, Sebastian had planned to use space compression technology acquired from the Pirate King world to expand the Golden Core and increase energy storage capacity.
However, with the existence of the Soul Material Space, space compression technology no longer seemed necessary.
Still, Sebastian wondered—
If that technology could also be applied to the Soul Armament Space, allowing it to expand continuously and contain increasingly powerful forces, wouldn't that be like adding wings to a tiger?
In this way, the Golden Core would become an infinitely growing energy source.
Combined with the heart structure of Legendary Keizer Ghidorah and the Sun Sails, the potential was immense.
Sebastian could not help but revel in the beauty of such power.
Moreover, the existence of the Soul Armament Space meant that the Golden Core would no longer be a fatal weakness for Cyber Cultivators.
There would no longer be situations where a shattered Golden Core caused the entire system to shut down instantly.
Previously, Ghidorah had devoured Cyber Cultivators like small biscuits.
The reason was simple: after eating them, it could directly absorb the energy stored within their bodies.
But after replacing the physical meridians and core with Soul Meridians and a Soul Core, even if Ghidorah devoured countless Cyber Cultivators, it would not be able to extract even the slightest trace of their energy.
After all, relocating the core and meridians into the soul placed them beyond the material world entirely.
Sebastian had already begun planning how to install a "backdoor" within this technology.
Through it, the Soul Armament Space of Cyber Cultivators would connect directly to the Cyber Dimension.
In that way, if these Cyber Cultivators died, the Golden Cores within their bodies would not drop like equipment in the Blood Clan World.
Instead, they would automatically flow into the Cyber Dimension—
And ultimately fall into Sebastian's hands.
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