According to Odis, the most critical hurdle in his research on increasing agricultural and livestock production was how to induce mutations in plants and animals within a controllable range.
The high-ranking extraordinary beings of the Church of Mother Earth may be able to increase food production, or even make a single wheat stalk grow into several ears of wheat.
But such an ability must come at a price, or rather, have side effects, since the Sequence 2 of this pathway is called "Desolate Matriarch".
Just by looking at the name, you can tell it has nothing to do with "increasing production" or anything like that; it might even have the opposite effect.
According to Odis, this is closely related to the influence of extraordinary characteristics on the organism's internal structure. In the First and Second Periods, the direct absorption of extraordinary characteristics had a similar effect on organisms as a rapid and decisive form of radioactive pollution.
Whoever can withstand the damage caused by pollution will be able to use those extraordinary powers to a certain extent, and may even become an existence like the eight ancient gods of the Second Age.
Whoever can't hold on will have to lie down and get gold coins and equipment.
The potion system has found a way to neutralize this radioactive pollution. Most potions work by fighting poison with poison, their extraordinary properties can make people lose control, and their auxiliary materials can cripple them.
As a result, two negatives made a positive, and he successfully completed the promotion.
As for the ritual required after Sequence 5, its main purpose is to stabilize the spirit.
Because of Sequence 5, and the sequences that follow, the potion begins to erode the spirit body; it's another level of mutation and radiation.
The effect of extraordinary abilities on the extraordinary person is mutation, and the external effects are similar, except that the extraordinary ability allows the influence of the extraordinary person to extend to the surrounding area.
Therefore, Odis's purpose in studying the creatures of the "forsaken land" was to find a reference for the extraordinary influence that these creatures had on life.
Due to its extraordinary chaos and uncertainty, the extent of its impact on living organisms makes it unlikely that a standardized unit of measurement like Celsius, meter, or kilogram can be derived.
However, extraordinary influences certainly have limits. For example, the influence of Sequence 7 cannot exceed this level, just as Odis is currently unable to create scrolls that can only be mastered at the level of Sequence 6 "The Scroll Professor".
In other words, although such an impact is uncontrollable, there is always a certain threshold.
The first step is to find this threshold, and the second step is to study and utilize this threshold.
Soon, Odis dissected the strange fish and was surprised to find that the fish's internal structure was extremely simple. Most of its structure was an empty cavity, and there were still some food remnants inside that Odis could not identify.
After a careful search, Odis finally found the strange fish's internal organs, but they were too small. He couldn't even find obvious organs such as a heart or intestines; there were only a few simple lumps, and he couldn't distinguish what kind of organs they were.
This puzzled Odis. Had the extraordinary effects fundamentally changed this fish? Even causing its internal organs to atrophy severely, rendering it devoid of any fish-like characteristics?
Odis also conducted some research on the "Great Cataclysm" at the end of the Third Age.
He believes that the fall of the "ancient sun god" had a profound impact on the entire Earth's ecological and natural environment.
The "Forsaken Land" was the most affected, as sunlight could not reach it, the sky was filled with dark clouds, and lightning flashed everywhere.
This is because the "Ancient Sun God" contains so much uniqueness that it, to a certain extent, represents the underlying order of this world.
His fall was tantamount to a reshuffling of the underlying order.
However, the "Ancient Sun God" did not possess the extraordinary characteristics of a "farmer" or a "medicine master," so its direct impact on living beings at that time was mostly direct death.
The creatures that survived in the "Forsaken Land" underwent varying degrees of mutation over the long years that followed.
The fish before Odis must have slowly undergone a mutation.
However, the extent of the mutation completely exceeded expectations.
Odis remembered that in the "Land of the Forsaken Gods," many people had turned into monsters.
If those monsters were dissected, Odis believed that organs such as the heart and lungs could be found. Even if they were grotesque and their functions were very different, their basic structure should still be there.
However, the internal structure of this fish completely exceeded all of Odis's expectations.
Then Odis noticed that the fish had no eyes!
The only fish-like feature of its head is its mouthful of fangs.
Suddenly, Odis had a bold conjecture, and he immediately went to the "Central Simulator" to look up information.
He soon discovered that the "strange fish's" internal organs were very similar to the internal structure of some flatworms.
So-called flatworms, such as the well-known planarians and pork tapeworms.
After careful comparison, Odis finally determined that the "strange fish" in front of him should be a mutated blood fluke!
He looked at the strange fish, which was over a meter long, and then at the description of the blood fluke's length in the information: only one to three centimeters.
Odis thought to himself: This mutation is far too great!
But the facts are right in front of us, and this mutation is just that big!
Odis reattached the dissected "fish skin" and planned to conduct a more detailed study later.
Then he turned his attention to the real bloodsucking worms that could drink sugar water.
Now, if someone were to say that these guys were transformed from paramecia, Odis would believe it.
He took out a "blood-sucking worm" from the glass jar and proceeded to dissect it.
Having learned from his previous experience, Odis quickly found the corresponding creatures: mosquito larvae.
They have grown much larger and can move on land, but they seem to have lost the chance to become adults.
Odis persisted and went on to compare it with the plant that had once grown tentacles.
It turned out to be a mutated castor bean plant; no wonder it was poisonous.
The tentacles of this "mutant castor bean" were very special; the suckers resembled those of some animals. Odis conjured a microscope and took sections for observation.
He soon discovered a very peculiar sight: the cellular structure of these suckers was actually a mixture of animal and plant cells!
This discovery, if it had been made before Odis's time travel, would certainly have been quite a big news story.
After all, I learned the difference between animal cells and plant cells when I was a teenager. How could they be mixed together like this, all serving a castor bean plant!
Odis exclaimed: "In this extraordinary world, there is truly nothing that is impossible to find!"
Finally, Odis sliced the leaves of the black-faced grass to examine its cellular structure.
Under the microscope, these plant cells were not simply withered; they had been reduced to a single cell wall, a hard shell that was completely empty.
As Odis was about to raise his head, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a cell out of the corner of his eye that appeared to be not empty.
So he quickly went to search for it and soon found the cell. Inside the cell wall was a head!
The head has soft facial features, a single closed, upright eye, and dark brown hair.
Odis quickly determined that it was the head of a giantess...
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
The giant's head... inside the cell wall?
This sounds like an exaggerated joke.
At that moment, the head seemed to sense Odis's gaze, and suddenly opened its closed single eye, looking at Odis.
She opened her mouth immediately, and Odis's spiritual senses immediately detected the danger. He jumped back abruptly, leaping at least two or three meters.
But the moment his feet touched the ground, he heard a vicious roar.
Upon hearing this sound, Oddis immediately felt dizzy and agitated.
Fortunately, with the protection of the "wilderness of knowledge," Odis's discomfort quickly disappeared.
He looked toward the microscope and exclaimed again, "This extraordinary world is truly full of wonders!"
Odis estimated that the giantess's head was some kind of symbol of the "Queen of Giants," Oenibella.
He had speculated that the "Queen of Giants" must have died a terrible death and uttered the most venomous curse before she died.
His remains became the level 0 sealed artifact "Gift of the Earth," which gave rise to black-faced grass in Silver City.
Thanks to the black grass as food, Silver City has been able to continue to this day, and most of its residents have not undergone significant mutations.
This also burdened every resident of Silver City with a curse that they must kill their own relatives to avoid becoming an evil spirit.
Odis quickly destroyed the slices, realizing that he was too weak at the moment and it was not the right time to study the black-faced grass.
The parts that needed to be dissected were dissected, and the parts that needed to be observed in detail were observed under a microscope.
Odis began writing his research report, noting that the mutations of the "mutant schistosome" and the "mutant castor bean" were greater than those of the "mutant mosquito larvae."
In particular, the "mutant schistosome" has crossed the animal classification in terms of its robustness, and basically no longer possesses the characteristics of a flatworm.
But it was definitely not a fish; the hollow cavity inside its body left a deep impression on Odis.
Although there were few other subjects to observe, Odis guessed that there must be something special about the swamp where the "mutant blood fluke" and the "mutant castor bean" were located.
Odis considered trading with "Little Sun" for more information on the soil around the swamp for further comparison.
Then Odis began to examine the bucket of soil and the bucket of silt under the microscope. The number of microorganisms in the soil was astonishing, and they were ugly and seemed very aggressive.
Odis used the power of the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to replicate the soil and conjure up seedling cups. He first covered them with a layer of soil, then sprinkled a few grains of wheat on top, and then covered them with soil again.
After watering, the time progress of these seedling cups was sped up using the "Central Simulator".
Soon, some of the wheat in the seedling cups began to sprout and quickly grew into stalks and ears of wheat that were healthier and stronger than normal wheat.
However, most of the wheat in the seedling cups did not germinate.
Odis dug down to take a look, but the wheat seeds were nowhere to be found; they had probably been eaten away by some microorganisms.
He concluded that if those microorganisms cannot be used as nutrients, they will simply be eaten.
Finally, there was the bucket of silt. Odis examined it under a microscope first and found that its composition was similar to that of soil. After that, the subsequent experiments on the two were conducted together.
Those experiments included heating, freezing, soaking in alkaline water, soaking in acidic water, etc., mainly to observe whether these soils were different from normal soils.
While waiting for the experimental results, Odis continued to write the research report.
A dozen minutes later, Odis suddenly noticed a faint glimmer in the container of heated sludge.
He stirred it with a glass rod and discovered that a layer of very fine crystals had appeared at the bottom of the container!