Fellow practitioners who live in this mortal world with their beauty

Chapter 539 Silicon-Carbon Synthetic Enzyme

Women are women, with delicate and rich emotions, and everyone has a girlish fairy tale dream in her heart.

However, Queen Mother of the West and others were just having an absurd dream.

The design of the underworld has turned it into a fairy tale world. Is your local government a tourist attraction? Didn’t you see that even the Emperor of the Underworld has worldly thoughts?

If the Ten Kings of Hell were allowed to live here, as well as those ghost officials, they would all be reincarnated.

"What should I do... let's have some scary scenes."

The underworld doesn't look like the underworld. How can it be like this?

Sanbao had to stay behind to clean up the mess. He used the energy of Luoshu to swap palaces into the cliffs. On the islands and reefs, roads twisted and turned, with ups and downs and shadows overlapping, making it look eerie and dark.

The underworld is a dark and terrifying place.

How can it be a fairy tale world if it is often accompanied by a gloomy atmosphere and strange scenes?

After some adjustments, the scene in the underworld changed drastically, with gusts of cold wind, black fog, wandering phantoms, the sound of sorghum, etc., all of which created a chilling atmosphere.

"Brother Ji, look how terrifying it is now... Hey, hey, hey, what are you thinking about?"

After Sanbao's series of operations, there was a hint of terror in the Ten Palaces area. He couldn't help but feel a little proud, and turned to look at the Hades Emperor Ji Xian who was following behind him.

Who knew that this guy was so absent-minded, as if he had lost his soul, and he woke up in a daze after calling out a few times.

"Uh... I am trying to comprehend the Taoist's poems."

"It's not urgent to comprehend the spirit. The layout of the underworld has changed drastically. You have a long way to go. You can arrange for King Qin Guang and others to move in and work there now."

"The artistic conception of Daojun's poem was extraordinary. I was so absorbed in it that I almost forgot about the important matters in the underworld."

Damn, I don’t even know what groaning means, so how can you understand it? It’s just an illusion so that you can’t have wild thoughts.

"Okay, okay, when you understand it, feel free to come to me. I have a lot of poems here."

After finishing his business in the underworld, he left and returned to the void.

"Bull Demon King... Bah, where's Xuan Kui?"

Sanbao returned to the aircraft and saw that the two cups in the restricted area were still there, but the little longhorn beetle was nowhere to be found.

Did the little guy slip away?

impossible!

The restriction was intact. Little Longniu had just started practicing and was unable to break the restriction of the Three Treasures.

The disappearance of the little longhorn beetle in the aircraft is no small matter for Sanbao, as it indicates that there are safety risks in the silicon-based people's aircraft.

But this is not a problem for Sanbao because there are surveillance cameras.

"Fuck, why is this guy becoming transparent..."

The picture shows that after the little longicorn has drunk its fill, it closes its eyes and lies in the water. Its body begins to slowly disappear, as if blending into the air.

Is the little guy going to be reduced to ashes?

Sanbao quickly removed the ban and checked the water cup.

This little guy was lying in the elixir water, his whole body was transparent, and anyone could see through the bottom of the cup at a glance. It would be difficult to detect him without using spiritual sense.

There was a faint layer of transparent silk thread on the wall of the cup, like cocoon silk, covering the Danshui and the little longicorn.

"Is this what he meant by evolution into a chrysalis?"

Although the little longhorn beetle had fallen into a coma, it still had a pulse and its little heart was beating weakly.

Damn, if you're not dead, get up and take a few steps.

It's okay to evolve, but you didn't even breathe. I thought you drowned.

After confirming that the little longhorn beetle was fine, Sanbao felt relieved.

Not knowing how long it would take for the longhorn beetle to transform, Sanbao decided to take advantage of this opportunity to develop an artificial silicon-carbon bond synthase.

This is a long evolutionary process, just like breeding a thousand-mile horse, but Sanbao has the ability to induce birth, which can greatly shorten the growth time.

Arnold... come out!

Sanbao searched in his soul and found Arnold, the Nobel Prize winner in his previous life. This man proposed a strategy called "directed evolution", which means that researchers can control microorganisms to create objects that have never been seen before.

Just like farmers make long-term improvements to crops, or breed out unique traits in livestock.

Simply put, it means taking the essence and discarding the dross.

However, those are all carbon-based fusions, and what we are doing now is the fusion of two immiscible substances, silicon and carbon.

Arnold and his team focus on enzymes, proteins that catalyze or speed up chemical reactions, and their goal is to create enzymes that can produce organosilicon compounds.

Call out Xiangluo to receive theoretical knowledge on synthetase, and then proceed to the experimental stage with Sanbao.

The void experiment is a great epoch-making feat. The people of Blue Star have only invented the steam engine now, so they will have to wait hundreds of years before they can go to space.

Haha, I want to conduct space experiments.

First, you need to select the target enzyme whose performance you want to enhance, and in principle, Sambo chose silicon, which can be manipulated chemically.

Secondly, mutations are introduced into the DNA encoding the enzyme in a random manner and the performance of the resulting enzyme is tested. Then, the enzyme with the best performance is mutated again and screened, and the process is repeated until the desired result is obtained.

The goal of Sanbao's research is not just to improve the chemical function of enzymes, but mainly the biological function, but to actually make enzymes do things that have never been done before.

This is to integrate into the body of silicon-based or carbon-based humans to form a new organism.

By then, this new organism will be able to possess the advantages of both silicon-based and carbon-based humans, and it will no longer be a dream for humans to dominate the universe.

To do this, Sanbao needed to find the right protein, an enzyme that could potentially create silicon-carbon bonds.

This is like breeding a thousand-mile horse, where the Bole identified the potential of the thousand-mile horse and then bred the real thousand-mile horse through successive generations. Now the practice is similar, except that the experiment is conducted using protein.

This is theoretical knowledge. If Sanbao can put it into practice, he will be the first person to change a living organism.

Initially, Sanbao experimented with enzymes called heme proteins, which have iron at their core and can catalyze a variety of reactions.

The most widely recognized heme protein in the past was hemoglobin in the body, the red pigment that helps the blood carry oxygen. After testing a variety of heme proteins, Sanbao focused his attention on marine red thermophilic salt bacteria.

At that time, in order to find it, Sanbao was teleported back to the world from the underworld and searched the entire blue planet, and finally found this bacteria in a hot spring on an island reef in the South China Sea.

This also has to do with the power of the cultivators' spiritual awareness.

They can see what a microscope can see, and high-level monks can also perceive things that a microscope cannot see.

Through bacterial research and cultivation, silicon-carbon bond synthase has become increasingly mature.

After research, Sanbao speculated that thermohaline bacteria only need a few mutations to significantly enhance the catalytic activity of this enzyme.

Indeed, after only three rounds of mutations, the protein became a catalyst that could produce silicon-carbon bonds.

With more than two dozen organosilicon compounds generated, Sambo's research showed that Arnold was right.

"Haha, a new organism is about to be born."

Although he was only generating chemical compounds, Sanbao felt proud of it, because his major in his previous life had nothing to do with chemistry and physics.

But now I have achieved success through magic. If it were in my previous life, I would have won the Nobel Prize.

Don't mind the bonus, but it's an affirmation.

In addition to showing that the mutant enzyme can produce organosilicon compounds on its own in a test tube, Sambo showed that Escherichia coli, a bacterium that normally produces the mutant enzyme on its own, can also create organosilicon compounds.

It turns out that this is how silicon-based life was born...

The result that E. coli itself produced mutant enzymes under certain conditions shows the possibility that microorganisms somewhere can evolve to create silicon-based life under natural conditions.

In this way, the environment of the silicon-based people's planet meets the conditions for the birth of silicon-based life.

The Tongtian Formation has not been repaired yet, so it is temporarily impossible to return to the fairyland to find single crystals for experiments. Sanbao carefully placed the silicon-carbon bond synthetase in test tubes and stored them in a storage ring to keep them fresh and prevent them from being infected by radiation.

"Master, can I drink this potion?"

"Of course... Hey, when did you wake up? Damn, your hair... has grown."

Sanbao looked at Xuan Kui in surprise. He was so absorbed in the experiment, studying the synthetic enzyme, that he didn't notice that the little longhorn beetle had woken up.

"I have to thank Master for the elixir."

The little longhorn beetle didn't expect that its body length would double after it emerged as a pupae. It knew without asking that it was the effect of the elixir water.

"Hahaha, my disciple is really fast. Not only has he grown taller, but his realm has also reached the late stage of Qi Refining."

"What...I have become a monk."

"With my master here, it won't be a problem for me to reach the Qi Refining Stage, or even ascend to the Immortal Realm and achieve immortality."

"Master...if I continue to practice, can I become as big as a bull?"

Damn, are cows very big?

Any monster that can cultivate naturally, after hundreds or thousands of years of practice, will become a huge monster.