Chapter 72: Gene Locks and Telekinesis Levels

The concept of "Telekinesis" was popularized throughout the entire Civilization Federation by a single statement from Yan Xia, and it quickly became mainstream.

From schools and companies to Explorers and the military, Telekinesis was made a compulsory subject in the very first year.

After all, Telekinesis significantly enhances individual combat capabilities. If the original single-soldier combat capability is 10, then with Telekinesis, the minimum single-soldier combat capability is 30, and the maximum has yet to be determined, but it is definitely more than 100, indicating its immense power.

At the same time, Telekinesis training has a positive effect on brain development and can enhance the intelligence of life forms to a certain extent. This is also one of the reasons why all life forms went crazy.

When mental power was enhanced, Yan Xia had to consider another matter.

That is longevity.

Previously, Yan Xia had Ella issue a strict prohibition on the use of longevity-increasing technologies within the Civilization Federation.

Why did he do this?

In reality, Yan Xia had no choice.

Lifespan affects many aspects, and one of the most critical factors is the birth rate.

As the leader of the Civilization Federation, he had to consider the birth rate within the Federation. If all individuals in the Federation had lifespans of several hundred or even thousands of years, everyone would think, "Why should I hurry to have children? It's better to wait until the last few decades of my life to have them!"

Having no children also means no fresh blood, and as life forms age, they become stubborn, content with the status quo, and unwilling to make changes.

At that time, the Civilization Federation would face a severe aging problem.

The development of society within the Federation would stagnate, which is fatal for the entire Civilization Federation.

However, as a Level 2 civilization, all life forms know that they have the chance to achieve longevity. Every life form desires longevity, and such suppression would only create an intractable knot within the Civilization Federation.

"Ella, is it difficult to cultivate Telekinesis?" Yan Xia sat in the store, deep in thought, and asked.

Ella replied, "It's extremely difficult for life forms."

"It's like building muscles. Without technological assistance, it takes a regular person several years, or even a decade or more, to develop well-defined muscles through exercise."

"Cultivating Telekinesis is even more challenging. It's not about physically enlarging the brain but about training the mind's control over the brain."

"For example, most life forms have random thoughts all the time. But after gaining control over thoughts, this will no longer happen. You can make your brain think whenever you want it to, and you can make it rest whenever you choose. Your brain will become as obedient as your fingers..."

"To achieve this level of control, those with good talent may need several years of specialized training, while those with poor talent might require two to three decades to reach this level."

"Additionally, due to differences in brain structure, or more precisely, the structure of the neural hub, the methods and time required to cultivate Telekinesis vary greatly among humans, the Kaitian, the Hundred-Eyed, the Caiyan, and the Qishui races."

Yan Xia nodded, relieved that the difficulty of Telekinesis was not an issue.

"Then let's create a gene lock based on Telekinesis."

"Once a life form's Telekinesis reaches a certain level, they can unlock a gene lock, essentially freeing the quark robots within their bodies from restrictions, allowing the robots to extend their lifespan without altering their genes."

This is somewhat similar to the concept of cultivating immortality in Chinese mythology. At the Foundation Establishment stage, you gain a 150-year lifespan; at the Golden Elixir stage, it's 300 years...

To achieve a longer lifespan, one must rely on their own efforts and talent, which will filter out a large number of life forms. Most life forms will still ensure the birth rate of the Civilization Federation, while a small portion will gain an advantage.

This is both unfair and extremely fair.

The unfair aspect is that life forms with resources, such as the wealthy second generation, have a higher probability of achieving a longer lifespan, leading to the strong becoming even stronger.

However, it is also fair because the unfair advantage of the wealthy exists in any condition unless we revisit the previous topic of equal resource distribution, which, again, does not benefit the Civilization Federation as a whole.

On the contrary, this path of Telekinesis can provide an upward channel for a small portion of life forms who are either hardworking or talented.

It can be seamlessly integrated into the system without changing the current social status quo.

Afterward, Yan Xia and Ella devised a strict set of Telekinesis levels.

Level 1: Control of Telekinesis, the ability to freely regulate one's mental tension.

Level 2: Multitasking, the ability to use one's brain to simultaneously think about multiple tasks. The passing criterion is to solve ten different professional-level problems, including literature, geography, mathematics, biology, physics, and chemistry, within ten seconds.

Level 3: Supercomputing and Super Memory, memorizing an academic-level geometry problem in one second and solving its optimal solution within the next ten seconds.

Level 4: Control-level Multiple Personality, simultaneously controlling more than fifty characters of different genders, ages, and races in the Divine Revelation game to perform different tasks appropriate to their identities for 24 Earth hours without rest.

The fourth level is what Ella considers to be beyond the reach of life forms in the short term.

If an ordinary life form were to train, it would take a thousand years to reach Level 4. Even a genius with multiple personalities would likely die on the spot upon seeing the terrifying number of fifty, as it's like building a village in one's mind.

The simplest level, Level 1, actually doesn't require a long training period; five to ten years of specialized training is sufficient.

Yan Xia plans to extend the lifespan of life forms that reach Level 1 by 20%. The reason it's not a specific number of years is that different races naturally have different lifespans, so this is an attempt to be as fair as possible.

Level 2 will extend the lifespan by 80% of the limit at Level 1. For example, if the original limit is 100 years, reaching Level 1 increases it to 120 years, and reaching Level 2 further adds 80% of 120 years, resulting in a total lifespan of 216 years.

Upon reaching the extremely challenging Level 3, the lifespan is extended by 200% of the limit at Level 2. Using the previous example, this would result in a final lifespan of 648 years.

"Just enough for a big whale to spend," Yan Xia joked.

"The big whale recharges in whole numbers in the Divine Revelation game, and there's no 648. Why don't you go and change it?"

Yan Xia shook his head.

"Forget it."

His forgotten memories almost resurfaced.

"What about Level 4?"

Ella asked, as she was taking notes to ensure that all of Yan Xia's ideas would be implemented later without any misunderstandings.

"According to your previous statement, the difficulty of reaching Level 4 is at the maximum. Regardless of the race, even if there were several million life forms at Level 3, not a single one would reach Level 4."

"Then let's set it a bit higher. Based on Level 3, the lifespan is increased by 500%, resulting in 3240 years, which is 32.4 times the original racial lifespan limit."

Upon reaching Level 4, humans can achieve a lifespan of 4212 years, surpassing even the ancient Yuan Ying Lao Zu.

Currently, the longest natural lifespan within the Civilization Federation belongs to the Hundred-Eyed race, with a limit of 415 years. Reaching Level 4 would give them a lifespan of 13,446 years, longer than Yan Xia's current lifespan.

If Level 5 is proven to exist, this lifespan will likely double again.

Yan Xia doesn't know if this is a good or bad thing for the future, but for now, it has resolved one conflict.

At the same time, after completing the Telekinesis grading system, Yan Xia also considers resolving another conflict.

— Decentralization of power!