Although the Human Alliance Council's investigation into Ding Yun's actions was discreet, they were not operating on their own territory. The process inevitably involved orcs, some of whom deeply admired Ding Yun and saw her as the future hope of their kind.
Fearing that Ding Yun might be targeted or harmed, these orcs subtly passed on some information to her.
They warned her to be vigilant and cautious.
As an experienced veteran of the world, Ding Yun wouldn't be so oblivious as to have no inkling of an investigation into her. However, to avoid alerting the enemy, she hadn't delved too deeply, only exercising more caution.
Now, through the indirect information provided by others, she learned who was investigating her, making it easy to find a breakthrough and, within a very short time, understand the Human Alliance Council's motives.
She also figured out the various aspects from which they were investigating her.
As the situation gradually became clearer and the power disparity between the two sides remained vast, far from a point of confrontation, Ding Yun naturally went with the flow.
She managed to send blood and hair samples, which she had altered, to the collection personnel.
Concurrently, her affiliated enterprises began selling elixirs that promoted cultivation advancement. Some of these elixirs could be used by gene-enhanced humans and espers.
Furthermore, Ding Yun specifically instructed her disciples to temporarily put aside the pursuit of cultivation advancement and instead focus on cultivating the Guixi Yin Ni Gong (Turtle Breathing Concealment Technique) to a profound level.
This was to prevent others from prying into their cultivation.
After the Human Alliance Council obtained Ding Yun's hair and blood samples and experimented with the elixirs recently sold by her company, they were compelled to acknowledge the uniqueness of Ding Yun's bloodline.
They confirmed that her special bloodline, combined with the elixirs, could indeed allow her to become a Venerable in an extremely short period.
This was because they discovered that the gene chains within Ding Yun's cells were entirely composed of black and white patterns, which could maximally absorb and refine external energy, converting it into nutrients for self-enhancement.
Theoretically, as long as energy and resources were abundant, she could indeed break through to the Venerable realm in a remarkably short time. Furthermore, since Ding Yun was the only panda beastman available for their research, with no other panda beastmen for comparison, how could they discern truth from falsehood?
They could only conclude that the panda beastman bloodline was extraordinary.
Such a potent bloodline, combined with the elixirs that rapidly enhanced cultivation, which Ding Yun was now selling but had likely possessed the secret formula for long ago, made her breakthrough to the Venerable realm at such a young age not difficult to accept.
Most crucially, compared to the uniqueness of Ding Yun's bloodline's gene chain and its terrifying efficacy, her cultivation realm became less significant to the Human Alliance Council. They were more interested in deciphering the secrets of the gene chain, and even whether this special bloodline could be transplanted into themselves. After all, who wouldn't covet a special bloodline that, with sufficient resources, could continuously enhance cultivation and physique without any bottlenecks?
With this shift in focus, the pressure on Ding Yun naturally lessened considerably.
The Human Alliance Council even issued a decree that no family was to act against Ding Yun, at least until they had thoroughly researched her bloodline.
This was because, with too few samples and their rapid deactivation, a living Ding Yun, who could continuously provide samples for research, was far more valuable and conducive to breakthroughs.
As for whether their pipe dream would come true,
That was, of course, impossible.
The blood and hair they had stolen had all been tampered with by Ding Yun. Both the internal gene chains and other attributes were fabricated by Ding Yun, centered around the two cultivation techniques, the Beiming Wuliang Zhenjing (North Nether Limitless True Scripture) and the Yinyang Da Mo (Yin-Yang Great Grinder).
Therefore, the gene chains within her blood were, in essence, these two cultivation techniques.
The absorption of all energy to strengthen oneself was also the ultimate effect displayed by these two techniques. The Beiming Wuliang Zhenjing was responsible for absorbing energy, capable of absorbing all kinds, regardless of whether they were beneficial or harmful. The Yinyang Da Mo then refined the absorbed energy into the most fundamental Yin and Yang attributes,
Nourishing the body and enhancing cultivation.
If they attempted to decipher the gene chain in Ding Yun's blood from the perspective of interpreting cultivation techniques, they would most likely be able to reconstruct these two techniques.
Even if not a hundred percent.
Reconstructing seventy to eighty percent would not be a problem.
However, it was predictable that they would never conceive that the entire gene chain was fabricated by Ding Yun, let alone fabricated using cultivation techniques. Therefore, they would likely persist in analyzing and researching from a genetic standpoint.
And from a genetic perspective,
No matter how they researched, they would only arrive at nonsensical conclusions, perhaps even doubting themselves and their lives, but never suspecting the blood obtained from Ding Yun. In fact, the more difficult it was to decipher,
The more they would believe it to be true. It was only natural for such a magical and terrifying bloodline to be difficult to decipher; it would be strange if it were easily deciphered!
What happened subsequently,
Did indeed unfold as Ding Yun predicted.
For nearly three years, they successfully dispatched personnel to steal blood and hair samples from Ding Yun's vicinity four times for blood and twelve times for hair. Of course, they attempted to steal more frequently, but Ding Yun couldn't let them succeed every time. To prevent them from becoming too confident and suspicious,
Ding Yun had deliberately set up some obstacles for them, basically allowing them to succeed only once every three attempts.
After the samples were stolen, the research began. However, after three years, there were no research results. All researchers were baffled, unable to analyze the situation of the gene chain with yin-yang stripe patterns. No matching patterns could be found in nature or genetic databases.
Transplanting them into other organisms invariably caused their gene chains to collapse, with no survivors.
Eventually, some genetics professors were on the verge of breakdown, feeling that their worldview and all the genetic knowledge they had learned were being challenged.
This was because her gene fragments were too strange.
So strange, they seemed alien.
In response, many researchers put forth bold conjectures. For instance, some speculated that Ding Yun's bloodline might be a special mutation caused by radiation from energy minerals, or that the bloodline itself might contain an unknown radiation, thus explaining the failure of transplantation and the collapse of gene chains upon transplantation.
The reason she herself remained unharmed might have been an accident, a blessing from the heavens.
Other researchers believed that ancient legends might be true, that the pandas ridden by Chi You were indeed divine beasts, and Ding Yun might have awakened the bloodline of an ancient panda divine beast.
Therefore, her genes appeared so peculiar.
The gene chains within the few ancient Qīngluán (Azure Luan) bloodline samples preserved in the research institute also appeared strange and were untransplantable, though not as extreme as the panda bloodline.
Of course, there were even more outlandish ideas. Some researchers even suggested that the yin-yang stripe gene chain in Ding Yun's body might be related to legendary talismans, and perhaps it could be deciphered through metaphysical research.
However, this idea was immediately met with scolding, accused of talking nonsense, and they were on the verge of expelling him.
Little did they know that his research direction
Was the most likely to yield results.
Unfortunately, no one adopted it, and they could only continue their futile efforts in a state of confusion, unsure when, or if, any results would be achieved.