Chapter 540: Chapter 366: Barehanded Basalt Breaking, Ten Thousand Meters Underground

After the carbon atom entered his body,

Wang Ye swiftly utilized the Reconstruction of All Things ability to operate.

He first simulated the laboratory process of creating carbon acetylene, continuously generating high-pressure environments within his body.

According to research, the theoretical pressure requirement to produce carbon acetylene exceeds 100GPa.

What kind of concept is this?

Standard atmospheric pressure is approximately 0.0001013 GPa,

which means the pressure needed to produce carbon acetylene

is roughly a million times that of atmospheric pressure,

even a hundred times higher than the pressure needed to make diamonds.

And currently, humans find it difficult to achieve large-scale industrial mass production of diamonds, let alone carbon acetylene over a hundred times higher.

If Wang Ye wants to synthesize carbon acetylene within his body, he needs to trigger carbon atom SP hybridization under ultra-high pressure, promoting the formation of carbon acetylene chains, essentially simulating the environment of the mantle to compress carbon atoms and bones. The reason carbon acetylene is harder to manufacture than diamond is not only due to the pressure requirements. Usually, the temperature needed to create diamonds is around a thousand degrees, whereas carbon acetylene is extremely unstable at high temperatures. This means low temperature or rapid quenching technology is required to maintain the structure.

Creating such a high-pressure environment and how can you naturally maintain low temperatures? In this case, maintaining low temperatures is even more challenging than maintaining high temperatures, which is one of the difficulties in producing carbon acetylene.

Therefore, if Wang Ye wants to produce carbon acetylene within his body, he must adhere to these two rules. Otherwise, he can at most produce diamonds, but the hardness of diamonds clearly doesn’t meet Wang Ye’s current needs, as the hardness of diamonds is only one-fortieth that of carbon acetylene. Although the hardness of diamonds might be dozens of times that of Wang Ye’s current bone hardness, going straight to the target is far better than gradually tinkering; it’s better to evolve directly toward carbon acetylene.

Wang Ye continually applied Primordial Qi to increase pressure within his body, while his muscles also exerted internal pressure, attempting to alter the carbon atom structure further by raising the atmospheric pressure within his body.

As he released more energy, his body’s temperature gradually climbed to several hundred degrees,

while the internal pressure gradually increased to approximately 0.1GPa, about a thousand times atmospheric pressure, enough to crush an average person easily, but this pressure still couldn’t cause any change to the carbon atoms.

Wang Ye continued applying pressure, finally managing to increase the pressure to about 3GPa,

but this pressure was still far short of the pressure required for carbon acetylene and couldn’t even reach the pressure needed for diamonds.

In the end, Wang Ye could only abandon the experiment and left the carbon atoms within his body.

He sighed softly, picked up a piece of graphite ore from the ground,

thinking in his mind how he should improve the pressure on his bones.

Meanwhile, his palm subconsciously applied pressure inward.

The graphite in his hand gradually got crushed into powder.

Yet, Wang Ye’s hand didn’t stop exerting force but continued pressing harder.

As if trying to crush the graphite into diamond or carbon acetylene directly through grip strength.

But with Wang Ye’s current strength, it’s obviously impossible.

Technically speaking, if the force is large enough,

and the temperature high enough, it’s possible to pinch carbon into diamonds.

In the manga "Blade Fang," a character named Hanma Yujiro managed to crush graphite into diamonds by hand in the plot, but given Hanma Yujiro’s displayed battle strength level in the plot, this performance is entirely unreasonable.

Calculations suggest at least grip strength must reach 7.6 billion newtons or 76000 tons, theoretically possible to crush graphite into diamonds. If Hanma Yujiro’s grip strength were at this level, he could likely destroy half of Earth with just his power.

Wang Ye attempted for half a minute,

finding the graphite fragments in his palm unchanged,

finally could only open his hand,

yet his eyes showed not the slightest loss, but rather a slight flash.

"Since his own strength is insufficient... what if external force is used?"

In nature, there are actually organisms that perform skeletal mineralization similar to Wang Ye, such as the outer shells of clams.

Biomineralization is mainly exogenous mineralization and endogenous mineralization, exogenous mineralization is where the organism absorbs minerals from the environment, depositing them in specific areas to form mineralized structures, such as diatoms which absorb soluble silicon through silicon transport proteins on the cell membrane to form nano-sized silica shells, structures as intricate as micro-carvings, while endogenous mineralization uses ions produced through its own metabolism to synthesize minerals, such as the abalone shell, which alternates arranged layers of calcium carbonate and chitin, with more than three thousand times the toughness of pure calcium carbonate.

But there are also cases of biomineralization in extreme environments, such as utilizing sulfide for mineralization into composite tubes of chitin metal sulfide at 300 degrees Celsius and high pressure, possessing exceptionally high corrosion resistance.

This is an example of bone mineralization through external forces,

likewise, Wang Ye can train in extreme environments to promote his own evolution. For instance, the upper mantle, approximately 660 kilometers deep, has a pressure of 24GPa, far beyond the pressure requirement for diamonds.

If Wang Ye applies pressure in such an environment, he should be able to synthesize carbon acetylene or diamonds more easily.

But merely synthesizing carbon acetylene isn’t enough because actively constructing carbon acetylene alone cannot directly change the body’s genes. He needs to simultaneously undergo systematic evolution for gene editing, causing bone cells to secrete proteins containing acetylene groups, directing carbon atoms to form a hexagonal lattice, which is the structure of carbon acetylene.