Wang Ye grabbed a handful of diamonds and stuffed them into his mouth.

Squeak squeak.

A sharp, teeth-grinding sound emanated from his mouth.

He chewed with difficulty for a long time and only managed to crush a very few of the diamonds.

These diamonds, harder than metal, were extremely difficult to chew, even though his teeth were already as hard as diamonds.

But after just a few chews, his teeth would still break, and he would have to waste more carbon atoms to restore them,

Moreover, the muscle fiber strength of his jaw wasn’t sufficient to crush diamonds, causing damage and rupture to his jaw muscles during chewing, requiring him to draw more energy to restore the muscle fiber damage, which was clearly not worth the effort.

So his tactic was to swallow smaller diamonds whenever possible, letting his stomach handle the dissolution of the diamonds and absorption of carbon atoms.

But this method still caused some discomfort to his body. Even though his gastric acid was dozens to almost a hundred times more corrosive than sulfuric acid, it still felt indigestion when corroding diamonds.

It was like an ordinary person eating a large amount of fish and meat, with the stomach full of an overwhelming sense of bloating. Meat is very hard for humans to digest, especially nutrients like protein and fat which require a lot of energy to break down, because when the human body ingests protein, a series of chemical reactions are needed to break it down into small molecules of amino acids for absorption.

Furthermore, digestion of carbohydrates, like rice and foods with high sugar content, is relatively simpler but still consumes energy. That’s why people with less physical strength feel exhausted after eating, and the secretion of insulin after a meal causes a sense of fatigue or even fainting. These reactions come not only from energy consumed by chewing but also from the stomach’s churning and acid secretion.

Having evolved to his current state, digesting ordinary nutrients like proteins and fats no longer exhausts Wang Ye.

However, absorbing metals and unconventional foods like graphite ore and diamonds consumes a lot of his energy, causing him to become mentally and physically exhausted. This is because digesting and decomposing these substances requires numerous complex chemical reactions; although these reactions aren’t controlled by his consciousness, the energy consumption by his body is very real.

Wang Ye continued swallowing small diamond particles, promoting the secretion of gastric acid. The amassed diamonds in his stomach were soon entirely digested, transformed into 100% carbon atoms stored in his body. They could be deployed any time to repair bone damage or stimulate new bone growth.

After the ingestion, Wang Ye moved his limbs. The sense of bloating from consuming diamonds wasn’t as pronounced as when ingesting graphite ore, because diamonds had higher density and fewer impurities than graphite ore.

Other than his body weight increasing two to three times, it hardly had any negative effects on him.

Soon after, Wang Ye returned to the pit, reaching a depth of over a hundred thousand meters underground.

The pressure here had reached 10GPa.

This meant that Wang Ye only needed to locally amplify the pressure tenfold to reach the level required for synthesizing carbon acetylene, significantly improving synthesis efficiency.

Wang Ye calculated the time—it was just past 5 AM.

He initiated the fermentation metabolic function, his muscles instantly swelling to 80% of their potential value.

This was used to withstand the surrounding pressure and prevent his internal bones from being crushed by the pressure, causing unnecessary damage.

About 5 minutes later, the system’s evolution arrived as expected.

Wang Ye sensed the evolution, his eyes snapping open.

He mobilized a portion of carbon atoms, concentrating them in his right index finger, then unfolded a nanofocused force field.

In an instant, black mist spread among his fingers, and dangerous rays blossomed outward at the moment the nanoforce field formed.

Simultaneously, his entire left forearm exploded into a bloody mist, as the excessive localized pressure shattered his flesh and bones—all except a segment of carbon acetylene finger bone, shimmering with an eerie black light, slowly taking shape within the blood mist.

Meanwhile, his genes began to be forcibly transformed, with the mutation in his body leading to a structural breakdown and reformation of his original diamond genes. His body’s intense reaction caused Wang Ye to grunt, with his veins bulging menacingly all over his body.

This process lasted for about 10 minutes. The reconstruction of the carbon acetylene skeleton was far more challenging than Wang Ye had imagined because synthesizing carbon acetylene in itself was extremely difficult, and even the system’s evolutionary capability struggled to produce such a rare material within the body.

Fortunately, the genetic reformation was eventually successful. Despite the intense energy consumption, Wang Ye immediately inspected his own finger bone.

The crystalline finger bone that had previously been transformed into diamond was now jet black as night, with some bizarre pattern gleaming on it.

Even though it was merely a change in a finger bone, it made Wang Ye feel as if his entire life stage had transformed. Whereas his diamond body was still within the realm of natural materials, the carbon acetylene skeleton now was a purely artificial creation.

This newfound ability to control his own body at will gave Wang Ye a sense of unprecedented satisfaction.