Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 129: Chapter 129: Light Shield (Third update, please subscribe)

”Light Shield? What’s that?”

Gu Bo smiled without a word, his divine sense stirring, and with a buzz, a faint blue transparent light screen appeared in front of him, about one meter wide and two meters tall.

”Is this the Light Shield?”

Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun looked at the blue transparent light screen in front of them with doubt.

”You two can try it out, with your fists, or weapons, either is fine.”

Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun exchanged glances, then both looked at Gu Bo.

”Are you sure?”

Gu Bo nodded.

Yang Xiao clenched his fists with both hands and threw a punch straight at it.

Next, he felt as if he hit an elastic rubber shield, his body jolted and bounced back several steps.

Long Yongjun too threw a punch in the same manner.

Bang! The harder he punched, the farther he bounced back, retreating even further than Yang Xiao, his arm feeling somewhat numb.

Yang Xiao, not convinced, drew the Golden Bee Sword with a swoosh. Although he now specialized in Feather Arrow Skill, the Golden Bee Swordsmanship was still sharp in his hands.

With a hiss, the Golden Bee Sword broke through the air, creating four sword shadows that all struck the Light Shield in front of Gu Bo.

However, the Light Shield didn’t even ripple.

”Let me try, I refuse to believe this can’t be beaten.”

Long Yongjun gripped the Dog Blood Blade with both hands, preparing to chop down.

Yang Xiao waved him off.

”No need to try anymore... Old man, how do you sell this Light Shield Skill?”

”The Light Shield Skill isn’t expensive, it only costs 100 Crystal Coins, but even if I sold it to you now, you wouldn’t be able to cultivate it.”

”Why not?”

”To cultivate the Light Shield Skill, you need your Strength, Speed, Defense, and Wisdom all to reach 10 points. Have you reached that yet?”

”This?”

Yang Xiao was suddenly at a loss for words.

Everyone’s Beast Soul is different, and so are their strengths, therefore the direction of development also varies. Right now, everyone prioritizes developing one of the four Genetic Attributes, to enhance their own advantages. Who the hell would bother with evenly developing all four Genetic Attributes?

Isn’t that a waste of resources?

But, the more this happens, the more it demonstrates the importance of this Light Shield Skill. Once you have it, you can have an extra layer of protection. At critical moments, it can reduce damage, even save your life.

Fully developing all four Genetic Attributes seems to be slower, holding you back, but once you cross that threshold, your overall combat power will greatly increase.

For example, the archery team brought by Xia Luo last time, until now Yang Xiao can’t think of a way to deal with Xia Luo’s archery.

Yang Xiao’s current attributes are Strength 10, Agility 13, Defense 6, Wisdom 5. If he wants to learn the Light Shield Skill, he must raise Defense and Wisdom to 10 points.

”Isn’t there another way?”

”No, the Light Shield Skill belongs to passive defense, and it only gets stronger later on. However, its drawback is also quite obvious, which is that you must give up prioritizing development in one direction and balance all four Genetic Attributes.”

Yang Xiao suddenly remembered the last time Xia Luo visited Kongming Academy, there were twenty members holding golden shields, so he asked:

”Don’t you have shields amongst the defensive equipment in your store? Why bother learning Light Shield?”

Gu Bo smiled and said:

”You must hold the Defensive Shield with your hands, for instance, if you are an archer, can you hold a shield in one hand and draw the bow with the other? The Light Shield Skill is different, as long as you mobilize your thoughts, it can appear in front of you at any position, protecting you at any time. Moreover, how can the defensive power of a shield compare with the Light Shield Skill?”

After hearing this, Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun felt a sense of impressive but indescribable power.

”Okay, sounds pretty impressive. I’m going to have dinner first and come back for chess tomorrow.”

Yang Xiao walked back to the cave dwelling with Long Yongjun, everyone else had finished their meals, but the food for Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun was separately kept in the pot, still hot.

Yang Xiao wasn’t much interested in eating right now, casually eating a few potatoes and some stir-fried dried meat, his mind full of thoughts about the Light Shield. If he could learn the Light Shield, wouldn’t that add an extra layer of protection when fighting others?

Like Gu Bo, whose Light Shield he couldn’t even pierce with a sword.

The more Yang Xiao thought about it, the more his heart itched.

”Boss, are you thinking about that Light Shield Skill?”

Long Yongjun asked.

Yang Xiao nodded, then sighed.

Long Yongjun had a rough understanding of Yang Xiao’s Genetic Evolution State, so he said:

”Boss, you could go learn it. You have a strong foundation, not like me, my Genetic Attributes are too poor to catch up all at once.”

”Ah, but now we can’t go hunting Mutated Creatures, we don’t have the resources.”

”You might not have them personally, but together we do, right? With over a thousand of us, if we all chip in, that’s tens of thousands of Genetic Fragments. It’ll be easy to help you stack up 10 points.”

Yang Xiao was taken aback and didn’t respond, then suddenly he thought of the Go game set up in the Genetic Store, which seemed odd, so he concentrated his energy and used his consciousness to try moving the potatoes in the iron basin.

But to no avail, the potatoes in the basin didn’t move an inch.

”Could it be that the potatoes are too big?”

Yang Xiao casually picked up a pebble from the ground and then used his consciousness to try moving it.

Still motionless.

”Damn it, there’s something wrong with Gu Bo’s chessboard and pieces.”

Yang Xiao’s curiosity about the mysterious Genetic Store grew once again.

The Werewolf Beast Soul is one of the few with a relatively balanced development in all four Genetic Attributes. Werewolves require high Strength, Agility, and Defense. The only thing they don’t need much is Wisdom; as melee warriors, if they could possess the Light Shield, they would definitely have a strong survival advantage in battle.

Yang Xiao gathered Huang Wen, Xiao Zhe, Zhao Gang, and others to register two things downstairs:

”The first thing is to register those whose average Genetic Attributes reach above 6, the higher the better. The second is to register everyone’s Genetic Fragments and see how many we have.”

Xiao Zhe said:

”Yang Xiao, I have about 20,000 Genetic Fragments here, which is a portion I took from everyone’s spoils of war. I was planning to save up 100,000 Genetic Fragments to pay for the relocation of the Genetic Store. Now that we have dug out the cave dwelling, we don’t need it. If you need it, take it.”

Yang Xiao was immediately delighted,

”When did you save up so many Genetic Fragments, how come I didn’t know?”

Xiao Zhe laughed:

”Huang Wen and Zhao Gang knew about it, they both kept the accounts. You’ve been busy every day teaming up with Qin Yu and others for outdoor training, so I didn’t tell you.

We got quite a bit from clearing the Mutated Creatures outdoors; we thought about saving a portion of the Genetic Fragments we got each time, once we have enough, we can move the Genetic Store to the front of the school administration building, giving us a place to settle. This was agreed upon by me, Huang Wen, and Zhao Gang.”

Huang Wen and Zhao Gang also nodded.

The final count showed that excluding the 20,000 Genetic Fragments Xiao Zhe had set aside, everyone else had about 30,000 Genetic Fragments, kept with them, ready to exchange for equipment when saved up enough.

Now the Genetic Store had been upgraded to level 5, which could equip better gear, but the prices have multiplied.

As for the people with an average of 6 points in all four Genetic Attributes, there were about forty to fifty of them.

Yang Xiao thought that with the team’s total of about 50,000 Genetic Fragments, if these were pooled to cultivate about twenty elites, and everyone learned the Light Shield Skill, they could surely be worth ten times their number. Twenty people could match the Combat Power of two hundred elite teams.

The next morning, Yang Xiao brought these forty or fifty people to the entrance of the Genetic Store.

(Another update coming tonight)