Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: It’s Time to Unify Nanmu City

Yang Xiao finished delegating tasks and immediately got Wang Le to lead 65 people to dig for Ice Fish at Star River.

Wang Le was stunned:

”Aren’t you bringing some food with you?”

Yang Qiao laughed:

”I haven’t finished eating what I borrowed last time yet.”

Seeing that Yang Xiao didn’t take any food from them, Wang Le and the others considerably lowered their guard towards him.

Before leaving, Yang Xiao gave another command:

”From now on, reduce the heating time by half an hour every day, gradually decreasing it to only during sleep at night. Everyone must go outside from the underground mall and run ten laps every day. We must gradually adapt our bodies to the severe cold; otherwise, we will truly be useless.”

Wang Le followed Yang Xiao to the icy river with 55 people, where they witnessed Yang Xiao using the One Finger Splitting Earth Soul Skill, which left them greatly shocked, secretly relieved that they hadn’t resisted the day before, or they would have been done for.

In the process of digging for Ice Fish, they gained 12 Fish Skin Armors and dozens of large Ice Fish on the first day, thrilled to their cores.

Upon returning to Star City, the people were overjoyed upon hearing that they really could possess Warmth-warding Armor and have big fish to eat.

Damn it, they were so tired of eating rice every day they could vomit!

This meal, the people of Star City ate with great excitement; Wang Le had five large Ice Fish stewed, and everyone ate their fill.

A new vitality began emanating from Star City.

The next day, Wang Le led more people to Star River, with an additional 12 joining.

Over several days, the count of Warmth-warding Armor in Star City increased to over a hundred.

As more and more people emerged from the underground mall, their perception of Yang Xiao began to change. From initial reluctant submission, and even some hatred, it slowly transformed to admiration, acceptance, worship, and even remarks like ”Why didn’t you come to rescue us earlier?”

Zhao Gang’s supervision of Star City went unchallenged, as everyone was busy trying to seize the opportunity to leave the underground mall sooner and rid themselves of their dependency on heating.

After consulting Xia Luo, Yang Xiao formed a joint patrol system among three locations; every hour, each place sends a team to the other two’s strongholds to monitor the situation and understand each other’s movements, preventing infiltration by other forces.

Xianan University, Kongming Academy, and the people of Star City would dig for Ice Fish every day around Xianan University, gradually excavating about ten kilometers up and down.

The width of Star River was about five hundred meters. Initially, everyone only dug about 100 meters nearby, gradually progressing to 200 meters, 300 meters, and finally digging up to about 100 meters away from the urban area.

At first, the people of Star City managed to dig out about ten to twenty pieces of Fish Skin Armor each day. As more people joined in Ice Fish digging, the daily amount of Ice Fish excavated also increased.

In one month’s time, all people of Star City were able to wear Fish Skin Armor and walk out of the underground mall.

When the last member of Star City wore their Fish Skin Armor and walked out of the underground mall, everyone cheered.

Meanwhile, Yang Xiao and Xia Luo sold the dug-up Fish Skin Armor to the Genetic Store. As the quantity increased, the price of Fish Skin Armor gradually dropped to 150 Crystal Coins per piece, and the Genetic Store could buy them for about 250 Crystal Coins each, with further bargaining possible for bulk purchases.

Kongming Academy sold about 3,000 pieces of Fish Skin Armor, earning nearly one million Crystal Coins, while Xianan University sold about 2,000 pieces, making close to 700,000 Crystal Coins.

Yang Xiao became an esteemed member of the Genetic Store’s Black Crystal Card, enjoying the privilege of unlimited stay time in any Genetic Store and a 10% discount on all items.

During this relatively peaceful period, Yang Xiao helped everyone dig Ice Caves in the river morning and spent the afternoons playing Go with Gu Bo back at the Genetic Store.

Unbeknownst to him, Yang Xiao’s speed in playing chess with consciousness had greatly improved, nearly matching Gu Bo’s assistant, which surprised Gu Bo quite a bit.

Yang Xiao spent 100,000 Crystal Coins to complete the evolution at the Primordial Gene Primary Stage.

On the day Yang Xiao finished his plan, everyone from Kongming Academy was waiting in the snow, curious about what new Soul Skill Yang Xiao would showcase.

Now, Yang Xiao’s Genetic Data System read as follows:

Strength, 20; Agility, 20; Defense, 20; Wisdom, 20.

Skills:

Golden Bee Sword, Level 7,

Feathered Arrow, Level 7,

Soul Skills: One Finger Splitting Earth (Level 2), Snow Wolf Roar (Level 2)

The level of a Soul Skill progresses with the cultivator’s own Evolution Level, meaning the current power of Yang Xiao’s One Finger Splitting Earth Soul Skill had significantly enhanced compared to before.

Below his Genetic Data System, Yang Xiao saw no new Soul Skills.

”What’s going on, why aren’t there any new Soul Skills activated?”

Gu Bo smiled:

”Not every Beast Soul individual activates Soul Skills at the same stage, and not every stage comes with new soul skills. Besides, Soul Skills are not the most powerful techniques. Many newly learned skills, when highly leveled, have attack damage exceeding that of Soul Skills. Additionally, even if a skill reaches its maximum level, its attack damage continues to rise as the Evolver’s own Genetic Evolution Level increases.”

Yang Xiao nodded.

With the remaining 900,000 Crystal Coins, Yang Xiao decided to enhance about 50 more people to the Primordial Gene Primary Stage at a cost of around 10,000 Crystal Coins per person.

The remainder, about 300,000 Crystal Coins, was spent allowing everyone, including the logistics group, to boost some of their Genetic Attributes,—for instance, if the logistics group needed Strength, everyone’s Strength点.points were raised above 5. This cost remarkably little but significantly enhanced everyone’s work efficiency.

Additionally, other people boosted some key Genetic Attributes as well to enhance their attack skill effects.

Qin Yu and Deng Xiao smoothly entered the Primordial Gene Primary Stage during this upgrade.

Xiao Zhe, Zhao Gang, Huang Wen, Long Yongjun, Chen Fei, and others who had already reached the Primordial Gene Primary Stage also further enhanced their crucial attribute points.

By now, Kongming Academy possessed a Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage expert, Yang Xiao, and 60 Primordial Gene Primary Stage experts, becoming a fearsome force.

The Genetic Evolution Level of Kongming Academy jumped directly to 10.

Xia Luo of Xianan University also advanced to the Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage, also boosting several dozen to the Primordial Gene Primary Stage.

Together, the two institutions had over 100 Primordial Gene Primary Stage experts.

As for Star City, having just equipped with Warmth-warding Armor, there wasn’t enough time to raise the Genetic Plan Level yet. However, Yang Xiao valued the reservoir of 2,000 people in Star City, foreseeing rapid development when opportunities arose.

Yang Xiao sought out Xia Luo.

”It’s time to move into the urban areas and take down Xie Jun, unifying Nanmu City.”

Xia Luo nodded,

”I’ve been waiting for this day. The decision is yours.”