Super Gene Hunting Ground

Long Yu furrowed his brows, wanting to say something, but ultimately remained silent.

Only a bloody competition can reveal a person’s true capabilities.

The subsequent matches were without suspense, all were won by King Level Evolvers, and their opponents with Advanced Enhanced Genes learned their lesson, conceding after just two moves.

Only the matches between Advanced Enhanced Gene opponents were intensely fought, with each side showcasing their best skills, fighting desperately to the death.

Among them was also a brutal battle between King Level Evolvers.

Yang Xiao gained some insight from observing — it seemed that King Level Evolvers both possessed two special Divine Skills; one was a movement technique similar to Instantaneous Movement, very fast, though not quite instant, but very close.

This point was very similar to the effect of the Great Body Shifting Skill from Yang Xiao’s Shaolin Temple.

Yang Xiao currently has Advanced Enhanced Genes and using the Great Body Shifting movement technique, he could instantly move about seven or eight meters.

King Level Evolvers also had another trait, which was the ability to perform Floating Flight, akin to Yang Xiao’s Qinggong, but they could stay in the air longer and move more freely.

”Last match, number 41 against number 42.”

With Master Long’s shout, Yang Xiao and Jiang Tao from Luoying City walked onto the martial arts platform.

Some people held expectations for Yang Xiao in this match.

However, those who knew Jiang Tao said,

”Jiang Tao is close to reaching King Level, he has already reached 70 points in both Strength and Agility attributes, only lacking 1 point in both Wisdom and Defence, Yang Xiao only has Intermediate Enhanced Genes now, defeating Jiang Tao seems unlikely.”

The audience was still unaware that Yang Xiao’s Genetic Evolution Level had reached Advanced Enhancement, but Long Wei and others had already obtained the latest information about Yang Xiao, knowing he had broken through to Advanced Enhanced Genes.

”It’s said that Jiang Tao’s Beast Soul is a rare single-horned rhinoceros, with great potential for evolution.”

”Jiang Tao’s Soul Skill also has a powerful killing move, he once defeated a newly advanced King Level powerhouse in a territorial battle, securing his territory.”

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Most people were inclined to believe that Jiang Tao would win.

Li Jiachen from Qingyun City smirked,

”Best if Yang Xiao gets killed by Jiang Tao, saving me the trouble of dealing with him, he really looks like he’s asking for a beating.”

Gu Beifeng and Du Tianxing glanced at Yang Xiao, not commenting; having not been in contact for half a year, they didn’t know his current situation. However, if Yang Xiao had only evolved to Intermediate Enhanced Genes in these six months, indeed, there wasn’t much advantage.

Long Wei glanced at Yang Xiao and said to Long Yu,

”This is the person Gu Bo strongly recommended?”

”Yes, at that time there were already 41 candidates, and we were just going to hold a competition; adding one more person didn’t matter, just to make the numbers even, so we chose Yang Xiao from several candidates. This kid performed quite well during the training in Magic City last time, it’s just that his genetic evolution speed is slow, probably stuck in a bottleneck.”

Having not reached King Level and already encountering a bottleneck, he doesn’t have much of a future. Let’s start then, finish quickly, we still have the second round of the semifinals this afternoon.”

Long Yu nodded and declared,

”We can begin now.”

Yang Xiao fist-saluted Jiang Tao.

Jiang Tao very modestly said,

”Brother Yang, please be merciful!”

Yang Xiao chuckled,

”Brother Jiang’s Evolution Level is higher than mine.”

Before Yang Xiao could finish, Jiang Tao suddenly drew his sword and slashed directly at Yang Xiao.

As neither side had used their Soul Skills or Beast Souls, the competition was merely about attribute levels, and purely in terms of the Four Attributes, Jiang Tao far surpassed Yang Xiao in both Strength and Agility.

Thus, Jiang Tao’s sudden sword strike was intended to catch Yang Xiao off-guard, fraught with a deadly intent.

The Longsword carried a strong Killing Aura, and in an instant, it was nearly slashing in front of Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao realized he had vastly underestimated the ugliness of human nature. For instance, the current Jiang Tao was an exceedingly sinister person, outwardly showing courtesy but ready to strike treacherously when you were unguarded.

The sword strike was too swift.

The onlookers all gasped, everyone felt bad for Yang Xiao while also finding Jiang Tao quite despicable.

Before striking with his sword, Jiang Tao deliberately closed the distance between them, making this sudden strike fast, vicious, accurate, and ruthless!

Yang Xiao could even see a smug smirk on Jiang Tao’s face.

Amidst everyone’s astonishment, Yang Xiao sidestepped, employing the Great Body Shifting Skill from Shaolin Temple, instantly moving five to six meters away.

This dodge left everyone present dumbstruck, someone immediately exclaimed,

”Instantaneous Movement? Is Yang Xiao a King Level Evolver?”

Before everyone could recover from Yang Xiao’s use of the Great Body Shifting Skill, concurrently, Yang Xiao stretched out both hands delivering the Nimble Fingers Skill, sending ten fierce Killing Auras slicing through the air towards Jiang Tao.

Jiang Tao swung his sword into empty air, just as he was about to turn and strike again, he felt an overwhelming Killing Aura in front of him, internally screaming ”Not good!”, buzzed a sound, and activated his Defensive Light Shield, abruptly retreating backwards.

Chi, chi, chi,,,

Several light sounds followed, the Killing Auras from the Nimble Fingers Skill pierced ten holes through Jiang Tao’s Defensive Light Shield,

With a crack, the Defensive Light Shield shattered.

Five out of the ten Killing Auras hit Jiang Tao’s body, leaving ten bloody holes on him.

Jiang Tao’s body suddenly stiffened, his eyes wide open filled with horror, staring at Yang Xiao.

”You?”

Jiang Tao only managed to utter the word ”you” before a torrent of fresh blood gushed out.

Jiang Tao’s body swayed slightly, then with a thud, he fell to the ground.

On the main stage, Long Wei, Master Long, along with Gu Beifeng, Du Tianxing, Li Jiachen and others, all stared at Yang Xiao, unable to believe what they just witnessed.

Yang Xiao withdrew his Nimble Fingers Skill, and indifferently said,

”Sigh, I didn’t really want to kill you, but alas, you brought this upon yourself.”

Long Wei paused for a moment, then asked,

”Number 42, what is your Genetic Evolution Level?”

”Enhanced Gene Advanced.”

Upon hearing this, Gu Beifeng and the others were immediately in an uproar.

”Enhanced Advanced, who the hell said Yang Xiao was at the Intermediate level of enhancement? Isn’t this misleading?”

”The contest list in the hotel lobby clearly mentioned Intermediate!”

”I knew Brother Yang was extraordinary, back when we were training in Magic City, his talent was exceptional, he ranked first in all the training assessments then.”

”But still, even if he is now at the Advanced level, he shouldn’t have the Instantaneous Movement ability exclusive to King Level Evolvers, right? How could he perform Instantaneous Movement? His dodging of Jiang Tao clearly was Instantaneous Movement!”

”And how did he just kill Jiang Tao? I didn’t see it clearly.”

”I didn’t see it clearly either, just vaguely sensed a wave of Killing Aura.”

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Long Wei glanced at Gu Beifeng and the others, and said sternly,

”Silence.”

Everyone immediately shut up.

”Number 42, the movement technique you used to evade Number 41’s attack, was it the Instantaneous Movement unique to King Level Evolvers?”

”No.”

”No? Then what was it?”

”That is an Ancient Martial Arts secret technique from Xuanming Country.”

”Ancient Martial Arts?”

Long Wei looked somewhat puzzled.

Suddenly, Master Long remembered something and said,

”Gu Bo once mentioned that Yang Xiao has been cultivating the Ancient Martial Arts of Xuanming Country, with successful results, he even had a comment, saying ’Incomparable below the King level.’”

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