Super Gene Hunting Ground

The days of cultivation passed very quickly.

Yang Xiao and Xing Zhe forgot themselves while cultivating in the underground tunnels, having completely lost sense of day and night, spending most of their time each day cultivating, only taking breaks to sleep or bathe in the underground river.

Yang Xiao spent hours each day running the Evolution Technique to absorb the evolution energy from the underground tunnels,

In addition, he cultivated the Cell Division Technique to accelerate the evolution and enhancement of his body’s gene cells.

For someone at the Emperor Level Realm like Yang Xiao, he was truly building up for a greater breakthrough. As long as he could enhance his Genetic Evolution Level, even without using any Cultivation Skills, just one punch would be enough to overturn rivers and seas, to split the ground.

The Ghost Snake that was killed last time had already been mostly consumed by Yang Xiao, and he remembered the Genetic Energy Refining Bottle he had picked up on Earth.

He hadn’t used that Black Bottle in a long time. For him, at his current Emperor Level Realm, the genetic evolution energy refined from the demon beast’s flesh was already far from enough.

Even though the snake flesh of the Ghost Snake was abundant, since it was a food to survive in the pit, Yang Xiao decided not to use that Black Bottle.

The Ghost Snake was a demon beast of the Emperor Level Peak Realm, its flesh rich in evolution energy, which was also quite beneficial to Yang Xiao.

Additionally, there were many Motile Goldfish in the underground river. Besides the one or two hundred they had caught before, it seemed there were more in the underground river, often encountered by Yang Xiao during his regular baths in the river.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

This was Yang Xiao’s genetic attributes at the moment:

Strength, 138

Agility, 138

Defense, 138

Wisdom, 139

In other words, Yang Xiao was not far from breaking through to the Emperor Level Middle Stage Realm.

For an extraordinary expert at the Emperor Level Realm, 1 point of genetic attribute value sometimes felt like an enormous mountain, insurmountable.

This not only required a tremendous amount of evolution energy, but also involved one’s innate evolutionary bottleneck.

If a person’s innate evolution space was limited, even absorbing more genetic evolution energy could not lead to a breakthrough.

On this day, Xing Zhe and Yang Xiao were resting in the underground river when Xing Zhe suddenly asked:

”Yang Xiao, what’s your genetic attribute now?”

Usually, one’s genetic attribute value was considered personal and confidential, but after spending three months together in the underground tunnels, Yang Xiao and Xing Zhe had already developed a brotherly bond.

Yang Xiao smiled and said:

”Apart from Wisdom Attribute, the other three attributes have all reached 138.”

Xing Zhe was surprised,

”So fast? How much was your genetic attribute value when you entered the academy? How much did it improve during the time we’ve been cultivating here in the underground tunnels?”

”It was around 130 when I started.”

”Damn!”

Xing Zhe suddenly burst out with an expletive, looking at Yang Xiao in astonishment.

Having lived in the underground tunnels for three months, their eyes had adjusted to the dim environment, allowing them to see things within ten meters in the dark without a flashlight.

Both were sitting in the underground river at the moment, only about a meter apart.

Yang Xiao could see the shocked expression on Xing Zhe’s face.

”Why, is there something unusual? Too slow or too fast?”

Xing Zhe rolled his eyes at Yang Xiao and said slowly:

”You have the nerve to say it’s too slow? Go and check, among the 108 Emperor Level Realm students, none of them didn’t take five, ten, or even several decades to improve their genetic attribute values as much as you have.

What are you, a monster? You’ve been in Wuji Academy for about half a year, and you’ve already improved your attribute values so much, it’s just unbelievable!”

Yang Xiao chuckled and said:

”Maybe it’s just luck on my part.”

”Bullshit, can you measure something like genetic evolution with luck? Below the Empire Level Realm, you might say it’s luck, but above the Empire Level Realm, it all requires effort. Even with great talent, one still needs to cultivate diligently to make breakthroughs,”

After Xing Zhe finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something, looked at Yang Xiao, and said softly:

”Your Strength, Agility, and Defense attributes may progress faster, and it’s normal for Wisdom Attribute to be slower. Don’t worry, your speed is already insane, just be patient.”

Xing Zhe assumed Yang Xiao’s Wisdom Attribute was supposed to be slower because Yang Xiao had mentioned that his other three attributes had all reached 138.

There were many such cases where Strength, Agility, and Defense attributes increased rapidly but Wisdom Attribute lagged behind.

Xing Zhe looked at Yang Xiao, smiled slightly, and added:

”I’m a bit strange myself; my Wisdom Attribute has increased faster than the other three. During this time, my Strength, Agility, and Defense have only increased by 1 point, but Wisdom Attribute has increased by 2. Haha, I don’t know why, either.”

Although Xing Zhe said he didn’t know why, his inner thoughts and expression read, ”See me, I’m smart, right?”

He finally found some sense of balance in front of Yang Xiao; otherwise, it would have been too frustrating inside. After all, why could this guy Yang Xiao improve his attribute values so much within half a year of entering Wuji Academy?

Xing Zhe had been stuck at the Emperor Level Realm for seven years, and only now was comparable to Yang Xiao. Originally, he estimated it would take away 1-3 years to break through to the Emperor Middle Level Realm.

However, entering the cultivation field’s underground tunnels together with Yang Xiao was a fortunate encounter that made Xing Zhe ecstatic.

An improvement of 5 attribute points in three months was considered insane speed in the entire Wuji Academy.

Yang Xiao glanced at Xing Zhe, didn’t want to hurt his feelings, and responded with a faint smile,

”Oh!”

Xing Zhe paused, unsatisfied with Yang Xiao’s response.

”Oh”? What does that mean?

Why don’t you compliment me, huh? Aren’t you being too stingy?

Xing Zhe looked at Yang Xiao discontentedly and asked calmly:

”How many points is your Wisdom Attribute now? Is it over 135? Some people in the academy have a Strength Attribute of 140 but only 3 in Wisdom Attribute.”

Yang Xiao smiled faintly, without speaking.

Xing Zhe became more convinced that Yang Xiao’s Wisdom Attribute was his bottleneck, and promptly asked:

”What’s your Wisdom Attribute? Tell me, are you keeping it a secret? We’re brothers who went through life and death together.”

Yang Xiao looked at Xing Zhe speechlessly, thinking, ”You’re the one forcing me to say it, don’t blame me for discouraging you.”

”Not much, Wisdom Attribute 139 points.”

”...”

Silence!

Xing Zhe looked at Yang Xiao, his expression frozen.

A moment later, Xing Zhe got up silently from the underground river and jumped onto the bank.

”What are you doing? Not going to bathe anymore?”

”Bathe, my ass! Comparing myself to people really gets to me. Training with you is just masochistic and pointless.”

Yang Xiao chuckled and said:

”Aren’t we friends?”

”Friends my ass, I’m going to cultivate. Now I realize, cultivating with you is like a companion reading to the Crown Prince — I’m just a study partner, it’s frustrating!”

Xing Zhe sat on the ground and started cultivating again.

Originally, he thought he was a genius in genetic evolution cultivation, only to realize, compared to Yang Xiao, he was just trash.