Super Gene Hunting Ground

Early the next day, Yang Xiao said to the chimpanzee:

"I'm going to hunt monsters outside the canyon and come back here to rest at night."

"I'll go with you."

The chimpanzee expressed excitedly that he wanted to join.

The lion also said:

"I'll go too."

Yang Xiao laughed and said:

"If you both go, the water from the Holy Spring will soon be drunk by other animals."

The chimpanzee and the lion were stunned, thinking there might be some truth to that.

The chimpanzee then said to the lion:

"Lion stays, I'll go."

"Dumb ape stays, I go."

"Okay, stop fighting, the lion stays behind. Aren't you worried it will steal the spring water? King Kong stays, aren't you worried it will steal the spring water?"

The chimpanzee and the lion immediately scratched their heads, showing that this was a tricky issue.

Actually, after evolving to King Level, the water from the Holy Spring could hardly help the lion and the chimpanzee to advance rapidly. They both treated the Holy Spring as a treasure and did not want the other to take advantage of it.

It was like two kids guarding a jar of candy; even though they were full and didn't want more, they also didn't want the other to have more and gain an advantage.

According to Yang Xiao's speculation, after the lion and the chimpanzee evolved to King Level, they essentially hit the ceiling of Genetic Evolution. Whether it was drinking the spring water or eating the flesh and blood of monsters, it would be difficult to make a significant breakthrough.

And that spring water, he guessed, wouldn't last much longer before it dried up.

These were all things Yang Xiao didn't want to tell the chimpanzee and the lion. For the two rascal kids, this was the joy and dream of their life. If Yang Xiao were to shatter their dreams directly, that would be too unkind.

In the end, the chimpanzee and the lion decided to stay and monitor each other to prevent stealing the spring water.

Yang Xiao took a pot of water from a nearby stream and mounted the Flame Horse to head out of the canyon.

Just a few kilometers away from the canyon, the ground roared with a thunderous noise, as a gigantic sandworm burst forth.

The skin of the sandworm shimmered with a faint golden hue, clearly indicating it was a monster with Enhanced Gene Advanced.

The sandworm erected its body and opened its mouth to spray out a blast of Extreme Cold Ice Fog towards Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao could see where the ice fog passed, the air contracted, making a creaking and crunching sound as the moisture in the air solidified into ice.

Yang Xiao patted the Flame Horse, avoiding the incoming Extreme Cold Ice Fog, and holding onto that mysterious longsword, he charged close to the sandworm.

If it had been before, Yang Xiao would have used Black Hole Swallowing or Sweeping Void. However, this time, Yang Xiao was eager to test the power of this sword.

With the speed of the Flame Horse, Yang Xiao wasn't too worried about getting attacked.

The Flame Horse turned into a red cloud, flashing past the huge sandworm.

Yang Xiao's longsword shimmered with a glowing aura, as a potent Killing Aura burst forth. The longsword gently grazed the sandworm's body, and Yang Xiao felt as if he hadn't touched anything, flashing past several tens of meters in an instant.

Behind him, he heard the sandworm's pitiful and sharp scream. Turning back quickly, he saw the massive body of the sandworm wobbling. Where Yang Xiao's longsword had stroked, blood was spurting out.

Yang Xiao was inwardly shocked. According to the sandworm's Enhanced Gene Advanced Realm, if he used the Longquan Spear or the Golden Eagle Bow, he wouldn't be able to breach its Defense, meaning his Longquan Spear actually couldn't penetrate the sandworm's body, which had at least 60 points of Defense.

But now, the longsword in his hand sliced through the sandworm's body as if cutting tofu, making a cut that was a third of the girth of the entire body.

The sandworm obviously didn't expect that Yang Xiao could slash a third of its body with a close-range sword strike.

With a pitiful and wild scream, the sandworm, its long body towering, launched another attack on Yang Xiao, spewing out an even more intense Extreme Cold Ice Fog.

The Flame Horse neighed, its hooves flying, dodging away from the Extreme Cold Ice Fog and charging again into close proximity of the sandworm.

The sandworm, being thirty to forty meters in length and towering over ten meters high, saw Yang Xiao charging like lightning close to its body.

Yang Xiao's longsword once again grazed past the body of the sandworm.

—Awooo!

The sandworm let out another pitiful and sharp scream, and before Yang Xiao had time to turn back, he heard a thud from behind. The giant body of the sandworm collapsed to the ground.

Like an earthworm, the sandworm's body was soft. Having been sliced on both sides of its waist by Yang Xiao's consecutive sword strikes, it naturally could no longer support itself.

The sandworm was at its last breath, blood gurgling out onto the ground.

Yang Xiao once again spurred his horse, charging past, and with a single sword strike severed its waist completely. The sandworm split in two and perished.

Yang Xiao raised his longsword; it was tinged with a bronze color, its blade covered with bizarre runes that sparkled with light. After the battle ceased, the light from the runes faded slowly, leaving only a streak of radiance roaming up and down the blade.

"This truly is a heaven-defying sword!"

Everything has its pros and cons. Although the sword was incredibly sharp and possessed a murderous aura that defied the heavens, it had a flaw: it required close combat.

Yang Xiao's previous necklace, rings, and arm bracelet all enhanced his Agility Attribute, which perfectly complemented the characteristic of engaging in close-quarters combat with the sword. Regardless, in order to fully exploit the potential of this sword, Yang Xiao also needed to learn Ancient Martial Arts.

Like Monk Ben Yin, Zhang Hai, Lan Xin, and Zhi Ruo before him, possessing extremely high Qinggong movement techniques, along with nimble close-combat fighting skills.

If this sword were now handed over to anyone like Lan Xin, its power would certainly increase many times over compared to when Yang Xiao wielded it.

If Yang Xiao were to learn Ancient Martial Arts and shore up his close-combat weakness, combined with the long-range attack Soul Skills, his combat power would be off the charts.

Yang Xiao took out a black bottle and stored the sandworm's corpse inside, then set off to hunt other monsters.

In the following battles, Yang Xiao primarily engaged in close-quarters combat with the longsword, occasionally using Sweeping Void and Black Hole Swallowing, as well as One Finger Splitting Earth.

He also used the Golden Bee Sword Skill in combination with the longsword, producing ten sword shadows with a single thrust, doubling the might.

By dusk, Yang Xiao had hunted nearly thirty monsters, returning with a hefty haul.

Yang Xiao stayed in the canyon for over twenty days. Each day, he would hunt monsters outside during the day, and in the evening, he would return to the canyon to chat and boast with the two fools, the chimpanzee and the lion.

After twenty days, the sum of the Genetic Balls Yang Xiao had collected and various equipment that dropped added up to at least 2 million Crystal Coins.

Yang Xiao didn't plan to sell these pieces of equipment to the Genetic Store for the moment; instead, he intended to bring them back for Xia Luo and the others to use.

His Wisdom Attribute had already increased to 49 points. Today, after finishing the liquid in the black bottle, Yang Xiao estimated he should break through to the Enhanced Gene Intermediate Realm.

In the first few days, the Sand Demon would come to the Desert Canyon to cause trouble every day, but each time it would be beaten to pieces by the chimpanzee and the lion. Eventually, the Sand Demon stopped showing up.

Yang Xiao sat by the campfire, watching the chimpanzee and lion barbecue two Desert Giant Wolves, which were his gifts for them.

Yang Xiao sat cross-legged on the ground, took a slow sip from the black bottle, and then sat quietly to the side, waiting for his body to absorb the strong current.

The chimpanzee and the lion were used to this routine from Yang Xiao, who they would see doing the same thing every evening.

Once, the chimpanzee asked Yang Xiao:

"Brother Yang Xiao, what are you drinking?"

"Medicine!"

"What kind of medicine? Are you injured?"

"A very bitter medicine. Fighting monsters outside every day, one gets hurt a little."

Hearing that it was a bitter medicine, the chimpanzee lost interest and did not ask any further.

The bottle contained the essence of over thirty giant beasts; Yang Xiao could only drink a small sip each time, not daring to consume too much.

When he took the eighth sip, electricity surged through his entire body, then, a ray of light from his abdomen shot directly to the top of his head.

Buzz!

Yang Xiao felt a shake in his mind, instantly feeling refreshed, with an extraordinary sense of clarity.

Yang Xiao let out a surprised and relieved sigh.

A light appeared in his mind, and he quickly concentrated to survey it to see the Genetic Attribute System displaying that he had reached the Enhanced Gene Intermediate Realm.

Enhanced Gene Intermediate Realm:

Strength 50, Agility 50, Defense 50, Wisdom 50.

Yang Xiao then glanced at the Soul Skill section below:

One Finger Splitting Earth, Sweeping Void, Black Hole Swallowing, Five Finger Sky Explosion.

"Huh, Five Finger Sky Explosion, a new Soul Skill!"

Yang Xiao was overjoyed.

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