Chapter 42

Tang Yun stared at the thousands of timelines flickering in the Taixu Medicine Cauldron, each one like a wriggling maggot, making his scalp tingle. "How do you choose this thing? Just pick one at random?"

The Holy Son's little face was serious, but his childish voice carried an old-fashioned tone: "Daddy, these timelines are not fixed, but change constantly with our choices. We need to find a balance point, to solve the immediate crisis while avoiding a greater disaster."

"Easier said than done," Tang Yun curled his lips, "This thing is harder than filling out college applications!"

Just then, a timeline in the medicine cauldron suddenly erupted with blinding light, and the Holy Son exclaimed: "Gene Reapers! They are going to launch an attack early!"

The scene flashed, and Tang Yun found himself standing on the deck of a submarine, surrounded by the deep, boundless ocean. In the distance, the alien fleet was retreating in a panic, leaving behind massive egg-shaped objects emitting bizarre green light.

"Holy crap, what is that?" Tang Yun couldn't help but curse.

"Deep-sea Gene Reaper eggs," the Holy Son's voice came from the communicator, "They will parasitize marine life, absorb genes, and ultimately lead to biological mutation."

"Mutation? What's the big deal..." Before Tang Yun finished speaking, he saw a massive octopus dart out from beneath the sea surface, its tentacles as thick as giant pythons and covered in sharp barbs.

The octopus's eyes were blood-red, letting out ear-piercing roars as it slammed into the submarine, actually denting the steel deck.

"Is this thing on stimulants?" Tang Yun's expression changed, "Holy Son, is there any way to deal with them?"

"We must dive into the Mariana Trench and destroy the hatching core of the eggs." The Holy Son's tone was grave, "But there are even more powerful Gene Devourers deep in the trench; they have formed a deep-sea insect tide, which is extremely dangerous."

Tang Yun took a deep breath; he knew he had no choice. He put on a special diving suit and jumped into the icy seawater.

The pressure of the deep sea was immense, and it was pitch black all around, with only the light of his diving suit illuminating a small area ahead. Tang Yun felt as if he had fallen into a massive bottle of ink, feeling so suppressed he couldn't breathe.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed before his eyes, moving with astonishing speed. Before Tang Yun could react, he was hit by a massive force and sent flying, crashing heavily into the rocks on the seabed.

"What the hell is that?" Tang Yun struggled to climb up, only to see a group of bizarre creatures surging toward him.

These creatures were massive, with sharp teeth and claws, exuding a nauseating stench. Their eyes emitted ghostly green light, like a pack of hungry wolves greedily staring at Tang Yun.

"Deep-sea insect tide..." Tang Yun's heart sank; he knew he had run into big trouble.

The Holy Son's voice came from the Taixu Medicine Cauldron: "Daddy, I found the Taixu Gene Atlas from the parallel universe! Your Chaos Medical Qi can purify the eggs!"

Tang Yun's spirits lifted; he immediately mobilized the Chaos Medical Qi in his body, and a warm current surged from his palm, forcing the insect tide back.

"It works!" Tang Yun was overjoyed, "Holy Son, tell me what to do to completely solve these eggs!"

"You need to refine a Gene Purification Bomb at the underwater volcano," the Holy Son's voice carried a hint of anxiety, "But time is tight, you must be quick!"

Tang Yun immediately rushed to a nearby underwater volcano and, following the Holy Son's instructions, began refining the Gene Purification Bomb. However, just as the purification bomb was about to be completed, an accident occurred.

A powerful energy fluctuation came from deep within the volcanic crater, and a black liquid erupted, fusing with the purification bomb.

"Bad! It's prehistoric Gu poison!" The Holy Son's voice was filled with terror, "It has fused with the modern gene virus!"

Tang Yun's expression changed drastically; he knew he had caused a massive disaster. The purification bomb exploded, and a strong shockwave swept out, causing the entire seabed to shake violently.

Even more terrifyingly, this shockwave actually affected Earth's rotation speed, causing Earth's rotation to accelerate by 0.001 seconds!

Around the world, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions occurred one after another, and human civilization fell into an unprecedented crisis.

At the United Nations Headquarters, the Secretary-General said in a trembling voice: "Humanity... is going to perish..."

Just then, Tang Yun's figure appeared on the screen, holding a gene core shimmering with seven-colored light, his eyes cold: "I have the final say."

In the live broadcast, Tang Yun stood at the underwater volcanic crater, surrounded by the surging insect tide. He released Chaos Medical Qi, forming a massive purification vortex that swallowed the insect tide.

The gene core with seven-colored light slowly rotated, like a beating heart, emitting strange energy fluctuations. Tang Yun reached out to touch it, and a tingling sensation came from his fingertips, immediately followed by a massive amount of information flooding into his mind.

"Holy crap, what the hell is this..." Tang Yun's brain buzzed, feeling as if he had been stuffed into a supercomputer.

The images were fragmented and chaotic; a man covered in tubes lay on a cold metal table, surrounded by a group of aliens in strange attire. The man struggled painfully, letting out incoherent roars.

"First-generation Medicine King... gene experiment subject..." Tang Yun pieced together information from the intermittent memory fragments, his heart surging with stormy waves. This gene core was actually a clone of the first-generation Medicine King, and furthermore, the first-generation Medicine King was actually a gene experiment subject of an alien civilization! What shocked him even more was that the gene chain of this clone was completely identical to his own!

"Holy Son, what on earth is going on?" Tang Yun asked anxiously in his consciousness.

"Daddy, the situation is very complex," the Holy Son's voice carried a hint of trembling, "This alien civilization has been conducting gene experiments all along, and the first-generation Medicine King was just one of them..."

Before the Holy Son finished speaking, a violent vibration suddenly came from the seabed. Tang Yun looked up and saw a massive shadow appear in the distance, approaching him at an astonishing speed.

"Gene Reaper mothership activated! Target: Earth! Mission: Format Earth's gene chain!" The cold mechanical voice echoed in the seawater, carrying the aura of destruction.

"Holy crap, these aliens are playing for real!" Tang Yun's expression changed; he knew he had to stop them.

He gripped the gene core tightly, mobilized the Chaos Medical Qi in his body, and a powerful energy erupted from within, fusing with the gene core.

The underwater volcanic crater erupted with boiling lava, boiling the surrounding seawater. Tang Yun stood in the center of the crater, letting the lava wash over his body, feeling his gene chain undergoing some wondrous change.

Meanwhile, abnormal phenomena appeared all over Earth. Massive vortexes appeared in the sky, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and torrential rain poured down, as if doomsday had arrived.