[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-the-myth":3,"chapter-after-the-myth-after-the-myth-chapter-42":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","After the Myth",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2226512,4134,"Chapter 42: Heading Towards the Tiger Mountain","after-the-myth-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Ding Huan carefully put away the horn of the mutated fire lizard. Just as he was preparing to leave, the sound of rapid running came from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up, Ding Huan saw that level-three mutated black ape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this level-three mutated beast, the black ape, was too heavy, every step it took carried a dull thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bastard thing—even though Ding Huan was in a hurry to leave, seeing this level-three mutated black ape made anger rise from his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is a level-two gene cultivator. Before, if it hadn't been for this level-three mutated black ape leading a tide of tens of thousands of mutated beasts to charge over, he really wouldn't have feared this black ape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that this black ape is alone and missing an eye, the missing eye is still bleeding. There are even more than a dozen bleeding spots on the black ape's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could Ding Huan not know that this black ape was injured, and the injuries were not light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting this bastard thing sneak attack human settlements—while Ding Huan felt great in his heart, he didn't intend to let this black ape go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grabbing his short blade, Ding Huan rushed towards the black ape without the slightest hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this black ape had some intelligence, it wasn't much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it was fleeing rapidly and saw Ding Huan coming, instead of running away, it accelerated and charged towards Ding Huan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems that in its cognition, humans have no use other than using those iron pipes that can emit flames to hit it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had long since witnessed this in Lujiang City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This human in front of it has no iron pipe; what use is a knife in his hand? Can it even leave a bloodstain on its body?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was also stunned by the behavior of this idiot. Even the golden-faced thick-tailed ape he encountered on Mount Beilong back then had a better brain than this black thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does this thing not know it's injured? It still dares to charge straight over so arrogantly—does it not take him seriously? Or does it not take the knife in his hand seriously?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It really has no clue at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing it charge in front of Ding Huan, the black ape leaped up, its large mouth biting directly at Ding Huan's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan dropped his backpack, tilted his body backward, and slid towards the black ape with his entire back against the ground, while raising the short blade in his hand, his internal power already covering the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft!\" The short blade sank in easily, as if cutting through tofu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan brought the short blade with him, speeding up his slide forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Ding Huan slid past, the black ape's blood gushed out like a broken levee, instantly staining the location where Ding Huan had been red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan breathed a sigh of relief; he almost got covered in filth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black ape was originally holding on by a single breath to escape here, and then gathered its strength to attack Ding Huan. Now, with its abdomen ripped open by Ding Huan's blade, its huge body collapsed to the ground, only able to roar in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patting the dirt off his body, Ding Huan walked to the side of the black ape, pulled out the short blade, and then slashed at the black ape's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how hard the black ape's head was, under Ding Huan's blade, it was still split in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan poked with the blade in his hand. In just ten seconds, Ding Huan joyfully used the tip of the blade to pick a white round bead out of the black ape's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this black ape was a level-three beast, Ding Huan didn't think it had a beast core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just held a fluke mentality when he split the black ape's head, but he didn't expect to really find a beast core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it was the lowest level, or even an unformed beast core, this was the first beast core he had obtained on Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The uses for a beast core are many. Ding Huan quickly wrapped up the beast core, shouldered his backpack, and left rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About half an hour after Ding Huan left, several soldiers holding long guns walked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Captain, look, is this the black ape?\" The soldier walking at the very front saw the black ape at first glance and walked to its side in a few steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The few people behind ran over eagerly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right, it's this thing. So strong. Who could split the head of this genetic beast with one blade?\" A soldier wearing a captain's badge said in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is probably at least a Xuan-level martial artist, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe more, but it's normal; many strong people have come to Lujiang this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan ran rapidly all the way. Two hours later, Ding Huan stopped. He needed to consider where he should go next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't need to ask to know that after the few students he brought achieved good results, someone would definitely come looking for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was good intentions or bad, he shouldn't come out now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Ding Huan very helpless. After seeing that Lu Zi was a level-one gene cultivator, he knew he had miscalculated the effect of the gene potion he had created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also hadn't expected that the potential-enhancing gene potion he had made on a whim would be so powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another thing was that although he knew the assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star had great influence, it was only after seeing the Puhai Martial Arts Plaza that he clearly understood just how great that influence was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to Yujiang University in Luohe now would definitely be dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Xia is already so powerful; just think about how many strong people are in the Gene Alliance and the Martial Arts Alliance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he must find a gene laboratory. Without a gene laboratory, how could he turn the mutated fire lizard he had gone to such trouble to get into a gene potion?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had collected many medicinal herbs on Mount Penglu, and with the mutated fire lizard, he only needed to refine these into a gene potion now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding rested for a long time, but still couldn't think of where it would be best to hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn't want a gene laboratory, he could just hide in a large mountain range and cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current strength, surviving in the mountain range shouldn't be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In desperation, Ding Huan simply disguised himself as a slightly worldly medicinal herb merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days later, Ding Huan bypassed Lujiang City and arrived in Jintang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before even entering Jintang, he saw his own wanted poster on a huge electronic screen outside Jintang City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wanted poster not only marked his build and photo, but even his workplace, Yujiang University, was clearly stated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for being wanted: during the admissions assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star, he entered a hotel to murder for money, killing two innocent people in the hotel in succession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stole several bottles of gene potion and a certain amount of cash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reward was even more shockingly high: an opportunity to enter the Planet Academy or the Martial Pulse Mountain Field, plus one million Alliance coins and a bottle of top-tier gene potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This reward was just for providing his whereabouts; as long as it was proven that the provided whereabouts were true, there would be a reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for capturing Ding Huan, the reward was even higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan frowned. Which dog thing is putting out a warrant for him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Ding Huan immediately saw the unit that wanted him: the Gene Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the Gene Alliance, there were four of the ten major academies of Blue Star, including the Martial Pulse Mountain Field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wanted poster also deliberately misled people, saying he killed during the admissions assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star—doesn't that mean he killed candidates?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, people are very protective of candidates. This Ding Huan is so vicious that he even wants to rob candidates of their money, and after robbing them, he even kills them—is this just going too far?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this Martial Pulse Mountain Field—Ding Huan remembered that although this is one of the ten major academies of Blue Star, it is within Huaxia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could this university in Huaxia work hand in glove with the Gene Alliance to deal with him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What left Ding Huan speechless was that the wanted poster also said he stole gene potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn't they change it to something else? As for that gene potion from the Gene Alliance, he wouldn't even bother to bend down to pick it up if it were thrown on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan walked into Jintang City. He knew that this wanted poster must have been issued by the Gene Alliance in conjunction with the other few academies during the admissions assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, Qu Yi died in a Gene Alliance laboratory. He was bought by the Gene Alliance to do human gene experiments, and then forcibly forced into space to do gene experiments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for his good luck, where would he be now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he doesn't finish off the Gene Alliance, he has a knot in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gene Alliance has two headquarters, one in the Americas and one in Puhai, Huaxia...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ding Huan thought of this, his footsteps suddenly paused. He seemed to have grasped something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gene Alliance could issue this wanted poster, so they must have held a meeting; it's absolutely impossible for them to have issued it on their own initiative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader of the Gene Alliance seems to be a foreigner, right? They borrowed the convenience of this admissions assessment when they held the meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their headquarters is in Puhai...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of Puhai, Ding Huan knew what he had grasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, going anywhere else is not appropriate. One is that he can't find a suitable gene laboratory, and second, once this wanted poster comes out, everywhere will investigate strangers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in Jintang, he cannot stay here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the reward mentioned above is truly too generous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Puhai—Puhai is the place where the wanted poster was issued, and it is also the place for this admissions assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can imagine that Puhai is now full of strange faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly ten million people have come from all over the world; can there not be many strange faces?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another thing is that Puhai is currently conducting the admissions assessment; who would dare to search Puhai? Who would dare to investigate casually?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a world-class metropolis, Puhai has countless high-end gene laboratories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn't it simple for him to rent a gene laboratory?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going to Puhai has another benefit, and that is being under the light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone thinks that in order to escape, he must have gone as far as possible. Who would have thought that not only did he not run, but he came right under the nose of the Gene Alliance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third benefit is that once he arrives in Puhai, he can keep an eye on the Gene Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, Qu Yi was taken away by the Gene Alliance after the admissions assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he has arrived in Puhai and can secretly take care of Qu Yi a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Decided, he's going to Puhai. ===== CHAPTER 43 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1948,"2026-06-17T23:21:20.864Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b030ad1bfbad0d4475db846d227494beffa99d44dfeb027d82998da4ca00ae72","after-the-myth-chapter-43","after-the-myth-chapter-41",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-the-myth-cover.jpg"]