Chapter 46: Spells and Gene Skills

Having the experience of extracting the golden-faced thick-tailed ape gene, Ding Huan didn't take any detours when refining the dual-horned fire lizard recovery gene.

It's just that this dual-horned fire lizard of his might contain a trace of divine beast bloodline. It is much harder to completely turn the gene skill of this divine beast bloodline into his own attribute gene than the anti-poison gene of the golden-faced thick-tailed ape.

Just finding the complete injury recovery gene chain took Ding Huan three days.

He basically didn't leave the laboratory. Fortunately, the facilities in the laboratory were quite complete.

To restore his energy, Ding Huan cultivated for another day.

The rest was simple. On the fifth day, Ding Huan refined the true injury recovery gene.

To leave a copy for Qu Yi, he specifically refined two copies of this gene potion.

There was also a copy of the injury recovery gene potion extracted from the six-horned fire lizard gene in his bag.

However, compared to these two true recovery gene potions, that was like heaven and earth; they were not on the same level at all.

Sure enough, there is a harvest for every effort. If he hadn't risked his life to go to Mount Penglu to find that fire lizard containing a trace of divine beast bloodline, how could he have produced such good things?

Quickly pack up his things and return the laboratory.

The person in charge of renting the laboratory wasn't surprised that Ding Huan, who was covered in filth, was returning the lease.

There were too many gene scholars who came to this laboratory and ended up as filthy as Ding Huan.

Renting a laboratory is not cheap; if you use it for a few days and have to go back to rest, it's too wasteful.

After leaving the laboratory, Ding Huan's first priority was to find a hotel.

Puhai is truly large. Although people from all over the world flocked to Puhai for this assessment of the ten major academies of Blue Star, the vast majority of those people were concentrated around the Puhai Martial Arts Plaza.

Ding Huan's location was exactly east and west of the Puhai Martial Arts Plaza, so he easily found a place to stay.

After resting in the hotel for one night, Ding Huan took the injury recovery gene potion he had refined.

Even though it was a gene potion at room temperature, after taking it, it immediately turned into streams of cool clear springs that permeated every part of his body.

Ding Huan operated the Luo Shi Jing to perform the Zhou Tian circulation, and after only two cycles, he entered a state of meditation.

He woke up because someone was knocking on the door.

Ding Huan opened his eyes and felt an indescribable comfort and ease all over his body.

"Bang bang!" The door was knocked again.

Ding Huan was very helpless; he could only open the door.

A waiter stood at the door. Seeing Ding Huan open the door, he said apologetically, "Sorry to bother you. Because you hadn't opened the door for three days, we were a bit worried."

"Forget it. In the future, if I haven't come out, don't knock on my door casually, you know? Don't worry about the room fee; I specifically deposited 50,000 yuan."

Waving his hand, Ding Huan could only let it go.

"Okay, if you have any needs, you can call us at any time." The waiter apologized again before retreating.

It seems he needs to find a quiet place to go into seclusion; otherwise, being disturbed after cultivating for a few days is not a good thing.

Closing the door, Ding Huan looked at his arm.

Should he use a knife to cut it and test the recovery effect of his injury?

He is already a level-two gene cultivator; why use a knife? Gathering internal energy to cut his arm shouldn't be a problem, right?

Ding Huan was thinking about how to use internal energy to gather blade energy to cut his arm. He had to control the force of the internal energy so as not to break his arm.

An abrupt piece of information appeared in Ding Huan's mind: Wind Blade Technique...

Wind Blade Technique? Ding Huan suddenly stood up. How could his brain have such information?

But the next moment, the technique to cast the Wind Blade Technique was as clear as if it were carved into his memory.

So powerful!

Ding Huan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He didn't think this Wind Blade Technique was powerful—the Wind Blade Technique was indeed powerful; according to the memory, as long as one used the technique to condense internal energy, one could easily emit a wind blade.

Ding Huan thought that the scroll was powerful. No, it was the person who made the scroll who was powerful.

How much information is in that scroll that he hasn't developed yet?

"I believe that even if humanity has entered the gene generation and obtained gene spiritual roots, it is still very difficult for strength to return to the era of pure spiritual root cultivation."

"The reason is that in the era of spiritual cultivation, there were too many strong people with spiritual roots."

"They spent countless years of deliberation, and after repeated attempts by generations of people, they had various simple or complex spells..."

"Those spells, I cannot pass them all down. However, simple Taoist spells like Wind Blade Technique, Wind Control Technique, Fireball Technique, Dust Removal Technique, Qi Concealment Technique, etc., I can still carve into this scroll..."

The information that appeared in his mind left Ding Huan stunned.

Things like Wind Blade, Fireball, and Wind Control also exist on the Changyi Continent, but these abilities are achieved through gene potions.

For example, Wind Blade requires fusing with the gene of a blade-spitting toad to make a gene potion, and then fusing with this gene potion to obtain the Wind Blade Technique.

For another example, Fireball Technique requires extracting the fire-spraying attribute gene from a fire qilin to make a gene potion and fusing it into the human body.

Other mutated species are fine, but the fire qilin is not a mutated species.

To want a fire qilin containing a fire-spraying attribute gene, one must contain a trace of divine beast bloodline fire qilin.

Therefore, on the Changyi Continent, a fire qilin containing a fire-spraying attribute is a priceless treasure.

No, it should be said that a drop of blood from this fire qilin is a priceless treasure.

But the memory in his mind can achieve Wind Blade Technique, Fireball Technique... through spells.

Instead of gene skill potions.

Ding Huan fell silent instead.

He had always thought that gene spiritual roots were spiritual roots, with no difference.

According to the knowledge information he obtained from the scroll, it was the same. Ancient immortals and gods became extinct later because spiritual roots disappeared.

So he had to cultivate, and could only fuse with gene spiritual roots.

Now that he has fused with gene spiritual roots, it is equivalent to having the foundation to become an immortal or god and approach the ancient strong.

Is the fact really like this?

Now a divergence has appeared here. Spiritual root cultivation later leads to spells. Gene spiritual root cultivation later leads to foreign gene skill fusion.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan suddenly operated his internal energy, his hands quickly cast the technique, and then a blade light appeared from his hand and blasted out.

"Crack!" The bedside table not far away was almost split in two by this wind blade of his.

Looking at the deep mark that appeared on the bedside table, Ding Huan gasped. What a powerful Wind Blade Technique. If this were split on a person, wouldn't they be split in two directly?

This was his first time casting the Wind Blade Technique. What would it be like if he were proficient?

This is much stronger than fusing with foreign gene skills, right?

In his previous life on the Changyi Continent, he dreamed of getting a blade-spitting toad to use for making blade-light gene potions to fuse.

Unfortunately, until he died, he never got one.

Now it comes so easily? And the effect is far stronger than the blade-spitting skill of fusing with the blade-spitting toad gene.

Ding Huan immediately went to the bathroom, his hands forming various techniques. Half a minute later, a faint smoke dissipated in Ding Huan's palm, and no fireball appeared.

Ding Huan didn't try again. The reason he didn't blast out a fireball was because he was unfamiliar, not because there was any problem with the technique of the Fireball Technique.

He could almost be sure that this technique combined with internal energy could truly blast out a fireball as long as he was proficient.

The calmed-down Ding Huan already understood that it was definitely not that gene spiritual roots were inferior to the cultivation spiritual roots that ancient people had themselves.

For gene spiritual root cultivators, the direction of everything later being through foreign gene skill fusion must be wrong.

It should be that part of the ability goes in the direction of spells, and part of the ability is through foreign gene fusion.

The reason the Changyi Continent didn't go in the direction of spells was because there were too few powerful cultivators and they hadn't found the direction of spell cultivation.

Now he has obtained the ready-made Wind Blade construction method on the scroll, so he can easily cast a wind blade.

Currently, he is the only one cultivating with gene spiritual roots.

If it weren't for the guidance of this scroll, perhaps he would have developed Fireball Technique and Wind Blade Technique in the future, but that would also require the accumulation of time.

Ding Huan vaguely understood that in gene cultivation, gene ability and gene skill cannot be generalized.

Gene skills, such as Fireball Technique, Wind Blade Technique, etc., all belong to this category.

These skills can be fused through foreign genes.

That is to say, by extracting genes from animals and plants that possess these innate skills, and then fusing these genes into one's own, one can possess this ability.

The drawback is that after fusing with these skills, one cannot advance.

Like on the Changyi Continent, the Wind Blade skill fused through the blade-spitting toad, and the Fireball Technique skill fused through the fire qilin.

He had already noticed this problem, so he changed the gene fusion method when refining and fusing the anti-poison skill of the golden-faced thick-tailed ape.

He combined his own genes to turn the anti-poison gene ability into his own ability, which can grow with the improvement of cultivation.

But other gene cultivators don't have this ability.

Now he knows that spells can solve this problem.

The realization of spells is more powerful than the realization of gene skills.

For the same ability, such as Wind Blade Technique, spells are not only stronger but can also improve with the improvement of cultivation.

This is not to say that spells are comprehensively superior to gene fusion.

Like the anti-poison gene and injury recovery gene he possesses, these are probably very difficult to achieve through spells.

Even if they could be achieved through spells, the effect would not be as strong as the attribute ability he carries himself.

The path of gene cultivation in Ding Huan's mind became increasingly clear.

Gene spiritual root cultivators will not be weaker than those who possess spiritual roots themselves.

The key is how the cultivator utilizes them.

For example, anti-poison, injury recovery, physical fitness, etc., these abilities need to be turned into one's own ability genes through foreign gene fusion; these ordinary spells cannot do it.

For skills like fireball, wind blade, wind control, etc., it is best not to go looking for foreign genes to make gene potions to fuse.

Because these can be called spells, they can be achieved through other means, such as techniques, such as internal energy circulation methods.

In the future, if he wants to develop stronger attack spells, it is the same principle.

If he really wants to fuse these skill genes and turn them into his own abilities.

Then he must also do it like making the anti-poison gene, letting these skills fuse with himself so that they can improve with the improvement of cultivation.

Absolutely cannot just fuse them simply; this will only limit his own growth.

Thinking through this problem, Ding Huan felt great in his heart.

He was originally worried about how to find some mutated beasts with strong attack means and extract their attack genes to turn them into his own attack means.

Now he doesn't need to, and he will try to do less of this kind of thing in the future.

He now needs to find a place to repeatedly practice his Wind Blade Technique, Fireball Technique, and Wind Control Technique.

Once these few abilities are in place, even if he meets a Heaven-level martial artist, he can at least protect himself, right? ===== CHAPTER 47 =====