Chapter 545: 544. Chapter 539: Gene Blocking the Dao

544. Chapter 539: Gene Blocking the Dao

The two-horned fire lizard snatched the Spirit-Linking Blue-Faced Fruit and shoved it into its mouth as if stealing it.

A level-four beast could assimilate this Spirit-Linking Blue-Faced Fruit in an instant.

"Last time you severely wounded me; this time you give me a spirit fruit—our grudge is settled." The two-horned fire lizard spoke.

Ding Huan sneered inwardly—how dare it act so entitled.

He ignored the two-horned fire lizard's words and asked: "Speak—where did the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan go?"

Ding Huan did not believe the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan was dead; with its bloodline, it was a sovereign presence on Earth—impossible for it to die.

Even this two-horned fire lizard, as strong as it was, had no right to kill the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan.

This two-horned fire lizard indeed had divine beast blood, but the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan was a primordial bloodline variant capable of opening heaven and earth—no comparison at all.

"Give me one more of these spirit fruits, and I'll tell you." The two-horned fire lizard's eyes gleamed with haughty pride.

"I'll ask you only twice: where did the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan go?" Ding Huan's tone was calm.

Sensing Ding Huan's killing intent, the two-horned fire lizard no longer dared to prevaricate: "The Great Wilderness Jin Yuan was taken away by a human—likely left Earth. The human's name was Seeing Qu Yi."

Ding Huan froze—he never expected Seeing Qu Yi had taken the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan.

The Great Wilderness Jin Yuan was his backup plan; if Seeing Qu Yi took it, did Seeing Qu Yi leave no backup of his own?

Could Seeing Qu Yi really act this way?

"Did the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan leave behind an heir when it left?"

Ding Huan asked.

He knew this two-horned fire lizard understood his meaning—"heir" meant the guardian of Earth, the one who would stop beast uprisings.

After a brief hesitation, the two-horned fire lizard said: "It left behind a White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey, claiming to know a friend of Seeing Qu Yi's."

"Before the Ten Thousand Beasts, the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan abdicated in favor of the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey, who swore a blood oath to the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan to halt Earth's beast tide."

Ding Huan nodded—it seemed the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey was Seeing Qu Yi's backup; if another beast tide erupted, the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey would prevent disaster.

Ding Huan sent out his spiritual sense—but he saw no White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey. He asked coldly: "Why did you kill the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey?"

He saw no sign of the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey, and given this two-horned fire lizard's ambition, he was certain it knew of the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey's existence.

The White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey's absence meant one thing: it had been killed by the two-horned fire lizard—likely even before the Ten Thousand Beasts, to establish dominance.

True enough, upon hearing Ding Huan's words, the two-horned fire lizard froze, still searching for a lie, when it saw Ding Huan draw a long blade.

"I'll tell you—I killed him to replace him, to rule over the Ten Thousand Beasts..."

There was another thing the two-horned fire lizard did not say: it held the White-Faced Thick-Tailed Monkey in utter contempt.

A beast, yet chose to serve humans, aiding them against its own kind—utter beast trash.

"Do you know why the Great Wilderness Jin Yuan chose to protect Earth and stop beasts from harming humans?" Ding Huan's voice remained flat.

"Isn't it because its soul was branded with a blood oath? Now I understand—it was you who branded it, wasn't it? I'd rather die than let you brand my soul. Don't force me—but I'm willing to swear to protect Earth." The two-horned fire lizard stared at Ding Huan, fully aware of the situation.

Ding Huan smiled: "Who said I was going to force you?"

Without hesitation, he slashed downward with his blade.

He had once lamented this two-horned fire lizard carried a trace of divine beast blood and hesitated to kill it.

Now he realized how childish and foolish he had been.

Those not of our kind, their hearts are different. He had nearly destroyed everything because of his petty kindness.

"Puff!" A spray of blood erupted—the two-horned fire lizard's leg was severed at the abdomen, blood gushing wildly.

"Stop! I agree! I'll give my soul blood oath—I swear..."

The two-horned fire lizard, moments ago so fierce and proud, panicked—how hard had it been to reach level-four beast status on Earth?

"But I don't agree." Ding Huan raised his hand and hurled a cluster of law flame that engulfed the two-horned fire lizard.

A piercing scream rose, followed by desperate pleas for mercy.

Within moments, all fell silent.

The other beasts fled in wild panic.

Ding Huan did not pursue them—he realized his method was flawed. Ji Luo must have better solutions.

Ding Huan thought of the Three Thousand Great Dao.

Ji Luo's methods often came from the Three Thousand Great Dao.

If so, perhaps he should first examine the Three Thousand Great Dao—see if there's a permanent solution.

He reached into his spiritual sea's Dao Universe and seized the Three Thousand Great Dao.

Within moments, Ding Huan clenched his fists in shock.

Precious—this was exactly what he needed.

The Dao of the Beginningless, the Dao of Primordial Chaos, the Dao of Awakening Spirit, the Dao of the Yellow Springs, the Great Sword Art, the Great Asura Art...

The more he read, the more his heart trembled—it was as if every Dao technique and method since the opening of heaven and earth had been compiled here.

No wonder Ji Luo refused to trade with him.

If it were him, he wouldn't trade either.

A cosmic scale? A hundred cosmic scales wouldn't equal one glance at this Three Thousand Great Dao.

Unfortunately, over half of this book had been torn away.

Unfortunately, more than half of this Book of Three Thousand Great Dao had been torn away.

Ding Huan froze—how was this possible?

The Three Thousand Great Dao should be a treasure from before heaven and earth opened—there could be no such thing as "genes"...

Ding Huan quickly thought of the Grand Void—he was the scroll's master, a spirit of spirits.

Ding Huan quickly thought of that Grand Void—he seemed to be the owner of the skin scroll, a spirit.

Didn't much of the genetic knowledge he obtained come from the hide scrolls?

Thus, at the moment of chaos's opening, genes already existed within the Dao.

There is another possibility.

That is, after this Book of Three Thousand Daos arrived on Earth, the concept of genes suddenly emerged.

Thus, this Book of Three Thousand Daos automatically generated the Great Gene Art.

In that case, Ji Luo probably never went to a true technological planet.

Whether or not that's true, we can simply ask Ji Luo later.

Ding Huan's divine sense settled upon the Great Gene Art.

If he hadn't fused a genetic spiritual root for himself, he could never have achieved what he has today.

So seeing the Great Gene Art, he felt a deep sense of familiarity.

After creating the Great Cosmos Art, he had always believed any gene was a law.

Thus, in his consciousness's Dao universe, the stars and star rivers were composed of billions of laws—or rather, saturated with billions of genes.

But Ding Huan knew very clearly.

The understanding that all genes are a form of law is correct.

But not all laws are genes; this is not the same concept.

In comparison, the scope of laws is far broader; genes are merely one manifestation of law.

Besides genes, all kinds of heavenly and earthly elements, time and space, and more are manifestations of law.

Several days later, Ding Huan finally awakened from the Great Gene Art.

He had not fully studied the Great Gene Art, yet he gained inspiration from it.

Given his mastery and understanding of heavenly and earthly laws, he could certainly establish a heavenly law through preaching.

This law would exist within this realm and fuse with every ferocious beast on Earth—and any ferocious beast must fuse with it.

Once fused with this law, that ferocious beast could become no stronger than a Level One ferocious beast.

To break past Level One, it would have to shatter his Dao-rhythm law.

Ding Huan estimated that even an Immortal Emperor could not break it.

He arrived at this idea thanks to the inspiration of the Poison Dao's Rhythm from the Bone-Clinging Devouring Dao.

To create such a law, one must understand the genes of billions of ferocious beasts.

The Great Gene Art helped him.

Ding Huan continued studying the Great Gene Art, and time slowly passed.

Half a month later, Ding Huan raised his hand and scattered a series of mysterious Dao rhythms, which quickly formed a brand-new heavenly law that permeated all space around Earth.

When he previously spread the Bone-Clinging Devouring Dao's poison, the affected area was several times larger than Earth.

Now, with his cultivation improved, in just half a day, the entire realm of Earth had fully merged with a new law—the Gene-Blocking Dao Law.

Ding Huan finally exhaled in relief.

There surely won't be any stronger ferocious beasts emerging now.

I can go find Old Ji.

Just as Ding Huan thought this, he sensed a slight shift in the heavenly rules.

In an instant, Ding Huan knew a powerful being had arrived on Earth.

Without hesitation, he shattered the teleportation talisman; barely as the teleportation ended, the Wheel of Rebirth Spear unleashed its killing momentum.

At this moment, Ding Huan was certain Zuo Shanyi had arrived.

This guy came faster than he imagined.

Ding Huan had already unleashed the Wheel of Rebirth Spear before seeing Zuo Shanyi because he knew Zuo Shanyi's treachery well.

Although he had a teleportation talisman, Ding Huan had never truly intended to use it to return to Heluo City.

In Ding Huan's mind, given Zuo Shanyi's cunning, Ji Luo might not be able to control him.

He planned to return to Heluo City ahead of time and join forces with Ji Luo to ambush Zuo Shanyi.

He hadn't expected that constructing the Gene-Blocking Dao Law would waste so much time—by the time Zuo Shanyi arrived on Earth, he still hadn't returned to Ji Luo's side.

So as soon as the teleportation ended, he fired the spear first.

Boom!

Violent Dao rhythms exploded through space; Ding Huan watched Heluo University of Martial Arts turn to dust, along with the vast chasms splitting open, his killing intent reaching its peak.

Though Ji Luo still cared a little for Earth, this beast Zuo Shanyi cared not at all whether Earth would be destroyed.

If not for the Dao-rhythm protective array he and Ji Luo had pre-established to contain the attack's overflow, Earth would have been destroyed already.

Indeed, as soon as Ding Huan condensed the killing momentum of the Wheel of Rebirth Spear, Zuo Shanyi's figure appeared before him.

The Wheel of Rebirth Spear's killing momentum locked onto its target; Zuo Shanyi had no time to react before the spear struck his chest.

"Spurt!" Blood exploded outward; Zuo Shanyi shot away as a dim, flickering shadow, his aura clearly weakened.

"Old Brother Ji…" Ding Huan called out, simultaneously summoning the Cosmic Cauldron.

Ji Luo, barely controlling the Heavenly Balance as it wobbled upward into Ding Huan's Cosmic Cauldron, clearly suffered severe injuries.

Ding Huan did not know how Zuo Shanyi had broken through Ji Luo's Deadly God Array, but he had resolved not to let this dung beetle escape.