[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-the-myth":3,"chapter-after-the-myth-after-the-myth-chapter-73":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},2226543,4134,"Chapter 73","after-the-myth-chapter-73",73,"\u003Cp>His eyes had recovered, which put Ding Huan in a great mood; he simply grilled a fish to eat, then continued to go into seclusion to cultivate the Luo Shi Scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Ding Huan had expected, this time he only cultivated for two days before he felt as if the meridians in his body were about to split open, and that pain of being scorched by internal fire surged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was familiar with this feeling; when he stepped into the second-level genetic cultivator realm, it was just as painful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like he was about to become a third-level genetic cultivator; cultivating this Luo Shi Scripture was one thing, but advancing was so terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiny bloodstains appeared on Ding Huan's body; only Ding Huan himself knew what kind of terrifying torture he was enduring now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every cycle of the Luo Shi Scripture would whip up flames to burn his internal organs, and then these flames would continuously extend to all parts of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Ding Huan knew that he absolutely could not stop now; once he stopped, it would be difficult for him to impact the third-level genetic cultivator realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vital energy rampaged within Ding Huan's body, and every time it was about to burst Ding Huan's body, the cycle of the Luo Shi Scripture would just barely manage to carry away this terrifying vital energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the carried-away vital power continued to burn and torture Ding Huan's body, to Ding Huan, it was much better than being burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This torment lasted until the third day, and when even Ding Huan's eyes began to seep blood, Ding Huan felt as if a brand-new channel had been opened within his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent vital energy finally found a vent, instantly diffusing throughout his entire body, and a sense of rebirth filled his whole body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan let out a long breath; he had stepped into the ranks of third-level genetic cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While continuing to operate the Luo Shi Scripture to stabilize his cultivation, he pondered how to modify this cultivation technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another two days passed, and Ding Huan's cultivation base stabilized at the third-level genetic cultivator level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also stopped pondering how to modify this technique; there were indeed many things about cultivation technique theory in his mind, but his cultivation base was too low to understand them at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current ability to modify a cultivation technique of the Luo Shi Scripture's level, it was almost no different from seeking death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The level of cultivation technique he could modify now wouldn't be too high, and such a technique couldn't possibly work for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking out of the tent, Ding Huan began to cultivate the Wind-Riding Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since obtaining the Wind-Riding Technique, Ding Huan had wanted to cultivate this spell to great success, but he had never had the time to hone it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had stepped into the third-level genetic cultivator realm, there was no possibility of progress in the short term, so he simply focused on studying the Wind-Riding Technique in the depths of this cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wind-Riding Technique was not a complex spell; all it required was internal Qi and the Qi-moving formula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To cultivate the Wind-Riding Technique to great success, one had to continuously try until proficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was a person who could endure loneliness; two hundred years of wandering in the universe had honed his temperament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another half a month passed; Ding Huan cultivated the Wind-Riding Technique during the day and continued to cultivate the Luo Shi Scripture at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stepping into the third-level genetic cultivator realm, Ding Huan felt that his progress had obviously slowed down. Even so, it was still faster than cultivating outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This day, Ding Huan performed the Wind-Riding Technique, easily stepping into the air thirty meters high, and then drifted down slowly like a leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was very satisfied with his progress; if he used his full strength, he could even cross over a hundred meters in the air by performing the Wind-Riding Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current air-stepping distance, he shouldn't be worse than those so-called Innate experts, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, facing Andong Ao, Ding Huan believed he could easily walk away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfft! Walk away, my ass; he was a third-level genetic cultivator now, and he had the Wind Blade Technique and the Wind-Riding Technique, so why should he fear Andong Ao?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up at the monkey's location on the stone wall more than sixty meters high, Ding Huan's figure flickered, and his whole body flew up from the spot. Then, borrowing force from the stone wall, he easily landed next to the monkey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was now a third-level genetic cultivator with extremely strong eyesight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before coming up, he had seen it very clearly; he thought this might be a monkey-shaped stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that this stone was too much like a monkey; it could even be said to be carved according to a monkey's appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the key point that aroused his suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, a monkey carved by a stonemason couldn't be placed inside this cave, and still be in a crack in a stone wall sixty meters high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really is like one...\" Ding Huan stepped on a protruding stone, looking at the stone monkey in front of him, muttering to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn't be said to be like a monkey; it could only be said to be exactly the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The uncanny workmanship of nature was truly unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan reached out and touched the stone monkey; since it was naturally formed, he didn't intend to move it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after Ding Huan's hand touched the stone monkey, he felt something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he slashed a few wind blades around the stone monkey, then brought it out with a pull of his hand, and then, with a stretch of his figure, easily landed on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Ding Huan closed his eyes and stroked the stone monkey's head to feel it carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a few breaths, Ding Huan was certain that this was absolutely not a monkey turned into stone by nature, nor was it a monkey carved by human hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a monkey of flesh and blood, forcibly solidified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why say solidified instead of dead? Ding Huan had his own insights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having roamed for so many years, his sixth sense was still very strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know how long this monkey had been dead, but Ding Huan had a feeling that the monkey's vitality was very vigorous when it died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was suddenly beaten to death when its vitality was at its most vigorous; it couldn't even be called beaten to death, but more like it had been frozen in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this monkey again, Ding Huan felt that it looked more like a human with a monkey face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its hind limbs looked relatively long, while its forelimbs were relatively short, which was similar to a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A real monkey's limbs don't have such a difference in length.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan's gaze fell on the monkey's head, where there seemed to be a trace of a strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan carefully observed this trace, sensed it with his finger, and then looked at the trace in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was actually a spell imprint in it; in other words, it was beaten to death by someone using Daoist arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he could know there were Daoist art traces in it should be related to the knowledge taught on that leather scroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dent his hand touched had intersecting reverse patterns, and they weren't chaotic. Only a Daoist art attack would have this situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, with his current strength, he wouldn't be able to see such traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his strength were stronger, he might even be able to deduce what kind of Daoist art means the other party used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan was extremely excited; being beaten to death by Daoist arts further proved his conjecture. Ancient immortals and gods existed, but they disappeared or moved away from here later because of Earth's changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know how many years this monkey had been beaten to death, but it could actually turn into withered stone, and he could even feel that this monkey was made of flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did this mean? It meant that he had a chance to save this monkey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the \"saving\" he spoke of might be different from real saving. But that didn't matter; as long as it was useful to him, it was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his understanding of genetic theory and application of genetic knowledge, as long as the monkey's genes still existed, he had a chance to find these genes and fuse them with another monkey's genes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan just wanted to know the monkey's true origin, as well as some situations from the era the monkey lived in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he didn't need to completely restore the monkey's life; he just needed to extract the monkey's memory genes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extracting a monkey's memory genes required searching through a massive gene bank. For others, it was very difficult for one person to complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan had his own method, which was the Gene Dissolution Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he extracted the anti-toxin genes of the Golden-Faced Coarse-Tailed Ape, he used the Gene Dissolution Method, and it was done in two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To obtain this monkey's memory genes, it should only take a day or two through the Gene Dissolution Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference from before was that Ding Huan didn't intend to fuse these memory genes himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was different from fusing ability genes; he just purely wanted to know what had happened back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Ding Huan planned to find a carrier for the monkey's gene fusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, if he could really make the monkey's memory genes completely transplanted onto a new carrier, then saying this monkey was reborn wouldn't be wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called rebirth, simply and crudely, was memory recovery. If it were more complex, it would be troublesome, as it would involve the problem of the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan put the monkey aside, deciding to take it to the Yujiang University laboratory when he left this cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current strength, there was no need to hide. Returning to the Yujiang University laboratory openly, who could do anything to him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he wasn't going out now was that Ding Huan felt the heaven and earth vital energy in the depths of this cave was much better than outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of heaven and earth vital energy, Ding Huan suddenly remembered what Steve said when he was at the Gene Alliance's lair in Puhai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason the Gene Alliance was wiped out by him was that the Gene Alliance's experts were not at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These experts went to Mount Kunlun, saying that ancient Daoist cultivation ruins were discovered there...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, his strength was poor and he had no way, but now he was a third-level genetic cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding Huan's mind became active; ancient Daoist cultivation ruins absolutely existed; he had long ago deduced the existence of immortals and gods from many details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, he had also heard that the Blue Star's Ten Great Academies had found heaven and earth vital energy stones in the Kunlun Mountains a long time ago; these were good things containing heaven and earth vital energy, and using this vital energy to cultivate could speed up progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know if those guys from the Gene Alliance had found the Daoist cultivation ruins; if they had, he would just go to the Gene Alliance to rob them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Gene Alliance hadn't found them, he would go find them himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally planned to pull the Gene Alliance out by the roots; since he still had to rob the Gene Alliance's things, his current cultivation base wasn't enough; he needed to be at least a fourth-level genetic cultivator before going out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still had to continue his seclusion here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(That's all for today's update, friends, good night, continuing to ask for monthly tickets. 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