Chapter 2149: Fourth Monthly Report (5)

Yes, yes, yes!

It definitely will!

Please, please take effect!

Zhao Chi held his breath and read the skill's effect notes again, full of anticipation.

(Genes with continuous effects, or delayed-effect genes, will lose their effect after the genetic enhancement period ends.)

…What does that mean?

"Bone-Gathering Rebirth" is a delayed-effect gene, right?

After all, it takes dozens of days to revive.

So it'll lose its effect?

Then for him, this gene is useless…

You son of a bitch…

Got his hopes up for nothing.

Damn!!

Sigh, forget it, doesn't matter…

Besides, Bone-Gathering Rebirth has a price—each use costs 10 years of lifespan, and he only has about 100 years to live, so he can only use it a handful of times at most.

Useless is useless, then.

After all, aside from Bone-Gathering Rebirth, every other gene ability takes effect!

If activated…

First, Zhao Chi would gain Fearless!

Then, he could spit silk, fuse six arms together, and his body could harden into jade armor.

And he would enjoy inflicting pain, while also enjoying receiving it.

His attack speed would get a huge boost, and damage dealt to enemies would stack higher and higher, plus it could inflict extreme pain on them!

He would possess an incredibly powerful self-healing ability, and could also use his absurdly abundant bodily fluids to heal himself; when he wounded enemies, he could also recover life—three different ways to restore life!

With life recovery this strong, plus the ability to convert life into spiritual power… spiritual power would basically be infinitely convertible!

He would have innate damage reduction, and after enemies attacked him, they'd be corroded by his bodily fluids.

He could drain blood, and doing so would greatly boost stamina and pleasure—and he could even drain fire!

Night vision, dynamic vision, and the ability to breathe underwater.

In darkness and underwater, all his stats would be boosted.

He could jump incredibly high, his body would be extremely soft, he wouldn't fear falls, severed limbs could regenerate, and he'd have a carrion stomach that could even digest toxins.

Massive load-bearing capacity, the ability to fuse with equipment, and a body scent that could make enemies drop their weapons?

And he could summon his kin! He could even transform under the silver moon!

So many, many more effects, plus all kinds of combo genes—he had them all!

They would all take effect!

That's how strong it is!

Almost too strong.

It is the Taoyuan bloodline, after all.

The original Taoyuan bloodline, at that.

Zhao Chi was truly glad he hadn't converted Gu Qing and the others into a sub-race just for 1 stat point.

If they had been converted into a sub-race, they could only condense the bloodline of that sub-race.

Strong as well, sure, but still no comparison to what they had now.

But… this was only theory.

Only the skill's description and notes.

He hadn't seen it with his own eyes yet.

Should he try it now?

After all, he'd be spending 100 days in the territory, and Gu Qing and the others could condense 1 point of bloodline energy every 10 days.

Theoretically, Zhao Chi could obtain up to 40 points in total.

But he'd definitely need to set some aside to actually condense bloodline sprouts and give them to Su Qin and Li Ruanyu, so they could convert to the Taoyuan race as well.

Su Qin was completely on board—she'd been looking forward to it.

Li Ruanyu fully agreed as well.

Besides that, some sprouts would need to grow into bloodlines and then be broken down.

The genes broken down would certainly be genes the Taoyuan race possessed, and identical genes could stack and upgrade.

When that happened, the Taoyuan race's genes would rise another notch, growing ever stronger.

Still, it might not go that smoothly.

Because a bloodline sprout's growth cycle was determined by the strength of the bloodline.

A Taoyuan bloodline sprout might grow very slowly.

Compared to the Angel bloodline, which was stronger? Which was weaker?

Not certain.

Really hard to say.

After all, he was comparing against the Angel bloodline, and Angels had many sub-branches too—every single one of them was strong.

But even if the Taoyuan bloodline was weaker, it wouldn't be weak by much.

Then... the time required to cultivate Taoyuan bloodlines must be very long.

Fortunately, bloodlines of the same kind can absorb each other, shortening the growth time.

So some bloodline sprouts are destined to be absorbed by others.

That means even fewer can be retained by Zhao Chi.

After all, this is the energy of bloodlines to begin with — there wasn't much of it in the first place.

And there's still one shortcoming.

This skill doesn't boost any attributes at all — it can only enhance genetic effects.

Still not quite perfect.

No, I'm just being too greedy.

This skill is already this strong — I shouldn't ask for anything more.

That's right, it's already enough.

"My lord, what's with your expression? Why are you smiling one moment and frowning the next? What's wrong?"

Gu Qing gently tugged at Zhao Chi's arm.

Zhao Chi looked at Gu Qing.

Her cheeks were still flushed a rosy peach, her brows and eyes as lovely as a painting.

She lay languidly across Zhao Chi's lap.

Zhao Chi laughed and said, "I've just comprehended a great skill — it just lacks an attribute boost."

"Really? Let me see."

Zhao Chi sent the information to Gu Qing's system, and Gu Qing read it carefully.

"Huh? Bloodline Enhancement? And the effects are this strong? My lord, can you use everyone's innate talents and genetic effects?"

"Yes, at least that's what the skill says."

"Then... could you enhance them while you're inside us? Let us gain each other's genetic abilities too?"

Zhao Chi shook his head: "I'd love to know that too, but right now I'm not sure either. We can try it out right now."

"Alright."