Chapter 1583: Bottom Life Gene Multiples! Equipment Selection!

"Hehe, if only I had a problem like yours."

Lin Qianxue gave Xu Jingming a withering look with her beautiful eyes, then continued:

"Perfect divine bodies above the top tier are almost exclusively the domain of special life forms."

Ordinary life forms, no matter how noble their bloodline, find it extremely difficult to reach the threshold of 1024-fold."

This seems to be some kind of cosmic rule."

But soon, she shifted her tone, her gaze burning as she fixed it on Xu Jingming:

"But you are different."

Xu Jingming blinked: "Me?"

Lin Qianxue nodded, a rare hint of anticipation appearing on her cold, exquisite face:

"Your talent is high. If, before breaking through to the Immortal Stage,"

you cultivate the Source Core Scripture to a higher level, you might yet form a perfect divine body."

Xu Jingming's heart trembled.

That's right!

The Source Core Scripture is itself an incredible art that can increase life gene multiples without breaking through!

If I could use it to form a perfect divine body,

my combat power would become even stronger after I eventually break through to the Immortal Stage!"

Xu Jingming took a deep breath and asked:

"Senior Sister, at what level of the Source Core Scripture will my life gene multiples reach 1024-fold?"

"That depends on your current life gene multiples."

Lin Qianxue paused briefly, then flipped her wrist.

In her palm appeared a tiny, precision instrument, no larger than a palm, entirely silver-white.

Its surface flowed with deep blue data light, and from its center extended a needle as fine as a hair.

"Extend your hand." Lin Qianxue gestured.

Xu Jingming obeyed and extended his right hand.

Lin Qianxue lightly tapped with her fingertip; the needle silently pierced his fingertip, drawing a drop of crimson blood.

Hum—

The instrument vibrated gently; the blue light turned deep red, and countless intricate runes spun rapidly within it.

Just three seconds later, a clear data projection appeared before them:

【Life Gene Multiples Test Result: 745-fold】

"This?!" Lin Qianxue's pupils shrank sharply.

For the first time, her usually cold and composed, exquisite face showed utter disbelief.

Not too high—too low!

So low it completely exceeded her expectations!

To have reached the front lines of the Outer Domain battlefield, the Aries Star,

to have passed the brutal screening of the Nine Sword Dominator and stood here—wasn't every single one an elite among human elites?

Their bloodline foundations were at least Level 2!

Even my Level 1 bloodline, though top-tier, isn't unheard of.

But 745-fold?

This means that, in terms of life gene multiples,

Xu Jingming might be the absolute lowest among all these assembled warlords!

"How is this possible?!"

Inside his consciousness, the demon girl Vera's phantom image leapt straight up.

Her purple eyes widened to saucers, her heart-shaped tail frozen mid-air:

"Only 745-fold?!"

She had always assumed that Xu Jingming's prodigiousness—

completing in three years what others took thousands of years to achieve—must stem from some extraordinarily rare special life form.

Only perfect life gene multiples at every major realm could sustain such an unimaginable growth rate.

But now, only 745-fold!

Nearly three hundred-fold short of the cosmic peak benchmark of 1024-fold!

This gap wasn't just minor—it was enormous!

"Little Brother, how could your life gene multiples be so low?"

Lin Qianxue snapped back to herself, her voice thick with confusion.

She couldn't understand it.

How could someone with life gene multiples of only 745-fold at the cosmic peak level unleash such terrifying power?

How could he perfect the Killing Art in just three months?

This completely defied cultivation logic!

Xu Jingming, however, wasn't particularly surprised:

"My original bloodline rank was only Level 7.

Although I later learned bloodline arts, I suspect they only raised me to Level 3 or Level 2 bloodline—nowhere near top-tier."

The Purple Nightmare Body granted me formidable combat power, but didn't significantly boost my life gene multiples.

Reaching this level today, the Source Core Scripture likely played the greater role.

"Only a Level 7 bloodline?"

Lin Qianxue repeated softly, her gaze complex.

She had been taken in by the Frost Crown Dominator for tens of thousands of years, having seen countless senior brothers and sisters, and peer prodigies.

Those chosen by the Supreme Dominator had bloodlines no worse than Level 1, and many were even special lifeforms.

Yet Xu Jingming, an ordinary person with only a Level 7 bloodline.

Has stubbornly reached this point through insight and fortune alone.

His cultivation speed is even faster than my Level 1 bloodline!

This can no longer be explained by innate talent.

This is defying heaven itself!

After the shock, Lin Qianxue quickly calmed her emotions, regaining her cold, rational demeanor.

She looked at Xu Jingming and said seriously:

"If you had a Level 1 bloodline like me, you'd only need to cultivate the Source Core Scripture to To Third Layer."

"Then you could push your life gene multiplier to 1024 times, meeting the threshold for a Perfect Divine Body."

"But you're only at 745 times..."

She paused, her voice growing slightly heavier:

"That means you must cultivate the Source Core Scripture to To Fourth Layer to possibly meet the requirements of a Perfect Divine Body."

At this point, Lin Qianxue unconsciously shook her head, a rare hint of helplessness crossing her exquisite face:

"Too difficult."

"I've been stuck at To Second Layer for over ten thousand years, and still haven't touched the threshold of To Third Layer."

"For you to break through to To Fourth Layer at the Cosmic Stage, it will likely be even harder."

Sensing these words might be too discouraging, Lin Qianxue quickly added:

"But you're still young, with plenty of time."

"Your talent is even better than mine—you can still attempt to push forward."

"If all else fails, breaking through to Immortality Stage with a Top-Tier Divine Body isn't unacceptable."

"I understand, thank you, Senior Sister for your guidance!"

Xu Jingming's eyes glinted slightly.

To Fourth Layer? Difficult?

To others, it might be an insurmountable abyss, but for him—

With the Deep Blue System, so-called bottlenecks aren't even problems.

As long as there's enough killing, enough Source Points, what's To Fourth Layer of the Source Core Scripture?

I'll just add points to it anyway!

After seeing off Lin Qianxue, whose expression still carried traces of shock, Xu Jingming returned to the center of the quiet chamber and sat cross-legged.

"Vera."

He activated his thoughts, "Bring up the Virtual Universe Military Merit Shangcheng."

"Yes, Master."

The demon girl responded sweetly, her soul-form appearing in the room.

With a flick of her small hand, a massive virtual screen instantly unfolded before Xu Jingming.

Countless categorized, dazzling product listings cascaded past like a waterfall.

His account now held the newly credited 12 million military merits, plus his previous balance and the 50 billion military merits awarded by the Nine Swords Dominator—he was now immensely wealthy.

A total of 11.24 billion military merits!

"With this much military merit, I can upgrade my gear."

Xu Jingming's gaze flashed like lightning as he swiftly scanned the screen.

"My entire body, including my ship, has the lowest rank—only A1 level."

"If I switched to an S1 level, my speed in interstellar travel would increase dramatically."

"But that won't help me much for the upcoming dungeon."

"Right now, the most critical thing is equipment that boosts combat power."

He murmured to himself, eyes gleaming: "Vera, bring up the armor category."

The screen instantly changed, displaying countless armor images arranged like stars.

From standard alloy battle armors, to the "Molten Fire Divine Armor" forged from stellar cores, to the "Shadow Veil Armor" woven from black hole matter...

Each emitted a terrifying energy fluctuation.

Xu Jingming swept his gaze across them, filtering rapidly.

With over a hundred billion military merits at his disposal, he could pick the absolute top-tier gear in the Shangcheng!