Chapter 1616: 433.24 Billion Origin Points! Perfect Gene!

One-sided slaughter lasted for over an hour.

An hour later, the last alien creature before the Starfall Divine Palace was slain by Xu Jingming.

"It's over..."

A low voice echoed across the plain, carrying a faint aftertaste of blood and coldness.

Xu Jingming slowly reined in the raging black thunder surrounding him.

The four-meter-two purple nightmare demon body stood motionless in midair.

The Thunderwing folded gently, and the dark red killing aura receded like a tide.

Revealing the suffocating battlefield below.

A mountain of corpses, a sea of blood.

No, even that phrase was insufficient to describe the scene before them.

Across the entire plain, as far as the eye could see, there were nothing but corpses.

The colossal carcasses of the beast tribes piled into hills.

Dark gold and crimson blood merged into streams, slowly flowing through the ravines.

The shattered remains of the demon tribes lay scattered everywhere, their demonic flames yet to fully extinguish.

The metallic shards of the mechanical tribes reflected the cold light of the sky.

And most horrifying of all were the insect tribes.

Broken limbs and mutilated bodies carpeted the ground in dense, emerald-black layers!

The insect tribe warriors' corpses were so numerous that in many places they had piled into mounds several meters high!

All insect tribes had been exterminated.

Among the other alien races, aside from Lin Yin, whom Xu Jingming had specifically ordered spared, very few had escaped.

"Gulps..."

From the human camp, someone swallowed hard, the sound barely audible.

Everyone stared blankly at the scene before them, their minds utterly empty.

The slaughter they had just witnessed had utterly exceeded their comprehension.

Xu Jingming's combat power could no longer be described as merely Universe Stage Three or Four.

It was a crushing, despair-inducing strength.

One man slaughtered four major races, annihilating millions of insect hordes!

Such a feat—let alone the Universe Stage—even many Eternal Stage deities would likely be unable to achieve!

"Humanity has produced a monster."

Brodie's expression was complex, his three eyes flickering with light.

He had previously harbored resentment over Xu Jingming's killing of Kaela, even planning revenge after leaving the secret realm.

But now, every such thought was crushed beneath the brutal reality before him.

Revenge?

What could he use to seek revenge?

The man slaughtered the four races as if slaughtering dogs.

Killing a single three-eyed race prodigy like him, he probably wouldn't even blink.

"Enough..."

Brodie sighed inwardly, extinguishing all lingering thoughts of vengeance.

The gap in strength was too vast—he had no right even to harbor hatred.

Meanwhile, Xu Jingming in midair had already turned his attention entirely away from the battlefield.

He subtly shifted his thoughts, summoning his system interface.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Universe Apex (+)

【Ability】: Annihilation Divine Thunder (T2)

【Physique】: 121.7 trillion qi blood (+)

【Spirit】: 119.4 trillion Hz (+)

【Skills】: Spear Intent (Advanced+), Furious Thunderstorm (T2, Perfect)...

【Body Cultivation】: Starcore Thunder Body (T0, Fourth Stage +)

【Spirit Refinement】: Ninefold Refining Spirit Method (T0, Fourth Stage +)

【Origin】: Thunder Origin (Ninth Stage +), Destruction Origin (Ninth Stage +), Life Origin (Fifth Stage +)

【Gene】: Source Core Scripture (Third Stage +)

【Bloodline】: Thunder Hell Demon (Purple Nightmare Demon Scripture T0, Fifth Stage +)

【Origin Points】: 433.24 billion

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up, a surge of indescribable excitement rising within him.

This was the total harvest from that slaughter just now!

"It really is the insect tribes!

Otherwise, accumulating this many origin points would have taken ages."

Xu Jingming was overjoyed.

With his current remaining origin points, he could directly spend them to break through to the Eternal Stage!

But for a perfect-grade divine body, he must endure—for now, he must first invest points into the Source Core Scripture.

"The fourth layer of the Source Core Secret Scripture should be enough to raise my life gene multiplier to perfection."

Thinking of this, Xu Jingming no longer hesitated.

He locked his mind on the '+' sign behind the gene column and pressed it without hesitation!

Source Points - 400 billion!

Source Core Secret Scripture Third Layer → Source Core Secret Scripture Fourth Layer!

Boom—!!!

In the instant he added the point, an unprecedented strange fluctuation erupted violently from within Xu Jingming!

The fluctuation had no form or substance, yet seemed to touch the most fundamental laws of the universe!

Hum—

The space around Xu Jingming shuddered violently, and the Annihilating Divine Thunder surged uncontrollably!

Crackling, popping!!!

Black thunder exploded like a furious dragon.

It transformed into a thunderball over a kilometer in diameter, engulfing Xu Jingming entirely!

Blinding lightning obscured the sun and moon.

The terrifying pressure instantly drew the attention of the powerful humans below on the plain.

"What is Brother Xu doing?"

"Don't know, but it looks like he's breaking through."

"Tsk, no wonder he's Brother Xu—he breaks through right after a battle, so terrifying."

"......"

Though none understood, everyone couldn't help but marvel.

Only Lin Qianxue's exquisite face revealed an unmistakable shock!

This was the commotion when the Source Core Secret Scripture breaks through!

But only five days ago, Young Master had just broken through to the Third Layer!

Now he's already launching an assault on the Fourth Layer?!

Lin Qianxue's heart churned with a storm of disbelief.

This was utterly incredible!

Her own Source Core Secret Scripture had been stuck at the Second Layer for over ten thousand years.

She couldn't even touch the threshold of the Third Layer.

But what of Xu Jingming?

In just over half a year in the Forbidden Realm, he rose from the Second Layer to the Third, and now assaults the Fourth!

This cultivation speed defied all logic!

"Could it be... that Young Master truly can cultivate the Source Core Secret Scripture to the Fourth Layer even at the Cosmic Stage?"

Lin Qianxue's heart pounded wildly; a strange anticipation surged within her.

The lightning raged for about two hours.

To Xu Jingming, it felt like an eternity, yet also like a single instant.

When the violent black thunderball receded like a tide, all of it sinking back into his body.

The plain fell utterly silent.

Xu Jingming slowly opened his eyes.

In his pupils, no thunder remained—only a profound stillness, like the depths of the cosmic stars.

But if one looked closely, it seemed as if endless life-starlight swirled and flickered within that depth.

A sensation of unprecedented clarity filled every corner of his body.

"This feeling..."

Xu Jingming savored it carefully, yet could not precisely describe it in words.

It was an ineffable sense of perfection.

It was as if... he had been born the universe's most perfect favorite child!

His life gene multiplier had reached the theoretical cosmic limit!

"Who, then, was the creator of the Source Core Secret Scripture?"

He was deeply shaken.

Bloodline determined the base life gene multiplier.

Optimizing a race's bloodline required endless eons, and could never surpass the 1024-fold limit.

Only special lifeforms—those cosmic-favored beings—could be born with perfect genes.

Yet now, through the Source Core Secret Scripture, he had forcibly shattered this iron law!

From an ordinary person with a Level 7 bloodline, he had climbed step by step.

Until he reached the same level of perfect genes as a special lifeform!

"Let me check what my current life gene multiplier is."

Though he felt excellent,

Xu Jingming still flipped his wrist and pulled out the precise instrument Lin Qianxue had given him.

The probe pierced his fingertip, drawing a drop of blood.

Hum—

The instrument trembled lightly; a stream of pale blue data flashed wildly.

Three seconds later, a clear set of data projected before his eyes:

【Life Gene Multiplication Result: 1024x】

"Indeed, it has reached the limit!"

Xu Jingming's face broke into a brilliant smile.

Perfect genes!

The highest possible life level according to Cosmic Tier theory!

This means that when he breaks through to the Immortal Tier, he will surely forge the legendary Perfect Divine Body!

"Next, I just need to accumulate enough Source Points to attempt breaking through to the Immortal Tier!"

Xu Jingming's mood improved greatly.

The Lei Ting around him receded, and the Zi Yan Demon Body returned to its normal state.

He flapped his Thunderwing lightly behind him, becoming a streak of black light that descended before the human camp.