Chapter 119: Gene Awakening!

August 20, 3:00 PM.

【Bloodline Evolution Ability - Sky-Track Monarch 'Sky-Track Coordinate' Completed】

In the quiet cultivation room, as a line of prompts appeared before his eyes, Lin Qing breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Finally, one item is complete."

For twenty-five days, absorbing only one portion of the Second Source and an Energy Stabilizer each day, it still somewhat exceeded his body's tolerance, but with his 'High-Speed Regeneration' ability, recovery was very fast.

After twenty-five days, the 'Sky-Track Coordinate' was finally completed, granting him a prepaid slot at last.

"Only the final item, 'Wings of the Firmament', remains."

Lin Qing took a deep breath, wasting no time, and immediately moved his will.

"Order."

"Prepay, Bloodline Evolution Ability - Sky-Track Monarch 'Wings of the Firmament'!"

As a flood of inexplicable information surfaced in his mind, he understood how to cultivate to unlock this final fourth-tier core gene ability.

Adjust and correct his own genes sixty-four times using the Bloodline Evolution Method; each time must be perfectly precise and utterly natural.

Memories surged forth, and Lin Qing's body trembled uncontrollably. His blood seemed to burn completely at that moment, circulating at an astonishing speed accompanied by the flow of cyan energy.

From a microscopic perspective, immense changes occurred deep within every single cell of his body.

Gradually, Lin Qing's consciousness began to blur. He lay unconscious on the ground, emitting a joyful roar from his mouth, as if sensing the infinite freedom of soaring through the firmament.

Suddenly—

Beams of cyan light danced forth, rapidly coalescing into a framework and feathers, forming a pair of slightly illusory, light-based wings on his back, dazzling as flames!

The two wings, purely condensed from light, slowly unfolded, spanning nearly four meters on each side, almost touching the walls of the cultivation room.

Lin Qing opened his eyes, and simultaneously, the wings on his back flickered lightly against the void, lifting him effortlessly into the air.

He couldn't help but pause in surprise.

Turning to look at the two energy wings, Lin Qing felt somewhat amazed. "So these are the Wings of the Firmament?"

As the core ability of the Sky-Track Monarch bloodline's fourth tier, these Wings of the Firmament could be considered his strongest ability at this stage.

"Retract."

At Lin Qing's mental command, the Wings of the Firmament on his back instantly dissolved into energy and withdrew into his body.

Immediately, he stood up and walked toward the door.

"Go out and test it."

High above the vast sea, above the clouds, a blue fighter jet shot through at an astonishing speed, then gradually slowed down at an altitude of fourteen thousand meters.

Inside the fighter jet.

Standing at the cabin door, Lin Qing left a cyan cross-mark on the nearby wall and said, "Chen Guang, manage the satellites and radar monitoring this area for me; do not let anyone discover me. You control the jet, and also measure my speed for me."

A streak of light flew out, transforming into Chen Guang, an angel in a white dress, who nodded to him and said, "Understood."

After opening the cabin door, the strong airflow caused by rapid depressurization made Lin Qing's hair flutter uncontrollably, and the temperature began to drop constantly.

This had no effect on Lin Qing's current physical constitution; after all, even if he jumped down directly like this, freefall would do him no harm, so this was naturally of no consequence.

Below lay an endless expanse of massive clouds.

"Nice view."

A smile appeared on Lin Qing's face, and he immediately leaped out of the cabin.

In the gale, he let himself fall freely under Earth's gravity, closing his eyes to feel it for a while before spreading his arms.

In the next instant, a pair of cyan light wings suddenly unfolded from thin air. After flickering lightly against the void, Lin Qing's falling body sharply reversed direction, shooting skyward at an astonishing speed!

"Haha..."

Looking at the boundless sky around him and feeling the state of escaping Earth's gravity, Lin Qing felt a freedom and exhilaration unlike anything before.

Ascending to the heavens has always been humanity's longing and yearning for the endless sky.

"So this is the feeling of flight?"

Lin Qing, somewhat excited, felt his current state. "Try the maximum speed."

In the next instant, the wings on his back struck forcefully. Accompanied by ripples of strangeness spreading through the void, his entire body transformed into a streak of light, speeding toward the front at extreme velocity.

"Lin Qing, your current flight speed has reached 2.7 Ma He."

Chen Guang's voice sounded in his mind.

"Not bad." Lin Qing smiled.

His speed moving on the ground could only reach the speed of sound, unable to break that limit, but the flight speed of the Wings of the Firmament was far faster than his maximum speed.

"This is not the limit."

Lin Qing gazed at the fighter jet speeding away several kilometers away. Sensing the Sky-Track Coordinate on the jet with his will, in less than a second, an invisible Sky-Track formed between him and the coordinate.

He immediately flew along this Sky-Track.

"Whoosh!"

The already astonishing speed instantly surged by another one or two times.

"6.1 Ma He." Chen Guang's voice sounded in his mind.

Traveling along the Sky-Track was like a fish entering water for him; naturally, his speed increased significantly.

"Although not as fast as the fighter jet's maximum speed, for a human body to reach this speed is already very fast."

At Lin Qing's mental command, he dispersed this Sky-Track and then looked up at the sky above his head.

Theoretically, as long as he broke through the atmosphere and eliminated air resistance, the Wings of the Firmament could accelerate continuously, even breaking Earth's gravity and entering satellite orbit.

Even in a vacuum environment, he could still fly freely.

This was because the flight of the Wings of the Firmament did not rely on flapping air to generate thrust and lift, but rather gathered and stimulated free-floating energy in the void to produce counter-thrust.

These were, after all, energy wings, so there was no air resistance.

So even in the space environment, it can still soar freely.

"For now, I won't go to space." Lin Qing didn't want to fly too high for the time being.

Although he had the Starry Sky Battle Suit, like a high-end spacesuit that could sustain life activities, provide oxygen, maintain temperature, and so on, not knowing the outer space of Earth, it was better to be safe.

Immediately, Lin Qing tested the flexibility again, namely maximum acceleration, maximum deceleration, changing direction, and these aspects, finding the flexibility was also extremely high.

A life form possessing such flight ability was simply the sky's overlord.

"Just the most basic flight function of the Wings of the Firmament is this strong?"

Lin Qing couldn't help but click his tongue in admiration.

Flight is merely the most basic application.

In fact, the Wings of the Firmament is an ability integrating offense and defense.

He could instantly transform the feathers into a state of super-energy material; although he couldn't change their shape, these broad wings could completely cover his body, and with layers of feathers transformed into super-energy material stacked up, the defense was extremely high, capable of deflecting force and neutralizing attacks.

The key was that the speed of transforming feathers into super-energy material was extremely fast, taking only an instant, whereas he himself could only slowly produce super-energy material, spending a very long time.

Of course, once the feathers or self-produced super-energy material were created, they were completely fixed. At the same time, feathers transformed into super-energy material could burst out like blades, and the feather-shooting speed exceeded fifteen times the speed of sound!

Sharp and sturdy feathers, exceeding fifteen times the speed of sound, were equivalent to a large-scale area attack.

The key was that they were much faster than the fastest sniper rifle bullets!

These two wings themselves could also be wielded like two large blades; the speed of the pure energy form was also much faster than a hand.

Of course, in terms of strength, his own body was still stronger.

But this offense-and-defense-integrated Wings of the Firmament was already powerful enough.

"Time to return for Gene Awakening."

Lin Qing showed a hint of a smile and used the biological detector to check his current gene optimization index.

157.6%!

Although he hadn't reached the 200% gene optimization index of a Genius from the Intelligent Star Race, it was because his innate endowment was inferior to others, and the gap had already been narrowed significantly.

Moreover, according to Chen Guang, the numerical value of the gene optimization index actually didn't mean much.

More types of energy and higher-level energy optimizing the genes were what mattered most.

!.

Flying back to the fighter jet along the sky track, Lin Qing also ordered the fighter jet to fly back to headquarters.

This relatively desolate sea area was less than three thousand kilometers from headquarters; at the fighter jet's speed, it could return in just over ten minutes.

Inside the cultivation room.

"Gene Awakening."

Lin Qing sat cross-legged, and the Gene Awakening Method he had learned back then appeared in his mind, every detail clear and distinct.

Gene Awakening transcends the true limits of the human body; the key lies in awakening one's own genes.

One must borrow the special energy of the Third Energy Level, 'Awakening Energy'.

If it were before, he would still have to pre-pay the Gene Awakening Method to have confidence in awakening.

But now, a gene optimization index exceeding 150%, which is a 150% probability of Gene Awakening.

It was already destined to succeed.

"There's no room for improvement left."

Lin Qing pondered carefully if there were any oversights; after a while, he made a decision: "We can start the Gene Awakening."

Since that was the case, then truly begin the Gene Awakening!

Once awakened, he would have a period of rapid progress!

Lin Qing didn't waste time; immediately, following the Gene Awakening Method, he sank his consciousness into himself and began to sense the Awakening Energy of the Third Energy Level.

Not long after—

Strands of strange energy originating from the dark void flowed out silently like springs seeping from the earth, merging into his body.

And his body, like a desert that had been silent for a long time, rapidly absorbed this Awakening Energy.

As strands of Awakening Energy continued to surge in, certain minute places within his body seemed to be awakened, gradually gaining a bit more vitality.

This vitality began to gradually spread and expand.

At this moment, Lin Qing felt his consciousness closer to his body than ever before, even able to perceive the function and aura of pair after pair of genes within him.

Which were powerful, which were weak, could be said to be crystal clear.

"Too wonderful..."

Lin Qing's consciousness trembled slightly; this was a shock that penetrated deep into the soul.

Unknown how much time passed.

His body's absorption of Awakening Energy seemed to have reached a saturation point, finally stopping the absorption.

Then—

"Boom!"

Like a roar originating from the depths of the soul, at this moment, Lin Qing felt his body seem to come completely alive, his spirit and consciousness as if merging into the flesh.

A brand new world and senses were gradually opening.

After a short while.

Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes, looking at the brand new world before him, and murmured: "So this is a Gene Awakener?"

At this moment, he completely understood why every Gene Awakener was so powerful.

Before Gene Awakening, even if he had cultivated the original battle techniques to the instinct level and mastered several gene abilities, such strength was already formidable enough.

But a Gene Awakener didn't even need to perform gene optimization; they only needed to cultivate a series of battle techniques to the instinct level, and they would be no worse than him.

Because the limit of the human body is not the limit of genes.

It is like individual hairs that cannot lift a heavy object when scattered, but when woven together, they can lift something far heavier than before!

After awakening the genes within the body, the degree of self-development becomes very high.

Normally, it allows the body to return to its most energy-efficient state.

Once a crisis is encountered, depending on the situation, the genes will automatically adjust their state, choosing which genes to express and which to hide.

It is more suitable for gene states such as high speed, strength, defense, recovery, self-healing, immunity, combat technique execution, and so on.

If analyzed numerically, even genes that have just awakened, as long as the gene state is adjusted properly, can reach more than three times their pre-awakening level in all aspects.

And, most importantly, the limit of the human body will be raised again!

In the past, the limit of the human body was only about ten times that of an ordinary person; now it can fully reach thirty times! Fifty times! Or even higher!

This refers to the most basic physical attributes.

Once entering a suitable gene state and using gene abilities along with instinct-level original combat techniques, combat power can skyrocket by hundreds of times or more!

As for the upper limit of basic physical attributes, how high it specifically is depends on the degree of gene optimization within oneself.

If it is the most ordinary Earthling gene, never undergoing gene optimization, the upper limit is only twenty to thirty times the physical attributes of an ordinary person.

If it is only this level of physical attributes, there is absolutely no hope of reaching the level of 'Gene Reconstruction'.

But after gene optimization, the upper limit becomes much higher.

"Chen Guang, what do you say my gene upper limit is?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

"Uncertain."

The angelic, three-nothing loli beside him sized him up. "But you possess three fourth-tier gene abilities and eight third-tier gene abilities. According to the common calculation method..."

"The first fourth-tier gene can increase the upper limit of physical attributes by twenty times that of an ordinary person, the second by ten times, and starting from the third, it only increases the upper limit by five times."

"The same applies to third-tier genes: the first gene increases the upper limit of physical attributes by eight times, the second by four times, and starting from the third, they all only increase it by two times."

"Plus the inherent gene upper limit of Earthlings themselves."

Chen Guang analyzed, "Calculated this way, your upper limit for physical attributes should be around eighty to ninety times that of an ordinary person."

She paused, then added, "But you have also developed two core genes of the Sky Track Monarch bloodline, which will also provide a significant extra bonus to the gene upper limit. It is hard to say exactly how much, but it is estimated that the total can reach over one hundred times that of an ordinary person."

"Over one hundred times?"

Lin Qing couldn't help but smile. "Then when I progress to my limit, won't my basic physical attributes be more than ten times what they are now?"

(End of this chapter)