Under the warm glow of the setting sun, two women with flawless figures wore only thin, translucent veils. Droplets of water shimmered on their bodies, lending them an added air of holiness.
"What do you think?"
Kaisha gazed at the extinguished star, then turned her lightly shadowed eyes toward Hexi beside her.
"About what?"
"How should we deal with Lin Ye?"
Hexi thought for a moment before replying, "We should send him back."
"Wouldn't sending him back to Earth be letting him off too easily?"
Kaisha casually conjured a glass of red wine and gently swirled it. Teasingly, she said, "After all, he's the man who flirted with you, the Sky Base King. Maybe you're a little interested in him?"
"Kaisha, making that kind of joke about an angel over thirty thousand years old isn't funny at all."
Hexi pursed her lips, unconsciously recalling the way Lin Ye had looked over her body.
That kid was still a virgin. He looked so frail, too.
Hehe...
"Enough..."
Kaisha rose to her feet and said seriously, "That's enough idle chatter."
"Lin Ye cannot remain in the Merlot Heavenly Court. Otherwise, the entire Angel Civilization will have no secrets left before him."
"But we can't simply let him leave either. It would be best to establish some sort of bond with him."
Her tone was utterly decisive.
Hexi knew there was no room for negotiation. She herself had been deeply curious about Lin Ye's abilities.
She had originally intended to take him on as a disciple when the opportunity arose.
But now, Kaisha had made her position clear.
"Let Yan accompany him to Earth's civilization. I heard Milan established a Super God Academy on Earth." Hexi gave it some thought.
Milan was a survivor of the Shenhe Civilization. The Super God Academy he founded had trained batches upon batches of Super Soldiers for Earth.
"That plan will work. We'll discuss it when we return, then let them go." Kaisha nodded.
Meanwhile.
Elsewhere, Lin Ye was practicing flight with the Angel Wings in the sky.
Whoosh!
On an island beneath the Angel Left Wing, Yan watched the black-winged figure streak past and nodded in satisfaction.
"You're adapting very quickly. The Angel Gene seems to fit you as though it were made for you."
"This proves that the Knight Spirit within you is exceptionally strong."
For some reason, although his wings had been created according to the Angel Gene, they had manifested as black feathers.
Angels relied upon the Knight Spirit. Wherever knights existed, angels would exist as well.
Lin Ye's black wings were clearly the outward manifestation of his unique Knight Spirit.
Hum!
In midair, Lin Ye beat his black wings, turning into a streak of light as he swiftly flew over Yan's head.
His black wings flapped lightly, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Even in an ordinary state, they allowed Lin Ye to fly at the speed of sound.
If he connected to his Heavenly Blade System and added the Concept Rewrite Engine's enhancement...
He wondered whether his speed could reach the level of traveling through space.
Lin Ye slowly descended from the sky and clenched his fist. "With the Angel Gene, it feels like even my mind is processing faster. My physical fitness has also been slightly enhanced."
"That's because you already had the potential to awaken the Angel Gene. If you had grown up in Fei Leize, you might have become a decent male angel as well."
Yan nearly said the word "scumbag," but held it back before it left her mouth.
Lin Ye gave a hum and looked down at the buildings behind her. "Is this where you usually live?"
"No. I usually live on a warship. It's just that they all said this was a good place to watch the sunset, so I brought you here."
Yan wore a long T-shirt today, her short hair resting on her shoulders. Beneath the setting sun, her angelic beauty was displayed to the fullest.
Lin Ye looked at Yan's profile and blanked out for two seconds.
An angelic face and a devilish body—girls like Yan were exactly what that saying described.
Just then.
Ding! Congratulations, Host, for shocking Angel Kaisha and Angel Hexi. You have received massive physical gene enhancements. Congratulations, Host. Your divine body has been further strengthened, reaching the upper tier of the Third Generation Divine Body! Because the Host has received Angel Gene enhancement, the Host's physical level may surpass that of an ordinary Third Generation Divine Body.
Huh?
After reading the system notifications, Lin Ye was completely bewildered.
When had he shocked Kaisha and Hexi?
Could it have been while he was repairing the warship these past few days?
That shouldn't have been possible...
Lin Ye shook his head, unable to make sense of it.
The blood and vitality around him began to boil, and even the air around him seemed to ripple from the heat radiating off his body.
Lin Ye's changes were reflected in Yan's eyes as well.
She stared at Lin Ye in surprise, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly. "Reading Lin Ye's physical data. Read failed."
"Target detected as a Third Generation Divine Body."
"Actual strength exceeds the limits of his divine body's category."
Yan let out a soft sound of surprise.
Strange. Lin Ye's Third Generation Divine Body had undergone another rapid strengthening in such a short time.
Had he deciphered genetic technology?
Yan was about to ask when Lin Ye's transformation ended.
Then, a white sphere of light appeared in each of Lin Ye's hands, each containing immense energy.
It seemed as though countless celestial bodies were revolving within them.
This was...
"A Celestial Computer?"
"Yes. I'm planning to create a portable Celestial Computing Cluster, something similar to Sister Hexi's Heavenly Blade System. I've named it the Great Heavenly Blade."
"Sister Hexi? You really know how to take advantage of people." Yan chuckled. Looking at the microscopic particle appearing in Lin Ye's hand, she asked, "But this little thing you made doesn't seem very powerful. Can I try it?"
Trying out the sophons isn't impossible.
Besides, I need a test subject to find the flaws in the Low-End Heavenly Blade System.
With that in mind, Lin Ye turned his palm over.
One sophon after another, glowing with white halos, appeared in his palm. Like fireflies, they danced above his hand.
They were all sophons, except Lin Ye had specifically constructed them according to the principles of the Heavenly Blade System.
In other words, this was Lin Ye's Great Heavenly Blade Computing Cluster.
"This is... the Great Heavenly Blade Computing Cluster?"
Yan looked at the white ball of light hovering over Lin Ye's palm, less than the size of a basketball, and reached out to touch it.
The moment she made contact, the white motes seemed to receive some kind of guidance and drilled into Yan's body one after another.
"Heavenly Blade, give Yan a little shock. Run at overclocked capacity."
Lin Ye lightly tapped the air with his finger. In the next instant, Yan discovered in horror that an oceanic sea of computational power had been bestowed upon her.
Boom!
Yan's aura surged like boiling water. Her eyes glowed with a white light similar to Kaisha's, clearly indicating that she had entered a state of knowledge retrieval.
She tried to solve the problems she had recorded. With the support of Lin Ye's Heavenly Blade System, those former difficulties became like shallow puddles that she could easily cross.
Her cracking speed had nearly reached sixty frames. Even an angel's Sub-biological Engine only operated at around thirty frames!
"What terrifying decryption ability. I wonder how much it can enhance combat power."
Yan stood up, her silver armor gleaming as a dazzling layer of lightning coiled around her.
She slowly raised her jade-like hand. A clawing bolt of Heavenly Thunder seemed to come alive, thunder snakes dancing wildly as they spread across a radius of five hundred meters.
Yan could still feel that this was not the limit of the Heavenly Blade System's enhancement!
"More power!"
Boom! Thunder exploded!
Lin Ye saw Yan's body turn into light in that instant.
She had literally turned into light.
The Heavenly Blade System is operating under overload. 20% of the sophon computers have been damaged. Please repair them as soon as possible.
Two notifications appeared before Lin Ye's eyes. He watched with his own eyes as Yan was blasted away by the white light of the sophon explosion.
"Uh..."
It seemed the technology was still immature.
Yan's lightning element placed too much strain on it.
Next time, he would have to find someone else. Yan probably would not agree to be a test subject again.
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