Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!!!
Inside the CEO's office, lightning flashed and thunder roared as a pungent smell filled the air.
The blinding electrical light lasted for a full hour.
At last, it began to weaken.
"Ms. Yan, what's happening to Lin Ye?"
At the doorway, Linna stood beside Yan and turned to look at her.
She had assumed Yan and Lin Ye were secretly plotting something monumental.
But in reality, Lin Ye seemed to be electrocuting himself with thunderbolts. Was this... also part of angel training?
"I don't know, but I can sense Lin Ye's body advancing in a certain direction, drawing closer and closer to it." Yan's eyes flickered slightly as she looked at Lin Ye amid the lightning, thinking of a possibility.
"What direction?" Linna asked curiously.
"..." Yan shook her head without speaking that word aloud.
Because the word "god" belonged to only two beings.
One was the Queen of Angels, Holy Kaisha.
The other was whoever possessed Galaxy Power.
Everyone else called gods were beings mutually opposed to Angel Civilization.
But put another way, Lin Ye was indeed using his own technology to advance toward the domain of gods!
This was practically the equivalent of building his own god-making program for himself.
But would he truly succeed?
Yan recalled the time she had been controlled by Lin Ye, disbelief surfacing in her eyes.
Now, it seemed that Lin Ye had not only cracked her Third Generation Divine Body.
He had also acquired the Thunder Gene along with it.
What kind of terrifying ability was this?
It was simply too unimaginable.
What Lin Ye had done truly exceeded the limits of her understanding.
Time passed second by second.
In the blink of an eye, a week slipped by.
The room where Lin Ye was located had long since become a field of ruins.
If Yan had not been keeping watch, Angel International would likely have been destroyed by Lin Ye's Thunder Gene.
And Lin Ye, at the center of the lightning, finally heard a notification ring out beside his ear.
Ding! Congratulations, Host! You have cracked the mysteries of a third-generation angel's divine body. Your divine body has been strengthened! Ding! Congratulations! The process of cracking a divine body has shocked Angel Yan. Your divine body genes have been strengthened. Your Fourth Generation Divine Body has improved.
"Hmm, my divine body really has been strengthened. I wonder whether I count as having a Fifth Generation Divine Body now?"
Within the lightning, Lin Ye's eyes flickered as he questioned the system.
But the system seemed to have deliberately waited for him to ask before pouring cold water over him:
The Host's divine body has reached the peak level of a Fourth Generation Divine Body! However, there is still a considerable gap before a Fifth Generation Divine Body. If the Host chooses to crack more divine bodies, you may be able to break through to a Fifth Generation Divine Body.
Pah!
How could his current physical strength possibly fall short of the Fifth Generation Divine Body standard?
Upon hearing the system's answer, Lin Ye immediately rejected that claim internally.
With Yan's Third Generation Divine Body technology added to his own divine body genes—
He should have upgraded no matter what!
Yet the system still refused to admit it.
Besides, hadn't Yan been shocked as well?
Still stuck below a Fifth Generation Divine Body... could this damn system be lying to him?
Lin Ye thought indignantly.
The next second, the system, having been questioned, immediately emitted a series of clicking sounds.
The Host has been detected questioning this system. Since this Fifth Generation Divine Body's strength does not meet the standard, a critical enhancement will now be triggered to prove it! Ding! Congratulations! Your divine body has received a critical enhancement. Your Fourth Generation Divine Body has advanced to a Fifth Generation Divine Body!
As the words fell—
Huh?
This fucking worked too?!
Questioning the system triggered a critical enhancement? So that was how it was used!
Lin Ye froze for a moment.
But immediately afterward, there came a hum!
Intense ringing filled his ears along with a sensation of deafness. Lin Ye felt his consciousness leave his flesh, as though it had been forcibly squeezed out.
His consciousness seemed to arrive in a vast starry universe.
All around him were black stars. He could vaguely see black holes streaked with crimson, moving at high speed and devouring light, heat, and everything else.
And all of it appeared around Lin Ye's consciousness.
Suddenly, the stars, fragments of stone, and all kinds of space debris around him flew toward Lin Ye.
He felt a suction force emanating from his body, as though he too had transformed into a black hole!
The matter around him began to revolve around him. Everywhere it passed became pitch-black.
Even light was swallowed into his body.
The next second!
Hum!
Lin Ye's consciousness was pulled back into the real world.
"Did I just travel beyond my body? Have I finally risen to the level of a Fifth Generation Divine Body?"
Lin Ye looked at his clenched fist. When he fully activated his divine body's power, it seemed he could create a black hole out of thin air.
It was somewhat like a Black Hole Engine.
However, it was not as overbearing as a Black Hole Engine. To create a black hole, he had to operate his divine body at full capacity, which consumed an enormous amount of energy.
He preferred to call it the fifth-generation black hole body.
Third-generation molecules possessed hardness, while fourth-generation molecules regenerated themselves.
Fifth-generation molecules came with devouring power, like that of a black hole.
This was the Fifth Generation Divine Body technology Lin Ye had mastered.
"Lin Ye, what generation is your divine body now?"
Yan approached with Linna, looking at Lin Ye with uncertainty in her eyes.
The current Lin Ye radiated an indescribable pressure simply by standing nearby.
"It should be a Fifth Generation Divine Body now."
Lin Ye lightly clenched his fist, and a layer of black light swirled around it, carrying a force that seemed capable of devouring everything.
Hum hum...
The air around them was stirred and gathered toward Lin Ye's fist.
Yan's golden hair drifted gently as she stared at the tiny black hole in Lin Ye's hand, utterly shocked!
A Fifth Generation Divine Body?!
This was technology that even Queen Kaisha had never mastered!
Although Queen Kaisha was not a specialist in divine body research, the Sacred Body of the angels was still among the finest Fourth Generation Divine Bodies!
And the divine body technology Lin Ye currently possessed was actually a Fifth Generation Divine Body?
"You're terrifying, like a devil." Yan clicked her tongue slightly, able to say only that.
Lin Ye smiled. "Don't worry. I'm not a bad person, and I won't attack you."
"Why is Miss Linna here?"
Lin Ye noticed Linna beside Yan and asked.
"Oh, I came to report to the two of you about a man-eating monster that recently appeared online."
"A man-eating monster?"
Lin Ye and Yan were both slightly stunned.
Lin Ye had been upgrading his divine body, while Yan had been watching over him.
Neither of them had any impression of this man-eating monster that had appeared.
"Yes. It's a monster that looks like a crocodile, carrying two broad axes in its hands and possessing immense strength. It has traveled eastward all the way from Egypt."
"According to the survivors, its target is the Yangtze and Yellow River basins."
"Recently, this terrifying creature has nearly flooded the trending searches online. Everyone on the internet is panicking."
As she spoke, Linna looked at Lin Ye, her expression tactful. "Lord Lin Ye, your accent suggests you're from Huaguo, right? It seems to be specifically targeting people from Huaguo."
Lin Ye gave a quiet hum. He had vaguely guessed the crocodile's identity.
It was the Beast Body Warrior Carl had left behind on Earth.
Crocodile Suo Dun.
Lin Ye walked out of the ruins, dispersed the lightning around himself, and made his way to the windowsill step by step.
"I thought you didn't care about the people of Huaguo. Are you going to help them?" Yan asked Lin Ye.
"Who said I'm going to help them?"
"I just upgraded my body, and my hands are itching. I'm going out to get some exercise."
Lin Ye rolled his wrists. The Dark Silver Wings behind his back snapped open, and he shot through the air at high speed.
Watching Lin Ye leave, Yan rolled her eyes. "A man who says one thing and means another."
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