Engraving Genes, Battle of Wills

Extraordinary Gene: Petrification Skin.

Lu Yuan obtained the information about this extraordinary gene.

He raised his eyebrows.

Petrification Skin is a battle skill of the Graystone Beetle, capable of constructing a layer of petrified skin on the body surface, greatly enhancing defensive capabilities.

Engraving this extraordinary gene primarily enhances defensive capabilities, and secondarily enhances a certain amount of strength.

As for whether it's powerful... after all, it's just an ordinary quality extraordinary gene, not particularly strong.

However, its defensive ability is quite considerable.

However, Lu Yuan was a little disappointed.

He actually wanted an attack-type extraordinary gene more.

After all, the path he wants to take is the strong attack type, and Petrification Skin is more inclined towards the guardian type.

Lu Yuan looked at the extraordinary gene in his hand, his eyes flickering, somewhat conflicted.

After a moment, he made up his mind and gritted his teeth.

He'll just use this one.

With his current strength, it's very difficult to obtain other extraordinary genes.

He doesn't know when the next time will be.

Otherwise, he'll just engrave it directly and improve his strength first.

Anyway, his original plan also required a guardian-type extraordinary gene, as long as he keeps evolving, even an ordinary quality guardian-type gene can be upgraded to the highest form.

After making up his mind, Lu Yuan planned to start engraving this extraordinary gene now.

After all, the location where Lu Yuan is now can be considered quite safe, and basically no one will come to this place.

Moreover, ordinary quality extraordinary genes are very easy to engrave, even Apprentice-level Gene Warriors can easily engrave them.

Unlike other qualities of extraordinary genes, if one is not strong enough, engraving the gene may even cause them to explode and die.

It's different from other ways of dying.

If one dies from engraving a gene, even in the Origin Land, they will also die in the real world, leaving no trace.

Even if they don't explode and die, if they are not completely engraved, they will also leave behind some characteristics of the creature of this gene, and this characteristic may be very troublesome.

For example, growing a tail, or even developing some peculiar biological habits.

Lu Yuan had seen these things before in the newbie posts about engraving extraordinary genes.

That's why Lu Yuan is confident that he can directly engrave this extraordinary gene.

He took a deep breath, clenched the white light ball, and squeezed it hard.

In the next moment, the white light ball shattered, and the strange lines inside turned into streamers and merged into Lu Yuan's body.

The strange lines passed through the white mist and entered the gene chain.

After awakening, there was a blank chain in Lu Yuan's gene chain. At this moment, these white lines constantly changed shape, entering the blank chain to complete this part.

As it was being completed, Lu Yuan felt his body constantly crackling. His physical body seemed to become more resilient, and his muscles became tighter.

As his physical body changed, intense pain rushed over him, and cold sweat broke out on Lu Yuan's forehead.

Damn it!

He wanted to curse in his heart.

Wasn't it said in that post that ordinary quality transcendent genes were easy to engrave?!

It's going to hurt someone to death, okay?!

The process of the transcendent gene completing the blank chain lasted for a long time, and Lu Yuan couldn't perceive the specific time.

When the blank chain was completed, the remaining lines began to merge into other gene chain areas, beginning to fine-tune other gene chain areas.

Another intense pain came.

However, this time, the pain was much lighter than before.

Lu Yuan had already become a little numb from the pain before, and now he even felt a little comfortable?

He felt like there might be something wrong with him.

After another period of time, the fine-tuning of other gene chain areas also ended.

But Lu Yuan didn't relax.

There was still one last step.

Squeak squeak squeak!

A frantic scream rang in Lu Yuan's mind.

Lu Yuan's spirit shook, it's here!

This was the final step in engraving the transcendent gene.

The original living will of the transcendent gene had not completely disappeared.

At the final moment of engraving, the creature's instinctive will began its final resistance.

Only by completely erasing the will of this creature could the transcendent gene be completely integrated into one's body.

And those Gene Warriors who failed to completely engrave the transcendent gene were because they didn't have the ability to completely erase the will of this creature.

If the will of this transcendent gene creature gained the upper hand, even erasing the Gene Warrior's will, then this Gene Warrior would undergo a terrifying mutation, and death would only be the easiest situation.

Battle of Wills, only one can survive!

For Gene Warriors, the road to becoming stronger was full of thorns.

Only by wading through blood could they pass.

The strength of the gene creature was related to the quality of the transcendent gene.

For ordinary quality transcendent genes, the creature's will was naturally that of an ordinary level fierce beast.

It was precisely because of this that even an Apprentice-level Gene Warrior could easily inscribe ordinary quality transcendent genes.

After all, as a Gene Warrior, if you can't even beat ordinary ferocious beasts, you might as well die.

Lu Yuan's transcendent gene was the ordinary quality Petrification Skin, corresponding naturally to the ordinary quality Graystone Beetle.

The moment the familiar screech of the Graystone Beetle appeared, Lu Yuan's consciousness flickered, and when he came back to his senses, he found himself in the white mist.

Behind him was the towering Gene Chain.

And in front of him, the white mist surged, and a Graystone Beetle about half a meter tall appeared.

The Graystone Beetle's pupils contracted as it screamed madly.

The instinct of the creature told it that failure meant complete annihilation.

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered, let alone a ferocious beast?

At this moment, the Graystone Beetle fell into complete madness.

As soon as its will body condensed, it rushed towards Lu Yuan's will body.

Lu Yuan was expressionless.

The power possessed by his will body was the power of the inscribed transcendent gene.

Although the power was somewhat discounted because it had not been completely inscribed, he could kill an ordinary Graystone Beetle even without inscribing a gene, let alone now?

Moreover...

Lu Yuan's right hand opened, and the phantom of the beetle claw longsword floating beside the Gene Chain disappeared and appeared in Lu Yuan's hand.

Lu Yuan's will body became stronger again.

Gene Armament, even the will body, can be used.

Looking at the Graystone Beetle rushing towards him, Lu Yuan held the sword with both hands and swung it hard.

A dark light flashed, and the Graystone Beetle's will body was cut in half.

Lu Yuan did not stop, continuously slashing, completely shattering the Graystone Beetle's will body.

The shattered Graystone Beetle turned into light spots and dissipated, and a ball of white light merged into the Gene Chain behind Lu Yuan.

An extremely comfortable warm feeling spread throughout Lu Yuan's body.

This was the sublimation of the essence of life.

Only after inscribing transcendent genes can a Gene Warrior be called a true Gene Warrior.

This was a sublimation and transformation from mortal to transcendent being!

Lu Yuan's will returned to his body, closed his eyes, and felt this moment of sublimation, a smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

The inscription of the transcendent gene was complete.

Lu Yuan clenched his hands, he could feel his skin becoming more resilient, and his bones, muscles, blood vessels and other aspects had undergone tremendous changes.

He took out the Blacklight Alloy Sword and gently stroked the alloy sword with his finger, without any damage.

Applying a bit of force still didn't leave a single scratch.

Only when a great deal of force was used did the skin on his finger break, revealing a tiny wound.

Lu Yuan looked at the small wound, feeling quite pleased.

His defense was now stronger than that of an ordinary Graystone Beetle.

Not only that, Lu Yuan could also feel that his strength had increased significantly.

The level of this increase was about the same as being enhanced by the Beetle Claws.

But it should be noted that the transcendent gene was only of ordinary quality, while the Beetle Claws were elite-quality gene armament.

The strength of the two enhancements was similar, which showed how big the difference was.

Moreover, engraving the transcendent gene was an enhancement to Lu Yuan's body itself, which was different from the external force of gene armament enhancement.

And that's not all. The spirit energy in Lu Yuan's body surged, and white light flickered, condensing a gray-white stone skin on the surface of Lu Yuan's body.

Battle Skill: Petrification Skin!

He clenched his fists and bumped them together.

Bang!

A muffled sound like stones colliding was heard.

Lu Yuan punched the stone pillar behind him.

Bang!

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the stone pillar, but Lu Yuan felt no pain at all.

Lu Yuan then took the Blacklight Alloy Sword and slashed at his own arm.

Clang clang clang!

The gray-white skin on his arm only showed slight white marks, and Lu Yuan felt nothing at all.

This defense was too strong!

Lu Yuan was ecstatic.

He had directly struck it rich!

Fortunately, he didn't give up on that treasure chest and took a gamble; otherwise, he didn't know how long it would have taken to reach this point.

With his current strength, killing Graystone Beetles was no longer difficult at all.

He could easily obtain Spirit Crystals to temper his gene chains.

The speed of improvement would be extremely fast!

But this wasn't the end.

The most important moment had arrived.

Lu Yuan looked at the dark blue cube surrounding the gene chain, the corners of his mouth rising in a smile.

Evolution!

He was going to evolve the Petrification Skin extraordinary gene he had engraved!

Only after evolving it would it be the ultimate reward he gained from this adventure!