Hundredfold Genes

"It had been a long time since I'd slept so comfortably. I might be going into seclusion for quite a while next, so staying in a hotel would be inconvenient. I might as well buy a villa. There are still over two hundred million Huaxia currency in my bank account—enough for a detached villa!"

When Yue Ming opened his eyes, he found that it was already noon the next day. He had the hotel staff deliver a lavish lunch, and after enjoying his meal, Yue Ming went to the audiovisual room and logged into the Warrior Platform to begin selecting a villa he liked.

Generally, when warriors joined a faction, they would be given a villa for free. However, they usually only had the right to live there. In other words, they could only live in the villa themselves and could not sell or rent it to others for profit. Moreover, the other party had the right to reclaim the villa at any time.

However, there were so many warriors on Earth, and most of them had not joined any faction. Some valued their freedom, while others had such poor talent that major factions simply had no interest in them. But regardless, they were still warriors. They could not be expected to squeeze into cramped apartment buildings like ordinary people, could they? Therefore, the major factions had developed several villa communities specifically to sell to independent warriors.

Yue Ming spent a long time browsing the Warrior Platform before finally settling on the detached Villa No. 188 in Ning An Residential Area. The entire villa cost 170 million Huaxia currency. Yue Ming paid a deposit and arranged to view the property at three that afternoon.

That afternoon, Yue Ming arrived at Ning An Residential Area. Guided by a sales agent, he toured Villa No. 188. The villa had three floors, complete with an underground training room, a rooftop swimming pool, a home theater, and other facilities. Its total area was 850 square meters.

Yue Ming was fairly satisfied with the villa. Besides, he had not come here to enjoy life; he mainly wanted a quiet place to enter seclusion. He paid the remaining balance on the spot, signed the purchase contract, and officially became the owner of Villa No. 188.

"There are only nine years left until the Peak Genius Battle begins. It seems I must buy Divine Sparks as soon as possible to comprehend the Origin Laws. With Divine Sparks to assist me, reaching the first level of the Water-Void Fusion Law within nine years shouldn't be a problem..."

Yue Ming sat cross-legged in the underground training room and took a white jade disc from his clothes. He then bit his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood onto the disc. After absorbing the blood, the jade disc silently melted into a mercury-like liquid and seeped into Yue Ming's skin, turning into a jade-disc-shaped mark. Finally, Yue Ming left a spiritual imprint within the jade disc.

The white jade disc was the Time-Space Disruptor. What Yue Ming had just done was follow the steps in the Chat Group Mall's item description to bind it as his master with blood. Aside from disrupting time and space, the Time-Space Disruptor also had storage capabilities. A Small World was sealed within it, with a volume roughly half the size of Earth.

After completing the blood-binding ritual, Yue Ming discovered that he had formed an intimate connection with the Time-Space Disruptor. It was as though the Time-Space Disruptor had become his own limbs. With a single thought, he could clearly perceive everything inside its Small World.

The Time-Space Disruptor also came with a concealment function that could block spiritual probing below the Fifth Order. As long as Yue Ming did not take out the Time-Space Disruptor himself, even a Lord of the Universe or a True God would be unable to detect its existence. This was undoubtedly a good thing for Yue Ming. When he entered the Virtual Universe Company in the future, he would not have to worry about carrying Divine Sparks with him and being discovered.

"Search for low-level Water Godheads and low-level Space Element Divine Sparks!"

Now that the Time-Space Disruptor had successfully acknowledged him as its master, Yue Ming could finally buy Divine Sparks without restraint. He immediately logged into the chat group, entered the Chat Group Mall, and searched for low-level Water Godheads and low-level Space Element Divine Sparks. Tens of thousands of low-level Divine Sparks immediately appeared in the list.

Low-level Water Godhead: From the World of Swords and Magic. The Divine Spark left behind after Celia, a low-level water goddess, fell on the battlefield of gods and demons...

Low-level Space Divine Spark: From the Eternal Holy God World. The Divine Spark left behind after Cecil, the God of Space, was besieged and killed by the gods...

Although they were both low-level Divine Sparks, their prices differed enormously. The cheapest cost more than a billion Points, while the most expensive cost hundreds of billions of Points. The reason for such a vast disparity was mainly the differing completeness of the laws contained within the Divine Sparks.

Yue Ming was not short on Points, and Divine Sparks concerned his own cultivation. If he was going to buy them, he naturally had to buy the best. Thus, he spent a full seventy billion Points to purchase one low-level Water Godhead and one low-level Space Element Divine Spark.

Two crystal-like Divine Sparks, each emitting a faint glow, appeared out of thin air in Yue Ming's hands. The one emitting a pale blue glow was the Water Godhead, while the one emitting a pale silver glow was the Space Element Divine Spark.

"Next, it's time to raise my Gene Level!"

Yue Ming did not rush to comprehend the Divine Sparks. Instead, he planned to increase his Gene Level first. Raising one's Gene Level not only improved every aspect of the body, but also enhanced the clarity of laws, making them easier to comprehend.

It could also be understood this way: the higher one's Gene Level multiplier, the closer one's connection to the origin of the universe. Not only would it become easier to sense the Origin Laws, but the power of law-based attacks would also be greater.

As Yue Ming began searching, the shopping list displayed the names of tens of thousands of treasures. They were all First Order treasures, costing anywhere from dozens to several thousand Points.

Those Points were not worth mentioning to Yue Ming. He directly spent fifty thousand Points to buy ten treasures. As he refined them one after another, his Gene Level continuously rose. However, when he refined the third treasure and his Gene Level reached tenfold, he discovered that it could no longer increase.

"Is tenfold the limit?"

Yue Ming discovered that First Order treasures could raise his Gene Level to a maximum of tenfold. If he wanted to continue increasing it, he would have to use Second Order treasures.

To continue raising his Gene Level, Yue Ming spent more than three hundred billion Points on Second Order treasures. In the end, he raised his Gene Level to a hundredfold, only to discover that he had reached another limit. To raise it further, he would need Third Order treasures.

"A hundredfold genes are enough for now. I should save the remaining Points for buying Divine Sparks!"

Third Order treasures were too expensive, so Yue Ming did not plan to continue raising his Gene Level for the time being. He would rather save his Points for Divine Sparks. Otherwise, he might spend all his Points and not even have enough left to buy Divine Sparks.

The laws of every world were different. For example, the laws contained in the two Divine Sparks Yue Ming had bought were only about forty percent similar to the laws of the Swallowed Star world. The other sixty percent of their laws were completely different from those of the Swallowed Star world. Therefore, it was not as simple as buying one low-level Divine Spark and being done with it. He might need to buy more than a dozen, or even dozens, of low-level Divine Sparks before it would be enough.

As for why he did not do it in one step and directly purchase High-level Divine Sparks? It was like studying: one had to attend elementary school first, then middle school, high school, and finally university. Even if someone gave you university textbooks right away, you might not necessarily understand them. Right now, low-level Divine Sparks were the most suitable for Yue Ming to comprehend. High-level Divine Sparks were far too profound for him at this stage.