"Yun Feidian..."
Lü Siya murmured, "Do you even know what you're saying?"
"Believe me, I was clearer-headed than ever before. I had seen through the essence of this world."
Seven Puppets smiled. "Though humans and monsters looked as different as heaven and earth, and those monsters—vast as mountains or tiny as mustard seeds—looked like demons and fiends from myth and legend.
"Yet if modern science and technology were used to study monsters at the cellular and even molecular level, one would discover that even the cells of Doomsday Beasts had never exceeded the category of Carbon-Based Lifeforms. Humans and monsters were extremely closely connected at the genetic level, and in the absorption, conversion, and use of Spiritual Energy, they shared the same marvelous approach by different paths.
"Think carefully. Humans, who prided themselves as the spirit of all things, had originally descended from countless ancient Carbon-Based Lifeforms—mighty mammoths, savage Sabertooths, majestic dinosaurs, even armored fish and nautiluses, even trilobites, primitive cyanobacteria, and the archaea that could endure seawater thousands of degrees hot in the deepest, oldest oceans, around undersea volcanoes rumbling to life.
"Beneath our seemingly 'normal' appearances, the genes of countless ancient, primitive, savage, brutal ancestors all lay quietly dormant.
"Once we borrowed the power of monster cells to bombard the primordial heritage buried deep within human genes, sending humans into a profound state of 'atavism,' we could liberate the bizarre genetic traits of countless ancestors once more. Humans could gain the power of Sabertooths, mammoths, tyrannosaurs, even archaea, becoming monsters clad in human skin and possessed of human intelligence.
"What was wrong with that?"
Lü Siya was dumbfounded.
Meng Chao could not tell whether, as the Jungle Banshee and even the Monster Queen, she wanted to cry out in shock or burst into laughter upon hearing Yun Feidian's