Gene Energy!

The sky gradually brightened.

Inside the military command center, a man and a woman walked down a silent corridor.

The sunlight outside was somewhat dim, casting a hazy glow across the clean white tile floor.

Lin Ye followed behind Secretary Xu, pacing slowly along the quiet hallway, and asked, "Secretary Xu, may I ask where you're taking me?"

"You'll know when we get there. I'm not going to harm you, anyway!" A faint smile curled at the corner of Secretary Xu's lips as she replied without turning back. "Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be a match for a battle master like you!"

Lin Ye: "..."

Three minutes later, the two arrived at a spacious training hall.

"Mr. Lin Ye, how long have you been cooperating with our military?" The young secretary, who had been leading the way, suddenly turned around and looked at Lin Ye.

"..." Hearing the question, Lin Ye's face showed a thoughtful expression. "If we count from our first cooperation on February sixteenth, it's been exactly eight months now!"

"Yes, eight months already."

Secretary Xu's face held a hint of emotion. She turned her head away, as if talking to herself. "Back then, you were still just a Junior Warrior."

"Mm." Lin Ye responded softly, saying nothing more.

"Who would have thought that young warrior from back then now has the strength to kill a junior beast commander."

Lin Ye and Secretary Xu reached the end of the corridor, stopping before a door that resembled a training hall entrance.

They stood facing each other.

Behind her gold-rimmed glasses, Secretary Xu's gaze shimmered with an unusual light. Her red lips parted slightly, her breath like orchid as she said, "What I'm about to show you next is very important. Please make sure not to leak it."

Lin Ye "..."

He didn't know why this sharp-witted, beautiful secretary had suddenly said such a thing.

To that, Lin Ye replied with a smile, "Secretary Xu, you can rest assured about me. After all, the military saved our lives."

"Surely you haven't forgotten—if you hadn't rescued me and my sister from the Tiger Mastiff Dog pack a year ago, we'd both be nothing but bones out in the wilderness by now."

"Where would there be a Warrior Lin Ye today?"

Lin Ye gave a self-deprecating laugh, a pang of bitterness surging in his heart.

Every time he recalled that desperate night of frantic running a year ago, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

If not for the timely arrival of the warriors and rescue troops, he and his sister would most likely have died in the bellies of monsters...

"Creak—"

Secretary Xu pushed open the door. The training hall, covering several thousand square meters, stood empty.

"Let's go. We'll talk inside."

At Secretary Xu's invitation, Lin Ye followed her into the training hall.

Lin Ye's gaze swept over the various weapons in the corners of the hall, and he asked teasingly, "Are you planning to test my strength again, to see if I'm worth the price?"

"Mr. Lin Ye, the military has full confidence in your abilities. There's naturally no need for that."

Secretary Xu smiled, then continued, "The reason I asked you here this time is that I actually have something to give you."

"Watch closely. What comes next might be very important to you."

With that, Secretary Xu walked to the desk in the corner, pulled a document from the drawer, and said, "But before that, we need to sign a confidentiality agreement."

"Standard military procedure... I understand." Lin Ye took the contract and flipped through its contents.

A confidentiality agreement was a contract the military used for extremely important information and materials.

Violating it would result in severe punishment, even for a warrior.

"Pretty much the same as the previous confidentiality agreements." After reading through it, he signed his name directly at the bottom.

"Good." Secretary Xu watched Lin Ye sign without hesitation and smiled. "I guarantee what comes next will surprise you."

With that, her slender fingers flew across the keyboard.

Soon, a massive transparent screen appeared on the training hall wall, and an article quickly emerged—"Gene Energy Cultivation Method!"

"Gene Energy Cultivation Method?" Looking at the golden characters, Lin Ye frowned slightly.

It felt strangely familiar.

The next moment, Lin Ye suddenly remembered.

He had once seen posts on the Warrior Forum about the Gene Energy Cultivation Method and Guidance Techniques.

But back then, the poster had only briefly mentioned that the Gene Energy Cultivation Method could help warriors strengthen their physiques and improve their strength.

At that time, Lin Ye, who had already tasted the sweetness of Point Allocation, had just laughed off such forum posts that seemed like nothing more than experience-farming.

He never expected that months later, Secretary Xu would bring this matter up with such gravity, forcing Lin Ye to take it seriously.

"Yes, it's the Gene Energy Cultivation Method!" Secretary Xu Qi said softly. "But this time, the cultivation method has been revised from the old version, greatly increasing the training speed."

She paused, then continued, "This new Gene Energy Cultivation Method was created by the world's three strongest—'Hong,' 'Thunder God,' and 'Jia Yi'—combining Great Xia's ancient martial arts system with yin-yang theory. It's the cultivation method best suited for warriors to train and improve quickly—the Five Hearts Towards Heaven Cultivation Method."

"Mr. Lin Ye, as a warrior, you should know the flaws of the original Gene Energy Cultivation Method, right?"

Lin Ye: "..."

Seeing that Lin Ye said nothing, Xu Qi took it as tacit agreement.

"Then now, on behalf of the military, I gift you this new cultivation method!"

Xu Qi said, suddenly turning solemn:

"I hope you can absorb cosmic energy faster, elevating your cells, flesh, blood, bones, and meridians... to a more powerful level, helping humanity slay more monsters!"

"I'm counting on you!"

With that, Xu Qi bowed deeply to Lin Ye.

"No... no need to be so polite..."

Lin Ye was caught off guard by Secretary Xu's sudden gesture.

The moment he looked up, he felt a slight blur before his eyes—so white.

Xu Qi's long, shapely legs were perfectly straight beneath her professional skirt. Lin Ye's gaze drifted upward slightly.

What met his eyes was a stretch of snowy white; her graceful neck left Lin Ye somewhat entranced.

"Since the military is so generous, I'll make a promise too: if Lin Ye ever seeks a faction to develop with in the future, he'll think of the military first."

"It's a deal!"

"A man of his word is hard to break!" Lin Ye's voice rang out, brimming with masculine integrity.

In September, the sun in Mountain City was still scorching. A sliver of sunlight streamed in through the window, casting itself onto Lin Ye, making the entire training hall even brighter.

The youth standing in the sunlight was warm as jade, yet carried an indescribable heroic aura of slaughter.

Xu Qi took all this in, feeling her cheeks warm slightly.

She was about to say something, but Lin Ye had already begun reading the article on the large screen intently.

The existence of gene energy is humanity's reliance for optimizing genes and evolving to higher levels.

Now, with a better cultivation method, it's a great boon for martial artists.

Likewise.

Cultivating gene energy was a first for Lin Ye, and he was looking forward to it.

"Secretary Xu, since you've already given me the Gene Energy Cultivation Method, what about the Guidance Technique..." Lin Ye said with a smile, his face not reddening nor his heart racing, "Actually... my Guidance Technique isn't very good either."

"The Guidance Technique will be given to you as well."

"Thanks, beautiful Xu."

"..."

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