Strength Transformation

In the world of Resident Evil, due to the atrocities committed by the Umbrella Corporation, a zombie virus has already broken out on a large scale in the outside world.

Richard was too lazy to go out and cause trouble. As usual, he decided to stay in the Hive and develop his strength first.

This place, serving as Wesker's headquarters, is almost equivalent to a small city fortress.

All kinds of equipment and supplies are readily available.

Richard used these resources to continuously upgrade himself.

The third-order Gene Lock posed no challenge for him.

After getting familiar with the Second-Order Gene Lock a few times, he unlocked the third-order Gene Lock.

The third-order Gene Lock unlocked the brain's limitations. This unlocking significantly increased Richard's Divine Power, and even his Telekinesis abilities improved considerably.

The two spiral spikes that I casually conjured up can finally be put to use.

Now, he can use his Divine Power to clearly scan the scenery within a radius of tens or hundreds of kilometers with a mere thought.

That's when he started to show some signs of being Divine Power controller.

Of course, Richard was also trying to strengthen his power from another direction.

The Resident Evil world is a world of viruses, where there is no supernatural energy, so Richard cannot cultivate magic, Battle Qi, or immortality in this world.

It's even best not to practice internal martial arts at all.

Therefore, Richard chose the path of the Spirit Emperor World, focusing solely on strengthening his physical attributes and cultivating his qi and blood.

Moreover, it does not involve the Origin Dao, but rather the more ancient Primordial Martial Dao.

Those energy stones, energy liquids, and rare and precious materials that can temper the body cannot be used here; all that can be done is to rely on immense Divine Power combined with nutrient solution to tough it out.

Cultivation is indeed a bit slow.

Richard trained for more than two months, but he could only barely complete the tempering of his limbs, torso, bones, and internal organs, except for his head.

Having reached his current level, he naturally wouldn't refine himself step by step according to the path of the New Martial, but would refine the entire thing at once.

This means you have to be careful with your brain, lest you end up with an idiot.

Moreover, his physique is different from that of humans in the Spirit Emperor World; he doesn't have that Triple Burner Gate at all.

The Triple Burner does exist, but the Triple Burner Gate is not real; it's a product created by the Heavenly Emperor and other rulers to harvest the Origin Dao of martial artists.

Therefore, after reaching the sixth rank, his cultivation method became quite different from that of the martial artists in the Spirit Emperor World.

He will then skip the process of sealing the Triple Burner Gate at the sixth level.

Even seventh-grade materialized Divine Power won't work; the world Rules are different. In the Infinite Terror worldview Divine Power is just Divine Power, and it can't be materialized.

Divine Power and Telekinesis are very different.

Therefore, he can directly temper his skull, then his bone marrow, and undergo nine transformations to achieve the Golden Body. After that, instead of following the Origin Dao, he can try to forge his Jade Bones.

This is the path of physical cultivation he designed for his own Clone.

He did this simply to ensure his physical abilities didn't hold him back; his Clone primarily focused on Divine Power and Telekinesis powers.

Of course, given our current weakness, we should focus on close-quarters combat.

His current blood and energy, converted to the Spirit Emperor World, would probably only amount to a few thousand calories, roughly equivalent to a fifth or sixth-grade realm cultivator.

However, his physical abilities have improved more than tenfold since the Clone was first created.

The next step is to continue refining the skull.

The Qi and Blood Martial Arts doesn't require many resources, nor does it need any precious ones. It only requires sufficient energy to ensure that the body is well-nourished, so that enough Qi and Blood can be generated to temper the body.

With the base providing sufficient nutrient solution, Richard only needed to proceed with the routine skull tempering.

Now he is considering whether he can withstand the Inner Demon Tribulation caused by the fourth-order primary gene riot.

The fourth tier is a completely different realm from the previous ones. If we compare it to the Coiling Dragon, it's basically equivalent to comparing the Saint Domain Saint Domain below.

This is not just a superficial difference in combat power, but a transformation at the level of life itself, the gap between mortals and extraordinary beings.

Below the fourth level, one is still a mortal; the fourth level can be called an extraordinary being, a transformation of life to another level.

They can now autonomously control their genes to evolve in a more perfect direction; it can be said that fourth-order beings are becoming stronger subtly every day.

They become stronger every day than they were the day before, until they evolve to a certain level of relative perfection.

Richard can enter the fourth-order Gene Lock level at any time if he wants to.

What he was worried about was the so-called Inner Demon Tribulation, the need to confront his weakest point and his deepest fears.

To be honest, he himself didn't know what he was afraid of.

However, he no longer wants to delay.

That day, Richard left the Hive, and even left Raccoon City.

He was preparing to break through to the fourth-order Gene Lock. Unsure of the strength of the Inner Demon Tribulation, he decided to stay away, lest he be possessed by a demon and destroy his lair.

Richard stopped several hundred kilometers away from Raccoon City.

As he expected, the outside world was already in a zombie apocalypse, and humanity was reduced to less than one in ten.

Raccoon City is located in America, a region severely affected by the zombie virus.

In the cities Richard passed through, only a small number of humans were still barely surviving.

Richard wasn't particularly concerned about how the world would eventually evolve, but he didn't want a future where the entire world was devoid of living beings and filled with zombies.

Therefore, it is estimated that once he has mastered his supernatural powers, he will still step in to clean up the mess.

As for the Umbrella Corporation bases hidden around the world, and the high-ranking Umbrella executives within those bases, they were naturally also on his elimination list.

But there's no rush; that's something for after he's mastered his divine skills. He won't bother with chores now.

Once we reach the intermediate fourth stage of Gene Lock and master the Golden Body, wouldn't it be better to just push through directly?

After arriving in a remote wilderness and clearing out the nearby zombies, Richard began to unlock his Gene Lock layer by layer.

First-order: liberation of Ancient Instinct; second-order: liberation of muscles; third-order: liberation of the brain; fourth-order: Gene Liberation.

The moment the fourth-order Gene Lock was activated, a savage aura from ancient humans surged into his mind, eroding his normal intelligence.

Negative emotions accumulate, forming a dark, almost demonic personality that vies for control of the body.

Richard:???

That's it?

I thought the Inner Demon Tribulation of the fourth-order Gene Lock would be incredibly difficult to overcome.

He first suppressed the violent thoughts surging in his mind, and then looked at his negative personality.

All I can say is that they're adorable even when they're small.

He said he was a kind person, and his negative emotions were only this much. Compared to the celestial manifestation of his mind, his negative emotions seemed rather weak.

Anyone who sees this scene would have to call him Lord Richard kind-hearted.

Richard thought for a moment and decided not to erase this negative personality trait. He'd keep it; it could be used as a special combat Clone.

He keeps his emotions locked away in his heart most of the time, but he can unleash them when he needs to fight. Although his negative emotions might make him indiscriminate in his attacks, and he might fight anyone he sees, he doesn't care.

The fourth-order Gene Lock was indeed different from before. After unlocking the fourth-order Gene Lock, he naturally mastered the Microscopic Control.

He had previously possessed Microscopic Control, but those were combat skills honed through practice and experience.

This Microscopic Control is now an instinctive ability of the fourth-order Gene Lock, and it is slightly different from the Microscopic Control he himself has mastered.

In addition, after he entered the fourth stage of the Gene Lock, his genes began to optimize themselves, eliminating many inferior genes and selecting better genes to achieve replication and evolution.

Several genetic viruses were incorporated into his body during its creation.

Examples include the T Virus, G Virus, Progenitor Virus, and the Stairway of the Sun.

Now these viruses are undergoing further optimization, and Richard feels himself becoming somewhat inhuman, as if he is evolving into some kind of Cthulhu-like form.

However, he doesn't rule it out. There's no such thing as supernatural energy in this world; the only options are biological evolution or mechanical ascension.

He was, after all, a High-level God of Life Element, so of course he would follow the path of biological evolution.

As we all know, the vast majority of people who follow the path of life evolution have evolved in somewhat unusual ways.

After all, the human form is not particularly advanced, especially its adaptability to the space environment is really poor.

If he doesn't want to be stuck on Earth and wants to explore space, he'll eventually evolve into another form of O.

With a thought, Richard transformed into a giant biological carpet, covering an area of several kilometers. This form was nothing special, except for one advantage: it absorbed energy extremely quickly.

If nutrient solution is absorbed in this form, the efficiency is thousands or even tens of thousands of times that of the human form.

Aside from the art style being a bit off, everything else is alright.

His Light of the Soul was all related to this; after the so-called Inner Demon Tribulation passed, his Light of the Soul took shape on its own.

This is a Light of the Soul related to the evolution of life; it does not directly enhance his combat power.

Instead, it increases the speed of his evolution.

This can be seen as a way to indirectly increase his combat power.

At this point, Richard skipped the initial stage of the fourth tier and reached the intermediate stage.

In some fantasy worlds with medium or high magic, this level is already enough to become a god.

Even in those super-magical or relatively perfect high-magic worlds, this level of powerhouse is called a demigod.

In a world like Resident Evil, his level is practically equivalent to a walking nuclear bomb; a single blow could destroy a modern metropolis, and a couple of trips around a country could wipe it out.

You could say it's practically invincible.

At this point, as long as he isn't punished by the Chief God, there's basically nothing in this world that can threaten him.

Even if all the world's major countries were to drop nuclear bombs on him, it wouldn't matter, because although he couldn't withstand a nuclear bomb yet, he could run faster than the shockwave of a nuclear explosion.

It doesn't matter as long as it's not right in the center of a nuclear explosion.

This only represents an improvement in physical strength.

The most important thing is the improvement in Divine Power and Telekinesis.

Breaking through from the third tier to the initial fourth tier has already increased Divine Power and Telekinesis several times over, and they are still growing rapidly.

Not long after, he overcame his Inner Demon Tribulation and broke through to the intermediate level of the fourth rank, awakening the Light of the Soul. His Divine Power and Telekinesis increased several times or even more than ten times.

Now, his Divine Power can easily control ordinary people in a city, and his Telekinesis can easily destroy a super-giant building.

This level of strength, if placed within the reincarnation team of the God Space, would be enough to fight the final battle.

He casually tested his current strength, and after getting used to it, he used his Telekinesis to propel himself back.

It took him more than an hour to get here, but less than three minutes to get back, and that was without him flying at full speed.