Ten Times the Life Gene!

The golden text within his sea of consciousness was dense, forming a masterfully crafted diagram of secret patterns.

Bai Muye read through it word by word. He had pondered this body-refining technique countless times over the past decade or so, and this was merely one final contemplation before beginning his cultivation.

He could not afford to be anything but cautious; this secret technique was truly profound and unfathomable. A single mistake during cultivation would lead to the total collapse of his soul, genes, and physical body.

Although Xiao Si had patted its chest, guaranteeing that it could protect his Singularity from destruction—claiming that even if he were reduced to ashes, he could be restored as long as the Singularity remained intact—he did not treat this as a get-out-of-jail-free card. After all, he had no clones; if something went wrong during the process, he would be beyond redemption.

Once he began his cultivation, Xiao Si immediately braced itself, ready at any moment to use its own origin power to protect Bai Muye's Singularity.

"Using the Singularity as the core, I must construct 3,000 energy apertures within my body, then have all these energy apertures reflect onto every single cell throughout my entire body..."

Xiao Si was inside Bai Muye's Singularity, so it could naturally see his cultivation process clearly. Although it had studied this secret technique long ago, it was not a flesh-and-blood lifeform and could not cultivate it itself. Thus, it could only imagine the specific process, which differed greatly from reality.

"I understand now," the Seed within the Singularity couldn't help but tremble. "This is actually treating this body as a Source World for cultivation. The Singularity is equivalent to the Origin Continent at the core of a Source World, while the 3,000 energy apertures are equivalent to the three thousand dimensions of a Source World. No wonder the construction of each energy aperture is so incredibly complex..."

"The existence that created this secret technique must have had an incredibly profound understanding of the essence of a Source World..." Xiao Si was quite shaken. "If one can truly cultivate this step by step, perhaps one could eventually cultivate a body comparable to a Source World..."

"However, the cultivation process will inevitably be incredibly difficult, requiring countless amounts of energy, resources, and treasures... Fortunately, that is only required in the later stages; the first few levels are manageable..."

Bai Muye focused his entire spirit, cultivating step by step with extreme caution.

With the Singularity as the center, he shot out 3,000 threads of energy, radiating them to the locations of the 3,000 energy apertures within his body, and then began to construct the internal structure of each aperture one by one.

With the strength of his consciousness, doing this was not difficult. What was difficult was that the construction of each aperture had subtle differences, which required incredibly precise micro-manipulation.

Fortunately, the requirements for the first level were not high; it only required the preliminary construction of a stable structure. As the subsequent cultivation deepened, the structure of the apertures would evolve on its own—though, of course, the evolution process would also require his careful control.

Three months later, as the final aperture was completed, the three thousand energy apertures vibrated, producing a faint suction force. As this suction grew, the ubiquitous cosmic energy was drawn by this force, surging into his body. The cultivation room where Bai Muye sat seemed to be caught in a super tornado.

At this moment, the cosmic origin energy around him seemed to transform into an energy vortex, wrapping him within it.

"The energy doesn't seem to be enough..." The cosmic origin energy required by three thousand energy apertures was immense. If he absorbed it slowly like this, the time required just to fill these three thousand apertures would not be short.

What was even more concerning was that the process of the apertures absorbing energy caused quite a stir. For now, it was limited to the cultivation room, but the large-scale flow of cosmic origin energy would inevitably be detected. If it attracted the attention of World Lords or even Immortals, that would not be good.

"Do you want me to release energy to help supplement it?" Xiao Si naturally knew what was happening and asked.

"Yes."

Xiao Si's roots vibrated, and its tips released incredibly pure energy. This energy was far purer than the origin energy found everywhere in the universe. Under Bai Muye's control, this energy flowed along the threads into the three thousand apertures.

With the supplement of energy released by Xiao Si, the suction of the three thousand apertures dropped sharply, and the cultivation room finally returned to calm.

Ten days later, the suction produced by the three thousand apertures vanished; the preliminary construction was complete.

"It's a good thing you didn't use up this energy earlier, otherwise this would have been a real problem..."

"How much energy is left?" Bai Muye asked.

"Eighty percent was used up, leaving only twenty percent. If this were before you started practicing this body-refining technique, this amount of energy would probably have been enough to get you to the sixth rank of Domain Lord, but now it's hard to say..."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's enough to use. If the energy is gone, I can just absorb more..."

Everything had gone smoothly so far, but this was only the beginning. The process of constructing the three thousand energy apertures did not carry much danger.

"Every step after the second step is critical. From here on out, even the slightest mistake will turn me into dust!"

Taking a deep breath, Bai Muye's eyes became firm as he began the next step of his cultivation.

One of the three thousand energy apertures suddenly shot out 2,999 threads, connecting to the other 2,999 energy apertures, then the second, the third...

As each energy thread connected to the other apertures, the threads pierced through Bai Muye's body. Wherever they passed, his flesh, bones, and fascia were automatically stained with a faint golden hue.

When the last aperture shot out the final thread to connect to the last aperture, Bai Muye's body was already completely filled with energy threads. Although each thread only glowed with a faint golden light, it made him look like a transparent "golden" man.

After the three thousand apertures were connected to each other, they spontaneously shot out more threads, connecting to every part of his body.

Wisps of energy flowed continuously along the threads, permeating every cell in his body, pushing the slow evolution of his cellular genes.

With every bit of evolution in his body's genes, the cultivator's strength became a fraction stronger than before.

Although this evolution was extremely slow, the fact that cellular genes were evolving on their own was already an incredible feat.

One must know that genes themselves are incredibly precise; every bit of evolution would cause a earth-shattering transformation. Therefore, once a mistake occurred, the genes would inevitably collapse, and the Singularity, which served as the core, would also disintegrate and collapse.

Neither Bai Muye nor Xiao Si noticed that the threads connecting the Singularity to the energy apertures, while outputting energy, were also giving birth to tiny golden secret patterns. If Bai Muye could see them, he would discover that these patterns were minute parts of the secret patterns formed by the text in his sea of consciousness.

These secret patterns were branded onto the Singularity, then vanished into its gray shell.

The energy threads connecting the three thousand apertures, combined with the threads automatically radiating out from the apertures, formed an incredibly perfect whole. Faintly, it even possessed a hint of the charm of the secret patterns formed by the text of the secret technique.

Bai Muye, with a focused mind, concentrated on pushing the evolution of his genes. His muscles, bones, and tendons vibrated from time to time, emitting sounds.

Immersed in his cultivation, he completely forgot everything about the outside world.

When he first started cultivating, he was exceptionally cautious, but once he was truly immersed in the wonderful feeling of genetic evolution, he cast that trace of worry to the back of his mind and threw himself into his cultivation wholeheartedly.

Time passed slowly. One month... two months... one year...

Until two years and nine months later, Bai Muye's body vibrated slightly, and the dust that had fallen on his body during his years of sitting still was shaken off.

A slight popping sound rang out as the dust struck the walls of the cultivation room, causing ripples to spread across the energy shield on the walls.

Bai Muye opened his eyes. His pupils seemed to be composed of faint golden secret patterns, with a hint of golden light flowing through them. Then, the golden light quickly receded, and his eyes returned to their clear black-and-white appearance.

"You succeeded, Old Bai, congratulations!" Xiao Si's voice carried an involuntary hint of excitement. "I thought you would at least make a mistake once or twice, but I didn't expect you to succeed on the first try!"

"I didn't expect it to go so smoothly either..."

Bai Muye stretched out his hand, clenched his fist, and felt it, a smile unable to leave his face.

"Ten times! It really is ten times!"