As a member of the Yan God Clan, Qin Cang knew that, after countless years, the clan would possess four legendary armors: the Soldier Armor, General Armor, King Armor, and Emperor Armor. Once a member of the Yan God Clan reached the World Lord Level, their Life Gene Level would automatically evolve to six times that of an ordinary lifeform in the universe. They would only need to double their amplitude or fuse with three Xueluo Crystals to use the Soldier Armor!
The Soldier Armor granted a thousand times the World Lord Power. Ordinary Immortals were no match for a Yan God Clan World Lord wearing it.
Against a Marquis-level expert, even if their secret techniques fell short, they could usually escape with their lives, even if they couldn't fight back.
It could be said that the four armors gave the Yan God Clan the confidence to look down on every other Human Race bloodline. They ranked among the best in the entire universe and were virtually without equal.
However, they had run into Emperor Yan, a deadbeat who had utterly crushed the Yan God Clan's hopes.
At present, though, the Yan God Clan had only a handful of King-level experts. The four armors were derived from the Calamity Armor, whose whereabouts were still unknown. The four subsidiary armors were even less likely to be found. Probably no one knew where they were except Mountain Sitting Guest—and it was even possible that he hadn't forged the Calamity Armor yet.
For any cultivator who had reached the Immortal Level, strength came down to a few things: laws, amplitude, secret techniques, treasures, and Life Gene Level.
As a member of the Yan God Clan, Qin Cang knew that his people possessed a terrifying potential: the potential to reach the third level of Divine Power Flow, the Infinite Divine Body.
Mountain Sitting Guest himself had acknowledged this potential. And before Emperor Yan became a Universe Master, he had raised his Life Gene Level to nearly ten thousand times that of an ordinary lifeform, astounding even the Starry Sky Behemoth Ancestor with Mountain Sitting Guest's methods.
Moreover, as far as Qin Cang knew, the Yan God Clan was the only one whose Life Gene Level naturally increased as they grew, without relying on external aids.
As for the Demon Race Royal Family and Starry Sky Behemoths, they were born with high Life Gene Levels. To raise them further, they had to rely on external aids.
After considering all of this, Qin Cang had settled on his future path of cultivation.
Raising his Life Gene Level was the top priority. He needed to uncover the secrets of the Yan God Clan's bloodline. He had consulted the few King-level experts within the clan about this.
Their Law Comprehension wasn't especially strong; only one of them had reached the twentieth level of the Sky Bridge. But every one of these King-level Immortals had a high Life Gene Level. Unfortunately, none had exceeded a hundred times that of an ordinary lifeform.
Among them, only King Gale had undergone four evolutions of his Life Gene Level.
Thanks in part to some treasures he had absorbed early on, King Gale's Life Gene Level had now reached a hundred times that of an ordinary lifeform, and his Divine Body stood nearly a kilometer tall!
Under normal circumstances, this was the limit for an ordinary lifeform before becoming a Universe Master.
With the help of his Venerable teacher, King Gale had also received the Divine General Inheritance, giving him a Divine Body Amplitude of nearly fifty times.
What's more, King Gale had passed the twentieth level of the Sky Bridge countless years ago. He had mastered all three branches of the Space Origin Law and had even created several Peak Secret Techniques.
With his Heavy Treasures and all these advantages combined, King Gale was hailed as the strongest Invincible King in the Human Race—without exception. Only geniuses like Qin Cang, who could nurture a powerful Special Life Clone or seize the body of a Special Lifeform, might have a chance of surpassing him at the King level.
Qin Cang had visited King Gale back when he was at the Domain Lord Level. King Gale was always patient when guiding promising juniors of the Yan God Clan.
From their conversations, Qin Cang had gained a general understanding of what it took for a Yan God Clan member's Life Gene Level to evolve after reaching the World Lord Level.
The most important requirement was combat: intense combat, the kind where one risked one's life.
King Gale's third and fourth evolutions of his Life Gene Level had both taken place during battles and the reviews afterward.
Furthermore, when his Life Gene Level evolved, his Divine Body evolved too.
During his third evolution, his Divine Body grew ten times taller, reaching nearly a hundred meters.
After the fourth evolution, it grew ten times taller again, reaching its current height of nearly one kilometer.
One of the Human Race's greatest weaknesses was its small Divine Bodies. They were at a disadvantage compared with the Bug Race and the Machine Race, let alone the Demon Race, known for its enormous bodies.
Among those below the Universe Master level, a Divine Body one kilometer tall was enormous for the Human Race, and it held an astonishing amount of divine power.
During both his third and fourth evolutions, King Gale's Life Gene Level had doubled. Combined with the treasures he had absorbed early on to raise it, this had brought him close to a hundred times that of an ordinary lifeform, though he hadn't quite reached it. In the end, he spent a fortune at an auction hosted by the Hong Alliance to buy more treasures, finally raising his Life Gene Level to a hundred times that of an ordinary lifeform!
That was the limit for an ordinary lifeform before becoming a Universe Master. A Life Gene Level a hundred times that of an ordinary lifeform was beyond the reach of most Immortals, let alone many Universe Venerables and even Universe Overlords. The cost was simply too high. Venerables had to be careful with their Heavy Treasure points when improving their strength.
A Life Gene Level could be permanently set. Even if its owner died and was resurrected, it wouldn't disappear, making it far more valuable than personal treasures such as Heavy Treasures.
But the resources needed to raise a Life Gene Level from ten to twenty times that of an ordinary lifeform were nothing like those required to raise it from ninety to a hundred times.
Even raising it from ten to twenty times came at a vastly different cost for a Venerable than for an Immortal.
So many Venerables and Universe Overlords stopped raising their Life Gene Levels once they reached several dozen times that of an ordinary lifeform. They weren't willing to spend a fortune to go further.
Only someone like Demon Wing Venerable—ancient, possessing clones, and with almost every aspect of his strength already at its limit before becoming a Universe Master—would slowly accumulate resources and raise both his Divine Body Amplitude and Life Gene Level to the universe's limit of a hundred times.
Ordinary Venerables simply didn't have that kind of wealth.
The Yan God Clan's innate ability to evolve its Life Gene Level was Qin Cang's greatest treasure. It wasn't as outrageously effortless as Luo Feng's cultivation of the Nine Calamities Manual, which required no gradual discovery: he only had to follow the manual's instructions and use Xueluo Crystals and Blood of the Beast God to raise his Life Gene Level to Perfect Gene. As an Immortal, he could combine various treasures and secret techniques to face Top Universe Overlords without falling behind.
Qin Cang didn't have such lofty ambitions. He would be satisfied if, without relying on a Special Life Clone, he could develop his Yan God Clan Divine Body to the point where it could contend with a Universe Venerable.
Even King Feijing in the original story, a Special Lifeform with a natural Life Gene Level two thousand times that of an ordinary lifeform, had only been on equal footing with an Elementary Universe Venerable.
To reach that level, setting aside external aids like Supreme Treasures, he would need to raise his Life Gene Level to at least a thousand times that of an ordinary lifeform and create several Peak Secret Techniques, or even Ultimate Secret Techniques.
Of course, as for his clone, the Sky Canopy Python's Life Gene Level of five thousand times that of an ordinary lifeform would make many Venerables think twice before attacking. With its innate secret technique and treasures, killing several Elementary Venerables would be no great feat.
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