Gene preparations

The Quiet Room was utterly silent. A falling pin would have been audible!

At Zhao Zixuan's words, surprise appeared on Yang Yu's face, and his earlier displeasure vanished in an instant.

Yang Yu hurriedly asked, "You actually extracted and cultivated usable genes from inside those ordinary insects and venomous creatures? That's an unexpected bit of good news. I only intended to practice on them and try out the Life Energy Gene Extraction Technology."

Gene extraction was a newly developed technology.

Yang Yu had rarely used it, so naturally, he needed to conduct some experiments.

Naturally, he would not use rare, precious creatures for those experiments.

Although he had experimented on many species at once, they were all common creatures that were easy to catch. Yet genes capable of strengthening the Giant Mantis Beast had actually been extracted from them?

They could even greatly increase the Giant Mantis Beast's strength?

Yang Yu was astonished.

After all, even the weakest of his current Giant Mantis Beasts was nearly as powerful as an Earth Rank expert.

If those extracted biological genes could strengthen a Giant Mantis Beast at that level, they had to be extraordinarily powerful themselves... at least genetically, they had reached the level of Earth Rank life-forms.

Unlike the astonished Yang Yu, Zhao Zixuan gave a faint, confident smile.

He smiled and said, "Master, they're far more than merely usable. Their effects are extremely powerful. Come with me. You'll understand once you see them."

"Good!" Yang Yu immediately snapped out of his surprise.

"Let's go! To the laboratory, right now!"

With that, Yang Yu headed for the Quiet Room's door.

Zhao Zixuan followed with a smile, saying nothing more.

Soon, the two left the Quiet Room and entered the laboratory after rounding two or three corners.

The laboratory in the underground space was very crude.

But it was enormous!

After spending so long there and reinforcing it, Yang Yu had turned the underground space into something like a subterranean palace. Rough and rugged, it was vast enough to house one or two hundred people with room to spare!

When he pushed open the laboratory doors, an area covering over a thousand square meters spread out before Yang Yu.

The laboratory's interior was circular.

It resembled an enormous overturned bowl.

At that moment, the spacious laboratory was packed with iron cages of every size. Spread out from the center, the cages formed successive rings like the coils of a mosquito-repellent incense spiral.

At a glance, there were at least three or four hundred separate iron cages!

The cages held strange insects and ferocious beasts, including insects covered in viciously spiked carapaces, highly venomous snakes, scorpions, and other terrifying creatures!

"Hm?"

"Almost all the creatures we captured have died?" Yang Yu frowned. He could easily sense the aura of death in the cages. Only a few scattered traces of life remained, and even those were extremely faint. Clearly, they were nearing the end of their lives.

"How brutal." Yang Yu shook his head.

"It looks like I'll have to send the Giant Mantis Beast swarms out to capture another batch of creatures."

Gene extraction was a one-in-ten chance of survival. As Life Energy invaded their bodies, soaking into and corroding most of their genetic cells, they had to endure immense agony at every moment. Only creatures that survived this violent onslaught of Life Energy qualified to undergo the baptism of Gene Extraction Technology!

After all, the extracted genes were intended to strengthen the war insects under Yang Yu's command.

When selecting these genes, the Life Energy followed the most primitive principle of survival of the fittest... thus, the Life Energy released during gene extraction was particularly violent.

It possessed terrifying destructive power!

Every life-form that survived the assault of this Life Energy had, at the very least, an exceptionally strong underlying constitution!

They might still have been as insignificant as ants.

But at equivalent levels of strength, their adaptability and endurance ranked among the very best... if they possessed Earth Rank strength now, many Earth Rank cultivators would likely be no match for them in terms of genetic strength alone.

As long as Yang Yu used life-enhancement technology to strengthen them,

they stood a considerable chance of becoming terrifyingly powerful savage insects, just like the Giant Mantis Beast!

"Zixuan," Yang Yu said.

"Master, what is it?"

"Gather all the surviving insects and venomous creatures. Use some precious natural treasures to heal their internal injuries, one by one... don't let them die."

"Yes!" Zhao Zixuan immediately accepted the order.

He was not surprised by Yang Yu's command. After all, he had followed Yang Yu for quite some time, and after being transformed into the Blade Queen, he had naturally received part of the insect civilization's inherited knowledge. He understood the importance of these surviving insects and venomous creatures. Thus, even before Yang Yu gave the order, he had already administered basic treatment to keep them clinging to life.

Once Yang Yu formally gave the order, Zhao Zixuan immediately summoned a Giant Mantis Beast.

He instructed the Giant Mantis Beast to gather the surviving insects and venomous creatures and place them one by one into special treatment vessels for comprehensive healing.

"Where are the genes you extracted and cultivated?"

After Zhao Zixuan finished instructing the Giant Mantis Beast under his command, Yang Yu looked at her.

"Master, this way."

"Let's go."

Hearing Yang Yu ask about the genes, Zhao Zixuan did not hesitate. She led Yang Yu along the paths between the iron cages, all the way to the innermost section of the laboratory.

There, an area had been specially cleared.

Several heavy, long stone tables stood in the clearing.

At that moment, specially made crystal vessels sat on the tables, holding faintly glowing liquids.

Those liquids were the finished gene preparations produced through extraction and cultivation.

The crystal vessels holding the gene preparations were extraordinary as well. They were not made of ordinary crystal from the mundane world.

Instead, they had undergone special processing and were vessels used in the cultivation world specifically to hold precious potions.

They could perfectly contain even precious potions infused with highly concentrated Cosmic Force, completely sealing in the pure Cosmic Force within without allowing the slightest trace to escape! With such impressive capabilities, they were more than sufficient to hold gene preparations.

The moment Yang Yu saw the gene preparations, the Life Energy within his body faintly stirred and surged several times.

His eyes lit up, and he hurried forward.

He went straight to a crystal vessel, firmly grasped one of the gene preparations, and pulled out its stopper without hesitation!

Whoosh~~~~~~~~~

A peculiar fluctuation of power immediately spilled out of the crystal vessel.

He examined the gene preparations one by one.

Ten minutes later, Yang Yu had finished inspecting all ten gene preparations.

The powers contained within them varied widely.

Most served to enhance the body.

For example, the Swift Movement Gene!

Or the Strength Gene, Stone Armor Gene, Neural Reflex Gene, and Dynamic Vision Gene...