"Was that Gigantification?"
"What did his Three-Inch Stone Monkey Gene evolve into? It doesn't look like an ordinary second-order stone monkey gene..."
"What a powerful aura! Just standing there, he makes me feel pressured. Is that guy's gene really second-order, not third-order?"
The freshmen who had been whispering among themselves were all dumbstruck by Ji Zhixing's transformation and instinctively retreated half a step.
Sunlight fell across Ji Zhixing's rapidly expanding body, casting a long shadow. As that shadow stretched over them, they felt as though a savage beast had fixed its eyes on them.
Meanwhile, amid the cracking of his bones, Ji Zhixing shot up to two meters seventy in the blink of an eye.
The Golden Chapter pinned to his chest burst with dazzling golden light, enveloping his clothes and coating them in gold.
Then his clothes grew along with him, clinging snugly to his body and stretching slightly with the rise and fall of his chest muscles. From a distance, they looked like a naturally formed suit of golden battle attire, gleaming in the morning light.
"Stone Skin!"
With a thought, Ji Zhixing activated Stone Skin.
Instantly, a grayish-white layer of hardened tissue emerged from beneath his skin, like rock thrusting up through the earth's crust. It swiftly covered his arms before spreading to his shoulders and chest.
That hardened layer was much thicker than before his gene evolved. Its color had deepened from light gray to dark gray, and rough textures had even appeared across its surface, as though he were wearing a natural suit of stone armor.
He lowered his head to inspect his hands and clenched his fists. His knuckles gave off dull cracks, but remained perfectly flexible.
Rather than restricting his flexibility, the stone skin acted like a second layer of skin, contracting and