Ji Zhixing walked through the base city's gate without looking back.
Behind him, Gu Zheng's gaze drove into his back like nails, but he neither stopped nor quickened his pace. He simply walked inside, unhurried.
As though the person behind him were not a genius who had fused with a fourth-tier gene, but merely a passing breeze.
Traffic streamed through the streets of the base city. He raised a hand to hail a taxi, opened the door, and climbed inside.
"South Mountain Street."
The driver acknowledged him, and the car merged into traffic.
Ji Zhixing leaned back in his seat, watching the scenery race backward outside the window, and lightly tapped his knee twice.
He had only just visited South Mountain Street yesterday, buying twenty bottles of Origin Force Gene Potion in one go.
But this time, he had come because he had made up his mind.
Even if I develop the Willow Tree Gene's basic self-healing ability now, it won't be much use to me for the time being.
Ji Zhixing considered this silently, his gaze settling on his blurred reflection in the window. The root of the earth ability and five-colored spirit radiance ability would both be quite useful, but they're too difficult to develop.
Developing those two abilities requires far too many resources-probably more than I can provide right now.
So developing the Staff Soldier Stone Monkey's bedrock body gene ability first is undoubtedly the most cost-effective choice for me.
The car soon stopped at the intersection of South Mountain Street.
Ji Zhixing paid the fare, got out, and made his way to his usual gene potion store with practiced ease.
"You only have Stone Bone Gene Development Potions? No Stone Tendon or Stone Muscle Gene Development Potions?"
But after entering the store and explaining which potions