The river of time flowed silently onward.
Above the vast Divine Kingdom stood a temple as brilliant as a star, its boundless light illuminating every inch of the kingdom.
Deep within the temple, Yang Zheng sat cross-legged.
Dozens of rare treasures floated around him, each shimmering with hazy radiance and surrounded by mysterious rhythms.
These treasures took all manner of forms: crystals imbued with the aura of chaos, leaves bearing the imprints of stellar trajectories, droplets seemingly condensed from pure energy...
"If I consume all these rare treasures together, they should be enough to raise my life genes to the perfect level."
Yang Zheng swept his gaze over the rare treasures floating around him. He had paid the staggering price of more than ten thousand Supreme Treasure points to obtain them through trades with other Universe Masters.
Had he relied solely on searching and gathering them little by little in the Universe Ocean, even ten million eras might not have been enough to collect everything he needed.
Whoosh...
With a slight stir of Yang Zheng's will, a heart-shaped treasure pulsing with surging life-source energy slowly approached him.
The strange energy within it began pouring steadily into Yang Zheng's divine body, at times like a gentle stream, at others like a rushing river.
Hum-
8,500... 8,600...
As the strange energy flowed into him, Yang Zheng could clearly feel the transformation and elevation of his very essence. His life gene level soon broke through the threshold of 9,000 times.
This level already surpassed that of the vast majority of special lifeforms in the Primal Universe. Even many unique special lifeforms had never crossed the threshold of a 9,000-fold gene level.
9,100... 900... 9,300...
Even with these rare treasures, Yang Zheng could feel the strange energy driving his gene level's evolution more and