Three Blessings at Once!

Limit General Hall, thirtieth-floor Martial Arts Training Hall.

Yang Zheng tested his spiritual force and discovered that he had leaped straight to planetary level third tier. Three Miniature Planets orbited one another in his sea of consciousness.

A Gene Warrior's base explosive strength was usually twice that of a Spirit Reader. That seemed to give warriors an advantage, but Spirit Readers had a much easier time amplifying their strength.

On Earth, for example, warriors were considered quite accomplished if they could amplify their physical strength four or five times. Even Thunder God, who held the record, could only achieve a sevenfold amplification.

Spirit Readers, however, could easily achieve a fivefold amplification. Phantom Demon Katelan could reach ninefold, while Ister, the world's current number one Spirit Reader, could reach fourteenfold.

And Luo Feng had managed a full sixteenfold amplification before even reaching planetary level.

Moreover.

Spirit Readers also had to cultivate gene origin energy. After all, their physical fitness was the foundation of their spiritual force.

Strength amplitude that was easier to improve, coupled with an advantage in flight speed...

Spirit Readers enjoyed a tremendous advantage among lower-level cultivators.

"Wait, something still isn't right..."

With a thought, Yang Zheng recalled his Throwing Knife. Just as he was about to examine his body internally, he discovered a transparent Miniature Planet in his lower abdominal dantian as well.

The transparent Miniature Planet kept spinning, emitting waves of strange fluctuations.

Gene origin energy!

There was one fundamental difference between Spirit Readers and warriors. A Spirit Reader's source lay in the sea of consciousness within the head, while a Gene Warrior's source lay in the lower abdominal dantian.

"Did I just get three blessings at once?"

Yang Zheng guessed that this improvement in his physical fitness had come from absorbing all the remaining plant essence he had not fully consumed before, along with the tremendous increase in his spiritual force this time.

With both the plant essence and his spiritual force driving the process, his physical fitness had risen to planetary level in one go.

Of course, that was only a guess. Whatever the cause, though, it was ultimately a good thing for him.

"Whew..."

As a wisp of transparent origin energy shot out of his dantian and flowed into his body, every part of him-his bones, skin, membranes, meridians, and internal organs-began changing rapidly.

Boom!

Unable to resist, Yang Zheng walked over to the Punch Strength Tester. Without even preparing to gather his strength, he threw a punch.

2,100,000 kg.

A reading immediately appeared on the tester's screen.

"2.1 million kilograms. My physical fitness has reached planetary level first tier too. With my planetary level third tier spiritual force on top of that, my strength is probably second only to Thunder God's now."

Thrilled, Yang Zheng made a rough estimate of his strength, though he had to exclude Luo Feng, that unknown factor.

After all...

He had no idea how strong Luo Feng truly was at present. Until they actually faced off, all he could do was guess.

"With planetary level third tier spiritual force and a tenfold mental power amplitude, ten Throwing Knives striking the same target at once could unleash a total force of forty million kilograms."

In terms of explosive power alone, that approached a planetary level six Gene Warrior. In an actual fight, however, he might not even beat a planetary level five Gene Warrior.

Weapons, secret techniques...

Yang Zheng's accumulated foundation was far too shallow. Without suitable weapons or secret techniques, he would struggle to put his talent to use.

The only thing he currently had worth showing off was the Black God Set, which was practically a dime a dozen in the universe.

"Let's see what my special ability is..." Yang Zheng let his awareness sink into his entire body. Only upon reaching planetary level did a lifeform truly cross the threshold.

Every lifeform had a different constitution and soul. The cosmic energy its body absorbed would always lean in a particular direction, and the gene origin energy converted from it would have a corresponding inclination.

Gene origin energy was primarily divided into eight attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, and light. These corresponded to the eight fundamental laws.

The attribute of a lifeform's gene origin energy represented its choice when comprehending laws in the future. Naturally, comprehending the law toward which its gene origin energy leaned would be easier than comprehending other laws.

"Light?"

"No, more precisely, it should be invisibility!"

Yang Zheng's special ability allowed his gene origin energy to distort light to a certain degree, making him invisible.

"What a useless ability!"

A Spirit Reader's mental probing was far more precise than observation with the naked eye. Once spiritual force spread out, it could reveal everything with perfect clarity.

"I wonder what's happening over on Mist Island!"

Only after adjusting to his body's advancement to planetary level did Yang Zheng check the time.

"Holy shit!"

"It's January ninth!"

Unless something unexpected had changed, the upheaval on Mist Island should have begun on January fifth, according to the original story's timeline. Three days had already passed now. He was far too late.

"Whew..."

Yang Zheng rushed to the top floor. His deep-blue fighter jet quickly rose into the air, then turned into a streak of light and vanished into the horizon.

Beneath Mist Island Lake.

Luo Feng was making his way aimlessly deeper underground. Above his hand, his mental power held a pure blood-red fragment. Although it was only palm-sized, it weighed more than a ton.

"I've searched for so long without finding any other Blade Fragments. Could the other fragments have sunk deep underground over time?"

Luo Feng continued deeper into the earth. After learning how powerful this Blade Fragment was, he wanted to collect the others even more.

This broken blade could slice through even air with ease and instantly pierce the Black God Set's defenses. It could practically be called the strongest weapon on Earth.

In a true fight to the death, anyone on Earth other than Hong and Thunder God would probably be doomed against him.

Filled with excitement, Luo Feng kept making his way deeper underground. By now, he had reached a depth of more than thirteen thousand meters...

"I'll go this way."

It was purely a whim. As he went deeper underground, Luo Feng chose his route entirely at random, descending aimlessly into the depths.

Boom!

He smashed through the fractured rock.

Luo Feng surveyed the darkness. With the eyesight of a planetary level expert, he could naturally see his surroundings clearly.

"That's..."

Luo Feng could make out what appeared to be a passage. At its end stood a "door" made of a strange silvery-white metal. Resembling a fighter jet's hatch, the "door" was half-closed.

"A door?"

Luo Feng suddenly jolted. Why was there a dust-covered door more than ten thousand meters underground?

"Could this be some undiscovered Ancient Civilization Ruins?"

Excited, Luo Feng used his spiritual force to control his Throwing Knives, clearing away all the rocks around the door. Then he cautiously approached, step by step, until he was about twenty meters away.

"That... that's-"

Twenty meters from the hatch, Luo Feng cautiously directed his mental power through it, probing what lay beyond this mysterious entrance.

But when he saw the scene inside, Luo Feng froze. Then his eyes flushed red with excitement.

"Wood bud crystals!"

"So many wood bud crystals!"