"Hiss!!"
Li Xin cut his palm open and placed the thumb-sized Abyss Crystal against the wound.
The Abyss Crystal dissolved upon contact with blood, merging completely into the wound and entering the cells throughout his body through his blood.
Agonizing pain swept through his body, as though countless ants were gnawing at his flesh inside him.
"This pain is nothing compared to genetic surgery!"
Although fusing with an Abyss Crystal was painful, he had experienced even worse pain, so he did not lose his composure.
However, when merging with the Abyssal Will, physical pain was secondary.
A mixture of negative impulses-brutality, madness, bloodlust, and slaughter-constantly battered his soul's sea of consciousness, seeking to turn him into a puppetlike Abyss Demon.
"This little assault on my consciousness won't shake me!"
Li Xin's consciousness was as hard as iron. The assault of the Abyssal Will could not shake him at all.
Under the Zerg Mother Emperor clone's comprehensive monitoring, every detail of the Abyss Crystal's modification of the genes throughout his body was recorded. This would be enormously helpful in improving genetic technology in the future.
"Fourfold genes!"
After three full hours passed, the Abyss Crystal finished merging completely, and his Gene Multiplier went from its original threefold
to fourfold!
"Abyss Crystals really are wonderful treasures!"
Feeling the increase in his Gene Multiplier, Li Xin could not help marveling.
After all, to raise his Gene Multiplier, he had made the Zerg Mother Emperor conduct research for a long time before finally increasing it to threefold.
Now, a single Abyss Crystal could directly add one to his Gene Multiplier. It was almost as though it were negating his research.
However, he also knew perfectly well that there had to be limits to merging with Abyss Crystals. Like Time Gems and Blood Luo Crystals,