Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

"Xiao Liuzi, your judgment is good," the Heavenly Emperor commented.

"Just luck, a fluke," Xiao Liuzi quickly responded.

"Haha, lose and you\'re punished, win and you\'re still punished. Go to the City of No Light and reflect behind closed doors. Without my command, you are not allowed to return to Sky Pinnacle Star," the Heavenly Emperor declared.

"Thanks... Your Majesty..." Xiao Liuzi\'s expression revealed no change; he merely performed a salute in gratitude.

The Heavenly Emperor picked up the item Xiao Liuzi had placed on the table and casually threw it back to him: "Items given to you by others should be treasured. How could you casually use them as stakes in a bet? Isn\'t that disrespecting their kind intentions?"

"Xiao Liuzi realizes his mistake," Xiao Liuzi saluted again.

"Alright, I\'m a bit tired. You can go now," the Heavenly Emperor yawned and reclined in his chair, putting on sunglasses to rest.

Xiao Liuzi hurriedly stood up, controlling a cloud to leave the Ascension Pool, heading towards the Imperial Palace.

"Your Majesty, aren\'t you going to watch the outcome?" the Celestial beauty seemed to still be interested in seeing the result.

"A few little things, what\'s there to see?" The Heavenly Emperor stretched out a hand, pulling the Celestial beauty into his embrace, and said with a smile, "My love, you caused me to lose, and now I must punish you."

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Lin Shen, braving the waterfall, had no choice but to activate his Super Base Form.

The truly terrifying aspect of the waterfall wasn\'t the impact force of the water itself.

If it were just a matter of withstanding the impact force, Lin Shen could have managed even without activating the Super Base Form, but the dreadful strange forces within the water\'s flow were not so easily withstood by the Spiritual Sense.

Climbing just eight or nine meters upwards, Lin Shen felt as if his soul had been frozen, his brain chilling intensely, as if even his thoughts could scarcely continue.

Lin Shen now understood why Tian Xin had only managed to surge a few meters upwards before falling down. With the brain unable to think and the body and strength difficult to control, how could one possibly surge upwards?

He nearly lost his grip and was swept down several times, not due to lack of Strength, but because his thoughts were almost frozen, his body becoming somewhat uncontrollable.

Once in the Super Base Form, Lin Shen immediately felt a great reduction in pressure; the strange forces\' impact on his Spiritual Sense was minimized, barely feeling that cold sensation anymore.

"The Super Base Form has such benefits too!" Lin Shen was overjoyed, continuing to climb up against the waterfall.

This time, his movements became extraordinarily swift; braving the waterfall, he climbed faster and faster, soon reaching the mid-way point of the mountain.

Tian Xin, watching Lin Shen climb from inside the pool, initially thought Lin Shen would soon fall as well, but saw that Lin Shen suddenly started climbing faster. Judging by this trend, reaching the mountaintop didn\'t seem like an issue at all.

"Damn it, it\'s not fair that he can do it and I can\'t," Tian Xin gritted his teeth and once again swam towards the waterfall.

This time he did not forcefully fly upwards against the waterfall; he also grasped onto the rocks to climb.

However, after climbing seven or eight meters, his brain felt as if frozen and unresponsive. He slipped and fell down again.

"I\'ll be damned!" Tian Xin still wouldn\'t accept defeat, rested for a while, and tried to climb up once more.

When Lin Shen reached the mountain summit, the Contrarian had reached the Fourth Turn, and the Inheritance Fan also reached the Fifth Turn.

It was much lower than he had expected. It was said that those who had previously been able to reach the summit, some were able to reach the Tenth Turn, and if not the Tenth, then at least the Ninth Turn was to be expected.

His two Life Bases, one at Fourth Turn and the other at Fifth Turn, made Lin Shen realize that the resources needed for his Life Bases to evolve might be much more than those required for ordinary Life Bases, hence the slow progression.

Atop the mountain, all around was a sea of clouds, and the bottom of the mountain was not visible.

What was strange was that the source of this terrifying water flow was actually a spring at the top of the mountain.

Atop such a massive mountain, it was miraculous that a spring could surge upward, a phenomenon beyond comprehension.

Lin Shen couldn\'t help but wonder if there might be a super high-powered pump installed within the mountain that was drawing water up from below to create this spring.

The spring formed a pool, from which water continuously overflowed, cascading down the mountainside as a waterfall.

In the middle of that pool, there were two koi fish, one white and one black, swimming idly.

What was more bizarre was that these two koi fish were made of flesh and blood and looked no different from the common carp found in the rivers of the Human Mother Planet, with a size of only about one foot long.

"Are these the two fish?" Lin Shen had heard of them and, crouching by the poolside to take a closer look, found no noticeable differences from ordinary koi.

According to Tian Xun, these two fish had always lived in the Ascension Pool, which had existed before it was moved to the Sky Pinnacle Star.

Lin Shen dipped a finger into the pool, only to feel a bone-chilling cold the moment he made contact with the water, causing him to shiver and quickly withdraw his finger.

Even so, Lin Shen still felt an intense cold throughout his body, as if his brain had been frozen stiff, shaking uncontrollably, and this was in his Super Base Form.

"This is terrifying!" Lin Shen was secretly shocked by the intensity of the strange energy in the pool, many times stronger than that of the waterfall.

These two flesh-and-blood koi fish that could survive in the pool were certainly extremely powerful creatures.

It took quite a while before he no longer felt so cold, as if his brain, which had felt like it was submerged in icy water, was gradually warming up.

"The strange energy here is too strong, impossible to absorb and digest." Once Lin Shen felt a bit better, he discovered that his Life Base hadn\'t grown, and all the strange energy that had seeped into his body had dissipated.

Even Evolution Theory, which could cause bodily mutations and enhancements, was difficult to operate in such conditions, causing Lin Shen a slight disappointment.

"No wonder Tian Xun said that, although the energy in this pool is potent, it is hard to absorb. So that\'s how it is." Lin Shen had to give up the idea of using the pool to increase his Life Base\'s transmigration count.

Spurt!

While Lin Shen was deep in thought, the black koi in the pool suddenly surfaced, and with a puff, sprayed a mouthful of water at him.

The jet of water came fast and fierce, and before Lin Shen could even think to dodge, it hit him like a water arrow, drenching him thoroughly.

Immediately, Lin Shen felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his soul seemed frozen, and he collapsed to the ground.

Fortunately, Lin Shen was a distance away from the pool and didn\'t fall in; if he had, there would have been no chance of coming out alive.

While Lin Shen\'s very consciousness seemed frozen, and Evolution Theory struggled to operate, the Immortality Scripture slowly began to work without any directive from his consciousness.

Lin Shen appeared as if he were dead, yet his consciousness gradually woke up.

His body still felt frozen, but his mind was slowly clearing.

As his consciousness grew clearer, Evolution Theory finally started working again, slowly absorbing and digesting the strange energy in his body.

After a while, Lin Shen gradually regained control over his body.

Contrarian and Inheritance Fan, having absorbed a significant amount of strange energy, underwent another transmigration.

Contrarian reached the Fifth Turn, and Inheritance Fan entered the Sixth Turn.

After recovering, Lin Shen lay still, employing the Feign Death ability of the Immortality Scripture to deceive the black fish in the water to avoid another attack.

Only when the strange energy inside his body was fully absorbed did Lin Shen suddenly leap up and flee from the pool, flying down the mountain.

The black koi was an extremely terrifying creature, and since it was hostile to Lin Shen, he dared not linger in that place any longer.