Invincibility Begins with Mastery of Fist Techniques

Chapter 446 - 439: Genetic Metamorphosis

"A meeting with the highest level of the Hunting Mark Organization?"

Wang Heng Mountain furrowed his brow upon hearing this.

"What’s the matter? Is there a problem? With your power, and since you’re already in Kro, can’t you get in touch with the leaders of the Hunting Mark Organization?"

Zhou Yuanjue asked.

"I can indeed get in touch with the Black Knights, the upper echelon of the Hunting Mark Organization. But these are special times. To prevent further intelligence leaks, the entire organization is on high alert and has been locked down."

"So, rumors are running rampant outside. Some say Dela died after the battle in the Life Fighting Arena. Others say he’s just feigning silence, but in reality, he broke through to a new level during that fight. That’s why no one has dared to make a move yet."

"I can use my channels to pass on a message for you. As for whether they’ll agree to meet you, that I can’t guarantee."

Wang Heng Mountain said, shaking his head.

"That doesn’t matter. You just need to deliver the message. Whether they see me or not will tell me their attitude, and I’ll choose how to respond accordingly."

Zhou Yuanjue said.

"That’s not a problem. Should I reveal your true identity?"

Wang Heng Mountain asked.

"Don’t reveal it for now, but you can tell them I represent Donghua."

Zhou Yuanjue said after a moment of thought.

"I’ll do my best."

Wang Heng Mountain nodded.

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Meanwhile, in a secret laboratory at the Hunting Mark Organization’s headquarters in Xinli.

Here, the Hunting Mark Organization had used its influence to gather a group of scientific talents from all over the world to serve its weapons, biology, and pharmaceutical industries.

At this moment, inside a vast experimental area within the biology section’s lab.

A tall man lay quietly on a bed in the center, his body hooked up to all sorts of tubes and instruments. A dense array of surrounding equipment hummed, continuously displaying the tall man’s real-time physical condition.

Staff members in white lab coats bustled about, recording data and occasionally injecting certain solutions into the man’s body.

Outside the lab, an old man with a messy mop of white hair, looking like a mad scientist, stood shoulder to shoulder with Anna, Goth, and several other Black Knights, their expressions grim.

The old man in the white coat kept looking at the various physical data of the man being transmitted to him. The look in his eyes grew more and more incredible, and more and more excited, as if he had just witnessed a miracle that would overturn all understanding.

One must understand, being in the Hunting Mark Organization and the leader of its biology project, this old man had seen all sorts of cases involving the human body or life forms that could be called miracles. But never before had such an expression appeared on his face.

"Our boss... how is he, exactly?"

Anna asked, frowning slightly as she watched the old man’s almost convulsive and crazed demeanor.

"How is he? To be honest, right now, I don’t know how he is either."

The old man said, shaking his head.

"What do you mean?"

Anna asked in confusion.

"I’ve lived a long time, and I’ve never seen a case like this. His body was originally critically injured, but it’s now rapidly repairing itself. Of course, given the Life Force of an individual at S Class or above, that in itself isn’t particularly strange."

"What’s truly strange is this!"

The old man pointed to a 3D model on the computer screen, turning to the Black Knights.

"Is this... a gene atlas? What does it represent?"

Anna and the others followed the old man’s gesture, but the image they saw looked no different from the gene atlases they knew.

"Oh, I forgot. Compared to me, you’re all just a bunch of brainless, muscle-bound apes. It’s perfectly normal that you can’t understand this..."

The old man said, looking at their expressions and slapping his forehead in frustration.

Anna and the other Black Knights rolled their eyes, speechless, but they didn’t argue. This was just the old man’s personality, and they were already used to his way of speaking. Of course, this tolerance stemmed from their respect for his abilities. If an ordinary person had dared to speak to them that way, they would have been turned into a pile of meat paste and used as fertilizer long ago.

"Let me explain. You should know that genes are the most fundamental building blocks of human life. They determine what you and I look like. However, with our current technology, our understanding of the human genome is far too limited. At one point, a particular theory even became widely circulated."

"It’s the one where some researchers discovered that only twenty-five percent of the human genome consists of useful components. The remaining seventy-five percent is all useless junk DNA."

"But I happen to believe this so-called ’useless DNA’ is actually the most precious treasure trove within the human body. Recessive, dominant... It represents the most important treasure accumulated in our biological heritage throughout humanity’s step-by-step evolution from nothing. Hidden within is the most fundamental Mystical Technique concerning life and evolution."

"This ’useless DNA’ isn’t truly useless; we just haven’t found its true purpose yet. If we were to unlock it, develop it, and integrate it organically with our existing genes... what do you think would happen?"

The old man said, a fanatical glint in his eyes.

"What would happen?"

Goth asked with a frown.

"Another leap forward in life and evolution. A superior mutation, autonomously controlled. It would compress the vast evolutionary leap from ape to sapient human into a timeframe achievable within a single lifetime."

"Even S Class individuals like you haven’t actually touched this level. That’s why your Power is ultimately limited."

"This has always been my field of research. To use a term from Donghua, it would be called the ’second shackle’ on the path of human evolution."

The old man said.

"You mean... the boss broke through? He reached a realm no one has ever reached before?"

The eyes of the several Black Knights lit up.

"Not exactly."

The old man shook his head. "In nature, ninety-nine percent of mutations caused by genetic recombination have negative effects. Less than one percent might grant an individual superior abilities."

"Therefore, every step in a species’ evolution is an extremely difficult process. It requires vast amounts of time and countless generations of natural selection for superior traits to be preserved."

"But now, he is continuously compressing this process. Every genetic recombination is beyond my scope of understanding. I don’t know how he’s doing it, so I can’t determine the specific success rate. However, I can infer that this process is by no means easy."

"Then, when will the boss wake up?"

Anna asked in a low voice. Lacking the support of Dela’s top-tier combat strength, the Hunting Mark Organization would be in an extremely dangerous position when facing powerful enemies.

"That, I don’t know. During this time, you absolutely must not disturb him. On the path of evolution, if even the slightest thing goes wrong, the consequences could be devastating."

"No matter what, it has to be postponed. He needs time."

The old man said, his expression grave.

Hearing the old man’s words, the Black Knights’ expressions turned even uglier.

The one thing they lacked most right now was time.