Chapter 87: Blood General’s Notes

“Mmm… Chief, please stop…”

“I… I can’t take it anymore, Chief, let us go…”

“Ah… Ah, please, we know we were wrong!”

The door to the second-floor room was tightly shut, and faint, intense groans of agony drifted out, as if the occupants could hardly bear it. Even the servants tidying up the dining hall downstairs heard the commotion and looked up one after another with strange expressions: So intense?

A moment later, the second floor returned to silence. Then, Chen Chong pushed the door open and walked out, his face expressionless, heading straight for the study.

Don’t get the wrong idea. Contrary to what everyone might imagine, Chen Chong was not doing anything inappropriate.

He was a perfectly normal man, but he had no interest whatsoever in these four broken shoes, nearly ruined by Blood General. It was only because these four women had no regard for their own lives and their arrogance had infuriated him that he had cruelly and harshly taught them what true brutality meant.

After the Ultimate Infinite Qigong reached the Current Push stage, electricity was generated naturally during the circulation of True Qi, making Chen Chong a human generator himself. So, when he circulated his True Qi and made contact with the bodies of these four ordinary women, it was no different from a torture session by electrocution. In just a short moment, including Li Yun, these four flirtatious women were shocked to the point of soiling themselves and losing control of their bowels. In the end, they didn’t even have the strength to beg for mercy.

Having witnessed Chen Chong’s coldness and perversity, Li Yun no longer had her earlier seductive and coy demeanor. Collapsed on the floor, weeping and sniffling, she hurriedly spilled everything she knew.

What she knew was indeed a small secret. It seemed that Blood General had a secret notebook, hidden behind the wall clock in his study, which she had accidentally discovered. But she didn’t dare to touch Blood General’s belongings, so she had no idea what was written inside the notebook.

Chen Chong went to Blood General’s study, ripped the wall clock down in one move, and a perfectly square hidden compartment appeared. Inside lay a thin notebook and an object that looked like a badge.

Chen Chong took out the two items from the hidden compartment. The badge seemed to be some kind of military merit medal, cast from a certain metal. Chen Chong examined it repeatedly but found nothing special about this military merit medal. He then put it aside, opened the yellowed notebook, and began to make out the content written on it:

[Narrowly escaping death, I finally unlocked the Gene Lock. I feel the world looks different in my eyes from now on, but I still can’t maintain the unlocked Gene Lock state for long. Is it because I’m not yet skilled enough?]

[Unexpectedly, after unlocking the Gene Lock and having my Life Field break through 100 units, it would transform into a real, existing energy within my body! Is this the so-called Original Force?]

[My chest has started to itch and feel numb, and a mutation has begun.]

[Why is this? Is it because I unlocked the Gene Lock and the Life Field transformed into Original Force? Why hasn’t anywhere else mutated, only my chest here? Right, I originally had a lipoma growing here. This might be a kind of deformity…]

[The Gene Awakening Method… truly remarkable! Now I can maintain the Gene Lock’s unlocked state for a long time. It’s a pity the Wasteland is too barren, the Spiritual Fruits’ grades are too low, and on top of that, I haven’t grasped the Life Tempering Method, so my absorption efficiency is far too low…]

[Four years, in four years my Life Field has only increased by less than two hundred units, still just a hair’s breadth from the Transcendent Mid-stage. The growth of Original Force from the First Energy Level is this slow, so how do those Controllers whose Original Force enters the Second Energy Level, or even unlock the Second-order Gene Lock, manage it?]

[As expected, only a large gathering place offers the conditions for rapid progress. But with the terror of the Wasteland God… forget it. Although this border Wasteland is desolate and barren, it’s relatively safe. Even a Controller might not live as long as I do. Here, I am the king who decides life and death.]

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“It seems what Tie Shan said about Blood General coming from a large gathering place is true. According to these notes, this place seems to be a very desolate Wasteland?”

In the empty, silent study, with no one to disturb him, under the desk lamp, Chen Chong read the notebook word by word, his eyes showing increasing surprise.

“The Gene Awakening Method, the Life Tempering Method… they sound like methods for training one’s realm and power. Does this mean that Awakeners can actually also train to enhance their life essence and strength, but because there are so few survivors here, and it’s too desolate and remote, these methods just haven’t spread?”

What Chen Chong held was less a notebook and more Blood General’s training diary. It recorded a large amount of his bodily changes, insights, and experiences after unlocking the Gene Lock. But Chen Chong wasn’t really interested in these methods. In fact, his Ultimate Infinite Qigong, cultivated to the Magnetic Field Rotation realm, offered very comprehensive abilities and possessed a great superiority. Even if someone gave Chen Chong a set of so-called Awakening Methods or Tempering Methods, he would at most use them for reference, having no extra energy to try them out.

After flipping through it repeatedly, although the diary didn’t reveal the method for unlocking the Gene Lock, Chen Chong gleaned several very important pieces of information from it.

1. Similar to Refining Essence into Qi, Transcendents who unlocked the Gene Lock could transform the intangible Life Field into Original Force. This power should be a type of internal body energy similar to True Qi or Inner Strength. And within the Transcendent realm, Blood General was still at the Low-order, approaching the Mid-order level.

2. The development of so-called large gathering places seemed very advanced. Whether in terms of population base, resource conditions, or the number of Awakeners, they far exceeded the Wasteland. Compared to them, the Wasteland was like a primitive tribe.

3. Above Transcendents, there existed even stronger beings who had unlocked the Second-order Gene Lock, called Controllers. Their strength was unknown!

4. Large gathering places seemed intensely competitive and not safe, as something called a Wasteland God posed a tremendous threat to them.

“What is a Wasteland God? An exceptionally powerful Radiation Species? And this Gene Lock system actually has more than one tier, just like the Main God Space’s. The so-called Controllers…”

Chen Chong flipped through the notebook repeatedly, his mind stirring, his brow furrowed.

“Even at the Transcendent level, Blood General was far from being the strongest.”

According to Blood General’s training notes, the Life Field Intensity for Awakeners ranged from 10 to 100 units, and after unlocking the Gene Lock, the Life Field Intensity range for Transcendents was from 100 to 1000, a tenfold increase!

Clearly, a Transcendent with a minimum Life Field Intensity of 100 units could not be a match for a top Transcendent with 1000 Life Field units. With such a large span, smaller sub-realms naturally emerged. The leading digits of the Life Field Intensity, 3, 6, and 9, represented the boundaries of Low-order, Mid-order, and High-order. And Blood General, right up until Chen Chong beat him to death, was still within the scope of Transcendent Low-order.

Not to mention, Chen Chong’s unexpected sneak attack had also played a crucial role. If Chen Chong had faced a fully prepared Blood General head-on, even if he could have won, he probably would have paid a huge price.

“I wonder what level Diris is at within the Transcendent realm?”

Thinking about the official action the Dawn Gathering Place would soon take against the base, a pressing sense of urgency arose in Chen Chong’s heart. He immediately stood up, walked out onto the second-floor balcony, and let out a low shout to the henchmen patrolling and standing guard outside the building.

“Go find Old Xu from the Power Station and bring him to me!”