Chapter 9: Paths of A Gene Fighter

Translator: Lordbluefire 

After Lu Yuan left, Fu Langming secretly returned to his office. He then took out his phone and dialed a number.

Next to Lu Yuan’s room, in a simple room with only a bed and a desk, Li Qinghe was seated cross-legged on the bed to cultivate.

Suddenly, Li Qinghe frowned slightly. She flipped over her right hand and a small pitch-black cube landed on her hand.

She tapped on the cube and a screen popped out, displaying Fu Langming’s name.

Li Qinghe picked up the phone and a cold voice rang out.

“You have five seconds to explain.”

Fu Langming, who was on the other end of the call, was breaking out in cold sweat.

(This is bad! I forgot that Madam hates people disturbing him when she’s cultivating!)

He quickly said, “Madam, it’s about Lu Yuan!”

“Lu Yuan?”

Li Qinghe raised her brows. “What happened to him? What did I tell you?”

“No no no, Madam, it’s not that something had happened to Lu Yuan. His… his aptitude is very strong! Extremely strong!”

“Hmm? What do you mean?”

Fu Langming organized his thoughts before saying.

“Didn’t you say that he was awakened two days ago? But he has started to refine his genetic chain with spirit energy. Didn’t I say that I was going to teach him physical training techniques today? Turns out that his strength is about the same level as an expert under me. I’m guessing that he has probably gone through a certain degree of refinement. I asked him about this, and he said that he was able to absorb spirit qi in just half a day.”

Li Qinghe paused and a hint of a stunned gaze flashed past her eyes.

“He managed to absorb spirit qi in just half a day? ! Are you sure?”

“I feel that he shouldn’t have exaggerated things. After all, his strength is a lot stronger than normal people.”

Li Qinghe furrowed her brows slightly, fell silent, and then spoke up.

“I got it. So what do you want to say by calling me?”

“Cough… Madam is really perceptive… I want to take him into my team.”

“Scram!”

Li Qinghe replied coldly and hung up the call.

Fu Langming, who was on the other end of the call, listened to the sound of the line being cut off. His face still looked stunned and he didn’t react to the situation.

In the room, Li Qinghe put away her communication device and lay down. Her wonderful figure was completely exposed. She squinted her eyes and looked at the ceiling, breaking into a hint of a smile.

(I didn’t expect that little kid to turn out to have such aptitude? Half a day? That’s almost catching up to me. This is a little interesting. Am I so lucky? A pitiful little kid that I encountered has such aptitude too?)

Her gaze flickered, and she seemed to be thinking of something.

…

Lu Yuan then returned to the rental apartment and his room. It was very quiet.

He took a look at Li Qinghe’s closed room door.

(It’s already this late. Elder Sister Qinghe should have gone off to work.)

Lu Yuan thought of thanking Li Qinghe. After some thought, he planned on treating her to a good meal after he managed to get some money.

Lu Yuan then shook his head and returned to his room.

After taking a shower, the fatigue Lu Yuan was feeling gushed up. His body, which was gradually getting firmer, was covered in bruises left by Little Tiger.

He touched a bruise on his stomach and was in so much pain that he clenched his teeth.

“F*ck! He was really vicious!”

He bore with the fatigue and sat down cross-legged before circulating the Spirit Qi Guiding Technique.

Just then, a strange voice rang out from another side.

Lu Yuan’s countenance changed and he almost spurted out.

(What time is it only now?)

That couple was already starting their exercise!

How bad was their craving?!

Lu Yuan was speechless. He closed his eyes, wanting to continue with his cultivation.

However, the voices became increasingly louder.

He opened his eyes, feeling displeased. He then shouted.

“It’s time to pay rent!”

Instantly, the entire world became silent.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes in satisfaction and then continued cultivating.

…

Three days later, in Daming Dojo.

A group of strong men without any tops circled around Lu Yuan and a bald man. The two of them were wearing protective clothing and sparring with wooden swords.

The wooden swords collided, creating stifled banging sounds.

Both of them moved and not long later, Lu Yuan’s wrist shook and his longsword slashed in an arc, landing on the spot where the strong man’s sword handle was at. He then got up close and kneed the strong man, causing the latter to fall to the ground.

“Wow~ Brother Yuan won again!”

“Ironhead worked as a mercenary in the past and is skillful in sword techniques. I didn’t expect him to be defeated by Brother Yuan in merely two days!”

“As expected of my Brother Yuan! Amazing!”

Lu Yuan looked at Ironhead who was on the ground, and he let out an exhale. His hands that were holding onto the sword were still trembling slightly because he had used too much force.

After defeating Little Tiger, Lu Yuan started to look for someone to have a sword sparring with. In the end, he started sparring with Ironhead, who had worked as a mercenary and had even hunted demonic beasts before.

After spending two days, he finally grasped the Military Swordplay and defeated Ironhead.

Ironhead wasn’t a gene fighter but was an ordinary person!

This showed how strong this person’s battle techniques were.

“Are you alright?”

Lu Yuan looked at Ironhead.

Ironhead held onto his stomach and stood up. He then shook his head and grinned.

“I’ve seen quite a number of gene fighters, but none of them progressed as fast as you did. I feel that you’ll definitely become an important figure in the future.”

Lu Yuan grinned. “I feel the same.”

(What a joke. I have a cheat item and limitless potential in the future.)

Lu Yuan had this little bit of confidence.

At this moment, Fu Langming, who was at the side, walked over.

“Not bad. You’ve made huge improvements. Given your current level, it shouldn’t be a problem for you to enter the Land of Origins for the first time.”

Upon hearing that, Lu Yuan’s eyes lit up and he broke into a smile.

“Brother Ming, thank you for your help these few days. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have improved so much within such a short period.”

He also felt that given his current strength, he could try to enter the Land of Origins.

The first entry was very crucial. Being one step slower would mean that one would always be one step behind.

It was still better to reap some gains on the first trip.

Fu Langming nodded then said.

“Come with me.”

Lu Yuan followed Fu Langming to the office.

Fu Langming then pointed to the sofa. “Sit.”

As Lu Yuan sat down, Fu Langming looked at Lu Yuan and said,

“Entering the Land of Origins means that you’ll be obtaining your first extraordinary gene. This will determine the path that you’ll take. Do you know the types of gene fighters?”

Lu Yuan nodded. “I read it on the battleweb. There’s the guard-type that focuses on defense and protection, the attack-type that focuses on power and attacks, the assassination-type that focuses on infiltration and assassination…

Fu Langming nodded and then said slowly.

“Since you’ve read about it before, you should know that once you’ve engraved and recorded the first extraordinary gene, your body’s advantages will be inclined toward that gene. Although gene fighters can engrave and record genes of different types to raise their abilities in varying areas, studies show that if one focuses on one direction, the effect of engraving and recording the genes can be stacked. The benefits brought will then be the greatest. Have you decided which path to take?”

What Fu Langming said was the basic knowledge for gene fighters.

However, this was only the absolute truth for ordinary gene fighters.

Lu Yuan knew that this theory wasn’t suitable for him.

It was because he possessed the evolution cube.

Each extraordinary gene would specially strengthen one area. For example, one’s power would become stronger, one’s defensive bones would become firm and have great endurance to attacks, and the body’s agility and explosiveness would increase tremendously.

Although the other areas would be strengthened as well, the effect wouldn’t be as great as the strengthening for the areas in the original path.

Thereafter, all gene fighters would basically choose to focus on engraving and recording genes on one particular route when they were doing so. This would bring them the greatest level of benefits.

However, things were different for Lu Yuan. He could evolve all genes into their strongest form.

With that, even if this extraordinary gene didn’t bring about a big improvement in a certain area, it’d still be extremely terrifying after the effects from multiple genes were stacked and accumulated.

After all, this was the most powerful gene.

As a result, he could develop in all directions.

The sturdiest defensive ability, the strongest power, the fastest speed, the strongest will… It was the same even for the control over elements.

He’d have no flaws and would be incomparable!

However, that was something left for the future. At the very least, in his current phase, he had to choose one direction.

It’d be the direction he revealed to others.

Previously, Lu Yuan had thought about this. He planned on being an attack-type fighter.

To Lu Yuan, it didn’t matter which direction he chose.

With the evolution cube, he could be whatever he wanted to be.

It was just that to the public, those who were attack-type would be able to handle more situations in the future.

Hearing Lu Yuan’s words, Fu Langming paused for a moment and broke into a smile.

“Attack-type? attack-type is good! I’m an attack-type too!”

Lu Yuan was speechless after taking a look at him.

This guy had just attained a breakthrough to become a tier-1 fighter and had only engraved and recorded one gene. What kind of attack-type was he…