"Damn it! How come you are encountering such a thing? This is more than a bad day!"

Ling Jiu was freaked out. At first, his plan was to find the energy crystals. Little did he expect to fall into such a trap and face the threat of dying. Freaking out was not the word for it.

"No!"

"I mustn't sit and wait! I have to find the source of the Dark Bio-energy before mine is drained."

Ling Jiu took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. Then he sat cross-legged and carefully searched for it.

He could clearly sense an inexplicable suction force coming from all directions and drawing his Gene Arcana from his body at this time.

This suction force felt exactly the same as wearing the Venom Suit. Just that the intensity was greater. He lost a good amount of Gene Arcana every moment.

"Even if I have ten thousand times more Gene Arcana than what the ordinary people have, I won't last long at this rate of loss."

"Find it!"

"I have to find the source of Gene Arcana!"

As time passed, Ling Jiu gradually let his mind drift, searching for the source carefully. After five minutes had passed, and yet another five minutes; where was the source?

There was nothing.

There was not even a trace of Gene Arcana in this special training room, let alone the source.

To no avail for a long time, Ling Jiu became irritable after searching for a long time to no avail. He would lose his composure, especially when the thought of obliteration from failing the test came to mind.

"Calm down. I must calm down." He told himself. "In the past, I could sense and absorb Gene Arcana as it was in the air. But there is nothing here in this special training room.

"I have got to find another way if I want to find Gene Arcana."

"That's right! That sh*t brain said that Gene Arcana comes from the void.

"The void The void"

Ling Jiu released his Arcana Field. But he sadly discovered that his Arcana Field that used to cover 500 meters in radius could not penetrate the walls of the training room. The walls bounced the Arcana Field back.

"But that's okay!"

"I can still release the Arcana Field, although I can't use any Arcana.

"I may find something by using the Arcana Field to feel for the void."

Ling Jiu calmed down again, his Arcana Field enveloping the entire training room. He felt for it little by little. One minute, two minutes, thirty minutes...

An hour later...

"I still can't sense anything...

"Coming from the void.

"Where the hell from the void? The void is clearly empty!

"Am I going to fail?

"No! I must not fail!

"Failure means death.

"One more time."

There was still no trace of Gene Arcana after another half an hour had passed. Ling Jiu had lost a large part of his Gene Arcana.

His Gene Arcana was the size of a pomelo at first. It had now been reduced to the size of a cherry after his Gene Arcana was drained. It would not be long before his Gene Arcana Core disappeared completely.

"The void. The void. There is nothing in the void. Did that sh*t brain lie?" Ling Jiu became irritable again.

...

In the hall earlier, 9527 was still standing in place, but now, there was an array of monitor screens in front of it.

Each monitor screen was made of material similar to the Venom Suit, yet it showed images. One monitor had images of Ling Jiu on it.

"There are forty-nine participants in this batch!

"The strongest life form is from the Level 7 planet, and the weakest one is from the Level 4.

"The Dark Bio-energy in all the participants will be completely drained in eight hours if everything goes well.

"They can only survive for five days at most without Dark Bio-energy, eating, and drinking. The outcome will be known after five days.

"Hope that someone will pass the test. Otherwise, we can only wait for the next batch!"

...

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Ling Jiu had almost lost all hope.

Not only had he failed to find the Gene Arcana, the Gene Arcana in the core and the body cells had been drained completely.

His Gene Arcana Core had disappeared, and the Gene Arcana in his body cells had gone. There was nothing there.

Ling Jiu felt extremely weak, his body seemed to be hollowed out after going without food or water for two days. The most frightening thing was that he saw no hopes at all.

"Am I going to die here?"

Ling Jiu lay on the ground, paralyzed, his eyes blank. "When I've finally crossed into this world and started to live like a human, I end up dying in this place.

"Damn whoever is up there!

"No! I must not give up!

"Yes! I shouldn't give up!

"The void The void

"I must find the Gene Arcana."

Ling Jiu was so weak that he had pulled himself to sit up with difficulty. "Gene Arcana comes from the void. Gene Arcana comes from the void. But the void is empty. There is no Gene Arcana there.

"The void The void"

Another two days had passed in the blink of an eye. Ling Jiu was so hungry that his vision had become blurry. His lips were chapped, and he could not even move his fingers.

The most frightening thing was the dizziness and blurry vision from hunger.

"The void The void"

Ling Jiu moved his lips, his consciousness gradually blurring. But he still kept a trace of the most primitive d.e.s.i.r.e in him.

In the state of semi-coma, semi-unconsciousness, Ling Jiu suddenly felt that his soul seemed to separate from his body, and then rose indefinitely.

It seemed to have passed through some kind of obstacle and came to a mysterious place at last.

The Gene Arcana...

The Gene Arcana was everywhere.

It was endless...

As vast as the ocean.

It was a pity that Ling Jiu was in a semi-unconscious state at the moment. Otherwise, he would have screamed excitedly that he had found it, that he had finally found the Gene Arcana.

His hungry body started to absorb the Gene Arcana by instinct. When it happened, it felt as though a dam had burst as the Gene Arcana poured into him.

It was as if heaven had suddenly opened. A surging stream of Gene Arcana followed his soul and gushed into his body.

The returning Gene Arcana seemed like the spring rain moisturizing a dry riverbed, Ling Jiu came out of his unconsciousness. He opened his eyes and looked up at the sky.

Looking at the void to be precise.

"Gen Arcana!"

"This is Gene Arcana!"

Ling Jiu could not help himself but became excited when he saw in the infinite depths of the void was a vast reserve of Gene Arcana. There was so much of it that massive was an understatement.

There was an enormous amount of it like a boundless ocean.

"Gene Arcana comes from the void. Is this the true meaning of Gene Arcana coming from the void? It really comes from the void."

He was excited. So excited that he did not summon 9527, but frantically absorbed the Gene Arcana from the void to moisturize his weakened body.

He discovered an astonishing fact at this time: there was no need for him to use his Gene Arcana secret technique when absorbing the Gene Arcana from the void.

Even so, the absorption speed was still much faster than using Sky Devourer. Ling Jiu knew why: there was simply too much Gene Arcana in the void.

As Gene Arcana entered his body, his hungry body cells quickly swallowed it up. It was not until at the end of the day that Ling Jiu felt that his body cells had finally had their fill of Gene Arcana.

Gene Arcana started to gather and compress in his meridians, becoming a Gene Arcana Core.

"Has this batch failed again?"