Chapter 712

Chapter 712: Perfect Creature

Penglai Continent, Grey Cloud Mountain Range

Decades have passed, and except for the central area where the nuclear explosion occurred, the areas south of the Anlan Mountains are now lush green, a testament to the resilience of life.

Where the Demon God Temple once stood, a large tree now stands tall. As the sun rises, the tree’s grey leaves turn colorful, and bright fruits appear.

Shortly after, a bird landed on the tree, picked a fruit, and as it was about to fly away, branches suddenly shot out from the tree, piercing the bird. The bird fell to the ground, and roots emerged, pulling it underground.

One by one, the birds vanished, but others quickly took their place, attracted by the delicious fruit.

Apart from the birds attracted to the sky, a small puddle appeared in front of the big tree. The tree’s roots constantly seeped liquid, attracting many animals to come and drink. However, they could not escape misfortune.

Meanwhile, in a distant area, a fierce tiger was facing off with a giant ground worm. The tiger had painful sores on its body, while the ground worm, with its terrifying mouthparts half hidden underground, was massive.

"Roar"

Sensing danger, the tiger roared and spewed a ball of fire towards the ground worm, which didn’t try to dodge, allowing the fire to hit.

Seeing the fire had no effect, the tiger pounced and swiped a claw at the ground worm.

"Sizzle"

The claw swiped across the ground worm, causing green liquid to spray out, corroding the tiger’s skin where it hit.

The ground worm retaliated by thrusting a tail hook into the tiger’s back, causing it to struggle and pull the ground worm out. The tiger bit the ground worm’s mouthpart but quickly let go, as the ground worm’s liquid nearly corroded its tongue.

The tiger found itself in a difficult situation. Its attacks were not enough to defeat the ground worm, and the worm’s liquid caused intense pain, forcing the tiger to struggle and cry out.

Finally, the ground worm opened its mouth, bit directly on the tiger’s head, let go of its tail, and slowly dragged the tiger underground.

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Ying Continent, a certain research facility

Lu Xuan stood outside the cage, watching a fierce battle inside. On one side was a third-stage early saw scale beast, and on the other side was a maximum of a second-stage late ape-like creature. The saw scale beast was stronger, but was now being pushed back.

It didn’t start losing at first. It had the upper hand at the beginning, but as time went on, it started losing because its enemy seemed invincible. No matter how many wounds it suffered, it could still fight back fiercely. When its magical power ran out, it started to weaken.

"Chief Lu, is this the perfect creature you requested?"

"Just a little more."

Lu Xuan said, as the ape-like creature in front of him was the result of their years of research. It had integrated many gene fragments. Its original form was a monkey, but now it was completely different.

It had more terrifying claws, teeth, and antennae than a monkey, as well as skin as tough as steel. From birth, its skin could deflect normal bullets.

Besides its outward appearance, it also has incredible strength, super quick reflexes, and an unbelievable ability to recover. Even its perception and vision far surpass those of ordinary creatures.

This is the monster created by Lu Xuan, or you could say it’s a perfect creature.

But Lu Xuan is still not completely satisfied because this ape-like creature lacks a bit of intelligence. Its intelligence is no different from that of an ordinary person, but Lu Xuan is not content. He wants more, that’s what he considers a perfect creature.

"Chief Lu, what is still missing?"

"Intelligence. Our human race stands tall in this world, relying on intelligence. Before spiritual energy recovery, in terms of speed, we are not as fast as tigers and leopards, nor as strong as cows and sheep. But we are still the rulers of the world’s biosphere, all because of our intelligence."

"But if the test subject exceeds in intelligence, we might not be able to control it. In the current experiment, if we hadn’t installed a chip bomb in its body, we probably wouldn’t be able to restrain it. Chief Lu, are you thinking about collaborating with the authorities?"

A researcher said their company’s capabilities were still somewhat weak to study more perfect creatures, so they might need to collaborate with the authorities.

"Don’t collaborate. What credit will we get by working with the authorities? Do you think with your qualifications, you could earn your current salary?"

"No, Chief Lu, I…"

"Okay, prepare the next test subject."

"Chief Lu, the next test subject will be a human."

The researchers’ voices were shaking. Their research was not authorized – in simple terms, it was illegal.

They had experimented on many subjects before – mice, cows, sheep, cats, dogs – it wasn’t a big deal. But later on, they moved to human-like chimpanzees, monkeys, and apes. According to their plan, the next step was to use human subjects.

"Don’t worry, our experiments have been going smoothly, and our skills are top-notch. I’ll find a test subject myself."

Lu Xuan said that Ying Continent also had many poor people and beggars, so he could easily find one outside.

Now, filled with ambition, once the human experiment succeeded, he planned to enhance himself. Then, he would become the most perfect human in the world.

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Shen Continent, Huaxia

Muse appeared on the streets of a province in the western part of Huaxia. In front of him was a camera. He had been waiting for half an hour, but the expected soldiers and police didn’t show up, which meant that the identity he had just obtained was legitimate.

Although Huaxia is the richest and most powerful country, with billions of people, it is still a divided society. Some areas are advanced in technology, like the future world, filled with a sense of technology everywhere. However, there are also places that are just beginning to get out of poverty, or even have not yet.

Muse wandered as a homeless person for a long time, so he knew a lot about the lower class. That’s why he found a way to get a legitimate identity.

Of course, this identity wouldn’t stand up to a close look, such as his biometric information. If compared, it would reveal his true identity. So, he still had to be extremely cautious with this identity.

"Boss."

"Boss."

Two trusted aides gathered around and greeted Muse.

"Is your identity okay?"

"No problem. The real owner has taken care of everything. As long as it’s not an investigation specifically targeting us, we should be safe."

"That’s great, let’s quickly recruit some members from peripheral organizations, we just need to control from behind the scenes."

"Boss, this is easy, there are many poor people in Huaxia, as long as we have money, there are plenty of people willing to work for us."

"Okay, let’s prepare first."

Muse said. That’s true, as long as they can pay, there will be people willing to work for them.

Two more months passed, Muse and the others established themselves in Huaxia, but they avoided the big cities and focused on developing in smaller towns instead.

During these two months, there were some changes within Huaxia, mainly some relaxation in policies. Before this, Huaxia Official almost monopolized all cultivation resources, for example, in the case of spirit stones, private trading of spirit stones was strictly prohibited by the government. If individuals owned spirit stones, they could only use them themselves or sell them to the government. This was the same for other resources as well.

As a result, Huaxia Official reaped enormous profits, but for ordinary people, they were heavily exploited. Independent cultivators lived in difficult circumstances, leading to the rise of a large black market.

Now, these policies have been relaxed to allow private trading, although it is not completely open. Only designated merchants can trade, those who have obtained licenses. The first batch of licenses has already been issued, and companies with licenses naturally earn a lot of money.

This relaxation is limited in scope, but it sends a positive signal. Everyone knows that as more cultivators emerge, these policies will become more lenient.

The relaxation of resource trading policies is just one of the policies that have been relaxed. For example, in the area of cultivation training, Huaxia initially announced twenty cultivation methods, but now they have announced thirty-six. The basic methods are available online to cater to different talents and types of cultivators.

The cultivation methods have been announced, but apart from the cultivation university, very few schools have teachers who can teach all thirty-six methods. In some economically disadvantaged areas, there are only a few cultivation teachers who specialize in seven or eight methods at most, which has led to the emergence of training classes.

These training classes were supposed to be licensed, but unlicensed wild training classes are already widespread. Muse and two others started such a wild training class.

Making money is not the main goal of these training classes, they mainly aim to integrate into the local society, especially the upper class, which is crucial for Muse and his group because they lack internal information channels in Huaxia.

"Boss, guess who I saw today when I was distributing flyers for our company."

"Who did you see? So mysterious."

"Chen Jinfa."

"Who is Chen Jinfa?"

"Chen Jinfa is a pawn we originally developed in Jiabang. I remember giving him some evil cultivation methods related to robbing spiritual power. We harvested those pawns later, but Chen Jinfa disappeared. I never expected that after so many years, he is still alive and has even reached the golden core cultivation level."

The insider said that back in the Jiabang Empire, they were spreading evil martial arts techniques, aiming not only for some antisocial personalities, but also for some unsuccessful individuals.

These people purposely gave them the evil techniques, but didn’t train them, just left them as pawns. They would only start to manipulate them when they had gained some power.

Chen Jinfa was one of their targets, but by the time they closed in, he had already left Jiabang Empire, so they missed him.

"Golden core, very good, this might be our chance."

When Muse heard this, his eyes lit up. He had been wanting an opportunity to infiltrate the high society of this city, and now it seemed like that chance had arrived.