499: Chapter 499 Gene Extraction

Five days later.

"Drink! Tonight we don't stop until we're drunk!"

Inside the massive cafeteria, a Long-armed Human stood on a table, holding a wine glass high in the air and shouting.

In the corner, two Tier 7 Saint Rune Warriors watched this scene in silence.

A moment later, one of the Tier 7 Saint Rune Warriors couldn't help but speak up.

"Which place did this drunkard come from? At the rate they're drinking, the wine we brought probably won't last a few more days."

The other Saint Rune Warrior shook his head.

"I don't know. His strength is quite high, but I heard his wife and children died in this battle. He's likely trying to numb himself with alcohol. Let him be."

For a moment, both of them fell silent.

Before this, they had arrived with nearly five thousand people and five thousand extraordinary spirit beasts, but after one battle, nearly half were dead.

In fact, if not for triggering the Heavenly Retribution, whether they could have won was a question in itself.

Even worse, most of the Otherworldly Demons had escaped, and the pursuit teams had suffered heavy casualties.

Furthermore, that group of people who looked similar to them had very stubborn mouths, constantly shouting at them to surrender, otherwise they would bathe this world in blood.

Comparing it to the previous battle, what the other side said was very likely true, which had led to their internal ranks splitting into two factions.

One faction favored war, while the other favored peace.

Currently, some lords refused to send reinforcements here because they wanted to wait for the people of other factions to die off, so they could preserve their strength for peace talks.

Given the current situation, this would undoubtedly increase the difficulty of defending against those demons.

If handled poorly, it might even hold them back.

...

Midnight.

Nie Ning stumbled and swayed as he returned to his treehouse.

"I can't drink that much next time."

Shaking his head, Nie Ning used his magic power to evaporate the alcohol in his body, but he retained the portion of the medicinal liquid that was filled with life energy.

Perhaps because the life energy of this world was too dense, the vegetation here contained remarkable life energy.

Even the wine he drank was like this; it held an inexplicable temptation for living beings, making one want to drink more and more.

After calming down for a moment, Nie Ning glanced at the Long-armed Human woman lying on the bed.

Originally, he was doing fine on his own, but who knew—perhaps because he was too handsome—that after hearing his tragic story, many women had flocked to comfort him.

Because he didn't want to appear too antisocial, Nie Ning could only silently endure it.

Nie Ning flipped his hand, and a medicinal pill appeared in his palm.

As he circulated his battle aura, the pill in his palm was ground into powder, which then slowly drifted into the Long-armed Human woman's mouth.

"This sleeping pill should be enough to keep her asleep until tomorrow morning."

Nie Ning muttered softly, then returned to the ground once more.

The soil beneath his feet rolled, and Nie Ning's body rapidly descended. Before long, he arrived in a laboratory filled with a modern atmosphere.

At this moment, rows of glass tubes were neatly floating on the laboratory table, containing the biological samples he had collected from the previous battlefield.

It had to be said that this was much easier and more cost-effective than hunting hard.

After all, he hadn't really done anything during the entire battle; he just hung around the edges scavenging and slacking off. Although he was scared to death during the finale, fortunately, the results turned out fine.

Compared to the two factions still scurrying about outside, Nie Ning's own life was much more comfortable.

Every day was just drinking and bragging with others.

From time to time, he could even trick the locals into giving up the high-level materials they had obtained from the two factions.

After all the fuss, he had earned more than he ever did in the Extreme Phase Demon Palace.

"No wonder some people like to profit from war."

Nie Ning muttered a complaint, then turned his gaze back to the gene potion on the table.

This trip, besides the large number of Long-armed Humans, there were nearly 172 types of otherworldly creatures that had come to assist in the battle.

Although they couldn't compare to Belvis, creatures with medium potential made up the majority, with only a small portion being low-level creatures, and there were 11 types remaining that reached Tier 7.

Only three Tier 7 energy-strength creatures died in this battle, one of which was a Long-armed Human.

Unfortunately, Nie Ning didn't manage to get his hands on a single one.

Even in this world, the value of high-level creatures was not something ordinary beings could compare to.

Humans gain benefits from eating alien creatures, and the same logic applies to alien creatures eating humans.

By the time Nie Ning wanted to get some high-level alien genes, the high-level alien corpses he had his eyes on would vanish in the blink of an eye.

He didn't know which bastard had taken them.

However, for Nie Ning, it wasn't a big deal.

Because living beings from the same world basically share similarities in terms of genetic levels.

Even in the world before Nie Ning transmigrated, the genetic overlap between humans and pigs was over 84 percent.

So, in a certain sense, with the accumulation of so many species' genes, except for life forms like silicon-based beings, it basically encompassed most of the genetic sequences of this world.

This was also one of the reasons why Nie Ning's physical constitution hadn't improved significantly when eating the meat of strange beasts recently.

And bloodline techniques were Runic Formula sequences—a type of code stored within the genes—so acquiring skills had little relation to physical constitution.

The difference was that energy enhanced bloodline strength; the bloodline could then store more advanced Runic Formula, but it also limited the bloodline's potential.

However, for strange beasts without civilization development, this was their way of survival, ensuring that every individual among them wouldn't be too weak.

Even the strength of ordinary strange beasts was usually above the average value of humans.

...

Nie Ning quickly immersed himself in his work, starting to process these freely obtained genes.

Although the process was very monotonous, Nie Ning was addicted to it, wishing he could get more genes to study so he could use them to strengthen his own constitution.

Time passed quickly, and when the sky was just beginning to brighten, Nie Ning finally finished his work.

Because his strength had increased, and because Nie Ning had taken a different approach this time—only extracting the parts of the genes he needed—his speed was much faster than before.

Nie Ning looked at the gene potion floating in his palm that shimmered with a greenish hue, a look of satisfaction appearing on his face.

"My efforts during this period were not in vain. Once I go back, I probably won't need to come back here again."

After all, his purpose for coming here was to obtain genes, and this time, he had skipped most of the steps and obtained the genes he needed.

Although there might still be some he hadn't obtained, there was no need for him to continue staying for just a few scraps.

Unless there were some other good things hidden here, that might make Nie Ning stay for a while longer.

However, Nie Ning was also very curious; several days had passed, so why hadn't the people from the Extreme Phase Demon Palace and the Yin-Yang Sect come to rescue them yet?

Could it be that they had already abandoned them?