Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

Lin Shen summoned all his strength to dodge and punch, yet he couldn't block such a ferocious assault, as blade flames carved wound after wound into his body.

Fortunately, Super Reconstitution was incredibly effective, quickly repairing his injured body.

However, Ye Ya's assault grew increasingly frenzied. Lin Shen no longer had the power to parry; the number of wounds on his body multiplied, and the healing speed of Super Reconstitution couldn't keep up with the rate of injury.

With old wounds still fresh and new ones constantly added, there was simply no time to reconstitute.

This battle differed somewhat from his previous encounter with Flarela—due to the environment of the Fierce Fire Star, the Super Base Pattern had absorbed an excessive amount of the World's Force, maintaining him in an energy-saturated state.

The environment of this planet wasn't much different from that of ordinary regions, offering little enhancement to the Super Base Pattern, which meant that the speed of his Super-Base Recast wasn't as fast.

The scars on Lin Shen's carapace multiplied. As the carapace shattered and splintered, his flesh body underneath was revealed, bearing deep, bone-exposing lacerations.

Bang!

Lin Shen blocked a blade flame with his arms, shattering the carapace and splitting the flesh on his arms to reveal the stark white of bone. His body was cleaved like a plummeting meteor, crashing into the purple rock ground and creating a large crater.

Spurt!

Blood spewed from Lin Shen's mouth as most of the chitinous armor on his front lay in ruins, his entire body drenched in blood.

"The gap is still a bit too wide, I can't even hold on until Super-Base Change is complete," Lin Shen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth as he watched Ye Ya, cloaked in flames of black and red like a demon incarnate, descend and stand before him.

"Time to be on your way." Ye Ya stood before Lin Shen, reaching for his head with a hand burning in black and red flames.

The carapace on Lin Shen's face was almost completely shattered, marked with crisscrossing gashes. If caught by that grasp, there would only be death.

Ye Ya was too fast. Lin Shen wanted to raise his head to block, but it was already too late.

Just as Ye Ya's hand was about to seize Lin Shen's head, a sudden bang of a gunshot was heard.

In Lin Shen's hand, which hung at his side, a Pet Gun had appeared at some unknown moment, and he fired at Ye Ya.

The moment he fired, Lin Shen's speed astonishingly surged to an incredible degree. Ye Ya's palm reached Lin Shen's head, but his fingers simply passed through without resistance, as if they had grasped only a phantom.

So swift was Lin Shen that he left an afterimage in his place.

Ye Ya's pupils contracted, his body twisted impossibly, bending into a C-shape at such close range to dodge the bullet shot from the Pet Gun.

Even though he dodged the bullet, he couldn't evade Lin Shen's hand, which struck like a phantom.

Clang!

Lin Shen's fingers struck fiercely against Ye Ya's acupoint, twisting and fracturing from the harsh impact.

Ye Ya grunted, his body stiffening.

Ignoring his own wounds, Lin Shen raised his fist to launch a fierce assault on the paralyzed Ye Ya.

Previously, he had experience fighting with Ye Ya and knew that when he lacked strength, Acupoint Sealing was not very effective against Ye Ya. It probably could only make him stiff for a while but couldn't completely immobilize him.

Having managed to hit Ye Ya's acupoints with the speed brought by the Tyrant's power, Lin Shen wanted to repeat his previous tactic, using continuous attacks on the acupoints to keep control over Ye Ya, denying him any chance to counterattack.

He would wait for the Super-Base Change to complete and his own strength to reach its peak, then, paired with the Attribute boost from the Sacrificial Halo, he would finish Ye Ya in one strike.

But before Lin Shen's fist could touch Ye Ya, his body stopped moving beyond his control.

"What... what's happening..." Lin Shen felt as though something had grabbed his body; looking down, he saw black and red mists rising from it.

In just an instant, Lin Shen realized what had happened. He had never been able to see what the Power of Nirvana that Ye Ya possessed was, nor did he understand its use.

After watching the battle between Ye Ya and Kong Chuan, Lin Shen only thought that Ye Xie's Power of Nirvana might be something that enhanced destructive power, but now it seemed that was not the case.

Ye Ya's body trembled as if he would break free from the acupoint restriction at any moment. He was still able to speak and did not have his speech restricted; he laughed sinisterly, "The same trick won't work on me twice. I've always known you had some tricks up your sleeve."

The black and red aura around Lin Shen grew stronger, like an incorporeal Evil Ghost wrapping around him, pulling at his body, making it difficult for him to move as he wished.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Crack! Crack!

Ye Ya's body made a bursting sound, and with a fierce shake, he broke free from the restraints of Acupoint Sealing and regained his mobility.

Looking at Lin Shen who was being forcibly pulled and unable to move, Ye Ya did not immediately strike to kill him.

Ye Ya observed Lin Shen, frozen in the pose of throwing a punch, raising one hand with black and red flames flickering uncertainly on its surface.

His fingers moved as if playing the piano, and with each press, Lin Shen's body moved like a marionette.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lin Shen truly became a puppet at someone else's command, his fists hitting himself, continuously pounding on his body, his face, causing his nose to bleed profusely and his eyes to swell, but he couldn't stop.

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"This is my Nirvana Attribute—the Power of the Evil Ghost. Once you are invaded by my Power of Nirvana, your body is no longer yours. You have been possessed by the Power of the Evil Ghost, your life is at my whim," Ye Ya said as if playing a puppeteering game, continually manipulating Lin Shen's body to twist into various strange postures.

If Ye Ya wished, he could even make Lin Shen break his neck.

Inside Lin Shen, the Evolution Theory was frantically working, but breaking free from the control of the Power of the Evil Ghost wasn't something that could be done in a short time.

"Your Carapace can become stronger with each recovery from damage; I saw through this long ago and used your need to inject the Power of the Evil Ghost into your body." Ye Ya looked at Lin Shen contorted into odd shapes and sneered, "Do you know why I could have struck earlier but didn't?"

"Why?" Lin Shen, enduring the pain of his body twisting, asked through gritted teeth.

"Because you are special. At the Base Mutation level, you could fight to such an extent with me at the Ascension Level. As an Ascender, you could fight to this degree with me at the Nirvana Level; you have no idea how incredible you are. I'm the only one who challenges others beyond my level; nobody ever challenges me beyond theirs.

Although you have failed, what you have done is already great enough," Ye Ya said passionately.

"You possess two types of stackable weakening abilities, full Attribute-enhancement skills, speed abilities that break limits, frightening recovery abilities, stacking Fist Power, bizarre control abilities... A normal person possessing one or two of these abilities would already stand out amongst their peers.

But you, combining so many in one, are a rare existence indeed," Ye Ya professed with fervor.

Ye Ya walked up to Lin Shen, grabbed his cheek, staring intensely at him, his face almost touching Lin Shen's, "Such a remarkable person—killing you would be a waste."