Super Gene Hunting Ground

There are many brainless people in this world, or rather, many people consumed by jealousy. They often choose not to scrutinize the logic behind rumors, preferring to believe them instead, satisfying their disdainful contempt.

Yesterday they still thought Yang Xiao was a capable man, today he has become someone despicable and shameless, resorting to any means to harm his own kind and rob them of their possessions.

When they rob others, they feel it's natural, believing that in the age of the jungle, might makes right; yet, when they themselves are robbed, they question others' morals and character.

This rumor started fermenting last night, it's just that no one mentioned it to Yang Xiao.

Luo Manli, with the remaining members of her team, rested in an inconspicuous place, separated from Yang Xiao by the entirety of the Genetic Store, neither able to see the other.

Even though Luo Manli hated Yang Xiao, she knew she couldn't contend with him and didn't dare provoke him further.

Cai Liang looked at his companions and sighed, saying:

"For now, let's not provoke Yang Xiao. We should focus on enhancing our own Genetic Evolution Ability. In this desert, countless people die every day; to survive is lucky."

Hearing this, the other team members fell silent.

Yang Xiao rode his Sweatblood Flame Horse, following a long way behind Zhou Jian and his group.

"Brother Yang, the monster we're going to hunt today is just ahead, a giant desert poisonous scorpion. According to our estimates, this scorpion has surpassed the Enhanced Gene Advanced level. The key danger is its poison;

its tail can shoot poisonous darts, and its mouth can spray Poison Liquid. It's extremely fast and difficult to defend against. It can also spit out a large area of toxic mist. Two days ago, eight of us attacked it and three were poisoned by its darts and mist, forcing us to retreat."

Yang Xiao listened and asked:

"Why must we hunt this particular scorpion?"

"This scorpion can drop a Poison Claw, which can be used to forge Weapons, increasing poison damage by over 5%. If we're lucky, it can increase poison damage by as much as 10%. Such stuff is hard to come by."

Yang Xiao nodded his head.

The wild boars of Wild Boar Forest in Star City could drop tusks that, when inlaid in Weapons, increase Strength by one point, yet the Poison Claw of this scorpion could directly enhance overall Combat Power's poison damage by 10%, and this 10% would increase with the Evolution Level of the user.

For Zhou Jian and others at this stage, this 10% was quite significant.

Such Weapons with additional damage had an extremely low drop rate even from the start, and the Genetic Store rarely sold such Weapons. Occasionally, a few would appear and would quickly be snatched up, making them essentially priceless.

Yang Xiao's Longquan Spear had been dropped by an Enhanced Gene Advanced Giant Python and had an additional 10% Lightning damage.

Yang Xiao looked up ahead. On the endless desert, there were specks of green here and there, suggesting that the core area of the desert was also undergoing changes.

"Have you guys ever entered the core area of the desert?"

"No, so far, very few people have managed to get into the core area of the desert. The monsters there are all above the Enhanced Gene Advanced level. With our current ability, it's simply impossible to cope. If we happened to encounter several High-Level enhanced monsters, it would certainly be a one-way trip. Like now, we only occasionally encounter one and need to form a group to stand a chance."

Human Genetic Evolution has only been for a little over half a year, and currently, the Genetic Evolution Level of most people is relatively low. Those who can enter the middle area of the desert are already among the top ranks, and entering the core area of the desert will probably take some more time and growth for everyone.

The group continued forward, not far ahead was an expanse of yellow sand, with a sand dune several dozen meters high, and beneath the dune, there was a huge hole about ten meters in diameter.

"Brother Yang, this is where we encountered the Giant Scorpion a few days ago."

Zhou Jian and the others stood about thirty meters away from the distant hole, looking somewhat anxious as they each took up their Weapons.

Two girls each drew their bows and aimed at the mouth of the hole.

"Is everyone ready?"

Zhou Jian asked.

Everyone nodded.

"Fire the arrows."

At Zhou Jian's command, the two girls immediately shot Fire Element Arrows at the entrance of the hole, and with a series of "boom, boom..." explosions, the Fire Element Arrows detonated inside the cave.

"Sssss—"

A sharp hiss came from inside the cave, and then Yang Xiao saw two giant poison scorpion claws stretching out from the cave entrance.

The giant scorpion's pincers were strong and forceful, five to six meters long, just like mechanical arms.

"Hiss—"

The giant scorpion burst out of the sand cave in an instant, and upon seeing Zhou Jian and the others, immediately swung its two giant pincers and lifted its strong tail.

"Use the Light Shield, be careful of the giant scorpion's tail, it can shoot poison needles, its mouth can spray poison liquid and poison mist, especially be careful of the poison blocking the needles, the speed is very fast, once..."

Zhou Jian, as the team leader, was carefully explaining, everyone generated Light Shields to protect themselves in front of their bodies, guarding against the giant scorpion's sudden poison needle shots and poison liquid spray.

The poison mist was slow, easy to guard against, but the speed of the poison needles and poison liquid was extremely fast, hard to defend, and the consequences were unpredictable once hit. Even though everyone had prepared Detoxification Pills, improper handling would still be a troublesome matter.

This was also the reason why Zhou Jian and the others were exceptionally cautious.

However, before Zhou Jian had finished speaking, Yang Xiao made a hand gesture and pushed forcefully towards the distant giant scorpion,

With a roar,

A massive monster's skull suddenly appeared out of thin air, opened its mouth wide, and instantly formed a huge vortex in front of the giant scorpion. With a strange cry, the giant scorpion's head was sucked into the vortex, into the mouth of the huge monster.

Zhou Jian and the others were dumbstruck, turning their heads in unison to look at Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao concentrated fully, channeling his consciousness, controlling the huge monster's skull suspended in mid-air.

After the front half of the giant scorpion was sucked in, its rear half was still struggling desperately, its tail violently waving, furiously shooting poison needles at the monster's skull.

However, those poison needles seemed to have no effect on the skull of the monster.

In an instant, the nearly twenty-meter-long giant scorpion was sucked into the mouth of the giant beast. Yang Xiao changed the position of his hands, his consciousness shifted, and with a "snap," the huge skull clamped its mouth shut, followed by a bout of fierce chewing.

Zhou Jian and the others could clearly hear the "crack crack" bursting sounds coming from within the skull of the giant beast, sending shivers down their spine and sweat beading on their foreheads.

Moments later, Yang Xiao spread his hands apart, and the giant beast's mouth opened, dropping a pile of messy black limbs from mid-air, intermixed with some shiny golden objects.

Yang Xiao dismissed the Black Hole Swallowing mental method, and the entire huge monster's skull immediately vanished into thin air, as if a giant beast had walked from the void and then returned to it.

Zhou Jian and others were speechless, at a loss for words.

He had just rattled off a bunch of defensive points, everyone tensely generated Light Shields, bracing for a tough fight; they hadn't expected Yang Xiao to handle a High-Level Enhanced Gene giant scorpion that easily, with just a few simple moves.

"That giant scorpion probably died with its eyes wide open!"

Zhou Yu suddenly blurted out by the side.

Xi Hui also followed up immediately:

"That giant scorpion wasn't bitten to death, it died of frustration. If I were the giant scorpion, I would die of frustration too."

The two girls in Zhou Jian's team who were armed with bows and had Bird Beast Souls descended from the air, their beautiful eyes fixated on Yang Xiao, full of admiration.

"Cough,"

Yang Xiao coughed,

"Aren't you going to pick up the treasures? Anything else? If there's nothing else, I'm leaving."

Yang Xiao mounted the Sweat and Blood Flame Horse, together with the Giant Eagle, and left amidst Zhou Jian and others' astonished and admiring gazes.

Zhou Jian watched Yang Xiao's retreating figure and murmured:

"To kill a man within ten steps, leaving no trace a thousand miles away. Once the affair concludes, he departs without a trace, concealing his merit and fame. Isn't this just describing Brother Yang Xiao?"

(Tonight there are three more updates, thanks to the book friend who rewarded 100 Qidian Coins for pushing and squeezing, thank you all for your support!)