Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

"That finger force just now was quite interesting, why did you stop using it?" Tian Buluo suddenly stopped and looked at Lin Shen, asking.

Lin Shen felt frustrated, "Do you think I don't want to use it? There was a mistake when I tried to experiment with the Concealed Heart Finger Skill just now, I myself don't know how I managed to do it, and after many attempts, I can't produce the same finger force as before."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"I've only recently started practicing that finger skill and haven't mastered it yet, occasionally I can succeed once," Lin Shen had no choice but to make up an excuse.

"Then you better master it quickly, and then we'll fight again," Tian Buluo said.

Lin Shen had just that one set of moves to rely on; although he was also a top existence among the Ascenders, he no longer posed any threat to Tian Buluo, who was becoming less willing to practice with Lin Shen.

The finger force from just now, had actually caught Tian Buluo's Unity of Heaven and Man off guard, making Tian Buluo think that Lin Shen had a killer move hidden, only resorted to in desperation.

Hearing that Lin Shen hadn't mastered it yet, Tian Buluo urged him to practice quickly, for only a skill that could threaten his Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill would allow him to continue making progress.

"How I wish I could master it, but the problem is I don't know how to!" Lin Shen calmed his mind and thought carefully about how exactly he had managed to execute that finger force just now.

He had originally intended to use the skillful technique of the Concealed Heart to hide the Twenty-Eight Finger Force within the Thousand Men's Pointer, but because the success rate was low and mistakes were frequent, sometimes the Twenty-Eight Finger Force would break through and expose itself beyond Thousand Men's Pointer, and at other times the Twenty-Eight Finger Force was too swift, and before Thousand Men's Pointer could be executed, the Twenty-Eight Finger Force had already been released.

Sometimes, the Thousand Men's Pointer was executed, but the Twenty-Eight Finger Force failed to keep up.

There were two difficulties in this process: one was the skill of concealment, which Lin Shen hadn't practiced enough and mostly failed to hide.

The other difficulty was that he needed to release the Twenty-Eight Finger Force first before he could hide it within the Thousand Men's Pointer.

However, the Twenty-Eight Finger Force was incredibly fierce and rapid, not slowing down easily. If Thousand Men's Pointer was even slightly slower, it couldn't keep up with the Twenty-Eight Finger Force, let alone conceal it.

Thus, various problems kept occurring, and Lin Shen remembered that at that moment, it seemed as if he had directly used Thousand Men's Pointer, but ended up producing Spatial Finger Power. There was no Concealed Heart involved; it was as if they had merged directly.

Lin Shen also didn't know how the two had merged together; he tried again several times just now but couldn't execute both types of finger force at the same time, and merging them was out of the question.

Lin Shen researched and analyzed, but consistently couldn't grasp the essence.

Tian Buluo went back to the pavilion to contemplate his Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill. He had already reached the Celestial Unity Stage, the next stage being the God Ghost Realm.

Since the era of the Heavenly Emperor, only a handful of people had managed to develop the Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill up to the Celestial Unity Stage; the Ghost God Realm had been achieved by only the Heavenly Emperor himself.

What Tian Buluo demanded was to master that Ghost God Realm.

The Unity of Heaven and Man was certainly powerful, but not necessarily enough to beat Di Esi. Only by reaching the Ghost God Realm could Tian Buluo have a greater chance of winning.

Lin Shen stepped outside, took a few breaths of fresh air, and his Base Mutation rate increased by +1 again, bringing his Base Mutation rate to an even 80. Lin Shen estimated that before the deadline of three months was up, his Base Mutation rate would likely be full.

Standing on the balcony, watching Tian Buluo painstaking cultivate inside the pavilion, Lin Shen could only exclaim, "Born with such privileges, and yet so hardworking, no wonder the Celestial Race has always stood tall. Even though their ranking fluctuates in the universe, they have always remained among the powerhouses, which is largely related to the Celestial Race's own cultural heritage and character."

The ethereal threads around Tian Buluo appeared clearer than before, showing he was continuously making progress. However, reaching the legendary God Ghost Realm would not be so easy.

After watching for a while, Lin Shen looked up at the etched 'Heaven and Celestial Beings Song' on the mountain cliff, and suddenly, something clicked in his mind.

"The 'Heaven and Celestial Beings Song' starts with the phrases 'you ignore me, I ignore you,' 'you don't give, I don't ask,' which is about following the natural order. Yet, the following parts say, 'if you don't give, I shall take,' 'if you ignore me, I must make you notice me,' which is not about following the natural order but about taking," Lin Shen thought, "It seems that the Heaven and Celestial Beings Song corresponds to two stages of the Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill, the first part about the natural order corresponds to the Celestial Unity Stage; the latter part about the way of taking should correspond to the God Ghost Realm."

The insights Lin Shen had were also clear to Tian Buluo, but knowing is one thing; actually understanding how to achieve it is quite another — at least no one aside from the Heavenly Emperor had managed it.

What set Lin Shen apart from Tian Buluo was that he could see the ethereal threads on Tian Buluo's body. After grasping the details corresponding to the 'Heaven and Celestial Beings Song,' Lin Shen couldn't help but ponder further.

"If those ethereal threads are like strings by which ghosts and spirits control humans as if they were puppets, then the first stage of the Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill, Unity of Heaven and Man, is about surrendering one's body to the control of ghosts and spirits to gain formidable combat abilities that are not one's own," he mused.

"This stage of the skill is not about personal strength but rather about leveraging an external force. It's indeed powerful, but not yet to the point of defying the heavens," he continued.

"However, the second stage, the Ghost God Realm, must be about reversing the control — manipulating the puppeteer ghosts and spirits for one's own purposes, which is simply defying the heavens. To swap the roles of the puppet and the puppeteer, to invert the natural order and become a being capable of controlling ghosts and spirits, what terrifying power that requires."

The more Lin Shen contemplated it, the more astonished he became. The fact that the Heavenly Emperor had created such a skill was a truly heaven-shocking, earth-shattering existence.

"No wonder no subsequent member of the Celestial Race has been able to cultivate the Heaven and Celestial Beings Skill to the God Ghost Realm, to toy with ghosts and spirits like puppets is simply beyond human capability," Lin Shen lamented internally.

"Inverting the natural order... reversing control..." Lin Shen suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as though he had thought of something, and quickly returned to his room.

Lin Shen picked up his wristwatch and looked over the Concealed Heart Finger Skill once more. The essence of the skill lay in the concept of 'concealment,' but he didn't necessarily have to use it in that way.

After thoroughly studying the intricacies of the Concealed Heart Finger Skill many times, Lin Shen finally felt confident that his idea was worth a try.

He discarded the focus of 'concealment' in the Concealed Heart skill and instead utilized the initial step of 'casting the shell,' the very first part of the process.

He would not hide the Twenty-Eight Finger Force, but use the separate 'casting the shell' step of the Concealed Heart as a bridge to directly merge the Twenty-Eight Finger Force with the Thousand Men's Pointer.

The finger strike he had inadvertently executed before was likely the result of this combination, which could only be achieved by letting go of the Concealed Heart approach.

Lin Shen tried several times and indeed once succeeded; his finger pointed in the posture of the Thousand Men's Pointer, yet the force emanated silently and invisibly.