Chapter 289: 185, Divine Punishment! Shen Qinghan's Outburst! Ninth Elder in Danger!
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Hand over Lin Zichen?
Facing the hunchbacked man in the mask's demand, Yuan Dongzhi had no verbal response.
Her way of responding to the hunchbacked mask man was to sacrifice her own blood, overstimulate the exotic beast gene in her body further, and increase her strength.
The moment her blood was devoured by the exotic beast gene, the degree of Yuan Dongzhi's transformation deepened instantaneously.
Her brownish eyes rapidly dulled to yellow, the rounded lenses grew elongated, filled with an impressive aura.
At the same time, the dragon horns atop her head grew by seven parts, the scales on her body became wider and thicker, and a robust dragon tail grew behind her.
In the blink of an eye, she transformed from a cold and aloof beauty to a woman full of beastly allure and dragon might.
"To save two outsiders with no blood relation, sacrificing her future and sealing her own potential, she's truly lost her mind."
Watching Yuan Dongzhi's body undergo massive transformation, the hunchbacked man in the mask felt somewhat incomprehensible.
Yuan Dongzhi severely overactivated the Jiaolong gene, causing a deep fusion with her main gene.
If she couldn't suppress the Jiaolong gene in time, once it fully merged, she would only be able to coexist with the Jiaolong gene, leaving no room for other exotic beast genes.
The limit of a Jiaolong would become her limit, with no possibility of evolving further.
"Seal her potential limit?"
Yuan Dongzhi unimpressed, said, "My potential limit was sealed long ago, with my talent only supporting evolution up to the rare level under conventional methods."
Her voice was very cold, colder than ever before.
Her excessive transformation had reduced her humanity, with human emotions becoming fainter.
In their place, her bestial nature grew increasingly intense.
The hunchbacked man in the mask still preferred not to fight and continued to persuade: "Talent is certainly important, but sometimes choice is even more crucial."
"The so-called evolutionary limit you speak of can be broken with sufficient evolutionary resources."
"For instance, your merged Jiaolong gene; although 'dragon' is part of its name, it's not worthy of the title 'dragon,' and of course the limit for someone who merges with the Jiaolong gene is low."
The instant they hit the water, they began swimming away from the battlefield at high speed, without any pause.
In just a moment, they had swum hundreds of meters away.
"Boom—!"
A loud noise of water breaking sounded from behind.
The hunchbacked man in the mask erupted from beneath the sea, moving at a speed invisible to the naked eye upon the water, chasing after the fleeing Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan.
However, he had barely been chasing for two seconds,
When "boom," a shadow obscured the sun—a hundred-meter dragon burst forth beneath his feet,
Snatching him up in a fierce bite and dragging him back down to the sea's bottom.
"Boom—!"
Another great noise erupted.
Following the sound, the hunchbacked man in the mask once again burst forth from the sea, swiftly moving across the water's surface, in hot pursuit of Lin Zichen who hadn't swum far away.
Rising alongside him, atop a giant dragon, was Yuan Dongzhi, as well as the ten-meter-tall Shanhai armor.
As for the mechanically modified humans previously swallowed by the dragon, at this point, they had been reduced to vast pieces of bloodied metal wreckage, doomed to remain in the dark depths of the sea forever.
"Whoosh... Whoosh... Whoosh!"
The Shanhai armor, trailing at the rear, launched several sparking missiles from its back, aiming precisely at the ahead Yuan Dongzhi to stop her pursuit of the hunchbacked man in the mask.
When Yuan Dongzhi sensed the incoming missiles, she neither dodged nor avoided, but instead controlled the giant dragon with a mere thought, intercepting all the missiles.
Seeing the missiles ineffective, the man piloting the armor immediately adjusted the parallel frame to a standing position, steadily hovering above the sea surface.
Then, the waist of the armor glowed with a blinding light, emitting terrifying heat.
The next second!
An energy beam nearly half a meter in radius violently burst forth from the armor's waist!
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