Slap! Slap! Slap!
Feng Lin stood tall, his body crackling like firecrackers deep within. His bones were strong, his skin smooth as jade, exquisitely delicate and faintly translucent—enough to make any woman envious. Yet, upon closer inspection, one could see fine, marble-like patterns on his skin, brimming with resilience.
Feng Lin's physique had changed even more dramatically. His figure had grown more elongated, reaching 1.98 meters, like a humanoid giant ape. His arms extended past his knees, and his lean frame was packed with streamlined, corded muscles, bursting with explosive power yet retaining agility—a near-perfect form.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
His fists struck like thunder.
Torrents of surging force poured from within him like a tide, with no outlet. Unable to suppress the impulse, Feng Lin began throwing punches to vent his overwhelming energy.
The moves seemed chaotic but carried immense weight, stirring up waves of air that rolled outward, crashing against the metal walls with a resounding boom.
After a brief release, Feng Lin examined his current attributes.
"Name: Feng Lin Vitality: 5.7 Ape Gene: 10 Stone Embryo Gene: 10 Gene Potential: 821%"
Vitality 5.7!
With another gene enhancement, his vitality had increased by a full 0.8.
This immense vitality brought inexhaustible strength and energy.
Feng Lin felt better than ever. The Ape Gene and Stone Embryo Gene were maxed out, meeting the conditions for gene formula evolution.
His heart brimmed with anticipation, but Feng Lin didn't rush. Instead, he took a bath first, then quietly closed his eyes to sleep, breathing slow and steady, his mind relaxed and calm.
He slept dreamlessly. When he opened his eyes again, he was refreshed, the mental fatigue of a busy day completely swept away.
Only when both body and mind were at their peak did Feng Lin begin his breakthrough.
Gene evolution was a leap across a major realm, allowing no room for error—otherwise, a lifetime of regret awaited.
Feng Lin even shut down his identity chip, locked the door tight, and cut himself off entirely from the outside world.
He was determined to break through with full focus, guarding against any mishap.
Having come this far, he couldn't afford a single slip.
Once everything was in place, Feng Lin officially began his breakthrough.
Ape Gene 10 + Stone Embryo Gene 10 = Stone Ape Gene.
He slowly immersed his mind into his inner world, where the human gene map lay clear before him.
Two massive golden stars blazed brilliantly, like ancient, eternal stars hanging in the cosmos, dazzling and radiant.
Feng Lin used his will to merge the two gene forces together.
The two stars flickered faintly, and a stream of starlight, like a clear spring, flowed from the golden stars, gradually converging.
These two completely different forces now fused perfectly, blending like milk and water, intertwined and inseparable.
Like rivers and streams converging, the two starry rivers merged into a grander torrent, surging like a great river into the sea, stretching unstoppably toward the depths of the starry expanse.
The starry river pressed forward without pause, flowing only toward a mysterious place in the starry sea, unstoppable.
Every silver dark star shimmered faintly like celestial bodies, encircling the surroundings.
But the starry river didn't stop for them, charging ahead relentlessly until it reached its destination—a long-hidden dark star.
The starry river poured into it like birds returning to the forest, like a current merging into the Pacific Ocean, infusing the dark star with boundless energy.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
It beat like a powerful heart.
The silver dark star gleamed brightly, emerging from its dormant state, gradually revealing its true form. It became a sun radiating infinite light and heat, illuminating the entire dim starry sky, eternal and unchanging.
A surge of mysterious information flowed out.
Stone Ape Gene: The Stone Ape has no parents, born of heaven and earth, with a stone body and iron bones, possessing boundless strength...
Before he could fully grasp the information, the gene star suddenly transformed, generating an immense gravitational pull. At its center, a massive black hole seemed to form, sucking Feng Lin's soul into it.
His consciousness plummeted uncontrollably. Before he could react, he felt himself entering a bottomless tunnel, falling rapidly, with no end in sight.
Gradually, his awareness sank. He forgot who he was, where he was, where he came from...
He forgot everything!
"Where is this?" After an unknown span of time, in the boundless, deathly silence of darkness, a cold voice suddenly rang out, like divine thunder splitting the chaos.
Feng Lin jolted awake, finding himself curled up in a cramped, dark space—so small it was agonizing.
He reached out and touched the surroundings. Outside was a hard shell, like an iron wall trapping him inside.
Feng Lin pounded against it repeatedly, but his strength had become incredibly weak, unable to budge it at all. After hammering for a while without a single crack, he had to give up.
Though he couldn't see outside, he had a strange sensation—his mind could leave his body and sense the surroundings.
He seemed to be on a cliff near the sea, with waves crashing against it, wave after wave.
The air was thick with mysterious energy, which entered his body through the hard shell as he breathed.
In an instant, Feng Lin felt incredibly warm, like a baby drawing milk in its mother's arms, growing steadily.
Time flowed on—millennia of change, the vicissitudes of ages, the heavens and earth turning upside down.
Feng Lin absorbed the energy of heaven and earth, his body growing, growing, growing...
An ancient memory from the depths of his soul awakened.
In heaven and earth, there was an immortal stone, three zhang six chi five cun high and two zhang four chi in circumference. The height corresponded to the three hundred and sixty-five degrees of the heavens; the circumference to the twenty-four solar terms. It had nine orifices and eight holes, matching the nine palaces and eight trigrams. Without trees to shade it, it was flanked by orchids and lingzhi. Since the creation of the world, it had absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, the radiance of the sun and moon. Over time, it became imbued with spiritual awareness. Within, it nurtured an immortal embryo. One day, it split open, producing a stone egg the size of a ball. Exposed to the wind, it transformed into a stone monkey, complete with five senses and four limbs...
In a daze, unaware of the passage of time, he felt as if he were in a primordial chaos before the separation of heaven and earth.
Feng Lin's body had unknowingly grown large enough, yet he remained curled up in this cramped space, like a cage, unable to move.
A surge of rage rose in his heart, a desire to destroy everything before him.
After an unknown stretch of time, Feng Lin's face twisted in fury, and he could no longer hold back.
"Break... open... for me... ahhh!!!" He clenched his fists, mustering all his strength, and slammed them heavily against the hard shell before him.
Crack!
To Feng Lin, it sounded like heavenly music. A crack appeared before him, letting in a sliver of light and fresh air.
He took a deep breath—this was the scent of freedom!
Overjoyed, Feng Lin went berserk, punching again and again, like Pangu splitting heaven and earth, shattering the darkness before him to reveal a bright world.
Finally, the hard shell collapsed with a crash, turning into a pile of stone dust, leaving only a hunched, short figure standing in place.
Feng Lin stared blankly at himself—monkey body, monkey claws, covered in golden fur, fluttering in the wind.
I've become a...???
Monkey!!!
A stone monkey just born from a rock!!!???