The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend

Its transformation left all the guards in shock. It took exceptional effort for World life forms to kill one another, especially when their strengths were roughly equal, and they didn’t have attributes that countered one another. Even with allies, one would have to spend a lot of energy to kill a World life form.

The Origin of Mutation’s Gene Lock turned that norm on its head. Obtaining part of the tenth guard’s powers had allowed it to grow stronger, and the guard could feel that the pressure emanating from it had intensified.

Worse still, none of them knew if there was a limit to how many times it could do so. There was always the possibility that it could do it infinitely.

“Everyone, be careful! Don’t let it touch you!” the eldest guard immediately shouted, glaring at the Origin of Mutation.

His earlier plans to capture it alive and interrogate it on its method of condensing its power had been thrown out the window. Killing it had become the top priority.

The Origin of Mutation felt the changes in its genes. The tenth guard hailed from the Dream Demon Civilization and could turn into his demon form to amplify his strength.

My vessel destroyed the Dream Demon Civilization. For me to encounter a World life form from there must be fate, the Origin of Mutation thought. In that case, I should savor this opportunity to kill him. I shall forever sever any hope of the Dream Demon Civilization recovering.

With that, it activated its new Skill, Demonification. Its body grew as black fur sprouted all over it. Its body turned long and lean, and its limbs turned into eight feet that sprawled across the floor.

This was the original race of the tenth guard, Huodou.

After transforming, the Origin of Mutation acted quickly. Fire sprang forth from nothing in its wake. These flames could harm even World life forms.

This wasn’t an ability that the Origin of Mutation had specifically acquired, but an innate passive of the Huodou race.

Flames unfurled along the ground as it passed. Rather than generating said fire, it was more appropriate to say that its body had become a conduit for the flames themselves!

The other guards were having a difficult time fighting against it. Even the tenth guard, having transformed into his original demon form, could only temporarily suppress it while allowing the other guards to attack during gaps. Unfortunately, the tenth guard’s demon form only had four feet to the Origin of Mutation’s eight, making the latter much faster than the original.

While the Origin of Mutation occupied the guards, Xu Hai was preparing for a massive attack.

With Umbral Mouse’s support, he activated the Great Enlightenment Ring to continuously improve his Skills. One of his basic Skills, the humble fireball, had become powerful enough to punch through the defenses of a World life form after going through 180 iterations.

Holding the flames, he searched for a target.

The eldest guard was fast and nimble, making him a difficult target. The second guard had sensitive senses and could avoid the attack easily if he sensed it coming. The third guard seemed deceptively easy to fight against, but his rank as the third brought that perception into question.

After studying the group for some time, Xu Hai’s eyes landed on the twelfth guard.

The twelfth guard was responsible for erecting the barrier outside the college and had expended much of his strength in the process. Thus, he had been taking it easy during battles to recuperate.

Xu Hai couldn’t discern the twelfth guard’s strength with his Eyes of Wisdom because of the barrier surrounding the school, but he could tell that the twelfth guard was tired. That was enough for Xu Hai to hurl the fireball at him.

The fireball didn’t hit the twelfth guard directly. Proficient in using barriers, the guard had automatically summoned one to protect himself from unseen danger.

The barrier had appeared in the blink of an eye, but it wasn’t particularly durable, meaning he didn’t manage to defend against the full force of the fireball. Some of the flames seared through his barrier and landed on his arm.

This fire was infused with the characteristic of burning through its target and thus couldn’t be extinguished. The twelfth guard desperately tried to use barriers to stop the fire from spreading up his arm to no avail. In the end, he had no choice but to sever his entire arm with a barrier.

Seeing this, the Origin of Mutation immediately leaped over with its eight legs to devour the severed arm. Xu Hai swiftly extinguished the flames to prevent them from harming the Origin of Mutation.

The new genes allowed the Origin of Mutation to break through the limits of Gene Lock and activate it for a second time. Its Divine Ring turned even more sinister after absorbing the powers of the twelfth guard.

Four elements took up half of the ring, the power of the Spirit Demon took up a quarter, and the power of the twelfth guard’s barrier took up the remaining quarter.

Any regular person would perish under this random assortment of powers and genes. The Origin of Mutation, however, was different: it had Life Creation.

Using Life Creation, it continuously changed its race to accommodate the conflicting genes, even going so far as to mutate them into new and stable ones.

When the second guard noticed these changes, his eyes widened in realization.

“You’re the first series gene, the Origin of Mutation! The destroyer of all genes, and the end of the Divine River Civilization—the ultimate terror!” he cried out, body shaking from uncontrollable terror.

This was the reason his genes were trembling with fear. The Origin of Mutation was the natural predator of all Gene Warriors!

The Origin of Mutation’s memories had been sealed and were limited to when the Divine River Civilization had created it. Thus, it didn’t know what he was talking about.

All it knew was that it wanted revenge. It wanted the entire Divine River Civilization to pay.

It pounced onto the second guard. The other guards tried to stop it, but barriers swiftly blocked them. They only stalled them for 0.3 seconds, but that was more than enough time for a World life form to do many things.

The Origin of Mutation latched onto the second guard with its powerful jaws.

The second guard’s body became numb, as if injected with a paralyzing agent. All his genes stopped working. Then, under the power of Controlled Mutation, they started breaking down.

While the Eagle Eyes gene was strong, it couldn’t reconstruct itself like the Origin of Mutation. The collapse of one’s genes meant death for a Gene Warrior.