Gene injection

Time flew by quickly, and it had already been a month since Ye Fan created the first Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain. On this day, Ye Fan walked out of Billy's lab, casually hailed a spaceship, and stepped inside.

Compared to a month ago, Ye Fan seemed to have become even stronger. In fact, during the two months on Tianlan Star, Ye Fan's strength had been increasing at an alarming rate. Currently, he could perform the Golden Toad breathing technique more than fifty times a day.

However, he had only completed one-third of the journey toward his first blood transformation. Without external assistance, at his current pace, it would likely take another six months to achieve this first blood transformation.

As the spaceship shuttled through Tianlan Star, Ye Fan could see through the window the bustling crowds moving in and out of various buildings, presenting a scene of prosperity. After flying for half an hour, the spaceship exited Tianlan Star and descended toward a city below.

Tianlan Academy was more than just an academy; it was a massive metropolis. Surrounding Tianlan Star were countless dense clusters of buildings, which encircled the entire star like stars surrounding a planet.

Ye Fan's destination today was a black market in this metropolis. A black market is, in simple terms, a place where contraband and illegal goods are traded. In every store within the Yadis Federation, the government extracts a certain tax from the items traded, and the black market is an underground market that evades the government's watchful eyes.

However, before heading to the black market, Ye Fan first went to a public laboratory and rented a gene injection room for an hour. Injecting the Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain into his gene system wasn't as simple as just injecting it into his body.

The gene injection room is a specialized facility designed to connect foreign genes to the human gene system. This kind of equipment is actually quite common; most laboratories have it, including Billy's lab.

But for safety reasons, Ye Fan didn't dare use the gene injection room at Billy's lab. After all, he was just a poor guy, and two months' wages only amounted to 40,000 star coins. That kind of money wasn't enough to buy a standardized gene chain. If he were to inject it at Billy's lab, it would certainly arouse suspicion.

After paying a fee of 1,000 star coins, Ye Fan obtained one hour of use in this injection room. It was a sealed room of about 30 square meters, with a large experimental device over three meters long in the center.

Ye Fan quickly walked over to the control panel of the device, skillfully input some information, and amidst a series of crisp beeps, the top of the injection device slowly opened, revealing a space large enough for a person to lie down.

After completing these steps, Ye Fan took out the crystal vial containing the Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain from his backpack and placed it into the device's slot. After securing the vial, Ye Fan also took out two bottles of A-grade life potions from his bag. He had purchased these life potions from Billy's lab at the cost of 10,000 star coins.

He opened the bottles and poured their contents into a specific container on the injection device. Once everything was ready, Ye Fan stopped what he was doing and quickly stripped off all his clothes. With light movements, he climbed into the space just big enough for one person, and as the cover closed, Ye Fan was sealed inside.

*Beep...*

Gene injection device activated.

*Beep...*

Gene injection device ready.

*Beep...*

Starting gene injection.

With the final beep, an extremely fine needle, nearly invisible to the naked eye, suddenly emerged and unhesitatingly pierced into Ye Fan's lower spine. Ye Fan only felt a slight pain in his back and knew that a thin needle had already penetrated his spine.

If someone were observing this scene with a greatly magnified X-ray, they would see that after the needle entered Ye Fan's spine, its tiny tip suddenly emitted countless fine electric arcs. These arcs were highly adhesive.

Moreover, they seemed to possess a form of consciousness. After swirling through the bone marrow for a moment, they swiftly seized an original stem cell and pulled it under the needle. The needle then slightly moved, quickly piercing the stem cell, and the Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain was injected into the stem cell through the needle.

Once everything was done, the fine needle retracted, but the electric arcs still held onto the stem cell. Then, a tiny drop of emerald green liquid flowed out from the needle, landing precisely on the stem cell. This was the life potion that Ye Fan had prepared in advance.

A strange scene unfolded. The stem cell devoured the drop of life potion like a ravenous wolf, and within seconds, the cell rapidly divided into two. The two cells then became four, four became eight...

This rapid process of cell division began to unfold within Ye Fan's body. During this process, fine needles emerged from various points in the container, piercing into Ye Fan's body and injecting additional drops of life potion into him.

As time passed quietly, Ye Fan's body was undergoing a dramatic transformation. Under the catalytic effect of the life potion, the newly generated cells quickly spread throughout his body. They replaced the old cells, yet their functions remained unchanged. The difference was that these new cells seemed much stronger. With their addition, Ye Fan's organs and tissues across his body appeared to become more vibrant and energetic.

Fifty minutes later, when the two bottles of life potion were fully consumed, the rapid cell division finally began to slow down. Then, with a soft beep, the container's lid slowly opened, revealing Ye Fan's bare body.

Ye Fan slowly sat up, clenching his fists a few times, a look of satisfaction appearing on his face. Although the Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain had only been injected into his body a short while ago, its extraordinary effects were already beginning to show, thanks to the catalysis of the life potion.

At that moment, Ye Fan felt as if a beast had taken residence inside his body. The constant flow of power seemingly born from nothing gave him a strong urge to destroy everything around him. However, Ye Fan quickly composed himself, suppressing such thoughts.

Power can be intoxicating, but controlling power requires a strong will. If power is allowed to run rampant, one would ultimately devolve into a beast.

With one hand pressing down lightly on the equipment he was sitting on, Ye Fan exerted a bit of force and his body instantly shot up more than two meters high. However, his body wobbled upon landing, and he almost lost his balance. Faced with this situation, Ye Fan did not panic. He lightly bounced on the ground a few times, and after a brief period of activity, he quickly adapted to his newfound strength.

If others were to witness this scene, they would undoubtedly be astonished. While gene chains can indeed rapidly increase a person's strength, adapting to this surge in power typically requires continuous practice. For Ye Fan to adapt so quickly to the changes in his strength would likely be unparalleled across the entire Federation.

"I probably have the strength of a thousand pounds now. But to reach a force of fifty thousand pounds, it will likely take a long time," Ye Fan murmured softly to himself as he clenched his fist.

This rapid increase in strength was due to the catalytic effect of the two bottles of life potion. However, this method could only be used once; using it repeatedly would actually be detrimental. After all, gene fusion and expression do not happen all at once. Allowing them to gradually integrate is actually beneficial to the body.

In the upcoming period, Ye Fan just needed to follow his regular training routine. The newly generated cells would naturally continue to replace the old ones. Once Ye Fan had replaced all the cells in his body, the Dragon-Elephant Power Gene Chain would have reached its full potential. At that point, a mere movement of his arms would give him the strength of fifty thousand pounds.

However, even if one possesses the strength of fifty thousand pounds, being able to fully harness that power is another matter entirely. After all, if a human's fragile body were to actually exert that level of force, it's likely that the body would break down before causing any damage to anything else.

The reasoning is simple: it's like a small amount of gunpowder exploding inside a sealed container—maybe it won't break the container. But if you place enough gunpowder inside, the container is bound to shatter.

Power is like gunpowder, and the human body is the container. To unleash the power of the gunpowder without destroying the container, there's only one solution: you must strengthen the container's defenses. Similarly, for humans, this means enhancing the resilience of cells and the toughness of bones, drastically improving the body's overall durability to control such immense power.

However, Ye Fan clearly wasn't worried about this. Not only did he have the Dragon-Elephant Gene Chain to increase his strength, but he also possessed other gene chains to enhance his physical constitution. As long as he had the right materials, creating all of this was only a matter of time.

After leaving the public laboratory, Ye Fan hailed a spaceship and headed toward a black market. He had visited this particular black market in his previous life, and he knew there were plenty of valuable items there. His main objective this time was to sell the results of his past two months' work.

In the first month, Ye Fan had created one Dragon-Elephant Variant Gene Chain, and in the second month, he managed to produce two more. This production rate was the limit of what that production line could handle. If he attempted to produce more, it would likely lower the success rate of the gene fragment combinations, which could arouse suspicion.

Ye Fan had used one of the three Dragon-Elephant Variant Gene Chains, so he intended to sell the remaining two. Based on the going rate for such gene chains in the black market, these two could fetch at least two million star coins. With this money, Ye Fan could purchase various supplements to aid his training. This would allow him to cut the time needed for his first blood transformation by more than half.

As Ye Fan sat in the spaceship, contemplating his future plans, memories of his previous life and the immense wealth he had accumulated flashed through his mind. He couldn't help but wonder who had taken over his assets after his death.

Of course, this wasn't what worried him the most. His biggest concern was for the women he had cared for, especially that icy beauty. Ye Fan feared that in her impulsiveness, she might have fallen into the same trap he did with the Golden Secret Society.