I'm not just human!

"Wait, with my current physique and potential, having already signed five overlord-level secret contracts, if I were to consume this top-tier mutated crystal source..."

If successful, wouldn't that mean that the two cultivation systems for becoming stronger, one for mutants and one for superhumans, would be combined into one person?

Chapter 354 Even the Nine Great Gods Couldn't Do It? Xia Fa Alone Possesses Both the Mutant and Extraordinary Systems!

To eat or not to eat, that is the question.

Xia Fa held the diamond-shaped crystal that shone like starlight, lost in thought and confusion.

The most advanced mutant crystal source meant the best mutant crystal source that people could obtain in the era of mutants in history, and Xia Fa knew this.

Yes, although he "traveled" back, some fragmented memories about Loret remained, especially those involving "mutants," which became increasingly clear.

"The governor of Worm City rewarded Loret with the top-tier mutated crystal source so that he could give it to his children or sell it on the market."

"In other words, he can no longer consume mutated crystal sources, since he has already consumed one and become a mutant."

"However, the potential of mutants seems to be far greater than this..."

When Xia Fa traveled back to that period of history, the situation was constantly critical, with people dying every moment, and the area outside the Worm City was full of deformed creatures and mantis-wielding men—which meant that Xia Fa didn't have time to carefully consider some key issues.

In particular, experience the difference between the mutant power within a "mutant" and the superhuman power within a "superhuman".

Fortunately, even after traveling back, he still retains clear memories and can even experience it again in a dream through "dream meditation".

Of course, there's no need to exaggerate like that, because with just a little reflection, he already sensed the difference between that mutated power and the extraordinary power.

The power of mutation, though weak, is a very pure and clean force, and it gives Xia Fa a feeling that there is a bright future ahead.

In other words, no matter how immense the power of mutation is, even if it's as immense as that of a god, it won't cause the mutated people to lose control.

If he hadn't been to the place where time stood still, he wouldn't have known about this power, but after going there once, Xia Fa immediately recognized it.

This power of mutation... comes from the same source as the power of the ancient gods and the power borrowed by magicians!

Therefore, Xia Fa made a very bold guess.

"The era I traveled to was the era when mutants had just appeared. That's why mutants look so weak. Even when they self-destruct, they can only affect a range of about 100 meters."

"Especially those elemental mutants, they can't even transform their bodies into elements to avoid physical attacks, and they can only use elemental abilities through their palms. They're too backward..."

"However, the ancient gods also seem to have a very strong connection with the mutants."

"In other words, if the ancient gods really did evolve from the strongest group of mutants, then either the mutant crystal source can be consumed more than once, or the mutants have other ways to become stronger."

"Of course, it's also possible that the ancient gods permanently distributed their power to the mutated humans. But if that's the case, how did magicians come into being? And why can magicians only borrow rather than obtain the power of the ancient gods..."

As Xia Fa pondered, he suddenly felt an unusually strong curiosity and wanted to go back to that era of mutants to see if any ancient gods existed.

Alternatively, it would be great to travel thousands or tens of thousands of years into the era of mutants. If I could witness a powerful mutant ascend to become an ancient god, my guess would be confirmed.

However, after thinking things through, he has now made a decision.

eat!

Eat that mutated crystal source!

Now is the time when I am most lacking in strength. In two days, [Eternal Critical Strike] will be released. Now, the opportunity to become stronger is right in front of me, so what am I waiting for?

Even if consuming this mutated crystal doesn't significantly increase one's strength, it doesn't matter.

Now that I've had my first experience traveling back to the era of mutants, there's a high probability that I'll do it a second time. If I travel back to an era thousands or tens of thousands of years before the "Loret" era, I might be able to find a way for mutants to become stronger!

"Hmm... I can barely be considered human now. If I become a transcendent god, this mutated crystal source will probably be useless to me. So, eating it now is the most suitable thing to do..."

Although becoming a god would greatly increase both one's physical form and potential, making one seem more suitable to consume this top-tier mutated crystal source, it is clear that consuming it at that time might not be effective.

Now is the best time. Maybe after eating it, when I become a god again, the power of mutation and the power of the extraordinary will be able to blend together!

Just before consuming the mutated crystal source, Xia Fa suddenly noticed that, for some reason, this top-tier mutated crystal source was slightly worn down compared to when it first appeared.

Although the impact was minimal, or even nonexistent, this strange detail still made him ponder.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Fa decided to stop hesitating. With one hand, he tossed the dazzling, top-tier mutated crystal into his mouth and bit down hard.

Click!

……

at the same time.

In the Celestial Realm of the Star Spirit Realm, the Celestial Realm of the [Lord of the Superdimensional].

【Lord of the Superdimensional】As the source lord of the "Superdimensional Primordial Embryos", His Celestial True Realm is not a scene of flesh and bones forming walls everywhere. On the contrary, His Celestial True Realm is quite unique, a salt flat.

In the saline-alkali land, there are huge, jagged, and strangely shaped crystalline rocks everywhere. Copper-wire-like weeds grow at the base of the rocks, and the landscape is dry and bright white.

The Lord of Transdimensionality leaned comfortably against a crystalline rock, having just finished reading the last "fragment of reality" given to him by the Apostle of Knowledge.

After letting go of those shattered fragments of reality, the Lord of the Superdimensional gazed at the horizon, a look of lingering contemplation on his face.

“Interesting, really interesting. More than three billion years ago, the mutant humans had only been born for less than a hundred years when they were besieged by deformed beings and monsters such as mantis-sword people who were born at the same time, and were almost wiped out.”

"At that time, it was an escort team that dug out a whole cartload of mutated crystals, both good and bad, from the [Krei Saint Undersea Cave], an extremely mysterious place in the Baron Ocean whose location has never been found since. They escorted it back to Worm City in the Worm Islands, which allowed the mutated people to truly rise up."

"The key figure among them is a fire mutant named 'Loret'."

"With the escort team reduced to almost nothing but him and the escort captain surrounded by monsters, Lorette, in a life-or-death moment when he was ambushed by the Mantis, inexplicably learned to transform his body into a fire elemental."

"Before this, no mutant had ever developed such technology, or rather, someone had tried but never succeeded. After all, mutants had only existed for less than a hundred years at that time."

"However, it was precisely because Loret successfully mastered the development technology of elementalizing his body that he not only became a great hero for successfully escorting the mutated crystal source back to Worm City and saving the mutated people."

"This also allowed those elemental mutants to rise to the top, becoming the most powerful mutants among all mutants..."

"Of course, this only applies to mutants who can also master 'body elementalization'. If they are elemental mutants who cannot master this development technology, then they are not strong."

"And just a few decades after that era, Lorete had accumulated many hidden injuries from his early sea voyages and had long since died of old age. However, the elemental mutants who inherited his development technology and could transform their bodies into elements became stronger and stronger, almost becoming the top mutants."

"In that era, a Holy Light mutant named 'Igor' was born. Not only could he transform his body into Holy Light, but he could also unleash all sorts of powerful and extraordinary Holy Light abilities."

"This led him to rise to become the leader of the mutants in a certain place, but because he was too powerful, he gradually developed an arrogant personality."

“Igor was born in a tribe on the wasteland. He worshipped the eagle the most and often compared himself to the eagle.”

"He often insulted the mutants he looked down upon, or the opponents he defeated, by saying they were 'less powerful than bacteria and insects in the ground.'"

“Originally, this was nothing, but with the complete rise of the mutant city-state led by Igor, his worship of the eagle and his contemptuous nickname for the enemy also spread far and wide.”

"The weaker mutants would even joke about each other, comparing each other to 'bacteria' and 'insects,' while the powerful mutants, like Igor, would be compared to 'eagles.'"

"Over time, more than 150 years after the birth of mutants, mutants have for the first time had a clear division of strength."

"In other words, from weakest to strongest, they are: fungus-level mutants, insect-level mutants, and eagle-level mutants..."

"Later, for some unknown reason, the mutants were completely wiped out throughout the universe, and the magicians began to rise, also adopting the terminology used by the mutants to classify their strength."

"Then, we extraordinary beings inherited this classification method from the magicians..."

[Lord of the Superdimensional] thought back to this, shook his head with a smile, and the smile on his face became even more enthusiastic, like a scholar who had finally solved a problem that had troubled him for many years.

"I never imagined that the classification of extraordinary strength among fungi, insects, and eagles would come about in this way."

"But where did the titles such as Wolf-level transcendents, Elephant-level and Whale-level, and even Demigod Angel Overlords come from?"

Since the Apostle of Knowledge only sent Him so many fragments of reality, the Lord of the Superdimensional was unable to continue exploring even if He wanted to.

So He chose to pick up those shards of glass again, with countless images flashing before His eyes, and begin to savor them once more.

……

In this little world.

The moment it bit into the top-tier mutated crystal source, the dazzling, star-like rhomboid crystal immediately expanded from its mouth to its stomach and intestines, and then completely spread throughout its entire body.

Xia Fa immediately felt a tingling and itchy sensation all over his body, along with alternating hot and cold sensations and an indescribable stinging pain that was almost unbearable.

At the same time, all the cells in the body are "activated".

That's right. Apart from the burning sensation in my body's cells during previous workouts, I've never felt such an incredibly active state of activity in any part of my body.

Xia Fazheng carefully experienced this state, hoping to find a way for mutants to become stronger as soon as possible. After all, he didn't know when the next time he would travel back to would be, or even which era of mutants he would travel back to.

Suddenly, an extremely powerful mutation force burst forth from every cell in his entire body!

That kind of mutated power was not absorbed from the real world, but was generated by combining with the body after swallowing the top-tier mutated crystal source!

boom--!!!

Before Xia Fa could react, his body exploded.

……

"It failed?"

In a hazy state, this thought popped into my mind.

"As expected, the idea of ​​merging the mutant and superhuman systems into one is still wishful thinking..."

As consciousness became clearer, a multitude of fleeting thoughts also emerged.

"Perhaps the nine righteous gods also know about the history of mutants, but they did not choose the path of cultivation that combines mutants and extraordinary beings, surely because that path is destined to fail..."

"Wait, it could also be because there's no mutated crystal source..."

Since only consciousness remained, Xia Fa finally found the reason for the strange detail he had noticed just moments before consuming the top-tier mutated crystal source—that the mutated crystal source had been worn away for some reason.

What wore away that top-tier mutated crystal source was the extraordinary power that exists everywhere in the world!

The rapid rate of wear and tear made Xia Fa suddenly realize that even if the nine great gods truly knew the long history of the mutant era, it would be impossible for them to find any mutant crystal sources.

As I was thinking this, my consciousness became clearer. The sound of waves crashing on the shore rang in my ears, and bright sunlight shone in, entering my consciousness.

Xia Fa suddenly found himself back in the small world from a hazy, chaotic state.

However, it still only has consciousness, without a body.

As for his own body...

Xia Fa then used his consciousness to look around the beach and finally saw his own shattered body.

At this moment, his body exploded into cells, spreading across the beach and almost covering the entire sandy area.

One-third of the cells were wreathed in chaotic lightning and thunder, each filament carrying a terrifying aura of destruction.

The other third of the cells shimmered with extremely dazzling pure white sunlight, accompanied by unbelievably intense heat, which even scorched and melted the void, creating countless tiny holes.