this infinite world

"Okay, now I have something to say."

Seeing Zheng Zha holding two lotus flowers and being watched by everyone with gossipy eyes, he looked restless. Finally, Yang Yun, the team leader, coughed lightly and said, "I seem to have broken through to the advanced fourth stage."

But surprisingly, although Yang Yun's words were to help Zheng Zha relieve his embarrassment to a certain extent, they were also explaining the facts and satisfying his own vanity. He originally expected that everyone would respond with surprise or joy, and also hoped to receive a burst of admiration or astonishment...

But when the news was made public, everyone reacted calmly, as if the news did not cause much ripples in their hearts. Only Zhao Yingkong said "Oh" and nodded slightly without saying anything else.

"Why do you all react like this?"

Even Yang Yun began to doubt himself at this moment: "I shouldn't have told anyone else about this, right?"

——Level 4, advanced? That’s the level 4, advanced. In the original world line, only the clone Zheng Zha reached it before the final battle. Even the protagonist Zheng Zha only reached this level at the last moment with the help of his companions, right?
"No, how should I put it? I am a little surprised, but thinking about what you did in the last battle, Yang Yun, it seems that it is quite common for you to break through to the advanced level of the fourth stage."

Facing Yang Yun's question, Qi Teng touched his head and smiled, "After all, you and Zheng Zha, with the help of Chu Xuan, successfully defeated an immortal, right? Immortals are on par with saints, but they are four levels higher, a full realm. You were able to win in such an extremely unfavorable situation, which is an impossible miracle in itself."

"The path of gene lock is to seek breakthroughs in life-and-death battles, so let alone you breaking through to the advanced fourth level, even if you say you have touched the edge of the fifth level, we won't be surprised."

"Yes, and for you, captain, fighting against opponents of higher ranks is a common thing." Cheng Xiao said with a smile, "In Resident Evil 2, you were not even at the fourth rank yet, but you almost died together with the clone of Zheng Zha from the Demon Team, right? Since you can defeat a fourth rank opponent with your third rank, then isn't it normal for you to defeat an immortal with your fourth rank intermediate realm and successfully break through afterwards?"

"I believe you can win."

Zhao Yingkong stared at Yang Yun's face, his eyes were so bright that Yang Yun dared not look directly at him: "No matter what kind of enemy you face, I can't imagine you losing."

——You guys, your trust in me is a little too strong...

Listening to everyone's words, Yang Yun couldn't help but be a little speechless for a moment, and at the same time, an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. Even when facing the immortals of the prehistoric heaven, the teammates of the Zhongzhou team always believed that they could achieve the final victory.

Even though the process of his victory wasn't that pretty, he had died 1,456 times...

"No, why are you able to break through to the advanced level of the fourth stage while I am still stuck at the intermediate level of the fourth stage even though we were clearly fighting together?"

But in this peaceful atmosphere, Zheng Zha, who secretly put away the two lotus flowers, spoke at an inopportune time. This man who participated in the battle with Fei Mian almost throughout the whole process but failed to successfully break through to the advanced fourth level like Yang Yun looked incredulous: "We both broke through at the same time in the Legend of Sword and Fairy world, how come you broke through again now?" Zheng Zha's dissatisfaction was natural.

As a newcomer who entered the main god space at the same time, Zheng Zha has always been one step ahead of Yang Yun in terms of strength and the level of his gene lock. Even after Resident Evil 2, the speed of opening their gene locks was neck and neck... But this time, it was the first time that Yang Yun came from behind and was the first to open the fourth-level advanced gene lock.

"Well, in a sense, I think it may be because you, Zheng Zha, rely too much on the mythical genes in your body?" After thinking for a few seconds, Yang Yun gave a reason that Zheng Zha had never thought of.

"…What do you mean?"

If the previous words were half unconvinced and half playful, to reduce the disappointment of being completely left behind by Yang Yun for the first time since entering the main god space, then this time, Zheng Zha really couldn't understand what Yang Yun was saying: "Genes are also part of my strength. In this case, what is the question of dependence or not dependence?"

"In short, whether you ignore the extra-dimensional time flow, move freely in the non-plane domain, or control space afterwards, they are all the 'passive' effects brought about by the two mythological genes in your body."

Yang Yun thought about it and tried to explain in plain language: "You actually haven't understood what the fourth-order advanced realm is. It's just that the myth gene in your body has awakened your instincts, so that you ignore the ability of the non-face..."

——Are humans born with the ability to understand how they breathe?

In the same way, although the gene of "Zhu Jiuyin" gave Zheng Zha the privilege of unrestricted action in the super-dimensional time stream, Zheng Zha could not actively enter the super-dimensional time stream to crush the weak who failed to understand this mystery. He could only keep himself unaffected, but could not expand this power to the surrounding space to affect the world.

To use the words from JOJO, the current Zheng Zha is Jotaro before he awakened the time stop. Although he can act in DIO's time stop, he cannot actively stop time... Now, he can only know the results, but not the reasons.

But Yang Yun is different. Although "Guangfeng" cannot completely keep up with Feimian's thinking speed in the battle with him, he does understand the mystery of the element of time, and thus relies on his own strength to enter the field of the same level... The effects achieved by "talent" and "technology", although they lead to the same goal, are essentially different!
"So, I must go one step further and explore the power of the mythical gene in my body..."

After Yang Yun's explanation, Zheng Zha understood what Yang Yun meant, but he had more questions: "Wait, this doesn't explain why you were able to break through to the advanced level of the fourth stage? Could it be because of this reason?"

"Uh……"

It was obviously just a simple question, but Yang Yun's eyes wandered. After a long pause, he finally said, "Well..."

"I skipped class." (End of this chapter)