I am getting stronger and stronger in the world of demons and monsters

Deputy Captain You Rui frowned and looked at Lin Xuankong with a firm tone.

Obviously, he was very pessimistic about Lin Xuankong, a disaster victim with no roots or background, choosing this second path of cultivation.

Lin Xuankong showed an expression that was even more resolute than Vice Captain You Rui's tone, and said calmly:

"Captain You's advice is well-intentioned, and Lin Kong understands it very well! But I have made up my mind and will not change my choice!"

Seeing Lin Xuankong's determination, Vice Captain You Rui frowned even more and shook her head.
"During the nearly two years in Stone City, I led my team to nearly half of the shelters and material depots in Stone City in order to transport various supplies. I have also met nearly five thousand genetic warriors in Stone City.

Among these five thousand gene warriors, there were thirty-two gene warriors who, after integrating the YZMM gene potion, chose the second path of cultivation and became elemental gene warriors!

However, these thirty-two gene warriors have made almost no progress in the past two years, and all of them are stuck in the early to middle stages of the ninth level of life. However, those Dragon Elephant gene warriors who successfully fused with the YZMM gene potion at the same time as them, even the weakest ones, have already passed the middle stage of the ninth level of life and are steadily moving towards the late stage of the ninth level!
Almost every one of these thirty-two gene warriors regretted choosing the second path of cultivation in the ruins of Stone City, where one had to risk their lives to obtain any cultivation resources! Of course, six of the elemental gene warriors no longer had the chance to regret, because during the execution of some dangerous missions, due to their lack of strength, the six of them had become food for the source beasts, while the dragon elephant gene warriors who were carrying out the mission with them, because they were strong enough, all survived!
Before coming to Shicheng, I also learned about the situation of a large number of genetic warriors in those cities in the central part of Tang Kingdom. Except for some elemental genetic warriors with deep backgrounds and foundations, those other elemental genetic warriors with ordinary family backgrounds are also far behind the genetic warriors who chose the dragon elephant gene path at the same time in the progress of practicing source arts!
Once an elemental gene warrior grows up, its combat capability will indeed surpass that of a dragon elephant gene warrior of the same level. It may even be possible for it to fight against several dragon elephant gene warriors of the same level at the same time. But the problem is that without resources that are hundreds of times more than others, elemental gene warriors simply don't have much chance to grow, especially in a city like Shicheng that is almost in ruins!
Lin Kong, are you sure you don't want to think about it carefully, so as not to waste your life and live in regret?"

"I am sure!"

Lin Xuankong did not hesitate at all, and his tone was as firm as at the beginning.

Seeing that this guy was still so determined to choose the second cultivation path after she had told him so many stories and experiences, Deputy Captain You Rui couldn't help but feel a little curious when she shook her head. She really didn't understand why this guy who looked ordinary and had no foundation in front of her would be so determined to choose this cultivation path that was destined to be extremely difficult!

What on earth is going on in this guy's mind?
Everything I said before was 100% true, but it was like talking to a deaf ear?

At this moment, not only Vice Captain You Rui frowned,

Even Han Bao and Han Liu looked at Lin Xuankong with some surprise.

They were not surprised that Lin Xuankong chose the second path of cultivation. After all, they were also tempted by the path of elemental gene warrior cultivation. However, in the face of reality, in the ruins of Shicheng, choosing the second path was a no-brainer. Especially after listening to Vice Captain You Rui's talk about the difficulties of the elemental gene cultivation path, Han Bao and Han Liu felt that Lin Xuankong should not choose this destined to be extremely difficult path of cultivation!
"Brother Kong." Han Liu couldn't help but come closer.

"Don't persuade me, now that I have made my decision, I will not change it, and I will not regret it!

Just like you chose the third path of cultivation that not many people choose!"

Lin Xuankong interrupted directly, leaving Han Liu with nothing to say. He didn't even give him a chance to speak out!
When Han Bao saw this, his expression froze and he simply stopped talking!
When Vice Captain You Rui saw the way they looked, she shook her head slightly and stopped trying to persuade Lin Xuankong. She began to have them go to different training rooms according to the different paths of gene cultivation they had chosen.
A few hours later,

Lin Xuankong, Han Liu and Han Bao walked out of the training hall of Shelter No. 36, each holding a bag full of food.

Different from the food received by ordinary disaster victims, the food received by Lin Xuankong and his four companions, who have now been confirmed to have successfully merged by Deputy Captain You, are all "real food", such as compressed biscuits, special ham, bacon, dehydrated vegetables, and even some seasoning sauces of various flavors. Ordinary disaster victims in Shelter No. 36 will never be able to get such food in a city like Shicheng that has been reduced to ruins!
The food that ordinary disaster victims could receive was some canned liquid food mixed with proteins and vitamins. No one knew what those foods were made of, and they tasted very strange and difficult to swallow! The key point was that the quantity was very small, only enough for everyone to barely maintain basic life!
At this moment, Lin Xuankong and the other four were each carrying a bag of food, which contained various meats, carbohydrates, dried vegetables, etc., weighing as much as 70 to 80 kilograms. This was the food they received for three days. After three days, they could continue to receive this kind of food, and the quantity would still be the same! This was of course the privilege of the gene warriors after the successful fusion, but it was also the material that the gene warriors needed to obtain, because after each gene warrior successfully merged and began to practice the source technique, the amount of food consumed would increase greatly, and the amount of food consumed daily would be equivalent to more than ten times that of ordinary people, and this was when the ninth-order gene warriors had just entered the source technique practice! When the ninth-order gene warriors' strength and bodies became stronger and stronger, the food they needed to maintain the most basic life activities would be fifteen times, twenty times, or even more times higher than that of ordinary people!

In addition, what Lin Xuankong felt most clearly was that after the successful gene fusion and the first practice of the elemental source technique, his body had quietly changed. Before entering the training hall today, if his weak body carried 70 to 80 kilograms of weight, he would definitely be out of breath before walking even ten meters. At this moment, he walked hundreds of meters with 70 to 80 kilograms of food on his back, but he didn't feel the slightest bit of fatigue, as if nothing happened. He even had a feeling that if he carried this 70 to 80 kilograms of weight and exerted a little force with his legs, he could at least jump more than one meter!
In comparison, although Han Liu and Han Bao had some strength gains after practicing the source technique, it was not obvious. Han Liu was even panting slightly while carrying 70 to 80 kilograms of food!

Most of the people living in the dozen or so buildings around here are disaster victims.

Many disaster victims leaned out of the windows on their floors and looked at Lin Xuankong, Han Bao, Han Liu and the Li sisters who walked out of the training hall. Looking at the bags of delicious food in the hands of the five of them, every sallow-faced disaster victim's eyes were filled with envy, desire and even some jealousy, but they also had some awe on their faces! Because these tens of thousands of disaster victims knew very well that the delicious food in those transparent bags was not something they could touch. Only the gene warriors who could resist the source beasts and protect the shelter were qualified to taste it!

At this time, the victims stretched their necks, staring at the food bags in the hands of the five people with bloodshot eyes, but no one dared to speak casually, and no one would even think of snatching these delicious foods!

Such scenes would be played out every once in a while in Shelter No. 36. Every time, there would be one or two or three lucky victims who would transform themselves into genetic warriors who were envied and desired by everyone in the shelter!
Even so, nearly half of the victims in the No. 36 shelter have never been injected with the YZMM gene agent, because every time there are hundreds of victims who participate in the injection, there will always be many who lose their lives due to excessive biochemical reactions, and the chance of successful fusion is too low! Not every victim has enough courage to risk their lives for a chance to change their fate! In addition, after becoming a gene warrior, every time the source beast attacks the shelter, you need to fight on the front line and face those terrible source beasts with sharp teeth and claws.
In the dozen battles that took place after the establishment of Shelter No. 36, at least more than 30 gene warriors have died under the claws and fangs of those source beasts, accounting for almost one-third of the number of gene warriors in Shelter No. 36. Such a huge death rate has also discouraged too many disaster victims! Nearly half of the disaster victims may think that they can wait until the source beast crisis is not so serious, and then find a way to get the opportunity to inject the YZMM gene drug. In that case, they can avoid huge life risks and get the power that countless people yearn for!
After all, even though the living conditions of the victims in Shelter No. 36 are far inferior to those of the genetic warriors, they have enough food and water to survive. They can hide behind the reinforced concrete defense line, behind the defense line formed by genetic warriors and auxiliary security team members, and live relatively safely for the time being!

now,

Lin Xuankong, carrying a bag of food, was recalling what happened in the element training room not long ago.

As an early-stage celestial being who had cultivated countless immortal arts, demonic arts, Buddhist arts, and sorcery, Lin Xuankong originally believed that the cultivation of source arts in this primordial world was just like the cultivation of various arts in other worlds or the Supreme Metarealm. It relied on some kind of mental method to mobilize a certain energy in the body, or relied on some kind of mental method to absorb the so-called source energy from the outside world, to rapidly change one's own body and enhance one's own abilities!

However, the basic skills of elemental source technique passed down by Vice Captain You Rui are completely different from the countless kinds of immortal arts, demon arts, magic skills and Buddhist teachings that Lin Xuankong had practiced before.

Although this basic skill of elemental source technique also has some mental elements, it emphasizes emptying the mind, rather than using the mind to mobilize any energy such as true qi, vital energy, and immortal energy. Instead, the body is moved in a rather strange posture, with a strange expression on the face, and then special syllables are uttered, and the hands are constantly repeating a rather complicated hand seal.
When he first saw Vice Captain You Rui teaching him, making these movements, expressions, hand seals and sounds, Lin Xuankong had a trance feeling, as if he saw the scene of "shaman dance" that he had seen on Blue Star more than 10,000 years ago!

At that time, Lin Xuankong felt extremely absurd!

However, when he, under the guidance of Vice Captain You Rui and his own adjustments, truly and perfectly reproduced the basic skills of the elemental source technique taught by Vice Captain You Rui for the first time, he could sense very clearly that his body had a mysterious connection with the surrounding world, and then a kind of energy with a higher degree of concentration than the upper realm immortal essence of the Supreme Yuan Realm entered his body and merged into every cell in his body.
Under the influence of those movements, expressions, hand prints and sounds, when those energies began to change Lin Xuankong's body little by little, Lin Xuankong understood that he was beginning to come into contact with the most core power in this world, the power that these genetic warriors called source energy or dark energy!

Those movements, expressions, handprints and sounds, according to Vice Captain You Rui, are the keys to unlock the true energy of this universe.
She also gave a vivid example: just like in the game world, before opening the "plug-in" or auxiliary, you need to enter a special string of characters, press some special keys, or open a special software! And those actions, expressions, handprints and sounds are the special plug-ins, characters, keys and software of this universe! Of course, the premise of all this is that the YZMM gene drug can be successfully integrated. Otherwise, even if ordinary humans perfectly replicate those actions, expressions, handprints and sounds, there is almost no possibility to communicate with the true energy of this universe!

Of course, the deputy captain was quite surprised that Lin Xuankong was able to perfectly replicate the movements, expressions, hand seals and pronunciations taught by Deputy Captain You Rui in less than ten minutes!
According to the deputy captain, it took Han Bao several hours to master the basic skills of the Dragon Elephant. The two sisters of the Li family had not mastered it until they left the training hall! Even Han Liu, a genius genetic warrior with a 95% compatibility, still spent more than an hour to truly and perfectly master all the expressions, movements, hand seals and pronunciations of the basic skills!

"Brother Bao, I heard a good news. You have mastered the basic skills of the Dragon Elephant. You are already a basic ninth-order genetic warrior. Xiao Xu, I would like to congratulate you here!"

While Lin Xuankong was thinking, the door of a heavy armored vehicle with several layers of steel plates suddenly opened, and the gene warrior Xu Chong walked out of the car with several other gene warriors, looking at Han Bao and Han Liu with uncertain expressions. (End of this chapter)