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Chapter 435 Developing Potential--118!

"Li Ming is already an S-level life form." The prophet said slowly.

The Virgin Mary paused for a moment, her expression under the black veil was stunned, her body trembled slightly, the shadow on the ground spread, and then quickly converged, she asked in surprise: "He... S-level?"

"That's right." The prophet's eyes were more blazing than ever before. "He is definitely not an ordinary life form. He must have a big secret. So my spiritual clone decided to bring him back temporarily."

"S-level..." the Virgin Mary murmured, "You did a good job. This kind of life form is of extraordinary value. Its seeds are enough to create..."

As she spoke, she suddenly came back to her senses, her brows furrowed, "But it failed?"

"I have even brought him out and have taken all the necessary measures to block him." The prophet said in a deep voice, "It's Kaiina. She is an undercover agent of the conservative faction."

"Hmm?" The Virgin Mary's expression turned extremely ugly, "An undercover agent of the conservative faction..."

At the last moment, I failed because of this?
The prophet nodded and rubbed his head. "I don't know the specific details. I can only receive the fragmentary memories transmitted by the spiritual source seeds. These are the things that she remembers more clearly."

"If we followed our original plan, she should just want to steal some seeds, but Li Ming is already an S-level life form, which disrupted everything."

"As I recall, she was recommended by the Spider Queen." The Virgin Mary's face was solemn.

“We should be able to follow the clues and find a large number of undercover agents, but compared to Li Ming…” The prophet felt a dull pain in his heart. This loss was too great.

"We must get that person back!" the Virgin Mary said firmly.

"The Oath Keepers will definitely be fully prepared. If we really have to take action, we are not 100% sure." The prophet shook his head. If the Oath Keepers faced a crisis, there was no guarantee that they would not directly annihilate Li Ming, resulting in mutual losses.

"Yes, although she has only inherited it for a few hundred years, she is an X-level life form after all, and we must ensure 100% success." The Virgin Mary pondered, "Alchemist Baron..."

"You want to cooperate with him?" The prophet was slightly surprised.

The Virgin Mary said solemnly: “You can try.”

Then his voice was cold, "Activate our secret line and lock the coordinates of the conservative mother nest at all costs."

.........

"…Recently, Qinglong and three other master craftsmen from the Mechanics Association have publicly stated that any political persecution of the Mechanics Association is not allowed to exist…"

"…Since the announcement of the ten founding members of the Higher Life Forms United Organization nine months ago, the discussion about Azure Dragon has never left the public eye…"

The screens on the walls were playing the latest hot news. This seemed to be a biological laboratory. The surrounding walls were not made of cold metal or bricks, but of squirming flesh and blood.

It seemed to have life, rising and falling slowly, its surface covered with tiny blood vessels and veins, mucus oozing out from time to time, emitting a pungent fishy smell.

Against the backdrop of the walls of flesh and blood, the various experimental instruments appear even more bizarre, with their surfaces covered with a layer of slippery tissue and metal parts fused with biological structures.

The buttons on the instrument were like constantly rotating eyeballs, emitting a strange light that made people shudder. They rotated slowly as the instrument ran.

In the central glass tank, in the boiling yellow liquid, there is a vaguely formed body, with flesh and blood tissue proliferating at an extremely slow rate.

Looking at his appearance, he is 70% similar to Ryan.

"Finally..." Levenbeck, who was standing in front of the screen, breathed a sigh of relief, looking extremely excited: "After more than half a year of hard work and consuming a lot of alchemical substances, I finally restored my basic body."

Cloning higher life forms is almost impossible, let alone X-level life forms, even A-level life forms are fraught with difficulties.

The reason why it was possible to do this was because the alchemical substance had completely corroded Ryan.

In fact, he was not cloning, but restoring Ryan through alchemical substances.

"The data is normal, the genes are being corrected..." He looked at the various data on the screen. Before Ryan recovered completely, this mass of flesh and blood was just flesh and blood, without any genetic data.

"Hmm... Even if he recovers, his body is severely damaged. It will probably take at least ten years to get back to his peak combat power, unless he uses a large amount of alchemical substances to fill it, but in that case it will soon become deformed..." Levenbeck studied it carefully and was not disappointed.

He didn't restore Ryan for his fighting power, but for the blood in his body, the blood of the Terraxians.

Since he cannot get Li Ming for the time being, the bloodline of Terrax is his only way.

"Teacher, you have made progress, and I have not been idle either." Levenbeck took a deep breath and was ready to work hard as long as he waited for the gene correction to be completed.

However, at this moment, Ryan's body, which was soaked in the yellow liquid, suddenly began to twitch violently, his eyes rolled up, and under his skin, it seemed as if there were small snakes swimming.

"Hmm?" Levenback's expression suddenly changed, "What's going on?"

He didn't understand what was happening, and quickly called up all kinds of data, his face becoming increasingly ugly: "The genes are collapsing and cannot be corrected..."

The restored body's movements became more and more violent, bubbles coming out of its throat, but its face was expressionless and it seemed to have no emotion at all.

Shadows were surging in the corner of the biology laboratory, and the eyeball buttons on the instruments were spinning frantically.

"How can it not be corrected..." Levenbeck quickly mobilized more alchemical substances, and flesh and blood tentacles spread into the liquid tank and connected to Ryan, and blood-colored energy continued to flow into it.

The movements of the restored body quickly recovered, but as soon as the alchemical substance was interrupted, the genes would quickly collapse.

In order to maintain the restored body and continue genetic modification, a large amount of alchemical substances must be consumed every moment.

These were his accumulations over the years, and a large portion of them had been consumed in order to restore Ryan, which was almost equivalent to the blood sacrifice of a hundred life planets.

But the genetic data is not complete yet, and he has no idea why it collapsed. If he wants to find out, he must wait until the genes are formed to a certain stage so that it can detect more detailed data.

The sudden change made Levenbeck's face change, but after a moment, he decided to increase his investment. "It has come to this point, we can't get nothing."

At least we need to figure out what happened so we can make better corrections next time.

In an instant, the entire biological laboratory began to vibrate, and the walls of flesh and blood emitted a bloody light. A large amount of alchemical substances were continuously transported in and then swallowed up by Ryan, like a bottomless pit.

After three days and three nights, Levenbeck's ugly and hideous face had turned into the bottom of a pot. The alchemical substances consumed in the gene modification had reached more than ten times the recovery amount.

These were all accumulated by him with great care, so how could he not feel the pain?

"Almost there, almost there." Levenbaker's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at the screen in front of him like a gambler.

As the words fell, as if reaching a limit, Ryan suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a hint of spirit in his eyes.

But the next moment, there was a loud "bang" and the whole jar exploded, with the fishy yellow liquid splashing everywhere.

The broken head rolled to the ground at Levenback's feet, and the rest of the flesh and blood was scattered everywhere. A shadow suddenly jumped out from the corner and greedily surrounded the flesh and blood. Levenback had no expression on his face, but his cheeks twitched slightly. He took a deep breath, but still retrieved the last data to figure out what was going on.

The rolling eyeballs reflected the virtual screen, and the large screen was refreshed. Levenbeck quickly found the data he wanted.

Suddenly, a chill ran from the soles of his feet to his forehead. Levenback's face was stiff. He stared at the string of data and said in a hoarse voice: "Development potential--0"

"…The greatest achievement of the Divine Craftsman Qinglong so far is the confrontation and battle with the former prince of the empire, Ryan, in front of the Mechanical King's Court…"

The word "Qinglong" seemed to stimulate Levenbaker. He turned his head suddenly, and the virtual screen on the wall happened to be playing the slices of Qinglong.

The perspective does not stop, and due to editing reasons, it looks more like the shot is directed at Qinglong's face. The mecha's eyes are staring straight at the screen, and it seems more like it is staring at Levenback.

"What did you do!"

Levenbaker subconsciously raised his hand, which turned into a long whip of flesh and blood, and smashed the eyeballs that projected the virtual screen into pieces. An unprecedented panic filled his heart.

As a prince of the empire, Ryan enjoys the best resources, so how could his development potential be zero?

He had seen this method before. It happened to an S-level life form of the Holy Mother Church. It was some unknown virus that destroyed the life form's development potential. The living life form could only watch itself degenerate.

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He studied it for a long time but didn't find any clues.

Not to mention this restored body, this is already a genetic defect, so it cannot be formed at all.

Unexpectedly, Qinglong applied it to Ryan silently. Did he anticipate that he would try to clone or restore Ryan?
"Not good..." Levenbeck's face suddenly changed, "Seal off the entire biological laboratory!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the wall of flesh and blood began to wriggle, blocking all the passages.

He couldn't find any transmission route for the virus, nor any trace of its existence, so he didn't even know if he had been infected.

And the key point is that he is now moving in his original form. If he is infected with that virus, he may die silently.

Who could have thought that his life would be in danger if he stayed in his old nest?

"You've taught me another lesson." Levenbaker tried his best to calm himself, but there was always a fear in his heart that he refused to admit.

But he is not an ordinary person after all. Soon, he thought of a lot of information. "This virus cannot be spread at will. The Holy Mother Church has been studying it for a long time and has not found that it can be spread..."

He checked his development potential and found no changes. "The estimated time of onset is between three to six months. Let's wait and see, otherwise we will have to abandon the original body."

He felt a little relieved, but when he thought about the alchemical materials he had wasted, his cheeks couldn't stop twitching.

.........

At the same time, somewhere in an unfamiliar star field, a small spaceship was moving forward in a propulsion form.

“Sizzle-sizzle-”

Suddenly, a sound came from the ship's channel. Kaina came closer with a nervous look on her face, and then a cold female voice said, "Code name."

"*********" she gave out a series of code names.

"Code confirmed, docking with you now." The signal disappeared, and the spaceship's radar suddenly sounded an alarm. Ripples suddenly appeared in the void to the left rear, and a slender black warship suddenly leaped over.

The small aircraft ejected and quickly docked with him, and a group of people wearing combat armor entered the spacecraft.

"I'm Celia, codename Corruption..." The leader was wearing scarlet combat armor, three meters tall, almost close to the top of the cabin, with a fierce aura.

It is a female troll with indigo skin.

"Sir Celia." Kaina paused for a moment, then said impatiently, "The person is right here."

She pointed to the metal cabin at the back and said, "He's still asleep. Let's take him back first."

"Wait..." Celia shook her head and said in a deep voice: "I need to test him first."

"Testing?" Kaina frowned. "Doesn't the headquarters believe my report?"

"A twenty-five-year-old S-class life form is too bizarre." Celia did not hide it, and Kaina's face was ugly. "I risked my life, which was equivalent to destroying our entire line of betrayers."

"That's why we have to make sure that what you said is true." Celia was firm, but she also said, "If you are sure, you can be one of the first to be reincarnated."

Kaina's expression finally eased, and she said hesitantly, "The prophet has put him into a deep sleep. If there is any external stimulation, he might wake up. I didn't dare to touch him along the way."

"It's okay. I'm sure I can defeat him." Celia was quite confident. With a wave of her hand, someone quickly came up and carefully opened the metal cabin.

She turned on the smart terminal. Under the bright blue light, a slender virtual projection gradually emerged. It looked like an interstellar human, elegant and noble, with a cold gaze. Kaiina was slightly startled and hurriedly lowered her head: "Oath Keeper."

She had only heard of the conservative leader occasionally, and her heart was inevitably agitated.

"Yeah." Oath Keeper nodded, "You did a good job."

"Report...the A-level blood-drawing needle cannot be inserted." The subordinate looked surprised.

The Oath Keeper looked over with a hint of expectation in his eyes. Celia immediately said, "Change to a more advanced one..."

His men quickly changed to a more advanced blood-drawing needle and carefully drew a drop of blood. Celia watched vigilantly, while Li Ming was still sleeping.

This drop of blood was quickly put into the detector, and soon the result came out. The subordinate couldn't help but shout in surprise: "S, S-level life form!"

Celia suddenly appeared in front of the instrument, and the narrow cabin was suddenly filled with a strong wind. She frowned, "It's really an S-level life form."

Looking down, her face froze even more, her eyes wide open, and she screamed in shock: "Is this a person?"

"What do you mean?"

Kaina, trying to keep her balance in the strong wind, was puzzled by the situation.

When he found that the virtual projection of the Oath Keeper had reappeared beside Celia, his eyes fell on the screen, but his face suddenly changed, and he blurted out, "How... is this possible?"

The strong wind in the cabin died down a little, and Kaina managed to steady herself, feeling confused and shocked. The Oath Keeper was the leader of the conservative faction and an X-class life form, so how could he lose his composure like this?
What did you see?
She couldn't help but walk up and scan the screen, and saw a line of words that she would never forget.

Development potential--118 levels!
(End of this chapter)