Chapter 41: Chen Feng’s Path
Trantor: Limostn Editor: Tennesh
"Hum—"
Chen Feng felt ringing in his ears as he felt that the whole world was suddenly enveloped in darkness. As he identally looked out the window toward the sun, he found that the sun actually appeared green!
"What happened?"
Chen Feng nked for a long time.
Only after two full minutes did Chen Feng wake up to find that his spiritual energy had emptied at an unknown time!
On his status window, under the spiritual energy section, a red-colored zero was shown!
"I used up all my spiritual energy?"
Chen Feng smiled bitterly.
He had onlypleted the first two, simpler steps and hadn’t even gotten started on the most troublesome third step! The dependence of gene production on spiritual energy far exceeded Chen Feng’s imagination.
He was sure that he had touched upon the realm of the strongest gene earlier. That improved form, that gene that was perfectly produced by Luck Aura, was an absolutely epic improvement! If he could really produce that gene, an unimaginable harvest could definitely be reaped!
However... spiritual energy!
"Have I been focused on the wrong thing?"
Chen Feng inhaled deeply.
Spiritual energy was the foundation of gene production.
Under normal circumstances, those with spiritual energy at the level of Chen Feng’s would normally only dare to engage in the research of ordinary genes. Due to Chen Feng having the assistance of Luck Aura, he had been progressing smoothly, to the point where he could even deal with the 4-star thundersnake gene and 5-star gold ant gene. Hence, he had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as spiritual energy exhaustion!
Lumberbear gene production consumed one point of spiritual energy.
Thundersnake gene production consumed 10 points of spiritual energy.
Gold ant gene production consumed 20 points spiritual energy.
And to improve the gold ant gene form?
Based on Chen Feng’s estimations, without spiritual energy above 90 points, it was impossible to seed! The reality was, he only had 32 points of spiritual energy!
"My foundations are too weak."
Chen Feng could only smile bitterly.
However, it was about time for him to improve this aspect of him!
The increase of spiritual energy greatly benefited both gene production and one’s strength. Furthermore, increasing spiritual energy would not dy too much of Chen Feng’s time. On the contrary, after the increase, the speed in which Chen Feng could master a form might even increase!
"Let’s try!"
Chen Feng decided.
"Spiritual energy..."
After pondering for a bit, Chen Feng took out the gold ant gene reagent that he had produced earlier—triggering the potential in one’s body, permanently increasing one’s spiritual energy by 20 points.
Based on his understanding, these types of special reagents that permanently increased one’s attributes could only be used once every ss. Regardless of the attribute improved, as long as it was used, it couldn’t be used any more. Otherwise, with excessive gene intake, one’s spirit would be broken apart.
He had originally nned to sell it, but now...
Chen Feng checked online and noticed that, currently, only three types of spirit-increasing reagents were avable in the whole business district. Each of them was extremely expensive.
Demonic hare gene reagent: permanent increase of spiritual energy by eight points, priced at 80,000.
Azure bat gene reagent: permanent increase of spiritual energy by 10 points, priced at 100,000.
Cracked wing gene reagent: permanent increase of spiritual energy by 13 points, priced at 150,000.
"The best of them only increases by 13 points."
Chen Feng sank into contemtion.
Spiritual energy was the foundation for gene production. Since he intended to increase his spiritual energy, he had to use the best. The gold ant gene he had produced was simply meant for him!
"Whoosh!"
Chen Feng used it immediately.
"Hum—"
His spirit started boiling.
Chen Feng could feel that his state of mind had be nimbler, his eyes had be keener, his ears had be sharper, and the originally dried-up spiritual energy had also been refilled to the peak during this process!
52 points spiritual energy!
"Let’s try."
Chen Feng tried entering the digitized mode.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Regardless of the speed in which the digitized world was formed or the speed of gene search, both were faster than his previous speed. The speed of his gene production as a whole had increased by onefold! The formidable spiritual energy caused Chen Feng to have an all-around improvement. Even his Wind de was muchrger in size than before.
"This is the benefit of having a powerful spirit?"
Chen Feng was shocked.
He knew that the improvement that came along with an increase in spiritual energy was huge; however, he never expected it to reach such an extent.
No wonder everyone said that spiritual energy was the foundation of gene production. Not only this, spiritual energy was also the foundation of spirit-type gic warriors!
Foundation...
Chen Feng pondered for a bit before making up his mind. He had to increase his spiritual energy!
There was no other reason. Currently, he wascking in too many aspects.
Hecked form,cked the funds to spam forms,cked spiritual energy,ckedbat power!
It was too forceful for one to participate in the rookiepetition so soon after graduation. If he failed during thepetition due to ack of spiritual energy, that would be too awkward. Hence, only a rapid increase of spiritual energy could give him an overall improvement in strength! Only then could he master 20-stars worth of form faster!
Naturally, there was also that strongest gene that was already within reach. The strongest gene produced after the improvement of a 5-star gene form, what would it be?
He was looking forward to it.
He even had a premonition that if the strongest gene he produced was unprecedented in history, it would definitely bring him great benefits. Even the resources required to reach the 20-star rating would be covered!
However, how should he increase his spiritual energy?
In order to produce the strongest gene, at least 90 points of spiritual energy were required.
Chen Feng was suddenly reminded of Wang Yue. This fellow only had around 30 points of spiritual energy previously, even lower than him. However, only half a month after graduation, he improved greatly and reached 80 points? In other words, in this short period of half a month, Wang Yue had increased his spiritual energy by 50 points.
Even if he had passively grown his gene by 10 points and used the same peak-attribute 5-star reagent, where did the remaining 20 points came from?
Pure tempering?
He absolutely could not believe that!
"There must be a faster method for increasing spiritual energy."
Chen Feng was sure.
At this moment, Chen Feng’s wristband buzzed and Mu Yuan’s image appeared.
"How are you, Mu Yuan?"
Chen Feng smiled calmly.
"It’s been a while."
Mu Yuan looked at Chen Feng grudgingly. "I was waiting for your reply all this time. After your beginner producer certification, what form did you choose? After asking me, you disappeared straight away. Have you ever taken the feelings of one who had been abandoned into consideration?"
Chen Feng wiped his sweat. He did not expect Mu Yuan to have kept thinking about this until now.
Mu Yuan couldn’t help but to curiously ask, "So, what did you pick in the end?" He had been holding this question for many days.
"Thundersnake gene."
Chen Feng answered honestly.
"Indeed..."
Mu Yuan’s face froze and he disappointedly said, "This is what I was worried about. Brother, how many times have I told you, don’t choose a high-difficulty gene. You think these high-difficulty genes provided by the association are a benefit? They are a pitfall, brother!"
Mu Yuan was bitter and hateful. "F-ss high–star-rating forms are all useless! High cost yet low price! Due to the ss being only F, if you were to sell it at a higher price, nobody would want it. Even if you spend a huge amount of funds to master this form, you won’t be able to earn much from it! How much of a loss is this? Do you know the reason for this? It’s due to the supply exceeding the demand! When a gene producer wants to improve himself, a huge amount of low level reagents will be produced. And F ss is a stage where improvement is the easiest for a gic warrior. Those that did well would have upgraded to E ss or D ss long ago. Those that did not do well, how many of them can afford a 4-star or 5-star reagent? Right?"
"F ss is totally something at the bottom tier of society. The real solid demand is on those high level gene reagents. Those are the actual main consumption of the society as a whole."
"What you need to do is to increase your production level as fast as you can!"
Mu Yuan advised earnestly, "Furthermore, based on your talent, the sess rate of 1-star and 2-star gene production should be rather high, right? Why do you need to touch those 4-star forms? Although those high-rated forms are somewhat powerful, the quality-to-price ratio is too low. There’s also that sess rate that is practically a scam..."
Chen Feng shrugged. "But I have sessfully produced it."
"What’s the point of sessfully producing it... wait, what?"
Mu Yuan widened his eyes. "You produced it?"
Chen Feng nodded. "Ah."
Mu Yuan cried out in rm, "How is that possible! That thing has an excessive difficulty level. I previously tried for one whole month yet still failed and ended up getting hung on a tree and beaten up by my dad—"
Mu Yuan suddenly realized what he had said and abruptly paused.
At this time, through the screen, he saw Chen Feng’s faint smile and started feeling awkward.
"Cough, cough."
"Erm... back then, I was overconfident and chose the thundersnake gene. Hence, I did not want the same thing to happen to you as well. Unexpectedly, you are too formidable. Sigh, if I had your talent back then I would have been able to raise my head and be arrogant in front of that old man," Mu Yuan said, somewhat regretfully.
Chen Fengughed involuntarily. How much resentment did this fellow have toward his father?
"However, even if you produced it by fluke, I still don’t rmend you continue using this gene to boost your level."
Mu Yuan said in a low voice, "Let me tell you some inside news. These forms with high star ratings were all left behind by the previous generation. Withplicated material requirements, low sess rate and low quality-to-price ratios, their research value is much higher than their practical value. I heard that the association is currently thinking of a way to either simplify or altogether cancel the usage of these forms."
"Mhm."
Chen Feng did notment on that.
He was clear on Mu Yuan’s meaning.
A normal producer would pick a high amount of forms with a high profit ratio to boost their growth, able to improve and make money at the same time. When they became an intermediate producer or an advanced producer, they would start raking in a much higher amount of profit. What a fulfilling life!
This was also the proper choice most producers at the most basic level chose!
Chen Feng had also experienced this with the lumberbear gene. With the cost of 4,000 yuan and the price of a peak-attribute reagent at 10,000 yuan, it had a profit of 150%! After mutation, the price was 20,000, and the profit reached a rate of 500%! A lot of other popr F-ss forms had even higher rates of profit!
However, was this what Chen Feng needed?
Obviously not.
Why had he chosen a high-star-rating form?
To increase his star rating!
Was the thundersnake gene form profitable?
It was not profitable!
Was the gold ant gene form profitable?
It was not profitable!
However, for Chen Feng, they were the most valuable forms. He only needed to master these two forms and his production level would have an increase of 9 stars!
Using the same amount of luck value, one lumberbear gene form could only increase his star rating by one. Using it on the gold ant gene form, he could increase his star rating by 5 instead. Why would he not do it?
This was Chen Feng’s thought process.
A simpler manner of improvement!
It was not due to this being the normal path one would take in this profession as a producer. It was due to the existence of Luck Aura, letting Chen Feng walk apletely different path than others!
Chen Feng could only appreciate Mu Yuan’s good intentions.
Naturally, Chen Feng couldn’t avoid thinking yfully within. ‘One thundersnake gene is enough to scare you to such an extent. If you knew about the gold ant gene, would you go crazy? If you were to know that I am currently researching an even more terrifying 5-star mutated form, the strongest F-ss gene, would you pee your pants from the shock?’