Ultragene Warlord

aving grew, the more he coveted disaster-grade lifeforms.

Zhang Lie extracted the whirlpool tyrant ’s core from the left half of its body.

It was significantly larger than the double-headed spider ’s core that he had absorbed, and it was different in quality as well.
The core of the double-headed spider was black and thorny, whereas the whirlpool tyrant ’s core was like a miniature sun.

The sun ’s energy swirled within it like seawater.
The core was encased in a transparent exterior.
Zhang Lie could see a sea of flames burning within, and a starry sky above it.

After extracting the core from the whirlpool tyrant ’s body, the entire orb turned blood-red.

The orb was about the size of a fist and made of an impressively hard material.
It was scorching to the touch, almost debilitatingly so.

This was the genetic core of a disaster-grade lifeform, the source of all their energy—their heart.

Just from holding it in his hands, Zhang Lie could feel an oppressive energy radiating out from it.
The heat lapped at his skin, and he felt as though his whole body was burning up.

Zhang Lie knew that this wasn ’t just a mental sensation.
Part of his palm had already blackened as a result of holding it for just a few moments—and his body had already been strengthened significantly with his limit fragments and by consuming disaster gene fragments.
Anyone else would have disintegrated upon touching the orb.

Zhang Lie cut his palm with his sword, then dripped blood onto the core.
The moment it touched the core, the blood was quickly absorbed into its interior.
It sucked up more and more of Zhang Lie ’s blood until it turned blood-red.

Zhang Lie had to reopen the wound five times before the transformation was complete.
Then, he closed his eyes and began pouring concentrated, black genetic energy from his body into the core.

It took him an entire hour before he felt the core start to soften.
After another ten minutes or so, the entire core had softened completely.
Blood-red seawater flowed steadily within the core, shining with the rays of the evening sun.

When Zhang Lie clutched the orb once more, what he felt wasn ’t a scorching pain, but rather a palliative warmth, as though he had developed some unusual sense of kinship with the orb, as though it were already part of his body.

Once he felt such a sensation, Zhang Lie couldn ’t resist his impulses any longer, and he swallowed the core whole.
As the core slid down his throat, Zhang Lie felt a fiery, numbing sensation spread throughout his body.

Subsequently, all that energy contained within the core burst apart in his stomach.

”Ah—Ahhh! ” Almost immediately, Zhang Lie took on the color of a boiled prawn.
He hissed into the air, and his blood began to froth and boil.

Flames burst out of his body; fire erupted over his skin.
He became a man of flame, a burning sun.

Despite how resilient Zhang Lie was, he still fell to the ground in unimaginable pain.
His head spun as he forced himself upright one stumbling step at a time.

Scarlet flames came out of his mouth and ears, and the skies were dyed a lurid red once more.

Zhang Lie ’s blood boiled away entirely.

He had never before absorbed twenty disaster gene fragments, not even in his past life.
As a result, he didn ’t know that he had just reached a new threshold of being.

The blood that left his body was replaced by scorching liquid energy, and his heart crystallized completely, burning and fuelling his body like a miniature sun, an immense and frightening source of boundless energy…