Gene Unlocking: I Evolve Every Day

Taklamakan Desert.

Even though it was morning, the temperature was already scorching.

Fu Qin, Zhu Sen, and the others stood at a distance out of reverence for Lu Li, their foreheads glistening with sweat.

In contrast, Lu Li, Liu Kexin, and Gu Wei showed no signs of sweat, with the latter two even feeling pleasantly cool.

It seemed as if there was a magical presence around Lu Li; standing within a certain range of him automatically maintained a comfortable temperature of about 23 degrees Celsius.

The group stepped out of the tent.

Immediately, guards came forward to protect them.

Fu Qin waved his hand and said, "You don’t need to follow us."

The security captain, a resolute young man, frowned and said, "But it’s very dang..."

Before he could finish, Zhu Sen chuckled, saying, "With Mr. Lu here, even if someone threw a nuclear bomb, we wouldn’t be in danger. Alright, you all take a break."

The security captain and the dozen or so guards had long noticed Lu Li, but their duties kept them from approaching earlier.

They were, of course, all too familiar with Lu Li’s reputation, knowing him to be a Divine Being impervious even to nuclear blasts of millions of tons in yield.

Unintentionally, as the guards withdrew, they couldn’t help but steal glances at Lu Li.

They were genuinely puzzled—how could someone like Mr. Lu, so ordinary in appearance, conceal such unimaginable power within him?

What intrigued these guards even more was their awareness of a major "project" Lu Li was here to undertake, which had prompted influential figures like Gu Wei, Fu Qin, and Zhu Sen to mobilize 200,000 personnel to investigate and maintain order. Yet, they couldn’t grasp what kind of "project" required so much security force.

Furthermore, logically, carrying out any project should involve significant manpower and resources, yet none were evident so far.

Their overwhelming curiosity meant that even as they retreated further back, their gaze remained fixed on Lu Li.

...

It wasn’t just the guards who were curious about Lu Li’s purpose there.

Practically all 200,000 soldiers stationed around the Taklamakan Desert shared this curiosity.

Just an hour or two ago, they had witnessed a ball of white light descending like a comet onto the ground.

They immediately realized it must be the legendary ancestor, revered as a god.

Indeed, before they embarked on the mission, they had been briefed by their superiors about the ancestor’s anticipated arrival.

This briefing was meant to ensure they did not inadvertently offend Lu Li, as none could withstand his wrath.

This was of no consequence.

What mattered was the curiosity over the ancestor’s purpose here and the project to be executed.

A small squad stationed near the southwestern edge.

Among them, the captain gazed toward the tent direction in awe, "No wonder the ancestor is rumored to be godlike. Just a moment ago, I only saw a streak of white light in the distance, and in the next instant, it was right by the tent."

Another young man curiously asked, "Chief, what do you think Mr. Lu is here for this time?"

The captain took a swig from his canteen and smacked his lips, saying, "The higher-ups just mentioned a major project, nothing else."

Another shorter young man pondered, "For such a major project, where are the workers and materials? Is Mr. Lu capable of conjuring things out of thin air?"

The captain chuckled, "What are you thinking, conjuring things out of nothing? You really think it’s like Sun Wukong in ’Journey to the West,’ blowing on monkey hair to create anything? I guess Mr. Lu is just here to survey the environment first, ensuring everything is fine before shipping in a large workforce and materials. Stop speculating."

It made sense to the group.

Creating something from nothing was too far-fetched.

If someone could truly do that, it would only prove one thing.

That the cosmic space they inhabited was not a realm of "technology" but one of "immortal cultivation."

Though everyone knew Mr. Lu possessed tremendous power, all previous displays of his power remained within the "physical realm."

Naturally, no one believed such a miraculous act of "conjuring something from nothing" could occur.

The other hundreds of thousands of troops engaged in similar conversations.

"Wow, Mr. Lu’s flying speed is astonishing, faster than any airplane!"

"Definitely faster than an airplane, and that’s not even his limit. I heard on the news that the fastest known flying speed for Mr. Lu is about 18,000 kilometers per second. The equator’s circumference is just over 40,000 kilometers; if Mr. Lu wanted, he could circle the equator in three seconds. We could still catch a distant afterimage with our naked eyes earlier, so he probably wasn’t at full power."

"Hey, with someone as extraordinary as Mr. Lu, what kind of project requires choosing a desert location?"

"Who knows, maybe we’ll find out in a year or so."

"Why a year or so?"

"Isn’t it obvious? What major project doesn’t take a year or so to complete? You can’t expect Mr. Lu to conjure it like a deity, right? That’s unrealistic!"

"Exactly, although Mr. Lu rivals gods, he’s not the type of deity from mythology who can wave a hand and make a large project appear."

"I know it’s impossible to conjure it, but I’m just curious about what he’s going to do."

A hundred people.

Thousands of people.

Nearly 200,000 people were discussing this matter.

Everyone, after witnessing Lu Li’s extraordinary flying speed, was filled with admiration and reverence, their curiosity mounting, eager to know what he intended to do.

Initially, everyone thought they might not find out in the short term.

Who would’ve expected that at this moment, in every squad captain’s earpiece, their respective commanders’ warnings came through, "Mr. Fu has issued an order: No matter what Mr. Lu does next, you and your squad members must keep it highly confidential, not even telling your family. Acknowledge if you’ve received!"

The squad captains quickly acknowledged, passing the order down the chain.

Hearing this, numerous captains and soldiers exchanged glances.

From the orders relayed by their commanders, they could faintly analyze that Mr. Lu might be about to perform an earth-shattering act.

This slightly startled the 200,000 soldiers, secretly wondering if Mr. Lu would immediately let them know what he came here for.

This thought had just arisen in the minds of the one to two hundred thousand warriors.

Suddenly, everyone felt a slight tremor on the desert surface stretching tens of thousands of miles around.

At first, no one reacted to what was happening.

Some even thought it was an earthquake and were preparing to shout and warn their comrades to be cautious.

Before these people could voice their cries, an astonishing scene spontaneously unfolded.

Everyone saw a small yet extremely intense golden light shooting out from the direction of the tent.

Initially, this golden light appeared like a thin line traversing the sky and earth, without much peculiarity.

However, in the blink of an eye, this thin golden line rapidly expanded and diffused, filling the entire sky with brilliant golden light, even the clouds were turned gold.

That was not the end, as the whole sky was filled with the golden light, it poured down like a galaxy overturning, spreading across the thirty-three thousand square kilometers of desert.

It was as if a massive golden canopy descended from above, enveloping the entire Taklamakan Desert in golden light.

The next moment, everyone saw a splendid golden light before them, making the distant view seem blurred.

Though they couldn’t see the distant scene, they could observe the sand within four or five meters around them turning into countless points of "starlight".

These "starlights" gathered together, transforming into tens of thousands of broad currents like great rivers.

Subsequently, the "starlight currents" seemed to come alive, continuously spreading in all directions, coalescing into a structure resembling a gigantic building.

Up to this point, it only had a shape, not yet formed.

In front of everyone, it still appeared as "starlight".

Although they didn’t know what would happen next, everyone was stunned, seemingly incredulous that Mr. Lu could possess such a "mighty art", capable of enveloping the entire Taklamakan Desert with golden light.

They weren’t fools; although they hadn’t witnessed Mr. Lu releasing the golden light themselves, who else here could possess such capability besides him?

Naturally, everyone knew this golden shroud covering the entire Taklamakan Desert was Lu Li’s doing.

Precisely because they knew it was Lu Li’s doing, they became even more astonished.

It’s thirty-three thousand square kilometers!

Even if hundreds or thousands of nuclear bombs yielding millions of tons were precisely deployed, it would be difficult to completely cover.

Take a one-million-ton nuclear bomb for example, with a destructive range of roughly three hundred square kilometers.

Even a thousand one-million-ton bombs, not overlapping in a single spot, could at most cover a destruction range of about thirty thousand square kilometers.

Now, Mr. Lu merely released a golden light, yet it completely enveloped thirty-three thousand square kilometers?

They had once had the chance to witness Mr. Lu "annihilate" a sea area with a radius of forty kilometers online.

They had reason to believe that now, with Mr. Lu’s golden light covering such a vast desert area, he could likewise "obliterate" it entirely if he wished.

This thought made the hearts of the one to two hundred thousand guards even more terrified.

They had long known Mr. Lu possessed immense Divine Power, capable of easily destroying urban areas as large as two or three Los Angeles-sized conurbations.

But they really had not expected Lu Li’s true strength to reach "province-level obliteration"!

Some even recalled the publicly announced information from Old Ugly Aerospace monitoring, and couldn’t help but be shocked, wondering if Mr. Lu truly possessed the ability to obliterate the Earth’s surface?

As the saying goes, under great repute, there is no falsehood.

At this moment, the one to two hundred thousand guards finally understood the meaning of this saying.

Indeed, Mr. Lu’s power was even more terrifying than rumored!

Although everyone was shaken by Lu Li’s terrifying power, deep in their hearts there remained a question.

What exactly did Lu Li intend to do by releasing this golden light covering such a vast area?

The next moment, they knew.

Within a mere one or two minutes, the golden light abruptly extinguished.

The boundless "starlights" instantly coalesced into the shape of a real object.

At this moment, where there once was a boundless desert, only an unending, sci-fi architecture-like collection of buildings remained!

From the exterior, these building clusters appeared snow-white.

But anyone could tell that beneath these snow-white coatings lay metal.

If the appearance of terrain-like buildings in the desert was enough to stun people,

Then, seeing the entire surrounding climate of the Taklamakan Desert seemingly change at this moment, their hearts became unimaginably shocked.

Indeed, the climate and geographical environment around the Taklamakan Desert had completely changed!

Firstly, the climate aspect changed.

It shifted from the original arid heat to the current cool, humid environment.

The change in geographical environment was even larger.

One could observe the land at the building’s edges, from its previously weathered appearance, transform into normal soil.

Such a colossal change rendered everyone present unbelievable.

They even had an illusion that this place had never been the despair-inducing Taklamakan Desert, but rather an incredibly fertile land!

In reality, each one knew deep down this was originally a great desert.

But within seconds after Mr. Lu performed the "Immortal Technique", it completely transformed into fertile land.

At this moment, everyone was so shocked that their souls nearly left their bodies.

They had long anticipated Mr. Lu possessed remarkably mysterious and powerful Divine Power.

But they genuinely had not imagined that Mr. Lu actually held the superstitious Divine Power to transform the heavens!