The Rule-Breaker of the Doomsday Game

'Finally, I've completely deciphered it.'

The Amber Jade wasn't too difficult for Qi Suian. After all, it was related to biology, which fell within his area of expertise.

Even though it was an Extraordinary Item, Qi Suian also possessed Extraordinary power.

After deciphering the Amber Jade, he immediately began extracting the information within.

The information inside was immense. Only after fully receiving it did Qi Suian begin to review it.

'A complete inheritance from Ninth Grade all the way to First Grade? The Zhuang Family's origins are anything but ordinary.'

'If I'm not mistaken, the Spirit Demon beneath Vermilion Town was probably sealed by an ancestor of the Zhuang Family.'

Qi Suian quickly made the connection to the Spirit Demon.

He didn't know what had happened in the interim, but he couldn't be bothered to investigate.

'If the Zhuang Family knew the true value of this Amber Jade, they probably would have died before agreeing to trade it.'

'The protagonist's halo... it's terrifyingly powerful.' Qi Suian couldn't help but gasp.

After reviewing the contents, the refining process was indeed as Qi Suian had thought. It wasn't about the Spiritual Root achieving parasitism or symbiosis, but about integrating it into one's organs.

This turned one's own organs into Extraordinary organs.

Therefore, when in the lower three grades, the choice of Lower-Grade Spiritual Root was very important.

Based on the inheritance's contents, Qi Suian came to understand that the upper, middle, and lower grades of Spiritual Roots weren't about quality, but rather sequential tiers.

'Essence, Qi, and Spirit?'

'These Spiritual Roots have quite the concept behind them,' Qi Suian muttered.

The Upper, Middle, and Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots corresponded to the Three Treasures: Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots were rooted in the physical body, Middle-Grade Spiritual Roots swam within Spiritual Power, and Top-Grade Spiritual Roots were seated in the soul.

So, the grade of a Spiritual Root was essentially its species.

And it wasn't that higher-ranked Spiritual Roots were always better; it all came down to compatibility.

Just like the inheritance Qi Suian now held, which contained a celestial path.

This meant that as long as you could systematically find nine mutually compatible Upper, Middle, and Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots, you were guaranteed to reach First Grade.

'Of course, there are exceptions among people. Among Innate Mages, there is a special physique called the Nine Extremes Body.'

'A person can host nine of each—Upper, Middle, and Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots. Now *that* is the true celestial path.'

The inheritance Qi Suian had obtained was titled "Nine Extremes Celestial Path."

That's right. If an Innate Mage were to appear among the Zhuang Family, there was a high probability they would possess the Nine Extremes Body.

In other words, upon birth, they would attract nine Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots.

Besides the Nine Extremes Body, Innate Mages could have other special physiques. The inheritance mentioned a few, but didn't go into detail.

This Nine Extremes Body was most likely a special physique exclusive to the Zhuang Family.

'I didn't get the full opportunity...' Qi Suian muttered.

He figured the Zhuang Family themselves didn't even know about this.

This was mainly because this information was in the middle of the inheritance, around the Fourth-Grade level.

The reason was simple: to cultivate a person with the Nine Extremes Body, you needed a family clan presided over by at least a Fourth-Grade Mage.

If you didn't have that, you might as well not even try, lest you drag down your entire family's foundation.

After all, potential does not equal power.

The Nine Extremes Body could possess three times the number of Spiritual Roots, but the resource consumption was far more than triple. For each additional Spiritual Root, the difficulty of advancement increased tenfold.

This meant that when breaking through from Lower-Grade to Middle-Grade, the difficulty was sixty times the norm.

Of course, the returns were ninety times greater.

Therefore, as long as one grew to become a First-Grade Mage, even if they weren't the strongest in the world, they could elevate the Zhuang Family into the ranks of the world's most renowned clans.

A family clan with a Fourth-Grade Mage could only guarantee that a Nine Extremes Body would reach the Middle-Grade.

Beyond that, it would definitely depend on the individual. If you possessed ninety times the combat power of your peers and still couldn't support yourself, you were basically a lost cause.

There would be no value in cultivating you further.

'Innate Mages, special physiques.'

'The power gap these two create is just too massive,' Qi Suian complained.

Every world had its share of monstrous geniuses and chosen ones.

'Fortunately, Innate Mages are rare, and Innate Mages with special physiques are even rarer.'

He estimated that the Nine Extremes Body was likely one of the top-tier special physiques.

Not to mention the boon from twenty-seven Spiritual Roots, the sheer number of skills provided by that many roots would be more than enough.

Moreover, the Lower-Grade Spiritual Roots were a well-matched set, perfectly suited for the Nine Extremes Body.

'Looks like I'll have to make a trip back to Vermilion Town and grab some members of the Zhuang Family for experiments.' Qi Suian had taken a fancy to the unique nature of the Nine Extremes Body.

Its greatest unique feature, naturally, was the ability to accommodate more Spiritual Roots.

Although the difficulty of advancement was high, the rewards couldn't be ignored.

Ninety times the combat power of one's peers was extremely enticing.

However, Qi Suian suspected that the Nine Extremes Body didn't work by increasing base attributes. Instead, it was more like gaining extra effects and properties through passive skills or talent templates.

A rough analogy would be the World King Fist.

As his mind processed the "Nine Extremes Celestial Path," he turned back toward Vermilion Town.

The distance wasn't great, only about fifty-some kilometers.

Qi Suian hadn't gone far. The main reason was that the Bandit Stronghold was in this location, and he would naturally take the most convenient route.

As for avoiding the Spirit Demon beneath Vermilion Town, to put it bluntly, as long as he didn't do something stupid and meddle with it, the chances of it breaking its seal were slim.

So he prepared to abduct them directly.

'To be cautious, I'd better not spill any blood on their turf.'

After all, the Zhuang Family's ancestor was possibly the First-Grade Mage who had sealed the Spirit Demon.

If anything unexpected happened, Qi Suian didn't want to get caught in the fallout.

'As for targets, I'll focus on Zhuang Tong and his immediate family.' In Qi Suian's view, as the head of the Zhuang Family, Zhuang Tong's bloodline was surely the purest.

His son, in particular, was young and strong—definitely sufficient for Qi Suian's experimental research.

'Kidnapping people in broad daylight seems a bit... Holy shit, when did I start caring about principles?'

'It must be because this world is too peaceful, it's making me all law-abiding.' Thinking about it, Qi Suian realized it had been a long time since he'd had such a 'safe' period.

Then he decisively captured them.

In less than three minutes, Qi Suian had caught seven people.

This included Zhuang Tong.

The seven of them didn't struggle at all; Qi Suian had knocked them all unconscious.

Then, he brought them all back to his temporary laboratory.

'Normal people are great. Anesthetics actually work on them,' Qi Suian remarked with a sigh.

The dual attributes of ordinary people in the Spirit Root World were around 2 points, which wasn't considered very high.

However, compared to Qi Suian's home planet in the Profound World, this was already quite high.

As for the Sacred Artifact World? Those weren't normal attributes for ordinary people at all. Everyone there was born for war.

He estimated that in the even larger Doomsday World he would encounter later, the attributes of ordinary people would continue to rise, but the overall increase wouldn't be significant.

Qi Suian placed Zhuang Tong on the operating table and immediately began to dissect him.

'Wait a minute, there's something wrong with your DNA.' Qi Suian suddenly discovered something strange about Zhuang Tong.

As the head of the Zhuang Family, he didn't seem to possess the Zhuang family bloodline.

He was, of course, using the gene-encryption technology from the Amber Jade to run the test.

"HISS... HOLY SHIT!" Qi Suian then tested the DNA of Zhuang Tong's son and found it was wrong too.

'This is getting complicated...'

Then, Qi Suian began testing the bloodlines of the collateral family members.

'It's not that bad.'

'At least some of it matches, even if the effect is rather weak.'

'This whole bloodline thing... it's really not all it's cracked up to be.'

'To think it could get so diluted.' Qi Suian felt rather helpless about this.

Qi Suian couldn't understand why, but on second thought, it occurred to him that what they called a "bloodline" was likely fragments of the Nine Extremes Body.

Because of continuous procreation, the Nine Extremes Body wasn't passed down intact, but instead scattered into various enhancements.

As it dispersed over many generations, it ended up so that only the first or second generations could possess it.

'In essence, this is a form of evolution or mutation.'

'Something similar to albinism, perhaps.'

Qi Suian quickly delved into deeper research.

'Just as I thought. It's an Extraordinary type of pathological lesion.' Qi Suian extracted a special gene fragment from the Nine Extremes Body.

'For their descendants, this isn't a special physique, but an Extraordinary genetic disease.'

'However, the positive and negative feedback from this genetic disease is uncertain. It might produce positive feedback, like occasionally increasing one's aptitude or slightly reducing rejection.'

'The severance of the Zhuang Family's Spiritual Roots is also related to this genetic disease.'

Spiritual Roots were long-lived things. You could say the bug outlives three generations of its host; the person dies, but the bug remains.

That's right. Spiritual Roots could reproduce. Once refined, one could artificially propagate more Spiritual Roots of the same type.

The downside was that it consumed one's vital energy.

These artificially propagated Spiritual Roots were the biggest problem.

This was especially true for Spiritual Roots that had been propagated by Mages who had either adapted to the Nine Extremes Body or had inherited most of its fragments but were unable to awaken it.

So, the problem was this: as the family line branched out, the Nine Extremes Body became increasingly fragmented.

These Spiritual Roots had no problem with upward compatibility, but getting them to be downwardly compatible was not so easy.

Their suitable environment gradually became unsuitable for survival, and so they naturally went extinct.

This was the drawback of a special physique—it lacked universality.

Otherwise, if it could have been inherited perfectly, the Zhuang Family would never have fallen into such a state.

If the Nine Extremes Body, as a genetic disease, could be passed down completely, there would be no issue. But the fact that it was passed down in scattered pieces was just absurd.

'Either get the whole disease or don't get it at all. What's the point of being a little bit sick here and a little bit sick there?'

'Parasites and genetic diseases becoming Extraordinary... this world is truly bizarre,' Qi Suian griped.

He had seen quite a few Extraordinary systems, but the Spirit Root World's was the most unorthodox one he had ever encountered.

'But this genetic disease was probably not passed down completely due to mutation.'

'Looking at it this way, Innate Mages and special physiques might actually be man-made, not some kind of natural aptitude.'

'Instead, it's possible they're caused by some external stimulus received during the fetal stage.'

'Then the source of the stimulus... is the Spiritual Root!' Qi Suian quickly locked onto his target.

Otherwise, there was unlikely to be mutation or evolution without a cause. After all, the human genetic structure is quite stable.

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