Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

Lin Shen thought to himself, "Tian Jiuyou has seen through my Light of Fate Reversal's ability, yet he remains so confident. Is he planning to deceive me, or does he really have the ability to break through the Light of Fate Reversal?"

"It seems you don't believe what I say," Tian Jiuyou, seeing through Lin Shen's thoughts, said to Ouyang Yudou behind Lin Shen, "Be a witness. If I use his Nirvana Attributes to win, consider it my loss, and I'll let you all leave safely."

With that statement, a chill ran down Lin Shen's spine.

With Tian Jiuyou's strength, there was no need for him to use such tactics to kill them. Since he wasn't killing them and instead wanted to subjugate them, he needed to keep his word.

Not exploiting the flaws of the Nirvana Attributes meant that Tian Jiuyou was indeed confident he could break through the Light of Fate Reversal.

"Are you ready?" Tian Jiuyou asked, smiling at Lin Shen.

"Make your move." Lin Shen had no choice but to take things one step at a time and gestured for Ouyang Yudou to step aside.

He had initially thought that if he could just stall for some time, the Celestial Race's reinforcements should be able to arrive.

However, with the spacecraft disconnected for so long, it was puzzling that the Celestial Race hadn't shown up yet.

It seemed that Tian Jiuyou was truly in no hurry, as he lifted his right hand and clenched his fingers, leaving only his index finger pointing forward. Then he said to Lin Shen, "You excel in using fists and Finger Skill, so for my first strike, I'll use Finger Skill. This one is called Make Noise in the East, Attack in the West from my self-created techniques. Have a look."

With that, Tian Jiuyou pointed his finger at Lin Shen, a streak of green light shooting from his fingertip towards Lin Shen.

The speed of Tian Jiuyou's finger light wasn't fast, clearly deliberately controlled. Otherwise, with his reaction speed, Lin Shen probably wouldn't have been able to react at all.

During the previous battle with Tian Shangjiang, his Life Base was gun-like, and Lin Shen possessed the Seven Steps Warlike Fireseed ability; no matter how fast Tian Shangjiang's attack was, Lin Shen could keep up.

He had ultimately failed to block it, purely because the attack range and density were too overwhelming, rendering speed irrelevant.

Tian Jiuyou didn't use any gun-like weapons; his attack speed was not something Lin Shen could keep up with.

However, now that Tian Jiuyou had clearly controlled the speed, and given the strength of his finger, which was much stronger than Lin Shen's, he seemed to completely disregard Lin Shen's Light of Fate Reversal.

Lin Shen drew his Scrap Sword and chopped at the incoming finger light, naturally invoking the Light of Fate Reversal.

The Blade Qi of the Scrap Sword met the finger light, and under the enhancement of the Light of Fate Reversal, it easily split the light, a feat so effortless that Lin Shen himself could scarcely believe it.

Lin Shen's gaze sharpened as the scabbard of his other hand suddenly moved, slashing backwards.

With a clang, the scabbard collided with a ray of light, and under the boost of the Light of Fate Reversal, it forcefully split the ray apart.

Lin Shen broke out in a cold sweat, thankful for his quick reaction. He had realized that the finger light in front of him was merely an illusion; otherwise, he would have fallen for Tian Jiuyou's scheme.

He had no idea how Tian Jiuyou did it; he had only pointed one finger, yet a finger light had appeared behind Lin Shen.

"Make Noise in the East, Attack in the West, huh?" It was because Lin Shen had heard the name of this Finger Skill that he had been extra cautious. Otherwise, a last-minute reaction might not have been quick enough. Explore more stories at My Virtual Library Empire

Of course, his ability to react swiftly was primarily due to Tian Jiuyou controlling the speed of the finger light; without that, he wouldn't have needed such a technique and wouldn't have been able to react in time either.

Seeing his strike blocked, Tian Jiuyou actually smiled, "Not bad. Being able to see through my Stratagem of Distraction indicates that you are not foolish nor one to mindlessly grind."

"You only have three chances to strike," Lin Shen reminded.

Tian Jiuyou clearly didn't plan to finish him with this move; otherwise, he wouldn't have announced the name of the technique first. He simply didn't take Lin Shen seriously.

"Alright, I'll use your specialty, the boxing technique, for my second strike. This punch is called Stratagem of Deception from the Thirty-Six Stratagems..." As Tian Jiuyou spoke, he launched a punch at Lin Shen.

The terrifying fist light, like a rising sun, rushed towards Lin Shen. Although not very fast, the intensity of the fist light grew increasingly strong, resembling a rapidly-expanding sun. By the time it reached Lin Shen, the fist light was several times larger than his body.

"Stratagem of Deception implies deceiving even the heavens, making the gods themselves unable to guess his moves. Does this mean the surface punch is a feint, with the real killer move hidden in the shadows?" Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Shen's mind in an instant.

Yet, even after scrutinizing closely, he still couldn't detect the power Tian Jiuyou had hidden.

"This Tian Jiuyou, why are all his techniques so peculiar?" With a thought, Lin Shen directly slashed at the sun-like fist power with his sword.

Since ordinary strength couldn't harm his body, he didn't bother trying to see through it. If Tian Jiuyou's hidden power emerged, he could just withstand it with his physical body.

To Lin Shen's surprise, as soon as his blade came down, he felt the boundless terror of the fist light. Had it not been for the Light of Fate Reversal, he would have never been able to break through this fist light.

Scrap Sword forcibly split the sun-like fist light in two, revealing no hidden power after all, and just like that, the move was easily broken.

"You sure are confident," Tian Jiuyou admired Lin Shen even more.

He had used the first strike to create a pattern in Lin Shen's thinking, then went against it with the second strike. If Lin Shen couldn't see through this and only focused on finding the hidden power, not fully countering the frontal assault, he would have been directly crushed.

But Lin Shen seemed to have seen through his intentions, not bothering about the hidden power at all, which made Tian Jiuyou even more fond of him, and his desire to take Lin Shen as his adoptive son strengthened.

If previously he had wanted to take Lin Shen mostly to outsmart Emperor Tianshu and uncover his secrets, now he truly wanted Lin Shen as a person.

"The second strike," Lin Shen said.

Tian Jiuyou let out a long sigh, "You indeed are among the top young people I've seen, both in ability and in wisdom. I really want to take you under my wing and cultivate you properly. You'd certainly benefit far more with me than under that Old Thief Tianshu. You might want to consider it again."

"There is still one strike," Lin Shen hadn't considered it at all.

It wasn't that he was particularly loyal to Emperor Tianshu and the Celestial Race; rather, with people like Tian Xun and elder sister in the Celestial Race, if he defected, Tian Xun might survive, but his elder sister and others would likely not escape death.

Lin Shen couldn't ignore the lives of friends and family just for his own sake.

"You don't know my abilities; you probably won't follow me wholeheartedly. Then prepare yourself for my last strike." As Tian Jiuyou spoke, he slowly raised his hand and continued, "This palm strike is named Winning War Stratagem."

Lin Shen watched as Tian Jiuyou's palm descended, and immediately saw the terrifying palm light enveloping the heavens and the earth, as if the void itself was collapsing down upon him, utterly inescapable and indefensible.

This one palm strike had the force to suppress the starry sky.

Lin Shen knew he couldn't dodge it; he could only meet the heaven-covering palm with a slash of his sword, strengthened by the Light of Fate Reversal.

The Light of Fate Reversal was indeed miraculous, as Lin Shen's slash tore open a rift in the formidable heaven-covering palm.

But that was as far as it went. The rift he'd opened was immediately restored.

What was even more terrifying was that Lin Shen found palm lights appearing from all directions, pressing in on him from every corner of the world, leaving him no space at all.