Chapter 7: Awakening the Alien Gene

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  Li Junshan blinked his eyes, pretending to be afraid and trembling as he walked up. Anna saw him coming and said: "You ask yourself, I was sleeping just now, when I heard the sound and came out, I only saw a shadow flying away, but didn't see who it was."

  "Xiao Shan, take a closer look at who is missing."

  "What kind of person?"

  "Is it a boy or a girl?"

  As soon as he went up, a group of people surrounded Li Junshan in the middle, each with a tense expression. These people were all figures with heads and faces in Fenghuo Town, and as soon as they heard that a war master had appeared in Anna's tavern, they all wanted to come and win him over.

  "It's a man." Li Junshan's body trembled slightly, his face filled with fear, as he said: "A middle-aged man, wearing a sword at his waist. I've never seen him in our Fenghuo Town before. Earlier, there was no one else in the store, so I made some spicy hot pot for myself to eat. That person came in and grabbed a handful to eat, but after eating, he went crazy, stretching out his hand to release a purple-colored aura that threw me from the rooftop, almost scaring me to death. This floor isn't solid either; when I fell down, I broke through the floor and fell into the basement, it was so painful, fortunately, I wasn't injured."

  A middle-aged man stroked his beard, nodded and said: "No wonder they say that the purple gas wrapped figure falling down looks very ungraceful. I said if it was a war master how could it be like this, turns out it's you."

  "Why? He's just a little kid and didn't even provoke him."

  "Right, how strange."

  ……

  A group of people fell into contemplation, Anna blinked and interjected: "Maybe it's because they ate the spicy hot pot from Xiaoshan for the first time, having never tasted this flavor before, so they got a bit excited and did something like that. You guys weren't any different in the past either, you were also very excited when you had spicy hot pot for the first time."

  Those people thought for a moment, although they felt it was unbelievable, but couldn't think of any other reason. Anna and the others understood even more, and wouldn't believe that Fatuo, a primary magician, could cause such a commotion, let alone Li Junshan.

  "Little Mountain, if you see him again, tell him that the gates of our Wolf Mercenary Corps are forever open to him." The speaker was Harissa, the leader of a mercenary corps in Fenghuo Town. He himself had the strength of a Great Warlord, only one rank higher than a Warlord. Under his command were over a dozen high-level warriors and countless low- and mid-level warriors, making them the most powerful mercenary corps in Fenghuo Town.

  Others saw him speak first, and they didn't dare to say anything. After he walked out after a few laps, they surrounded Li Junshan and whispered to him, the meaning was nothing more than wanting to win over that mysterious war master.

  After a round, Li Junshan's bag had several more silver coins. After finally sending them away, the sky was also dark, Anna closed the door with a serious face and said: "Bring Fatier to my room."

  Li Junshan chuckled a few times, seeing Anna still had a black face, he hurriedly ran to the basement, lifted up Fate and woke him up, and also instructed him not to speak randomly for now, the two of them went upstairs towards Anna's room.

  Three people sat in the room, each with their own thoughts, and no one spoke. After a while, Anna sighed and said: "Xiaoshan, we've been living together for almost half a year now, but I'm getting more and more unable to understand you."

  Li Junshan shrank his neck slightly, a wave of guilt.

  "You practiced summoning, I knew that. Later you switched to practicing Dou Qi, I was clear about that too. But how did you suddenly become a War Master?"

  When Li Junshan wanted to speak, Anna shook her head and interrupted him, continuing: "You must say you don't know either. Well, in this world where people eat each other, it's a good thing if you can become stronger. Just remember that things like today cannot happen again. The situation in Fenghuo Town is too complicated, I don't want you to get involved too early. You now have some power, but sometimes power can't decide everything. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

  Li Junshan nodded, and Anna's expression softened a bit as she said: "When you first arrived, although you looked quite pitiful, I could tell from your physical characteristics that you're not the child of an ordinary family. A commoner's child couldn't possibly have hands as delicate as yours when you first arrived, and a noble-born child wouldn't be able to cook up dishes that none of us have ever tasted before. Originally, I thought that after spending more time with you, I would gain some understanding, but the more I look at you, the more confused I become."

  Li Junshan chuckled a few times and said, "Aunt Anna, I've never considered you an outsider. There are just some things that aren't the right time to say yet. Maybe I'm lazy, maybe I like causing trouble, or maybe sometimes my words don't match my heart, but rest assured, I promise you, I am absolutely not a bad person."

  Anna nodded comfortingly and then glared at Fate, saying: "Xiaoshan will definitely not be an ordinary person in the future. If you want to follow him, your current abilities are useless."

  Faye felt embarrassed for a moment, and she didn't know what to say with her head down.

  Anna got up and pulled out a box from under the bed and threw it in front of Fate.

  "Landlady, don't drive me away! I'll study magic diligently and work hard. I can use magic to wash dishes, clothes, and even the floor..." Fati was so anxious that she almost knelt down.

  "Shut up." Anna said irritably: "Do you think I'll pay you wages? Dream on, eating and drinking my food every day, and still wanting money!"

  Fǎ dé yī tīng bù shì yào gǎn tā zǒu, zhè cái fàng xià xīn lái.

  Translation:

  Fa Te felt relieved only after hearing that they were not going to drive him away.

  "There are some magical notes written by my husband in this box. Take a look, maybe they'll be of some use."

  The magic manual was different from the magic textbook, it was a handbook recorded by the magician's own research and experience, especially detailed. Fate had heard of the legend about Anna's husband before, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, thanking him profusely as he hugged the box to his chest.

  Anna looked at them intently for a moment, then waved her hand to signal them to leave.

  After the two left, Li Junshan told Fate about the lie he had just made up. Perhaps because of the magic letter, Fate didn't ask how Li Junshan suddenly became a war master, and excitedly walked away with the box.

  Li Junshan returned to his own room, skirted around the large hole on the floor, and sat in front of the bed thinking for half a day without getting anywhere.

  He tried to control the flow of Dou Qi in his body, and his body was covered with colors such as gray, orange, purple, and even yellow, changing rapidly. Li Junshan became more and more confused.

  The corresponding aura colors of the warriors at each level are different. The primary warrior is gray, the intermediate warrior is orange, the advanced warrior is cyan, the martial artist is purple, the great martial artist is blue, the martial saint is yellow, and the martial god is red. Those who break through the martial god and reach the holy realm, their aura becomes golden.

  Through the hole in the roof, he gazed at the starry sky and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind.

  His own blood is corrosive like that of the Xenomorphs, meaning he has inherited some of their genes, but for some reason lacks their speed and strength.

  The cultivation of spiritual power has not made progress, but when I switched to cultivating Dou Qi, I broke through the initial, intermediate and advanced three stages all at once, and suddenly reached the level of a war master. Can I understand it as being similar to cultivating internal energy in martial arts, where Dou Qi opened up my meridians and released the power of the alien gene, but only manifested in the form of Dou Qi? At the same time, this also affected my spiritual power, is that right?

  In other words, his own cultivation of Dou Qi did not really advance to the Zhan Shi level, but rather activated the mutated ability transformed by the alien gene.

  After thinking for a while, Li Junshan felt that apart from this understanding, he had no other way to explain these things.

  Li Junshan tried to feel the spiritual space of those dozen or so alien eggs that had a spiritual connection with him, and he could clearly sense the eagerness of the Facehugger wanting to come out from the ovary.

  "This matter still needs to be handled with caution, one mistake and you might end up becoming a parasite yourself." Li Junshan thought to himself, his hands subconsciously drawing the summoning gestures for the magical beast.

  Suddenly an idea popped into his mind, and Li Junshan thought it was more and more reliable, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

  "Let's try it tomorrow." Li Junshan chuckled, feeling the cold wind blowing in through the big hole in the roof, and shivered, wrapping his quilt tightly around him.

  The specialty of the Luoyue Mountains is the demon beasts. According to Alfred's "Historical Records of Continental Travel" from the late Holy Domain Mage of the Yalan Continent, there are also sacred-level demon beasts in the depths of the Luoyue Mountains.

  Sacred-level magical beasts are the pinnacle of existence among magical beasts, just like the strong in the sacred realm stand at the top of the pyramid. Of course, sacred-level magical beasts are not something that ordinary people can subdue, and only the strong in the sacred realm have this ability. Those who go to the Luoyue Mountains for adventure and mercenary groups do not dare to have such thoughts, as sixth-level or higher magical beasts are enough to make most people drink a pot of wine.

  Fenghuo Town is located at the edge of Luoyue Mountain Range. The forest outside the town is mostly inhabited by low-level magical beasts, and occasionally one or two level-five magical beasts appear. Within a few days, they are either killed for their magic crystals or tamed by powerful magicians or summoners.

  After decades, the forests around Fenghuo Town have long since lost their fifth-level and above magical beasts due to human baptism. Fortunately, the reproductive ability of low-level magical beasts is astonishing, otherwise this forest would probably become a dead land.

  After a busy morning, when the tavern was empty, Li Junshan pulled Fatie and ran towards the forest outside the town.

  "Is there something?" Fati became unusually diligent after receiving Anna's husband's magical manual, perhaps also stimulated by Li Junshan, this abnormal human.

  "Help me hatch the demon beast egg." Li Junshan ran to the outskirts of the town, saw that there was no one around, and started running at high speed with his inner energy, almost dragging Fate into the air.

  Before long, the two of them had sprinted to a deeper location in the forest. Li Junshan stopped and only then did he see that Fate's long hair was blown into a messy state by the strong wind. He smiled and said, "You wait here for a while." After saying this, he ignored Fate and dashed straight into the forest.

  Although he knew that there were no large demon beasts here, Fate still felt a little afraid, carefully looking around and also didn't understand why Li Junshan said it was to hatch the demon beast egg but went to do something else.

  Not long after that, Fate heard the sound of rapid footsteps, and at this time Li Junshan appeared from the south, holding several magical beasts in his hand.

  "First-class monster Jumping Bunny? Second-class monster Flame Chicken?" Fate's eyes widened in surprise, and he asked curiously: "What do you want to catch these low-level monsters for? They're useless."

  It's no wonder that Fatui is surprised. The Jumping Hare, apart from jumping a bit higher and having finer fur, has no use at all. The Flame Chicken sounds like it might know some magic, but in reality the flames it spits out can't even hurt a domesticated dog.

  "Just wait and see." Li Junshan smiled mysteriously, twisted off the legs of the two Jumping Rabbits and three Flame Chickens in his hands, and then threw them in front of him before sitting down cross-legged.

  Taking a deep breath, Li Junshan's mind cleared and he began his first beast summoning in the foreign realm.

  Following the strange symbol pattern in the summoning book, Li Junshan concentrated his energy and stretched out his fingers to quickly draw on the head of the screaming Jumping Bunny.

  Although his spiritual power training has not made much progress, Li Junshan's basic training is still good. He has demonstrated these symbolic hand gestures himself over a thousand times, and now when he draws them, it comes naturally like flowing water, smooth and effortless.

  A dazzling white light burst out from the top of Jumping Rabbit's head, forming a cross-shaped pattern in mid-air before quickly disappearing into its head.

  At the same time, Li Junshan felt a subtle spiritual connection with the jumping rabbit, and he could even clearly feel the pain caused by the rabbit's broken leg.

  Succeeded!

  Li Junshan was overjoyed.