Ultragene Warlord

Chapter 575: Yeluo Poison #2

Sun Mengmeng could sense that the sura were gearing up for a big move.

Among the allied forces, there were a few races who seemed to be behaving strangely—they were wandering around the encampment of the other races. Sun Mengmeng specially assigned a few fighters to follow them around.

"I hope these other races won't be so easily tempted to defect, but if they do..." Renhuang wouldn't show them any mercy.

Sun Mengmeng and Hong Xi quickly arrived at Renhuang's academy. Much of the equipment had been grown naturally by the wood spirits, though they resembled modern electronic lab equipment. The lab they headed towards was geared at biological research.

The Yeluo chieftain met them with huge eyebags and messy, wild hair. When he saw them approach, however, his eyes lit up with anticipation. "You're here!"

The Yeluo chieftain boasted combat strength at least equal to that of a sura king, but at the moment, he seemed unbelievably weary.

For someone with his constitution to get so exhausted would have required operating without sleep for a few weeks, not just days.

Sun Mengmeng frowned. "Chieftain, I understand how much you value your research, but you have to take more breaks. If you collapse—"

Ever since the Yeluo poison had been countered by the sura's simple techniques, the Yeluo chieftain had gone into a frenzy as he pursued a refinement of the poison.

"No, no, let's not talk about this now. Come, have a look! I've made an incredible breakthrough—this is the newest formulation of the Yeluo poison!"

Sun Mengmeng and Hong Xi's eyes brightened. The Yeluo poison was a potent tool against the sura, but the sura had begun guarding against it.

Renhuang's original strategy of having flocks of bird dump that poison over the Yeluo troops had faltered, and they had no choice but to slather it over their weapons instead. The poison was effective, but not as instrumental as it had been.

With the Yeluo chieftain's new breakthrough, however, it might reclaim its original presence.

"Come, follow me." The Yeluo chieftain brought them to what was essentially a fume hood.

The fume hood was made not with a chemically resistant polymer, but rather a thin membrane made from the eyes of a certain insect-type lifeform from the second realm. The Yeluo chieftain had specifically issued a bounty for them in Renhuang's guild.

Within the fume hood was a squirming object, something that looked a bit like a slime. "This is my new invention."

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Sun Mengmeng frowned. "It looks like... a genetic lifeform?"

"Have a look."

As the Yeluo chieftain depressed a button, a sura corpse dropped into the chamber from above. The squirming lifeform pounced on it and stuck to its body.

In a matter of moments, the corpse had been dissolved whole.

"This is a biological wonder," the Yeluo chieftain introduced happily.

Hong Xi seemed rather perturbed. "It feels a little disgusting. Is this a biological lifeform?"

"Essentially. It acts on instinct and is unable to think for itself."

Sun Mengmeng asked, "How did you make it?"

"Oh!" The Yeluo chieftain smiled happily. "Well, I'll have to thank Zhou Ying and the shaman of the wood spirits for that.

When Zhou Ying's body merged with the shaman of the wood spirits', their merger represented an elevated form of life, one distinct from anything I've ever seen before."

He directed the two of them toward what seemed to be a microscope constructed out of a flower, with almost the same functionality. He displayed a cell sample of Zhou Ying and the shaman's combined form by the base of the flower and motioned for Sun Mengmeng to have a look.

Sun Mengmeng saw, to her surprise, that that cell sample was growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The Yeluo chieftain continued excitedly, "These cells have a frightening vitality and regenerative ability, so much so that they seem to be able to subdivide without any limit whatsoever."

Sun Mengmeng asked, "Does Zhou Ying know of this?"

Hong Xi answered before the Yeluo chieftain could. "Of course not—or she'd beat the chieftain up!"

"These cells possess unusual characteristics reminiscent of a plant. They can survive even in bitter cold, and all they fear is extreme heat. Under ambient conditions, they can grow and reduplicate endlessly, needing nothing more than sunlight to survive. These cells are truly a miracle, as though they came from the goddess of life herself."

The Yeluo chieftain became more and more agitated as he spoke—to him, this was a discovery that would revolutionize the very foundations of the world.

He retrieved a vial. "At the beginning, I used these cells to manufacture poison in much the same way we had been doing before, and the quality of the resulting poison far surpassed anything we had ever made—compared to the new poison, all our concoctions to date are worthless. Any other concoction is worthless!"

"Are these cells really that impressive?"

The Yeluo chieftain nodded firmly. "You know about the potions of regeneration we make, don't you? In the past, if you had an arm chopped off, you'd need to retrieve that arm and make sure that the wound isn't too damaged if you wanted to use a potion on it. The potion of regeneration we made with Zhou Ying's cells is far superior."

Hong Xi frowned. "Do you mean to say that it can even regrow limbs?"

The Yeluo chieftain shook his head. "No. More than that—if you're still alive, even if half your body has been chopped off, that potion can save your life and regrow it all."

Sun Mengmeng's eyes widened. "What?! Doesn't that mean that we can prevent the deaths of any Renhuang troop?"

The Yeluo chieftain nodded. "That's right, but this potion is still nothing compared to the new Yeluo poison we've developed."

"You mean to say that the new Yeluo poison has an even stronger effect?"

"Of course—it'll end the war against the sura all by itself."

"Truly?!" Sun Mengmeng listened with bated breath, unable to believe the truth of the Yeluo chieftain's words.

The Yeluo chieftain nodded. "It's as instrumental as the nuclear warheads of your past, the starbreak annihilators of your present."

The combination of Zhou Ying's cells and the Yeluo poison had produced something beyond his wildest imaginations—a biological lifeform.

Sun Mengmeng asked again, "Can this new poison really win the war against the sura?"

"Yes, definitely."

The Yeluo chieftain walked deep into the laboratory and retrieved a tub of powder kept securely under lock and key. "This is the inactive form of the new poison."

"A powder?" Sun Mengmeng seemed a little disappointed. The sura now guarded against any mysterious liquids or powder thrown their way, and this new form of the poison seemed rather unusable...