novelThousand Changes, Ten Thousand Transformations
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Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
In the legends, Sun Wukong had the ability to transform. He could easily take the form of any living creatures and could even imitate their abilities.
Given Feng Lin's understanding and knowledge toward genetic theories, he could be sure that once he awakened the Sun Wukong Gene, he would surely obtain the ability of the countless transformations. This wasn't just a fantasy, but he didn't know anything definite about it.
If he could really transform into anything he wanted to and use all kinds of abilities, wouldn't that simply be too domineering?
Every type of mythological ability was different. The ways to use them were different as well.
If the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint could be incorporated with the various abilities of genetic martial arts or be used in sync with the ability of countless transformations, that would simply be a perfect match and he would be successful in every endeavor.
Although Feng Lin was walking on the mythological path of Sun Wukong, he wouldn't be limited to only this path.
No matter how great a mythological path was, it still belonged to another existence's path, not your own. The earlier phases of cultivation in awakening mythological genes were considered just a learning process, just for them to gain extraordinary abilities.
But if they wished to step onto a higher stage, they had to find their own path to reach the pinnacle.
Maybe, this Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint might be a bout of good fortune that would allow him to surpass Sun Wukong's path.
When he thought about this, Feng Lin was stirred with excitement.
However, incorporating his genetic martial arts weren't something that could be done in a single step.
For first, Feng Lin decided to start with ancient martial arts.
And what was better than to start it with the first art he had learned—the Hong Fist!
The Hong Fist was an extremely tough and fierce fist art. His punches would be in straight lines and were incomparably ferocious. Every attack was akin to flowing mercury, giving his opponent no chance to counter-attack. In the ancient battlefields, this martial art was incredibly valiant; its moves resembled waving huge hammers around with incomparable momentum.
Feng Lin slowly displayed his moves. He took all the movements of the Hong Fist which he had comprehended and slowly dissected them, trying his best to think of ways to incorporate the first move of the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint—the Sky Flipping Hammer Imprint—into it as he sought to find common points between the two arts.
The Sky Flipping Hammer Imprint had a total of three variations. But as Feng Lin gradually incorporated the essence of Hong Fist into it, another variation was born.
Next, the Eight Extremes Fist!
The Eight Extremes Fist by itself was created in the cold weapon era of Ancient Earth, from spear arts. It had large sweeping movements and ruthless killing techniques.
There was a saying that if one practiced the Eight Extremes Fist for a year, he could kill a human.
For the new practitioners of the Eight Extremes Fist, they would already have fearsome combat prowess after a year. Their punch force would be overly heavy, and stories of its martial practitioners killing others in a fight were pretty frequent.
Feng Lin took on the Eight Extremes Stance and continued to unleash punches, shoulders ram, elbow strikes... He tried to fathom the energy flow and transmission in his body. The attacks he unleashed felt like a giant spear piercing out, violent and tyrannical.
The spear had some common points with the whip. Although there were also many unharmonious parts, Feng Lin only focused on the common points and tried to integrate it with the "God Beating Whip Imprint", increasing the number of variations of the God Beating Whip Imprint to three.
After fusing these tough and fierce martial arts, Feng Lin started to attempt to fuse martial arts of a softer nature.
Right at the start, the martial art he wanted to fuse was the Taichi Fist.
Taichi Fist was one of the three strongest internal strength practices of Ancient Huaxia; the depth of knowledge in this martial art was extremely deep. It combined both the tough and soft aspect of martial arts, allowing one to control external forces to amplify their inner force.
Taichi could be divided into Yin and Yang, Life and Death, Tough and Soft.
It had the unique characteristic of duality. Both Yin and Yang actually had common points and could be fused as one.
Seizing the sparrow's tail!
Explosive Fist!
Turning Block!
...
Feng Lin displayed the moves of Taichi and experienced both the fusion of the soft and tough aspect, fusing it together with the "Yin-Yang Mirror Imprint" and increasing its number of variations by one.
He fused his Eight Trigram Palms with the "Primordial Flag Imprint", the Xingyi Fist into the "Dragon Evasion Pillar Imprint", and the Dragon Claw Art Into the "Binding Immortals Rope Imprint"...
There were multitudes of martial arts in the world, but the martial logic behind all of them was similar.
"An ocean is made up of hundreds of rivers and streams, containing vast quantities of water."
The Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint was—as expected—a supreme ancient martial art from the mythological era. It contained the essence of all martial arts; one could fuse all of them into it.
If Feng Lin could complete all the fusions, even he couldn't gauge the upper strength limit of Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint. Thus, he was filled with anticipation.
And through these repeated attempts, Feng Lin gradually gained deeper knowledge with regards to the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint.
This Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint was equivalent to a basic mathematical formula, and other martial arts were equivalent to a variety of data parameters that could be included inside for calculation. The end result would produce new martial art techniques and moves.
Genetic martial arts were naturally the same as well, but their data was much more complex and more difficult to integrate.
Earlier, that captain of the Mars Revolutionary Army could control the power of wind and fire. Clearly, he had successfully integrated some kinds of genetic martial arts with the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint, which resulted in the powers of his wind and fire to be so close to perfection.
If it wasn't because of his Stone Monkey Gene's ability to be impervious to water and fire and he could negate the energy effects, Feng Lin would definitely need to expend huge amounts of effort to deal with Luke.
However, what made Feng Lin slightly depressed was that despite how careful he was, he still didn't realize that Luke had held something back. He only gave him the most basic model of the techniques in the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint and not the variations he had deduced and created.
If he wanted to increase the might of the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint, he could only do his own deductions and continue trying to integrate other martial arts into it.
But this was already enough. As long as he knew the logic of 'An ocean is made up of hundreds of rivers and streams', Feng Lin could create his own new techniques. He didn't need to depend on others.
Feng Lin immersed himself in his training, seemingly enjoying it and would be never tired of it as he started to practice again.
However, it was extremely tough to execute any of the steps to perfection.
Right now, he could only fuse a small part of these various ancient martial arts into the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint, or else, it wouldn't make sense that there was only one additional variation to each of the imprints.
These ancient martial arts were passed down from the Ancient Earth Era and naturally had extraordinary knowledge within—as well as practicability—or it wouldn't have been passed down through the generations up until now.
And myths and legends were just exactly the opposite. During the Ancient Earth Era, nobody thought that knowing myths and legends would be of any use, and they completely disregarded it. After three series of world wars, two planetary wars, and five interstellar wars, the majority of the ancient civilizations had been destroyed. And as a result, the stories about myths and legends slowly started to disappear, leaving behind only a word or two in reference for some isolated phrases.
Pointless war engulfed the whole galaxy until the Interstellar Era arrived. It was only then did they realize and rediscover the existences of myths and legends. But sadly, everything was too late, and they were filled with endless regret.
The profound essence of ancient martial arts was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless ancients.
Feng Lin didn't believe that his talent in martial arts would surpass so many ancient geniuses, allowing him to instantly grasp the essence of these ancient martial arts and integrate them into the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint.
Cultivation valued persistence. Each and every step required a huge amount of energy and effort.
Feng Lin wasn't in a hurry, and he slowly started the fusion process.
He continued to experiment with different moves, and this—by itself—was also a type of cultivation process that would drive his body closer to perfection, allowing him to control his force perfectly.
Genetic potential +5%, +5%, +5%...
Feng Lin's genetic potential kept soaring. Although the speed of it increasing wasn't too fast, it also couldn't be considered slow. After some time, his genetic potential reached 588%.
If it were to increase by a little more, he would have been able to gain a free primeval genetic point and could have added the strengthening tally of the Stone Monkey gene by one.
After becoming an interstellar cultivator, although his cultivation speed had increased, the amount of genetic potential he required was much larger than before.
Feng Lin put in even more effort in his cultivation, it was like he didn't know what was fatigue.
His powerful body was able to persist, allowing him to continue training until the end. In the blink of an eye, ten hours had already passed.
Feng Lin moved and leaped about in his training room. His palm imprint continuously changed and was like a butterfly flying through the flowers, unleashing different moves, using his hands as hammers, claws or palms.
His palms flew around wildly, and his moves seemed to contain countless numbers of variations.
Feng Lin finally created a new move for every technique in the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint. When he displayed them, he truly felt that they were capable of a thousand changes.
Undoubtedly, he was on the right path.
From the first technique, the "Sky Flipping Hammer Imprint" to the last technique, "Primordial Flag Imprint", Feng Lin displayed them all and finally ceased his movements, no longer continuing to practice.
Based on the original techniques in the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint, Feng Lin made some deductions and created new moves, starting the initial fusion between that and the various ancient martial arts. This caused the power of the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint to increase greatly, far stronger than before.
He decided to name this new version of the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint as "Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint Version 1. 0" In the future as he comprehended the essence of more ancient martial arts, he would slowly fuse them inside and create version 1. 1, 1. 2, 1. 3...
If he could reach the level where he could fuse genetic martial arts into it, at that time, he would rename this martial art as "Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint Version 2. 0".
After his initial success, Feng Lin knew that his own self-knowledge had already reached his current limits. If he wished to improve further, he had to use more time to practice and increase his level of attainment in martial arts.
Although he thirsted for strength, he also had to respect reality.
And now, his comprehension of martial arts was still insufficient. He also didn't have enough time.
He temporarily gave up on strengthening the Kunlun Grand Palm Imprint and started to continue researching his genetic abilities.
After fighting with a true interstellar cultivator, he had already verified some of the Stone Monkey Gene's abilities. As a variation primeval gene, the four abilities of the Stone Monkey Gene were: Stone body steel bones, boundless strength, impenetrable by sword and spear, and impervious to fire and water. Among interstellar cultivators of the same rank, he was simply a bug-like existence.
Next, Feng Lin started to test the abilities of his Mental Gene.
This was a high-grade basic gene. Feng Lin didn't believe that it merely had the ability of mental perception.
Mental energy was formless and its might unpredictable. If he developed a corresponding long-range attack, that would drastically mitigate the fact that he was only proficient in close-range combat. With more methods of attacking, he would have the ability to adapt to changes better, and his combat prowess would also increase. This would be much more effective to him compared to continuing to awaken his other genes.
The important thing about genetic abilities was quality and not quantity!
Feng Lin meticulously researched. His mental energy originated from the center of his brows. It was like a formless giant web that covered his surroundings. Everywhere his mental energy swept by, he would be able to perceive all things in that area.
But this effect was merely an auxiliary one.
How to allow his mental energy to truly have killing power? Feng Lin tried for a long time, but he still couldn't find a way to do so. He could only give up temporarily for now.
If there was a question, just ask the star network!
He tapped on his id microchip and connected to the star internet network. He then typed the words 'mental gene', 'mental energy', 'combat prowess', 'occupation'... and other key terms in the search bar.
Hundred of search results instantly appeared. Feng Lin directly locked his gaze on the name of an occupation that appeared on the top of the list.
"Genetic Hypnotist!"
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