The stratosphere, nearly 20,000 meters above the surface... The air at this height is already very thin. Even in the 21st century, only the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft and strategic bombers will visit this area. And in the 20th century

In the legendary plane of gods and ghosts in the 1900s, no life form had the ability to reach this height.

However, an uninvited guest visited this area today: a bright silver-coated helium balloon slowly rose to this height, and the hatch of the alloy container hanging under the balloon opened, revealing a man wearing no clothes.

Qianying, who was wearing a spacesuit and not even carrying a parachute, stepped out of the container, and then...jumped off!

That's right, it was Ye Zi who was in free fall and gradually approaching the speed of sound. And with her actions, was she planning to commit suicide!?

Obviously it's not... just the speed of sound. With Ye Zi's physical strength, it can fully bear the load. In fact, the full speed she uses with her self-created skills is at the level of subsonic speed. Problems such as lack of oxygen at high altitudes are a problem for the second-level acceleration of the gene lock.

For extraordinary beings with a BB-level bloodline, it does not pose a threat. Unless strenuous exercise is required, it is not difficult to go without breathing for several minutes.

The only problem left was how to land: if Ye Zi, who was not wearing a parachute, was "smashed" to the ground with such kinetic energy, he would only end up with his body broken into pieces and become "Ye Zijiang".

Five thousand meters, two thousand meters, one thousand meters...

As if to embrace the ocean below, Ye Zi opened her arms, and at the same time, a pair of translucent, semi-material wings made of magical energy with a wingspan of nearly ten meters, appeared with her hands.

The arms took shape quickly as the center: she calmly and accurately adjusted the direction of her wings, not confronting the kinetic energy head-on, but like a swooping bird of prey, constantly changing her angle...

Finally, when she was less than a hundred meters away from the sea, Ye Zi's speed was still above the speed of sound, but her flying angle had changed from vertical fall to almost parallel to the sea surface. When she almost passed by the sea surface, she was encircled by

The strong wind cut away the oncoming waves, and the strong shock wave left a conspicuous track on the sea.

Then, Ye Zi waved her "wings" to adjust her posture, raised her altitude, and glided towards the uninhabited island at the end of her field of vision. When her speed dropped past the dividing line of the speed of sound, the long-lost sound of the wind came to her ears again.

sounded. Looking in the direction of the horizon, her eyes were not gene-locked and blank, but more empty, distant, and shining with inexplicable brilliance.

A few minutes later, Ye Zi was walking on the white sand of the uninhabited island beach, letting the waves lap at her soft and delicate feet. Her eyes were slightly closed, but an invisible force began to take shape between her slender fingers.

.

Yes, her leap from an altitude of 20,000 meters was by no means a simple experience of "extreme sports".

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Ye Zi's strength... is very strong. Even if she did five missions (counting her return) to unlock the first level of the gene lock, and three more missions to unlock the second level, compared to Zheng Zha, the clone Zheng Zha, and the original Luo Gandao

The progress of waiting for others is indeed much later. But she has accumulated a lot of experience and now has a glimpse of the third level. This speed is no less than Zheng Zha.

Of course, the so-called "first glimpse" is just the use of a very small part of the third-level abilities in advance... For example, when she ambushed Dr. Jackal in the last game, she briefly simulated Zhao Yingkong's breath gathering skills, such as

Facing Arlot's high speed, Zheng Zha once forced the gene to lock the second level

"Power" is added to one's own brain. If there are enough opportunities, it may only take one task or even one epiphany to open the door. However, if the "feeling" is not grasped, it may take eight out of ten tasks.

It took a lot of hard work to walk through this first glimpse of the door.

Fortunately, Ye Zi has a certain degree of certainty about how to take his "path".

The four techniques she previously created based on "Magic Release" contain the artistic conception of water, wind, thunder and ice respectively: [Stagnation] is like water, which can stagnate, resist, eliminate, and resolve energy and physical attacks; [Edge] is like wind.

, turning energy into many small sharp blades, allowing hundreds of sword lights to shine on

Cut at the same point in a very short period of time; [Tingni] is like thunder, like electric stimulation, forcing specific muscles to be hyperactivated, and briefly using super-limited speeds; [Hansu] is like ice, with dark strength

The method is to penetrate the enemy's body and then semi-materialize, "freezing" the opponent's body and energy circulation.

These four self-created techniques, placed within the second-level category, are worthy of the evaluation of "exquisite"... However, the so-called "artistic conception" is just artistic conception after all.

Different from Zheng Zha's "Red Flame" and Dr. Jackal's "Thunder and Lightning Dou Qi", Ye Zi's four skills are only similar in appearance and even spirit to water, wind, thunder and lightning, but the essence is still just elf energy without attributes.

"Magic release". Or, to use Naruto's terminology, this is only the category of "morphological change", but cannot achieve "property change".

This makes their upgrade and expansion potential very limited. However, if they can truly use the power of water, wind, thunder and ice, both their most intuitive combat effectiveness and the richness of their skill pool will have room for improvement in the future.

sexual enhancement.

By exchanging A-level "Elemental Spirits" or releasing high-level sub-species of magic power (such as Karna's magic power release [Fire] a), you can indeed "buy" similar abilities directly, but the price is very high.

It's not like a poor, ahem, poor girl who even borrowed a branch line from Zhao Yingkong in order to save Zhang Jie can afford it, and...

Ye Zi's intuition told her that if she could turn the non-attributed elf energy into the power of various attributes based on her own realm, practice and understanding, the experience accumulated in this process would be extremely valuable.

wealth.

And when she possesses the power of "water" and "wind", it will also be the day when she officially enters the third level of gene lock!

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It was precisely for this reason that she spent tens of thousands of reward points to exchange for three full years of living days... Otherwise, almost no side mission, no matter how huge, would take such a long time.

In the past fifteen months, Ye Zi, in addition to practicing hard in the cold and summer, working hard, and tempering his spiritual energy, has traveled to almost all major rivers and lakes in the world.

She has drifted in the rapid and dangerous underground rivers, and has also physically dived into the seabed hundreds of meters deep, experiencing the endless pressure of the ocean and the vitality as the cradle of life.

She once built a platform at the bottom of the Niagara Falls and meditated for seven days and nights. She also traveled upstream along the Yangtze River to trace the source of the extremely pure and clear snow-capped mountains and glaciers.

Now, after spending hundreds of days and nights understanding the many aspects of water, plus thousands of attempts, the power of "water"...is in her hands.

The "crazy" move of jumping from the stratosphere just now was one of Ye Zi's many attempts to understand the power of "wind".

"Bang."

But the next second, the invisible power at Ye Zi's fingertips, an unstable "semi-finished product" between the attributeless elf energy and the wind attribute power, began to appear chaotic. Even if her reaction was fast enough,

She immediately threw the power out of her hand, and the bursting turbulence exploded her palm into bloody pieces.

("Wind"'s third thousandth attempt failed... I have long been used to this level of injury, and it takes about half an hour to heal. However, the power of the wind attribute is still more dangerous than the power of the water attribute.

A lot.)

(Every time I try, I have opened the gene lock to the limit. So far, the cumulative time to open the second level of the gene lock is nearly a thousand hours at least. For the power of the second level, I have mastered the power of the arm.

The so-called "second-level peak" is probably this level, but... the third-level realm of gene lock, the door that is so close, as if within reach, can never be pushed open.)

(Just like my intuition, only by completing the practice of "wind" can you enter the third level... Unlike the second level of gene lock, the third level emphasizes not the evolution of strength, but skills, control and calculation.

The evolution of abilities and the potential of liberating the brain. As a precursor to the fourth level of subtlety, it really couldn’t be more appropriate.)
Chapter completed!