The Era of Gods

The Black Scale Naga was created from the fusion of either four or five different species’ bloodlines, culminating in their current form, which possesses the traits of these species and a powerful combat ability.

However, the fusion of different bloodlines has its advantages as well as disadvantages. The mixture of several bloodlines severely hinders the Naga’s further progress.

To put it plainly, the genetic repository of the current Black Scale Naga encompasses those few bloodlines’ genes, each occupying a part.

And then, because it’s the fusion of several bloodlines into one, the traits, talents, and specialties that the Naga display are only a very small part of their genetic repository. The vast majority of the repository is occupied by useless genes, which Lin Xiao wants to take this opportunity to evolve and remove from the Naga.

In plain terms, Lin Xiao intends to purify the Naga’s genes, excluding the other bloodlines except for the Fishman, retaining mainly Fishman genes with a small amount from other bloodlines, and enhancing it with other talents and skills to create a pure Fishman bloodline.

This idea only came to him a few days after completing the Fishman adjustment. At first, he hadn’t considered it, but after seeing the powerful Fishman he had painstakingly adjusted, and realizing the Naga, because they only had a part of the Fishman bloodline, didn’t inherit many benefits, he came up with this idea.

If the Naga had only Fishman bloodline in them, even without doing anything, they would be able to perfectly inherit all the enhancements that came with the modified Fishman.

If the two species’ bloodlines were unified, any gene-level enhancement of the Fishman could be fully enjoyed by the Naga.

Moreover, Lin Xiao had an even crazier idea. He wanted to establish an evolutionary chain between the Fishman and the Naga.

The so-called evolutionary chain, explained with a simple example, is like Pikachu evolving into Raichu, then into Rhyperior, or a caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly, and so on.

He wanted to create a complete evolutionary chain between the Fishman and the Naga, allowing a Fishman to evolve into a Naga upon meeting certain conditions. In this way, in the future, the propagation of Fishmen could be greatly encouraged, and then Fishmen could be evolved into Nagas.

He did so mainly because, with each evolution of the Naga, they would become increasingly powerful, and their reproductive ability would gradually decrease.

He didn’t want to evolve a legendary species like humans, which as potent as they may be, are initially weak; rather, he wanted to create legendary beings with individual combat abilities comparable to dragons-a species whose reproductive ability would inevitably be pitifully low. Then, it would be too slow to rely on the growth rate of species reproduction. If Fishmen could evolve into Nagas, it would significantly increase the species’ growth rate.

This would undoubtedly be very difficult, but it’s essential to do.

As he was contemplating this in his mind, the five minutes quickly elapsed. Everyone had made their choices, and the host Instructor Mo looked towards the students in the front row who were without a seat and said,

“I regret to inform certain students that your journey at the Summer Camp has come to an end. Please, those who have not completed their tasks, leave the venue. You have one day to prepare to leave the camp.”

True to military style, dismissal was swift. Had it been an academic institution, they probably would have made a few polite remarks first.

Out of the 4,158 students, 1,915 were eliminated in the first phase, nearly half. Only a quarter of the remaining students had seats. Lin Xiao was on the lowest level of thrones, sitting at the very edge. A few steps in front of him were stairs, and below the stairs, more than 1,600 students stood densely packed at the bottom.

Bai Ze, Shang Xiaoxue, and about twenty other students from Yunmengxing Province were huddled together, occasionally looking back and up, showing envious expressions on their faces.

Lm Xiao, with his hand resting on the armrest of his seat, looked down upon the crowded students below. Although his face was serious and expressionless, his muscles involuntarily twitched as if he was trying to hold back a smile. Many people have likely experienced this feeling before-it’s exhilarating. Tang Ling’s gaze swept across the thrones on the high platform, and as she looked at a particular seat, she locked eyes with its occupant. From above, he looked down with a slight smile, and from below, she quickly averted her eyes, feeling quite annoyed.

“Everyone stand at attention!”

The sudden thunderous voice made the venue go quiet in an instant, and the host spoke in a serious tone,

“No noise, no fidgeting, prepare to receive the infusion of Subspace Source Power!”

As soon as the words fell, the stars on the ceiling of the hall lit up rapidly, transforming into beams of light that descended from the sky, enveloping every student within them.

Lin Xiao was also hit by an energy beam and instantly felt the energy flowing into his Divine Realm, centering on him, and nearly immediately sensed the changes in his Divine Realm.

The Divine Realm became more stable, allowing another Card to be integrated. “Tsktsk,”

He smacked his lips, wishing he could experience this kind of benefit several more times.

The so-called Subspace Source Power is the energy from within the subspace, extracted by the Super Combination Artifacts, such as Yan Huang No. 5. The volatile energy from the subspace is transformed into stable source energy through the Super Divine Artifact before being infused into their Divine Realms, forcibly stabilizing the Divine Realms and increasing the number of Cards that can be integrated.

This kind of thing could only be accomplished within Subspace by a few Super War Fortresses. Before Lin Xiao arrived, he saw those two enormous nebula vortices, similar to the Milky Way, which were precisely where Yan Huang No. 5 was extracting Subspace energy.

An extra Card slot as a reward, Lin Xiao’s first thought was of the Bloody Gladiator Arena in his hand; perhaps he could enhance this Card with Creation Energy and integrate it into the Divine Realm.

“Hmm, yes, this…”

He suddenly looked up and saw behind Instructor Mo on the main stage, ten balls of light in different colors on the ten seats suddenly became brighter and burst forth with dazzling Divine Light, forcing everyone to turn their heads away, unable to look directly at it.

Seconds later, the Divine Light gradually faded and was no longer blinding. Lin Xiao turned back and saw ten figures shrouded in mysterious auras sitting in the ten seats, their immense strength twisting the Void and making it impossible to see their true faces. Only various colored auras blooming beneath the feet of these ten figures could be seen, interweaving and overlapping with one another.

While everyone was guessing who those ten figures were, Instructor Mo’s voice rose again:

“You should know, this session of the Super Newcomer Summer Camp is hosted by the military. Among these ten representatives, two are from the military, while the other eight represent the academies. Next, these ten representatives will serve as mentors for the second stage of the Summer Camp, selecting team members from among you to form four combat teams.” “Damn, a Summer Camp version of ‘The Voice of China’?”

Lin Xiao’s mind was filled with question marks. Mentors, combat teams, such a familiar setup that he felt as if he were suddenly back in the days before he crossed over.

“Shortly, the mentors will divide their team members into different ranks such as three, six, and nine, and then…”

The host introduced the rules for the second stage, and the more Lin Xiao listened, the more familiar it sounded.

The rules were simple. The mentors picked team members to form combat teams, ranking them by strength into several classes within ranks three, six, and nine. First, there would be an elimination process within each team. Then, same-ranked students from different teams would engage in PK battles, best ’ two out of three, with the winners receiving different rewards depending on the rank. Those losers without seats would be eliminated outright.

If a loser had a seat, it would be downgraded one level, such as Bronze Throne to Black Iron, Black Iron to Stone, and of course, Stone has nothing beneath it to downgrade to; another defeat would result in the loss of their seat.

In this stage, each student would have to challenge three different opponents at the minimum. If without a seat, one must achieve three straight victories, or they too would be eliminated.

Besides, those who won two out of three challenges could get a chance for a cross-tier challenge. After winning, they would not only receive additional rewards but also take over the rank and seat of their opponents.

If they achieved three straight victories or succeeded in a cross-tier challenge, they would be granted the opportunity to receive an infusion of Subspace Source Power, earning an extra Card slot. Theoretically, in this stage, it was possible to gain two additional Card slots.

Of course, that referred to the lower and middle tiers. For those at the Gold Tier, as the highest level with no one above them to challenge, they had the Gold Privilege: as long as they remained at their level after the competition, they would receive a Card slot.

This stage could be considered extremely brutal, as just looking at the competition format, it was certain that a considerable number of students would be eliminated.

But the rewards for this stage were equally substantial. The minimum reward for the Summer Camp was a golden mythical Card, and if one won several battles, they could easily obtain four or five Mythical Quality Five Star Cards, the kind that could make one rich overnight.

“Next, let’s welcome the mentors to introduce themselves!”

The host stepped aside, and behind him the ten mentors slowly converged their mysterious auras, gradually revealing their real shapes, ten men and women whose appearances were still unclear due to the distorted fluctuations they emitted.

It wasn’t that they were still showing off, but rather their strength was so immense that if they appeared directly, it would cause a huge mental shock to all the students, along with a radiation of Divine Power, altering their thought processes.

This was a passive ability of a powerful True God, much like how any True God automatically possesses the Eye of Truth, mastery of language, designated teleportation, flight, among other abilities after Divine Enthronement, always active and instinctual.

The ten mentors stood in clear formation for four teams, but not as one might imagine with two mentors per team. Instead, two of the mentors each stood apart, leading their own team, while the remaining eight were divided into two teams, one with three and one with five mentors.

That is to say, the number of mentors for the four combat teams was unequal, with two teams each having only one mentor, one team with three mentors, and one team with as many as five mentors.

“Now, let’s invite the mentors to introduce themselves.”

The figure enveloped in red Divine Light on the far left stepped forward with a heavy, powerful stride and a loud voice:

“Affiliated with Yan Huang No. 5’s War Zone, Second Expeditionary Army, First Division, Deputy Commander of the Wolf Fang Combat Team, Colonel Hong Yunfei.”

Immediately following, the second figure shrouded in dark gold Divine Light

also introduced themselves in a clear, forceful voice:

“Affiliated with Yan Huang No. 5’s War Zone, First Expeditionary Army, Third Division, Deputy Commander of the Furious Flame Battalion, Colonel Xie Yufei!”

A female colonel from the military,