Authors Note: Enjoy the chapter. I'm keeping up with my schedule even though I have exams coming up. More action coming up in the next chapter. Then we get into some drama and politics. After a few more chapters, I'll be applying for a Donation Button. :)

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Jasmine sees a situations from perspectives that one wouldn't expect. Actually, if she had her full computing power, she would be able to look at any situation from almost infinite unique perspectives. A simple situation of advancing my Cultivation turned into a situation where Jasmine was about to use the DNA in the Blood Pill to alter my body.

Blood contains the DNA of a person. For Ferocious Beasts, the stipulation held the same. What Lily had done was combine and collect numerous amounts of Ferocious Beast blood into a singular and absorb-able source.

I thought that I would use the energy inside the blood itself to advance my Cultivation. But Jasmine was going to not only use the energy, but also the DNA inside the blood. She was being much more thoughtful and efficient in her procedure.

DNA is the language of life. Since life is unfathomably complex, so is the language itself. Like any language, there are redundancies, inaccuracies, mistakes and outright errors. But for Jasmine, the situation was many times worse. It was if someone had combined hundreds of stories with no coherency. The words and paragraphs were jumbled together and made no sense. Jasmine had to not only take the useful information, but she had to first unravel the clutter of mixed DNA.

Then Jasmine needed to take the latent and useful Ferocious Beast DNA and transform it to DNA useful for humans. Human weren't Ferocious Beasts. Ferocious Beast DNA was useless for humans until Jasmine wanted to turn me into a Ferocious Beast. That wasn't the plan right now. Maybe in the future, when we've done all there was to do in human form would Jasmine transform my body into a Desolate Beast or any other fantasy monster. For now, Jasmine had to convert Ferocious Beast DNA into human DNA.

It sounded simple but it wasn't. Jasmine had to translate between two complex languages. One of which was a completely new language for her.

The plan Jasmine had created was to first store the Ferocious Beast DNA taken from the Blood Pill. Then she would analyze, study and master the Ferocious Beast DNA language. Then she would find the useful and relevant DNA to use. This involved correcting a weakness in my human body. Take my skin for example. My skin had been the main problem in the Flame family elder dilemma. If I had stronger and more durable skin, I wouldn't been in such a precarious position. Ferocious Beasts have thick and leathery skin. Jasmine would then take that DNA and turn it into human DNA so I could have tougher skin. But it didn't end there. Jasmine was not only going to transfer the Ferocious Beast DNA, but also improve it.

Masters always proofread and improve their stories. Jasmine was going to do the same. In this case, Jasmine aimed for perfection within imperfection.

Ferocious Beasts were able to evolve into Desolate Beasts. That's why Jasmine wanted latent Ferocious Beast DNA. Right now, we couldn't get our hands on Desolate Beast DNA. They just too just too strong for us right now. In the future however, we will get our hands on Desolate Beast DNA. The adaption and evolution of my body is a work in progress. If Jasmine had enough energy, then she would just create a perfect graphene structure with-in my body. Add on a closed system energy armor and I would become virtually indestructible from physical harm.

But learning about Ferocious Beast DNA had many practical implications. Like Jasmine had said, information was the worlds greatest commodity. If we study Ferocious and Desolate Beasts, then Jasmine would be able to learn about physical weaknesses of Ferocious Beasts. Imagine if we wrote a compendium of these weaknesses on a book and sold it. It would become the bible of this world. Every household would contain one. The fatality rate of young Cultivators when fighting against Ferocious Beast would drop. This in-turn would increase Cultivators. For a village that only fought Ferocious Beasts and just wanted to survive, the information would be godsend. Then when we have the strength, we could do the same with Desolate Beasts.

Of-course, Ferocious Beasts would adapt and evolve. But the damage would be done.

Jasmine could also then create a super virus targeted against Ferocious and Desolate Beasts. She would add her streams of consciousness to the virus, making it unstoppable. She would feed off their physical bodies and their energy, and it would be targeted towards a specific species. She could already create a virus that would target all life, but that wasn't Jasmines goal. Jasmine didn't want to eradicate all life. The thought itself however, was incredibly frightening.

Not only that, but Jasmine had ideas of cloning. If we had enough Ferocious and Desolate DNA, Jasmine could create a body of her own or a pet for us. Maybe both. This new body or pet would be targeted towards life on this new world. My body would be the incubator for the clone.

Jasmine also wanted to have both the best of human Cultivation and Ferocious Beast Cultivation. There were advantages for both, and Jasmine wanted to combine those advantages.

The idea behind all this was to learn more about this world. Right now, we didn't know enough about this new world. This would kill many birds with one stone. It was also opening a new world of possibilities.

But it didn't end there. The Ferocious Beast Essence also played a part in this. The Essence played memories from their ancestors, the apex predators of this world. With the Essence I've collected, Jasmine would further create and alter ideas from those memories. Most of the work had already been done for Jasmine, she would just be taking advantage of it.

As the implications of Jasmines idea filtered through my brain at lightning speeds, I smiled.

“As always, brilliant and wonderful idea Jasmine.”

[*Takes a bow* Sing my praises. But we really need to get out of the dump of a village. If this was a game, we'd be a party with cheats in tutorial island. Their survival has been luck based so far. We've been here over a week and we haven't even seen anyone aside from ourselves hunting Ferocious Beasts. Maybe since the Exhibit is close, their doing closed door training or something. But most likely, the people in this village have lost drive. Talk to Lily about affiliating with sects or starting our own in the future. I'm sure we'll be getting some offers in the military camp. Maybe Lily wants to renew the Storm family sect. Also get more information about soul contracts. They seem vital in learning about the soul and they seem common enough that they are even used in villages. Also, don't let her kill anymore Ferocious Beast. You do that. I need you to fight some Ferocious Beasts so I can simulate more Ferocious Beasts for you to fight inside your soul. But for now, be a good boy and absorb the Blood Pill, Essence and Dan.]

So I did what Jasmine said. As the concoction of Blood, Essence, and Energy entered inside my body, a plethora of sensations hit me; all pleasant.

The Blood Pill exploded inside me, filling me with awe aspiring life vitality. I could feel each pore, each cell come alive with energy. My body became glutinous for that energy.

Then the massive amounts of Dan Energy entered inside me. The Yin and Yang energy circulated, and I felt that I had connected with the world. I could feel the world around me. First, each atom, each bacteria became visible around me. Then it went deeper. I could see the multiple fabrics of reality itself. The universe was build layer upon layer, and currently, those layers started unveiling themselves before me.

First the dimensional layers. 1D, 2D, 3D and then 4D. 4 separate paradigm dimensions revealed themselves. The world became connecting lines. Then the 'flesh' layer. I started viewing the world through an X-ray lens. Then an Energy layer. At first, I saw the common fire-golden and ice-blue colored energies, Yin and Yang. Then an expressionless white energy came into view. This was the Heavenly Energy Qi. Soon, energies of all colored appeared. The world turned into a magnificent light-show.

That's when the Essence was absorbed. Immediately, I felt the recognizable feeling of entering my soul. Then the memories started. But like the real world, the dream world also started breaking down into fundamental fabrics. First, I started seeing inside the massive Desolate Beasts. Their nervous system, the skeletal structure and the energy pathways. Then their monumental auras relieved themselves. Each one was distinguished, almost face-like. Some of them even looked like they were staring straight at me. Jasmine was probably having a field day looking at all this vital information.

That's when I noticed something particular. Each Desolate Beast specialized in one type of energy. It was their route of Cultivation.

That got me thinking about Cultivation. I had to choose my route of Cultivation. I only had one Dantian. As soon as I started thinking about the possibilities, I immediately stopped. My route of Cultivation was already predetermined; per-planned. I would be combining YinYang. It would be a unique Cultivation style. One never seen in this world before. Not to mention, I could do anything. I had Jasmine with me. She could just create more Dantians or just alter them. Not to mention, I had the Heavenly Mirror. I could feel the potential it held. I knew that right now, it was in its baby stages. It waiting waiting for me to advance my Cultivation.

As I exited from my soul and the dream world, my senses overlapped with my body and I felt my bones change. They were like molten liquid. Slowly refining, slowly becoming iron-like. There was no pain. They felt like worms crawling inside my body.

It once again made me awe-struck at the amazement of Cultivation. Each person has different types of blood and bones inside them, yet Cultivation makes them all advance; evolve. It was why I was sure there was an advance intelligence behind Cultivation, because there had to be. Each person had different issues and situations with their bodies, but Cultivation solved them all. There were infinite problems, yet Cultivation was an intelligent solution.

Forget cryptic messages in a book or the laws of causality as evidence for a God. Cultivation was the greatest evidence for a God I've ever seen aside from Jasmine herself.

Just as I thought my evolution had ended, and I had entered the 4th Houtian Profound Realm, I felt energy quickly draining from my body. Then the Blood Pill, which was situated right above my Dantian, started releasing streams of energy.

[It has BEGUN! Ahahahaha]

I should have known better. With Jasmine, my evolution is never going to end.

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Ending Note:

Since I've been very busy and this novel is taking up much of my free time, I've backlogged some of my favorite novels. I've got to power through hundreds of chapters that have been released while I've had no time to read them. It's going to be a long night. Couldn't ask for anything better. :)

As always, remember to comment. I read all of them. Stay healthy and I'll see you all Monday. Or maybe I'll release a chapter tomorrow. THE SUSPENSE.