Multi-Gene

David was astounded. The stars here were so many they looked like clusters of stars in the nighttime.

And the old man just said to him that they all consisted of mental arts techniques and skills.

Some of the stars shone brightly than the others, making David ask the old man.

"The brighter the stars, the higher the technique is. Take a look at that star." The old man pointed at a particular corner.

There, a bright light shone with an astonishing dazzle, standing alone like a sovereign while the other stars didn't dare to move close it.

"That bright light is the only heaven ranked technique in this continent and I found it within an ancient cave abode. Sadly, before I was able to cultivate the heaven ranked technique to the beginning stages, I had reached the limit of my life span. "

David drew in a gasp of disbelief. "A heaven ranked technique? But it is only a myth! No one had ever come into contact with one in the past ten thousand years. It was even stated that the last one caused a bloody war that nearly wiped out the entire world itself.

There were a few hypotheses about the war being the reason for the rapidly mutated beast evolving because they wished to protect themselves from our slaughter."

"You are quite knowledgeable." The old man glanced at David, obviously surprised by his vast knowledge.

Seeing the look of desire in David's eyes. "You think you would be able to give it a try?" a look of mockery flashed in his old eyes and then vanished only to be replaced with a smile on his face.

He had spent almost ten thousand years trying to comprehend the heaven ranked technique but in the end, he wasted his lifespan trying to comprehend the technique, all to no avail.

"Go ahead, check it out." there was a hidden smirk on his face as he encouraged.

David's eyes lit up. Naturally, he was also very cautious. He had noticed the imperceptible change on the old man, which had confirmed some of his guesses.

Normally, he might not have dared to take any risk, but there was an heaven ranked technique before him. It was possibly the only heaven ranked technique in the world, David was not going to let this opportunity slip by him.

He immediately went forwards and reached out his hands softly to grab the star. It was as though he was plucking a star from the sky.

But as his right hand was about to touch the starlight, the star shook slightly and massive energy surged.

Boom!

An explosive sound rang out and David was blasted 500 meters away. His body bounced on the floor four times before coming to a skidding stop.

Puuu!

He spat out a massive amount of black blood. His chest had caved in by a few inches. If it weren't for the fact that he had noticed the threat much earlier, shifting his two most important organs sideways, he might have just died.

His ribs had been shattered into pieces. David quickly got to a cross-legged position grabbing a couple of healing pills from his storage rings and gulping them down his throat.

As for the reason why he didn't drink blood, David chose to keep it a secret. After a few hours of meditation, he stood up gently as he gazed at the bright innocent star shining a few hundreds of meters away then he gazed at the old man with a sombre expression on his face.

"Don't look at me, it's a heaven ranked technique, of course, it will resist." The old man shrugged with a slight smile on his face.

David took in deep breaths to calm his anger. He was already gravely injured, arguing with the old man might bring forth unfavourable circumstances for him which was why David didn't say a word.

Instead, he turned towards the star. There was a barrier around it now. David guessed he would have to break through the barrier to acquire the manual.

A luxurious sword appeared out of thin air and David formed a hand seal.

Immediately, the air rumbled and a powerful force of heat surged out from thin air. Instantly, two flaming serpents more than a hundred meters tall hissed ferociously to the skies.

Flames rumbled and the earth was immediately charred black. Even the air itself was been fried as it released repeated popping sounds like the sounds of popcorn on fire.

Pop! pop! pop!

Wuuuuu!

A loud sound echoed and the flaming serpents launched themselves explosively at the shining star with a fiery might.

The old man was rather surprised. David was only still a peak mortal realm practitioner and he could already practice an earth realm technique at his age, it certainly showed how talented he was.

Sadly, he wasn't satisfied with David, his new body must possess other attributes apart from a high comprehension ability.

He then watched as the attack was launched. He couldn't help but shake his head. The attack was powerful, but it wasn't enough.

As old man Ouyang Feng was thinking of this, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Another thin blade appeared right before David, and then he formed a hand seal.

"Go!"

The air rippled as though it was been torn apart. In the next millisecond, the blade appeared right before the shining star and slammed right into it.

Explosive shockwaves spread out in all directions. The attack had just landed when the flaming serpent caught up. They slammed into the barrier around the star, spreading high-temperature steam in all directions, the air had directly turned to steam.

Crack! Bang!!

With those two attacks, the barrier shattered without warning, but the bright star seem to have noticed the threat as it turned around to fly into the distance.

"Where do you think you're going?" David had long activated floating wind and had appeared before the bright light in the next moment.

His hands immediately grabbed the light.. Instantly, David fell into a daze.