King of Assassins-Chapter 803 - 594: The Wolf Eats Meat

Gao Xuan came out of the director's office, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, with a cheerful smile on his face.

As the deputy director, he already had his own office. It's not far from Wei Ying's office, but the room is small, only twenty square meters. Naturally, there's no secretary.

Gao Xuan sat on the multifunctional office chair, enjoying this independent office space.

The room for the Field Department's team members was crowded with seven or eight strong men, the space was cramped, with all kinds of body odor and sweat smell. There's no personal space and no personal privacy.

The Field Department is essentially the company's soldiers, and no one cares if their living conditions are comfortable.

Becoming a P5 and serving as the deputy director of the Field Department, this small step allowed Gao Xuan to step into the company's middle management, completely breaking away from the bottom.

If he didn't have ambitious aspirations, he could easily stay in this position until retirement.

Gao Xuan certainly wouldn't be so unambitious. Although he wasn't in a hurry to retrieve his original body, he also wouldn't waste too much time here.

Therefore, upon reaching the P5 level, Gao Xuan aimed to fulfill various benefits.

A copy of the Profound Nether Technique provides only a glimpse. He still needed more Cultivation Techniques to deeply understand the new Cultivation System.

Secondly, the Skywalker Gene Potion could cause bodily mutation and evolution, allowing his Power to increase rapidly.

Body enhancement modification is a new development in this millennium.

The entirely new Cultivation System allows technology to deeply analyze Source Power. Simultaneously, biotechnological advancements have made significant breakthroughs.

Biological modifications to the human body have become a trend. However, this modification technology is very expensive.

Experts in the Special Services Department have all undergone body enhancement modifications. Many of them have special biological organs all over their bodies.

This biological technology can directly turn people into superhumans, possessing super Power, speed, reflexes, and bodies stronger than Exoskeleton Armor.

However, these modifications also have side effects. The first is dehumanization, losing the human sensitivity and fragile body, and people's minds completely change. They then lose basic human emotions and lack basic responses to external stimuli.

Such people either go mad and die or turn into cold-blooded killing machines.

Moreover, biological organs cannot harmonize with the human soul. No matter how much one cultivates, development is difficult.

Thus, the path of body enhancement actually has many limitations and cannot be modified arbitrarily.

Gao Xuan couldn't fully grasp the Cultivation System, but he understood these biological technologies well. The key was that he understood his own body and Divine Soul State, knowing what kind of modifications he needed.

The Cultivation Technique is for the future, the Gene Potion and body enhancement are for the present.

As for the money, that's indeed a small problem.

Xu Fang certainly has money, but asking a woman for money would indeed be freeloading.

The Profound Nether Technique was a proactive gift from Xu Fang, but actively borrowing money from her is another matter.

Even though Gao Xuan had fallen in tough times, he wasn't to the point of doing that. Unless it's absolutely necessary...

Gao Xuan sat on the office chair, writing a very polite email, and attached a formal loan contract.

Iron Shield, who stayed in Team Six's room, suddenly received Gao Xuan's email, feeling a bit surprised and happy. Could the other party have forgotten the past and intend to promote him?

Upon opening the email, Iron Shield realized it was a politely worded loan request.

"Dear friend Iron Shield, I urgently need money recently due to important affairs..."

The letter, over a hundred words, clearly stated that the newly appointed deputy director of the Field Department wished to borrow five thousand Credit Points.

Five thousand Credit Points is about half a month's salary. For Iron Shield, this was indeed a significant expense.

The question is, does he dare not lend it? Putting aside his past mistakes, with Black Tiger now being his direct superior, does he dare not lend it?

It would be easy for them to target him. Assigning him dangerous tasks, how many times could he survive?

Iron Shield quickly figured it out. He didn't click on the standard loan contract; he bit his teeth and transferred twenty thousand Credit Points to Black Tiger, saying it's a small gesture to celebrate Black Tiger's promotion.

In the Field Department, there were quite a few people like Iron Shield who understood the situation. Of course, most field operatives were unwilling to fork out five thousand for nothing. But they didn't have the guts not to lend.

Ten minutes later, Gao Xuan's account had over 1.6 million, including three hundred thousand given outright.

Of course, such an outright money-grabbing move would inevitably provoke anger from the field operatives. But does that matter?

Gao Xuan knew the rules of this world well: if you're a wolf, eat meat; don't act like a dog, or you'll really be treated like one and only end up eating shit.

He wasn't taking money for nothing; there was a loan contract, and it had to be repaid within three years.

With such a long time frame, one million or even one billion could be obtained. Now, time was precious to him; he didn't have the time to waste on this.

Otherwise, simply coming up with a few ways to make money wouldn't be difficult. After all, he was a middle-level manager of a big company.

With the money in hand, Gao Xuan immediately contacted the Administration Department.

With Wei Ying's approval, all Gao Xuan had to do was pay for it. He arrived at the Administration Department, followed a senior vice president to the underground secret vault, and after numerous authentications, reached a closed room.

The vice president said to Gao Xuan: "There are five Cultivation Techniques altogether; you can choose one."

He also enthusiastically gave Gao Xuan a brief introduction: "Generally speaking, the Profound Nether Technique is the most balanced and peaceful, and the easiest to get started with. Profound Nether represents water, a concept that's easiest to understand.

Next is the Fiery Fire Technique. Fire is also common, and it's easy to visualize the concrete image.

The Cyan Wood Technique is somewhat troublesome, but it's still manageable. The Sharp Gold Technique requires talent, and common people find it difficult to master."

The vice president said: "The Thick Earth Technique is the most troublesome. It's heavy and deep, and generally, no one chooses it."

Gao Xuan looked at the list of Techniques on the light screen, with brief introductions below.

He initially wanted to choose the Fiery Fire Technique, as the balance of water and fire is the most prevalent Cultivation principle.

But when he thought of this, Gao Xuan had a clear feeling in his heart that he should choose the "Thick Earth Technique."

This intuition didn't have any reasoning, it was just a feeling on the divine soul. Gao Xuan considered it for a moment and still obeyed his intuition. He had wiped away too many memories, but these memories had all transformed into divine soul energy. Intuition on the divine soul was much more reliable than his judgment.

The deputy manager was a bit surprised by Gao Xuan's choice but didn't pay it much mind. There's always someone who wants to challenge, always someone who believes they are the chosen one.

After all, the opportunity was Gao Xuan's, he could choose as he wished.

Once Gao Xuan made his choice, the deputy manager instructed him to lie down in a specially designed recliner. A semi-transparent tube hung from above, its end with a magnetic attachment directly connected to Gao Xuan's brain machine, establishing a link.

Just like that, Gao Xuan directly entered a special room in cyberspace.

This was similar to the last time with the "Profound Nether Technique" space, which also had Gao Xuan's own statue.

The difference was, Gao Xuan didn't need a verification code. A book of "Thick Earth Technique" directly descended, embedding into Gao Xuan's brow.

In less than a minute, a rune seed appeared in Gao Xuan's sea of consciousness. This seed was composed of 129,600 subtle runes.

With the formation of this rune, Gao Xuan sensed an endless and heavy aura.

This rune shouldn't be interpreted as earth, but rather as earth in its vastness. Only earth can be heavy and profound, bearing all things and lives.

Gao Xuan immediately grasped the true meaning of this rune seed, comprehending its entire ambiance and imagery.

The transformations of the 129,600 runes were all clear to him. This was also the divine soul spirit he had cultivated through millennia of reincarnation.

On the other hand, Gao Xuan also realized that he must have practiced these techniques before to be so familiar.

The Taiyin Sword was in his hand, yet he couldn't fully comprehend its transformations even after two days of contemplation. This showed it wasn't purely a spiritual issue.

Of course, the Taiyin Sword runes were ten times more than those of the two cultivation techniques, with complexity increasing geometrically. This also increased the difficulty of comprehension.

On the other hand, the direct infusion method in cyberspace was more advanced. Yet, the Taiyin Sword runes required Gao Xuan to explore with his own spiritual power, which was much more troublesome.

By synthesizing the two basic techniques, Gao Xuan instantaneously realized the problem with the Taiyin Sword.

If he could acquire the other three cultivation techniques, reverse-engineering more advanced secret techniques wouldn't be a mere fantasy.

It's just that he currently lacked this capability. The company strictly managed secret techniques. He couldn't even obtain a chip, only accepting infusion in the company's heavily guarded secret vault.

Acquiring the "Thick Earth Technique" was extremely important to him. Thick Earth is endlessly vast and bears the supreme power of nurturing all beings.

Thick Earth is too heavy and deep; it needs water to have vitality and to nurture life. Therefore, pairing Thick Earth with Profound Nether is really the most reasonable pairing.

Earth is vast and grand; without water, it's sand; with water, it's mud; tall earth forms mountains, lacking earth forms abysses.

The "Thick Earth Technique," although just a small basic cultivation technique, breathes life when water is added. Understanding this technique and principle, Gao Xuan's divine soul power increased greatly, becoming more harmonious with the Sea of Source Power.

Through this, Gao Xuan grasped the Earth Seal, Golden Sand Seal, Celestial Peak Seal, and Abyssal Seal.

Earth Seal is heavy, Golden Sand Seal is lifeless, Celestial Peak Seal is domineering, Abyssal Seal is deep.

Among them, the Abyssal Seal matches exceptionally well with the Water Heaven Sword's Abyss Sword and can enhance the Abyss Sword's power by several degrees. The other Dharma Seals also have their own powers.

With this "Thick Earth Technique," Gao Xuan's combat power had a substantial improvement. Even facing an Apostle like New Moon directly was no problem.

After lying down for half an hour, Gao Xuan then exited cyberspace.

The deputy manager congratulated him, and Gao Xuan politely responded with a few words.

Leaving the secret vault, the deputy manager left on his own while Gao Xuan headed to the medical department.

All body enhancement and modifications require going through the medical department.

Coming here was quite convenient for Gao Xuan; first, he looked for Xu Fang, although Xu Fang and the enhancement department were two separate departments, she at least knew the person in charge.

Xu Fang saw Gao Xuan and only then knew he wanted to undergo body enhancement. Xu Fang was a bit surprised, "Where did you get that much money?"

Having lived with Gao Xuan for a while, Xu Fang was quite aware of Gao Xuan's financial situation. Although Gao Xuan had some savings, it wasn't enough to pay for the enhancement project.

"My subordinates know my situation, so they voluntarily crowdfunded for me." Gao Xuan explained to Xu Fang, as their relationship was different.

Xu Fang couldn't help but laugh. Although he didn't fully understand these interpersonal dynamics, he knew this crowdfunding certainly wasn't voluntary. However, it was not important anymore.

Having spent some time with Gao Xuan, Xu Fang had long discovered that her boyfriend had unique ideas and impressive abilities.

Xu Fang led Gao Xuan to the enhancement department; with Xu Fang present, the staff's attitude was very kind and enthusiastic, providing Gao Xuan with detailed explanations on various aspects.

Gao Xuan's body enhancement was to be combined with the Skywalker Gene Potion; this entire set of procedures was quite mature. He just had to choose the specific enhancement plan.

Gao Xuan chose the simplest all-round body enhancement; this type of enhancement was the most mundane but also the most reliable.

Because the body would still retain normal human status, it just required some time to digest and consolidate, with adjustments in various aspects achieving its limit.

Of course, this limit is actually different for every person. After all, everyone has different physical states, different directions of genetic mutation and evolution, different ways of Source Power cultivation, different divine soul states.

The specific enhancement effects vary from person to person.

Theoretically speaking, this body enhancement can reach the power limit of Pegasus Star. But it's only theoretical. No one has ever reached this level.

After injecting two doses of Skywalker Gene Potion, Gao Xuan soon entered a state of deep sleep. However, his divine soul was extremely alert, perceiving various changes within his body.

After the Skywalker Gene Potion integrated into the body, structural changes began at the genetic level.

At this time, various external instruments pierced into his body, guiding the power of the Skywalker Gene Potion and directing the mutation pathway.

This process was very complex, yet entirely completed by the Light Computer. The equipment can now complete gene mutation editing at this stage.

Compared to the random mutation of a thousand years ago, this gene editing technology is mature and stable.

Gao Xuan also had to reflect on the power of technological advancement. Unfortunately, the world has actually become worse…