Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

"Aren't you supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful? How could you not know there was a problem with the ancient one's half-ruined body?" Lin Shen frowned and said.

According to the Jade Emperor's own words, there was nothing within this universe that he couldn't do or didn't know.

If his second brother was really possessed by the ancient one, how could he not know?

"You're mistaken. Your second brother was not possessed by the half-body of the Mechanical Emperor; he is the reincarnation body of the ancient one himself," the Jade Emperor said.

"Didn't you tell me before that my second brother wasn't the reincarnation body of the ancient one, and that it was your plan to make people think he was?" Lin Shen said.

"That was supposed to be the case, but when I arranged for the death of the ancient one, the universe bugs hadn't started to fix themselves. He took that opportunity to make the me of that time calculate wrongly, thinking he was completely eliminated and couldn't be reborn. After hearing from the Moon Rabbit Queen about the effects of merging the three cultivation techniques, I recalculated and became certain he was already aware of my existence and plan then, and reborn into the Lin Family, as the person I chose, tricking me into sending his Mechanical Emperor's half-body to merge with him. He acted the real him to play the fake one. Here, I indeed lost a move," the Jade Emperor explained.

"So what's the situation now?" Lin Shen asked.

"He should have become a Great Emperor now, and with lawless heaven, even the Great Emperor before rebirth may not be his equal," the Jade Emperor was not in the least bit afraid.

"So, even you are no match for him. So your so-called all-knowing and all-powerful is not really all-knowing and all-powerful," Lin Shen said.

"No, those bugs have long since been fixed. Even if he is now the body of the Mechanical Emperor, to me, there are still no secrets,"

"If there are no secrets, why can't you find him?"

"Within this universe, I am all-knowing and all-powerful, but when it comes to matters beyond the universe, that's not something within my full control now," the Jade Emperor said indifferently.

"Are you saying he has abilities beyond the universe? Or is there something on him from beyond the universe?"

"In this universe, among all things related to the Great Universe, there is only one thing not under my control, which is how he has evaded my detection,"

"What thing?" Lin Shen vaguely felt something was amiss.

"Your daughter, she carries your bloodline, a true Great Universe bloodline, not the sort you have. Though the other half of her bloodline makes her Great Universe bloodline very unstable, it still hinders my perception of many things about her..."

Before Lin Shen could hear more, he had already flashed back to his home at the Dark Bird Base, and indeed found Wine to be missing, along with White Tiger Wine.

"Don't bother looking for her. Had you been able to find her, I would have returned her already," the Jade Emperor's voice echoed in Lin Shen's ear.

Lin Shen's face turned uncertain, and now he was hard-pressed to tell, the kindness that Tie showed Wine before, was it truly out of blood kinship, or had he long been aware of his identity and Wine's ability, staying beside her just to evade the Jade Emperor's surveillance on him.

"So, we can't find them, can we?" Lin Shen knew that Tie needed to use Wine. Regardless of whether he would care about blood relations, Wine should temporarily be in no danger.

"I've calculated the entire universe's changes and cannot trace them unless they separate, or no one can find them," the Jade Emperor replied.

Hearing this, Lin Shen turned and left, returning to the riverside, seeing the Moon Rabbit Queen standing there motionlessly as though she were pinned.

He had not used Acupoint Sealing on the Moon Rabbit Queen, and even if he did, now that the bugs were fixed, using Acupoint Sealing at best disrupts her energy flow, paralyzing her, but cannot pin her like before.

Upon Lin Shen's return, the Moon Rabbit Queen immediately regained her senses, seeming wholly unaware of what transpired earlier.

"Whom were you talking to?" the Moon Rabbit Queen looked at the sky but saw nothing.

Lin Shen knew the Moon Rabbit Queen was probably unaware of his conversation with the Jade Emperor, nor that he had left moments ago.

In the Moon Rabbit Queen's perception, she merely saw Lin Shen speaking to the sky.

"I rescued you out, now help me with a favor, and we'll be even. From now on, we owe each other nothing," Lin Shen was not in the mood to further converse with the Moon Rabbit Queen; now he needed to obtain the fire seed from the Moon Rabbit Queen's body as swiftly as possible to complete the Heaven Defying Bone.

Against the Jade Emperor or the ancient one, his current strength was insufficient.

"You want me to teach you those three cultivation techniques?" the Moon Rabbit Queen's face changed, thinking Lin Shen was like the ancient one.

Not wasting words, Lin Shen simply reached out and absorbed the Moon Rabbit Queen into his hand; she could not resist his strength at all.

"What do you intend to do?" the Moon Rabbit Queen only felt her whole body bound by some invisible force, entirely immobilized.

Even with the Three Realms Divine Skill, she could not oppose Lin Shen's power.

Lin Shen sealed her mouth with his strength, cradled the Moon Rabbit Queen in his arms, and lay on the grass.

Shocked and furious, the Moon Rabbit Queen thought Lin Shen intended to harm her, but after a long wait, he seemed to have fallen asleep.

The Moon Rabbit Queen activated the Evolution Theory, trying to use its enhancement to adapt her body to Lin Shen's power restraint.

Yet no matter how she operated the Evolution Theory, it had no effect, seeming entirely inert against Lin Shen's power.

Little did she know, when it came to playing Evolution Theory, she was far behind.

"What kind of person is he? I don't know how many ages I've been trapped, and yet such a terrifying human appeared in the universe, what on earth does he plan..." the Moon Rabbit Queen's mind raced with incessant chaotic thoughts.

Lin Shen, however, had long since fallen into slumber. When he awoke, the Moon Rabbit Queen was still lost in her thoughts.

Lin Shen had no interest in the Moon Rabbit Queen; upon waking, his first instinct was to check if his fire seed had increased, whether the Heaven Defying Bone was complete.

The result was half and half; indeed, the Moon Rabbit Queen possessed a fire seed, but it wasn't the Heaven Defying Bone.

An imperfect Super-Base Evolutionary Fire Seed—Time: Time is controllable, enabling travel to the past and future.

Though not the Heaven Defying Bone, the ability of such a fire seed filled Lin Shen with great joy.

If he could traverse time, he could save Wine in the past or directly disrupt the ancient one and the Jade Emperor's plans in the distant past.

However, when Lin Shen activated the Time Fire Seed, he discovered it did not react at all.

This made Lin Shen's face change sharply. Looking skyward, he said, "Did you fix this bug?"

"This universe is perfect now, with no bugs to exist; even if I am gone in the future, the universe itself can fix any bug," the Jade Emperor's voice came from the void.