In the era of the stars, Henry Lincoln, who was treated by his family as nothing more than a tool for bearing children and continuing the bloodline, accidentally discovered a pet egg that seemed to be pixelated. After sleeping, he woke up to find the pixelation on the pet egg had disappeared, and some new information had appeared in his mind.

"Failed Ultra Gene Evolution Seed—Seven Steps of Combat: Beyond seven steps, the gun is faster; within seven steps, I am faster."

Chapter 001: Failed Ultra Gene Evolution Seed

"I can't believe this is really happening, this is unscientific!" Henry Lincoln stared at the bizarre creature frozen like a statue in front of him, his eyes filled with uncontrollable excitement.

This was a steel-level gene-mutated creature, resembling both a horse and a bull, its entire body radiating a cast iron-like sheen. At this moment, it was holding the pose of a galloping horse, standing motionless there. Anyone who saw it would think it was a cast iron statue.

But Henry Lincoln was absolutely certain it was no statue, because just a few minutes ago, it had been rampaging like a tank, almost knocking him to the ground.

Although this was only the lowest-level steel creature among gene-mutated beings, its strength and speed were still far beyond what ordinary humans could match. Even naturally powerful animals like elephants and rhinos could not compare.

Yet Henry Lincoln had only tapped it with his finger, and this steel-level Ironhorn Beast had frozen in place as if struck at an acupoint.

Of course, Henry Lincoln didn't know any acupoint techniques. In fact, such legendary martial arts had long been scientifically proven not to exist.

Even in today's world, where humans can cultivate and evolve, no matter how strong one's own power becomes—even if one could pierce steel with a finger—it would still be impossible to immobilize an ordinary human with an acupoint strike, let alone a gene-mutated creature as tough as steel.

Henry Lincoln stroked his finger, still finding it hard to believe that he had actually done it.

Not long ago, he had discovered a very bizarre gene-mutated egg in the warehouse. So-called gene-mutated eggs are simply the eggs laid by gene-mutated creatures.

Since the appearance of gene-mutated creatures, more than two hundred years have passed, and humanity has already developed a complete set of theories and methods for cultivating and evolving using these creatures.

Gene-mutated eggs are not particularly rare; some low-level ones aren't even worth more than a meal.

Henry Lincoln was in the business of selling gene-mutated eggs and had seen countless varieties, but he had never encountered such a strange and mysterious egg.

That egg looked as if it had been pixelated, its entire surface covered in constantly shifting tiny colored grids, appearing dreamlike and unreal.

Henry Lincoln studied it for a long time but couldn't find anything different about it. He even had his employees look at it, but they couldn't see any shifting pixelation at all. In their eyes, it was just an ordinary steel-level gene-mutated egg with a black metallic sheen.

This made Henry Lincoln suspect he was hallucinating, until after a night's sleep, the egg inexplicably returned to normal, the pixelation gone. Then, Henry Lincoln discovered that a strange piece of information had appeared in his mind.

[Failed Ultra Gene Evolution Seed—Acupoint Strike: By striking the acupoints on a creature's body, you can affect its state.]

After that, things started to get increasingly bizarre. As long as Henry Lincoln stared at a creature for a long time, he could see faint, flickering points of light appear on its body. Whether on humans or gene-mutated creatures, these points of light could be seen—the only difference was their number and location.

Ordinary humans had more points of light, while gene-mutated beings and higher-level creatures had fewer.

Unable to resist, Henry Lincoln finally experimented on his own captive Ironhorn Beast today, and the result thrilled him—he had actually immobilized the Ironhorn Beast with an acupoint strike.

Standing at the side of the Ironhorn Beast, Henry Lincoln once again extended his finger and pressed hard on one of those faint points of light on its body. Instantly, the Ironhorn Beast, which had been frozen like a statue, resumed its original running state, charging forward and crashing into the metal fence with a low, pained bellow.

"If even a failed evolution seed is this terrifying, what about a successful one?" Henry Lincoln was so excited he could hardly put it into words. With such a seed, hunting gene-mutated creatures would be a breeze.

As if thinking of something, Henry Lincoln hurriedly ran out of the beast pen, closed the door, and rushed to the warehouse. He wanted to see if there were any other gene-mutated eggs with seeds.

Inside the spacious warehouse, rows of shelves held many gene-mutated eggs. Most of these were low-level, but that wasn't the point, since the egg with the seed had also been low-level. In fact, his shop didn't have any high-level gene-mutated eggs.

After checking all the gene-mutated eggs in the warehouse, he was a bit disappointed—not a single one was covered in pixelation.