Super Gene Ascension Chapter 40 (Patreon)

My leg's hit the ground as the swirling light's around me faded all to quickly as I stretched out my newly enhanced body. 

But all the while, as I stretched. I heard the Sanctuary System, everyone had within their minds call out. [Super Body/Spirit Emperor Body Gained] 

The moment I finished reading that, I instantly went to put back on my favored Super tier armor, only to pause and mentally curse as I realized something. 'Damn, with the evolution of the Sacred Geno Core. It's locked up most of my Super tier Beast Soul's to upgrade them.' I mused.

I took a deep breath of the Second Sanctuary's air and seeing as I had been teleported to a 'safe' empty short cave that I could see the exit easily. I quickly made my way out, though as I did so. I could feel a wave of heat wash over me unnaturally as I reached the exit.

"Ah hell... I ended up in some kind of desert region." I muttered helplessly with a sigh as I stood at the edge of the cave with a grimace.

As starting by the Second Sanctuary the region's could get very weird. As shown here, where I could feel a blistering two hundred-plus-degree heat coming off of the weird sand at the edge of the cave. That was absorbing the sun's heat and energy before reflecting it as more heat.

"Hmm, I think my sponsor fucked with my teleport however. As I can... Feel the direction of the Dongxuan Sutra isn't too far from here." I muttered as I stared out into the waves of desert sand in the distance.

Still, in terms of time. I was month's ahead of Han Sen in the original timeline even if I did miss some weird events he went through...

Personally I think the writer just wanted to pad the wordcount as it took some four hundred damned chapters for him to reach the Second Sanctuary.

The only major 'thing' I missed at this point was that weird 'waifu' Angel pet summon he got in the First Sanctuary during some weird event. And honestly I think it's whole damned existence was just a jab at Douluo Dalu and Qian Renxue.

After checking the surrounding's to make sure there wasn't any creatures nearby. And making sure the cave didn't have any signs of recent activity either. I finally relaxed against the rock wall near the cave entrance.

But far enough that I could avoid the oppressive heat that came up from that gleaming gold sand. 

"Can't really get moving until nightfall... Even with my enhanced body, running around in that heat when I only have a small canteen of water is just asking to die by the heat and dehydration." I muttered.

Still with a good bit of time to myself I decided to try out the Spirit Emperor Body while wondering if it was any different from Han Sen's own Super Body he got.

Flipping a mental switch, I sharply inhaled as I felt both my Jade Skin Sutra, and the Yin-Yang Blast running through my body at the same time with perfect unison. No! 

It wasn't perfect unison, but the normally conflicting energies simply flowed around one another as they went about strengthening my body instead of clashing as they were supposed to.

At that realization, I activated the Queen Ant, and the Golden Lion Beast's Aura's Beast Soul's together, and I couldn't help it!

I burst into laughter at the realization I could actually use both Aura beast souls at the same time now! I could stack Aura Beast Soul bonuses now!

Though I could tell that activating this Super body was rather draining right now. It wasn't actually that bad as it seemingly cut down the cost of using my Geno Martial Arts. As well as my Beast Souls as well.

Time quickly passed by as I took measured low sips of water to keep my strength up as I dozed the rest of the day away.

Once the sun went down, that sand lost the majority of it's insane heat which allowed me to get moving. And as I walked out, I gave the very different bright star's above my eye's a searching look as I tried to find a central guiding star.

It took a bit, but eventually I did find a constellation I could recognize from the lessons we were given about the Second Sanctary that I had checked up on.

And from the angle of the constellation... I was extremely far, several tens of thousands of miles away from the Xian Western Alliance, which ruled a number of Shelters in strict human control.

"Gonna be several weeks if not months, of travel, even with riding a mount unless I get a flying mount to get into actual human territory," I muttered thoughtfully.

But thing's weren't too bad; I just needed to find any Shelter, whether it be human-controlled or just unclaimed, to use a teleporter to leave the sanctuary... The only issue was making sure that I wasn't stuck in a deal with a spirit who hated humans.

"First things first, however... I need to find a source of water, and that overpowered Dongzuang Sutra." I mused as I summoned a Soldier Ant pet from my trip into the Ant Queen nest.

As I highly doubted that Woody, being a giant, oversized water buffalo, was going to have a nice time at all in traveling over large sand dunes.

This horse-sized ant with six legs would be able to travel over the shifting sands with a lot more ease, even if it wasn't as comfortable to ride upon.

The ant made decently quick speed over the shifting dunes of sand as I mentally directed it where to go under the bright starlight and the moon above.

But soon enough, after half an hour of travel, I snapped a dagger outwards and I chuckled as the Sanctuary pinged out. [Glazed Geeko killed- Consume to gain 1-10 Ordinary Geno points.] 

My first Second Sanctuary kill, and the start of refilling my stores of Geno Points was starting!