130: Chapter 130 Two Evolutionary Paths

His gaze was calm and his expression confident, without a shred of nervousness or cowardice, and his entire aura was steady and resolute.

To completely dispel all doubts in the grandmother's heart and solidly demonstrate the absolute hard power of his cultivation methods, he deliberately yielded all right of choice, maintaining a graceful and magnanimous posture.

"For the sake of fairness, and to let the grandmother see clearly and be utterly convinced, there is no need for me to choose the candidate myself."

"You know the guards under your command best. Whose vassal race bottleneck is the most stubborn, the hardest to break through, and has the most obvious shortcomings, you can directly designate the candidate."

"Whether it is a vassal race that has been stuck at a tier for years and unable to break through, whose bloodline is incomplete and difficult to advance an inch, or one with mediocre talent and no potential for advancement, I can personally cultivate them on the spot, break their limits, and create a surprise transformation."

Lin Ye's words were arrogant yet not reckless, every sentence brimming with absolute confidence.

He wanted to pick the hardest bones to chew and the most unsolvable deadlocks, using the most extreme transformation effects to completely shatter all of the grandmother's doubts, allowing the other party to witness his heaven-defying cultivation talent with her own eyes.

Hearing this, the middle-aged noblewoman's gaze deepened slightly as she deeply appraised the youth before her. The slight contempt that originally remained quietly faded away, replaced by intense surprise and a hint of playfulness.

At such a young age, to possess such state of mind and confidence truly far exceeded ordinary people of the same age.

She curled her lips slightly and slowly spoke, "Good, since you are this confident, then I will personally choose the person."

As her voice fell, the middle-aged noblewoman's gaze swept lightly across the courtyard, finally fixing on a tall, coldly-featured female guard in black on the far right.

"Qinghan, step out."

Hearing this, the female guard named Qinghan stepped forward, her posture as upright as a pine. The iron-blooded aura around her was restrained yet unreleased, her brows and eyes cold and sharp, and her aura steady and profound. She was one of the absolute top experts among the guards.

Looking at Lin Ye, the middle-aged noblewoman slowly stated the guard's tricky predicament, her tone carrying a hint of resolute testing, "Her natal vassal race is the C-rank initial race Spirit Snake Poison Maiden."

"To cultivate this lineage of vassal race, Qinghan has expended massive high-tier resources, spent years of painstaking effort, and exhausted countless mental energy, forcefully piling her own cultivation to the true god realm. Yet her natal vassal race alone is stubbornly stuck at the A-rank peak, failing to advance an inch for years."

"I have taken her to visit quite a few renowned high-tier cultivators, and everyone's conclusion was identical: her bloodline foundation is solidified and her evolutionary path is locked, making it completely irremediable and leaving her with zero hope of reaching S-rank in this lifetime."

"At the same time, it has also locked her cultivation upper limit!"

Looking deeply at Lin Ye, she stated the final testing standard, "If you can break this dead end today and help her Spirit Snake Poison Maiden successfully break through the shackles and advance to S-rank, I will completely acknowledge your cultivation skills. Not only will the primordial soil and the spring of eternity be given to Yun'er, but ten drops of faith liquid will also be presented by me with both hands, and I will never break my word."

As these words fell, the remaining female guards present glanced over, their eyes carrying tacit agreement and pessimism.

The solidified bottleneck of the Spirit Snake Poison Maiden was a universally recognized unsolvable problem within the entire circle, with countless bigshots helpless against it. For a youth to want to stage a heaven-defying comeback was practically a fairy tale.

Even Liu Yun held her breath slightly, secretly nervous in her heart. This was a solid dead end, which could best test Lin Ye's true foundation.

Facing the implicit doubts of the entire audience, Lin Ye's expression remained calm without the slightest pressure, and he calmly spoke, "No worries, just have her materialize her vassal race, and I will know at a glance."

Hearing this, the cold female guard Qinghan did not hesitate. With a thought, her divine soul linked to her divine kingdom, and she gently raised her hand to wave.

Hum——

A dark green stream of light landed, suffused with dense, highly toxic mist. A slender woman covered in fine snake scales quietly emerged.

Half of her body was human and the other half was entwined with snake patterns, her vertical pupils cold, and her entire body was surrounded by an extremely corrosive toxic aura. Her aura was steadily fixed at the A-rank peak, and her bloodline was profound yet completely stagnant—she was precisely the Spirit Snake Poison Maiden who had been stuck at her tier for years.

Lin Ye slowly stepped forward, seemingly raising his hand to closely inspect and observe the bloodline patterns and aura fluctuations, but in reality, he had already quietly activated his Source-Tracing and Foundation-Consolidating Talent.

An invisible power of deduction instantly enveloped the Spirit Snake Poison Maiden, piercing through the surface-solidified bloodline shackles, tracing back to the origin and dismantling the evolutionary barriers. Countless obscure bloodline veins, evolution nodes, and hidden paths rapidly unfolded in his mind.

In just a few breaths, all the symptoms and evolutionary outlets were thoroughly investigated.

A sharp glint flashed across Lin Ye's eyes, and he already had a complete conclusion in his heart. Retracting his gaze, he calmly spoke, his voice clearly resounding across the entire audience: "Her Spirit Snake Poison Maiden is not evolution-locked; rather, her bloodline advancement has reached a fork in the road. What is solidified is not the foundation, but the unactivated twin evolutionary paths."

"Currently, there are two complete S-rank evolutionary routes. Choosing either one can immediately break through the shackles and advance to S-rank."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience was in an uproar!

The pupils of the battle-hardened female guards shrank sharply, their faces filled with disbelief.

A dead end pronounced by countless renowned cultivators, and this youth directly stated dual evolutionary routes after looking for merely a few seconds?

Even the steady and unfathomable middle-aged noblewoman had a trace of obvious surprise flash across her eyes, her upright posture leaning slightly forward as she awaited the rest.

Unflustered, Lin Ye methodically disassembled and explained the complete abilities, characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of the two evolutionary routes one by one.

"The first evolutionary route: Nether Medusa."

"After evolution, all toxic origins are retained, and the poison advances into Nether Soul-Devouring Poison, which can corrode the physical body, disintegrate the divine soul, and melt divine power. The core unlocks the top-tier talent—Petrifying Gaze, allowing her eyes to instantly bind all things and petrify living beings, being unsolvable at the same rank with extremely strong cross-rank suppression effects."

"This form has a formidable physical body, both offensive and defensive capabilities, and is unbeatable in solo combat, with extremely high growth potential. Afterwards, it can continuously purify the bloodline and break through shackles by relying on massive resources, possessing the possibility of multiple advancements and transformations, an extremely high upper limit, and a broad path ahead."

"The second evolutionary route: Scale-Tone Snake Queen."

"After evolution, it completely transforms into a pure human-like form, sacrificing some physical resistance and toxic lethality to core-unlock the infrasound wave attack system."

"Focusing mainly on invisible sonic vibrations, it can perform large-scale crowd control, disrupt divine souls, and shatter meridians. Its team-fight suppression ability is top-tier, its concealment is extremely strong, and its surprise attack and crowd control effects far exceed those of the Medusa."

After explaining the abilities of both routes, Lin Ye highlighted the most critical and fatal gap between the two, providing sufficient basis for choice: "I will state the pros and cons and long-term advantages and disadvantages of both in advance."

"The Nether Medusa belongs to a long-term evolutionary race with extremely strong foundation inclusiveness. Afterwards, it can continuously consume rare resources to polish its bloodline and break through grades, having the opportunity to impact SS-rank or even higher realms, with an endless evolutionary path."

"As for the Scale-Tone Snake Queen, it belongs to an extremely specialized form whose advantage upon formation is its peak, and its shortcomings are equally fatal. Once this evolution is completed, the bloodline path is completely solidified, specializing solely in infrasound waves, with almost no possibility of further advancement or breakthrough. No matter how many heavenly treasures are invested thereafter, the grade can no longer be raised, and the evolutionary path is completely cut off."

As his voice fell, Lin Ye looked towards Qinghan and the middle-aged noblewoman, calmly saying, "Two roads: one long and one short, one for solo combat and one for group battles, one with an upper limit and one with no way back. You can make your own choice. Whichever form you want to evolve into, I can state the required resources. Once the resources arrive, cultivation can begin immediately."