It painfully knelt to the ground, its sharp-clawed feet digging deep into the hard alloy floor, plowing out deep grooves.
Its originally sharp vertical pupils were now bloodshot, almost bursting from their sockets, reflecting only boundless pain and the raging golden tide within its body.
Boom!
The chaotic and out-of-control energy finally exploded from its body.
Golden Qi waves mixed with torn scale fragments and hot blood swept the surroundings like a small storm.
Monitoring instruments shrieked alarms, and the numbers representing life intensity on the data panel wildly fluctuated: 40.1... 41.7... 42.2...!
The entire process lasted a full one minute and twenty seconds; every second felt as long as a century.
Only the warrior's heart-wrenching roars, the crackling of bones, the booming of energy, and the sharp alarms of the instruments remained in the laboratory.
Finally, like a receding tide, the roars turned into heavy gasps, and the violent golden energy began to be forcibly reined back into its body.
The crimson on the warrior's body gradually receded, revealing new scales beneath that were deeper, thicker, and edged with a dark golden luster.
It slowly, and with extreme difficulty, stood upright.
At this moment, its height was nearly three meters and eighty centimeters.
Its physique was as massive as a moving small fortress.
A sense of oppressive power, far stronger and more ferocious than before, carrying a hint of the Golden Emperor's terrifying aura, spread out like a tangible presence.
It slightly moved its now thicker neck, and its bones emitted a dull "crack" sound.
Buzz!
The numbers on the life intensity detector finally settled at: 45.6!
The Lizardmen warrior looked down at its claws, which were covered in dark gold patterns and brimming with power, then clenched them tightly!
The air was crushed, emitting a "pop" sound!
Ecstasy, awe, and unparalleled loyalty instantly overwhelmed it.
It turned to face Zhou Qi again, kneeling with a thud, its massive head bowing deeply, hitting the ground with a dull thud, its voice trembling violently with excitement:
"Thank you, Dominator, for bestowing the divine blood! This body, this strength, all exist for your will! To tear apart all obstacles before you!"
Zhou Qi's gaze shifted from the reborn warrior to the two remaining vials of molten gold-glowing potion in Yuan Mei's hand.
Finally, his eyes swept over the Blackscale Merman in the corner, who had witnessed the entire terrifying transformation and was now on the verge of a mental breakdown, soiled himself, limp like mud, and only twitching instinctively.
He nodded slightly, his voice calm, yet it seemed to seal fate:
"Titan's Blood, very good." These simple four words made Yuan Mei so excited he almost fainted.
"Concentrate all resources, produce with full effort, prioritize equipping the Mingling Devil legion, and grant the divine blood baptism to all seeds with demigod potential. Additionally, develop a diluted version of the strengthening potion without side effects."
Yuan Mei was almost trembling with excitement.
He bowed his head deeply, his voice slightly strained due to extreme reverence: "As per the Dominator's will! Titan's Blood I is too overbearing, effectively a potent poison for individuals with low life intensity. Your subordinate will immediately mobilize the most elite forces from the biochemical and gene stabilization teams to begin researching a milder version!"
He carefully chose his words, "A mild, safe, and painless potion that allows ordinary humans to also achieve stable, tolerable increases in life intensity. Code name... how about Project Dawning Potion?"
Zhou Qi's gaze swept over Yuan Mei's slightly flushed face from excitement, not responding to his naming suggestion, but only nodding imperceptibly.
His gaze turned to the many novel instruments displayed on a metal shelf in a corner of the laboratory, finally settling on a sleek, streamlined pair of goggles, black as ink jade.
"That one."
Zhou Qi's voice was flat, yet held an undeniable directive.
"Yes, Dominator!"
Yuan Mei instantly understood, almost scurrying over, taking the black goggles with both hands as if holding a sacred artifact, and quickly presenting them.
"This is the Life Intensity Detector, Observer-I prototype. It combines the essence of the Ironblood Bugman's psych-wave passive sensing array, the core algorithm of the Moon relic's energy field dynamic scanning module, and our miniaturized improvements based on Blue Star's quantum sensing technology," Yuan Mei spoke very quickly, with the pride of a technician.
Zhou Qi took it. It was cool to the touch, and the material was tough yet light.
He put them on, and the world before his eyes was instantly covered by a pale blue data stream, with simple coordinate axes and a status bar appearing at the edge of his vision.
He turned his head, his gaze, like a tangible presence, fell upon Uka, who was prostrate beside him like a mountain.
Inside the lens, in the upper left corner of his vision, a clear line of white numbers stably appeared: 【Life Intensity: 70】.
The error was within 0.3% of the massive life fluctuations like molten core lava that Zhou Qi's own planetary-level perception captured from Uka, an astonishing precision.
His gaze shifted to Yuan Mei: 【Life Intensity: 6.7】.
Next to him, a pale humanoid researcher nervously recording data: 【Life Intensity: 17.9】.
An insectoid engineer, covered in shiny chitinous armor, adjusting cultivation tank parameters: 【Life Intensity: 24.1】.
Finally, the Blackscale Merman in the corner, fixed by a special restraint device, still twitching physiologically and emitting a foul odor: 【Life Intensity: 8.4 (Weakening)】.
"Below demigod, it's usable. After demigod, biological force fields can cover the entire body, isolating it and making it undetectable."
Zhou Qi's voice came through the goggles, with a peculiar metallic reverberation, making it impossible to discern praise or criticism.
He deliberately directed his gaze towards a Mingling Devil elite guard standing like a shadow at the laboratory entrance.
The guard's aura was condensed and restrained, like an unsheathed peerless weapon.
The numbers on the lens immediately began to jump wildly and chaotically: 【64.2... 71.8... 58.9...? ? ?】.
Finally, after a brief flicker, the numbers completely disappeared, replaced by a dazzling red triangular warning sign, with a small line of text below: 【Target energy field level too high, exceeds current sensor precision threshold】.
"Yes, Dominator,"
Yuan Mei immediately explained, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead, "For creatures exceeding 50 points, if they deliberately conceal their aura, they cannot be detected. We are currently developing a second generation based on this problem..."
"It's enough."
Zhou Qi interrupted him, took off the goggles, and tossed them back casually.
Yuan Mei fumbled to catch them, holding them in his arms as if they were a treasure.
"Mass production optimization will proceed as planned. Now," Zhou Qi's gaze turned to another, heavier alloy gate deep within the laboratory, "take me to see that 'big toy' you've been tinkering with."
