Chapter 175: Perfect Gene

Bell held her newly born son in her arms, feeling at a loss. She could sense that the little one’s breath was growing weaker, but she didn’t know what to do.
Over by, weakly, Bailey heard Stu Xuan’s words and grew uneasy. She struggled to get up to see her newly born cub.
Seeing this, Green Vine immediately stepped in to reassure them, “He’ll be fine. All he needs is a drop of the Source of Life. No matter what illness he has, he’ll instantly regain his vitality.”
“Sister Green Vine…” Bailey’s eyes were filled with gratitude. She knew very well what the Source of Life was. It was the essence of life extracted from all plants on the planet by Green Vine, without harming the entire ecosystem, then concentrated and refined over hundreds of millions of years to produce just one drop. It contained immense life force.
Green Vine gave Bailey a reassuring look before walking over to Bell and extending her hands.
Bell immediately handed her son to Green Vine.
Green Vine held the miniature panda in her left hand while slowly extending her right hand. A drop of green liquid gradually formed in her palm, emitting a strong life energy.
Once the drop took shape, Green Vine moved her fingers slightly. The drop floated upward as if pulled by an invisible thread and dropped onto the cub’s forehead, slowly sinking into its tiny body.
“What’s that?” Ye Feng asked, puzzled, looking at Stu Xuan beside him.
“It’s the Source of Life—a concentrated form of life force extracted from plants. The one Green Vine has extracted is highly concentrated, and it has no side effects,” Stu Xuan replied, staring intently at the cub in Green Vine’s arms, afraid of missing any details of its awakening.
Everyone patiently waited for the cub to wake up. After a while, its breathing finally stabilized, and it was no longer in life-threatening condition, but it still hadn’t awakened.
“Its breathing has stabilized. Normally, it should wake up, as the life force would give it endless vitality. At times like this, it should be crying!” Green Vine looked at Bell and Bailey in confusion.
“The Source of Life didn’t work either…” Bailey’s tears fell to the ground. “We never should have had this child from the start…”
“Bailey, don’t say that…” Bell tried to comfort her.

“Do you two know something? Did you anticipate this would happen before it was born?” Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.
“Actually, it’s all my fault. I wanted this child,” Bell said gloomily, looking at Ye Feng and the others. “In fact, Belli and I aren’t of the same species of magical beasts. I’m an Abyssal Demon Bear with innate dark attributes, while she’s a Holy Domain Snow Bear with innate light attributes. This has happened before between our two races, but every time, the offspring died without exception. No one knows why. Maybe it’s a curse. I thought we could break the curse, but it still happened… Even the Source of Life didn’t work; no one can lift this curse…”
“Is this problem only happening between your two races? What about bears from other races? Has this happened there?” Ye Feng posed his question.
“It hasn’t happened with other races,” Bell shook her head. “However, many of our ancestors have investigated this. They believe it’s because light and dark attributes are inherently incompatible, causing a curse when we combine.”
“Wait, do your light and dark attributes come naturally? Do all members of your race have them?” Ye Feng pressed further.
“That’s right. My dark attributes and Belli’s light attributes are innate. But secondary attributes within the same race can change. My secondary attribute is earth, while Belli’s is water,” Bell explained.
“I think I roughly understand what’s going on!” Ye Feng glanced around. “It’s like this: on our planet, there’s a genetic theory. Some fetuses are destined to suffer certain diseases from within their mother’s womb, as their genes determine everything. Many genetic diseases have a certain probability of occurring, such as color vision disorders or Alzheimer’s… As long as an ancestor has a certain disease, their descendants may also be at risk.”

“As for your situation, I guess it’s a genetic conflict that’s causing defects in the newborn’s genes. Since both your light and dark attributes are innate and stem from genes—using the terms from the cultivation world, they come from two different bloodlines. Now, these two bloodlines are in conflict within the little one’s body. The way to resolve this conflict is to let the two bloodlines coexist peacefully and repair and reorganize the defective genes,” Ye Feng proposed his hypothesis. “Of course, this is just a theoretical guess; I’m not sure if it’s feasible or not.”
“Feasible or not, let’s give it a try. Though I don’t understand what you just said,” Bell said, scratching his head awkwardly.
“A bloodline conflict is possible!” Si Tu Xuan remained silent for a moment before nodding. “As far as I know, such things have happened before—two outstanding families, two members getting married, but none of their children survived past the age of twenty. But this theory of genes is new to me. So what should we do now?”
“Wait a moment, I need to find something!” Ye Feng said as he sent his consciousness into the Void Realm and purchased a bottle of Perfect Gene Elixir.
Seeing the bottle of golden liquid suddenly appear in Ye Feng’s hand, Lü Ge Luo said disdainfully, “Can this bottle solve problems that even the Source of Life can’t?”
“The Source of Life uses life energy to repair organisms but doesn’t change their fundamental nature. This, on the other hand, is called the Perfect Gene Elixir, designed to repair defective genes. Believe me, the Source of Life can save those on the verge of death, but it can’t turn someone with abnormal color vision back to normal—this can!” Ye Feng shook the small bottle in his hand. “If my guess is correct, he’ll wake up after drinking this.”
Lü Ge Luo lifted her mouth and handed the little one in her arms to Ye Feng.
After taking the little one, Ye Feng gently parted its mouth and poured the golden liquid from the bottle into it.
After about a minute, the little one still showed no reaction. Ye Feng shook his head regretfully. “I’m sorry, it seems I was wrong…”
“It’s okay. You did your best, didn’t you?” Though disappointed, Bell knew Ye Feng was just trying to help.

Just then, the little creature that Ye Feng was about to hand to Bell suddenly moved. It first stretched out its two upper limbs before slowly opening its eyes.
“It’s alive!” Bell shouted in ecstasy…
“I told you, it seems my theory was correct!” Ye Feng winked at Situ Xuan and Lüluo.
Lüluo crossed her arms and said irritably, “Tch, it took so long to wake up. Maybe it’s the effect of my Life Source!”
Ye Feng helplessly spread his hands at Situ Xuan…