How could Yan Long fail to be excited? There were seven hunters in the first realm who had obtained peak gene fragments, six of whom belonged to China!

Peak gene fragments were rare even for second-realm hunters, and most would ascend to the third realm as soon as they had capped out their mutated gene capacity. Only a rare few hunters would advance having capped out their superior gene capacity, and even fewer their peak gene capacity.

Most second-realm hunters would be overjoyed just to have any peak gene fragments at all—such was their rarity. However, Zhang Lie and his team had acquired these precious fragments in the first realm! Although the first realm was colloquially known as...