Against The Gods' Universe.

Ikuya opened his eyes and what was presented in front of his eyes was a blue sky with some tree branches obstructing his view. He could hear the sound of water flow.

Ikuya got up to his feet and felt everything different. The feel of air, the natural energy in the atmosphere, and mostly..... His body!

He now appeared to be a 15 year old teenager. His appearance was that of the same as when he was fifteen years old, but his body itself felt completely different to him.

It was as if, there was no human element within him.

" Well.... What's going on here? Is this one of those reincarnations or transmigrations to other worlds?" Ikuya wondered.

He examined himself for a second and found that he was naked, which didn't really bother him. What he was concerned about was, his ability, Genetic Access!

Ikuya closed his eyes for a moment and in his subconscious, everything appeared to be at genetic levels for him.

" Sigh... Thankfully, its still there." Ikuya sighed in relief knowing that he still had his ultimate ability.

He observed his genetic code and was instantly confused and perplexed.

" My new genetic code, just what is it? I've never seen such a complex and confusing genetic code." Ikuya said while observing his DNA and genetic coding.

" Ngh.." Suddenly, a massive collection of information and memories flood into Ikuya's mind, causing him to grunt in pain.

After a few minutes, Ikuya opened his eyes and shock was written all over his face. There are not many things in this world that could surprise him, much less shock him.

" This can't be happening...." Ikuya had a hard time believing the memories he just fused with.

" I can't believe that I have all of Son Goku's life experiences." Ikuya muttered.

Yes. The foreign memories that flood into his mind and fused with him is that of the Naive and innocent Super Saiyan, Son Goku!

" Then that means.... This strange and complex Genetic code that fused with my original genetic code and the DNA that completely overwrote my Alpha Human DNA is... Saiyan genes. Son Goku's genes." Ikuya muttered as he got over his initial shock. He was now contemplating as to why he has Saiyan genes now instead of his original Alpha Human genes.

" But why?..... Right! That white pearl! Where is it?" Ikuya thought as he prepared to search when a humming voice resounded in his mind.

Ikuya closed his eyes and concentrated. In his mind, a shining white pearl became visible to him.

Ikuya focused on the white pearl and the pearl vanished from his mind.

Ikuya opened his eyes and held his palm out and suddenly, the white pearl emerged from his palm.

He checked it out but couldn't find anything out of it. Usually if he concentrates his special power on his eyes, it enables him to see through the very matter that constitutes things, but he was unable to do the same with the mysterious white pearl.

" Sigh.. I'll eventually find out anyway." Ikuya sighed as he willed for the white pearl to return to his mind realm and walked towards the stream of water near him.

Ikuya looked at his reflection in water. He saw that his hair was slightly longer and spiky than it used to be. His original light blue pupils were now darker. But the most notable was his body itself.

" Hmm... Well, that's the changes huh... Although I don't seem to have a tail. It must probably because of my Genetic Access power, that it removed an unstable factor of a Saiyan, his tail. But I don't really feel the difference. Maybe I'm like the Universe 6 Saiyans. An evolved version... It is possible considering my passive states put on me by my 'Genetic Access' power." Ikuya thought.

" I can always grow it back with my abilities anyway."

Something came to Ikuya's mind and he extended his hand and a warp like portal appeared in empty air.

" So the pocket dimension I created still existed. At least I get to have some clothes from my world." Ikuya muttered.

He did feel relieved on discovering that his pocket dimension he had created to store all the things he had was still accessible to him. But after he thought about it for a second, it would obviously be with him. He had used 'DNA Indexing' to make it so that the entire pocket space was bound to his DNA.

Since his DNA was overwrote by the Saiyan DNA, it had practically devoured his Alpha Human DNA. Only the powers of his old body vanished, but his genetic code still existed.

Ikuya took out a pair of jersey and used his powers to decrease it's size slightly to match his current teenage body.

He then sat near a tree cross-legged and started to adapt with Son Goku's memories and experiences.

After a few minutes.

" Well, I hit the jackpot, I suppose." Ikuya said with a slight smile.

The memories he received has all of Son Goku's memories. Including the memories of transforming into a Super Saiyan and it's variations. Even the Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue. He also got the memories of the manga version Goku, which has a full power Super Saiyan Blue form and also the exclusive skill, 'Hakai'.

But fortunately, he didn't get any of Son Goku's personality, feelings and emotions. Even Ikuya himself was not sure if he'd be able to stay with his original personality, if he ever fused with Son Goku's personality, feelings and emotions.

He knew very well that, Son Goku was too kind and innocent, unlike himself, who'd kill others without sparing a thought.

" Since my current S-cells and DNA originate from Son Goku, it has all the inherent memories of Goku's Super Saiyan transformations and his fighting style. All I have to do is to strengthen my body powerful enough to handle those forms." Ikuya thought.

" As for Ultra Instinct..." Ikuya smirked.

" Son Goku might not have any knowledge on how to enter that state, but his genes definitely recorded down that state. All I have to do is decode those locked information in these genes and imprint it into my very self."

But, Ultra Instinct is not as simple as it sounds and Ikuya knows it as well. Ikuya knows that, even if he decodes the genetic memory of Ultra Instinct from Son Goku's gene, mastering that state is an entirely different story. If his body is not strong enough to handle the state, it could ultimately be destroyed as well.

One's mental boundaries and limitations are completely erased allowing his/her mental abilities to be completely unrestricted or subject to blockage, knowing what they need to do and how they need to do it. This exponentially enhances one's integration of knowledge and can store it in more than a single interpretation, before accurately deducing which interpretation would best fit the scenario.

Their mind is unrestricted and uninfluenced by any internal or external factors. It is a state of total awareness and reaction not impeded by higher mental function or emotion, a mind more open and reactive to subtle sensory input, intuition, and spontaneous action. It is a mind that is totally calm - a mind not influenced or caught up in events or others emotion, thus a mind more able to freely perceive and respond to any situation for the advantage of the user.

Upon mastery, the user has essentially reached the ultimate mental pinnacle. Their body can also move and adapt while in battle on its own, allowing them to attack and defend simultaneously without thinking.

Ikuya got rid of the unnecessary thoughts from his mind and started the first thing he wants to do.

" Lets see how many genetic limiters a Saiyan has." Ikuya muttered as he closed his eyes and after five minutes, he opened his eyes and a slight shock was present in his eyes. He was getting too many shocks since he reincarnated here in this unknown place.

" I can't even see the limit. The Saiyan. This gene make my Alpha Human gene look like an insignificant small fry." Ikuya muttered with a wry smile.

There were a total of 2160 genetic limiters. But Ikuya could see a thin layer after the 2160 limiters. He couldn't go any further since he lacked the mental energy for it. After reincarnating here, he no longer has his god-like level of mental energy, so most of his abilities are unable to be accessed by him.

" Lets first remove a genetic limiter. Who knows what kind of world this is. In the end, only absolute power can guarantee my survival." Ikuya muttered.

After thirty minutes.

" *Huff* *Huff* *Huff* " Ikuya was breathing roughly as he thought.

' Damn. I never thought removing a genetic limiter could be this hard. This Saiyan gene is a tough cookie.'

Unlike his experience with his previous Human self, Ikuya found it extremely hard and barely managed to remove the first genetic limiter. Then again, considering that Saiyans even have the potential of reaching the level of gods and even surpassing it, while still having their genetic limiters locked, it isn't too strange that it would require countless times of effort to remove a Saiyan genetic limiter compared to a Human genetic limiter.

His power level had increased by a few tens of times. His mental energy and life energy or rather, his Ki has increased as well, just as much as his mind and body.

His body had adapted to the increase of strength within a few minutes, which made him understand the immense and outrageous levels of potential, a Saiyan has.

" This is certainly interesting. I wonder what sort of levels I'll reach after I remove all the genetic limiters? This won't be boring." Ikuya said.

" Hm?" Ikuya sensed a few people a few distance away from him.

He noticed that they don't seem to utilize Ki but still have quite a bit of battle power. He sensed a type of energy in them, that he has never sensed before. But he could feel the same energy in the air as well.

' Hmm... Might as well get some information about this world from them.' Ikuya thought as he moved towards the direction he sensed the people.

' This place isn't too bad.' Seeing the things around him as he walked towards where he sensed the group of people, Ikuya thought.

The scenery was not that bad. After all, it was located deep within the mountains surrounded by red autumnal trees, wondrous flowers, unusual grasses, high mountains, flowing rivers, tall waterfalls and such. All sorts of scenery were present in this place.

But to Ikuya, he could smell the scent of blood all over the place and the remnant aura in this place wasn't anything good either. Ikuya is very familiar with this kind of aura.

When he was about thirty meters away from them....

" Since you're already here, why don't you come out? It's useless hiding!" Said a rough man's voice to Ikuya.

' Uhhh.... I wasn't trying to hide... Well, whatever. I'll try to be reasonable and ask them for the information about this world.' Ikuya thought.

Ikuya noticed that, there were a total of thirty-eight people with a young man who seemed to be the same age as Ikuya standing in front of them like a leader.

These thirty-eight people were of all ages, both old and young. The youngest among them were about the same age as Ikuya. As for the oldest, his appearance matched that of an eighty years old man.

" Yo! You see, I kinda lost my memories and don't know which place this is. Could you give me some information?" Ikuya tried his best to make a friendly smile and asked them.

The young man who appeared to be the leader of the group looked at Ikuya's appearance and felt....envy.

Jealousy rose in his heart. The young man immediately decided to kill Ikuya in his mind.

Although Ikuya never paid attention to it, he had a very dashing appearance and for some reason, his charisma only increases as he removes the genetic limiters each time.

' Shin Lang! I want that flower boy dead! No! Humiliate him before killing him! Only then will I be satisfied!' The young man sent a sound transmission to a bulky man next to him while having an angry scowl on his face.

The bulky man nodded. He pointed at Ikuya and yelled.

" You! Get on your knees and kowtow 100 times while shouting 'I'm a bitch!'. If you can't, you can say goodbye to your insignificant life!"

" .... " Ikuya was completely stunned and also sort of angry. He did his best to talk to them politely and they reply to him in such a manner?

At the beginning, the rest of the thirty six men only showed slight interest and pity for Ikuya when they saw their young master getting jealous of Ikuya's looks.

However, after they saw the expression of anger on Ikuya's face, they started having amused expressions.

It was so much that there were people among them who actually began to coldly laugh, as if they were enjoying another's calamity. There were even some among them who were shameless enough to take out food from their bosoms and begin to eat as if they were looking forward to enjoying a show.

" Hey, brat! Did you not hear Big brother Lang's words?!"

A voice suddenly sounded from the left of the bulky man named Shin Lang.

Turning his gaze toward the source of the voice, Ikuya discovered that there was a middle-aged man wearing a black coloured robes standing right behind Shin Lang.

That man had an ordinary appearance. His eyes were spiritless, and he had a sloppy stubble beard on his face. Holding a bottle gourd of wine and looking at Ikuya with a smile on his face and slight disdain in his eyes.

This man possessed a battle power, several times higher than an average human.

Unfortunately, his battle power was not up to much. Ikuya was able to tell that his battle power was poor. Someone like him, even if he was ten times more stronger, would not be a match for Ikuya. Not to mention a single him, even if there were a hundred of him, a thousand of him, Ikuya would still not put them in his eyes.

He was formerly a God-level Superhuman! With his powers, he was literally a god! These people did not qualify to stand before his presence. Yet...

" Boy! Did you not hear my words?! Or do you not understand human speech?" Shin Lang asked while looking at Ikuya in disdain.

" Of course I understand human speech. Just that.... I do not understand dog speech." Ikuya said while sneering at Shin Lang.

" Bastard, you're looking for a beating!" Hearing those words, Shin Lang was immediately enraged. He clenched his muscular fist and smashed it toward Ikuya.

Not only was his fist very large, it was also very powerful. His fist attack gave rise to whistling winds as it was smashed toward Ikuya.

At this time, many of the men present began to shake their heads.

The way they saw it, it was impossible for Ikuya, with no cultivation, to be able to survive Shin Lang's attack.

However, right at the time when everyone was thinking that a great catastrophe was about to befall Ikuya, Ikuya simply uttered, " How stupid."

*Bam!*

The attack was completed. But the results were not what everyone was expecting.

There stood Ikuya while effortlessly catching Shin Lang's 'Powerful' fist.

' Why did I even bother trying to be reasonable with them? Looks like Goku's memories have slightly affected me.' Ikuya thought.

" I'll kill you all. You worthless dogs who dared to waste my time." Ikuya said as he clenched his palm which was holding Shin Lang's fist.

*Crack!*

Shin Lang was standing there. It seemed that he had yet to manage to react to what had happened.

However, the other men who had seen everything were filled with shock and had stunned expressions all over their faces.

That was because that Shin Lang's fist was shattered. It was badly mutilated. It had been completely crushed by Ikuya effortlessly.

" Ahhhh!!!!"

No matter how slowly Shin Lang managed to react to the pain, when he saw his fist that was drenched with blood, he started to scream.

" I'll kill you!" In anger, Shin Lang actually attacked Ikuya again.

Ikuya simply smiled and muttered, " Explode."

*Poof!*

*Splash!!*

A muffled explosion was heard, and blood blossomed in the air. Shin Lang had exploded into flesh and blood.

A mental energy force field covered Ikuya and not a single drop of blood came in contact with Ikuya.

The moment Ikuya touched Shin Lang's hand, he had accelerated the molecules in Shin Lang, increased heat and friction to the point, where it caused Shin Lang to be obliterated.

Ikuya didn't say anything and turned to look at the others who were stunned speechless.

And...

Many screams resounded in the place for a minute as only the young man remained.

The rest of them, all were killed in cold blood by Ikuya.

" You will answer my questions. Is that clear?" Ikuya said while looking at the young man who already pissed his pants in fear.

The young man vigorously nodded in fear that Ikuya might kill him as well. Too bad for him, Ikuya never spares anyone who he has decided to kill.

' I should have just done this from the start instead of trying to be humble.' Ikuya thought, a bit disappointed at himself.

Ikuya looked at the trembling young man and asked, " So, first question is, what is the name of this planet?"

" Pul-pulanite?? I don't know..." The young man said while still being gripped with fear.

" It's planet. Why the fu*k are you even alive if you don't even know the planet you live in?" Ikuya supressed his urge to smash the young man's head into a pulp since he still wanted some information.

The Young man got more afraid after he heard Ikuya's tone of displeasure.

" So.... What is that energy you're using?" Ikuya asked.

" Um? What?" The young man was confused.

" I asked, what is the energy you used?" Ikuya stressed out his words.

" It's..... Profound Energy." The young man said, feeling confused.

" What are those strange veins within you?" Ikuya asked.

" What..... are you...?" The young man was very confused and startled.

" Answer the damn question!" Ikuya said.

" It's profound veins..." The young man said.

' Is he playing with me? Who wouldn't know what profound energy and profound veins are?' The young man thought.

' Profound Energy? Profound Veins?... Could it be?' Ikuya had some guesses of what world he was currently in. But he wanted to verify a bit.

" So what is this.... Oh forget it." Ikuya said as he stepped forward and grabbed the young man's head.

In a matter of second, he read all of the young man's memories and got all the information he wanted.

The mountain ranges that he is currently in is called 'Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range', which is situated in 'Blue Wind Empire' which is one of the seven nations of 'Profound Sky Continent'. And that, this guy belonged to a bandit like mercenary group called, Black Demon Mercenary Group.

Ikuya was totally convinced. The world he has transmigrated is ... 'Against The Gods' universe. A fictional world to be precise.

But he couldn't determine the timeline from the guy's memories. He wanted to use 'Genetic Memory' ability to extract the memories from the young man's DNA, but unfortunately, he has nowhere near the mental energy required to use the ability.

Unlike most of his other Genetic Access' abilities, Genetic Memory is a technique that allows him to retrace the information in the DNA, all the way back to the origin of the particular race. But the mental energy required to use this technique is enormous to the point, he wasn't able to use this technique completely even in his previous life.

Ikuya then looked through the genetic coding of the young man and found out that, despite being a human, the genetic coding of the humans of this world is vastly different from his previous world.

The most notable difference was the Profound Veins. The humans back in his world didn't have such a thing. Even the ancient Chinese cultivators only used the 'True Qi' from the atmosphere to enhance their strength and life span via storing the 'True Qi' in their dantian and refining their meridians.

But the profound veins seemed to be something that belongs only to those of this universe.

Because Ikuya's Saiyan body has no profound veins, he isn't capable of cultivating the profound strength.

But he is always capable of stealing others Genetic coding, thus capable of replicating their genetic coding and is able to gain all their traits, abilities, memories etc.

Ikuya is capable of creating his own set of profound veins by simply replicating others DNA.

' This world has many things to look forward to. The Phoenix, Golden Crow, Primordial Azure Dragon, and there's that Devil Sovereign as well. Most importantly, the Evil God! Once I get my hands on their Genetic Coding and study it, I'll be able to create the ultimate set of Profound Veins fitting for a Saiyan.' Ikuya thought as a smile crept up his face.

' I wonder if there are other Divine Beasts and True Gods out there. If I knew I would be transmigrating to Against the gods world, I wouldn't have dropped the novel at 1,000 some chapters.' Ikuya thought as he wryly smiled. But he felt no regrets.

Ikuya saw that the young man was standing there in a daze because of Ikuya's mind reading technique.

" Your usefulness is over." Ikuya said in a low voice.

Hearing this, the young man sprinted over. Hugging Ikuya's leg and crying, he said, " Great lord, I beg you to be magnanimous and spare me, please. We don't have any grudges between us. Why do you want to put me to death?!"

Ikuya gave a look of disdain and then sent the young man flying with a kick before squatting down and said, " Don't have any grudges? Do you really take me for a fool? I just read your mind and know everything about you. Even more than what you know about yourself. Even if I don't count for the numerous innocent women you raped, you actually dared to have sinister thoughts on me."

' Shouldn't it be the other way around?!' The young man thought in exasperation at Ikuya's reason to kill him.

" You want to humiliate and kill me because of my Unrivalled looks? Well, you have already dug a grave for yourself!" Ikuya said.

" Great lord, I truly don't know what you meant by that! I only came to this accursed place because of my boss's order. Even if I'd offended you, it isn't deserving of death. I am only a small figure. I beg of you, Great lord. Just treat me like a fart and let me go." The young man said as he cried without even trying to maintain his dignity as a profound practitioner.

Ikuya didn't say anything as raised his right hand and....

*VVVMMMMMM*

A blue Ki ball condensed in his palm and then he fired a blue energy beam at the young man, obliterating his upper body, effectively killing him before he could even get a chance to utter a word.

" Hmph! What an annoying prick!" Ikuya grumbled, feeling irritated.