Finally, an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
Ding! Congratulations, Host! Your CON and Divine Soul have reached 100 quintillion! Your cultivation has successfully broken through to the 1st Heaven of the Star Sea Realm!
Your daily Reconstruction Quota has increased to 10. Remaining Reconstruction Quota: 2!
Ding! The essence of your Undying God-Body has evolved. Soul and physical recovery speed increased by 100x! Energy absorption speed increased by 100x!
The system notifications chid in Lance’s mind, prompting him to slowly open his eyes.
Ding! CON 100 trillion! Divine Soul 100 trillion!
Ding! CON 100 trillion! Divine Soul 100 trillion!
Ding! CON 100 trillion! Divine Soul 100 trillion!
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At that mont, the consumption rate of Battle Aura within Lance's Consciousness Hub skyrocketed a hundredfold. Consequently, the CON and Divine Soul points he gained every second more than eclipsed his previous rates by a factor of a hundred.
Unfortunately, this energy was of a higher dinsion, distinct from his previous Battle Aura and Soul power. It functioned more like Law-type energy. Because of this, Lance’s Berserk Absorption had finally reached the end of its usefulness.
Fortunately, he possessed a new ability: increasing his absorption speed by upgrading the level of his death energy.
Theoretically, absorbing Domain Lord Class energy should increase his absorption speed several tis over.
Previously, he could gain 2 quintillion CON in an hour. Now, that number had surged to 100 quintillion CON and Divine Soul.
At this rate, he could jump from the 1st Heaven to the 4th Heaven in just one hour.
When that happened, he could head to the Domain Lord Class examination grounds and directly absorb energy of that caliber to further accelerate his cultivation speed.
"Additionally, the Reconstruction Quota has refreshed. Combined with the one I had left, I have two available. But right now, there doesn't seem to be anything left to reconstruct."
Lance cast a wry glance at his Status Panel, feeling a strange sense of helplessness.
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Status Panel
Na: Lance
Reconstruction Quota: 2/10
Martial Dao Realm: Star Sea Realm (1st Heaven)
Divine Soul Realm: Star Sea Realm (1st Heaven)
CON: 100 Quintillion (1 point = 30,000kg force)
Soul: 100 Quintillion
Master of All Crafts: 10 Types (Tier 12 Mid-Grade, 0/3 Quadrillion, Legendary)
Techniques: Weapon Grandmaster (10 Concept States, 1,000% boost, 0/10 Billion)
Laws: Low-grade: 0; Mid-grade: 0; High-grade: 8 types; Peak-grade: 3 types; Paramount: Power of Death (Law Threads: 100), Destruction Power (Law Threads: 100)
Talents: Undying God-Body (Immortal Class, Combat Power 5000%), The Human Sovereign Physique (Immortal Grade, 100-trillion-fold boost), The Void Dragon Physique (Immortal Class, Physical Body 512), The Power of Genesis (10 Tier 6 Low-Grade, 13 types)
Techniques: Eternal Soul Protocol (Immortal Grade, Tier 10 Shattered, 1,000x boost), The Fiend God's Nirvana (Tier 15 Low-Grade), Berserk Absorption (Tier 13 High-Grade), Heavenly Giant Manifestation (Tier 15 Mid-Grade, 1000x boost), The Divine Genesis Canon (10 Tier 8 Low-Grade), Divine Soul Fission (Tier 12 Low-Grade, 256 fragnts)
Martial Arts: The Death Spear Art (Tier 15 High-Grade, 400x), The Apocalyptic Ray (Tier 15 Mid-Grade, 300x), Instantaneous Teleportation (Tier 15 Low-Grade, 200x), The Heaven-Quaking Avatar (Tier 15 Low-Grade, 200x)...
Items: Dark Sky Battle Armor (Tier 15 Low-Grade), Dark Sky Demon Spear (Tier 15 Low-Grade), Wings of the Angel (Tier 11 Peak-Grade)
Physical Combat Power: Domain Lord Realm (7th Heaven)
Ultimate Combat Power: Realm Lord Realm (4th Heaven)
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Most of his assets had reached the Immortal Realm—effectively the pinnacle of the entire universe. Even so true Immortal Class powerhouses didn't possess as many Immortal Class techniques or martial arts as he did, let alone master them.
However, this also ant that to use the Limit Break function, he needed to fuse things eleven tis. Currently, he only had ten Reconstruction Quotas per cycle.
"Right, I still need to comprehend other Powers of Laws. But trying to grasp elental forces from scratch is incredibly difficult. Even with my current talent, it would take a long ti to manifest a new elent out of nothing."
"The best thod would be to repair the exploits within Void Cores. That way, I'd only need to consu them to upgrade instantly."
"Three thousand elents... at my current pace, it would take at least three hundred days."
"And trying to precisely reconstruct three thousand distinct elental forces is nearly impossible."
Lance rubbed his chin, sinking deep into thought.
To perfect his Tier 8 Power of Genesis, he had to comprehend 2,999 types of elents—excluding Ti Power. Relying solely on Reconstruction made this a daunting task.
As for manual comprehension, building sothing from the ground up was never easy.
Previously, he had awakened elents with such ease because he either consud repaired Void Cores or utilized powerful techniques like The Eight Sacred Canons.
Comprehending from scratch required conceptualizing the complete evolution process of an energy. Lance could technically create techniques similar to The Eight Sacred Canons himself, but there was a catch.
The difficulty of creating such a technique far exceeded that of simply comprehending an energy from scratch. To create a cultivation manual, one first needed a profound, intimate understanding of the energies involved.
He'd need to comprehend the energies before he could even write the manual.
And if he had already comprehended them, why would he need the manual? The creator of The Eight Sacred Canons had intended to forge the even more powerful Celestial Treasure Canon, but Lance already possessed The Divine Genesis Canon.
"Comprehending from nothing is hard, but it should be exponentially easier if I have Void Cores containing those elental powers to serve as a guide."
"Even without repairing them, I can mimic the elental structure to grasp the essence!"
Lance’s eyes glead with realization.
Using an elental Void Core as a blueprint was ten thousand tis simpler than stumbling in the dark. Combined with his monstrous talent, he might be able to master a new elent in no ti.
"In that case, let’s give it a shot. It might actually work!"
With a sharp glint in his eyes, Lance pulled a Tier 10 Void Core from his pile of Legacy Tokens. This particular core contained the Profound Mystery of Celerity.
As for elents of the Lineage of Fire, he could derive them from the Sacred Canon of Heavenly Flas, one of the Eight Sacred Canons.
After all, the elental powers within the Eight Sacred Canons evolved in stages. Devolving them back to their primal fire form was far simpler.
By the sa logic, he could derive elental forces for the lineages of Water, Light, Darkness, Wind, and Wood using the Eight Sacred Canons. He had already cultivated many of these previously; he simply needed to reverse-engineer the eight high-level energies to obtain at least thirty distinct elental variations for each type.
That made for hundreds of varieties already. When factoring in the eight high-grade energies, the three top-tier energies, and the two supre energies, he could potentially derive two to three hundred different elents.
With that thought, Lance deployed over a hundred strands of his consciousness, beginning his research and cultivation through The Eight Sacred Canons.
In that mont, Lance suddenly felt his consciousness strands were woefully inadequate.
"Well, I finally found sothing worth breaking the limit for. This Divine Soul division is a treasure. It looks like it’ll be the first thing I upgrade next ti I hit a limit!"
A faint glint danced in Lance’s eyes.
The current level of his Divine Soul division was only Tier 12, World Lord Class.
For the current Lance, this was naturally insufficient. Fortunately, to break the limit at Tier 12, he only needed eight Reconstruction Quotas.
Currently, Lance received ten quotas per day.
After fixing this, he would still have two left, which, added to his current stock, brought his total to four.
However, even if he wanted to start the process now, he lacked sufficient Reconstruction Quotas. He would have to wait and see.
Pushing those thoughts aside, Lance returned his focus to the Void Core in his hand, sensing the Elent of Celerity contained within.
Even if he fully mastered this elent, it wouldn't be as fast as his Teleportation Force. After all, it was rely a D-rank ability.
By the standard tier system, it was only a Tier 3 ability—weak as hell.
Low-level abilities were nothing like their high-level counterparts.
Take a Tier 15 ability like The Eight Supre Elents; if one could master just one of those and survive, they were practically guaranteed to beco a top-tier powerhouse among the Immortal Class.
But low-level abilities were a different story.
A Tier 3 ability like The Elent of Celerity offered so little that if a person’s natural talent was only average, they would struggle to even reach the Houtian level in their entire lifeti. Consequently, the boost such an ability provided to one's innate talent was negligible.
Still, in his quest to gather all elental powers, Lance intended to master even these low-level elents.
The ability within this Tier 10 Void Core had already been upgraded to the profound Law level. It contained over five hundred threads of the Law of Speed. Based on this level, the original owner of this Void Core must have reached the Universal Class, Tenth Stratum before their death.
Almost all the insights regarding the Elent of Celerity were etched directly onto the core.
Lance closed his eyes, following those insights to examine the fundantal structure of the Elent of Celerity.
Because the construction of these Powers of Laws was so incredibly esoteric, Lance found it frustratingly difficult to glean actual insights from them.
Helplessly, he continued his experintation. If he didn't try to comprehend them now, he feared he would be forced to rely solely on the system’s restoration to acquire these elents in the future. The problem was that while restored elents were high-level, nearly ninety-nine percent of the Three Thousand Elents were low-level—Tier 3 or below.
A restored version would far exceed Tier 3. He could use his reconstruction ability when mastering high-level elents, but for the vast sea of low-level elents, he had to rely on his own comprehension.
An hour and a half slipped by in deep ditation.
[System Notification]
CON: 1.6 x 10^20
Soul: 1.6 x 10^20
Realm: Star Sea Realm, 5th Heaven
However, even with his cultivation rising to the 5th Heaven of the Star Sea Realm, he had only managed to form a few coherent ideas.
"Great. It looks like without a low-level Void Core, it’s nearly impossible to reverse-engineer the foundation."
Lance was genuinely speechless, but he didn't panic. Once his Divine Soul division level rose and The Genius Trials concluded, he could simply buy a mountain of low-level elental Void Cores to assist his cultivation. At that point, his efficiency would be tens of thousands of tis higher than it was now.
Nonetheless, through the deduction of his cultivation techniques, he had already successfully derived at least thirty different elents.
If he kept this up, he would definitely have a hundred elents before the second round began.
The eight categories contained a massive variety of elents. The Fire series alone had dozens of different types for every tier, peaking at the Tier 14 Macrocosmic Stellar Fla.
The Water, Light, and Dark series similarly possessed dozens of low-level elents, all reaching up to Tier 14.
Of course, based on his current manuals, Lance could only deduce up to Tier 11. To go higher, he would need to fix the Exploits within those techniques.
"Since I can't master any more elental powers in the short term, I should focus on raising my realm. My ultimate combat power has reached Tier 7 Realm Lord Class. With my formations, I have enough strength to protect myself.
System, I want to upgrade my examination venue level!"
Lance spoke directly to the Virtual Universe.
"Greetings. Please be advised: if you upgrade your examination venue level, all Legacy Tokens you obtain will be calculated according to the Domain Lord Class bracket."
In the Domain Lord Class bracket, only Domain Lord Class Legacy Tokens granted points.
[Point Distribution]
Domain Lord: Low-Grade (1), Mid-Grade (10), High-Grade (100), Peak-Grade (1,000)
Realm Lord: Low-Grade (10,000), Mid-Grade (100,000), High-Grade (1,000,000), Peak-Grade (10,000,000)
"Based on your current Legacy Token count, if you enter the Domain Lord Class venue, you will lose your qualification for advancent. Do you wish to proceed?"
Hearing Lance’s "arrogant" request, the Virtual Universe A.I. was clearly montarily stunned. It laid out every disadvantage of upgrading the venue and asked for confirmation.
Once the upgrade happened, there was no going back. If Lance’s luck was poor, he would be disqualified imdiately.
anwhile, God-Emperor Extinction, who was secretly observing everything, watched this unfold.
"What is the Ancestral Patriarch doing? His formation level is only Tier 11 High-Grade. Does he think he can push it to Tier 12 in such a short ti? Even if he reaches Tier 12 Low-Grade with a Perfect-realm formation, he still won't be able to defeat that kid with the 'Writing' ability!"
By now, God-Emperor Extinction was absolutely convinced that Lance was the reincarnation of his Ancestral Patriarch.
Such a terrifying rate of growth, combined with the mastery of the Power of Death and the Undying God-Body... you expect to believe that's a coincidence? Impossible.
But even so, it should be impossible for a 4th Heaven Star Sea Realm Lance to skip two and a half major realms to compete with the universe’s greatest geniuses.
"This won't do. If the Ancestral Patriarch fails to make it to the finals, Master will definitely beat the hell out of !"
Extinction’s expression shifted.
Knowing the Destroyer Supre’s temperant, if he sat by and let the Ancestral Patriarch ruin his chances without intervening, he would be in deep trouble.
But the target was his own Ancestral Patriarch, and as the Chief Examiner, he couldn't just openly interfere. He felt utterly helpless for a mont.
"Wait!"
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"I can just teleport all the geniuses ranked ahead of the Ancestral Patriarch into a God-King Class Secret Realm and wipe them all out, can't I? That way, no one will ever know what happened!"
Extinction imdiately settled on this psychotic plan.
Killing everyone ahead of Lance on The Leaderboard... was this really sothing a Chief Examiner should be doing?
If word got out...
Well, even if word got out, who would dare gossip?
Not only was God-Emperor Extinction invincible among the Immortal Class—capable of going toe-to-toe with weaker Supre Deities—but he also had The Destroyer Supre standing behind him.
Who would dare say a word about him culling a few junior geniuses? Even if their backers were Supre Deities, they wouldn't dare breathe a word.
"Yes, it’s decided. As long as I keep it subtle, the Ancestral Patriarch definitely won't find out!"
God-Emperor Extinction smiled triumphantly.
On the other side, Lance had already made his choice.
"Just upgrade it. Stop wasting my ti!"
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