Chapter 452 - 282: Major Version Update
Yu Fei stared blankly ahead. He felt like he could do *something*, and it took a great deal of effort to restrain the reckless impulse and look at his talent’s effect description instead.
The description of the talent’s effects would help him master his own abilities. Ordinary people, even if they possessed some innate talents, might never be aware of their specific inclinations and could live out their entire lives in mediocrity.
Perhaps an old farmer in the countryside possessed the greatest ear for music, or a factory worker tightening screws could write the most moving stories, or a delivery boy could sing with the most beautiful voice.
But if a person doesn’t know where their strengths and talents lie, they might stumble down the wrong path their entire life, wasting their potential and accomplishing nothing.
Advanced Space Master
Quality: Gold
Description: The favored child of space!
Effect 1, Master of Space, Basic Ability: Possess a Primordial Space with a diameter of 333 kilometers.
Evolved Ability ①, Absolute Control: The Master of Space possesses absolute control over the fundamental rules within the space they command, and can freely manipulate its inherent properties.
Derived Ability ②: Unlocks the Primordial Space’s Decomposition Pool (for ease of understanding) and the Source Energy Core Crystal. Spiritual materials can be collected to increase Source Energy reserves!
Derived Ability ③: World Evolution. When Source Energy is abundant, the Master of Space can initiate World Evolution. The Primordial Space will then form a real world according to the Master of Space’s will.
Note: Primitive life may be generated during World Evolution. The Master of the World can restrain this primitive life through methods such as command, enslavement, guidance, teaching, or killing, but cannot interfere with its free will!
Effect 2, Markers: You can form markers using your own residual aura, allowing you to penetrate space and arrive at the marker’s location.
Effect 3, Teleportation...
Effect 4, Spatial Manipulation: You possess the ability to perceive space. In your eyes, space has discernible traces and is operable.
After increasing two levels, as expected, the talent was now named "Advanced," and its effects had changed dramatically.
First was the Master of the World ability. The space Yu Fei controlled had reached a staggering 333 kilometers in diameter, and he now even possessed the ability of World Evolution.
Within the space, a vortex-like Decomposition Pool and a Source Energy Core Crystal appeared out of thin air.
Once the Source Energy Core Crystal was full, he could initiate World Evolution!
According to the description, he needed to put spiritual materials into the Decomposition Pool to convert them into pure energy.
’What are spiritual materials?’
After a moment of thought, Yu Fei tried throwing the mangled remains of the Great Wilderness Sect’s Martial Artists into the Decomposition Pool.
After entering the vortex, the Martial Artists’ bodies vanished without a trace. He saw the energy core flash for an almost imperceptible moment, but the Crystal Stone that indicated the energy collection status showed no change whatsoever.
Deciding to keep trying, Yu Fei threw in ten Desolate Beasts, along with numerous mid-to-high-rank transcendent jades. Only then did the energy collection progress show the faintest, almost unnoticeable trace of movement.
To put it in perspective, it was like a single drop of water had finally fallen into a swimming pool!
"Forget it!"
Yu Fei gave up for the time being. He figured the so-called "spiritual materials" must refer to something else. If he really had to fill it with the corpses of high-level Desolate Beasts and Martial Artists, he was afraid that even slaughtering the entire world wouldn’t be enough.
As for manipulating the inherent properties of this world, Yu Fei decided to give it a try.
The space was currently empty. What he could do was partition it, set the temperature to a certain degree, and slightly alter the gravity. Beyond that... ’could he perhaps try to construct spatial passages?’
He tried setting up 10 partitions, connecting specific locations within them using invisible passages. For example, the bottom-left corner of partition 1 could lead directly to the sky above partition 4. This experiment wasn’t particularly special; it was one of those things that’s easy once you know how, but impossible if you don’t.
To Yu Fei, it was like taking a pile of clay and molding it into blocks and ramps, connecting them so that small things could naturally slide down...
Wait!
A horrifying thought struck Yu Fei! ’Homeworld... the Borderlands... the Cross-Border Black Fog...’
For a moment, Yu Fei’s mind was in utter turmoil. ’Could it be...?’
’Why do the rules of the Borderlands seem to be a shadow of my own abilities? What if the Homeworld, the Borderlands, and even the Void Realm were all established by another being—one with even higher spatial talent and greater power?’
’And World Evolution... Does this being possess the abilities of a creator?’
Yu Fei carefully reread the description for World Evolution, and one particular line caught his attention.
The Master of the World can restrain this primitive life through methods such as command, enslavement, guidance, inducement, teaching, or killing, but cannot interfere with its free will!
’World Evolution...’
’Can a Space Master really achieve something like this? If the world he currently inhabited was also created in such a manner, he couldn’t even begin to imagine how powerful its original master must be!’
He decided he would absolutely not initiate World Evolution lightly. If primitive life were truly born from it, how would he coexist with them?
Yu Fei didn’t believe they would remain obedient if they embarked on the path of transcendence. If a fundamental conflict of ideals were to arise between them, would he have to kill every single native life-form?
Setting the matter aside for now, Yu Fei continued to check the changes in his other abilities.
The teleportation ability of his Markers was no longer restricted by the need to create them beforehand. As long as a location retained a trace of his aura, he could teleport to it.
The strategic possibilities for this were enormous. For example, during a battle, if he managed to hit an enemy, the residual aura of his Sword Qi could serve as an Instant Teleportation Marker. He could absolutely dominate his opponent!
The Teleportation ability hadn’t changed much, but the number of anchor points he could create was now as high as nine. An instinctual feedback told him that the number of anchors was related to the quality of his soul and could increase further as his strength grew.