Lu Ming

On a desolate snow-white planet, fierce winds howled.

White, shattered-ice-like grains of sand were swept up in a wild dance. Faintly visible amid the flying sand, two figures darted rapidly through the storm before colliding with each other!

Boom!

A blinding bolt of lightning suddenly pierced through the body of the horned, burly man in blue battle robes.

When the dazzling lightning faded, it condensed into the figure of a short-haired young man dressed in black combat gear. Beneath him, only icy grit and dust filled the sky, continuing to whirl with the wind!

"I've finally mastered the third form of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast. Its power is indeed pretty good." Lu Ming stood alone above the planet, a satisfied smile appearing at the corner of his lips.

According to Marquis Zhenlei's requirements, he had taken only a year and a half to master the third form of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast—Tiger's Roar. This already met the other party's requirements for taking him as a disciple. Moreover, the Jinlan Dojo would likely increase its investment in him once again.

"Exit."

With a silent thought, his figure slowly faded from the Slaughter Space.

Although this was not his first time entering the Slaughter Space, he still found it incredibly unbelievable every time he used it.

"After all, this was created by Lord Primordial Ancestor..." Unfortunately, this place could not fully replace the life-and-death trials of the real world. Otherwise, it would have been even more perfect.

As Lu Ming sighed inwardly, his body reappeared in the Slaughter Field's main hall. When the others in the hall saw this seemingly not-so-tall young man of the Black-eyed Clan, their eyes filled with awe and wariness.

Although they too were elite geniuses from the Jinlan Dojo headquarters, aside from the small handful of two or three people, no one dared casually speak to him.

Mad Beast—Lu Ming! He was undoubtedly one of the greatest geniuses to emerge from the Jinlan Dojo in nearly a thousand years.

Though he had merely been born into a small family founded by a Universe-level powerhouse in the Heilin Empire, a mid-tier civilization in the universe, he had displayed extraordinary talent for cultivation from childhood. Before long, he had caught the attention of the upper ranks of the Jinlan Dojo branch in the Heilin Empire and been promoted to a Special-Class Elite genius.

Not long after that, he had been selected for the Jinlan Dojo headquarters, becoming one of the Stellar-level Seed Elites of the entire Jinlan Universe Kingdom.

Even the senior executives of the Virtual Universe Company branch stationed in the Jinlan Universe Kingdom had invited him to join the Virtual Universe Company directly, only for him to refuse.

The reason Lu Ming had refused was simple. It was not that he did not want to join the Virtual Universe Company. Of course he understood that it was easier to thrive with a powerful backer, but climbing step by step through a Virtual Universe Company branch in a single universe kingdom was simply too slow!

At his current level—ninth-rank Stellar level, having only just stepped across the threshold of the Lightning Origin Law—even if he joined the Virtual Universe Company headquarters now, he would still need to pass certain tests before entering its core genius training system. Most likely, he would also have to start from the lowest of the Four Secret Realms, the Last World Secret Realm.

But once the Human Universe Peak Genius Battle officially began three years later... he would have the chance to leap through the dragon gate and soar to the heavens in a single step!

"If I want to shine in the Peak Genius Battle three years from now, merely stepping across the threshold of the Lightning Origin Law won't be enough..." Looking across an entire universe kingdom, only Stellar-level geniuses who had crossed the threshold of an Origin Law could be considered true super geniuses among their peers.

However, if he wanted to stand out and laugh until the end in the Human Universe Peak Genius Battle, that level was still far from sufficient.

Of course, after mastering the third form of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast, he could at least easily crush the other geniuses of his generation within the Jinlan Dojo.

After all, mastering the third form of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast was no less valuable than a Controller learning to initially wield the first form of one of the Nine Divine Weapons.

Anyone who could master the third form of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast at the Stellar level could basically be called invincible among those of the same rank and level. Unfortunately, even such "invincible figures" were plentiful in the Peak Genius Battle.

In truth, stepping across the threshold of the Lightning Origin Law was not easy at all. Even with the support of the blue talent—Advanced Lightning Affinity—Lu Ming had spent nearly three years in arduous cultivation and trials just to barely reach this point.

As for why he had mastered the first three forms of the Eight Forms of the Thunder Beast so quickly, it was because he had obtained a purple talent called Heart of the Wild a year and a half ago.

With that talent alone, his life was destined to be anything but ordinary!

Moreover, in the future, he would obtain talents even more powerful and unimaginable than Heart of the Wild!

As a transmigrator who had descended from the mysterious Blue Star into this world of Devouring the Stars, Lu Ming had awakened his own unique cheat—Infinite Talent—shortly after reaching the Planetary level!

Simply put, Infinite Talent could grant him all sorts of "talents." More specifically, on the seventh day of every month, he would obtain a new "talent." With the boosts provided by these talents one after another, an ordinary member of the Black-eyed Clan like him had risen at rocket-like speed and become a Seed Elite at the Jinlan Dojo headquarters.

Based on the patterns Lu Ming had continuously summarized over the years, the talents he obtained each month also varied in quality. From lowest to highest, they could currently be divided into white, yellow, blue, and purple.

When Lu Ming had just broken through to the Planetary level, he obtained his first white talent, Low-level Earth Affinity. It made him naturally more attuned to earth-attribute energy, allowing him to progress far faster than his peers in the clan when cultivating secret techniques with corresponding attributes.

During the second and third months afterward, he successively obtained a series of other white talents, such as Low-level Fire Affinity and Beginner Fist Technique Mastery.

Perhaps because the types of white talents themselves were rather limited, as time passed, he inevitably obtained duplicate white talents. That was when he discovered the second trait of "talents"—"Talent Enhancement"!

"Talent Enhancement" could also be called "Talent Stacking." Simply put, whenever he obtained a duplicate talent of the same type, all talents of that type would automatically stack together and become enhanced. For example, after three white talents of the same type stacked together, they would still be white talents, but a white talent with "Enhancement +2" would be far more effective than its initial form.

Once the enhancement reached a certain level, the talent could even directly advance into a higher-quality talent of the same type. The yellow talent currently on Lu Ming's body, Intermediate Saber Technique Mastery, had come about in precisely this way.

Compared with the effects of white talents, yellow talents were clearly far more powerful. After obtaining his first yellow talent, Intermediate Fist Technique Mastery, his progress in cultivating fist technique manuals became astonishingly fast. He effortlessly crossed the "artistic conception level" and comprehended a domain of his own!

Comprehending a domain at the Planetary level was undoubtedly incredible. Even the Universe-level ancestor of the Lu Family could hardly believe it! Yet this was only the beginning.

In the days that followed, Lu Ming successively obtained several talents of even higher quality, and his improvement grew increasingly astonishing. At barely over twenty years old, he had directly become a Seed Elite at the Jinlan Dojo headquarters and was held in high regard.

"According to my previous guess, once I successfully become Marquis Zhenlei's disciple, I might obtain another powerful talent..." Recalling the "timing" at which he had obtained several high-quality talents before, Lu Ming could not help but feel eagerly expectant.

Under normal circumstances, the new talents he obtained each month were mostly white in quality. Only with exceptional luck would he obtain a talent above white quality. However, whenever some "major event" or "important turning point" occurred in his life, the new talent he obtained the following month would inevitably be a high-quality talent!

His first yellow talent, Intermediate Fist Technique Mastery, and his first blue talent—Advanced Lightning Affinity—had both come about this way.

The same was true when he obtained the purple talent Heart of the Wild a year and a half ago. It had been because he came into "contact" with Marquis Zhenlei and experienced another "major event."

If it had happened only once, it could still be dismissed as coincidence. But after similar circumstances had repeated many times in a row, he could basically conclude that this was one of Infinite Talent's traits.

It was precisely because he had discovered this trait that Lu Ming cared even more about the Peak Genius Battle. Otherwise, if he relied solely on luck or continuously accumulating low-quality talents of the same type to upgrade and enhance them, who knew how long he would have to wait before obtaining another high-quality talent.

"Being accepted as a disciple by an Immortal powerhouse should at least give me a new purple talent..." Just as Lu Ming was indulging in these thoughts, an unexpected email interrupted him.

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