New Talent: Will of the Overlord

New Talent—Will of the Overlord

"Alice, who sent the email this time?" In the Virtual Universe, Lu Ming was currently reviewing congratulatory messages sent by various factions within the Jinlan Universe Kingdom.

The preliminary stage of the Genius Battle had ended, and the following arena battles would begin a month later.

Of course, neither the arena battles nor the even more time-consuming Cycle Battles afterward had anything to do with Lu Ming.

As the number one in the Seventh World Zone, he had already secured a spot in the finals in advance. All he needed to do was quietly wait for the peak finals to officially begin five years later.

"Master, this one is a congratulatory email jointly sent by Frost Sword Marquis, Blood Wing Marquis, and Eternal Night Marquis!" At the mention of those three names, Alice, the auxiliary AI, suddenly raised her voice.

Clearly, the status represented by those three was anything but ordinary.

"Frost Sword Marquis?" Lu Ming's expression grew slightly solemn. If he remembered correctly, this person seemed to be the head of the martial division at the Jinlan Branch of the Virtual Universe Company?

"Open the email and let me see the details..." Lu Ming still took a congratulatory message jointly sent by three Marquis-level Immortal powerhouses rather seriously.

"Yes, my esteemed master!" Alice replied cheerfully, swiftly displaying the body of the email along with several related attachments.

Under normal circumstances, the Jinlan Branch of the Virtual Universe Company stationed in the Jinlan Universe Kingdom had three topmost giants: the martial division, commercial division, and military division.

Frost Sword Marquis and the other two were the heads of those three divisions, true giants whose authority was naturally considerable.

"I see. These three division heads value my potential, so they're investing in and courting me in advance..." Lu Ming roughly scanned the email. Stripped of all the empty pleasantries, its core message amounted to just one thing: the three of us think highly of you now, so we're here to build goodwill in advance.

As for the attachments, they contained a "gift list" from the three of them. There were quite a few things useful to Lu Ming at his current stage, and their value was indeed far from low.

"With the talent and strength I displayed during the preliminaries, entering the core ranks of the Virtual Universe Company is already a certainty. And at worst, I'll be able to enter the Taichu Secret Realm in the future. That status is already far from insignificant... Besides, when I'm sent out during the Domain Lord stage, I may well have dealings with these three." As his thoughts turned, Lu Ming quickly understood the connections involved.

Previously, although he had also ranked first among the Stellar-level geniuses of the Jinlan Dojo, that level of potential had not been enough to catch the attention of the three giants.

But now, he had a high chance of becoming a member of the Taichu Secret Realm or even the Primal Secret Realm of the Virtual Universe Company. His status had risen sharply, so the three naturally changed their attitude at once.

Besides, befriending Lu Ming now and giving gifts to a mere Stellar-level genius did not cost them much at all.

Given the status of those three regional lords, even a little resource leaked from between their fingers was enough for Lu Ming to enjoy for a long time.

"There's no reason to refuse gifts delivered right to my door. Alice, help me send them a reply of thanks." Since the three had sent a valuable congratulatory gift, Lu Ming had no objection to showing them some goodwill first, in keeping with his principle of forging good relations far and wide.

As for matters from when he was sent out as a Domain Lord, he would deal with those when the time came.

"Once your reputation grows, the 'goodwill' flooding in from all directions really does become much stronger." Aside from Frost Sword Marquis and the others, the emperor of the Heilin Empire had recently packaged up one of the subordinate elementary universe civilizations—the Liuyan Empire—and directly gifted it to the head of the Lu Clan.

The facts proved that the "big commotion" Lu Ming had caused at the end of the preliminaries had not been pointless. The gains had been enormous.

At the same time.

Within the Jinlan Universe Kingdom, amid a vast starry sky.

A majestic figure clad in a broad black-gold robe stood in space. The surrounding space was utterly warped, and beneath that distortion, his appearance could not be made out at all.

Boom!

Countless streams of light streaked across the starry sky, gathering into an image. Light and shadow shifted, revealing the scene from not long ago in the Seventh World Zone, when Lu Ming had finally unleashed the Time Origin Law.

"It has not been long since I last guided him, yet he has already officially stepped through the gates of the Time Origin Law and is using it exceptionally well..."

"It seems the potential within him is even greater than I had previously expected... Such a rare genius has not appeared in the Jinlan Universe Kingdom for many years. And he even came from my Jinlan Dojo. It is worth my guiding him once more."

The voice rumbled, causing the surrounding starry sky to tremble as though it were about to shatter.

At this moment, Lu Ming had no idea that his performance had once again drawn the attention of the Jinlan Kingdom Lord.

Inside the familiar private cultivation room, Lu Ming sat cross-legged in calm composure as his consciousness sank into his mind.

Today was the seventh, the day each month when he drew a new talent.

"Buzz~" Soon, the familiar magnificent purple radiance once more filled Lu Ming's sea of soul.

"It's a Purple Talent!" Lu Ming immediately smiled. His deliberate display earlier had not been in vain.

"This talent?" Once the purple light had completely merged into Lu Ming's mind, his consciousness swiftly sensed the basic information of this new talent.

Will of the Overlord (Purple): Your mental will has undergone a transformation, making you like a born overlord. Once you fully release your aura, weaker enemies will directly lose the courage to oppose you.

"Will of the Overlord? This talent feels even more abstract than Heart of the Wild!" Though he still had some doubts about the hidden effects of this new talent, the basic effect described alone had already greatly stirred Lu Ming!

Setting everything else aside, the effect of transforming his "mental will" was enough to fill Lu Ming with delight.

Mental will sounded intangible and elusive, but in truth, it was an extremely crucial part of cultivation.

"Moreover, this talent allows me to intimidate others with my own will, even making them lose their fighting spirit outright... This can completely be regarded as the prototype of a Will Secret Technique!"

Judging from the basic description of the Will of the Overlord, its immediate effect was only to make his aura more domineering, and it was comparatively useful only against weaker opponents.

But once his will grew powerful enough, it might not be impossible for it to develop into an alternative kind of Will Secret Technique in the future.

A Will Secret Technique was an extremely high-end thing. At least at this stage, throughout the entire Original Universe and even the broader Universe Sea, only that reincarnated God King, Mountain Lord, should possess a related inheritance.

"How to develop this talent will require more careful thought." Although the Will of the Overlord appeared at first glance to be a baffling talent, Lu Ming attached immense importance to it.

The importance of mental will might seem less direct and straightforward than talents related to law comprehension, but that was not actually the case.

Take Thunder God and Hong from the original work. Both were ordinary Earthling bloodlines and had never possessed any special lifeform. This made their speed of comprehending laws in the early stages of cultivation far inferior to that of other geniuses. Yet both were masters of mental cultivation, with incredibly powerful mental wills.

In the end, one became a Universe Master, while the other even became the Universe's strongest. Of those so-called geniuses whose cultivation speed had surpassed theirs by countless times in the early stages, how many could ultimately stand shoulder to shoulder with them?

There were certainly other factors involved, but the impact brought by a powerful mental will was an objective reality.