"The eleventh Barren Thunder Pearl..." Lu Ming's eyes turned icy as his body faintly seemed on the verge of undergoing another transformation.
But the next moment—
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The new strand of Arid Thunder Power that had been about to merge into his body rapidly flowed backward, gathering once more within the Barren Thunder Pearl in Lu Ming's palm.
"So... it failed after all." Lu Ming had already anticipated this.
A hundredfold was often a universal limit.
A hundredfold was the limit for physical power amplitude. A hundredfold was the limit for Soul Amplitude. A hundredfold was also the limit for raising one's Life gene level... This was part of the laws governing the universe, just as the fastest speed of flight in the Original Universe was light speed. These were ironclad laws.
Only in exceedingly rare circumstances could such ironclad laws be broken. For example... the "Nine Tribulations Secret Manual."
Unfortunately, even if Lu Ming found Earth's former incarnation in the future, his soul had not been nurtured on that special planet. He would not be able to cultivate that heaven-defying secret manual capable of defying the laws governing the universe.
"I wonder whether I'll obtain some special talent in the future that can also break these universal ironclad laws..." Lu Ming silently hoped.
"After reaching the hundredfold limit, no matter how many more Barren Thunder Pearls I obtain, they'll be useless for the time being. Still, these things are valuable in themselves, and they may come in handy later, so I should collect more whenever I can... As for now, it's time to head for Paradise of the Gods!"
"I hope I can get what I want there."
In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
In the void beyond Arid Thunder Star's atmosphere,