Conditions for Ability Awakening, Projection, and Spread

"So, the cheat I thought I had was actually because I'm a Descendant of Gods, possessing talent for cultivation, and I'm an outstanding prodigy among them, which awakened my innate abilities..."

This innate ability is the portable space.

And when Zhou Ming's soul power naturally grew to a level corresponding to his cultivation realm, he would awaken new abilities.

"But, can innate abilities awaken other abilities? The Heavenly Book doesn't seem to mention this..."

After opening his Heavenly Eye, Zhou Ming discovered that this jade tablet Heavenly Book was actually layered. Observing with his Heavenly Eye, each realm corresponded to a layer.

The surface only required mental power to observe immediately. Powerful mental power could penetrate the surface and see the first layer, which corresponded to the first realm of cultivation, the Meditation Realm.

He had to activate his Heavenly Eye to see the second layer, which recorded the second realm, the Heavenly Eye Realm!

The Heavenly Eye Realm was also divided into three minor stages: Initial Opening, Full Opening, and Permanent.

"Hmm?"

While researching, Zhou Ming suddenly felt a peculiar sensation...

This is... another awakening?

No, it should be an upgrade...

If the previous deduction was correct, it meant that his Heavenly Eye was in the Initial Opening stage, but under the influence of the world's power, his soul power had suddenly surged by two minor realms.

He had already reached the Full Opening stage.

Even more than that, after reaching this stage, it took another two or three breaths before Zhou Ming felt the world's power's effect on his soul end.

"This... Is my talent in cultivation really this good?"

Zhou Ming was astonished himself.

He realized that perhaps his portable space was an awakened bloodline ability, not a cheat he brought from his transmigration.

But he actually still had a cheat on him.

Two days later.

Zhou Ming put the notebook recording various experimental data into his portable space and let out a long sigh.

He had been extremely busy these past two days.

To experiment and test the newly awakened abilities and the upgraded abilities, he hadn't even gone fishing for two days, only then managing to test out the two abilities.

The new ability is:

Projection: Project an item placed in the portable space into the outside world. Within a range centered on himself and corresponding to the portable space, he can control the projection.

The projection quality is 20% of the original.

When the object is a living being, it can only project the creature's physical capabilities, not its soul, true qi, or other attributes.

The upgraded ability is:

Mark: Viral Spread: Creatures carrying the Mark will spread it to other creatures through sound. The recipient will develop an incomplete Mark. This process will gradually form a complete Mark over time. If the recipient hears the sound of the Mark spreading during this process, it will accelerate.

It also unlocked the effect of transmitting sound through the Mark.

Both of these abilities are quite good.

Although the projection quality is only 20% of the original, it looks exactly the same from the outside. It can be completely used as an illusion.

Not to mention the Viral Spread.

Zhou Ming's Mark ability is very strong, but a major weakness is that only he can spread the Mark.

However, with this new effect, the infinite Marks spread outside can propagate on their own, leaving Marks on more people Zhou Ming cannot reach or see.

This greatly increases the efficiency of Mark propagation.

In addition to the two abilities mentioned above, Zhou Ming discovered two other things during the experiments.

First, his portable space has expanded.

It is now a sphere with a diameter of over 450 meters!

It's more than ten times larger than before!

It turns out that the portable space had been growing on its own all these years, actually because Zhou Ming's mental power was increasing.

However, this growth was spread out over twenty years, making it incredibly slow.

But this time, he opened his Heavenly Eye, allowing his soul to be baptized by the world's power, causing it to surge all at once, which directly caused the portable space's diameter to also surge.

To some extent, the diameter of the portable space can be considered a measure of Zhou Ming's mental power.

And this time, it directly increased from over 40 to over 450, meaning Zhou Ming's soul power also increased by the same numerical value.

Second, Zhou Ming's fusion with the portable space.

This characteristic had also been growing in the past, but similarly, spread out over twenty years, it was insignificant.

And this characteristic is hidden; it cannot be directly perceived like the size of the portable space.

So in the past, Zhou Ming had barely noticed it.

But this time, due to the baptism of the world's power, it also received a great boost, so Zhou Ming immediately felt it.

As the integration level increased, Zhou Ming felt a sensation of being "in this world, yet also in that space."

He seemed to exist simultaneously within the world and his personal space.

The effect of this was that releasing Perfect Qi no longer required his direct involvement; as long as it was within the range of his personal space, he could release it out of thin air.

The true qi within Zhou Ming's body could also be sent into his personal space for storage.

Furthermore, with the increased integration, the several abilities he now possessed seemed capable of being used in conjunction with each other.

For example, Perfect Qi could now be stored in the Mark beforehand.

And the Projection could be released through the Mark.

Taking the Jade Tablet Heavenly Book from his space, Zhou Ming touched its smooth, warm jade and thought, "This time, I've truly made a leap in improvement! But why would Yin Zhong treat me this way? Even if I am his descendant, or possibly even... But this person has lived for so many years and long ago became indifferent to emotions, so it's unlikely he gifted me the Jade Tablet Heavenly Book for that reason..."

Could it be that he needs my help with something?

Just like in the plot of Water Moon Cave Heaven, where he helped Tong Xin, one of the Tong brothers, awaken his Heavenly Eye and cultivate sorcery.

His actual goal was to make Tong Xin his asset.

Oh well, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Since the other party gave him this Heavenly Book, he would cultivate it diligently and strengthen himself.

That being said, it was still a helpless situation.

If his adoptive father, Pei Ju, had any other intentions, Zhou Ming would still have some confidence to resist.

But if it were Yin Zhong...

With his strength, Zhou Ming probably wouldn't be able to resist at all.

Since he couldn't resist, he might as well enjoy it.

Regardless, strengthening himself would never be a mistake.

Also, what Yin Zhong said to Zhou Ming the night before he left...

"He needs me to develop my influence?"

So, should he do it?

Without a doubt!

How could he give up developing in this area just because the other party might have ulterior motives?

Wouldn't that be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

The saying "more people means more power" was never an empty one; even when facing martial arts experts, as long as they hadn't reached the Grandmaster realm, they could still be surrounded and killed through sheer numbers.

Not to mention, having a force under one's command would bring all sorts of conveniences.

As I said before, no matter what schemes Yin Zhong might have, strengthening himself is always the right move.

And having influence under his command is also a part of his strength!

Conspiracies?

Schemes?

Zhou Ming looked at his personal space. A Mark unfolded, revealing Yin Zhong's face, while Yin Zhong remained completely unaware.

Heh, let's see what this is all about!