Swallowed Star: Level 1 Talent, Invincible Hunyuan
Chapter 17

Which One Could Be Time Acceleration?

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Jiang Ming suddenly realized something after entering the Talent Awakening Space: his soul was now at the Universe level!

By all rights, at his current stage, his soul and will should only have been at the Stellar level.

Yet he had indeed entered with a Universe-level soul.

"Did I just exploit a bug?"

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

But on second thought, whatever existed had to be reasonable.

How could this be exploiting a bug? He was clearly working within the mechanics.

"I never expected this kind of move. It seems the Talent Awakening Space is based on my body's level.

I should be able to exploit the mechanics more from this angle."

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

Every time he appeared in the Talent Awakening Space, he returned to the place where he had vanished last time. That meant the deeper his accumulation, the farther he could go.

If the timing was right in the future, he could deliberately suppress his body's level and first raise his soul and will levels. The gains would be even greater.

"If I do it this way, the best method for maximizing my gains would be to break through at the end of my lifespan.

Push my body's lifespan and soul's lifespan to their limits."

Jiang Ming thought.

But while that would yield the greatest rewards, it would also leave Jiang Ming's own strength far behind.

Jiang Ming knew the future timeline very well. After Luo Feng rose to prominence, the universe would no longer be peaceful.

If he played this game of breaking through at the end of his lifespan and forcibly suppressed his realm, he might end up getting slapped to death by some passing Expert.

"But it's not as if I can't play it this way. If I want to, though, what I need most right now is a time talent.

A talent that accelerates time."

If he had a talent that accelerated time, one that let him walk through ten thousand years in a single day, then his plan could be realized.

At that thought, Jiang Ming's expression changed slightly.

He hesitated.

"The Talent Stars in the talent space seem impossible to distinguish by what they are related to, other than their size.

Even if I got absurdly lucky and chose a time-related talent, there are so many kinds of time talents.

How could I possibly find the time-acceleration talent that perfectly suited me?"

That was what Jiang Ming said.

Yet inwardly, he was still unwilling to accept it. He gazed at the Talent Stars filling the sky, hoping to spot something different in their appearances.

If he could find a Talent Star with a time-acceleration talent, even an Immortal-level talent, it would still be an enormous profit.

But no matter how he looked, although every Talent Star had slight differences on its surface, those differences were like two leaves from the same tree.

Their veins might differ, but their overall forms remained the same.

Jiang Ming cast his gaze into the Talent Star beneath his feet. He knew that this Talent Star was the Fire God clone.

He hoped to find information on this Talent Star related to fire or clones.

With a reference point, perhaps he would have even the slightest chance of gambling on it.

Jiang Ming flew above the Fire God clone Star and examined it inch by inch.

By now, he had made up his mind.

He wanted to indulge himself once.

By entering through this mechanic, his will level might allow him to reach the tier of Cosmic Venerable talents.

But right now, he wanted to indulge himself once.

"Ten percent! I'll use ten percent of my will to observe this Star. If ten percent of my will is worn away and I still see nothing, I'll turn around and leave immediately."

Jiang Ming swore to himself.

He knew very well that the further one advanced, the greater the gap between realms became. A single Venerable could easily slaughter a million ordinary King level Immortals who lacked combined attack methods, much less ordinary Immortals.

As for a Universe Master, without special secret techniques, no number of Cosmic Venerables would be enough for him to deal with using one hand.

Only exceptionally heaven-defying beings could possibly fight across realms. Jiang Ming was confident that he could become one of them.

But he did not dare guarantee that he could remain so heaven-defying forever.

Because the farther one went, the greater the gap between realms became. Beyond that lay Void True Gods, Eternal True Gods, the Chaos Realm, the God King Realm... all the way to the Chaotic Source Lord level.

The distribution of Awakening Stars in the Talent Awakening Space followed the same pattern.

The later the Talent Stars were, the farther apart they stood.

Even ten million source worlds would struggle to produce a single Chaotic Source Lord.

Although Jiang Ming was confident, he did not believe he could reach that level without the aid of talents.

Yet although he yearned for it, Jiang Ming had not been blinded by desire.

Perhaps there was simply no way to tell what a Talent Star was related to from its appearance.

So he set himself a limit of ten percent of his will.

If he still could not see the differences between Talent Stars within that limit, he would stop clinging to it.

From then on, he would honestly break through and then climb to the limit of his will.

There was no concept of time within the Talent Awakening Space, and Jiang Ming could not judge the passage of time.

Only his steadily diminishing will could tell him how long he had remained there.

"Ninety-two percent of my will remains."

"I don't have much time left!"

"Can I only follow this old path? But can this path really lead me to the peak? What if I have no way of advancing to a new talent level in the future?

Then I'll have no way forward! I might be trapped forever at that realm!"

"I refuse to accept this! I refuse!"

Jiang Ming roared inwardly again and again.

He could see the brilliant light ahead, yet he was also afraid—afraid that he had chosen the wrong path.

Afraid that he would ruin his own bright future.

There were no do-overs in life!

If there was an opportunity, one had to fight for it at all costs! One had to strive for it!

An unprecedented surge of emotion rose within Jiang Ming.

Again and again, Jiang Ming examined that enormous Star.

He continuously compared it in his mind and recalled the first Star he had once plucked.

Then, suddenly!

His eyes locked tightly onto one corner of the enormous Star.

"This corner looks so familiar. I think I saw it on the Talent Star of the Stellar Body."

Jiang Ming rose higher and observed it from a greater altitude.

Memories surged through his mind as he repeatedly recalled and compared the Talent Star of the Stellar Body that he had once plucked.

"That's right! That's right!"

"I really have seen this corner. This is a complete Secret Pattern Diagram!"

"Hahahahahaha!"

Jiang Ming laughed like a madman!

He had really done it!

After confirming one matching point, Jiang Ming did not leave. Instead, he continued searching for other similarities.

Since they were both talents related to the fire element, their common points should not be limited to this.

Soon came the second, the third, the fourth...

Until he found the one thousand and eighty-first matching point.

Jiang Ming combined and compared these matching points in his mind, recording their positions on the Talent Star.

"These matching points are the attribute framework of the Origin Laws!"

Jiang Ming was immensely glad that he had entered after nurturing the Fire God clone. Thanks to the birth of the Fire God clone,

he had seen the Flame Law through the Fire God clone's perspective.

By comparing all three, he understood what those matching points represented.

"I still need reference points. Knowing only one framework for fire is far from enough."

At that thought, Jiang Ming did not linger. He headed toward the other Talent Stars.

He began recording Star after Star, comparing the similarities between them.

Because he had never seen other laws, Jiang Ming could only rely on his instincts and his own understanding of attributes to judge what kind of talent each Star corresponded to.

Until Jiang Ming's will was about to reach its limit.

"I compared a total of 947,642 Stars. Of them, more than 9,800 were suspected time talents.

But I still can't determine which one could be time acceleration."

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