Wheel of Time!

Jiang Ming's will had already been worn down to the brink of its limit.

Yet his mind remained calm.

"I have no way to determine which one holds the time acceleration talent, so my best choice was originally to aim high."

Jiang Ming gazed at the enormous Talent Stars around him and muttered to himself.

As he compared the Talent Stars, he continued making his way upward.

The Fire God clone's Talent Star was only ten thousand times the size of a star, yet every Talent Star within Jiang Ming's sight was over forty thousand, even fifty thousand times the size of a star.

This undoubtedly indicated that the Talent Stars here were superior to the Fire God clone's.

At that moment, Jiang Ming's gaze fell upon three Talent Stars arranged side by side, extremely close to one another.

Jiang Ming judged that all three Talent Stars possessed time-related talents.

"I've already done everything I possibly could. I've compared so many Talent Stars, yet aside from roughly judging their law attributes, I know nothing else.

"But perhaps you can bring me a surprise."

If possible, Jiang Ming naturally wanted to determine which stars corresponded to which talents.

Yet after all this research and comparison, he could only identify their law attributes.

Even with the Talent Star of the Fire God clone, the one he knew best, he could tell that it held a fire-related talent.

But he still could not find a way to determine the other crucial factor.

Thus, even now, Jiang Ming still did not know what talent the star representing the clone possessed.

"These three Talent Stars are the strangest ones I've ever seen."

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

Having remained in the talent space and compared so many Talent Stars, Jiang Ming had found that every Talent Star he had seen was extremely far from the others.

He had never seen talents so close together.

At first, Jiang Ming thought the three Talent Stars might simply be a coincidence. But after thinking it over, he recalled every memory from the moment he first entered the talent space until now.

He had seen no fewer than hundreds of millions of stars in total, yet even with such an enormous sample size, he had never seen stars positioned close to one another.

When Jiang Ming first arrived here, his will could still travel quite a considerable distance, and he had indeed done so.

At the highest point he reached, he had seen Immortal-level Talents more than a hundred thousand times the size of a star.

But in the end, he returned here and came before these three Talent Stars.

"From here on, I hope luck favors me instead of playing a joke on me."

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

He had a premonition that these three connected stars definitely had something extraordinary about them.

But that did not necessarily mean they would be of tremendous use to him.

So, he hoped luck would favor him a little more.

Jiang Ming walked before the Talent Star in the middle and pressed a hand against it.

Silver light flashed. This time, the silver light seemed exceptionally dazzling.

But before Jiang Ming could examine it closely, he vanished into the silver radiance.

When he opened his eyes again, Jiang Ming saw the long-unseen stellar core, along with the Fire God clone.

At that moment, Jiang Ming sensed that an additional wheel had appeared within his consciousness space.

It was a dark gold wheel, with an hourglass pattern at its center and three rings of compartments surrounding the hourglass.

Fine chains extended from those compartments, locking down the hourglass at the center.

The moment he saw the wheel, information flooded into Jiang Ming's mind.

Wheel of Time.

When the hourglass inverted, time reversed. When the wheel turned clockwise, time accelerated. When it turned counterclockwise, time slowed.

"I..."

As Jiang Ming looked at the Wheel of Time's talent information, his heart pounded wildly.

"Just as I thought! I knew those three connected stars had to contain something!"

Jiang Ming thought to himself.

Although the Wheel of Time was merely an Immortal-level Talent, to Jiang Ming, it might not be any worse than a Universe Master-level Talent.

At that moment, Jiang Ming's body began transforming once again.

His strength started increasing severalfold at a time, his genetic energy continued rising, and his body became incomparably clear and transparent.

"Still only a Body Gene level of thirty times?"

Jiang Ming sensed the changes in his body and felt a hint of disappointment.

But he immediately cast that disappointment aside. When he made his choice, he had already understood the trade-off.

He knew that his choice this time might not bring a qualitative change to his strength in the short term.

"Let me see whether my choice was correct."

Jiang Ming took a deep breath. With a thought, a phantom wheel appeared in the outside world.

The instant the wheel appeared, it began frantically drawing in the surrounding energy.

Surging, terrifying Stellar Energy poured into it, gradually solidifying the phantom.

Golden particles began to appear within the wheel's hourglass.

Jiang Ming immediately understood that these golden particles were the Wheel of Time's energy. Once the golden particles in the hourglass ran out, it would need to replenish its energy.

"It's convenient that the Wheel of Time can draw in surrounding energy by itself. I'm dirt poor right now—I don't have resources for you to consume."

Jiang Ming watched the golden particles continuously form inside the hourglass and felt rather fortunate that he had come to a star.

Otherwise, even if it drained Earth dry, it probably would not be enough for the Wheel of Time to use for long.

"Time acceleration."

With a thought from Jiang Ming, the wheel began turning clockwise. He sensed the ratio between the flow of time and the energy consumption.

After a round of testing.

"If I accelerate a space of 0.1 cubic meters and maintain a thirtyfold acceleration, Stellar Energy can sustain it.

"But if I want a greater multiplier, I'll need more efficient energy."

Jiang Ming judged.

Thirtyfold time acceleration meant that one year could be used as thirty years. For Jiang Ming as he was now, that was enough.

"Still, Stellar Energy is a little too weak. If I had Cosmic Crystals, I should be able to accelerate time even more."

But Jiang Ming was currently dirt poor and had nothing. Using Cosmic Crystals was impossible.

Afterward, Jiang Ming tested the effects of time slowdown and time reversal.

There was nothing much to say about time slowdown, but time reversal was rather interesting.

This ability could reverse time for an object or an area.

The larger the range and the longer the reversal, the greater the energy consumption. Of the Wheel of Time's three abilities, it consumed the most energy.

"The consumption is relatively low when used on myself. I can treat it as a recovery method."

After testing the consumption when it was used on himself, Jiang Ming thought to himself.

"Thirtyfold is still a little too slow. I need something higher."

Jiang Ming tried cultivating under thirtyfold acceleration and was not especially satisfied.

"Come to think of it, the Kinkaku Beast should be about to emerge. This ought to be a good deal."

The moment Jiang Ming thought of the Kinkaku Beast, he immediately had an idea.

Babata possessed quite a few things. Since Luo Feng had yet to meet her requirements for acknowledging a master, she had not given them to him.

"One Kinkaku Beast in exchange for every replicable inheritance, plus all the things Babata has secretly stashed away—no matter how I look at it, Babata will be making a killing."