Wheel of Time!

Although Jiang Ming's will was being worn down to its limit, he remained at peace.

"I couldn't determine which one was the time acceleration talent, so my best option was to aim high," Jiang Ming murmured as he gazed at the massive talent stars surrounding him.

While comparing the talent stars, he continued to ascend. The Fire God clone's talent star was only ten thousand times the size of a Stellar, but everything Jiang Ming could see now exceeded forty thousand, even fifty thousand times the size of a Stellar. This undoubtedly indicated that the talent stars here were superior to the Fire God clone's.

At this moment, Jiang Ming's gaze fell upon three talent stars arranged side-by-side, very close to each other. Jiang Ming judged these three to be time-related talents.

"I've done everything I possibly could. I've compared so many talent stars, but beyond roughly discerning their elemental properties, I know nothing else. Perhaps you three will bring me a surprise."

If possible, Jiang Ming naturally wanted to research which star corresponded to which talent. However, despite his research and comparisons, he could only discern the elemental properties. Even with the Fire God clone's talent star, which he was most familiar with, he could identify the fire element, but still couldn't figure out how to determine the other crucial factor. Thus, to this day, Jiang Ming still didn't know what star represented his clone.

"These three talent stars are the strangest I've ever seen," Jiang Ming thought to himself. In the talent space, he had compared so many talent stars, and the intervals between every single one he had seen were vast. He had never encountered talents that were so close together. He initially thought these three might just be a coincidence, but after recalling everything from his first entry into the talent space until now, he remembered. Considering the hundreds of millions of stars he had seen in total, even with such a large sample size, he had never seen stars that were close to each other.

When Jiang Ming first arrived here, his will could still travel a considerable distance, and he had indeed done so. At his highest point, he had seen Immortal level talents that were over a hundred thousand times the size of a Stellar. But ultimately, he returned here, to these three talent stars.

"I hope luck favors me now, and isn't playing a joke on me," Jiang Ming thought to himself. He had a premonition that these three connected stars must have something unique about them. However, they might not necessarily be of great use to him. Therefore, he hoped luck would favor him more.

Jiang Ming walked up to the middle talent star and pressed his hand against it. Silver light flashed, and this time, the silver light seemed exceptionally dazzling. But Jiang Ming didn't have time to examine it closely before he vanished within the silver light.

When Jiang Ming opened his eyes again, he saw the long-lost Stellar core and the Fire God clone. At this moment, Jiang Ming sensed that a wheel had appeared within his sea of consciousness. It was a dark gold wheel with a sand timer pattern in the center, surrounded by three rings of grids. Fine chains extended from the grids, locking the central sand timer. As he saw this wheel, information flooded into Jiang Ming's mind: The Wheel of Time.

The sand timer reversing time, the wheel rotating clockwise to accelerate time, and the wheel rotating counter-clockwise to decelerate time.

"I..." Seeing the talent information of the Wheel of Time, Jiang Ming felt his heart pounding. "As expected! I knew it. The fact that they were together, there had to be something!" Jiang Ming thought to himself. Although the Wheel of Time was only an Immortal level talent, for Jiang Ming, it might be no less valuable than a Universe Lord level talent.

At this very moment, Jiang Ming's body underwent another transformation. His strength began to increase exponentially, his Origin Energy surged, and his body became incredibly translucent. "Is it still thirty times my body's Gene level?" Jiang Ming felt the changes in his body, a hint of disappointment in his heart.

But in a flash, he cast aside that sliver of disappointment. He knew there were trade-offs when making a choice.

He knew that this choice might not lead to a qualitative leap in his strength in the short term.

"Let me see if my choice was the right one."

Jiang Ming took a deep breath, and with a thought, a phantom image of a wheel appeared externally.

The moment the wheel appeared, it began to madly absorb energy from its surroundings.

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

Golden particles began to appear within the hourglass of the wheel.

Jiang Ming understood in his heart that these golden particles were the energy of the Wheel of Time. When the golden particles in the hourglass ran out, it would need to be replenished.

"The Wheel of Time drawing energy from its surroundings on its own saves a lot of trouble. I'm penniless right now, I don't have the resources to feed you."

Jiang Ming looked at the golden particles constantly being generated in the hourglass and felt a bit fortunate that he had come to Stellar.

Otherwise, he feared that even draining Earth dry wouldn't be enough to power the Wheel of Time for long.

"Time Acceleration."

Jiang Ming's mind moved, and the wheel began to spin clockwise. Jiang Ming sensed the ratio between the flow of time and the energy consumed.

After some experimentation.

"If I accelerate a space of 0.1 cubic meters at 30 times the speed, Stellar Energy can sustain it.

But to achieve higher multiples, more efficient energy is needed."

Jiang Ming judged.

A time acceleration of 30 times meant one year could be used as thirty years. For Jiang Ming now, that was sufficient.

"However, Stellar Energy is still a bit low. If I had Universe Crystals, I should be able to accelerate even more."

But Jiang Ming was penniless now, having nothing, so he couldn't use Universe Crystals even if he wanted to.

Then, Jiang Ming once again experimented with the time deceleration effect and the time rewind effect.

There was nothing much to say about time deceleration, but time rewind was more interesting.

This ability could rewind the time of an item or an area.

The larger the range and the longer the rewind, the greater the consumption. It was the most energy-consuming ability among the Wheel of Time's three functions.

"The consumption is relatively small when applied to myself. This can be used as a recovery method."

Jiang Ming thought to himself after trying it on himself.

"30 times is still too slow. It should be a bit higher."

Jiang Ming tried the cultivation effect under 30x acceleration and was not particularly satisfied.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't the Kinkaku Beast be emerging soon? This should be a good deal."

Thinking of the Kinkaku Beast, Jiang Ming instantly had an idea.

Babata had quite a few things in her possession. Those items were not given to Luo Feng because he hadn't met her recognition requirements yet.

"Trading one Kinkaku Beast for all the replicable inheritances plus everything Babata privately hoarded. It looks like Babata would be making a huge profit."