Great Talent Matures Late

The next morning.

Su Heng opened his eyes, and after feeling his body and mind completely recovered, he immersed his consciousness in the virtual universe to check his combat merit quota for this trip.

Although he had some privileges for his second entry into the Extraterritorial Battlefield, the essentials were still unavoidable.

For example, combat merit. If he couldn't complete the quota, Su Heng would have to stay in the Extraterritorial Battlefield until he did.

"One billion combat merit, that's acceptable. The Virtual Universe Company didn't set a specific quota, so it seems they don't have high hopes for me."

After checking his combat merit, Su Heng said with a hint of self-mockery.

One billion combat merit was the limit for World Lord Generals in the army. Anything higher was reserved for Immortals.

However, core members of the five major powers had their own combat merit quotas during their life-and-death trials.

Back when Su Heng completed his life-and-death trial, the quota set by the Virtual Universe Company alone was one hundred billion!

What did one hundred billion combat merit represent?

Killing an ordinary Immortal only yielded one hundred million combat merit, ten billion for a high-level Immortal, and a hundred billion for a Marquis-level.

And one hundred billion was only awarded for killing a high-level Marquis-level Immortal!

Keep in mind that Su Heng was only at the peak of the World Lord realm at that time!

Of course, he still was.

To achieve one hundred billion combat merit, Su Heng at the time had exhausted every possible means and spent tens of thousands of years to complete his life-and-death trial.

Unfortunately, even after completing the trial, he hadn't broken through to become an Immortal.

Shaking his head, Su Heng exited the virtual universe, preparing to leave the base.

However, just as he stood up, his vision suddenly changed!

Golden light floated in the air, condensing into four large characters.

[Great Talent Matures Late]

"This... is my Mandate?"

With just a glance, Su Heng understood the information conveyed by these four words, and his expression immediately became excited!

His cheat system had finally arrived!

[Great Talent Matures Late: After tempering for tens of millions of years, you now possess true supreme talent.]

[Comprehension increased, affinity with laws increased, gene level increased.]

[From now on, your talent will slightly increase every ten thousand years.]

Buzz!

As a sound like a great bell resonated, the sky filled with golden light surged into Su Heng's body.

Ugh!

His cells rejoiced, his soul trembled!

This was a transformation at the gene level!

The intense pleasure caused Su Heng to involuntarily groan.

At this moment, he was utterly shocked, as this improvement far exceeded his expectations.

He had initially thought the Mandate would bring at most a tenfold increase, but now?

Twentyfold, thirtyfold?

It was likely far more than that!

Remember, the transformation wasn't even complete yet!

A full ten minutes later, the transformation within Su Heng's body finally subsided.

"Whoosh."

Under Su Heng's mental control, he entered his Inner World.

The tenfold increase in gene level caused his Inner World, which was originally only two million kilometers in diameter, to expand to twenty million kilometers!

A hundredfold increase!

"It seems my genes have indeed increased a hundredfold," Su Heng murmured, looking at his vast Inner World.

Due to some fortunate encounters in the universe, his Inner World was considered quite good among humans.

This was also one of the reasons why he hadn't been able to break through to become an Immortal.

Now that his Inner World had become even larger, the difficulty of breaking through to Immortality had likely increased significantly.

However, with the blessing of the Mandate, Su Heng was now filled with boundless confidence.

A hundredfold increase in genes meant that his fundamental attributes, such as affinity with laws, were also a hundred times greater than before.

What's more, the Mandate also independently brought improvements to comprehension and laws.

If he still can't break through to Immortal with this, he might as well just end himself!

He left his Inner World and returned to his room.

In the room at this moment, the dazzling golden light had completely dissipated, leaving it so clean that it seemed like everything had been Su Heng's hallucination.

"Even the Universe Consciousness didn't interfere. What's the origin of this Mandate?"

Looking at the unchanged room, Su Heng fell into deep thought.

Below the Universe Lord, apart from naturally special life forms, all races can only reach a hundred times their base gene level.

This is the rule of the Primal Universe!

But he, just from the Mandate alone, received a hundredfold increase. Moreover, due to a fortuitous encounter, he already possessed ten times the gene level.

Together, that's a gene level of one hundred and ten.

This clearly violates the rules of the Primal Universe.

Yet, even so, the will of the Primal Universe did not appear. It was clear that it had tacitly approved of this situation.

"Forget it, it's my own golden finger anyway. Maybe some fellow countryman bestowed it upon me?"

Unable to figure it out, Su Heng stopped thinking about it. At least the appearance of this golden finger had brought new life to his future, which was originally heading towards destruction.

"But it came a bit too late! Ten million years. If I hadn't lived to this age, would the Mandate have just run off?"

Su Heng couldn't help but complain. If it had been just ten thousand years later, he would have died of old age!

After adapting to his body for a while, Su Heng decided to leave the base and step onto the real battlefield!

Although his talent had already surpassed its former self with the improvement from the Mandate, his remaining lifespan was not very long. If he were to break through to Immortal step by step, it would take at least tens of thousands of years.

After all, with the increase in his gene level, the shackles on his Original Nucleus had also become dozens of times stronger than before!

Now, to break through to Immortal, he not only needed extremely high comprehension of laws but also formidable ultimate secret techniques!

Creating formidable secret techniques naturally required extensive combat experience. Relying solely on the Virtual Universe would make it difficult to create a secret technique that suited him in a short period.

Therefore, no matter what, Su Heng had to go to the real battlefield for tempering!

Moreover, his tempering targets couldn't be ordinary Immortals; they had to be at least Marquis-level or even King-level!

In a hall with a diameter of thirty thousand miles, countless spacecraft were docked, and countless warriors were boarding and disembarking in an orderly fashion.

Su Heng's figure appeared in this hall.

After a brief glance around the hall, he took out an E9-class spacecraft from his World Ring.

The hatch opened, and Su Heng flew into the spacecraft. He then commanded the AI to plot a course along the given coordinates.

As for himself, he went to the safest place in the spacecraft, the lounge!

The material used to construct the lounge was very special; it could withstand attacks from even peak Marquis-level powerhouses for a period of time!

Even as a core member of the Virtual Universe Company, Su Heng had paid a great price to customize such a safe lounge.

If nothing unexpected happened, he would spend most of his time in this lounge during his stay in the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

"The spacecraft has departed from the base, and the energy shield has been activated. Do you wish to activate the external view simulation?"

The spacecraft AI's voice sounded in the lounge.

"No, follow the established route to the Guangluo Shattered Star Belt."

Su Heng issued a brief command.

The Guangluo Shattered Star Belt was a Level 3 battlefield surrounding Base 025, and it was at the peak of Level 3.

Within this Shattered Star Belt, there were even two existences at the early King-level, and even more Immortals at the Marquis-level!

This was the main reason Su Heng chose the Guangluo Shattered Star Belt.