Talent Detection Function

Nearly an hour later.

After flying at high speed for some time, the fighter had nearly reached Shi Fen's home.

"Ring, ring." His Communication Bracelet rang.

"It's Big Brother. What is he up to now?" Shi Fen wondered as he answered the call.

"Come back, quickly! A mysterious plant life-form from the universe has suddenly appeared on Mist Island: the Cloud-Touching Vine. I suspect there are still treasures here we haven't found. It looks like the source of all those Spirits of Vegetation may be about to appear."

After urgently informing Shi Fen, Hong immediately ended the call and went to arrange other matters.

Looking at his home just a short distance away, Shi Fen sighed helplessly. "I'd completely forgotten about Babata. Now Babata's up to something, and I can't inspect what I've gained."

Shi Fen was thoroughly frustrated. Reluctantly, he ordered the fighter's onboard AI to return to Mist Island.

"I can't inspect all these good things. I'm going to puke blood..."

When Shi Fen arrived back at Mist Island, the scene before him left him bewildered.

The island, which had originally been shrouded in mist, now had a clear, bright sky, like a transparent lake. The ground was a mess, as if it had been through a terrifying battle. The contrast with before was so great that Shi Fen hadn't recognized it at first glance.

"Looks like Big Brother subdued the Cloud-Touching Vine. That was fast."

Shi Fen spotted Hong and the others and immediately flew over to them.

"What happened here?" Shi Fen asked, pretending not to know.

Luo Feng explained in amazement, "Big Brother just fought a huge battle and subdued a powerful, strange plant. It's a shame you missed the fight. It was incredible."

Hong continued, "It's the Cloud-Touching Vine I just told you about on the phone. It's a treasure even in the universe. I never thought we'd find one on Earth."

Shi Fen put on a mildly surprised expression, then asked, "You've already subdued the treasure, so why did you call us back?"

"We just found several King-level Monsters we've never seen before. I suspect something's going on here. The detection equipment will be here soon, so wait around for now. If there's anything good, you and Luo Feng are strong enough to fight for it."

Shi Fen nodded, joined Luo Feng, and asked him about Hong's battle.

Luo Feng gave a vivid account...

Shi Fen listened attentively.

Soon, Thor arrived.

"Big Brother, that's really unfair. You guys at the Extreme Martial Arts Hall took all the good stuff, and we didn't even get the scraps," Thor grumbled indignantly.

Hong glanced at Thor and said irritably, "You insisted on getting treated with a Spirit of Vegetation before coming back, just because you care so much about your appearance. Otherwise, you'd have arrived ages ago. How is that my fault?"

Thor was at a loss for words, clearly lacking confidence. "You brought this on yourself."

"Oh? Do you believe that when I livestream to the whole world, I'll beat you up again?" Hong shot Thor a sidelong glance and asked coolly.

Thor shrank his neck and didn't dare argue. He quietly slipped off to one side and waited.

Hong chuckled softly and stood where he was, waiting for the equipment to arrive.

Soon, a large number of flying saucers and fighter jets reached Mist Island. A crowd of staff unloaded the equipment and surrounded the island.

"Report: We've detected an abnormality underground. There's a Lord-level Monster, and its life signs are rising rapidly. Oh my God, it's about to break through to the King level!"

Hong, Thor, and the others lit up and rushed underground.

Soon, everyone discovered the anomaly and began fighting over the treasures. Since Hong, Thor, and the others had been the first to enter, they had a great advantage.

After people from the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and Thunder Martial Arts Hall went underground to explore, large numbers of powerful fighters who had rushed over in response to the news began arriving. Following the two halls' lead, they entered the underground area. The Third Speaker, Mohanderson; the Ice and Snow Emperor; the Fourth Speaker, East; the Fifth Speaker, Atkin; and other powerful councilors and War Gods successively joined the battle for the treasures underground.

Underground on Mist Island.

As soon as Shi Fen entered the underground river, he immediately found a secluded corner and hid himself there.

"It's just a matter of fighting over Wood Bud Crystals. I have Black Mirror's detection function. How could I fail to find them?"

Shi Fen strolled along lazily, found a reasonably clean boulder, and plopped down on it, looking bored and idle. In reality, he was communicating with Black Mirror and carefully activating the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror's detection function.

The instant the detection function activated, a smile appeared at the corner of Shi Fen's mouth.

"Sure enough, it upgraded. I knew it. How could such a badass Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror have such a useless detection function?"

An invisible, intangible detection wave slowly spread outward with Shi Fen at its center. At the same time, Shi Fen opened his Soul Domain, trying to sense the wave.

"I can't sense it!"

Shi Fen was delighted to discover that his Soul Domain, which had previously allowed him to control everything around him, had become useless.

Seeing how well concealed the detection wave was, Shi Fen couldn't help feeling pleased. He carefully controlled Black Mirror, spreading its coverage across the entire underground area of Mist Island.

Yes, the detection function had been upgraded across the board!

The moment he activated it, Black Mirror "told" Shi Fen how the detection function had changed.

First.

The detection function. Its detection range had expanded from a diameter of 1,000 kilometers to a diameter of 10,000 kilometers. Its detection precision had improved from the decimeter level to the centimeter level. The image quality of the information Shi Fen received had also improved, going from blocks measuring 10 centimeters across to small blocks measuring 1 centimeter across.

Most importantly.

The detection method had changed. It was no longer a simple, indiscriminate spherical scan of the entire area. Now he could control the scope of the scan.

Second.

The scanning and recording function. Its scanning and recording efficiency had increased several times over.

Finally.

A new function had appeared in Black Mirror: cultivation talent detection.

According to Black Mirror's brief description, it could use a special method to detect the limit a living being could reach through cultivation in its lifetime. Based on each being's growth limit, it divided cultivation talent into ten levels.

Each level was represented by a different color.

Namely: colorless, white, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, and black.

Black Mirror hadn't clearly told him what cultivation talent levels the ten colors represented. Shi Fen didn't want to waste time guessing, so he let it go.

Rather than waste time daydreaming, he might as well head into the Treasure Refining World and take stock of what he'd gained. Shi Fen was certain that once he entered the Treasure Refining World, he'd learn everything. For now, while he was in Babata's "little patch of land," it was better to keep a low profile.

Under the detection function, the little demon Babata was "revealed in all its ugliness," sitting lazily in a chair and leisurely eating a crisp apple.

Shi Fen wasn't naive enough to think Babata was taking a break.

"Babata must be using a Small Detector to keep an eye on everything happening on the island," Shi Fen thought, crystal clear about what was going on.

Unable to do anything else, Shi Fen felt conflicted and miserable. He stood up reluctantly and followed the detection function's guidance straight toward the Wood Bud Crystals.

"I'll go grab a few Wood Bud Crystals first. Babata seems anxious. It actually released 45 Wood Bud Crystals. I'll test the talent detection function, too."

Shi Fen's consciousness activated the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror.

Instantly, a glowing orb appeared above the head of every living being within the detection range.

"Holy crap."

The most striking orb in sight was the one above Luo Feng's head. The orb representing Luo Feng's talent was more than 100 meters in diameter. Its surface was pitch-black, as deep as a black hole.

Through the detection view, Shi Fen could see a thread of faint golden light at the center of the black-hole orb. Though the golden light was weak, Shi Fen could still make it out with the help of his Soul Domain.

"Golden light?"

Shi Fen didn't understand. The description hadn't mentioned anything like that.

"Could Luo Feng have special treatment?"

Thinking of this, Shi Fen didn't dwell on it. He wouldn't believe Luo Feng had no special treatment.

Compared to Luo Feng, everyone else was in a much worse state, apart from Hong, Thor, and Babata.

Most people had a colorless orb above their heads, one meter in diameter and at the lowest level. A tiny number had a white orb of the same size, one level higher. Through Shi Fen's special vision, all of Mist Island had become an ocean of transparent and white orbs.

"Earthlings really are lacking in talent. Apart from Hong, Thor, and Babata, the best is only a white orb, the second level."

Judging by color and size alone, Shi Fen thought the first two levels had to represent the very bottom of the scale. They might not even reach the Star Level. So he gave up on scanning the entire world. Earth's top cultivation talents were practically all here. There was even less chance of finding any geniuses elsewhere.

Against the backdrop of countless colorless and white orbs, the ones above Hong, Thor, and Babata stood out sharply.

Hong had the highest level: a cyan orb about 11 meters in diameter. Thor was next, with a green orb about 4 meters across. Babata had the lowest level, with a yellow orb, but it was enormous, measuring 89 meters across.

As for Shi Fen, there was nothing above his head at all.

"Hm?"

Shi Fen's spirits lifted as he matched the colors of the orbs to their owners' strength in the original story.

"Hong eventually became a True God, so cyan must represent at least the True God level. Thor eventually managed to become a Universe Master, so green must represent at least the Universe Master level. Judging by the order, Babata's yellow orb must represent at least the Venerable Level."

Shi Fen was stunned. "Yi" had once again reshaped his worldview.

"What kind of miraculous trick is this?" Shi Fen didn't know what to say.

After coming to this world, Shi Fen had countless times wondered what level of existence the great figure who had sent him here belonged to.

"A God King? Or even a Hunyuan life-form?"

Shi Fen didn't know.

Because of the Tech Tools, he'd even compared it to the Machine Race's technology in the Primordial Universe. Now he felt utterly ignorant and childish. Just this "talent detection function" was beyond the abilities of ordinary powerful beings.

The Machine Race of the Primordial Universe wasn't even worthy of carrying "Yi's" shoes!

The only things Shi Fen could think of that might be worth comparing to "Yi" were Mountain Guest's treasure-refining techniques as the "God King of Jin," and the "Mechanical Flow" of the Origin Continent. Only those two might be qualified to make a comparison with "Yi."

The Machine Race of the Primordial Universe was trash, nothing more.

"Could it be an existence at 'Yuan's' level? Only someone at 'Yuan's' level could have reincarnated me so easily. Detecting talent must be simple for an existence at 'Yuan's' level, right?

"And besides, 'Yi' and 'Yuan' are both one-character names, and their meanings are somewhat similar. Put together, their names make 'Yiyuan.' Huaxia has had the concept of a 'Yiyuan number' since ancient times. Could those two have some connection?"

At the thought, Shi Fen's heart burned with excitement, his eyes blazed, and a radiant smile spread across his face despite himself.

"If that's really the case, then I've struck it rich. Getting connected to someone of that caliber this early is a huge win. All the suffering I went through in my previous life was worth it! No, I need to train even harder and work to receive the inheritance, so I can meet 'Yi' as soon as possible."

With the help of his Soul Domain, Shi Fen soon regained his composure despite his extreme happiness and excitement.

"First, I'll collect the Wood Bud Crystals and head back to boost my family's strength!" Shi Fen put the Wood Bud Crystals he'd just found into his bag.