Talent Detection Function

Nearly an hour later.

After flying at high speed for this duration, Shi Fen was not far from home.

"Ring, ring." His communication bracelet chimed.

"It's Big Brother. What is he up to now?" Shi Fen answered the call, feeling puzzled.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, come back! A mysterious plant life from the universe, a Cloud-Touching Vine, has suddenly appeared on Mist Island. I suspect there are other treasures here we haven't discovered yet. It seems the source of the large quantity of Spirit of Vegetation might be about to reveal itself."

After Hong finished informing Shi Fen anxiously, he immediately ended the call to go arrange other matters.

Shi Fen looked at his home, which was within reach, and sighed helplessly. "I completely forgot about Babata. Now that Babata has started causing trouble, I won't be able to inspect my harvest."

Shi Fen felt extremely depressed. Unwillingly, he commanded the fighter jet's AI to return to Mist Island.

"I have good things I can't even inspect; I'm really going to vomit blood..."

When Shi Fen arrived at Mist Island once again, he was bewildered by the scene before him.

The island, which had previously been filled with thick fog, now had a sky that was exceptionally clean and bright, like a transparent lake. The ground was a mess, as if it had undergone a terrifying battle. The contrast with before was so great that Shi Fen didn't recognize it at first glance.

"It seems the Cloud-Touching Vine has been subdued by Big Brother. That was fast."

Seeing Hong and his group, Shi Fen immediately flew to their side.

"What is going on here?" Shi Fen asked, pretending to be clueless.

Luo Feng explained in shock: "Big Brother just went through a great battle and subdued a powerful, strange plant. It's a pity you missed the footage of the fight; that scene was incredible."

Hong continued: "It's the Cloud-Touching Vine I mentioned on the phone. This thing is a treasure even in the universe; I didn't expect us to have one on Earth."

Shi Fen acted slightly surprised, then said: "Since the treasure has been subdued, why did you have us come back?"

"Several King-level monsters that have never appeared before were just discovered. I suspect there is a problem here. Various detection devices will arrive soon. You wait here for now. If there are good things, with your and Luo Feng's strength, you can definitely fight for them."

Shi Fen nodded, gathered with Luo Feng, and asked about Hong's battle earlier.

Luo Feng began to describe it vividly...

Shi Fen listened intently.

Soon, Thor arrived.

"Big Brother, this isn't fair. You let the Extreme Martial Arts Hall snatch all the good things, and we didn't even get a drop of soup," Thor grumbled with dissatisfaction.

Hong glanced at Thor's face and retorted ungraciously: "Who told you to be so concerned about your image, insisting on using the Spirit of Vegetation to heal before coming back? Otherwise, you would have arrived earlier. You blame me for this?"

Thor was speechless, his confidence clearly lacking. "It was still your doing."

"Oh? Do you believe that when I do a global broadcast, I'll beat you up again?" Hong squinted at Thor, his tone lukewarm.

Thor shrank his neck, not daring to argue back. He quietly slipped to the side and waited silently.

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

Soon, a large number of flying saucers and fighter jets arrived at Mist Island. A large number of staff members unloaded a massive amount of equipment, surrounding Mist Island completely.

"Report! An anomaly has been discovered underground. There is a Lord-level monster whose life signs are skyrocketing. My god, it's about to break through to become a King-level!"

Hong, Thor, and the others looked delighted and headed straight for the underground of Mist Island.

Soon, everyone discovered the anomaly and began to fight for the treasures. Because Hong, Thor, and the others entered first, they had the upper hand.

After the people from the Extreme Martial Arts Hall and the Thunder Martial Arts Hall entered the underground to explore, a large number of powerhouses who heard the news arrived one after another, following the decisions of the two halls to enter the underground. The Third Speaker "Mohanderson," the Ice and Snow Emperor, the Fourth Speaker "East," the Fifth Speaker "Atkin," and other councilor-level powerhouses and War Gods entered the underground treasure battle one after another.

Underground on Mist Island.

After entering the underground river, Shi Fen immediately found a hidden corner and concealed himself.

"Isn't it just fighting for Wood Bud Crystals? With the Black Mirror's detection function, am I afraid of not finding them?"

Shi Fen strolled along lazily, found a large, relatively clean rock, and sat down on it, appearing as if he were idling away the time. In reality, his consciousness was communicating with the Black Mirror, carefully activating the detection function of the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror.

The moment the detection function was activated, a smile hung on the corners of Shi Fen's mouth.

"It really did upgrade. I knew it—how could such an awesome Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror have such a useless detection function?"

An invisible, intangible detection wave spread slowly outward, centered on Shi Fen's body. At the same time, Shi Fen opened his Soul Domain, attempting to perceive that invisible detection wave.

"I can't sense it!"

Shi Fen was pleasantly surprised to find that his Soul Domain, which could normally control everything around him, had failed at this moment.

Discovering that the detection wave was so stealthy, Shi Fen couldn't help but feel happy. He carefully controlled the Black Mirror to cover the entire underground of Mist Island.

Yes, the detection function had been fully upgraded!

The moment he activated the detection function, the Black Mirror "told" Shi Fen about the changes.

First.

Detection function. The detection range expanded from a diameter of 1,000 kilometers to 10,000 kilometers. The detection precision upgraded from decimeter-level to centimeter-level. The image quality Shi Fen received and viewed was upgraded, successfully moving from 10-centimeter blocky resolution to 1-centimeter small block resolution.

Most importantly.

The form of detection had changed. It was no longer a simple, all-encompassing spherical detection; now, he could control the detection range.

Secondly.

Scan and record function. The efficiency of scanning and recording has increased several times over.

Finally.

The Black Mirror has gained a new function: cultivation talent detection.

According to the Black Mirror's brief description, it uses special means to detect the limit a living being can reach in their lifetime of cultivation. Based on this growth limit, it categorizes cultivation talent into ten levels.

These are represented by ten different colors.

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

The Black Mirror did not explicitly tell him what these ten colors signified in terms of cultivation talent levels. Shi Fen did not want to waste time guessing, so he let it go.

Rather than wasting time daydreaming, he might as well enter the Treasure Refining World to take stock of his gains. Shi Fen firmly believed that entering the Treasure Refining World would surely reveal everything. For now, while on Babata's "home turf," it was better to keep a low profile.

Under the detection function, that little devil Babata was "revealing his true colors," sitting lazily on a chair, leisurely eating a crisp apple.

Shi Fen would not be naive enough to think Babata was just resting.

Babata must be using small detectors to monitor everything on the island, Shi Fen thought, his mind as clear as a mirror.

Unable to do anything else, Shi Fen felt conflicted and uncomfortable. With no other choice, he stood up and, guided by the detection, headed straight toward the Wood Bud Crystals.

"I'll go grab a few Wood Bud Crystals first. Babata seems to be in a hurry, having released 45 of them. I'll test the talent detection function again while I'm at it."

Shi Fen used his consciousness to activate the Eight Trigrams Reincarnation Mirror.

Above the heads of every living being within the detection range, a ball of light immediately appeared.

"Holy crap."

The most conspicuous ball of light in his field of vision was the one above Luo Feng's head. The ball representing Luo Feng's talent was over 100 meters in diameter, its surface a pitch-black color, as deep as a black hole.

Through the detection perspective, Shi Fen could see a faint glimmer of golden light at the very center of the black hole sphere. Although the golden light was weak, with the help of his Soul Domain, Shi Fen managed to see it clearly.

"Golden light?"

Shi Fen did not understand; this was something not mentioned in the description.

Could it be some special treatment for Luo Feng?

Thinking this, Shi Fen stopped dwelling on it. He didn't believe for a second that Luo Feng didn't have some special treatment.

Compared to Luo Feng, everyone else—except for Hong, Thor, and Babata—was far worse off.

The vast majority of people had a one-meter-diameter, lowest-tier colorless ball of light above their heads. A very small number had a one-meter-diameter, slightly higher-tier white ball of light. Under Shi Fen's special perspective, the entire Mist Island had become an ocean of transparent and white light spheres.

"The aptitude of Earthlings is indeed very poor. Aside from Hong, Thor, and Babata, the best is only the second-tier white ball of light."

Judging solely by color and volume, Shi Fen felt the first two tiers were definitely abysmal, likely unable to even reach the Star Level. Consequently, he gave up the idea of scanning the entire globe; the top cultivation talents on Earth were basically all here, and it was impossible for any geniuses to appear among the rest.

The light spheres of Hong, Thor, and Babata were extremely eye-catching against the backdrop of the numerous colorless and white spheres.

Hong's level was the highest, a cyan sphere about 11 meters in diameter. Thor's level was next, a green sphere about 4 meters in diameter. Babata's level was the worst, a yellow sphere, but its diameter was massive, at 89 meters.

As for Shi Fen himself, his head was bare; there was nothing there.

"Hmm??"

Shi Fen's spirit jolted as he mapped the colors of the spheres to their strength in the original story.

Hong eventually becomes a True God, so logically, cyan should at least represent the True God level. Thor eventually struggles to become a Universe Master, so that green sphere should at least represent the Universe Master level. Based on the ranking, Babata's yellow sphere should at least represent the Venerable level.

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

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

Since arriving in this world, Shi Fen had pondered countless times what level of great existence the big shot who sent him here might be.

A God King? Or perhaps an even higher Origin Source lifeform?

Shi Fen did not know.

Because of the tech tools, he had even compared it to the Machine Race technology of the Primordial Universe. Now, Shi Fen felt he had been too ignorant and naive; this "talent detection function" alone was something no ordinary great power could achieve.

The Machine Race of the Primordial Universe wasn't even fit to tie "Yi's" shoelaces!

Now, the only things Shi Fen could think of to compare were the Mountain Guest, the treasure-refining techniques of the "God King of Jin," and the "Mechanical Stream" of the Origin Continent. Only these two were qualified to be compared with "Yi."

The Machine Race of the Primordial Universe was just trash.

Could it be at the level of "Yuan"? Only an existence at the level of "Yuan" could allow me to reincarnate and be reborn so easily. At the level of "Yuan," detecting talent should be very simple, right?

Moreover, "Yi" and "Yuan" are both single-character names, and their meanings are somewhat related; the two names together form "Yiyuan." Since ancient times, China has had the concept of the "Number of Yiyuan." Could these two have some kind of connection?

Thinking of this, Shi Fen's heart burned, his eyes erupted with astonishing light, and a brilliant smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

If that's really the case, then I've hit the jackpot. Getting involved with such figures so early is a massive profit; the suffering in my past life was worth it! No, I must cultivate even more diligently, strive to accept the inheritance, and aim to meet "Yi" as soon as possible.

Despite his extreme joy and excitement, with the help of his Soul Domain, Shi Fen quickly regained his composure.

"Collect the Wood Bud Crystals first, then go back and improve the strength of my family!" Shi Fen gathered the Wood Bud Crystals he had just discovered into his pack.