Outer space, aboard the Emerald Whisper Starship.
The Xingyu Little Sprite hovered before the main console, its slender fingers tapping lightly in midair as it processed a vast amount of data.
Suddenly, it received information synchronized from the Deity Vehicle's Intelligent Life. Its eyes, formed from pure particles of light, widened slightly.
"Detected release of high-intensity rule power. Recalibrating the proportion of rules in Source Energy signature analysis." The Xingyu Little Sprite's voice carried a hint of puzzlement. "Estimated rule comprehension: 41%!"
It immediately sent the information, along with the detailed data stream, to Irelia, who was resting with her eyes closed.
Irelia's long eyelashes quivered, and she slowly opened her eyes.
When she saw the data Xingyu had sent, her deep, emerald-nebula-like pupils contracted abruptly.
Forty-one percent?
She almost thought her perception was mistaken.
Lin Yi's talent was indeed far beyond ordinary, something she had confirmed long ago.
Raising his rule comprehension from 16% to 31.5% in a year was already astonishing, placing him among the very best in the Pan-Spirit Alliance.
The stagnation that followed over the next six months seemed perfectly normal to her.
Comprehending rules was like climbing a perilous peak: the higher one climbed, the harder it became to take each step. Hitting a bottleneck and making no progress—even for decades—was commonplace.
She had once optimistically estimated that, given the potential Lin Yi had shown, the bottleneck might not hold him for long. He would probably break through within ten or twenty years.
But only six months had passed.
It hadn't risen gradually. It had jumped straight from 31.5% to 41%?
That was far beyond the pace of ordinary cultivation.
The deeper one's rule comprehension, the more abstruse and obscure it became. Every improvement took immense effort and time to refine and understand.
A leap