Ability Awakening

Within the vast, dreamlike Star Lake, the ink-black hull of the Star Origin remained hidden within the dark sub-space of the universe, continuously advancing toward the deeper regions.

Naturally, he would not dare to touch the core area.

Those Star Beasts above level six could basically deplete one-third of the Eternal Sun Wall's shield value in a single strike, and the higher the level of the Star Beast, the shorter the charge time for their attacks, making the 100/s recovery speed...

While it could maintain an absolute, invincible advantage against enemies of the same level or one level higher, its effectiveness would drop significantly when facing higher-level existences; though, of course, running away was still an option.

What gave Feng Xiao the most headache was that while the red shield's initial recovery speed was quite high, it could only be increased once every ten levels.

Higher-quality shield-type Star Weapons were the same; they started with a high recovery speed, but it was extremely difficult to improve them further.

In the captain's quarters.

Feng Xiao gazed at the fruit in his hand, a hint of anticipation appearing in his eyes.

"An ability, huh..."

Without a moment's hesitation, he took a bite, and in an instant, he felt a certain sensory capability of his skyrocket!

A vast number of peculiar ribbons flickered in and out of existence within Feng Xiao's perception; he tried to reach out with his mind to touch one, but his consciousness passed right through it every time.

"It seems this is the rule of the ability, but this situation appears to be a bit troublesome..."

Feng Xiao felt slightly helpless.

Heart of Dawn (Repair: 5%)

Scan: Target not selected

Lock: Anchor point not selected

Analysis: Ability selection in progress (Expanding)

The panel that appeared in his consciousness made Feng Xiao freeze for a moment, followed by a chuckle.

Unexpected, yet within reason.

"Expand."

[Detected 362 abilities you have a chance to awaken--only Legendary abilities are displayed.]

[Divine Sense (Legendary) (Unique)

Level: lv0 (Requires self-cultivation)

Description: An upgraded version of psychokinesis.

Evaluation: The body is mortal, the mind touches the divine.

Ability: An advanced version of psychokinesis; Divine Sense can influence and manipulate the vast majority of matter and energy, with the degree of influence depending on the ability level.

Effect: Permanent +10x to mental power cap and recovery speed.

Passive: Gain immunity to all mental damage and parasitic damage.

Amplification: The source of your Divine Sense strength—mental power—will autonomously increase at a certain rate, requiring no self-cultivation.

Note: Please ensure your physical toughness can withstand Divine Sense, otherwise irreversible damage and consequences will occur.]

[Mechanist (Legendary) (Unique)

Level: lv0 (Self-cultivation)

Description: Ultimate mechanical spirit body.

Evaluation: Flesh is weak, machinery ascends.

Ability: Possess the thinking speed and memory storage capacity of a light-brain; allows control over any technological product (excluding starships) provided the level permits.

Effect: All controlled machinery gains a 200% increase in data attributes!

Passive: When first mastering a type of machinery, your mechanical spirit body can transform into that machinery; power depends on your level and energy intensity.

Amplification: +10x efficiency when manufacturing or researching machinery.

Note: Upgrading this ability and strengthening your power requires research and manufacturing; please ensure your capital and resource reserves are sufficient for consumption.]

Feng Xiao's brows arched, his expression gradually turning blank.

They were all Legendary grade, so why did it feel like his own captain talent was the most lackluster of them all?

Recovering quickly, Feng Xiao stopped dwelling on the quality issue and seriously weighed the pros and cons of the abilities.

"The former is individual power, while the latter is group power. However, in terms of convenience and individual combat strength, Divine Sense should be better.

Although the latter wouldn't be much weaker in individual combat strength in the future, it requires time and money to accumulate."

The thought vanished in an instant, and Feng Xiao immediately confirmed his choice: Divine Sense.

[Confirmed--Divine Sense]

[Starship auxiliary personal panel activated]

[Captain: Feng Xiao

Talent: Immortal Ship (lv0)

Ability: Divine Sense]

[Level: lv0 (Self-improving)]

"Self-cultivation, that's truly not bad... However, if I need to improve my physical constitution, the standard of an ordinary gene warrior probably won't be able to bear my Divine Sense."

Feng Xiao scanned the Star Net mall with a headache, his eyes suddenly pausing as he scrolled rapidly!

"Ancient martial arts... that should be feasible..."

After a moment of contemplation, Feng Xiao decided to find a high-level ancient martial arts manual to improve his physical constitution when he had the chance. In any case, he didn't require the ancient martial arts to provide combat power; as long as it could ensure his physical constitution was strengthened, that would be enough.

There was no need to think about it for now; with a body optimized by high-level genes, he wouldn't need to worry about physical issues until at least Divine Sense lv20.

Having cleared his thoughts, Feng Xiao stretched, a pale golden halo flashing in his eyes as he suddenly floated up from the bed.

He managed to hold it for about twenty seconds before landing on the ground, looking slightly exhausted.

His eyes were filled with excitement: "As expected of a legendary ability. Although it isn't like Ilde's ability that can mutually amplify with a starship, it's still not bad."

High-level abilities were rare, and those that could assist a starship were even rarer.

For instance, even if he were lv30, he reckoned he wouldn't be able to beat Ilde, who had only awakened 10% but could manipulate ship cannons, even if they were both at the legendary level.

There was no helping it; the starship itself was too strong.

Once an ability was bound to a starship, it was no longer calculated using the standard lv0–lv120 ability system, but rather by the percentage of fusion with the starship.

Even after reaching 100%, the conversion of promoted levels was different from that of standard ability users.

He walked over to the control core, glanced at Ilde, who was controlling the ship cannons to clear out the surrounding Star Beasts, and silently opened the Star Net to cram in some knowledge.

More relevant knowledge about starships had to be learned on the Star Net or at the Starship Academy—preferably at the Starship Academy where there were instructors to teach.

However, school hadn't started yet, so Feng Xiao could only look at the Star Net, and some of it even required payment.

Because of the influence of the Heart of Dawn, Feng Xiao, who possessed excellent learning talent, only needed to scan through information once to remember almost all the key points.

Time passed quickly while wandering, and they even experienced a few dangerous battles along the way.

Among them, a group of elite level-four Star Beasts acting together was the most dangerous!

In the end, at the cost of their shield value dropping by half and 4% armor damage, they killed two of the level-four elite Star Beasts, while a few others escaped.

However, this also made Feng Xiao put away any thoughts of looking down on Star Beasts. The Star Origin's current comprehensive combat power was definitely ranked among the top tier of elite starships.

Although its attack power and other capabilities were slightly inferior to other elite starships, its defensive power and speed were extremely formidable.

It was undeniable that the Star Origin possessed the combat power of a top-tier elite starship.

If a few level-four Star Beasts could cause trouble now, one could imagine how dangerous level-five Star Beasts, or even higher-level ones with dozens of times the strength, would be.

Although elite-level beasts were rare, this was the inner layer of the Qiansen Star Lake!

Even perfect lifeforms could appear.

BOOM!

A brilliant light cannon blasted the last level-three elite Star Beast to death, and Ilde relaxed slightly.

"There are more and more elite-level Star Beasts. I knew the gap between each level of Star Beast grew larger the further you went, but this span of combat power is just too exaggerated."

Wang Hao flipped through the detection records, feeling somewhat helpless at the fact that a level-four elite Star Beast's bio-energy level was twenty-five times that of a level-three.

"Level-five and level-six Star Beasts might still be around ten thousand meters in size, but level-seven and level-eight Star Beasts have to be measured in units of three or even four digits of kilometers.

Rumor has it that a level-nine Star Beast's body can even reach the size of a small planet; that is what's truly terrifying."

"Moreover, within the same level, those with higher life potential have larger bodies and greater combat power."

Ilde added.

Wang Hao, who was still learning interstellar common knowledge, nodded, his mind already beginning to imagine the image of a planet-sized super lifeform.

"I..."

[Warning: Starship fluctuations detected.]

[Starship fluctuations are steadily declining; predicted to have suffered heavy damage!]

[Unknown starship is requesting a call.]

The sudden system alarm and prompt made the interior of the ship go quiet instantly.

What was going on?

"Accept the communication."