Innate Divine Ability

Su Bo had eaten it. What was there to hesitate about?

The two exchanged a glance. There was a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance they would open a Divine Aperture and develop an innate divine ability. What were they waiting for?

Let's do it!

They looked at the martial meal before them, picked up their bowls, and downed the contents in one gulp.

The pale golden broth felt silky on the tongue and slid down the throat. Vast soul power surged upward, flooding the depths of their souls and seas of consciousness like rain soaking parched fields.

Boom...

It felt as though a whole new world was forming inside his brain... All right, that was pure fantasy. Su Bo opened his eyes.

Soul Vine, the Three-Turn Soulfruit, and dozens of other treasures that even Divine Ability Realm martial artists would fight over had been simmered into one small bowl of golden broth.

It had a faint, gentle fragrance, no different from an ordinary bowl of soup.

Gone were the intense vitality and boiling, immense soul power it had given off while cooking, as though all of that had been an illusion.

The instant he drank it...

Immense vitality poured into every part of Su Bo's body, seeping into his flesh, muscles, bones, and organs. It rapidly healed the hidden injuries left by his earlier training.

At the same time, an unbroken stream of soul power surged into his sea of consciousness and soul.

It was nothing like the supreme sensation of a world coming into being, but he could clearly feel an indescribable clarity settling over his mind.

Crack...

A soundless fracture rang out. Su Bo could distinctly sense a wondrous aperture opening in his soul's sea of consciousness.

The vast soul power flowing in an endless stream rushed into it all at once.

The instant the soul power surged in, the vitality that had been nourishing Su Bo's flesh, muscles, bones, and organs suddenly reversed course and came rushing after it.

Like rivers racing toward the sea, it joined the soul power and poured madly into the Divine Aperture.

As vitality and soul power converged and flooded the Divine Aperture, they drew Su Bo's consciousness in with them.

A pale golden glow arose. The next instant...

An endless ocean of blood spread before Su Bo's eyes. Waves rolled across it, throwing up towering swells dozens or even hundreds of yards high.

As the boundless blood sea formed, the incoming vitality and soul power intertwined once more.

One, two, three... five, seven, nine... twenty-one, thirty-one... fifty-four, seventy-two, eighty-one, ninety-nine...

Wondrous runes with pale golden bases and blood-red markings were born from vitality and soul power, rising one after another from the blood sea.

When a hundred and eight golden, blood-marked runes had risen, they intertwined into a golden wheel. Within it, the three aspects of sun, moon, and stars faintly revolved in reverse.

The instant the golden wheel formed, its star aspect reversed for the briefest moment.

Su Bo felt boundless vitality, which had just poured into his Divine Aperture, stream back out and seep into every part of his body, erasing all his hidden injuries.

Soul power flowed back into his sea of consciousness as well, strengthening the essence of his soul.

"What is this?" Su Bo exclaimed in wonder.

Hadn't the Divine Aperture absorbed all the vitality and soul power in the martial meal to open itself and give birth to his innate divine ability?

Just as he was puzzling over it...

Understanding arose in his mind. It answered his question and revealed what innate divine ability he had gained.

[Innate Divine Ability: Reversion.] Through the power of three aspects, the star aspect reverted vitality, the moon aspect reverted the soul, and the sun aspect reverted time. These three powers reversed all damage and restored him to his peak!

In short, the innate divine ability born within Su Bo's Divine Aperture was absurdly powerful!

Sun Aspect: Commanded the source of time within the great sun's radiance, reverting his own state along its recent path through time.

Trait: Years (Any temporary overexertion, loss of lifespan, or overload of his essence was erased through temporal reversion, with no lasting effects.)

Moon Aspect: Commanded the soul-gathering source of the moon's radiance, reverting damage to his soul, mind, and sea of consciousness.

Trait: Untouchable (At the instant of reversion, automatically purified all mental debuffs, soul curse marks, and mental restraints.)

Star Aspect: Commanded the source of vitality in the stars, governing his flesh and organs, vital energy and blood, life force, and stamina.

Trait: Vitality (Even on the verge of exhaustion, with his life nearly spent, he could instantly rebuild the foundation of vitality throughout his body.)

The vitality and soul power that had suddenly reappeared just now came from the sun aspect activating and reverting time, restoring what had been consumed to create the divine ability.

Of course, Su Bo himself had played a part in that.

Having that immense vitality and soul power nourish his body and soul and erase every hidden injury had felt almost too good.

So when his innate divine ability swallowed it all, he felt a little regret, and the sun aspect quietly reverted time.

But reversion of his recent state could only be activated once within a certain span of time.

Su Bo made a rough estimate...

The sun aspect could probably revert once every seven days, the moon aspect about once every three days, and the star aspect two or three times a day.

The main problem was that his weak soul essence could barely bear the cost of using his innate divine ability.

Nor could the three aspects exploit loopholes in one another's limitations...

It seemed he would have to think carefully and do the calculations before using his divine ability in the future.

With his innate divine ability formed, the baptism of dragon blood and the emergence of a second trait had raised his strength to a terrifying level.

He wanted to find the Gravekeeper Spirit Skeleton and test himself against it—have it pick out a batch of technicians (Withered-Bone Demon Corpses) to give him a proper workout.

That would also let him get used to his suddenly increased strength.

"I did it! I actually did it!" Yi You cried from the other side, beside himself with excitement. He had never imagined he would one day possess an innate divine ability.

Liu Yue opened his eyes too, but beneath the joy in them lay a trace of disappointment.

He had opened a Divine Aperture, but failed to develop an innate divine ability.

Even so, he had gained a great deal from this trip. With the Celestial Human Race's vast resources, they could make up for the divine ability he lacked once the Starry Sky Trial ended.

He quickly put aside his disappointment, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

After all, he had never expected this in the first place.

He had wanted the Soul Vine only for its immense soul power, to nourish his soul and nurture his divine intent.

He had never imagined he would find such an opportunity in the Soul-Spirit Burial Grounds. He had opened a Divine Aperture, vastly strengthened his soul essence, and multiplied his combat power several times over.

That already counted as an extraordinary stroke of luck.

But that brat Yi You had succeeded, and that left him thoroughly annoyed.

Yi You was all smiles and brimming with confidence. He felt that even the Federation's true monstrous prodigies were no longer worth fearing.

His combat power against others at his level had increased more than tenfold.

That was what an innate divine ability was worth...

And that was only because he had just acquired it. His strength was still too weak to bring out its full power.

If he mastered it completely one day, even becoming invincible among kings was not beyond imagining.