Talent Forging!

Name: Chen Yu

Realm: Body Tempering Fourth Stage

Techniques: Star-Treading Stance, Thunder Extreme Saber (Proficient)

Talents: [Perseverance], [Blade Technique Grandmaster (Purple)], [Martial Dao Grade-B Bone (Blue)], [Fortune's Blessing (Blue)], [Exceptional Memory (Yellow)], [Gluttonous Factor (Green)], [Strong Heart (Green)], [Bear Waist (White)], [Exceptional Swordsmanship (White)], [Cat Body (White)], [Elephant Legs (White)], [Strong Kidneys (White)], [Ape Arms (Gray)], [Thought Imprint (Gray)]

Expansion Feature: Activation requirements met. Activate? Yes/No

"Let me see what new ability the System Panel has given me!"

Chen Yu sat cross-legged on his bed, brimming with anticipation as he rubbed his hands together.

"Yes."

With a thought, he silently muttered the command.

The next moment—

[Feature Expansion—Talent Forging]

[Talent Forging]: Use talents as fuel to forge a designated talent!

"Talent Forging?"

After only a moment of thought, Chen Yu roughly understood the purpose of this new feature.

Simply put, he could consume some talents to upgrade a designated talent.

"This feature is quite practical!"

Chen Yu thought to himself.

Most talents, such as Gray-Quality and White-Quality Talents, would gradually become nearly useless as a Martial Artist grew stronger.

Talents like [Ape Arms (Gray)], for instance, provided only a minuscule boost to strength and were of little use to Chen Yu now.

They were like chicken ribs—useless to keep, but a shame to throw away.

If they could be used to raise the quality of other talents, that would naturally be excellent.

"Consume [Ape Arms (Gray)] and forge [Martial Dao Grade-B Bone (Blue)]."

Chen Yu silently commanded in his heart.

His Martial Dao realm was currently holding him back too much. Since he now had a way to improve talent quality, his Martial Dao Bone naturally had to be his first priority!

On the System Panel, the talent [Ape Arms (Gray)] abruptly vanished. At the same time, additional information appeared under [Talent Forging]:

[Talent Forging]: Martial Dao Grade-B Bone (0/100%)

"0/100%... The progress hasn't changed. Looks like a Gray-Quality Talent is just too poor."

Chen Yu's expression remained unchanged. He had known that a single Gray-Quality Talent could barely increase the progress at all.

Fortunately, he had collected quite a few ordinary talents recently.

"[Bear Waist (White)], [Exceptional Swordsmanship (White)], [Cat Body (White)], [Elephant Legs (White)], [Strong Kidneys (White)]—sacrifice all White-Quality Talents!"

These White-Quality Talents merely made one stand out slightly from ordinary people.

To a powerful Martial Artist, every single aspect of them would surpass these so-called talents.

How could a Martial Artist's formidable physique possibly be compared to such ordinary talents?

So Chen Yu did not feel the slightest regret.

As he made his decision and sacrificed all the White-Quality Talents, the progress of [Martial Dao Grade-B Bone] slowly rose to 15%.

"Keep going!"

"[Strong Heart (Green)], [Sword Dao Prodigy (Blue)], [Body Fortification (Yellow)]!"

This time, Chen Yu went all in.

Even the Blue-Quality Talent he had just copied from Zhao Tianyi was directly used as forging material.

He currently had no time to cultivate both saber and sword, so the talent [Sword Dao Prodigy (Blue)] was of no use to him.

Only by becoming stronger and encountering more geniuses and powerhouses could he easily copy even stronger sword dao talents in the future!

Even a Purple-Quality Swordsmanship Grandmaster was not out of reach!

As the three high-quality talents vanished, the progress of [Martial Dao Grade-B Bone] shot upward instantly!

In only a few seconds, the progress reached 100%!

[Talent Forging Complete]

[Martial Dao Grade-B Bone (Blue)] → [Martial Dao A-grade Bone (Cyan)]

[Martial Dao A-grade Bone (Cyan)]: Cultivation speed increased to eighty times that of an ordinary person. No bottlenecks within the Blood Exchange Realm.

"As expected, there's another Cyan Quality between Blue Quality and Purple Quality!"

This result did not surprise Chen Yu.

After all, the gap between Blue-Quality Talents and Purple-Quality Talents was far too great. There had to be another transitional quality in between.

At this point, Chen Yu had a rough grasp of the hierarchy of talent qualities. From lowest to highest, they were:

Gray, White, Green, Yellow, Blue, Cyan, Purple...

"Blue Quality is rare even in an entire city."

"By that logic, Cyan Quality should be rare in an entire country. As for Purple Quality, perhaps even an ordinary life-bearing planet would have difficulty producing one."

"Martial Dao A-grade Bone, a Cyan-Quality Talent, with eighty times cultivation speed!"

Chen Yu immediately beamed with delight.

This effect made all the talents he had spent worthwhile.

Moreover, there were no bottlenecks in the Blood Exchange Realm above the Body Tempering Realm. That effect was even more astonishing than the increase in cultivation speed.

Countless people had seen their Martial Dao stagnate for life because of bottlenecks. The value of such an effect was obvious.

It was even more precious than a simple increase in cultivation speed.

However, for the current Chen Yu, it was not yet time for it to show its value.

Name: Chen Yu

Realm: Body Tempering Fourth Stage

Techniques: Star-Treading Stance, Thunder Extreme Saber (Proficient)

Talents: [Perseverance], [Blade Technique Grandmaster (Purple)], [Martial Dao A-grade Bone (Cyan)], [Fortune's Blessing (Blue)], [Exceptional Memory (Yellow)], [Gluttonous Factor (Green)], [Thought Imprint (Gray)]

Talent Forging: None

Expansion Feature: (Activation requirement: Copy three Cyan-Quality Talents, 0/3)

After completing the Talent Forging, Chen Yu's System Panel looked much simpler.

Apart from talents with special uses, all those that were of little use or offered him no significant help at present had basically been consumed.

"Sure enough, the System Panel can unlock new features besides Talent Forging!"

"But the requirement is three Cyan-Quality Talents, and talents upgraded through forging don't count. That's a bit troublesome."

Chen Yu could not help but sigh.

By his estimation, that meant he would have to fight three supreme Martial Dao geniuses or powerhouses at the top of an entire country.

Such geniuses probably could not be found even if he searched all of River City.

"It's said that Martial Dao genes can be inherited, and the descendants of powerhouses have a greater chance of awakening powerful Martial Dao talents."

"In that case, if I want to meet more geniuses, I need to go where there are more powerhouses."

"There are sixty-eight Martial Arts Universities on Crimson Radiance Star, including Three Elite Universities that each represent one powerful region."

"The Martial Universities of the Imperial Capital, Upper River, and Huaying are recognized as the Three Elite Universities, representing the three pinnacles of politics, commerce, and technology on Crimson Radiance Star."

"If I want to copy Cyan-Quality Talents, those three elite universities are undoubtedly my only chance."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Yu had already made up his mind.

The Battle of Myriad Stars was still far away, but the Martial Exam of Crimson Radiance Star was right around the corner.

The Martial Exam was his first stepping stone toward the Battle of Myriad Stars!

With that thought, Chen Yu stopped wasting time. He swallowed an Advanced Body-Tempering Elixir and began cultivating the Star-Treading Stance.

The effects of a Cyan-Quality Talent were extraordinarily outstanding.

In only three hours, the medicinal effect of the Body Tempering Elixir had been completely consumed. His absorption efficiency was more than twice as fast as before.

But in return, it brought an astonishingly high level of efficiency.

"This is no longer merely eighty times the effect. If resources are sufficient, this efficiency may already be a hundred times that of an ordinary person."

Suppressing his heartache, Chen Yu took out another Body Tempering Supplement and drank it.

The effect was excellent, but the money was disappearing frighteningly fast.

The little money he had on hand probably would not even last a week.