New Talent Trait, Borrow Life Reincarnation!

Gale Step was considered quite good even among Earth-grade Stellar Force Secret Arts, offering massive improvements whether it was close-range dodging and maneuvering in combat or long-distance travel and escape.

Therefore, many people chose it as their natal movement technique, not daring to slack off as they practiced it day and night.

However, since it was not an ordinary stellar force secret art, the learning difficulty was quite high; even geniuses with some talent generally required several months just to reach initiation.

And wanting to use it freely in combat required several years of slow polishing before one could truly master it.

As for Lin Yuan?

In less than a single month, he mastered it rapidly and could immediately throw himself into true, live combat!

Now, even a Lord-Rank One-Pattern Star Beast could not match Lin Yuan in speed and evasion, allowing him to handle things with effortless ease.

The importance of comprehension was thus self-evident.

With the presence of Transcendent Comprehension, no matter what stellar force secret art or great path profound truth it was, as long as he spent a little time on it, nothing could stump him!

Your experience value is full, your level has increased to Level 13, you have obtained a chance to draw a talent trait...

At that moment, the familiar game prompt sounded in Lin Yuan's ear once again.

His experience value was full?

He subconsciously took a glance—

Experience Value: 4096/4096

A little over four thousand experience points.

Unconsciously, had he actually gathered enough already?

Lin Yuan fell into a brief daze.

During this period, there were many things he had to do; not only did he need to diligently temper his natal stellar force every night, but by day he also had to carve out time to practice new stellar force secret arts, while simultaneously using the special sensing of Seeking Secrets to search for various heavenly treasures hidden within this Minor Astral Realm...

Slaying star beasts, on the other hand, had not been pursued quite as actively.

After all, One-Pattern Common-Rank Star Beasts only provided 20 experience points, which felt a bit insignificant when facing demands scaling in the thousands or tens of thousands.

Only by raising his strength and hunting higher-level star beasts could his leveling efficiency become even higher.

At this stage, it was enough just to maintain his ranking in contribution points on the Azure River Regional Rankings so that it wouldn't drop.

Holding this mindset, Lin Yuan had spent the majority of his energy on tempering his natal stellar force and searching for heavenly treasures, which was how he managed to achieve such massive improvements in a mere two months.

Yet through the accumulation of time, unconsciously, the Level 12 experience bar had also filled up—it was quite an unexpected pleasant surprise...

He took a glance at his ranking—

Twenty-ninth place on the Azure River Regional Rankings, Lin Yuan, 322 contribution points!

Even without putting too much effort into slaying star beasts, once his strength went up, his ranking still shot upward by leaps and bounds, and he had now squeezed into the top thirty of Azure River Satellite City.

And by now, a full half-year had passed since the rankings were first unveiled.

The gap between geniuses and ordinary newly-promoted warriors had already been pulled extremely wide.

Such as the true Star-Martial Prodigies and the top-tier existences in the top ten, every single one of them had contribution points exceeding five hundred, fulfilling the conditions for promotion to a Silver-White Three-Star Star Warrior Badge and completing a monumental feat that ordinary Mortal Transcendence Realm warriors required a dozen or even several decades to accomplish.

As for those newly-promoted warriors of ordinary aptitude?

They basically only had around a few dozen points, and there were even those in the single digits...

To Lin Yuan and the others, star beasts that could be killed with a wave of the hand were genuine stellar behemoths to the majority of newly-promoted star warriors, where simply resisting them head-on required a fair amount of time just to adapt, let alone slaying them.

This was also the norm; every year's contribution point ranking for newly-promoted warriors featured an extreme gap between top and bottom, for that was a stage belonging to true geniuses.

"Draw!"

Without hesitation, Lin Yuan immediately began to draw his thirteenth talent trait.

You have obtained the Gold Legend—"Borrow Life Reincarnation"!

Effect: When you slay an enemy of the same life tier, you can choose not to acquire experience value, longevity, or any other effects, and instead seize their complete soul and true spirit, storing it as a "Life".

"Life" can take effect after your death, exchanging life for life to achieve Borrow Life Reincarnation.

Your life is my life!

...

Lin Yuan froze on the spot.

He stared fixedly at the name and effect of this freshly forged gold talent trait, wondering for a moment if his eyes were playing tricks on him.

What did he just see?

Borrow Life Reincarnation?

Exchanging life for life?

Wasn't this fucking a resurrection coin?

It meant that as long as he had a "Life" stored, he was essentially granted a chance at resurrection, allowing him to replace his own death outcome with a stored "Life" and revive anew!

"That is insanely overpowered..."

Lin Yuan knew that anything produced by the system was bound to be premium.

There was never a weak talent trait, but such a powerful, heaven-defying effect still caused his mind and heart to tremble.

Back when he had witnessed firsthand the almost overwhelmingly terrifying power of the second-realm stellar martial path powerhouse displayed by Gu Shuangshuang, he had indeed harbored a trace of hidden worry—

The stellar martial path in this world possessed strength that was simply too powerful!

The gap between each realm was practically dimensional, difficult to cross.

Even if he possessed millions of catties of physical strength, he feared that even the weakest and most ordinary second-realm powerhouse could casually crush him to death.

Because according to his understanding, the second realm of the stellar martial path required opening the stellar force major apertures within the body, and every single major aperture opened brought about a massive enhancement in strength.

Furthermore, upon opening just the first major aperture, the stellar force within the body would already vastly surpass the peak Mortal Transcendence Realm by ten or a hundred times over; that was a fundamental transformation of one's life tier.

Granted that Lin Yuan possessed numerous talent traits, whether it was talent comprehension or cultivation speed, he could be called a monstrous anomaly.

No matter what, however, he still required a relatively lengthy period of time to grow stronger bit by bit.

Before he had finished growing up, no matter how heaven-defying his talent was and no matter how many methods he possessed, when facing the dimensional-strike suppression of a second-realm powerhouse, or an even stronger existence, he would still be left completely helpless.

A genius who died could no longer be called a genius.

Only by staying alive could one cash in their talent.

Therefore, he was deeply worried; without sufficient self-preservation means, he simply dared not break away from Goddess Luo Squad.

Without the protection of Gu Shuangshuang, this powerful second-realm powerhouse, he would not have a shred of a sense of safety in this peril-fraught Minor Astral Realm.

He harbored numerous talent traits and was destined to become a supreme powerhouse in the future—how could he dare to be the slightest bit careless?

Being weak in the early stages and lacking self-preservation foundations, choosing to attach oneself to the strong was not shameful, but rather a wise course of action.

It was also a helpless recourse.

Depending on others was, after all, not a long-term solution.

He was well aware that Goddess Luo Squad was, at its core, a special protective vanguard squad that existed to support Gu Yiyi; for them to accept an outsider like him could already be considered supreme fortune—it belonged to the category of eating a pretty classmate's soft rice...

"If I gain the confidence to venture through the Minor Astral Realm entirely on my own, that will be true skill."

Lin Yuan had thought about it before as well.

He just hadn't expected to obtain the ultimate confidence he had always dreamed of so quickly—

Borrow Life Reincarnation!

Life-forms of the same tier slain by him would transform into his "Life", allowing him to resurrect once more!

"Your life is my life?"

"This phrase describes it so fittingly..."

Without hesitation, Lin Yuan immediately began experimenting with the effects of the new trait—

"Heaven-Slaying Drawn Sword!"

Star beasts were the least scarce resource within the Minor Astral Realm.

Lin Yuan and the others quickly located another group of star beasts.

This group of star beasts was not large in number, and they were basically all of common rank, with no Lord-Rank Star Beasts present.

Therefore, the rest of Goddess Luo Squad didn't even make a move, merely letting Gu Yiyi and Lin Yuan enter the fray, which easily resolved the battle.

Gu Yiyi's Thunder-Origin Dragon Spear was wielded with masterful perfection; she no longer drained all her stellar force and stamina with a single strike, and acting with peerless dominance, she directly tore three star beasts to shreds.

Lin Yuan only utilized a single wisp of natal stellar force each time, and the Drawn Sword Heaven-Slaying he unleashed was more than enough to obliterate these weakest and most ordinary star beasts, slaying five of them!

This time, he did not acquire experience value, instead choosing to preserve their complete souls and true spirits, transforming them into "Life".

Player: Lin Yuan

Level: Level 13

Experience Value: 1/8192

Longevity: 2100 years (Plundered Longevity: 1900 years)

Life: 5

Talent Traits: "Swordsmanship Mastery"...

The brand-new personal panel.

Lin Yuan paid no attention to the experience value requirement that had skyrocketed to eight thousand, nor did he care about the long lifespan reaching as high as twenty-one hundred years.

Instead, his gaze immediately locked onto the newly emerged column—

Life: 5

The brief, single line of text caused Lin Yuan's breathing to grow heavy.

He was filled with incomparable pleasant surprise.

The storage of "Life"... actually has no upper limit?

I... have already acquired five lives just like that?!!