[Lord Palace]
[Type: Lord-exclusive special palace treasure (unique)]
[Effect: Comprehensively enhances the potential of all newborn citizens within the territory (effect increases with lord level)]
Without another word, Wang Yu began reviewing the upgrade reward information.
The Lord Palace's effect was astonishing!
It comprehensively enhanced the potential of all newborn citizens within the territory!
Wang Yu immediately read through all the detailed information.
Simply put, it was like the modifications Sitting Mountain Guest had made to Blue Star. As long as a pregnant lifeform remained within his territory while the fetus developed until birth, it would be affected during the process, and the offspring born would have enhanced potential.
The key was that this enhancement was comprehensive!
Sitting Mountain Guest's modifications had only made soul potential exceptionally strong, giving them a greater chance of becoming people with powerful willpower.
Other aspects were not included. For example, in terms of physical genes, Blue Star humans were at the lowest level, and they had no particular affinity with the Origin Laws.
But the Lord Palace's enhancement was comprehensive!
Physical genes, Origin Laws, soul and will... everything was enhanced!
Although the effect depended on the lord level and was not especially obvious while the level was still low, a comprehensive enhancement was clearly far more advanced than Sitting Mountain Guest's methods!
And Sitting Mountain Guest had only modified one planet, while the Lord Palace's effect worked throughout all his territories!
After reading the Lord Palace's information, Wang Yu was deeply shaken. He then looked at the information for the additional reward, the "Inheritance Talent Tree."
With a thought from Wang Yu, his consciousness entered a mysterious space.
This space was incomparably vast, yet everything was a blank expanse of white. The only things within it were endless land stretching beyond sight and a small sapling directly before him.
The little sapling looked as though it had only just emerged from the ground. It was roughly one or two inches tall and had five tiny tender leaves.
The five leaves were all different in shape and extremely peculiar.
Three of them faintly bore strange patterns, and all three were different: flames, a water droplet, and light.
They represented the three Origin Laws of fire, water, and light.
The water droplet leaf was the largest, the flame was slightly smaller, and the light was the smallest.
Of the other two, one carried a special sense of heavy power, while the other seemed faintly illusory.
These two represented Force Amplitude and Mind Force Amplitude respectively.
According to the system information, unlike the Preaching Ground and the Lord Palace, the Inheritance Talent Tree was not a lord-exclusive special building. It was not even an actual item.
It was actually similar to a panel, except instead of displaying rows of textual data, it took the form of a tree to show the bloodline inheritance level of his territory's citizens.
Whenever geniuses and powerhouses within the territory achieved something, it would become nourishment, promoting the growth of this Inheritance Talent Tree and bringing about corresponding changes.
For example, Wang Yu had crossed the threshold of the Water Origin Law at the Universe-level, while Tian Shi had comprehended the Fire Domain at the Planetary level. Both were achievements, so the sapling had grown leaves representing the Water and Fire Origin Laws.
Although Mentor Yoda had joined later, the impact of a powerhouse joining was far less than cultivating territory citizens from the start. However, Mentor Yoda had a ninth-level Light Domain, and several Universe-level members of the family had also mainly comprehended the Light Domain, so together they had still formed at least one leaf.
If no one had yet made an impressive achievement in a certain area, then no leaf would grow for it, such as the Origin Laws of other attributes.
And it was not limited to Origin Laws. Achievements in weapon techniques such as sabers, swords, spears, and axes, or in illusions, pharmaceuticals, or technological research involving spacecraft and laser cannons, along with all kinds of other fields, could all affect this tree's growth.
The growth of the Inheritance Talent Tree in these areas would subtly enhance the potential of future territory citizens in the corresponding fields. For example, the more the branches and leaves related to the saber path grew, the stronger the saber talent of future citizens would become.
When the corresponding branches and leaves grew to a certain extent, they could even blossom and bear fruit, giving rise to Innate Secret Techniques!
For example, the Golden Horned Beast's strengthening, clone, and devouring; the Mosha's replication; and Nine Nether Lord's—Luo Feng's Nether Sea clone—ocean transformation and creation.
Innate Secret Techniques were secret techniques originating from one's innate physical bloodline. Without the bloodline, they could not be cultivated later in life.
Although the human race was a massive group made up of countless races, races possessing Innate Secret Techniques accounted for only an extremely small proportion. They were very rare.
But as long as this Inheritance Talent Tree continued growing, it could give rise to one Innate Secret Technique after another, allowing all territory citizens to gain these naturally powerful abilities!
Of course, reaching that point was still far away. The five leaves corresponding to the Origin Laws were still only tiny young leaves.
The Inheritance Talent Tree could not have points added to it and undergo explosive growth in an instant. All he could do was cultivate his citizens. Once they gained greater strength, they could achieve more, thereby promoting the growth of the Inheritance Talent Tree.
Although it would take a very long time, this was like a snowball rolling downhill. As time passed and more citizens made achievements, later generations would receive more inheritance and begin from a higher starting point!
In the future, it would be possible to cultivate a peak bloodline like that of the starry sky beasts, one guaranteed to grow into a World Lord without conditions.
Even something far more powerful—like special lifeforms, born with extremely high life genes, yet not as individual entities but as an entire race—would probably only be a matter of time.
Just thinking about it made Wang Yu feel somewhat excited.
"Although I put quite a bit of effort into cultivating Tian Shi, it was indeed worth it!" Wang Yu sighed.
"The benefits of just one lord level upgrade are already this great!"
"But the next upgrade..."
Wang Yu turned his gaze toward the system information.
[2-Star Lord upgrade requirements: Cultivate 1 Second-Class Elite at the Universe-level and 10 Third-Class Elites at the Star-level]
[Second-Class Elite at the Universe-level: Cross the threshold of any Lower-Level Origin Law]
"Hmm, this time the requirement is to cultivate a Second-Class Elite..." Wang Yu pondered.
"The requirement is really quite high. Crossing the threshold of an Origin Law! This lord can add points directly, but I can't add points for my citizens."
"Fortunately, this lord has Tian Shi, my eldest disciple. His comprehension is already heaven-defying, and with the Preaching Ground's tenfold effect, he will definitely fulfill this requirement—and exceed it at the Star-level!"
"I was worried before that it might be difficult for him to comprehend a domain at the Planetary level, but now it seems that worry was completely unnecessary. Only two years have passed, and Tian Shi accomplished it with ease!"
"Although crossing the threshold of an Origin Law is far more difficult than comprehending a domain, and countless geniuses have reached the eighth or ninth level of a domain yet cannot take another step forward!"
"Crossing the threshold of an Origin Law at the Star-level, even if it is only the threshold of one Lower-Level Origin Law, makes one an incomparably rare peerless genius."
"Ganwu Universe Country has over ten thousand starfields and hundreds of millions of star systems. Each Genius Battle draws several hundred billion to over a trillion Star-level participants. In the generation when Luo Feng participated, Ganwu Universe Country's preliminaries had a total of 822.5 billion Star-level participants, yet only a few hundred had crossed the threshold of an Origin Law!"
"A few hundred out of more than eight hundred billion. Tian Shi must reach that standard, and I still need to cultivate ten Third-Class Elites. And to obtain the additional reward for exceeding the requirements, all of them must meet the requirements one major realm lower."
"Phew... This really isn't easy!"
The requirements for upgrading the lord level were extremely high. They really were not easy to fulfill.
But he was now a man with wealth and status, and he had happened to encounter a major upheaval like the opening of the Seventh Battlefield.
As the saying went, heroes emerged in troubled times. Though chaos brought countless dangers, it also brought many opportunities to rise.
After Tian Shi showed off by unleashing his domain, he quickly went to see Wang Yu.
"Teacher! Your disciple has comprehended the Fire Domain!" Tian Shi said excitedly.
Looking at the excited Tian Shi before him, Wang Yu revealed a satisfied smile. "Very good! It was even faster than I expected. Tian Shi, you did well!"
"It is all thanks to Teacher's cultivation!" Receiving his teacher's praise made him even happier.
"Even with cultivation, not just anyone can achieve something." Wang Yu smiled and did not hesitate to praise his disciple.
"Comprehending a domain at the Planetary level—even in a major force like the Ganwu Dojo—would qualify you to become a First-Class Elite and receive the highest priority in cultivation."
"You may be confident, but you must not be arrogant." Wang Yu changed the subject, his gaze calm as he looked at him.
"You must remember that so-called elites and geniuses only represent potential. They do not mean that you are already a powerhouse. Potential is a matter for the future, while right now, you are still merely a little Planetary-level fellow."
"Yes..." The excitement on Tian Shi's face cooled somewhat as he listened earnestly to his teacher's instruction.
"You have comprehended a domain, and your combat strength has surged. Perhaps you can now fight some of the most ordinary Star-level warriors, or even defeat them." Wang Yu spoke slowly.
"But any Star-level warrior with even a little strength could still easily suppress you, let alone the fact that the Star-level also has peerless geniuses!"
"I told you before that comprehending a domain is not easy. But comparatively speaking, there are quite a few geniuses among the Star-level and Universe-level who possess domains. The true enormous hurdle is taking another step forward: crossing the threshold of an Origin Law."
"Countless Universe-level warriors, and even many Domain Lord Level powerhouses, trained bitterly for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years and still could not cross the threshold of an Origin Law. They might cultivate their domains to the eighth or ninth level, reaching the limit of the domain stage, yet still fail to cross that threshold."
"But some monstrous peerless geniuses can cross the threshold of an Origin Law at the Star-level. As for the true peerless geniuses who appear only rarely across the entire Human Territory over ten thousand years, they can even cross the thresholds of two Origin Laws, or perhaps even the threshold of an Upper-Level Origin Law!"
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