[Activate [Golden Talent: Investment], Invest in the Innate Supreme Treasure [Chaos Bell]]

[This talent had already finished cooling down when you turned thirty. Another year had passed since then.]

[The only reason you had not used it immediately was that you had no suitable investment target!]

[As a colorful investment target, Wu Yong had already used up his "slot" when the First Group Mission began at age twenty.]

[And the restriction on [Golden Talent: Investment] was:]

[--You could invest in a target only once every ten years, invest in only one person each time, and invest in each person only once.]

[That meant you could not invest in Wu Yong again!]

[You could only look for other Chat Group members...]

[It was not that the [Supreme True Realm] lacked golden investment targets, but it had no colorful ones!]

[It seemed that only those few Chat Group members were colorful investment targets. That made sense, too—after all, only they were underhanded enough!]

[During that time, you had also sought out "Zero,"]

[But perhaps because he was now a source of income within the gate, he could not trigger the assessment of [Golden Talent: Investment]!]

[Otherwise, he should have been a colorful investment target at the very least!]

[You would not have needed to go to all this trouble and seek out other Chat Group members...]

[As for the past Zero summoned by [Past Shadow], he naturally would not work either.]

[So you had been waiting for the Second Group Mission to find Wang Hao and Li Ping and activate [Golden Talent: Investment]!]

[What?]

[You asked why you did not use the "authority" of [Immortal-Settling Journey] to visit the [Gods and Devils Realms] and find Li Ping, or go to the [Primordial World] to find Wang Hao?!]

[Simple. Wang Hao and Li Ping would not agree!]

[As for finding Zhang Wenping... that brat had