It's Called Talent, So Of Course I Was Born With It!

Chen Weilong really felt that his second son was different now. In the past... he might not even have dared to come home and face him.

Much less been thoughtful enough to bring gifts home...

His mother, Xu Caiyun, and his older brother, Chen Yuan, quickly gathered around.

Chen Yuan had also learned the good news that his younger brother had become a Spirit Reader, and he was now staring at Chen Yi.

He looked utterly dumbfounded...

He had been born a few years before his younger brother, so his bloodline was somewhat inferior. When their parents had given birth to him, one had only been an Intermediate Warrior and the other a Beginner Warrior.

By the time they had Chen Yi, however, both parents had already become Advanced Warriors.

Chen Yi had progressed a little faster than him since childhood, and Chen Yuan could accept being surpassed as the older brother.

But...

This was way too sudden!

As far as he remembered, his brother had only been a Quasi-Martial Artist before, with physical abilities at the level of a normal Beginner Warrior...

Whereas he was already an Advanced Warrior.

But now.

His younger brother had awakened as a Spirit Reader and become a Junior War General just like that?!!

And Spirit Readers were invincible against others of the same rank. As a Junior War General Spirit Reader, Chen Yi would not actually be any weaker than their mother, Xu Caiyun, an Intermediate War General.

Chen Yi really liked the family atmosphere in this life. Everyone wanted to see him control objects, so he gave them a demonstration.

They watched as the dishes floated through the air and landed steadily on the dining table.

His brother Chen Yuan was green with envy.

He even joked:

"Chen Yi, we have the same parents, so why do you have the talent to be a Spirit Reader and I don't? Did you steal that talent?"

"It's called talent." Chen Yi smiled. "How could I have stolen it? Of course I was born with it. Maybe you just had worse luck, big brother, and inherited all the worse genes."

At dinner that evening.

The whole family had an especially pleasant time together.

After dinner, Chen Weilong called several of his old friends and chatted on and on about all sorts of things, but he always casually brought up how his second son, Chen Yi, was doing now.

That night.

Chen Weilong spent more time on the phone than he usually did in an entire month.

The next day.

The military family residential area.

Chen Yi was in his own bedroom at home. The previous night, Zhuge Tao had already informed him in advance.

He and Luo Feng had both successfully qualified for the Elite Training Camp, and they would be reporting there in a few days.

"Although an eighteen-year-old Junior War General Spirit Reader and an Intermediate War General Spirit Reader are bound to receive attention."

"Now that the spots are confirmed."

"Nothing went wrong, so it's still worth being happy about."

"I hope I can meet Hong at the Dojo of Limits headquarters. Then I'll have a chance to bind him as a new cloud-raising target."

Chen Yi focused his consciousness on the Cloud Raising Mirror.

He completed a feeding task, then chatted with Luo Feng for a bit and completed the communication task.

[Successfully communicated and interacted with cloud-raising target "Luo Feng." "Daily task-communication" completed. Interaction points with Luo Feng +8.]

"Tsk, tsk, my luck's pretty good today."

"I actually got eight points. Now I have 105..."

"That's enough to buy the Guidance Technique."

Chen Yi was full of anticipation. He wanted to see whether his method of exploiting a loophole would work.

"Cloud Raising Mirror, search for the item I sorted out last time."

[Feeding item: "Guidance Technique-Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram"!]

[Price: 100 points.]

Chen Yi's perspective shifted to his cloud-raising target, Luo Feng.

At this very moment...

Luo Feng was far away in the Mingyue Residential Area.

He had already completed his training for the day and had just shared the details of his day with Xu Xin, who had done the same.

The previous night, he had found Xu Xin at the bar in the HR Alliance's reception hall that Senior Yun had mentioned... He had arrived just as Xu Xin was changing shifts. A little later, and she would have gotten off work and left. But as luck would have it, the two had taken a walk together and talked about many things.

They had had a very pleasant conversation.

The next day, while at work, Xu Xin also shared some of her daily work life with him, which made Luo Feng feel that she probably liked him too.

Luo Feng felt this was a very good start.

Just then, Chen Yi transmitted his voice into Luo Feng's mind through the Cloud Raising Mirror:

"Luo Feng, this is your reward for completing your goal this time: a new Guidance Technique."

"A Guidance Technique?"

Luo Feng was somewhat excited.

Things going smoothly with Xu Xin had not diminished his desire to become strong. Instead, it had further kindled his hope of growing stronger. He had not forgotten that his younger brother was still missing both legs, nor had he forgotten Xu Xin's family background.

If Xu Xin really liked him.

Then... he felt he should shoulder more responsibility. At the very least, he could not let Xu Xin live a worse life than she had as the young lady of the Xu family.

Chen Yi gave him some instructions:

"This Guidance Technique is called the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram. The detailed information has also appeared in your mind... You must read the precautions carefully."

Luo Feng heard Senior Yun's instructions in his mind and carefully read the introduction to the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram, learning the precautions for the Guidance Technique. In its description, he saw that its maximum effect was indeed ten times greater than that of the Dojo of Limits' Guidance Technique.

He felt somewhat delighted.

But he was even more certain of one thing: Senior Yun had to be much more powerful than Hong!

Some of the Dojo of Limits' Guidance Techniques had been created by its master, Hong.

Yet Senior Yun could casually produce a Guidance Technique ten times more effective than the one Hong had created.

Ten times!

If the gap in cultivation effectiveness was tenfold, then the difference in the difficulty of creating the Guidance Techniques was actually countless times greater than tenfold...

As soon as Luo Feng received the Guidance Technique, he planned to start cultivating it.

Watching this... Chen Yi decided to stop Luo Feng and first test his method of exploiting the bug. He said:

"Luo Feng, pay attention to the new task. This one has a time limit."

"A time-limited task?" Luo Feng was taken aback, but he knew that Senior Yun had always provided him with resources to nurture him and treated him extremely well. If he could complete an assigned task, he should certainly be more proactive about it.

Just then.

A transparent panel appeared before Luo Feng:

[Task: Befriend the outstanding "Chen Yi"]

[Requirements: Go out and meet the genius "Chen Yi," whom you met yesterday. Copy out the Guidance Technique "Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram" and give it to him, establishing a good friendship with each other.]

[Time limit: 5 hours.]

[Reward: Contribution points ×10]

"Make friends with Chen Yi?"

Luo Feng still remembered Chen Yi, the hard-working genius from yesterday who had also made a very good impression on him...

But.

Why did Senior Yun want him to give Chen Yi a Guidance Technique?

After thinking it over.

Luo Feng's eyes lit up. He felt he had guessed the reason, so he asked, "Senior Yun, did you issue this task because you saw that Chen Yi wasn't far behind me and must have put in a lot of effort too, so you wanted to lend him a hand?"

Chen Yi was taken aback when he heard that.

He really had been planning to explain it that way, but he had not expected Luo Feng to fill in the blanks himself. It seemed the persona he had established as "Senior Yun" was quite convincing.

But normally speaking.

Who would imagine that a mysterious senior who could transmit objects and sound across a distance and possessed a vast supply of cultivation resources was actually Chen Yi, a Spirit Reader genius from Earth?

"Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking. Besides, on your path to becoming stronger, you cannot do without friends. This Chen Yi has good talent; you can make him your comrade-in-arms and advance side by side..." Chen Yi said in Senior Yun's voice inside Luo Feng's mind.

Luo Feng nodded and glanced at the task.

The time limit was five hours, so he immediately contacted Chen Yi using the contact information they had exchanged yesterday, planning to give him the Guidance Technique and complete the task.

However.

Luo Feng felt he needed to think of a story about how he had obtained the Guidance Technique. He certainly could not reveal Senior Yun's existence to Chen Yi.

Some time later.

Chen Yi received an invitation from Luo Feng to go out for a meal, and he happily accepted... During the meal, Luo Feng gave him a copy of the Guidance Technique he had written out.

Chen Yi, of course, acted extremely grateful to his "new friend" Luo Feng.

After lunch, Chen Yi said goodbye to Luo Feng. When they parted, Luo Feng looked full of anticipation too; he was probably eager to get back and cultivate the Guidance Technique as soon as possible.

Chen Yi, meanwhile, returned to his home in the military family residential area.

Just like that.

Chen Yi obtained the complete:

"Guidance Technique-Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram"!