Two and a Half Years of Progress! Genius? Tell That to My Cloud Raising Mirror!

After reading the introduction to the secret technique, Hong looked at Chen Yi.

There was unmistakable gratitude in his eyes.

"Improve my law talent?"

"Now I have hope of completing the system mission and earning the Ganwu Secret Realm Special-Class Genius title in six months!"

After cultivating in the Ganwu Secret Realm for some time, Hong had naturally noticed his weakness in law talent.

Seeing this secret technique, he immediately said:

"Chen Yi, this secret technique will be very useful to me. I... will accept it for now. If you ever need anything, you can ask me. Thank you so much for this."

"No need to thank me. The alliance's purpose is to grow stronger together. Now that I've grown strong first, it's only natural that I take responsibility for leading you, a member who's fallen behind," Chen Yi said righteously.

Growing together was what best served his interests!

He looked at the Cloud Raising Mirror in his mind, where Hong had a goal.

A four-star goal:

"Improve law talent"!

Hong had long realized that his law talent was relatively weak. In terms of comprehension, he was no worse than those supreme geniuses when cultivating anything else, but whenever laws were involved, although he was still a genius, he couldn't compare to Chen Yi or Luo Feng at all.

Thus, this goal had gradually taken root in his heart.

Hong had always counted on the system to slowly improve his aptitude, but he hadn't expected Chen Yi to change all that for him.

After reminding Hong not to pass the secret technique on to anyone else, Chen Yi left.

He also needed to cultivate the Void Spirit Refining Technique to improve his talent for the Law of Metal. He now possessed both Luo Feng's "willpower talent" and Hong's "mental state talent."

This secret technique's effect on him

would be the most astonishing of all!

Moreover...

There were many other benefits to creating this secret technique.

Chen Yi's deeper plan was to help Hong improve his talent and aptitude for the Law of Light, and then... extract Hong's Law of Light talent.

That way,

he could improve himself, improve Hong, and even improve Luo Feng's law talent, since Luo Feng's willpower talent was also high. None of them would be held back!

After Chen Yi left,

Hong gazed at the empty hall.

Leafing through the Void Spirit Refining Technique and glancing at his system mission, he felt that... lately, the items the system allowed him to exchange for were all things that let him accumulate energy quickly.

Their true value was nowhere near that of the Void Spirit Refining Technique.

He also knew that in this universe... accumulating energy was the easiest part of raising one's realm. Law Comprehension was the hardest.

"Perhaps... the system will only come into its own later?"

"When that time comes, perhaps I'll count as someone in the alliance who has 'grown strong first' and can give Chen Yi and Luo Feng some help?"

Hong brushed the daydreams from his mind.

He began cultivating the Void Spirit Refining Technique. Once he did, he felt as though he were immersed in utter nothingness.

It was much like meditation.

Hong was very accustomed to this feeling.

He discovered that... within his sea of consciousness, his awareness began to condense... forming a formless soul that only he could sense.

It contained tiny traces of "light."

"The Law of Light. Sure enough... light is the law I'm most suited to." Hong tried to sense the law, then suddenly froze.

He felt the law had become several tenths clearer.

Yes, several tenths!

It was only his first time cultivating, and he was still far from the limit of the first layer, yet it had already become several tenths clearer.

"Is my Law of Light talent that poor, or are my mental state and willpower talents that high?" Hong didn't know.

But he understood one thing... his talent was about to soar!

Six months passed.

During the "rating assessment," Hong demonstrated a Sixth-Level Domain. His progress was much slower than Luo Feng's had been six months earlier, and he had yet to cross the threshold of the Law of Light.

So he received no special training.

But...

even so, his rate of improvement earned him a rating of "Special-Class Genius" and caught the attention of many Undyings.

Naturally, he also ranked near the top of the potential rankings!

He earned the right to use a nutrient pool, allowing him to quickly advance to Star Level Nine.

Hong's stunning debut brought Chen Yi and Luo Feng to the minds of even more powerful figures. Of course, no one thought it had anything to do with a single planet like Earth.

They merely wondered how these three geniuses, who had cultivated for such a short time,

had managed to cultivate this way.

When outsiders asked, Chen Yi told them plainly that he had established an organization called the "Mutual Aid Alliance" and explained its main purpose.

He also mentioned that the three of them shared cultivation materials.

As a result...

many people understood why Hong had progressed so quickly.

It was because Chen Yi and Luo Feng provided him with items to aid his cultivation. For example, the palaces where Chen Yi and Luo Feng lived allowed them to watch courses recorded by various Undyings for free, whereas other secret realm members had to pay.

Chen Yi also let Hong come to his place to watch, so he didn't have to wait a long time for an Undying specializing in the Law of Light to give a lecture.

Although lectures given by an Undying in person were more effective, and some geniuses could even ask questions... they were few and far between!

After learning the reason,

many secret realm members expressed their admiration for Chen Yi.

After all, Chen Yi's willingness to share his secret techniques and unused cultivation resources with others, allowing "potential competitors" to grow as quickly as possible, was exceedingly rare.

Chen Yi and Luo Feng also cultivated the Void Spirit Refining Technique - First Layer. Luo Feng estimated that his own Law of Metal talent had increased by about four tenths.

Yes.

It had increased by four tenths over the law perception of a Star Level Golden Horned Beast!

Chen Yi's increase was around five tenths, because he had extracted Hong's mental state talent and was somewhat stronger than Luo Feng in that respect.

But Luo Feng's own mental state talent was certainly excellent as well.

Hong's situation should have been similar. His mental state talent was very high, and his willpower talent should also have been excellent.

Chen Yi guessed that Hong's might also amount to four tenths of the Golden Horned Beast's.

In other words, after cultivating the Void Spirit Refining Technique,

taking a Star Level Golden Horned Beast's Law of Metal comprehension as 1, Chen Yi's Law of Metal talent was now 1.5, Luo Feng's was 1.4, and Hong's Law of Light talent should have been 0.4!

For a human like Hong, gaining a Law of Light talent comparable to 0.4 of a Golden Horned Beast's Law of Metal talent was an enormous improvement.

A Golden Horned Beast could naturally comprehend some of the Law of Metal and reach World Lord Level Nine just by eating and drinking!

Law talent determined how clearly one perceived the corresponding law, while comprehension determined whether one could understand it after perceiving it.

With four tenths of that caliber of law talent paired with Hong's comprehension, his rate of improvement in the early stages would surely far surpass his progress in the original story.

Of course...

After reaching the limit of the Void Spirit Refining Technique - First Layer, Hong also completed the goal of "improving law talent."

Chen Yi successfully locked onto and extracted "Law of Light talent" from Hong.

After extracting it, Chen Yi also confirmed just how much Hong's Law of Light talent had improved.

Chen Yi now had 1.5 times a Golden Horned Beast's Law of Metal talent and 0.4 times its Law of Light talent. With only a little cultivation in his spare time, he had mastered a second-level Law of Light domain, and by using the Star Torch Body-Burning Record, he could unleash a third-level Light Domain.

The higher a domain's level, the harder it was to master.

Another two years passed.

Today, Purple Light, an Undying specializing in the Law of Light, was lecturing in the teaching hall. Chen Yi had now taken up the Law of Light as well.

When he grew tired of cultivating the Law of Metal, he liked to give his mind a change of pace.

He would casually study the Law of Light.

Chen Yi now had a thorough understanding of cultivation, which was... talent surpassed everything! With enough talent, cultivation really wasn't difficult.

One would even come to love cultivation.

As long as one worked hard, one would reap rewards-and reap them very quickly.

Who wouldn't be willing to work hard?

The gap in talent between people

was hard to imagine.

Chen Yi felt that his mental state had changed markedly since he began cultivating the Void Spirit Refining Technique. Although he still disliked taking risks and preferred to make plans ahead of time,

he now had...

a touch of conviction to press ever forward, unmatched by any foe.

A person's mental state wasn't fixed and unchanging, and Chen Yi also felt that the Cloud Raising Mirror might have played a part in his change...

Now,

when it came to geniuses, he cared only about the members of the Mutual Aid Alliance, Luo Feng and Hong, his two Yun-raising targets, and potential Yun-raising targets in the future.

After all, they were all part of the "Mutual Aid Alliance" and would develop together in the future.

But beyond them,

he didn't much care about other geniuses.

Heaven-defying comprehension, whatever.

A genius seen only once in hundreds of millions of eras, whatever.

Sorry.

Tell it all to my Cloud Raising Mirror!

The Cloud Raising Mirror was his greatest talent!

Unfortunately, Hong's Law of Light talent still wasn't all that impressive. It was only 0.4 units of a Golden Horned Beast's talent. Thanks to his doubled comprehension, Chen Yi's progress was fairly good, but it had still left him with a few minor questions about the Law of Light.

With nothing else to do,

he had come with Hong to listen to a lecture by an Undying specializing in the Law of Light.

Tong Man had been keeping a close eye on Chen Yi's progress in the Law of Metal and reporting it up the chain. The Ganwu Country Lord had grown increasingly generous with the cultivation resources he supplied. Chen Yi had already become the most prominent genius in the Ganwu Secret Realm, and his current status was such that even the Undying instructors took him seriously. Naturally, no one competed with him for a seat.

He sat in the very front row.

The lecturer, Purple Light Undying, was a bald female Undying.

In the vast teaching hall, she gave Chen Yi a few pointers in private as well. As a result... Purple Light Undying, who had mastered the complete lower law of "light," was astonished to discover...

that Chen Yi's comprehension of the Law of Light was extraordinary too.

At this rate, he would cross the threshold of the Law of Light in another month or two!

"This... that fellow Tong Man didn't breathe a word of it! Chen Yi is a genius in the Law of Light too, and he's about to cross the threshold of two laws!"

"He's only in his twenties!"

Purple Light's eyes lit up.

How wonderful it would be if she could take a genius like him as her disciple!

Of course, Purple Light Undying knew her own limits.

She wasn't worthy...

Chen Yi knew that accepting her guidance might expose his progress in cultivating the Law of Light, but it didn't matter if it did. He might even receive more attention for it.

After all, if he knew only one lower law, he could become an Undying at most in the future.

As for the higher laws,

Luo Feng's Golden Horned Beast body had already broken through to Universe Level and could nurture a second Clone. Chen Yi was gathering points to collect material for the Clone, so he could extract a higher-law talent when the time came.

Everything had been put on the agenda.