Awakening Spiritual Force, a Star Domain-Level Genius!
Li Jing felt as though an invisible awl had pierced the spot between his brows. An unfamiliar power erupted, sweeping through every limb and bone in an instant.
When that power surged into the depths of his sea of consciousness, a dark red sphere had quietly appeared there, formed entirely from condensed Spiritual Force.
It was now spinning at a frantic speed.
An endless stream of mist poured out of the dark red sphere.
As the process continued, the solid dark red sphere gradually shrank, until it shattered with a resounding crash!
Li Jing heard a boom in his mind, and then the entire world began to look different to him.
It was an indescribable feeling. He had never perceived the world so clearly.
The cracks in the walls of the abandoned building, the veins in the wild grass flourishing through the pavement below, and even the sounds of monsters fighting farther away-all appeared in the finest detail in his consciousness.
It was as though he had gained an extra pair of god's eyes.
He raised a hand instinctively, and with a thought, invisible Spiritual Force surged out.
The abandoned office desks and chairs shot up with a whoosh and floated silently in midair.
Even though he had already known the answer, Li Jing still could not hide his wild joy when it actually happened.
A Spirit Reader, and one whose Spiritual Force had reached the peak of the Apprentice Level the moment he awakened!
He was only one step away from the Planetary Level!
Like a child with a new toy, Li Jing controlled the desks and chairs, sending them up and down through the air. In the process, he gained complete mastery over his Spiritual Force.
We both have the talent of a peak Apprentice Level Spirit Reader, but the sphere in Luo Feng's sea of consciousness was dark gold, while mine was dark red. It seems my Origin Force should have the fire attribute, Li Jing thought.
That, however, would only become apparent once he reached the Planetary Level.
After all, only at the Planetary Level could a Miniature Planet be born within the body, allowing one to possess Origin Force.
That was also why only those at the Planetary Level could be considered true citizens in the universe.
Those at the Apprentice Level before the Planetary Level, even at the ninth tier, were not qualified to register as citizens.
They were not protected by law. Anyone could capture and enslave them at will; they had no human rights whatsoever.
Putting aside his joy at gaining the talent of a peak Apprentice Level Spirit Reader and successfully awakening his Spiritual Force,
Li Jing began examining the Space Ring with a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters that he had drawn from the other limited UR card.
It was a dark silver metal band, extremely simple in design, without any intricate patterns.
Li Jing slipped it onto his hand, then sent his Spiritual Force into it and left a Spiritual Imprint, binding it to himself as its master.
With a thought from Li Jing, the Space Ring vanished into his skin, leaving his hands looking completely bare from the outside.
Once bound to him, the Space Ring was like an extension of Li Jing's own body.
With a mere thought, he could move objects in and out and control the arrangement of the items inside.
Li Jing used the office desks and chairs, those familiar old performers, to test the wonders of the Space Ring once more. After he had learned to use it skillfully, he took them out, a flash of excitement in his eyes.
"With a Space Ring, I won't have to carry a backpack around like a beast of burden anymore!"
Having dealt with the two most valuable rewards from his draws, Li Jing began sorting through the rest.
Nearly 30,000 draws had brought him a rich haul.
The vast majority were white N cards, with a small number of green R cards and even fewer blue SR cards and purple SSR cards.
Li Jing first used all the cards that could act directly on him and that he had obtained before, including Strength Cards, Comprehension Cards, Aptitude Cards, and various experience cards.
In an instant, his basic physical strength, which had already reached that of a High-level War God under the influence of his Spiritual Force after he awakened it at the peak of the Apprentice Level, leaped upward again.
It soon reached 1.7 million kilograms, or 1,700 tons.
It was a terrifying figure!
A normal first-tier Planetary Level fighter had a strength of only 1,000 tons. Li Jing, at the ninth tier of the Apprentice Level, had already surpassed a martial artist who had just entered the Planetary Level!
Both his movement technique and saber technique realms reached the perfected Artistic Conception Level. He was only a hair's breadth from breaking through his artistic conception and attaining a domain.
Of course, even if he attained a domain, Li Jing would not be able to use it now. After all, possessing Origin Force was a prerequisite for a domain.
And only after entering the Planetary Level and completing a life gene transition could the body produce Origin Force.
He achieved major mastery of the Fourth Layer of the first-tier saber technique manual, [Arc Light], mastering twelvefold force exertion!
He perfected the first-tier movement technique manual, [Instant Radiance]!
When he performed his movement technique, it subtly resonated with a certain mystery, free and graceful, like an antelope hanging by its horns, leaving no trace to fathom.
Apart from having no domain, Li Jing had cultivated both first-tier manuals to perfection, and perfected the artistic conceptions of both his saber technique and movement technique.
Given the same basic strength, he could just about be called invincible at the Planetary Level.
Yet he was only at the ninth tier of the Apprentice Level!
His aptitude improved slightly once again, but it was still a long way from a sixth-grade bloodline, which would allow him to reach the Planetary Level upon adulthood.
That was within Li Jing's expectations, so there was nothing to be disappointed about.
Once the Planetary Level and even Star Level card pools opened in the future, he would surely obtain higher-level Aptitude Cards, and his bloodline grade would naturally rise then.
Although bloodline grade did not have much influence in the later stages of Swallowed Star, it could provide tremendous help in the early stages.
It was because Earthlings' bloodline grade was too low that they could barely sense the fluctuations of the universe origin laws.
Though they had excellent comprehension, they could not even grasp the basics of a lower origin law.
When the Genius Battle began, Luo Feng, who had possessed the Golden Horned Beast, was the only Earthling to have grasped the basics of an origin law.
Hong and Thunder God, who had attained domains at the Planetary Level and shown even greater comprehension than Luo Feng in the early stages, were both still stuck at the Domain Level.
Humans with high-grade bloodlines, however, could detect origin law fluctuations more easily, aiding their comprehension of the origin laws.
Even if their comprehension was far inferior to that of Earthlings, they could still use their bloodline advantage to utterly crush Earthlings in Law Comprehension.
His comprehension also improved slightly once more. By Li Jing's estimate, judging by comprehension alone, he should qualify as a star domain-level genius.
That meant he was among the best of his generation within the territory of an intermediate civilization of the universe, such as the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
That was already quite astonishing. The Black Dragon Mountain Empire ruled over more than 8,000 galaxies.
Each of those galaxies was much like the Milky Way Galaxy, with more than 200,000 inhabited planets.
The galaxies directly under the empire might be even more prosperous.
By a conservative estimate, the Black Dragon Mountain Empire was home to more than 160 quadrillion humans.
One of the top geniuses of his generation among such a vast population.
Its value went without saying.
Even if Li Jing lost the Card Draw System cheat from this point onward and had only the talent and comprehension he had already obtained,
As long as he did not fall while growing stronger, he could at least reach the World Lord Level and had a sliver of hope of becoming an Immortal.
Though World Lords were worth less than cannon fodder in the later stages, even a hundred quadrillion people might not produce a single World Lord.
On average, it took a thousand galaxies like the Milky Way Galaxy to produce one World Lord.
Luo Feng, before possessing the Golden Horned Beast, had been assessed by Babata.
Only by exhausting the entire inheritance of Hu Yanbo, who had barely attained the Marquis rank, and spending 100,000 years might he have become a World Lord.
But Li Jing, who had not even reached the Planetary Level, had enough talent to become a World Lord at minimum!
The Apprentice Level card pool alone had transformed him from an ordinary martial artist, for whom the Planetary Level might have been the end without outside help, into what he was now!