358: Supreme talent, it's fate (two in one)

Six hours later.

Lin Yang met with the White Fatty Old Man.

The White Fatty Old Man sensed Lin Yang's physical condition and exclaimed, "You, little fellow, are somewhat incomprehensible. I've seen many geniuses, but you are the strangest one I've ever met."

Lin Yang's eyes were strange, and he didn't reply.

"Here, your second extraordinary characteristic material."

After his exclamation, the White Fatty Old Man didn't say much more, directly taking out a box and handing it to Lin Yang.

"This is a Life extraordinary characteristic material. If you integrate it to thirty percent, you will possess super strong recovery abilities. In combat, some ordinary injuries can be healed instantly, giving you a great advantage."

"Life characteristic?" Lin Yang took the box and opened it to glance inside.

The crystalline extraordinary characteristic material emitted a milky white halo, making him feel a strong sense of affinity.

This feeling was a bit strange.

He actually felt an affinity for an item.

The White Fatty Old Man then exclaimed again, "You, little fellow, are truly strange. You possess both the talent for space characteristic and the talent for Life characteristic. You have two of the three supreme talents, which is simply incredible!"

"Supreme talents?" Lin Yang's eyes narrowed, and he looked at the White Fatty Old Man in confusion.

"Haha, you, little fellow, don't you know the types of extraordinary characteristics yet?" The White Fatty Old Man chuckled.

"Not very clear." Lin Yang nodded.

The White Fatty Old Man hadn't told him anything about it, and he himself had been rushing to train, so he hadn't really looked into related information.

"There are many types of extraordinary characteristics, such as natural characteristics like wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, as well as psychic and mental types, and the five elements: metal, wood, fire, earth, and water."

The White Fatty Old Man directly explained to Lin Yang.

"Besides these, there are also some special types, such as characteristics that allow communication with other beings, or characteristics that allow one to transform into something else."

"There are also characteristics that specifically enhance a certain ability of oneself, such as super speed enhancement, which can make one's speed extremely fast; strength enhancement, which can give one super strong power; and hearing enhancement, sight enhancement, and so on."

"Finally, there are some very rare characteristics. There is one type of characteristic material that, after integration, can even grant the ability to temporarily foresee the future. However, this type of characteristic material for foreseeing the future may not appear even once in hundreds or thousands of years, because it cannot be artificially created; it can only be nurtured by nature, making it extremely rare."

Lin Yang couldn't help but widen his eyes and interrupted, "Foreseeing the future?! That's so abnormal?"

"Yes, but this characteristic is very difficult to improve. It basically only stays at the level of foreseeing an extremely short future, and the future foreseen is random. Moreover, it cannot foresee the future of those with great power, so its usefulness is not very great!" the White Fatty Old Man said.

"This... the ability to foresee the future isn't very useful?" Lin Yang was somewhat astonished.

"Haha, if one could accurately foresee the future, its usefulness would, of course, be great. But this random, uncertain precognitive ability has a much-reduced usefulness."

The White Fatty Old Man chuckled.

"Especially since the early stage ability to foresee the future doesn't work on Extraordinary Warriors; it can only foresee some ordinary futures, further reducing its effectiveness."

"After all, who cares about the future of ordinary people?"

"Uh..." Lin Yang paused slightly and couldn't help but ask, "What if the ability to foresee the future could be improved? Even if it's an ordinary future, if it could be accurately foreseen, wouldn't its usefulness be considerable?"

"Hahaha, my dear apprentice, as far as I know, no one has been able to raise the ability to foresee the future to the level of accurate precognition. So this ability sounds impressive, but its actual usefulness is not very great." The White Fatty Old Man laughed loudly again.

"Is the ability to foresee the future that difficult to improve?" Lin Yang asked again.

"Difficult! Extremely difficult!"

The White Fatty Old Man patiently explained:

"First, there's the reason I just mentioned: characteristic materials for the ability to foresee the future can only be nurtured by nature. But even ordinary quality precognitive characteristic materials are very rare, let alone medium or high quality ones. Therefore, improving it is extremely difficult. Precognitive characteristic materials are the rarest of all characteristic materials."

"Alright." Lin Yang somewhat understood.

It wasn't that the precognitive ability wasn't strong enough, but that there weren't enough characteristic materials to elevate the precognitive ability to a sufficiently powerful level.

This was very regrettable.

Otherwise, this would absolutely be the most heaven-defying ability.

The White Fatty Old Man then continued, "Among all these characteristics, besides the most special precognitive characteristic, space, time, and Life characteristics are the most powerful. These three characteristics are known as the three supreme characteristics."

"Because the basis of all matter is composed of space and time. space power, when powerful to the extreme, can create its own realm. Time power, when powerful to the extreme, can even achieve time reversal. And Life power..."

The White Fatty Old Man paused, his tone somber, "It is said that the ultimate of Life power can bring the dead back to Life!"

"What? Bring the dead back to Life? Resurrection??" Lin Yang was instantly shocked.

Time reversal!

Resurrecting the dead!

This... Lin Yang was greatly shaken.

"Yes, that's why, even though Life characteristic doesn't possess extremely strong direct combat abilities, it is still considered one of the three supreme characteristics."

The White Fatty Old Man nodded, also somewhat emotional:

"The stronger one is, the more one fears death. The ability of Life characteristic is enough to make any strong individual flock to it, so those who possess Life characteristic are actually highly sought after. Ordinary people are also rarely willing to easily offend an Extraordinary Warrior with Life characteristic."

"Not to mention that the ultimate of Life characteristic can bring people back from the dead, just the powerful recovery ability of Life characteristic can save lives in many critical moments."

"It's just that Life characteristic materials are too rare, and improving them is also extremely difficult."

Having said that, the White Fatty Old Man looked at Lin Yang and emphasized again:

"So you, little fellow, are truly a freak. You can actually possess two supreme characteristic talents at the same time, and they are the most powerful offensive characteristic, space talent, and the most formidable auxiliary characteristic, Life talent!"

"This is simply incredible!"

The White Fatty Old Man repeatedly sighed with emotion:

"Although Life characteristic doesn't have very strong combat methods in the early stages, it is invincible in terms of auxiliary combat."

"You can imagine, when the strength difference is not significant, you can recover directly from injuries, while your opponent accumulates more and more injuries as they fight. The advantage this brings is obvious."

"This is only for the early stages. If the ability of Life characteristic is improved, your opponent would have to instantly kill you or use special means to forcibly damage you; otherwise, you would be an unkillable cockroach."

"With both space characteristic ability and Life characteristic ability improved, I really can't imagine how difficult it would be to kill you!!!"

The more the White Fatty Old Man spoke, the stranger his eyes became:

"In terms of attack and escape, space ability is also invincible. If you can't win, you can instantly traverse space and escape. After escaping, you still have powerful recovery abilities, and in not too long, you'll be lively again."

"As your enemy, they would probably die of headaches!"

"Even I, thinking about it now, feel quite helpless against you."

"..." Lin Yang was silent.

The White Fatty Old Man was talking as if he was already invincible.

"Haha, I'm just getting emotional for a moment. In reality, you still have a long way to go."

The White Fatty Old Man glanced at Lin Yang's strange expression and laughed loudly again:

"The stronger the ability, the more difficult it is to improve. It's truly incredible that you possess two supreme talent abilities simultaneously, but similarly, the difficulty of becoming stronger is also greater. One can only say the prospects are good."

"But whether you can actually reach that point is hard to say, so don't get too carried away, little fellow. There are currently as many people who can kill you as there are carp crossing the river."

Lin Yang immediately muttered to himself.

He wasn't getting carried away, okay?

It was this old man who was talking to himself, hyping him up as if he were invincible.

"Alright, time is precious, so I won't say more. You should go back and integrate this Life characteristic material. If you can truly integrate it to thirty percent, perhaps this time you might really contend for a spot in the top ten."

The White Fatty Old Man waved his hand.

"...Senior, you've described Life characteristic and space characteristic as so powerful, yet you still don't have enough confidence in this junior making it into the top ten?"

Lin Yang was somewhat surprised.

This old man had just praised the strength of these two characteristic abilities as invincible, yet now he still said he might contend for a spot in the top ten.

Was it that difficult to get into the top ten?

"Hehe, it's not that I'm trying to discourage you, nor am I boasting. These two characteristics are indeed very powerful, and it's truly abnormal that you possess two supreme characteristics simultaneously, but you lack time!"

The White Fatty Old Man shook his head and said leisurely:

"The more powerful the characteristic, the more time it takes to master. If you were given the same amount of time as them, then I would naturally guarantee that you could make it into the top ten or even higher. But the problem now is that you don't have time!"

"And those seeded universe competitors no. 364s from the Universe Countries are indeed not simple individuals. For this competition, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Just get as high a ranking as you can."

"Alright, this junior understands." Lin Yang nodded slightly.

"Go back and integrate the Life characteristic material."

The White Fatty Old Man waved his hand again, and his figure directly disappeared.

Lin Yang took the Life characteristic material back to the villa and immediately began integrating it.

More than ten days later.

"Attention, all competitors, the Second Stage of the competition is about to begin. Please proceed to the arena space."

The announcement for the start of the competition sounded in the villa, interrupting Lin Yang's integration.

"Just a little more and I'll reach thirty percent. After the Second Stage of the competition ends, I'll definitely be able to integrate this Life characteristic material to thirty percent!"

Lin Yang stood up, his eyes gleaming with a scorching light.

His previous estimation of himself was indeed correct.

His physique, or rather his body, was indeed somewhat unusual.

Under normal circumstances, trying to integrate a second extraordinary characteristic material would be more than twice as difficult.

But he still didn't experience any abnormalities during integration.

The speed and efficiency of integration were exactly the same as when he integrated the first space characteristic material!

"Is it because of the modifications Feng made to my body back then?" Lin Yang whispered.

But he couldn't be very sure about this.

When Feng was working, he was practically unconscious due to the immense pain, so he had no idea what Feng specifically did to him.

It's just that his body is so special now, it's hard to say it has no relation to Feng.

However, if it is related to Feng, there's one point Lin Yang couldn't understand.

A powerful and mysterious existence like the White Fatty Old Man was astonished by his characteristic talent abilities.

If everything he is now was due to Feng's modifications back then, then how powerful must Feng have been?

A single modification could make him a monstrous prodigy capable of integrating all characteristic talents.

Wouldn't Feng then be able to mass-produce such people?

The geniuses and prodigies in the eyes of the world being created by Feng's modifications, this was a bit terrifying.

"The White Fatty Old Man's strength should be among the top ranks of Extraordinary Warriors, otherwise he wouldn't disregard the high-level officials of the Universe Alliance. When he mentioned the high-level officials of the Universe Alliance, he showed no reverence. So what about Feng? He could modify me into a genius prodigy that even the White Fatty Old Man marvels at. Could it be that he surpassed the Extraordinary Warrior level?"

Lin Yang couldn't help but ponder.

And the more he pondered, the more puzzling questions arose.

If Feng was truly so powerful that he was on an entirely different level, then how could the Chu Country still hunt him down to the brink of death?

He now understood much more about the Extraordinary Universe Kingdom than before.

The Chu Country was indeed very powerful, but it didn't seem to possess the ability to transform a person into someone who could integrate all extraordinary characteristics, like Feng did.

Otherwise, the Chu Country would have unified the entire Universe Alliance long ago.

Since the Chu Country didn't have such means and abilities, but Feng did, then in terms of strength, Feng should have surpassed all the strong individuals in the entire Chu Country.

After all, this was something even top-tier Extraordinary Warriors couldn't do. If Feng could do it, then he must have been very powerful, and shouldn't have been hunted to death.

Yet, he perished due to being hunted.

This was very strange.

"If it wasn't because of Feng's own strength, could it be that he possessed a unique method to modify people into beings capable of integrating all characteristics, and the Chu Country wanted to obtain such a method, which is why they hunted him?"

Lin Yang continuously pondered and speculated.

There were many possibilities, but no matter which possibility, it could almost certainly be confirmed that his current changes were definitely related to Feng's modifications back then.

This made him very curious.

What exactly did Feng do to him?

And the more curious he was, the more irritable he became.

It wasn't until he arrived at the arena that Your Excellency Lin Yang barely managed to suppress his various thoughts.

His sector for the Second Stage was A8.

The drawing of sectors for the Second Stage was automatically done after all the matches in the First Stage sectors concluded.

So Lin Yang directly headed to the Eighth Sector.

Then... "Lin Yang?! Are you also in the Eighth Sector??"

Black Le's voice, full of infinite surprise, rang in Lin Yang's ears.

Lin Yang turned his head, looking at the excited Black Le, also somewhat surprised: "Black Le, did Time and the others also get drawn into the Eighth Sector this time?"

"Hahaha, yes, Time and another guy were drawn here together."

Black Le nodded excitedly, looking at Lin Yang with burning eyes: "Lin Yang, we really have destiny, to meet again in the same sector!!"

"Uh... it is quite a coincidence." Your Excellency Lin Yang also found it quite remarkable.

"Hehehe, then, Lin Yang, may I have the honor of inviting you for a second collaboration this time?" Black Le asked expectantly.

As his voice fell, before Your Excellency Lin Yang could answer, several other voices suddenly came rushing:

"Your Excellency Lin Yang, please don't agree to Black Le yet. Our competitors are also in the Eighth Sector this time, and we are willing to pay a higher price to cooperate with you!!"

"..."

Lin Yang blinked at the sound, then turned to look at the several people rushing over.

Were they rushing to give him money?

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