40: Xiaobai's second skill

Lin Ye primarily focused on upgrading Star Spirit Xiao Bai. It took a full ten days for Lin Ye to fully upgrade Xiao Bai's Star Child.

Watching Xiao Bai enter the transformation period, Lin Ye's heart was filled with anticipation.

He wondered what kind of surprise Xiao Bai would bring him this time?

To Lin Ye's surprise, this transformation lasted for a whole month. All the points during this month were fed to Xiao Bai to help his new skill take shape.

Host: Lin Ye

Level: Third Tier (93.4%)

Abilities: Star Force (Profound), Muscle Master (Profound), Strength Energy Control (Profound)

Cultivation Methods: Tiangang 36 Forms (Minor Accomplishment 36%), Energy Diagram (Minor Accomplishment 54%)

Skills: Profound — Force Emission

Minor Accomplishment — Cannon Fist, Inch Step, Hidden Dragon Body, Breaking Void Fist, Vibration Perception, Vacuum Wave, Ruyi Strength, Mindflow-Five Senses

Contractor: Star Spirit Xiao Bai

Skills: Star Child (Minor Accomplishment 0.1%), Contract (Cannot be upgraded, already contracted), Dream Realm (Profound), Space Control (Beginner 0.1%)

Skill Points: 0

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Space Control???

From the information transmitted by Xiao Bai, this was the skill he had imagined.

Xiao Bai appeared and demonstrated it to him, suddenly disappearing and reappearing five meters away.

With a grab in the void, the drink Lin Ye had placed on the table was taken by Xiao Bai, who gulped it down.

Star Spirits can also eat, but generally sustain Life with Star Power.

Lin Ye felt he had struck gold. Abilities that could utilize spatial power were exceptionally precious, with the Emerald Dragon being a prime example.

The Emerald Dragon is the strongest of the gem dragons. Its body is slender, and its physical strength is even inferior to that of ordinary exotic beasts, but relying on its innate control over space-time power, it is extremely difficult to deal with.

You might be able to hunt a Red Dragon, or capture a Gold Dragon, but you absolutely cannot catch an Emerald Dragon. To date, humans have not captured a single Emerald Dragon.

Xiao Bai's spatial power was not limited to this; he could also create a space to store things. Lin Ye secretly thought, it's finally my turn to have storage space.

With the skill shared by Xiao Bai, Lin Ye experienced it, and it felt great, but the consumption was also high.

He tried adding points and found it was similar to Star Level skills, which reassured him quite a bit.

It would be unacceptable not to max out such a practical skill; he decided to max it out first.

"Lin Ye, Ancestral Master recently has a project that needs assistance with research. Are you interested in coming?"

The Ancestral Master sent a WeChat message, and Lin Ye replied, "Sure thing."

He had a general understanding of the Ancestral Master's research; currently, he wanted to create a Star Level skill, and the research was already halfway done.

He had a meal with his Senior Sister. His Senior Sister had changed her outfit again today, wearing a pink-themed shirt paired with a pleated short skirt, full of girlish charm.

Lin Ye marveled at his Senior Sister's extravagance as a rich woman. He seemed to have never met anyone who changed clothes every day, never wearing the same outfit twice.

He had seen someone like that in his previous Life—his high school English teacher.

The next day, he was taken by the Ancestral Master to his research institute.

The Ancestral Master instructed, "I called you here this time to have you cultivate the lower-tier Gold Level skill of this Star Level skill, to see if the difficulty after adjustment is suitable."

Lin Ye nodded and asked curiously, "Ancestral Master, what is the skill being created this time?"

The Ancestral Master explained, "Skills are nothing more than the five major categories: attack, defense, speed, reconnaissance, and support. This time, our research group is creating a skill to fill the gap in the Martial Artist's support capabilities, named Natural Breathing."

"The aim is to restore stamina, Star Power, and Soul power without relying on auxiliary healing, but this aspect is still too difficult. The skill has been created, but the difficulty is too high."

Chen Qingping was worried. When the research group initially created this unprecedented recovery skill suitable for Martial Artists themselves, everyone cheered.

Unfortunately, when they later collected data, they discovered that the difficulty was also unprecedented.

He could only see what feedback this talented grand-disciple could provide.

Lin Ye understood; he was serving as a high-level guinea pig.

He received the Gold version of Natural Breathing and began cultivating in the laboratory, while the researchers outside monitored the data changes.

"Director Chen, will this work?" The assistant was a bit troubled.

Scientific research was like this: one second heaven, the next second hell.

Chen Qingping sighed, "Let's try. My grand-disciple is exceptionally talented, not an ordinary person. If he can't give feedback, then no one else can."

These great experts could naturally cultivate the Gold Level Natural Breathing, but that was from their perspective, which didn't conform to the norm.

Lin Ye pondered, with people delivering food and water, and the standard was quite high.

This Natural Breathing gave him a strong sense of familiarity. Upon reflection, wasn't this just a simplified version of Dream Realm?

The only difference was that Dream Realm's recovery could only occur during sleep, while Natural Breathing became active and could be used even in combat.

He tried hard to recall the feeling of Dream Realm and then applied it to the situation of Natural Breathing.

He noticed some incongruities.

He suddenly understood that this might be the flaw of this skill.

On the third day, the research personnel, who had given up hope, were all ecstatic. Lin Ye had mastered Natural Breathing and even pointed out its unreasonable aspects.

"I believe Natural Breathing perhaps shouldn't be activated by Star Force, but rather by mental power, using a peaceful mind close to nature to activate the Star Power within nature."

Lin Ye said this very simply and directly. After all, with his cultural background and vocabulary, he couldn't explain the profound state of Dream Realm any further, but since Dream Realm achieved recovery effects with Dream Power, he thought there must be a correlation between the two.

Lin Ye's words gave the researchers a new direction, and the Ancestral Master was greatly relieved, praising Lin Ye profusely.

Afterward, Lin Ye left on his own; their research group entered a state of frenzy and had no time for him.

"Junior Brother, you're truly amazing." Senior Sister patted his shoulder.

"Senior Sister was also called for the experiment, but unfortunately, I couldn't cultivate it."

Lin Ye scratched his head, "It was just good luck."

Jiang Xin felt these words were a bit humblebrag, but then thinking of her Junior Brother's talent, she felt it was quite modest.

"Junior Brother, are you leaving soon?" Jiang Xin asked seemingly casually.

"Yes, this semester is over. Once I break through to the Fourth Tier, I'll go to the Demon Capital."

Lin Ye's progress was very fast; breaking through to the Fourth Tier in his freshman year was already an absurd speed.

Jiang Xin felt a little lost.

"Then will you still come to the Imperial Capital in the future?"

Lin Ye thought for a moment, "Probably. I'll be entering the professional arena in the future, so I should have quite a few matches to play in the Imperial Capital."

Jiang Xin's gloom vanished. "Alright, then Senior Sister will host a welcoming dinner for you."

She secretly rejoiced, relieved that her Junior Brother chose this profession. If he had chosen to go to the Star Realm, she really wouldn't have seen him.

The longer they spent together, the more Jiang Xin was attracted to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye wasn't handsome, but his strength, talent (cheat), diligence, willpower to not be tempted by external things—for Jiang Xin, who liked this type, he was god-tier.

Although her careful planning for so long hadn't attracted her Junior Brother, she felt she was already the woman closest to Lin Ye.