41: Chapter 41: Additional Abilities of Talent
“I hope it doesn’t disappoint me!”
Fang Yuan muttered to himself, holding a Black Iron Rank Ten crystal core.
After a prayer, he held the crystal core, cleared his mind, and began to imagine using his Talent, Source Devour, to absorb the energy within the crystal core.
Absorbing crystal core energy is an innate ability of a professional. What he wanted now was to use his own Talent to absorb crystal core energy.
Previously, the Talent ability Source Devour had always been used passively, absorbing the Origin of monsters when they were killed.
As the thought arose, Fang Yuan quickly noticed a warm sensation in the palm holding the crystal core, followed by a stream of energy, like a flowing creek, slowly entering his body.
This was the feeling. After realizing that the crystal core energy could be absorbed by his Talent ability, Fang Yuan, who had been concentrating on absorbing the crystal core energy, opened his eyes and revealed a slight smile.
Things were as he had expected; he could rely on Source Devour to absorb the energy of crystal cores.
After a brief attempt, he found that he had absorbed one-fiftieth of the crystal core’s energy in just ten seconds. At this Cultivation speed, he would only need five hundred seconds, or less than ten minutes, to absorb all the energy from a Black Iron Rank Ten crystal core.
Moreover, the absorbed energy was consistent with the energy a professional would normally absorb from a crystal core, unlike energy potions, which consumed a large amount of energy during the refining process.
Having achieved the desired result, Fang Yuan continued to absorb the crystal core in his hand.
Time flew by; ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and soon the energy within the black crystal core was completely absorbed.
The crystal core, having lost its energy, turned grayish-white, and its once hard structure became fragile. With just a gentle squeeze, the entire crystal core was crushed into powder.
Fang Yuan
Rank: Black Iron Rank Nine (7%)
True Spirit Talent: Source Devour (Silver)
Talent: Origin Enhancement (22.2%)
After absorbing a Black Iron Rank Ten crystal core, Fang Yuan found that it only gave him three percentage points of energy accumulation, comparable to a bottle of energy crystal core.
The energy inside the crystal core might not have been Origin energy, as it didn’t provide him with any increase in strength.
Yesterday, he killed over three hundred monsters alone, and after absorbing their Origin, his strength reached one thousand seven hundred and thirty-two points. A full-power strike could easily unleash over one thousand seven hundred points of immense force.
Not having Origin energy was not an issue. Source Devour had certain limitations; Fang Yuan, at Black Iron Rank Nine, found that no matter how many Black Iron Rank monsters he killed, his strength couldn’t break through the one thousand seven hundred and fifty mark.
This might be due to limitations in his Rank, body, or other aspects, or perhaps the Origin of low-Rank monsters had little effect on him.
Fang Yuan leaned towards the former; the Origin of low-Rank monsters still had an effect, just a weaker one.
Experiencing the rapid absorption of crystal core energy, Fang Yuan couldn’t help but take out another crystal core and continue absorbing its energy on the spot.
By noon, when Lin Zhizhi, his Second Sister-in-law, and his Little Sister returned, he had absorbed all the Black Iron Rank crystal cores he had, gaining another twenty-seven percentage points of energy accumulation.
The sudden increase of thirty percent in his Origin energy made Fang Yuan’s body feel a bit bloated, requiring some time to adapt. Therefore, he didn’t continue to absorb the remaining two Bronze Rank crystal cores.
“Third Brother, here’s this potion for you. Zhi Zhi Sis bought it for you.”
The girl who returned from shopping was very happy. She opened the door and immediately saw her Third Brother exercising by punching the air. She immediately ran towards him, holding a bottle of Black Iron Rank Five energy potion.
“Phew~, you’re back. I don’t need this energy potion, Little Sister. Give this back to your Zhi Zhi Sis.”
Fang Yuan retracted his fist to avoid hurting his Little Sister who was approaching him. Looking at the energy potion, he, who could directly absorb crystal core energy, didn’t need these things. crystal cores were more cost-effective.
“Oh~!!”
Though a bit puzzled, Fang Ling obediently handed the energy potion to the person behind her.
Afterward, she disregarded the sweat on her older brother, her short body trying to get close, sometimes even poking his firm muscles with her finger.
Fang Yuan, who was exercising, couldn’t be bothered with her. Absorbing crystal cores only took over an hour; for the next few hours, he had been intensely punching the air.
Every punch was made with his strongest power. After high-intensity exercise, unlike yesterday’s battle where he could continuously absorb monster Origin, without a recovery method, his whole body was now sore and uncomfortable.
Several hours of exercise had significantly reduced the feeling of fullness in his body.
Exercise can help the body absorb energy faster. Basically, all professionals, after using energy potions, either engage in a big battle or exercise with all their might to allow their bodies to adapt, so they can use the second bottle of energy potion faster and sooner.
“Little Sister, you can’t stop your exercise…!”
Stopping his movements, Fang Yuan immediately urged his Little Sister to exercise.
In this world, besides basic literacy, physical exercise is a compulsory course for people.
Only with a strong body can one have a greater chance of successfully Awakening a Talent in the Haishi Void Realm, and perhaps even soar, raising one’s Rank by several levels within days of Awakening.
It is precisely because one can quickly raise their Rank in a short time that even though Awakening in the Haishi Void Realm has a considerable chance of failure, everyone still chooses this Awakening method instead of using crystal cores to stimulate Awakening themselves.
Although the latter is safe, Awakening not only requires an uncertain amount of energy points, but one’s Rank cannot be improved quickly after Awakening.
“Oh~!”
Fang Ling was very obedient. As soon as her words fell, she scurried to some fitness equipment and began her daily exercise.
Although the Little Girl was less than one point five meters tall and her small body looked tiny, her strength was quite good; she could easily lift a fifty-jin dumbbell.
Lin Zhizhi, who had nothing to do, joined the exercise team. Due to her immense strength, the ordinary equipment there couldn’t satisfy her, so she could only punch the air and run back and forth at extreme speeds.
Whoosh!!
The force of her punches created wind. Fang Ling and Cai Lin, hearing the movement, uncontrollably turned their heads, curiously watching Lin Zhizhi, whose hands were covered in black.
Exercising with one’s own Talent is a very good direction for training, but this method is not suitable for Fang Yuan at the moment.
Because his Source Devour seems to be a passive Talent, it absorbs monster Origin by killing monsters, and actively, it can only absorb crystal core energy.
Other than that, there is no active energy, so even if he wanted to exercise, he couldn’t.
“By the way, Second Sister-in-law, what is your Talent ability~?”
Fang Yuan didn’t watch Lin Zhizhi exercise. Having nothing to do, he looked at Cai Lin beside him, thinking that since she was his Second Sister-in-law, he should at least understand her abilities.
“My ability, it’s a healing type, Spirit Recovery, which can restore physical strength…”
Cai Lin, asked about her ability by her brother-in-law, somewhat gloomily stated her True Spirit Talent, not only the Talent name but also its two ability branches.
Spirit Recovery
Ability One: Can be used on oneself or others to restore physical strength.
Ability Two: Abundant physical strength.
The two major branch abilities are very simple, with nothing too noteworthy.
“It’s decent. Although it doesn’t help my own strength much, it’s still a good Bronze Rank Talent.”
The Spirit Recovery Talent belongs to a support-oriented ability. Although its possessor’s strength might be a bit weaker than combat-type abilities, if the support ability is used well, it is also a powerful ability.