107: Chapter 107 Talent

Four months after returning to Wanxiang University from the core ruins, Shen Ye opened his spiritual power logbook in his dormitory and reviewed all the data since his Breakthrough to Level 2 God item by item.

The total number of dependents in his Cultivation Divine Kingdom had steadily grown towards the ten-million mark. The number of Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators had exceeded 12,000, and there were over 800 Golden Core Stage Sword Cultivators. The small Dragon on Jin Lin's shoulder had grown another size recently, and the dragon's roar when the Flying Sword left its sheath was deeper and brighter than before.

In the Land of Gods and Demons, the combined number of angels and succubi approached ten million, the proportion of high-level dependents with four wings or more was nearing fifty percent, and the daily production of Twilight Apostle was stable at nearly one thousand per day.

The Heart of Twilight deep within his Dantian was solid and powerful. The Law density of a Level 2 God had been completely consolidated, and only the final stretch of accumulation remained before reaching the threshold of a Tier 1 God.

He closed the logbook, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes.

From his Awakening until now, he had been constantly fighting, breaking through, fighting again, and breaking through again.

The development of his Divine Kingdom relied mainly on the time accumulation brought by Double Time, the combat power of his dependents relied mainly on Jin Lin, Mu Sheng, and Daoist Quan's own insights, and his resource channels relied mainly on Su Wanqing's chamber of commerce network.

Of his three talents—Double Time, Gain Without Labor, and Eternal Loyalty—he used Double Time the most.

As for the talent Gain Without Labor, apart from it automatically triggering whenever he obtained a new building, causing a higher-grade equivalent to appear simultaneously in the Land of Gods and Demons, he had almost never actively explored its potential.

Eternal Loyalty was even more so. Since angels and succubi would not betray him, he never worried about internal friction, but he had also never thought about what kind of extra combat bonuses this absolute trust could bring.

He opened his eyes and stood up.

His Level 2 God Realm had already been consolidated. To move on to the next step and break through to Tier 1 God, the gap in Power Of Faith and Law density was still significant.

Relying solely on time accumulation was not fast enough; he needed to utilize his talents more actively—not just Double Time, but also Gain Without Labor and Eternal Loyalty.

That afternoon, Shen Ye found Lin Tianyin in the Law Analysis Laboratory.

For the first time, he explained the complete mechanism of the Gain Without Labor talent to another person in detail—not the vague explanation like "my Divine Kingdom has a hidden Legacy" from before, but starting from the day of his Awakening when the stele missed two talents, all the way to the specific mechanism where a higher-grade equivalent automatically appeared in the Land of Gods and Demons whenever he obtained a building or wonder.

Lin Tianyin was silent for a long time after listening, then pushed up her glasses.

She cross-referenced the Seal map extracted from the Crown Prince's backup data with the triggering mechanism Shen Ye described. Hundreds of Law patterns rotated slowly in the dark golden light column on the hologram. She found a minute but extremely stable energy conduction path—every time Gain Without Labor triggered, the building Law of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom was replicated to the Land of Gods and Demons through Shen Ye's own Divine Soul mark. This replication process itself was a highly efficient form of Law transformation.

"The core value of this talent is not just to add a few high-grade buildings to your Land of Gods and Demons, but that every time you obtain a new building, the Law patterns of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom are automatically converted into the Law patterns of the Land of Gods and Demons through the replication channel of Gain Without Labor. If you trigger Gain Without Labor simultaneously at the critical juncture of breaking through to Tier 1 God, it is equivalent to having two Law channels providing the energy needed for your Breakthrough, which will greatly accelerate the Breakthrough speed."

Shen Ye forwarded her analysis data to Tie Chui with a short message attached: "I need a batch of high-grade buildings or wonders that can be produced in large quantities in a short time to trigger Gain Without Labor and accelerate the accumulation of Law density for Tier 1 God. Divert a portion of the production capacity from the Mobile Pill Room and twilight beacon production lines without affecting frontline supplies."

Tie Chui's reply came quickly, his handwriting as crooked as ever: "The expansion plan for the Mobile Pill Room mass production line is ready. In addition, I have recently been trial-producing a portable twilight beacon—it doesn't need a fixed base and can be carried around. Although the coverage radius after activation is smaller than the fixed version, the advantage is that they are numerous and trigger quickly. The first batch of trial products will be off the line in these next few days."

He paused, then added, "Boss, this talent of yours is perfect for logistics."

A few days later, the first batch of portable twilight beacons was delivered to Wanxiang University through Su Wanqing's chamber of commerce channels.

In the training room, Shen Ye activated the whole box of beacons one by one—every time he activated one, a higher-grade twilight beacon would simultaneously condense deep in the Land of Gods and Demons.

The activation speed of the portable version was faster than the fixed version. Although the coverage radius was smaller, as the quantity increased, the density of the Twilight Light Network in the Land of Gods and Demons climbed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gap in Law density from Level 2 God to Tier 1 God was filled bit by bit during the continuous triggering of Gain Without Labor.

Almost at the same time, he received an encrypted message from Gu Qinghan.

During this period, she had been setting up detection points around the periphery of that area in the Empire's core zone that had been painted pure black, using the Ice Domain to continuously track the Law fluctuations inside that area.

The latest captured data showed that deep within that darkness, besides the previously confirmed Law pulse of the Crown Prince, there was a third-party Law energy that was extremely weak but always present.

This energy did not belong to the Abyssal Empire, nor did it belong to the Twilight Civilization, and it was not part of the known Law system of the human Shenyu.

Its frequency was extremely low, but its stability was extremely high, like an ancient ocean current sinking ten thousand meters below the seabed.

"The reason this energy has not been discovered for a long time is that it only releases extremely weak Law fluctuations under specific conditions. I used many methods to verify this, and finally confirmed that this specific condition is related to your dependents—whenever your Twilight Apostle lines up in the Land of Gods and Demons, this energy produces a very brief resonant response. It didn't sense a threat; it was more like it was responding to the existence of some homologous energy."

Shen Ye read this message several times.

Ever since Chen and Ye stood on both sides of the Twilight Altar and completed the Fusion of light and dark, Twilight Apostle had always been the strongest combat force in the Land of Gods and Demons, but their positioning was always "unit type." He had never thought that they could also serve as a key for Law resonance.

He sank his consciousness into the Land of Gods and Demons.

Chen and Ye were standing on both sides of the Twilight Altar, and a new batch of Twilight Apostle was being born from the altar.

When they lined up, the golden light in their left eyes and purple light in their right eyes intertwined under the sky of the Land of Gods and Demons into a highly stable Law network. Every Twilight Apostle was a complete Fusion of Holy Light and the primordial Devouring Abyss.

He singled out a few Twilight Apostle from the ranks, let them stand quietly where the Twilight Light Network was densest, and connected his consciousness to the extremely weak resonant response they perceived—it came from deeper within the Empire's core zone, with a frequency that was extremely low yet extremely stable, and it matched the third-party Law energy detected by Gu Qinghan perfectly.

"The Law resonance of Twilight Apostle can stimulate that third-party Law energy. If we actively use Twilight Apostle to probe that dark area, we can not only locate the target coordinates but also trace the source of this energy in reverse."

Lin Tianyin synchronized the detection data with Bai Ye's Time Law Array and found that there was an area inside that dark region that had never appeared in any ancient literature. Its Law structure belonged neither to the Devouring Abyss system nor completely to the Twilight system, like the product of two diametrically opposite Laws naturally fusing over long years—highly similar to the way Chen and Ye originally fused Holy Light and the Devouring Abyss, only older and slower.

"Eternal Loyalty."

Shen Ye whispered these four words.

Lin Tianyin raised her head from the hologram.

Shen Ye's gaze remained on the resonant source that was constantly approaching—the reason Twilight Apostle could perceive this energy was that every inch of their Law structure was built on the seamless Fusion of Holy Light and the primordial Devouring Abyss.

And the reason this Fusion could succeed was rooted in the fact that the Eternal Loyalty talent locked in the one-hundred-percent trust between angels and succubi.

Without this talent, the Fusion of light and dark would have been impossible from the beginning.

Without the Fusion of light and dark, Twilight Apostle would not exist.

Without Twilight Apostle, the ancient energy deep in this darkness that had been waiting for countless years would never have been discovered by anyone.

He had always regarded Eternal Loyalty as a purely defensive talent—dependents don't betray, internal friction is zero.

But now he understood that the true value of this talent was not defense, but creation.

Because it locked in the unreserved trust between angels and succubi, light and dark could complete a Fusion in his Divine Kingdom that no human Awakened had ever achieved before.

And the new type of Law energy produced by this Fusion was the only key to resonate with the ancient energy sleeping deep in that darkness.

Three days later, Bai Ye sent the latest analysis results of the Bai family's ancient star map from Shenyu University.

He performed a deep match between the third-party Law energy frequency detected by Gu Qinghan and the star map, marking an area in the deepest part of the star map that had never been recorded in any ancient literature.

The Law structure there belonged neither to the Devouring Abyss system nor the Twilight system; it was more like the product of two Laws naturally fusing over long years, completely homologous to the Law resonance frequency of Twilight Apostle.

Shen Ye merged the star map coordinates with Gu Qinghan's detection data and forwarded them to Yan Shan and Hou Tu.

Yan Shan was sensing the vibration frequency of the Spiritual Qi movement underground in that area deep in the Body Refining Cave, while Hou Tu squatted nearby, marking the node coordinates on an obsidian slab.

Qin Sese had someone send newly brewed wild liquor from the Northern Mining District with a note: "You're coming back soon, right?"

Bai Ye's Time Law Array had completed the final round of synchronized calibration, and Qin Youyou's ancient war spear had completed a new round of tempering in the twilight tempering pool.

Su Wanqing's chamber of commerce channels pushed the expansion plan for the portable twilight beacon production line to all frontline camps, and Tie Chui's Mobile Pill Room groups had begun mass production.

Shen Ye put the portable twilight beacon and the Twilight Apostle resonance data into his backpack interlayer and pushed open the door.

Next, he would actively use his three talents in a way never seen before to retrieve the final piece of the puzzle needed to break through to Tier 1 God from the depths of that pure black area in the Empire's core zone.