157: The starry sky has changed dramatically, with a qualitative leap in the quantity of golden stars!

"Congratulations, Dao Lord. This Talent Evolution was successful. You have obtained a Profound Violet Level Talent—Ten Thousand Grinds Forge Edge!"

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[Talent: Ten Thousand Grinds Forge Edge]

[Grade: Profound Violet Level]

[Introduction: Tribulation fire forges iron, a thousand hammers make steel. External pressure and internal tempering, the divine edge hides itself.

When your will and body endure external pressure and damage, a strange 'forging reaction' occurs, transforming the tempering itself into nourishment for refining your sharp edge.

In every battle or experience, any physical, energy, mental pressure, or adversity applied to you will be passively guided and transformed by your will, accumulating into strands of potential. It is as if steel is constantly being hammered and forged, slowly accumulating an inner sharp edge.

Until at a certain moment, all the sharp edges and potential explode! Releasing incredible and infinite energy!

You are a walking refined divine blade; all tribulations added to your body are whetstones to sharpen your edge!]

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"Ten Thousand Grinds Forge Edge? A potential-burst type talent?"

"Useless!"

Seeing this talent description, Lin Yi was completely disappointed.

First of all, is Ten Thousand Grinds Forge Edge strong?

Of course it is!

As an incredibly precious potential-burst type talent, although it is only at the Profound Violet Level, its rarity likely exceeds top-tier Profound Violet Level Talents like 'True - Flawless True Body,' and approaches Half-Step Brilliant Gold Grade talents like 'Heart Like Profound Crystal.'

In fact, if utilized well, the power at the moment of its burst would likely even surpass brilliant gold rank talents.

But unfortunately, no matter how strong or rare it is, it's useless for the current Lin Yi!

Because Lin Yi has been completely targeted by the Great Yuan Dynasty. Once he breaks through to the Xiantian Golden Core Realm, the Great Yuan Dynasty will likely send experts from the top ten of the Heaven Ranking, or even stronger, to hunt him down.

How powerful are the Great Grandmasters in the top ten of the Heaven Ranking? Their Force Exertion Realm, cultivation, and even Martial Arts Techniques completely crush Lin Yi.

In this situation, what can Lin Yi do, even with a burst of power?

Could he possibly burst his Entry-Level Saint-level Martial Art directly to the Minor Achievement level?

That's simply impossible!

Because the gap between Minor Achievement and Entry-Level Saint-level Martial Arts is truly too vast. It's equivalent to two Realms of High Grade Innate martial arts, and it even includes the supreme Realm from Great Perfection to beyond Great Perfection.

Therefore, even those prodigies in the top ten of the Heaven Ranking each spent immense effort and at least decades of time to master them.

For Lin Yi to rely on a single burst from a Profound Violet Level Talent to match the decades of accumulation of those top ten Heaven Ranking prodigies is truly wishful thinking.

At this thought, Lin Yi's expression became extremely unsightly.

After a while... "Sigh! Forget it!"

In the underground secret room, Lin Yi let out a long breath. Then his eyes narrowed, and a brilliant divine light flickered within them:

"A failure is a failure! At worst, from now on, as long as I don't Cultivate my Saint-level Martial Art to Minor Achievement, I won't break through to the Xiantian Golden Core Realm!"

"Furthermore, even if this failed, it's not like I have no other way to get more silver."

"After all, the Great Yuan Dynasty has many Innates, as many as sixty or seventy, including over ten Xiantian Golden Core Realm Grandmasters."

"If I kill just half of those sixty or seventy Innates, I should be able to gather forty to fifty billion taels of silver."

"Moreover, there are many evil Innates and even First-Rank Martial Artists on the Nine Provinces Continent."

"If I go on another slaughter, the silver I obtain might be even more than from killing the Innates of the Great Yuan Dynasty."

"That way, even if I can't gather enough silver for two Talent Evolutions, gathering enough for one will be more than enough."

With his mind set, killing intent surged in Lin Yi's eyes. He left the basement and headed toward the Wanxiang Tower headquarters, planning to use some remaining scattered treasures to exchange for an extremely sophisticated Disguise Technique. He would only re-emerge after mastering it.

There was no other way!

Killing the experts of the Great Yuan Dynasty was simple; he could just use his original identity.

After all, the Great Yuan Dynasty had a vast foundation. No matter how much trouble Lin Yi caused them, they would only target Lin Yi himself and try everything to eliminate him. They wouldn't specifically target ordinary Disciples of the Heavenly Mountain Sect because the Great Yuan Dynasty also feared their own people being targeted in return.

However, killing those experts of the underworld and Evil Paths was different.

These people were already wicked and had no bottom line. They were numerous and came from all walks of life.

Once they knew it was Lin Yi slaughtering them, not only Lin Yi himself and his friends and family, but even the Disciples of the entire Heavenly Mountain Sect would suffer.

If that happened and countless underworld and Evil Path experts came to hunt Heavenly Mountain Sect Disciples, Lin Yi would truly become a sinner of the Heavenly Mountain Sect.

Since the Heavenly Mountain Sect had treated him well, he naturally couldn't do that.

Thinking silently, Lin Yi soon arrived at the Wanxiang Tower headquarters. He paid a small price to exchange for an extremely sophisticated Disguise Technique and successfully mastered it within an hour.

After all, Disguise Techniques had always been simple. Even the minor Eighth-Rank Martial Artist 'Lustful Woman' Yan Ji was quite proficient in it back then.

Coupled with Lin Yi's current terrifyingly high Comprehension Ability, practicing it was naturally effortless.

Thus, a moment later, the Genius Disciple Lin Yi disappeared from the Heavenly Mountain Sect, while a Bounty Hunter appeared in the Martial Province—the Thousand-Faced Gentleman.

This Thousand-Faced Gentleman hated evil with a passion. From high-level experts on the Earth Ranking to First Rank or even some second and third-rank Martial Artists, as long as they were wicked, none could escape his butcher's knife.

For a time, he killed so many underworld and Evil Path experts that they were all in a state of panic, making the entire Martial Province much more peaceful and serene.

As for hiring Evil Path experts to take action?

First of all, the Thousand-Faced Gentleman's Disguise Technique was extremely sophisticated; his appearance was different every time he acted.

Furthermore, his whereabouts were equally elusive, appearing in Sikong Prefecture one moment and Dalong Prefecture the next.

Consequently, after chasing him for a while without finding anyone, several Innate Golden Core experts of the Evil Path could only helplessly issue a bounty through Wanxiang Tower, offering ten billion taels of silver for the Thousand-Faced Gentleman's head.

Unfortunately, it was unlikely anyone would be able to claim this bounty... Just like that, time flew by, and soon a month had passed.

On this day, when Lin Yi returned to Wanxiang Tower once more, he deposited the final three billion taels—gathered from killing several Innates of the Great Yuan Dynasty—into his attribute panel.

On the attribute panel, the numbers flickered rapidly.

Soon, as the charging progress reached 100%, a Starry Sky Scroll slowly unfurled before Lin Yi's eyes once again.

"Hmm? This starry sky!"

Inside his Sea of Consciousness, looking at the stars on the Starry Sky Scroll, Lin Yi felt a shock in his heart.

Because at this moment, as this vast Starry Sky Scroll slowly unfolded, although the green, purple, and Golden Stars were still twinkling, the Golden Stars were gradually becoming more numerous, even surpassing the number of Green Stars.

"Could it be that the Golden Stars are finally going to undergo a qualitative change?"

At this thought, Lin Yi's eyes widened slightly. Even with his current Heart-Nature, he couldn't help but feel excited.

Because once the Golden Stars underwent a qualitative change, it meant that brilliant gold rank talents would truly take center stage on the attribute panel.

As long as he continued to evolve, Lin Yi would eventually evolve a brilliant gold rank talent, rather than it being almost impossible like before.

Moreover, as long as the Golden Stars began their qualitative change, if Lin Yi's luck was good, he might even be able to directly evolve a brilliant gold rank talent this time.

When that time comes, I'll truly be incredible.

Excited, Lin Yi stared fixedly at the Starry Sky Scroll.

A few moments later, the Starry Sky Scroll fully unfolded.

On the scroll, the number of each star and their proportions appeared before Lin Yi's eyes.