3: Mysterious Purple Talent - Martial Saint Body!

"attribute panel, charge!"

In the earthen house, inside Lin Yi's room, Lin Yi held the silver he had obtained from his father. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly commanded the attribute panel in his mind.

"Whoosh!"

As Lin Yi's command fell, the four large silver ingots instantly vanished like a breeze.

Immediately after, the charging percentage on Lin Yi's attribute panel began to jump rapidly.

96.6%! 97.6%! 98.6%! ...

Finally, after a few moments, when the number on the attribute panel reached 100%, a line of text instantly appeared before Lin Yi's eyes:

"Congratulations, Dao Lord, the charging progress has reached 100%. You may use the Immortal Skill to perform Talent Evolution. Do you wish to evolve?"

"Evolve!"

Lin Yi answered decisively.

Suddenly...

"Whoosh!"

He saw the originally transparent attribute panel change, instantly transforming into a vast starry sky.

Within the starry sky, stars of six colors—white, red, yellow, cyan, purple, and gold—flickered.

Among them, the number of white stars was the greatest, occupying a large portion of the starry sky. Red stars were second, but also quite numerous.

However, the number of yellow stars was much smaller; they probably didn't even make up half a percent of all the stars.

Cyan stars were even fewer, totaling less than about 1%.

As for the purple and gold ones, their numbers were shockingly low; even combined, they didn't total one hundred.

Yet, despite their small numbers, these fewer than one hundred purple and gold stars were as dazzling as the sun and moon within this starry sky, their blinding radiance even overshadowing all the other stars.

As Lin Yi's command fell, in the vast starry sky, he saw a white star suddenly fall, as if it were about to become Lin Yi's talent.

"A Pure White Grade Talent?"

Seeing the star's color, Lin Yi felt slightly disappointed.

However, considering that there were originally mostly white stars on this Starry Sky Scroll, evolving a Pure White Grade Talent at this time could actually be considered normal.

"Sigh! I can only hope it's a talent related to physical Aptitude!"

Lin Yi prayed in his heart.

But, just at this moment—

"Detected that the Dao Lord has actively consumed cost to perform Talent Evolution for the first time. Talent grade automatically increased by four levels. Pure White Grade Talent transformed into Profound Violet Level Talent!"

The text appeared, and afterwards, under Lin Yi's astonished gaze, he saw the originally falling white star rise back up into the sky.

Replacing it, a purple star as dazzling as the moon suddenly plummeted from the starry sky!

Then, it quickly flew out from the bottom of the starry sky, flew into reality, and merged into the space between Lin Yi's eyebrows.

"Congratulations, Dao Lord, this Talent Evolution was successful. The Dao Lord has obtained the Profound Violet Level Talent — Martial Dao Sacred Body!"

[Talent: Martial Dao Sacred Body] [Rank: Profound Violet Level] [Introduction: You are born sacred; your physical cultivation Aptitude is invincible in this world. You are a peerless Genius born once in a hundred billion! A true world-shaking Prodigy!]

"Boom!"

As the text faded, Lin Yi's entire body exploded with sound, his muscles and bones resonating in unison, as if an endless mysterious energy was empowering him.

In an instant, Lin Yi felt his Aptitude being raised infinitely, his Physical Body transforming from the depths of his genes, and a wave of comfort emanating from his Soul and bone marrow surged through his entire body.

"Hoo! Haa! Hoo! Haa..."

Inside the room, as the Aptitude transformation completed, Lin Yi began to instinctively operate his main Cultivation Technique, the Sixth-Grade Breathing Technique — "Whale Swallowing Breathing Technique".

His breathing was long and continuous, as if a giant whale were drinking water, as he gulped down and refined the medicinal power that had previously remained in the depths of his Physical Body.

Under his refinement, Lin Yi's body was also constantly growing stronger.

[Cultivation: Eighth Rank Initial Stage (93%)]

[Cultivation: Eighth Rank Initial Stage (94%)]

[Cultivation: Eighth Rank Middle Stage (1%)]

Lin Yi continued to transform, practicing in one breath for a full half-hour before stopping.

Afterwards, Lin Yi looked closely and discovered that the various attributes on the attribute panel had changed drastically—

[Dao Lord: Lin Yi] [Cultivation: Eighth Rank Middle Stage (8%)] [Cultivation Technique: Sixth-Grade Cultivation Technique Whale Swallowing Breathing Technique] [Martial Art: Sixth-Grade Martial Art Bright Moon Saber Technique (Major Achievement, 96%), Ninth-Grade Martial Art Black Tiger Saber Technique (Perfection, 73%)] [Immortal Skill: Talent Evolution] [Existing Talents: Martial Dao Sacred Body (Profound Violet Level), Saber Dao Genius (Crimson Grade)] [Current Charging Progress: 0.3% (Talent Evolution can be performed after charging reaches 100%.)]

"Eighth Rank Middle Stage, 8%. My progress from this cultivation session is this huge?"

Seeing the numbers on the attribute panel, Lin Yi was stunned; he simply couldn't believe his eyes.

Rising from Eighth Rank Initial Stage 93% to Eighth Rank Middle Stage 8%; if this were his previous cultivation speed, he would probably have had to work hard for at least several months to achieve it.

But now?

He accomplished it in just over half an hour of cultivation!

Although this was partly because he had long accumulated quite a bit of medicinal power in the depths of his Physical Body, for the Martial Dao Sacred Body to achieve this step, it could still only be described with two words: terrifying!

"Martial Dao Sacred Body, truly the Martial Dao Sacred Body!"

Lin Yi couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart:

"As expected of a world-shaking talent that only one in a hundred billion people can be born with!"

"A single cultivation session has caused my cultivation to grow so rapidly. In this way, even though I come from a humble background and my cultivation resources are severely lacking, and it will be impossible to maintain that extremely fast cultivation speed after the medicinal power in my body is depleted, I will be able to break through to the Eighth Grade Late Stage in at most half a month."

"If I am lucky within this half a month and can catch a few more thieves to earn some money to buy qi and blood pills, then my cultivation speed can be even faster!"

"By then, I would truly be invincible!"

At this thought, Lin Yi's eyes shone with a bright light.

qi and blood pills are a type of basic Medicinal Pill on the Nine Provinces Continent that assists Martial Artists in their cultivation.

Their medicinal power is quite good; each qi and blood pill Lin Yi consumes is worth about three days of his hard cultivation.

And this was the result when his Aptitude was too poor, and most of the medicinal power was wasted.

If it were switched to the Martial Dao Sacred Body, whose absorption efficiency is heaven-defyingly explosive, then Lin Yi estimated that for every qi and blood pill he consumed, it would probably be worth at least half a month or even longer of his previous bitter cultivation.

Therefore, if there were enough qi and blood pills to assist, one could easily imagine the cultivation speed!

"However, a single qi and blood pill normally sells for a full five taels of silver. Given our family's economic conditions, I estimate that being able to use eight or nine a month would be remarkable."

"If it were more, our family would likely not be able to survive."

"And besides that, ever since I evolved the first talent, the silver required for my attribute panel's charging seems to have increased as well."

Thinking of this, Lin Yi looked at the charging number on the attribute panel, and his face couldn't help but turn a bit bitter.

He had charged a total of eighty taels of silver into the attribute panel this time. Excluding the 68 taels of silver consumed when charging previously reached 100%, the remaining twelve taels should theoretically have allowed the attribute panel's charging progress to reach 0.6%.

But now, there was only 0.3% on the attribute panel, merely half of the theoretical value.

Calculating it this way, if the charging progress were to reach 100% again, it would require double the previous amount, which is a full four thousand taels of silver!

And four thousand taels?

Even if Lin Yi's family didn't eat or drink, it would take at least five or six years to save up this amount of money, not to mention what is needed for cultivation...

"Sigh! Poor! Poor! So poor!"