370: law of talent, law of talent

Although his consciousness and this body were perfectly compatible, it was, after all, a new body.

Coupled with the Berserk Giant Bear's extreme clumsiness, which formed a stark contrast to the Siberian Tiger's agile physique, Lin Tianwei felt very unaccustomed to it for a short period.

Perhaps this was why the Law Arena insisted on a Newbie tutorial.

This wonderful state was one that no words could describe.

Without experiencing it firsthand, one could not truly know how severe this sense of incongruity was, or how much it affected one's ability to perform.

Even Lin Tianwei took half a minute to fully adapt to this new body before he looked forward, observing his Arena opponent—the Trial Beast.

Directly in front of Lin Tianwei, a massive ball of flesh, supported by numerous tentacles, was firmly adhering to the ground; this was presumably the so-called Trial Beast.

Normal Arenas always had a waiting period before they began, providing valuable time for combatants to familiarize themselves with the terrain and observe their opponents.

However, because the Trial Beast did not actively attack, and given it was a novice trial using default terrain, there was no waiting period this time; the trial officially began the moment Lin Tianwei initiated his attack.

Therefore, the best choice was to first familiarize oneself with the body, and only attack the Trial Beast after gaining complete control.

However, Lin Tianwei had no such intention.

In his opinion, combat was the best way to familiarize oneself with a body.

Instead of dawdling here, it was better to charge in and fight.

Hesitation leads to defeat; battle would provide the answers he sought.

Without further hesitation, Lin Tianwei raised his thick bear paws and, using all four limbs, began to run forward.

Due to his immense weight and clumsiness, each step Lin Tianwei took was a heavy impact on the ground, producing continuous "thump, thump" sounds.

It seemed incredibly real, as if Lin Tianwei was truly in an Arena.

After a short run, Lin Tianwei finally arrived in front of the Trial Beast.

Without ceremony, Lin Tianwei extended his right paw and delivered a fierce slap to the Trial Beast.

Bang!

That was the sound of air bursting; the powerful force Lin Tianwei unleashed instantly caused the Trial Beast's body to vibrate, emitting a huge, deafening explosion.

However, Lin Tianwei's seemingly unstoppable attack had no effect whatsoever.

Although the Trial Beast's body was squeezed and deformed by Lin Tianwei's immense power, its frantic trembling transferred the force of the attack completely into the ground, ultimately dissipating into nothingness.

Lin Tianwei's ferocious slap simply could not shake the Trial Beast's terrifying defense.

As expected of a Trial Beast, though it couldn't attack, it was a perfectly qualified passive target.

Like a roly-poly toy, as long as the force didn't exceed its tolerance limit, it would quickly return to its original state.

At least from the Trial Beast's intact body, it was clear that it had not suffered any damage.

To defeat this thick-skinned Trial Beast, Lin Tianwei had to try, try, and try again.

In fact, the Law Arena had extremely stringent requirements for selecting Trial Beasts, strictly tailored to the strength of the novice trial participants, making them impossible to break without exerting full effort.

If one wasted even a little strength early on, or if the attack wasn't decisive enough, giving the Trial Beast ample time to recover, this novice trial was destined to fail.

Furthermore, most Cosmic Beasts were experiencing a new body in the Law Arena for the first time, so even in novice trials, countless Cosmic Beasts would fail.

Precisely for this reason, the Law Arena would give each Cosmic Beast three opportunities to participate in the novice trial.

If all three opportunities were used up without completing the novice trial, then, unfortunately, you would completely lose the qualification to access the Law Arena.

The purpose of the Law Arena's existence was to cultivate powerful Cosmic Beasts; Cosmic Beasts without potential couldn't even obtain the qualification to access it.

Although his first attack failed, Lin Tianwei wasn't discouraged in the slightest; the first attack itself was a test, to gauge the Trial Beast's strength and to see how much power this body could exert.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei attacked the Trial Beast again.

This time, however, he didn't use a blunt weapon like his paw, but rather his teeth.

Since this was the most realistic virtual world, combat methods were naturally not limited to simple mutual attacks.

Facing a motionless live target like the Trial Beast, Lin Tianwei felt that eating was a more suitable weapon.

That's right, eating.

As long as Lin Tianwei's teeth were sharp enough and his bite force strong enough to break through the Trial Beast's defense and tear off its flesh, then eating was the best weapon.

Eating could not only weaken the opponent's strength by plundering flesh and blood, but also replenish one's own stamina by absorbing the opponent's flesh and blood; calling it a BUG-like skill would not be an exaggeration.

However, Lin Tianwei's wishful thinking was destined to fail.

The Law Arena had existed for hundreds of millions of years; if such an obvious BUG truly existed, it would have been fixed long ago.

Lin Tianwei bit fiercely into the Trial Beast but didn't even leave a single tooth mark.

The Trial Beast's skin was incredibly tough, tougher than the thickest cowhide, capable of dissipating most of the force from Lin Tianwei's attack.

Furthermore, while the Berserk Giant Bear's bite force was excellent, it wasn't top-tier, nor did it possess any Sharp Teeth Talent.

After much effort, Lin Tianwei still couldn't gnaw off any flesh from the Trial Beast.

In such a situation, the best, or rather, the only choice for Lin Tianwei was to continuously attack,

Using a storm-like barrage of attacks to prevent the Trial Beast from healing, it would eventually succumb to accumulating injuries and become Lin Tianwei's prey.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei no longer hesitated and launched his most furious attack on the Trial Beast.

His fierce bear paws turned into an endless barrage of merciless slaps, fiercely striking the Trial Beast.

It was a good thing the Trial Beast had no face and no emotions, otherwise, it would surely be driven to depression by this infinite barrage of face-slapping attacks.

Five minutes... ten minutes... half an hour... The drawbacks of the extreme combat template now became apparent. Although Lin Tianwei had ample attack power and excellent stamina,

Due to his extreme clumsiness and the continuous, relentless attacks over a long period, this body had reached its limit and became breathless.

At this point, Lin Tianwei faced a dilemma: whether to continue attacking or to stop and rest.

Continue attacking? While it could maximize output, it might also lead to exhaustion and collapse due to lack of stamina, rendering all efforts futile.

Stop and rest?

While this would allow Lin Tianwei to recover his stamina quickly, considering the Trial Beast's almost abnormal Self-healing Ability,

By the time Lin Tianwei was rested, the Trial Beast would have almost fully recovered, leaving him in the same predicament of all efforts being in vain.

Therefore, the best choice was to unleash the strongest attack when stamina was most abundant, while trying to conserve stamina as much as possible,

Continuously inflicting damage on the Trial Beast, ultimately breaking through its critical point and defeating it.

However, Lin Tianwei was somewhat displeased with this drawn-out fighting style.

Ever since acquiring the Talent Extraction System, he hadn't encountered such a predicament in a long time.

Perhaps he should seek other methods, methods that transcended the rules.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei directly abandoned his attack on the Trial Beast and began to ponder, also taking the opportunity to recover his stamina.

Heavensea God-King's original intention in creating the Law Arena was not to observe simple contests between Cosmic Beasts.

To comprehend laws and to gain Talents—these were the things the Heavensea God-King wanted these Cosmic Beasts connected to the Law Arena to do.

After all, even beyond the novice trials, there were numerous body templates and Talent templates available, but the strength of each combat template tended to be balanced, with only different areas of focus.

In such circumstances, simple Arenas generally offered little to see.

Only the laws comprehended by each Cosmic Beast, the Talents they acquired, and the combat experience they accumulated were the keys to determining victory.

Therefore, besides the combat template, each Cosmic Beast could use another kind of power in the Law Arena, a power called law.

Using the power of law as an auxiliary, with the combat template as the primary, combined with excellent combat experience—this was the key to victory!

Upon realizing this, Lin Tianwei's mind opened up.

The current situation was that the combat template was already set; even if changed, there wouldn't be a significant difference in combat power.

In terms of combat experience, Lin Tianwei, possessing the Heart of the Beast and having gone through countless battles, big and small, could be considered seasoned and experienced.

His next direction of effort would be to comprehend and utilize the power of law, to gain even greater strength.

Although he had found a way to break the deadlock, Lin Tianwei found himself in a predicament once again.

What is law?

How was he to comprehend law and use its power?

Lin Tianwei subconsciously recalled the Law Book he had once purchased; although it was only the most common Law Book of strength, it gave Lin Tianwei a novel experience.

He gained a slight understanding of the existence of law.

He gained a slight insight into the essence of Talent.

So-called laws are rules universally existing in the universe.

These rules, though chaotic, were traceable and had been categorized and summarized into countless classifications by great sages, collectively referred to as laws.

Comprehending laws, understanding laws, and using laws was the way to become stronger in this universe.

So-called Talents were methods of using laws, formed after countless categorizations and summaries, and were a manifestation of laws.

This was also why composite Talents appeared.

Talents seemed relatively independent and unable to merge with each other.

However, the essence of Talent, law, was a rule of the universe and could be dismantled and reassembled into new Talents.

The principle behind the creation of Talent scrolls was largely similar.

Talent is not bound to flesh and blood, nor is it bound to consciousness; it is simply a method of using law, a specific manifestation on the body.

Using flesh and blood as paper, origin as ink, supplemented by special secret techniques, the Talents of these Cosmic Beasts, serving as materials, could be inscribed to become Talent scrolls for Cosmic Beasts to comprehend Talents.

Talent equals law, yet Talent does not equal law.

The reason Lin Tianwei hadn't realized the existence of law before was simply because he had fallen into a cognitive bias,

Only believing that Talent was an innate ability of living beings, he had never explored the origin of Talent.

The reason Lin Tianwei had this misconception was also simple: many creatures naturally possessed methods of using certain laws, and inherently had their own Talents.

Faced with something innate, few creatures would explore where Talent truly came from, or what its essence was.

They only cared about whether the Talents they possessed were useful.

Of course, the main reason for this situation was that Blue Star's level was too low, and it simply lacked the basic conditions to explore the essence of Talent.

Even if an occasional creature with a sudden whim decided to explore the essence of Talent, it was destined to be unable to uncover the truth of Talent's existence.

After understanding this, Lin Tianwei felt his mind instantly open up.

Since Talent equals law, then apart from the combat template and combat experience, what could exist in the Law Arena was naturally his Talent.

However, it was a Talent that had been fully comprehended, traced back to its origin to become a law.

By utilizing law, Cosmic Beasts could fully manifest their completely comprehended Talents in the Law Arena, manifesting them upon this virtual body, allowing themselves to exert even greater strength.

Perhaps this was another purpose of the Heavensea God-King in establishing the Law Arena: to absorb the law comprehensions of all Cosmic Beasts connected to it.

Although these Cosmic Beasts were generally weaker, at least in the presence of God-King level existences, they were no different from ants.

However, the sheer number of Cosmic Beasts connected to the Law Arena, their diverse species, and their bizarre ways of thinking were overwhelming.

Through sheer accumulation, there was always a chance for some to gain insights, allowing their strength to ascend to a higher level.

It must be said that Lin Tianwei's mind was incredibly agile, and he quickly hit upon the truth of the Law Arena.

The stronger a Cosmic Beast, the harder it was to improve; for a God-King level existence like the Heavensea God-King, improving even a little strength was incredibly difficult.

In such a situation, he naturally had to find another path, and the Law Arena came into being.

Many Cosmic Beasts, though they guessed the Heavensea God-King's intentions, did not refuse to connect to the Law Arena.

After all, the Law Arena offered them immense benefits that they simply couldn't refuse.

Moreover, the fact that their comprehension of law could be used by the Heavensea God-King was actually a good thing; it meant their own comprehension of law was incredibly powerful, possessing great potential, and they were highly likely to become powerful Cosmic Beasts.

They might even indirectly put the Heavensea God-King in their debt.

The favor of a God-King level expert was priceless.

Furthermore, the Heavensea God-King was considered one of the most reputable God-Kings in this universe,

And he was a primary combat force in resisting extraterrestrial demons and maintaining peace in this universe, so his strength was naturally better the stronger it was.

Therefore, no Cosmic Beast would refuse to connect to the Law Arena over such a minor matter. (End of chapter)