170: Chapter 167 Exploration, Research, Immersion
"For example—for example, the Fate Master saw her appearance and strength during that battle, and a complex emotion stirred within his heart. But hindered by his status, he could not reveal it, so he painfully erased her memories, bearing this alone..."
Victoria's breathing suddenly quickened. Her legs clamped together unconsciously. Her body, wrapped in a thin blanket, twisted on the deck like a cat scalded by hot water.
"...It's also possible, right..." She buried her face in the blanket and said in a muffled voice. But the curve of her lips could not be suppressed no matter what.
— — The morning sunlight spilled over different seas thousands of miles away.
Igor looked up from the ice shards in the extreme cold sea to glance at the leaderboard, then expressionlessly closed the projection.
"One thousand five hundred."
He snorted through his nose and continued to chisel through the floating ice beside him to catch fish. It was only natural.
Solomon put down the alchemical vessel in his cabin, looked at the numbers on the life ring projection through his lenses, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"As expected. But why did he choose to climb the rankings at night? Was he dealing with something?"
"And... why hasn't a single person posted or commented about potentially having fought the Fate Master, Yang Hang?"
He pushed up his glasses, and while pondering, refocused his attention on the experiment at hand.
Jack glanced at the leaderboard while whittling a spear shaft on the deck and grinned.
"Mate, this is just excessive."
Then he threw the spear shaft into the sea and speared a fish. The reaction of all the foreign civilization powerhouses was surprisingly consistent—it was only natural.
Then they turned their heads and continued matching. The pressure was there. The motivation was there too.
— — After the Alola Type I intelligent entity connected to the life ring System, the assessment for the development cycle of Yang Hang's Combat Assistance System was seven days.
Seven days, starting from the seventeenth day, would exactly reach the twenty-fourth day.
However, the final settlement of the first round of 5v5 camp battles was at noon on the twentieth day of the Magic Sea Calendar, and the settlement of the Individual Sequence Contest was at noon on the twenty-third day.
In other words—the Combat Assistance System could not make it in time for this round of the Sequence War.
Yang Hang woke up after nine in the morning, went through his daily exercise of playing ball and swimming, and enjoyed some delicious food.
After thinking about the timeline, he simply crossed this matter out of his mind. It didn't matter if it couldn't make it.
For the 5v5 camp battle, with the Wall of Despair and the Lucky Squad there, the Yanhuang Camp was as steady as an old dog, so there was no need to worry.
As for the individual battles, he already had 1,500 matches hung up there, so he didn't need to worry for the time being.
It was the perfect opportunity to use the newly acquired understanding of energy to delve deeper into his own Energy Perception and Tenfold Leverage talents during this gap.
The eighteenth day of the Magic Sea Calendar, at noon.
The blue light at the fishing spot lit up.
Yang Hang pulled the rod, and a sunken sea treasure chest landed.
The Power of Causality had already locked onto the target—it was the last item of the three-choice-one he had been looking for regarding energy talents.
Golden light burst forth. A thumb-sized directional Ability Crystal floated in the light, with pigeon-blood-red light waves circulating inside, spreading outward in concentric circles.
Energy Resonance. Gold Tier talent.
Yang Hang reached out and pressed it into the center of his brow. The crystal shattered, and information flooded into his consciousness.
From this moment on, his body and Soul would possess a natural "eigenfrequency" and would be able to perceive and manipulate the vibration frequency of all surrounding energy.
It allowed different energy sources to resonate, thereby amplifying tiny amounts of energy to astonishing levels.
For example, making a candle flame resonate with the Earth's core vibration frequency, instantly giving the flame the temperature of magma; or synchronizing your heartbeat with the pulsation of a star, using every heartbeat to power a city.
Yang Hang closed his eyes.
Tenfold Leverage—leveraging one unit of energy into ten.
Energy Resonance—superimposing his own energy with the target's energy to resonate, unleashing the target's power.
Energy Perception—precise control at the microscopic level.
Energy Primer—understanding and mastering the essence, transformation, compression, release, and decay of energy.
The moment the four intersected in his consciousness, he felt as if he saw a door. Not a blurry outline, but a real, tangible door with a crack in it.
Yang Hang stayed in the training room for a full day and night, without eating or drinking.
Until noon the next day, when the fishing spot reset again. This time, he woke up on time, his goal clear.
The sunken sea treasure chest opened. Gold Tier. A Gold Tier random Ability Crystal.
Yang Hang used it, supplemented by the Power of Causality, and finally locked onto a talent: [Flash of Inspiration (Gold Tier talent)].
[Effect: When entering a state of deep thought, the frequency of inspiration generation increases, cognitive leaps are enhanced, and it is easier to break through cognitive Bottleneck. The duration is positively correlated with the user's Mental Energy.]
Gold Tier. A top-tier support talent.
Placed on Yang Hang—this top-tier talent would be pushed to its limit. Yang Hang's Minds Eye skill Cultivation strengthened his Divided Soul, making it exaggeratedly thick and powerful.
The duration of Flash of Inspiration was positively correlated with Mental Energy. Then, once he activated it, this talent would provide him with endless leaps of inspiration.
Yang Hang pressed it into his brow. The moment it awakened, a brilliant light flashed in his pupils. His brain felt as if a sluice gate had been opened.
Those previous blurry, vague, thin layers of window paper that were just one breath away from being pierced—they all lit up.
Yang Hang was now filled with the desire to study the rules of energy. The next moment, he issued an instruction to his Divided Soul on the conscious level—
"I need a deeply quiet research environment. For the time being, do not disturb me unless there is something important."
"Handle everything else yourself."
After the Divided Soul was arranged, Yang Hang turned off the life ring projection and closed his eyes.
His parents and the camp battle side were temporarily handled by the Little Luck Technique Clone, so he didn't need to worry.
Then, Yang Hang went to the training room of his ultra-luxurious Houseboat, completely immersing himself in the microscopic world of energy rules. He fell into an endless exploration.
Time was unknown. Yang Hang completely forgot about time, forgot about day and night, neglecting sleep and food.
After an unknown amount of time... deep in Yang Hang's consciousness, a key deduction was taking place.
The underlying logic analysis of Tenfold Leverage, Energy Resonance, and Energy Perception had already been discerned by him.
Then—a piece of information from the Divided Soul cut into his consciousness.
"The first round of the Individual Sequence Contest three leaderboards are settling today. There is half an hour left until the noon settlement."
Like a spark breaking the darkness. Yang Hang's consciousness was dragged out of the microscopic world of energy rules.
It was like a drowning person being violently pulled to the surface.
Light. Sound. The sensation of his body. Everything flooded back in an instant.
Yang Hang opened his eyes. The white light of the training room made him squint. He looked down at himself—his cross-legged posture hadn't changed since he came in, and a thin layer of dust had fallen on his clothes.
"What time is it?" He subconsciously spoke, his voice a bit hoarse.
But the Fate Platform Divided Soul was his own branch of Divine Sense, and the next moment, all the information from the past few days flooded into Yang Hang's brain.