Chapter 632 - 361: Racial Talent

What is a god?

Only at this moment did Su Ze truly begin to understand.

After achieving a perfect evolution, his genes had evolved to the god level. The excess Evolutionary Energy from this perfect evolution had then enhanced him in every possible way.

Su Ze’s strength had undergone a qualitative breakthrough between his sixth and seventh evolutions.

This wasn’t just a simple boost to his physical attributes and soul strength—all of his skills were enhanced as well.

Every skill is a part of one’s genes. When his genes evolved to the god level, all of his skills were strengthened accordingly.

This strengthening didn’t change what the skills did, but simply made their effects more potent.

The most significant enhancement was to his divine skill, "Sponge." Its base stats were massively increased, the upper limit of energy it could absorb multiplied several times over, and its released power was naturally several times stronger as well.

No wonder it was said that only a god could unleash the true power of a Divine Skill.

Without a corresponding life level, even a Legendary-grade evolver who had mastered a Divine Skill was like a child wielding a greatsword—incapable of unleashing its true might.

His Divine Skill, now matching his current life level, received the greatest enhancement. His other skills, as if discriminated against for not being god-level, were strengthened far less in comparison.

But Su Ze knew that as long as he upgraded these skills to Divine Skills, they would also be massively enhanced.

Speaking of which, the few Quasi-Divine Skills he possessed had also improved with the rise in his life level. They were all just one step away from becoming true Divine Skills.

He reckoned he could probably upgrade them into Divine Skills just by dismantling a few other skills and fusing their effects in.

However, he wasn’t in the mood to fuse skills right now. After his seventh evolution, a series of chain reactions had been set off within his body, and he needed to slowly sort through them.

First, there was his Racial Talent...

Su Ze had learned about Racial Talents from the Shepherd King before, received more information when he accepted the legacy left by Mr. Ao, and had recently had a serious discussion about it with the Pope. He now had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Every Intelligent Race possessed a Racial Talent. It was just that some races were born with it, while others could only awaken it upon becoming gods.

Furthermore, Racial Talents varied in strength. The Racial Talents of the Strong Races were absurdly powerful, often comprising multiple interconnected abilities that formed a self-contained system.

Take the Witch Race, for example. Their Racial Talent was tyrannical. Although they had difficulty reproducing, every member of the Witch Race was born with unparalleled life force, making them difficult even for god-level experts to kill. They had no offensive capabilities, only defensive ones.

This immense defensive power gave Witch Race cubs an extremely high survival rate. Even without the protection of adults, a young Witch had a high probability of surviving to maturity on its own.

Moreover, an adult Witch had a life level equivalent to a Legendary-grade expert, and their combat power was comparable to a Star God.

The Witch Race were also natural psychic evolvers. In terms of psychic aptitude and power, they were the strongest in the entire universe.

All of these freakish abilities stemmed from the Witch Race’s Racial Talent.

The Racial Talents of Weak Races were much simpler, like the Nian Race’s Eternal Consciousness or the Tree Spirit Race’s Plant Affinity.

Of course, this wasn’t the full extent of these two races’ Racial Talents.

The Pope believed that Racial Talents originated from the Origin Gene. However, the Origin Gene of nearly every individual was incomplete, which naturally led to their Racial Talents being incomplete as well.

To master a complete Racial Talent, one needed a complete Origin Gene for their race, which meant one had to become an Ancestral God-level expert at the very least.

That was why people like the Pope and the Shepherd King only possessed the single Racial Talent Ability of Eternal Consciousness. Even the experts of other ordinary races in the universe had typically only mastered one or two Racial Talent Abilities.

Ultimately, it was because they were too weak, and their Origin Genes were severely fragmented.

However, it was obvious that even if experts from races like the Nian Race and the Tree Spirit Race managed to complete their Origin Genes and master their full Racial Talents, their talents would never be as strong as those of the Witch Race.

They couldn’t even be compared!

In terms of Racial Talent alone, a mere scrap from the Witch Race was stronger than the complete Racial Talents of the Tree Spirit Race and the Nian Race.

This raised a question. If the creation myth was true—that the Supreme Creator God had died and transformed into the progenitors of the Ten Thousand Races—then there shouldn’t be such a disparity in Racial Talents among them.

In the beginning, the Racial Talents of the Ten Thousand Races might not have been perfectly equal, but the gap shouldn’t have been this large.

The only other explanation was that the gap had been widened through plunder over time.

Although the Pope was a genius evolutionist from the Nian Race, he wasn’t particularly strong himself and had no significant background, so many high-level secrets were beyond his reach.

However, he had his own theory about this. He believed that in the wars between Intelligent Races, the victorious race could seize the Racial Talent of a race they had annihilated.

But these plundered Racial Talents wouldn’t become the victor’s own. Instead, they would strengthen the victor’s original Racial Talent.

For example, if the Nian Race were to annihilate the Tree Spirit Race and plunder their Racial Talent, the people of the Nian Race wouldn’t suddenly gain the Plant Affinity talent. Instead, their Eternal Consciousness talent would become stronger, and it might even develop new abilities with Eternal Consciousness at its core.

This theory would also explain why the Strong Races, who constantly waged war and annihilated other races, grew progressively stronger.

Perhaps the Witch Race had accumulated such a freakishly powerful Racial Talent through countless wars and acts of plunder.