Chapter 470 - 291: Immortality? Mechanical Life! Mass-Produced Martial Saint Robots

Chapter 470: Chapter 291: Immortality? Mechanical Life! Mass-Produced Martial Saint Robots

In the quiet room, Yu Fei decomposed the new [Master of Fire] and [Fire Control] talents he had acquired.

This was the first time he had ever decomposed a Gold-tier talent. Decomposing a Red talent yielded 200 stardust, while a Silver one gave 500. ℴ

Inside the Fate-defying Pearl, the one Red and one Gold talent suddenly transformed into countless motes of stardust. A sweep of his Divine Sense gave him the precise figure: 1448 points.

He had 248 points of stardust left over from last time.

’Looks like decomposing a Gold talent yields 1000 points!’

Yu Fei browsed through the talent slots in the Fate-defying Pearl and decided to upgrade the [Spiritual Acumen] talent to its peak.

Cultivation at the Grandmaster level focused more on the divine soul, and [Spiritual Acumen] provided a stronger boost to it. This talent would be beneficial for increasing his future cultivation potential.

Having made up his mind, Yu Fei invested 1000 points of stardust.

BOOM...

In that vast, empty space, Yu Fei was suddenly plunged into a daze, his thoughts grinding to a halt.

This was an effect that hadn’t occurred the last time he enhanced the [Spiritual Acumen] talent.

He completely lost consciousness. A long time passed before he opened his eyes, feeling as if he had blacked out. He couldn’t remember anything about the talent’s advancement process.

When he checked the time, he was shocked to find that three hours had passed.

After the advancement, Yu Fei noticed some instinctual changes in himself. The range of his sea of consciousness had expanded to fifty zhang, and he immediately looked at the effect description in the Fate-defying Pearl.

[Immortal Spirit]

Quality: Gold

Description: A miracle of the soul.

Effect 1: Base Spiritual Power increased tenfold.

Effect 2: Divine soul quality increased by one tier.

Effect 3: Grants the ’Clarity’ effect. Divine soul resilience is strengthened. Base divine soul recovery rate is increased fivefold.

Effect 4: The divine soul gains a slight immortal effect. The aging speed of the divine soul is slowed by a factor of three.

Yu Fei read through the effects one by one. The increase in Spiritual Power was within his expectations; after all, the expansion of his Divine Sense was the most direct manifestation of it.

The effect of his divine soul quality increasing by one tier hadn’t changed, which surprised him. He had thought its quality would improve further, but it hadn’t.

The increase in his base divine soul recovery rate from threefold to fivefold was also a significant enhancement.

But what interested Yu Fei the most was the new fourth effect.

Immortality!

What did immortality even mean?

After [Spiritual Acumen] was upgraded to Gold, its name had changed. This had happened before; [Super Speed Reaction] had become [Fleeting Moment], and the names of his martial arts cultivation talents were constantly changing after they fused.

Yu Fei realized that a talent’s name only changed when it underwent a fundamental transformation.

According to the description, he had only obtained a slight immortal effect: the aging speed of his divine soul was slowed by a factor of three.

This sparked a thought in Yu Fei. In this Martial Arts Extraordinary World, he had read numerous records. Even Martial Saints, the pinnacle of the Martial Artist’s path, followed the principle of their spirits perishing with their bodies. There were no special cases where the divine soul survived after the physical body had died.

All descriptions of ghosts and specters existed only in the artistic creations of ordinary people; the martial arts world had never believed in such things.

He remembered he had another talent related to lifespan, so he pulled it up for comparison.

[Divine Que Longevity Body]

Quality: Red

Description: The Divine Que fortifies life, vitality everlasting.

Effect: Natural lifespan increased by fifty percent, significantly increases cell activity.

’This is strange. Does the physical body have its own lifespan, and the divine soul has its own?’

It seemed completely illogical to him.

He racked his brain but couldn’t figure it out. After some thought, he decided to prioritize upgrading the [Divine Que Longevity Body]. Since both talents were related to lifespan, was there a chance they could be fused together?

So far, Yu Fei had only ever triggered fusions with talents related to martial arts cultivation; no other types had shown such a special case.

’It might be worth a try!’

He filed the matter away, having a premonition that the Gold tier was not the final destination for talent upgrades, but just a stage before he reached the realm of Martial Saint.

Talents upgraded to this level all came with a description stating they were "limited by current life level and cannot be improved." Even [Fleeting Moment] had stopped upgrading after reaching the Orange tier, terminating after increasing his neural reaction speed to twenty times the normal rate.

Perhaps after breaking through to the Martial Saint realm, the upgrade limit on his talents would be unlocked.

Yu Fei decided to look for Ye Shuping to get a Sound Wave Skill.

He possessed the Silver talent [Sound of Godslaying], which came from a Tier 7 desolate beast—a great tiger. This gave him prime potential for practicing Sound Wave Martial Skills.

Yu Fei could also activate the ability of the [Sound of Godslaying], but limited by his realm and proficiency, the effects he could produce were very poor—far inferior to the tiger’s.

Still, talent didn’t equate to strength. Some talents took effect instantly, but others were merely keys to unlocking an ability.

In his perception, Ye Shuping was in the courtyard feeding Ah Zhen. Yu Fei teleported over.

The old man seemed quite amused, tossing out Jade Dragon Rice one grain at a time. Ah Zhen would leap up to peck at each one, never rushing forward to snatch them.

Ah Zhen would flap its wings at Zhuo Feiming, but it never acted boisterously in front of the old man.

Seeing Yu Fei emerge, Ye Shuping studied him for a moment, a purple light even glinting in his eyes.

Through the feedback from his [Void Clearing Mirror], Yu Fei felt a faint, almost imperceptible sense of being scanned. Clearly, the old man had to use a special skill, as his ordinary methods were no longer enough to see through him.

Yu Fei didn’t mind. If the old man wanted to look, he could look.

"You really are something else, kid. This ability to copy talents is too much of a cheat."

"It’s only been a few days, yet your affinity for the fire element has increased dramatically. More importantly, it seems you’ve even gained some characteristics of matter-energy conversion ahead of schedule."