Chapter 20
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Chapter 20: Only Yi Chen Can Surpass Himself
The Milky Way.
Planet A1314.
Headquarters of the Yiyao Skill Research Institute.
In the laboratory, the staff worked busily.
Various top-of-the-line large equipment was everywhere.
In the office,
Lian Zhancheng, the chairman of the Yiyao Group, stared intently at the large virtual screen.
On it was a view of the laboratory.
The main laboratory alone covered an area of over one hundred thousand square meters.
In the bustling, incredibly valuable A1314 planet, it was worth a fortune.
Not to mention, the large intelligence systems, scanners, and observation equipment in the laboratory—all were the most advanced technology in humanity.
Any one of these machines would be worth tens of billions.
In addition, the laboratory had thousands of staff members.
Their average annual salary reached one million.
Even an assistant responsible for errands was a top graduate from a prestigious university in the galaxy.
Every corner of this laboratory was built with money.
Beep beep beep…
"Warning, warning! Abnormal condition detected in Test Subject No. 7. Emergency rescue will be initiated shortly. Please prepare the relevant personnel."
"Warning, warning! Abnormal condition detected in Test Subject No. 7. Emergency rescue will be initiated shortly. Please prepare the relevant personnel…"
Suddenly, alarms blared throughout the laboratory.
The synthesized voice of the intelligence system echoed repeatedly.
On the experimental table,
A young man sat cross-legged on the smooth surface of a giant sensor.
His body was connected by dozens of data lines to the massive sensor behind him.
Just a moment ago, a look of pain appeared on his face.
The intelligence system monitored that his spirit power experienced a mutation after entering a specific acupoint in his abdomen.
Once gentle, the spirit power turned violent and chaotic, wildly crashing against his meridians.
Even though the massive sensor enhanced the young man’s reaction speed, and he himself was a top cultivation genius who noticed the anomaly immediately, he still couldn’t withdraw the spirit power in time.
Below, the medical station, under the control of the intelligence system, emitted a cold mist.
At the same time, a large number of tentacles stretched out, wrapping around Test Subject No. 7.
While freezing Test Subject No. 7, emergency rescue continued.
In the distance, many medical personnel rushed over.
"Interrupt the rescue! The test continues!"
In the office, Lian Zhancheng suddenly grabbed the communicator and shouted.
"Boss, according to the monitoring data, Test Subject No. 7’s meridians and acupoints have suffered irreversible damage. If we do not perform emergency rescue or interrupt the rescue, it may completely destroy his meridians."
The head of the laboratory couldn’t help but speak up.
"Interrupt the rescue! The test continues. For the loss of the test subject, I will compensate according to the contract, plus an additional one hundred million from my personal funds. I want to see if he can achieve a miracle in adversity."
"If you don’t issue an order soon, I will replace the head of the research institute!"
Lian Zhancheng presented the head with a choice.
The head hesitated for a few seconds and issued the order: "Interrupt the rescue! The test continues."
The intelligence system responded immediately.
The freezing mist began to dissipate, and the tentacles retracted.
The rescue personnel also quickly withdrew.
The pain on Test Subject No. 7’s face gradually intensified.
The chaotic and violent spirit power, losing its suppression, began to rampage and devastate his meridians.
A scream erupted.
After the meridians were destroyed into fragments, Test Subject No. 7 fainted from the pain.
No miracle!
The head of the research institute and all the staff members showed expressions of disappointment.
In the office,
"Arrange for the eighth test subject as soon as possible!"
Lian Zhancheng picked up the communicator and calmly issued the command before shutting down the virtual screen.
He rubbed his temples.
He wanted to close his eyes and rest, waiting for the eighth test to begin.
Unfortunately, he felt restless and couldn’t calm down.
After seven experiments, with seven highly paid talents, combined with humanity’s most advanced equipment and researchers, the results left him utterly disappointed.
Among more than three hundred genius-level test subjects, even with instruments to enhance perception, none could comprehend the deeper mysteries and characteristics of spirit energy compared to the Chaos Technique.
Moreover, during the seven consecutive tests, even with instruments enhancing their reaction abilities, the seven test subjects still could not successfully channel spirit power into their acupoints and withdraw it upon noticing something was wrong.
Lian Zhancheng couldn’t understand why it was so simple for Yi Chen to create skills, yet other geniuses, even with various top-notch equipment and researchers’ assistance, repeatedly failed without making any progress.
If Yi Chen were here, he would definitely scoff at Lian Zhancheng’s confusion.
Among these geniuses, there are indeed many top talents with cultivation abilities that are not much slower than his.
However, the speed of cultivation is one thing, while creating skills is another.
He can create a set of skills from nothing because his talent in this area is the highest in all of humanity.
Sharp intuition, exceptional perception, powerful comprehension, and unbelievable reaction speed—all four talents must reach the highest level simultaneously to create skills.
If these four talents cannot all reach the top level, then one can only create lower-level skills from a higher realm.
For example, a practitioner at the ninth level of Spirit Release might try to create the most basic entry-level skills.
Even so, it wouldn’t be something that could be achieved in a day or two.
It might take ten years, twenty years, or even longer.
Moreover, it requires a moment of inspiration, a burst of creative insight.
To be able to improve the skills suitable for the first level of Spirit Release, like Yi Chen, is utterly wishful thinking.
Creating a better skill than the improved version of the Chaos Technique is simply impossible.
Because Yi Chen cannot do it right now.
His talent already represents the ceiling of human capability.
The only possibility would be if Yi Chen’s sphere of influence suddenly expanded to millions or tens of millions of square kilometers,
gaining a talent that is several times or dozens of times higher than the strongest talent in humanity, allowing him to create a better improved version of the Chaos Technique at the first level of Spirit Release.
The only one who can defeat Yi Chen is himself, who has gained the Strongest Talent System and can enhance his own talents.
Current advanced human technology, although it greatly enhances those talents, is still far from raising their overall talent in skill creation to Yi Chen’s level.
In the future, as influence grows and talent bonuses increase, this gap will only widen.
Because with the increase in strength, the difficulty of creating skills will only get higher.
Throughout humanity’s ten-thousand-year history, there have been many remarkably talented geniuses who created ways to enhance personal strength.
But no one could take it further, usually stopping at the beginning.
Because the further one goes, the more challenging it becomes.
Yi Chen is the only exception.
He is nearing the limit of being able to create skills.
At the very least, with his current talent, breaking through to a realm higher than Spirit Release and improving the Chaos Technique to suit that realm would definitely not take just three or four days like it did at the first level of Spirit Release.
Creating skills at the same level of realm is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times more difficult than creating lower-level skills.
The higher the realm, the more exponentially the difficulty rises.
Even Yi Chen needs to rely on the Strongest Talent System to continuously enhance his talent if he wants to continue and go further.
For the other geniuses, it’s pointless to even think about it.
