Swallowed Star: Drawing Talents

Virtual Universe, Thunder Island.

‘Whoosh.’

A figure suddenly appeared before the temple. The temple had no servants or attendants; it was empty, filled only with omnipresent chaotic airflow.

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Yang Wu strode inside.

“Senior Brother…”

Walking to the center of the temple’s main hall, Yang Wu stopped and respectfully spoke.

“What is it?”

The chaotic airflow split to both sides, and the Chaos City Lord emerged from the depths of the temple.

“The combat secret technique I created has had some initial success, and I would like to ask Senior Brother to critique it.” Yang Wu said respectfully.

“You’ve finally started creating your own secret techniques.”

The Chaos City Lord said with emotion. Generally, those who reached the peak of the World Lord realm would begin creating their own secret techniques. However, Yang Wu was like someone with nothing to do, leisurely comprehending laws, and when it came to battle, he would just charge in with his fists.

“Show it.” The Chaos City Lord said.

“Yes!”

With a thought, Yang Wu raised his hand and gently tapped the void. A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, leaving a very faint trace in its wake. Suddenly, completely restrained power erupted, and the space cracked like a spider web, densely covered with purple law runes. Then, the entire space shattered and scattered like a mirror.

“Good concept!”

The Chaos City Lord first praised, “However, this concept is too broad, and the difficulty of creating the secret technique will increase accordingly. You might as well narrow the scope of the secret technique’s concept and choose from among several, such as spear, staff, saber, or fist.”

Yang Wu’s secret technique concept was not unique. There had been geniuses once every tens of millions of eras who wanted to create a secret technique with such a concept, but they all ended in failure. Of course, it wasn’t that the secret technique couldn’t be created, but rather that the level of the created secret technique didn’t meet expectations. Originally, they could have created a peak-level secret technique, but because of the broad concept, they could only create a top-tier secret technique.

Too broad a scope…

…is not as good as specializing in one area. “Your self-created secret technique can be considered to have entered the door. Clearly, this secret technique is not yet perfect. If it were perfected, it should be much stronger.”

The Chaos City Lord commented, “However, in the Outer Territory battlefield, you may find it difficult to find suitable opponents to hone your skills. From today onwards, I will arrange some special opponents for you in your training field.”

“Thank you, Senior Brother!”

After Yang Wu respectfully bowed, he disappeared into thin air.

Rain Phase Mountain, Primitive Region.

Inside Yang Wu’s manor’s training field, the training field was no longer a fixed size as before, but had become even more extravagant.

It was like a slaughterhouse with extremely high fees for external operation, with an infinitely vast internal virtual space.

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The training field simulated a universe starry sky. “Buzz~~~”

A blurry shadow suddenly appeared in the universe starry sky, and then gradually solidified.

In the center of endless flames, he was twelve kilometers tall, wearing a simple black armor. The armor did not cover his entire body, and the eyes under his mask were like burning flames.

His arms were bare, with dense fiery red body hair. He held a blood-colored spear about thirty kilometers long, and a powerful aura was gradually spreading out.

The Destroyer Beast lowered its head, overlooking the alien undying being as small as an ant.

Woo~~

A low roar.

The first battle begins!

The opponents arranged by the Chaos City Lord were almost all aimed at the weaknesses of the Destroyer Beast. Only by defeating one opponent would another appear.

According to the Chaos City Lord’s plan, as long as Yang Wu could defeat the 500 opponents he arranged, it would mean that Yang Wu’s self-created secret technique had reached the top level.

If he could defeat 1000, the self-created secret technique would reach the peak level. Defeating 2000 opponents would mean that the self-created secret technique had reached the ultimate level.

Difficult!

Every battle for Yang Wu was difficult. In the virtual universe’s special training field, the Destroyer Beast’s physical fitness was fixed at the initial level of a King, and the talent secret techniques Flame Burst and Time Stop were forbidden.

To exert stronger combat power and defeat the opponents arranged by the Chaos City Lord, he could only rely on his comprehension of the laws to create more powerful secret techniques, and rely on each battle to improve the flaws in his secret techniques.

Moreover,

The strength of the opponents was also very powerful. The weakest of the opponents who appeared were at the initial level of a King, and the strength of the opponents further on became even more perverted. This kind of battle method that targeted the flaws in Yang Wu’s secret techniques made him feel very aggrieved.

It took him a long time to solve each opponent. After each battle, Yang Wu would reflect, study, and improve his secret techniques.

The further he went…

…the more difficult it became.

The time spent solving each opponent became more and more astonishing. It would take as short as ten days or half a month to solve an opponent, and as long as ten years to solve an opponent.

In the virtual universe, time cannot be accelerated, but—

For Yang Wu, who had cheats, there were very few loopholes that he could not grasp and use. Although he devoted himself to researching and creating secret techniques, most of Yang Wu’s consciousness was concentrated in the rapidly running Time Temple to refresh the cooldown time!

Yang Wu had experimented a few times, and extracting experiences could not completely display the entire process, but extracting insights gave him a surprise. The self-created secret technique could be directly extracted.

Although the extracted secret technique was not perfect, it allowed Yang Wu’s self-created secret technique to avoid a major detour, and he foresaw the advantages and disadvantages of the secret technique in advance, which naturally also greatly increased Yang Wu’s speed in defeating opponents.

Time passed.

120 years passed in the original universe. In the universe starry sky simulated by the training field, a body as high as hundreds of kilometers, cast from black rock, stood in the starry sky. A powerful aura emanated from his body.

Endless cold air seeped out from the gaps in this special lifeform’s rock body, and the surrounding space seemed to be frozen, making people palpitate.

Tear!

The Destroyer Beast lightly slapped out a palm. In the next instant, terrifying lightning erupted, and powerful law fluctuations rippled, making the starry sky transformed by the entire training field seem to be in an endless sea of thunder, undulating endlessly.

Boom!

The rock-cast special lifeform’s rock-cast divine body shattered completely like glass under this blow, and finally turned into dust.

“Initial success of the secret technique, peak masterpiece!”

The simulated universe starry sky returned to calm, and Yang Wu was overjoyed. The virtual universe company’s treasure trove had countless secret techniques, whether peak secret techniques or ultimate secret techniques, all of which were open for him to browse.

However, these secret techniques were not his own after all. Cultivating other people’s secret techniques, even if he cultivated ultimate secret techniques, the power he exerted could not match the power of a self-created peak secret technique ultimate secret technique!

First of all, there were many difficulties in learning them, and each ultimate secret technique was basically created by existences like universe overlords. The ultimate secret techniques created based on their comprehension of the laws, after learning them, the self’s own comprehension of the laws simply could not support a few moves.

Peak secret techniques were only one level lower than ultimate secret techniques, and because they were self-created secret techniques, the power exerted by the secret techniques that were most suitable for oneself was naturally greater. Yang Wu spent 120 years.

Plus the 12 times of simulation accelerated by the Time Temple, he finally defeated 1000 opponents and raised his self-created secret technique to the peak secret technique level.

Of course, the opponents challenged from the 1000th to the 1999th were all considered peak secret techniques, so even if they were both peak secret techniques, the gap was still very large. It was normal for the difference to be several times or even more than ten times.

Self-created secret techniques were undoubtedly the key for a strong person to improve their combat power.

If it was an ordinary secret technique.

If it was just spear techniques or staff techniques, then even if he created a peak secret technique, Yang Wu would not need to spend so much time.

But Yang Wu’s requirements were too high.

Not limited to weapons such as sabers and spears, this set of secret techniques could be used with both body parts and weapons, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of creating the secret techniques.

On the surface, it was 120 years!

In fact, including the simulation time and the time for creating secret techniques in the simulation, it added up to nearly ten thousand years.

Each simulation.

That 1000 years was basically spent on creating secret techniques. Yang Wu’s simulation of the future had never been so simple.

Although simple—.

But it was also fulfilling enough. Creating secret techniques was a process of summarizing what he had learned, discovering shortcomings, and making up for progress.

Yang Wu also enjoyed it. Time…

…passed quickly in Yang Wu’s self-created secret techniques.