"I’ve added another twenty years to my life span, so even if I originally was meant to live only until forty, now I can easily make it into the twenty-second century." For some reason, Zhang Yanhang always had an inexplicable obsession with living across centuries.
"Now that I have some Slow Corrosion left over, I might as well continue upgrading." Zhang Yanhang counted out 81 Little Black Balls from a large pile on the bed and crushed them all.
[Detected a Subordinate Talent ’Longevity’ in your Talent list, would you like to merge Talents?]
"Yes, merge them." Zhang Yanhang did some quick calculations—if the requirement for upgrading a Talent really tripled each time, then upgrading his Talent to a higher rank would probably require 243 Slow Corrosion. Indeed, because of the tripling, the number of required Slow Corrosion Talents instantly escalated to three digits.
[You have obtained Rank A Talent ’Longevity’.]
After upgrading his Talent from Rank B to A, Zhang Yanhang glanced again at the effects of his Talent.
[Ability One: Unwearied— Constitution +4（+1）.]
[Ability Two: Energetic— Physical Strength +130%（+30%）.] This content belongs to novel·fiɾe·net
[Ability Three: Longevity— Life Span +80 years（+20 years）.]
"Looks like I really do need 243 Slow Corrosions, that’s way too many," Zhang Yanhang thought. He had killed over a thousand Zombies to garner just 114 Slow Corrosion Talents, which meant, conservatively estimating, he’d need to kill more than two thousand Zombies to gather 243.
Moreover, since he had upgraded his Talent to Rank A, his previously three-digit count of Slow Corrosion Talents was now, ludicrously, just 19. Meaning, for the next upgrade, Zhang Yanhang would need to accumulate another 224 Slow Corrosion Talents.
"This time it’s also added another twenty years to my life span, and my Constitution increased by two points compared to when it was Rank C."
Although he had added another twenty years, this time Zhang Yanhang refrained from making any short-lived ghost comparisons, because now with an addition of eighty years to his life, only if his life span was less than twenty years would there be a chance of not making it into the 22nd century. But he was already twenty years old, and in four more months, he would turn twenty-one.
So now, if he continued with the short-lived ghost analogy, it would create a paradox: unless he were to suddenly drop dead on the spot, his life span would definitely not be under twenty years.
After taking an inventory of his Soul points, Artifacts, Equipment, and Talents, Zhang Yanhang finally finished organizing his complete gains from the 132 Treasure boxes this time.
After sorting out the contents from the Treasure boxes, Zhang Yanhang initially thought about immediately starting the upgrade, but then he suddenly remembered something; among the items dropped by a Police Zombie was a Profession, SWAT, which he dismissed for being too weak.
"So the question arises, how do I obtain my Profession? It’s been empty before... Could it be that it also needs to be retrieved from a Treasure box, just like that SWAT Profession?"
The moment Zhang Yanhang finished saying this, he felt the environment around him change, and time abruptly paused—he had, once more, triggered an option even though he wasn’t opening any Treasure box.
"The frequency of today’s Time Pauses is really a bit too much," Zhang Yanhang remarked briefly before focusing on the text box of the option.
[Do you want to take up the profession ’Heavenly Destiny Master’?]
[Option One: Yes (After taking the ’Heavenly Destiny Master’ Profession, the Multiple Choice Talent will be enhanced, and you will gain a series of strength improvements brought by the Profession.)]
[Option Two: No (Refuse the ’Talent Dominator’ Profession, Multiple Choice Talent will immediately initiate option lockdown and be permanently unsealable, you will become a forever un-promotable lowest-tier unemployed person in society, and thereafter miserably live out your solitary life.)]
[Option Three: Think again (Your indecisiveness prevents you from making a decision immediately, you decide to think it over, but until you make a real decision, you will also receive a permanent option lockdown from Multiple Choice Talent.)]
"So, this option is essentially forcing me to take up the ’Heavenly Destiny Master’ Profession? This coercive encouragement is really strong..." Zhang Yanhang was genuinely taken aback by the situation, never expecting a casual mention about Profession to trigger such a decisively significant option.
"Besides, why does the name ’Heavenly Destiny Master’ look more and more familiar?" Zhang Yanhang carefully recalled, and was astonished to find that it was a name he had fabricated during a visit to relevant authorities to register his Talent a fortnight ago because he had used it only once half a month ago, Zhang Yanhang didn’t immediately remember it.
Currently, the name printed on Zhang Yanhang’s Awakener license was ’Heavenly Destiny Master’.
Of course, this involved quite a complex story that needed to be carefully elaborated upon.
About half a year ago, the Empire announced the Spiritual Qi Recovery, and at the same time, they also revealed a Cultivation Technique—Heaven and Earth Creation Technique—that even the most ungifted ordinary person could cultivate.
According to the information provided by the Empire, this Heaven and Earth Creation Technique was originally a secret Cultivation Technique from the grand library of the Imperial Royal Family. Later, the Empire gathered a large batch of Elder level cultivators to specially modify this Cultivation Technique, allowing even the most ungifted ordinary person to operate and cultivate it successfully.
Over the past six months, Zhang Yanhang had been cultivating this technique. Initially, he spent two months just to barely reach the Entry Level, followed by another month to cultivate to the First Layer, then two more months to reach the Second Layer, and there are a total of Ten Layers in the First Tier part of the cultivation technique, which requires breaking through a bottleneck to advance to the Second Tier.
The reason Zhang Yanhang’s progress in cultivation was so slow? It was because his qualifications, even among ordinary people, were relatively poor—more on the lower end of average.
Then, a month ago, just as Zhang Yanhang.break learned that he had awakened a Superpower Silent Awakening of the superpower was in fact not uncommon with such cultivation breakthroughs. The Empire explained that a sharp emotional fluctuation in humans at the moment of breakthrough might increase the chances of awakening a Superpower.