Chapter 146: Time Acceleration Cultivation! Terrifying Effect!

TL: Etude

Ye Tian was extremely curious about the specific effects of the basic level time talent. He communicated with the time talent mark in his consciousness and quickly learned about its abilities.

The basic level time talent had three abilities: time perception, time acceleration, and time deceleration. Time perception allowed one to sense the flow of time in a location. This might seem trivial, but in areas where time flowed differently, this ability was invaluable. It prevented one from entering an area with a significantly slower passage of time, unwittingly spending days inside while years passed outside.

Time acceleration could speed up time in a specific area. With the basic level time talent, Ye Tian could accelerate time by up to three times. Similarly, he could also decelerate time by three times. If used in combat, slowing down the time in the enemy's area by three times would effectively reduce their thought process, reaction, and speed by the same amount, a truly fearsome prospect.

However, the true value of time acceleration lay in cultivation.

"Accelerating time by three times during cultivation means three days of my training is equivalent to one day for others (damn wtfff). Doesn't that mean my cultivation speed can increase by three times? And with the second-rate top-level energy cultivation secret art, which increases effectiveness by four times, my cultivation speed will skyrocket!"

Elated by this revelation, Ye Tian began studying the Azure Energy Secret Art. After half a day, he fully understood it and commenced his cultivation.

"Time acceleration!"

He activated the 3x time acceleration, but soon noticed a problem. Maintaining the time acceleration consumed his own energy. Without a time array design, he could only use his own energy to sustain the threefold time acceleration.

"Cultivation can replenish energy, but this way, the amplification effect won't reach three times," Ye Tian pondered with a frown.

Moreover, using time acceleration had a drawback: it consumed three times his lifespan. However, this was not a significant issue for Ye Tian, with a lifespan of 800 years and still being young.

He proceeded with cultivating the Azure Energy Secret Art. After a day, he found that his cultivation speed had increased by eightfold in reality. The original 12x effectiveness (3x from time acceleration and 4x from the secret art) was reduced to 8x due to the need to replenish his energy with the spiritual energy of the world.

Even so, an 8x increase in cultivation speed was astonishing.

"Normally, I could increase 45 acupoints in a month. Now, with an 8x increase, that means…"

Ye Tian laughed heartily. In less than a month, he could advance to the ultimate king level, probably becoming the fastest cultivator in the Zhonghai Super Base.

"I'll exit seclusion once I reach the ultimate king level!" he set his short-term goal.

After more than twenty days, Ye Tian concluded his secluded cultivation and deactivated his time acceleration ability.

"My physical strength has reached the ultimate king level with 10,000 elephants, and I can't improve further. My speed has also increased manyfold, and with the pseudo-mystic level speed talent, my speed is now on par with Holy Maiden Xiyue!" Ye Tian mused.

By his calculations, his attack power had reached 7.2 dragon force.

Now, Ye Tian realized there were only two ways to increase his attack power and break the Battle Axe Emperor's record at the king level. The first was to cultivate a gold-level blade technique, which was a difficult task since gold-level techniques were highly secret in the Zhonghai Super Base and beyond his means to acquire, even through trade with powerful individuals in the Loose Cultivators Alliance.

The second method was to copy a pseudo-mystic level strength talent, a somewhat simpler approach. There were definitely possessors of such talent in the Zhonghai Super Base, with the Battle Axe Emperor being one of them. However, the emperor might not be in the base, so copying his talent would depend on luck.

"Copying someone else's talent seems the best approach. Those ranked high on the King's List must have pseudo-mystic level strength talents," Ye Tian speculated.

Thus, over the next few days, Ye Tian began to inquire about the whereabouts of those ranked at the top of the King's List. Five days later, he received news that Qin Zhantian, ranked second on the list, was currently in the War God Tower and had already been there for two days.

Upon hearing this, Ye Tian immediately headed to the War God Tower, blending into the crowd and waiting patiently. He believed Qin Zhantian wouldn't stay in the tower for long, as he was probably there to comprehend the War God Stele. It was unlikely for someone to stay there indefinitely unless they had an abundance of resources.

As expected, on the fourth day, Qin Zhantian emerged, and Ye Tian, who had been waiting, caught sight of him. His copy talent had just finished its cooldown period and was ready for use again.

Casting his copy talent over Qin Zhantian, he revealed the latter's talent status:

Name: Qin Zhantian

Cultivation Talent: Morning Star Level

Strength Talent: Pseudo-Mystic Level (50%)

Spear Technique Talent: Intermediate

Defense Talent: Pseudo-Mystic Level (20%)

Speed Talent: Pseudo-Mystic Level (10%)

Ye Tian was taken aback by Qin Zhantian's incredible talents. Although his cultivation talent was only Morning Star Level, lower than Holy Maiden Xiyue's Moonlight Level, his other talents were monstrous. He possessed three pseudo-mystic level talents in the fundamental areas of speed, strength, and defense, without a single flaw, and even had an intermediate spear technique talent. If his spear technique had been top-level, he could have broken the Battle Axe Emperor's attack power record.

Ye Tian realized such talent was not innate but rather cultivated, likely at a great cost. Qin Zhantian was a grandson of the founder of the Qin Sect, who was a top-ranked martial Emperor. Despite his ordinary innate talent, he had been nurtured into the second-ranked warrior on the King's List. However, it seemed even the Zhonghai Super Base couldn't enhance a talent above the Morning Star Level.

Fortunate for having the copy talent, Ye Tian could copy any talent, even cultivation talents, an advantage no genius possessed.

"Copy pseudo-mystic level talents, copy defense talent!" Ye Tian copied Qin Zhantian's two talents and then left the War God Tower to return home.

"Integrate pseudo-mystic level strength talent!" he said, full of anticipation.

Soon, the integration was complete.

[Strength Talent: Pseudo-Mystic Level (50%)]

Testing his strength, Ye Tian found that the 50% pseudo-mystic level strength talent increased his power by 40 times.