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When people cannot see the most intuitive data, it becomes very easy for them to choose to give up.
But now, the personal attribute panel could display one’s abilities and skills in the most direct way. Even if it could not guarantee that every bit of effort would be rewarded in kind, as long as it could show one’s own condition, many people would gain a far stronger motivation, driving themselves to keep striving forward.
This point alone already counted as a fortuitous encounter.
As for innate talents, according to the information transmitted by the Guixu wristwatch, they were innate abilities possessed by every person. Every living being had them; the only difference was strength. For example, if a person had extremely high attainments in painting, learned it with half the effort and twice the results, and could infer many things from one example, then that meant they possessed a talent for painting. If they could see that, they could study and cultivate themselves in that direction.
There were many ordinary types of talents like this, such as deft hands, farming, and so on.
There were also many extraordinary talents, such as flame, frost, and earth control, which could unleash all sorts of miraculous powers. When one mastered abilities corresponding to one’s own talent, all of them could be cultivated with twice the result for half the effort, allowing one to completely clarify the direction of one’s own talent.
And talents had ranks.
They were divided into Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Whether there were ranks above Gold was not shown on the Guixu wristwatch.
Ji Tianhao looked at his own talent.
“Black Hole. My talent is actually Black Hole. I used to think it was just a black sealed space. I never imagined it would actually be a black hole. If the Guixu wristwatch hadn’t shown it, I wouldn’t have believed it even if you beat me to death.”
Ji Tianhao looked at the ability appearing in the talent column. Not only did he have a talent, it was also one that could directly manifest an extraordinary ability. Outwardly, this was what Blue Star called a special ability. First came the talent, then came the special ability.
Black Hole
Origin: Growth Type
Rank: Black Iron [Ultimate]
Divine Ability: Spacetime Singularity [Black Iron]
Spacetime Singularity is the core characteristic of a black hole. It can compress and fuse all matter into the singularity, and can gather the power of spacetime. Within the singularity, space can be derived.
“Black Hole. So my talent is Black Hole. The dark space I’ve been using all along is an ability derived from the black hole. Spacetime Singularity, singularity space—the true Black Hole talent has many more abilities that haven’t been developed at all. Even my previous understanding of my own ability had deviated. If I’m not mistaken, the true ability of a black hole is the black hole itself, which devours everything.”
Ji Tianhao pondered silently in his heart. This talent had not been developed at all. His use of it had been far too crude; or rather, he had never made the black hole truly revolve. When his mind sank into his head, he could clearly see a tiny black void appearing within his sea of consciousness. What he had previously been able to perceive was only the black space inside that void. The space was not very large, only one thousand cubic meters.
Its length, width, and height were all ten meters.
Time inside it was completely still. Whatever was placed inside could be taken out in exactly the same state. A cup of hot tea, after being placed inside for a month, would still be steaming hot when taken out. It was a little small, but its advantage lay in safety. The reason he had been able to make a name for himself in the Dark World, and even be called Divine Hand—meaning that as long as he made a move, there was no trouble he could not solve and no mission he could not complete—was precisely because of it.
Many high-precision instruments that foreign countries forbade from entering or leaving their borders could usually be delivered very quickly as long as he accepted the task. He only needed to take a trip abroad, and the item would appear at the designated location.
This was also why the Kunlun jade disc had found him to accept the mission.
In the past, he had only thought that with this dark space, he could move goods and handle transport jobs. Who would have thought that this was merely a partial manifestation of his true talent? His real talent was actually Black Hole.
Even if its current rank was only Black Iron Ultimate, it was still the highest status within the Black Iron level. No Black Iron-level talent or ability could restrict or bind it. It possessed the highest priority. In other words, unless an ability was likewise at the Ultimate level, no one in the same rank could restrain or counter the abilities derived from the Black Hole talent—that is, its divine abilities or special abilities.
“Broken, Incomplete, Flawed, Flawless, Perfect, Ultimate. For the same talent, compared with an Incomplete-level talent, even if both talents are flame, the ability derived from the Incomplete-level talent will inevitably surpass that derived from the Broken-level talent in power. This is the gap in quality.”
Ji Tianhao felt a trace of understanding.
This meant that if an Incomplete-level flame ability was restrained using a water-attribute ability, then an ability driven by a Broken-level talent absolutely would not be able to extinguish that Incomplete-level flame. Or rather, with the same amount of magical power and the same strength, in a collision, the flame would definitely win. A lower position could not counter a higher one.
And the Black Hole talent belonged to the Ultimate level. In other words, within the same rank in the world, there was no ability or divine ability that could be said to absolutely counter the talent ability of Black Hole.
For example, with his current Spacetime Singularity ability, even in certain areas where space was sealed, as long as the other party within the same rank had not reached the upper position of Ultimate level, he could take in objects whenever he wanted and take them out whenever he wanted. He could act without restriction. This was the gap between a higher position and a lower one.
“However, although I didn’t know the name of the Black Hole talent, I had used Spacetime Singularity before, so I have some idea of it. The problem is, what is going on with this Gemini talent? How did I never know before that I actually had dual talents?”
A powerful curiosity could not help but arise in Ji Tianhao’s heart.
He immediately looked at his second talent, Gemini.
Gemini
Origin: Special Type
Rank: Black Iron [Ultimate]
Divine Ability: Twin Life [Black Iron]
Twin Life. Your birth was a miracle. Two souls of the same root and origin coexist within one body. However, the other soul has no consciousness and is entirely blank, yet it is perfectly fused with you. With Twin Life, you may use the second soul to do anything. It will be the most trustworthy part of you. It can be refined into an external incarnation. The original body and the avatar share Twin Life; as long as they do not die at the same time, either body can be reborn.
“Twin Life. There is actually another soul hidden inside my body. How is that possible? I never sensed it before. Could it be because I was an identical twin? Mom once said that when she first had a checkup after getting pregnant, they found that she was carrying twins. Was that true? It’s just that something happened during gestation, and my twin brother was unable to continue developing, instead merging with me. The earlier examination results weren’t wrong.”
Ji Tianhao recalled something he had never taken to heart before.
When he was young, while chatting with his mother, he had heard that during the prenatal checkup in the second month, they had found that she was pregnant with twins. At the time, they had naturally been very happy. But during the checkup in the third month, they discovered that the twins had become one, and the other had vanished just like that.
Back then, it had caused quite a stir in the hospital.
They had specially carried out all sorts of comprehensive examinations. In the end, they could only give two possible conclusions. One was that the other gestational sac of the twins had failed to survive and had naturally disappeared. The other was that there had been a malfunction in the equipment during the earlier examination, causing an incorrect result.
Because of that, the hospital had even issued a special apology.
His family had also believed that it was probably just an equipment malfunction and a mistake. After Ji Tianhao was born, this matter became an amusing anecdote, a topic of conversation within the family.
Now it seemed that it had not been an equipment error at all. Instead, the original identical twins had truly merged into one again, causing the other newly born soul to instinctively fuse into one body. It was just that this soul had not grown, and had always remained blank. If not for the Guixu wristwatch now allowing him to examine his own condition, he feared that even until death, he might never have known about this matter. This blank soul, which was closely connected to him and shared the same origin, would also have aged, sickened, died, and vanished without a trace along with him.
“There really is a blank soul inside my body. It’s in my mind—that should be the location of the sea of consciousness. If I hadn’t known, I wouldn’t have been able to sense it at all.”
When Ji Tianhao closed his eyes, it was as if a special perception emerged from the unseen. He could sense that within the pitch-black sea of consciousness in his mind, not only was there a tiny black hole, there was also a round sphere flickering with white light. This sphere was none other than the manifestation of the other blank soul inside his body.
This was the effect of the Guixu wristwatch.
Or perhaps, after entering this mysterious place, some wondrous change had already occurred without him realizing it. As a result, he had gained a far stronger ability to perceive himself, as well as all the data displayed in his attribute column.
“It’s just that although I have dual talents, neither of the two talents has awakened a combat-type ability. For now, I can only look at them. They can’t provide the fighting strength I urgently need. Facing the unknown Guixu, I still have to be extremely cautious.”
Ji Tianhao pondered silently.
He did not believe that having dual talents made him superior to others or allowed him to act without scruples. In an unfamiliar environment, that would be courting death.
Before finding a cultivation method, the abilities derived from his talents were his greatest reliance for fighting and survival. The Spacetime Singularity derived from the Black Hole talent would become his important guarantee for storing supplies.
“Next, I have to think of a way to store enough supplies to ensure my daily needs. With grain in hand, the heart does not panic.”
Ji Tianhao immediately made a decision. As a hotel—and a large star-rated hotel at that—there would definitely be a storage warehouse for supplies. He had seen before that the hotel had a restaurant. If there was a restaurant, there would be all kinds of stored ingredients.
Those ingredients were his target.
Whoosh!!
At that moment, with a thought, a jade disc appeared in his hand. At a glance, there was a jade disc in both his left and right hands. Moreover, judging by their appearance, they were simply identical. Their color, size, and style had not the slightest difference.
“Making a show of repairing the plank road while secretly crossing Chencang. I was already prepared to pass off the fake as the real and shed my shell like a golden cicada, but who would have thought I’d end up falling into this sinkhole? I wonder what mystical qualities this Kunlun jade disc has.”
Ji Tianhao’s gaze moved back and forth over the two jade discs.