Chapter 116: The Origin of the Prodigy of the World Essence

After scanning the world of fluctuating world essence around him, Gune slowly withdrew his gaze.

Then, Gune gradually focused his mind and directed his perception toward his dark essence.

“Compared to the third reincarnation, the improvement in dark essence comprehension after this fourth reincarnation is about fourfold; previously it was just over twofold.”

“Logically, the world essence should also have undergone a fourfold transformation and improvement; there shouldn’t have been such a drastic change.”

“Since such an extraordinary change has occurred, there must be a reason.”

“Was it that great Dominator? Or… was it the eruption of my reincarnation accumulation?”

Gune began to meticulously search for the cause of this change.

After all, once he found it, it would provide him with a direction to further elevate his talent, even to the level of a prodigy of essence.

This was the formidable talent of the “Prodigy of Essence” level—a great talent that allowed one to perceive the essence of essence with just a casual glance.

In ancient mythological history, “Prodigies of Essence” were exceedingly rare.

Even within the extraordinary manuscripts brought by ancient alien starry sky powerhouses, they were merely legendary supreme products.

“There are two possible directions. One is that I witnessed the existence of a great Dominator being and thus obtained the transformation of the world essence prodigy talent.”

“It’s possible, but I don’t think it’s likely.”

“The second direction is… the ‘accumulated eruption’ from long-term reincarnation precipitation.”

Gune gently rubbed his fingers.

“Over the past year or so, I have continuously used the reincarnation function to precipitate and even elevate my extraordinary talent.”

“The precipitation of my physical extraordinary talent manifests as my ability to easily master various physical force techniques. Even when I watched combat-type and shadow-type extraordinary beings fight in the Blood Source Cage, my body naturally mastered their techniques after just one viewing.”

“But this is only the learning ability after the transformation of physical talent; learning ability is just a deeper manifestation. I think my physical talent, besides the improvement in learning and comprehension with each instance, has also precipitated more talent deep within my body.”

“Secondly, my soul—the manifestation in the soul aspect is even more obvious.”

“With each reincarnation, the strength and capacity of the soul sharply decrease, but I have no idea what aspect improves.”

“One form of manifestation is that I can bear more spell runes.”

“Now it seems that the extraordinary talent has been continuously precipitating within me, and finally, after this particularly large talent improvement, it reached a critical point. The essence I perceive most clearly—the world essence—underwent an ultimate transformation, making me a prodigy of that essence in terms of ‘world essence’.”

“And the method to verify this answer is also simple.”

As he pondered, Gune turned his gaze to the barrier of the Dominator’s self-seal.

“Just take another look at that great being.” A hint of a smile curled at the corner of Gune’s mouth.

“Regardless, the gains this time are truly substantial.”

“Not to mention the situation of comprehending the level of world essence.”

“Even the speed of comprehending dark essence and destruction essence has increased more than thirtyfold compared to when I first entered!”

“Now, one day of comprehension equals a month of comprehension before.”

“With just a few years of cultivation and comprehension, the depth of my dark essence and destruction essence comprehension will quickly catch up to those senior extraordinary masters who have cultivated for decades or even centuries.”

“And as for world essence, the speed will likely be even faster.”

“Secondly… the condensation of my demonic rune!”

As he thought, Gune’s perception had already entered the second layer.

The faint call of “Ku~~la~~gru~~” was now barely perceptible unless Gune listened carefully.

At this point, the call of “Ku~~la~~gru~~” was not only non-lethal but could hardly even affect Gune.

As long as Gune wished, he could now easily condense the “demonic rune.”

Immediately, Gune focused his mind and continued to perceive deeper layers.

The seventh layer, the eighth layer, the ninth layer.

Each layer, in Gune’s perception, was very safe, with no negative effects.

Clearly, the effect of entering the core layer earlier was so immense that the effects of these outer layers became negligible.

With a thought, Gune’s perception directly entered the innermost core layer.

Then.

Gune saw an object resembling a dandelion, emitting a gentle radiance, quietly floating in this silent space.

It seemed to be sleeping, or perhaps meditating, or maybe gently drifting!

Gune saw it but could not perceive its specific state at all.

At the same time, Gune felt he was about to die.

Though he had suffered no harm, Gune felt he was dying.

Last time, Gune thought he had seen it, but an ineffable force seemed to erase the memory of seeing it at the same time.

And after developing resistance to that bizarre memory-erasing force from the previous encounter,

this time, Gune could not only see but also remember it.

But Gune’s direct gaze at this great sleeping Dominator being

also caused him to be subjected to an unknown force of annihilation.

Gune was about to die, and he knew it well.

“Can’t I even take a look while it’s asleep?”

The unknown annihilating force began to erode and destroy Gune’s body, soul, and energy step by step.

When everything returned to nothingness, all of Gune’s existence vanished completely.

Then Gune clicked reincarnation.

Moments later, Gune was reborn for the fifth time.

Inside the small cave stone chamber.

The stream babbled softly, its sound blooming gently in the room.

At this moment, Gune was no longer sitting cross-legged in front of the Dominator’s sealed barrier.

Instead, he paced back and forth in the small stone room, pondering something.

Meanwhile, Gune’s remaining reincarnation count had sharply decreased to three, and his realm had, after these five reincarnations, reached the early third-order level.

This reincarnation brought a certain improvement in Gune’s essence comprehension—about thirty to forty percent.

Gune was not surprised by this.

After all, just now, when Gune stared directly at the dandelion-like “Kulagru,” the force slowly killed him.

Clearly, the lethal bizarre force was not that terrifying, so after being transformed and absorbed into talent, it was somewhat weaker.

However, an additional thirty to forty percent improvement on the original foundation was already quite remarkable.

But at this moment, Gune was not focused on this aspect.

Rather, he was thinking about the origin of the world essence prodigy from earlier.

“Clearly, this time, the direction was not that dandelion-like Kulagru. The likely source direction is the accumulation of talent precipitation from my reincarnations, finally reaching a critical point of transformation.”

“Huh…”

Gune exhaled softly.

“Indeed, the system is still overpowered!”

“It actually granted me talent at the level of a world essence prodigy.”

“The only pity is that I haven’t yet learned any spell incantation texts that utilize world essence.”

“I have no way to unleash the power of world essence. But generally, spell incantation texts containing the power of world essence are only obtainable by extraordinary masters at the master level.”

“It’s normal that I can’t get them now.”

“The slow death just now basically confirmed that this lethal type of strange power no longer poses a significant threat to me. If I look again, it would only be death caused by the power of the Dominator Kulagru itself.”

“That kind of death would be pointless, without any meaning.”

“At this point, the reincarnations are essentially over.”

“So next…”

Gune gently rubbed his palms, a smile appearing on his face.

“It’s… the condensation of the demonic rune.”