I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 259: Chapter 254: Void Dominator (Orange): The Genius Battle Ends (2-in-1)

[Name]Void Dominator (Orange)

[Type]Active Talent

[Introduction]You are the master of the void, able to easily perceive the mysteries of space. Your abilities are as follows:

1. Void Walking: Freely traverse between the void and reality

2. Void Passage: Open stable spatial passages

3. Spatial Force Field: Create a spatial domain where attack trajectories are altered, and enemies within can be restrained or torn apart.

4. Void Exile: Banish targets into chaotic void currents

Qin Tian felt the awakened talent, silvery light flowing in his eyes. As he gently raised his hand, the air before him rippled like water, revealing a dazzling starry river—this was not an illusion, but a real void fissure.

Even more terrifying was that he felt he could merge into this void at any moment, as naturally as returning home.

“Is this…what it feels like to truly master space?”

With a mere thought, his figure vanished from the cultivation room, appearing the next second on a terrace a hundred meters away, the entire process not causing any spatial fluctuation, as if he had always existed there.

Void Dominator, truly worthy of its name!

Qin Tian smirked, and compared to the previously purely supportive Black Gate, [Void Dominator] boasted multiple functions including teleportation, blinking, attack, and control.

Especially the short-distance void walking, silent and stealthy, made his combat and escape capabilities reach a new height.

With the talent evolution complete, he achieved his goal for the day, and now it was Kazik’s turn.

With a flash of white light, Kazik appeared beside him.

Swish swish swish~

Kazik swung its blade arms, making a sharp sound from its mandibles, complaining every time it appeared, as its owner was always running around.

Supposedly, it was promised ample hunting opportunities, but most of the time it was left idle in the Beast Taming Space, leaving it extremely frustrated.

Qin Tian felt a bit embarrassed, scratched his nose, and said:

“Kazik, how about I find you a female mantis? You know, when you’re bored…”

“Sss sss sss~”

Kazik seemed both angry and embarrassed, its eyes glowing with purple light, while steam shot from the pores on its back.

“Alright, alright, just forget it, didn’t expect you to be such an innocent little mantis.”

Qin Tian waved his hand, turns out, even insects know that to become strong, one must avoid distractions from romance.

Romance is a bone-scraping knife, the source of all downfall.

Therefore – when will I get to experience the “pain” of bone-scraping.

Although, I’m still just a baby.

“The Essence of the Void Dragon will be entrusted to you in the future.”

Qin Tian willed it, first extracting a drop from the remaining half bottle of blood.

Kazik didn’t have his robust constitution; a direct consumption of half a bottle would make Kazik explode in less than two seconds.

“Catch it!”

The dark silvery blood drop floated in the air, and Kazik’s compound eyes locked onto it instantly, as a top hunter, it instinctively felt the terrifying power contained within this drop of blood.

Kazik eagerly opened its sharp mandibles, absorbing the dark silver Dragon Blood Essence into its body. In that instant, its compound eyes suddenly contracted, and its entire body trembled violently as if struck by lightning.

“Crack.. crack crack…”

A chilling sound of carapace cracking echoed continually, and countless fine silver cracks appeared on the layer of its hard chitin outer shell. These cracks spread like living things, rapidly covering its entire body. What’s more astonishing was, an unfathomable void light emanated from these cracks, as if a miniature cosmos was being nurtured within its body.

“Hiss—”

Following a painful hiss, Kazik suddenly stiffened on the spot. Its body twitched unconsciously, the shine in its compound eyes quickly dimmed, a layer of silvery light cocoon seeped from its body, soon enveloping it entirely.

Qin Tian’s expression tensed: “This is…forced evolution?”

The surface of the light cocoon fluctuated with mysterious spatial patterns, expanding and contracting, as if breathing.

Through the semi-transparent cocoon wall, one could vaguely see the astonishing changes happening to Kazik’s body—its back armor restructuring, blade arms elongating, even its entire physique was slowly stretching.

The strangest thing was that the space inside the cocoon seemed self-contained.

Qin Tian attempted to probe, but found his Divine Sense completely blocked out, the Void Law contained within this dragon blood was performing a full-scale transformation on Kazik.

“Seems like it’ll needs some time to awaken…”

Qin Tian carefully put the light cocoon into the Beast Taming Space, he could feel that when Kazik breaks out of the cocoon, it would be altogether transformed, becoming a true Void Species.

Having completed all this, Qin Tian looked out the window, at that moment, the sky took on a fish-belly white hue, the morning sun just beginning to rise.

The much-anticipated Talent Battles were about to commence.

…

The battle tournament of the Talent Battles isn’t literally about dueling on stage.

For Tier Five experts, a stage would limit many people’s performance, especially detrimental for some mages.

And for this tournament, the location was an island, both the island’s land and the surrounding sea fell within the venue range.

There were no spatial limitations.

Just one rule, use all means necessary to defeat the opponent.

At nine in the morning, the draw ceremony began.

Among the 16 contestants, five were seeded and wouldn’t meet in the first round, Fu Ning, Yue Shenghe, and Wu Ziyan were prominently among them. But to many people’s surprise, the popular Zhuge Yu was not a seeded contestant.

Of course, online professionals also provided explanations.

Zhuge Yu’s role is that of a commander, a master controller, but one-on-one duels are not his strong suit.

Qin Tian sat in the VIP area, where he could clearly see the contestants’ every move through several split screens.

Very soon, the first round draw results came out.

Coincidentally, Zhuge Yu’s first-round opponent happened to be his former teammate, Zhong Liying.

Seeing this result, Zhuge Yu and Zhong Liying exchanged a glance, Zhuge Yu’s squinting eyes revealed nothing, while Zhong Liying first smiled at him, followed by a look of calm acceptance.

No choice, as a Four Star Genius not considered among the top, making it this far was already very difficult.

No matter who she encountered, the odds of winning this battle were slim.

Losing to others was worse than losing to her teammate.

The first-round knockout had sixteen opponents and eight duels, one after another, each fight was extremely exciting, and the Talent Battle’s popularity exploded, dominating the top ten headlines in the Star Realm.

Fu Ning, Yue Shenghe, Zhuge Yu, Wu Ziyan, Shangguan Lei… all the star contestants advanced to the next round.

The quarterfinals to semifinals will take place at the same time tomorrow.

Quarterfinals, semifinals, finals

Three rounds of matches to be completed within a week.

To no one’s surprise, the final match indeed was Fu Ning VS Yue Shenghe.

One was the extreme of attack, the other the invincible defense.

The strongest spear, against, the strongest shield.

This duel directly set a new record for Talent Battles, becoming the most watched duel ever.

Many who hadn’t been following the Talent Battles were drawn in by the previous incidents and waves, watched the rest of the Talent Battles to the end.

In the end, Fu Ning narrowly won with a Celestial Sword Slash that pierced Yue Shenghe’s Dragon Immortal Panlong, thus claiming the championship of this year’s Talent Battles.

Countless flowers, honors, endorsements poured towards Fu Ning like a tide, yet this pure Sword Cultivator didn’t care for such things, apart from accepting the Dongfang Clan’s interview and award ceremony, he no longer appeared in the public eye.

Not only Fu Ning, after experiencing a life-and-death crisis, every talent washed away impetuousness, focusing more attention on improving their strength.

Strength is the fundamental of a Spiritualist.

A week after the Talent Battles ended, all official arrangements concluded, and it was time for everyone’s journey home.

Qin Tian too must leave Azure Wood Star, returning to his destined place.