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Chapter 405 God's Chosen Talent
Chapter 405 God's Chosen Talent
In the Dimensional Stomach Bag Prison, Medusa hugged the giant python nervously, Bai Nen's arm unconsciously became stronger and stronger, and the indestructible scales of the giant python were strangled and deformed.
At this time, Lin Mingyuan was trying to open the portal to the outside world.
Lin Mingyuan will try to open a portal every time his space law improves by one percent. This is Lin Mingyuan's 15th attempt in the past six months, and it is also the one most likely to succeed.
The last time Lin Mingyuan was very close to success, but the portal he opened was not very stable yet. The mature and prudent Lin Mingyuan decided to be steady, and wait until his mastery of the law of space breaks through 15.00%, and then try again with absolute certainty.
The oval-shaped portal expanded from the size of a faint bean to the size of a person, and the light blue space-time energy was rippling in the stable portal structure.
"It's done!" Lin Mingyuan clenched his fists excitedly and waved violently, his agitated heart was hard to calm down.
Medusa flew over and hugged Lin Mingyuan tightly, two lines of tears dripped down her delicate cheeks, and sobbed, "I thought I was going to be imprisoned in the Dimensional Stomach Prison for 1 years, thank you Lin Mingyuan, thank you very much."
Lin Mingyuan was only a little more excited than Medusa. Medusa was only imprisoned for six months. For Lin Mingyuan, who was practicing in the [Standing Time Room] with ten times accelerated time, nearly six years had passed.
In the past, Lin Mingyuan's use of the resident room to retreat was often counted in years, but Lin Mingyuan never felt depressed, because at that time Lin Mingyuan was free, and he could go wherever he wanted, even though he didn't know how to go anywhere.
Active seclusion and being passively imprisoned are completely different things. Especially when Lin Mingyuan was imprisoned, the outside world experienced so many changes, and Black Rock City was captured. Lin Mingyuan's depression increased day by day, and he became more and more impatient.
After cheering and celebrating for a while, Lin Mingyuan and Medusa still decided to leave the dimensional stomach prison of the original sin witch Helena as soon as possible, fearing that things would change if it was too late.
Medusa looked at the giant body of the worldly python and looked at the portal as tall as a person, and she was a little troubled: "The two of us can pass through the portal, what about the worldly python?"
Medusa will definitely not abandon the worldly python, if not for the secondment of a batch of supplies for the cultivation of the worldly python, she would not be locked up by the original sin witch.
"Leave it to me." Today, Lin Mingyuan's knowledge of space has been very profound. He walked up to the giant snake of the world and patted its huge scaly body, saying: "Big guy, relax, don't worry about it." resistance."
The worldly python nodded and let the space energy act on it. Everything in front of it became bigger and bigger. Medusa and Lin Mingyuan, who were originally the size of ants, turned into giants.
In a blink of an eye, Lin Mingyuan compressed the space and reduced the worldly python to the size of a water snake, so small that it could be wrapped around his arm.
Zooming in and out are just advanced uses of space energy. The actual mass of the seemingly small earthly python has not changed. No one without unparalleled divine power can't pick up the earthly python. Lin Mingyuan's basic strength exceeds a thousand points, and he can move mountains to capture Yue's hands. It felt like my arms were about to be crushed when I lifted up the giant python.
Holding the giant python in one hand and Medusa in the other, the two snaked through the dimensional stomach bag prison and returned to the 930th floor of the abyss Moyu Palace.
Going back to the underground of the Moyu Palace to eat and drink, the Uranus giant locust, which continued to evolve itself, felt the breath of its master. The dry hot wind raised sand, and Xiao Huang drilled through the wormhole and appeared in front of Lin Mingyuan.
When he was about to get intimate with his master, he discovered that a black snake exuding a terrifying aura was wrapped around his wrist. His round black eyes were full of malice, and a star-grabbing sickle emerged from his palm.
"Don't make trouble." Lin Mingyuan patted Xiao Huang's big head to calm him down.
Breathing the familiar scorching air of the abyss, Medusa, who had regained her freedom, had a sore nose and almost cried again. She held Lin Mingyuan's hand and refused to let go. At this time, Medusa was willing to give her body.
Lin Mingyuan, a goddess like Medusa, couldn't be provoked. He never had any charming thoughts from the beginning to the end, and said seriously, "Congratulations, you are free and can go home."
"Medusa is going home." With a happy smile on Medusa's face, the Gorgon who has lived for thousands of years, the god of Osiris still maintains a girly side, and she can see this side There are too few people, and most of the time she is a goddess who can be seen from afar and cannot be played with.
There are many ways to return to the main material plane, but not bothering the two masters, Medusa still asked Lin Mingyuan to open the portal to the main material plane.
Medusa who had intersected with Lin Mingyuan, Pamela, the Green Dragon Queen of the Jade Clan, and Sabastina, the God of the Swamp, all came from the original universe.
There are many talents in the original universe, and it is rare for a strong person from a branch universe like Lin Mingyuan to come out.
Lin Mingyuan inquired about the approximate coordinates of Medusa's original universe, conducted a sensory search, pinpointed the Osiris Islands, and opened a direct portal.
Back on the 930th floor of the abyss, Lin Mingyuan didn't need to deliberately suppress the energy fluctuations of the portal. He directly created a giant portal that could accommodate the passage of the worldly python, and released the space compression on the worldly python.
The huge portal and the earthly python attracted the attention of the demons guarding Moyu Palace. The demons swarming in found Lin Mingyuan and knelt down to worship, welcoming Lin Mingyuan's return.
Lin Mingyuan, who has resolved the conflict between divinity and humanity, behaved more and more like a true god who cannot be offended in front of outsiders. The devil's kneeling and greeting only got Lin Mingyuan nod indifferently.
"Bon voyage, I won't give it away. The identity of the Fire Demon King is quite eye-catching on the main material plane. I won't go to the main material plane without the strength of the Pantheon of Fearless." Lin Mingyuan has a B number in his heart. The abyss, or the branch universe it is in, naturally has nothing to worry about.
However, the Pantheon of the original universe adopts an attitude of extermination towards the bloodline of the Fire Demon King, and will deal with it if it is discovered, and will never allow the birth of a new Fire Demon King.
Not only the Fire Demon King, but the Uranus giant locust beside Lin Mingyuan is also on the blacklist of the Pantheon. Both master and slave are not welcome in the original universe. Although Lin Mingyuan is very curious about how colorful the original universe is, it is still necessary to control it. Hold on to your curiosity, don't go wandering around in the original universe if you don't have the main god-level combat power, if you can, try not to go, it's dangerous.
"Then. Goodbye?"
"Goodbye."
"Don't you have anything to tell me?" Medusa seemed a little reluctant.
"I told you, have a safe journey and I won't send you far."
"A guy who doesn't understand fun." Medusa bit her lower lip and glanced at Lin Mingyuan sadly, and said, "Since we are going to part soon, I have to say something in my heart for a long time, and if I don't say it, I may not have a chance to say it gone."
"You're not going to confess your love, are you?" Lin Mingyuan pretended to be frightened and teased Medusa, because Lin Mingyuan knew that Medusa was definitely not confessing her love. Although the opening words were similar, it was definitely not the case.
"What are you thinking? It's almost okay for you to take the initiative. If you want me to confess to you, unless you take advantage of others in the Dimensional Stomach Prison."
"I dare not, I am afraid that you will eat me in one bite after you get out of trouble."
"Spiders only eat husbands, don't blame our Gorgon clan." Medusa's casual joke reminded Lin Mingyuan that there really was a big spider in his house.
"Speaking of which, one of my girlfriends really has spider blood, a direct descendant of the Death Spider Emperor."
Freya, who was playing with seal cubs in the snow with Gao Xuan in a snow-white down jacket, suddenly felt a little itchy on her nose, rubbed her fingers twice, and whispered to herself: "Well, it's strange, it can't be that someone is here Talk about me."
Medusa, who was eager to return home, ended the topic that was gradually drifting away, and said bluntly: "Speaking seriously, I have some opinions on your choice of timing for becoming a god. Let's be blunt, I don't recommend you to become a god right away."
"Why?" Lin Mingyuan didn't understand. According to his plan, he would start the God Conferring Plan as soon as he returned to Earth, and confer the gods as quickly as possible. He already had all the prerequisites for conferring the gods, so why not confer the gods at this time? hour.
"There are no more than fifty god kings in the entire multiverse. Among the fifty god kings, there are a small number of natural god kings. They have existed since the beginning of the universe, and they have more than [-] points at the moment of conferring gods. Divine power, Fengshen are god kings, so they are called natural god kings. Except for the natural god kings who came into being, most of the god kings did not climb up step by step as ordinary people think. Lord God, you have more than [-] points of divine power from the moment you become a god. Understand, if you don't have [-] points of divine power to become a god, then you will never be qualified to become a god king."
"People have talent limits, and so do gods. 90.00% of the gods have medium-level divine power as their ceiling. Even those who reach the theoretical ceiling are very few, and they will never become the main god with powerful divine power. For example, I, I I have reached my theoretical upper limit, and now I need hundreds of years of hard work to increase my upper limit of divine power, and it will become slower and slower until it stops completely."
"The upper limit of talent, the upper limit of talent, people always talk about the upper limit of talent, but they don't understand what is the upper limit of talent. The upper limit of talent is hidden. Every time a professional's strength increases by one level, he will get a talent. Your own talent has a hidden talent. Points. Different levels of talents provide different talent points. D-level talents have [-] points, C-level talents have [-] points, B-level talents have [-] points, A-level talents have [-] points, and S-level talents start at more than [-] points. The talent points provided by the powerful S-level talents can reach two hundred points, and the sum of the talent points is the ceiling that can determine your theoretical upper limit."
"Someone once calculated that the theoretical talent points needed to reach the peak of a demigod without encountering too many bottlenecks need [-] points, five relatively mediocre S-level talents or more than two top-level S-level talents, this is hidden Most professionals who have reached the peak of demigods basically have five or six AB-level talents, two or three mediocre S-level talents, and one top-level S-level talent as the core of the talent system. The upper limit of talent."
"When you ignite the divine fire and raise the throne to become an immortal god, you will get a chance to upgrade the talent you currently have to the God's Chosen talent. No matter how mediocre the God's Chosen talent for weak-level divine power promotion, it will be upgraded to the level that can provide An SSS-level talent with up to [-] talent points."
"Presumably you have discovered the gap between S-level talents along the way, but the reason why there is no subdivision is precisely because the gap between S-level talents is not as big as you imagined. Only the truly powerful God's Chosen talents can be recognized. Rated as SSS level, it forms an all-round crushing of S level talent."
"The SSS-level God's Choice talent promoted to a weak divine power can provide [-] talent points. After being promoted to a weak divine power, you can also choose an existing talent to be promoted to an SSS-level God's Choice talent. The God's Choice talent promoted to a weak divine power can provide one Thousand points of talent points, and so on. Those with medium divine power who are promoted to the God's Chosen Talent can get one thousand five hundred talent points. Those with powerful divine power who are promoted to the God's Chosen Talent can get two thousand talent points. Gods will get it every time they move up a level. A more powerful talent chosen by God.”
"That's why I said that it is only possible to become a god king if you start with more than [-] divine powers. It is because the upper limit of talents required to become a god king is [-] points. A god who is promoted step by step can gain a total of four God's chosen talent, [-] plus [-] plus [-] plus [-], the upper limit of the total talent points is [-], which is half of the distance from the god king. Imagine how many ordinary talents are needed to meet the requirements of being promoted to the god king. The upper limit of [-] points of talent? What's more, there is an upper limit to the talents that people can have. The upper limit of ordinary talents is fifteen, and the upper limit of god-chosen talents is five. This is the rule set by the universe."
"Therefore, there are only two ways to be promoted to the God King. Either, you are a natural God King who was born in the early days of the universe, so needless to say. Either you are strong enough to be promoted to the True God with [-] points of divine power. The four god-chosen talents obtained are all based on the standard of the main god. Each god-chosen talent can provide [-] talent points, and a total of [-] talent points can be obtained, and ten top-level S-level talents can provide [-] points It can meet the minimum requirement of [-] points of talent limit required to be promoted to God King."
(End of this chapter)
In the Dimensional Stomach Bag Prison, Medusa hugged the giant python nervously, Bai Nen's arm unconsciously became stronger and stronger, and the indestructible scales of the giant python were strangled and deformed.
At this time, Lin Mingyuan was trying to open the portal to the outside world.
Lin Mingyuan will try to open a portal every time his space law improves by one percent. This is Lin Mingyuan's 15th attempt in the past six months, and it is also the one most likely to succeed.
The last time Lin Mingyuan was very close to success, but the portal he opened was not very stable yet. The mature and prudent Lin Mingyuan decided to be steady, and wait until his mastery of the law of space breaks through 15.00%, and then try again with absolute certainty.
The oval-shaped portal expanded from the size of a faint bean to the size of a person, and the light blue space-time energy was rippling in the stable portal structure.
"It's done!" Lin Mingyuan clenched his fists excitedly and waved violently, his agitated heart was hard to calm down.
Medusa flew over and hugged Lin Mingyuan tightly, two lines of tears dripped down her delicate cheeks, and sobbed, "I thought I was going to be imprisoned in the Dimensional Stomach Prison for 1 years, thank you Lin Mingyuan, thank you very much."
Lin Mingyuan was only a little more excited than Medusa. Medusa was only imprisoned for six months. For Lin Mingyuan, who was practicing in the [Standing Time Room] with ten times accelerated time, nearly six years had passed.
In the past, Lin Mingyuan's use of the resident room to retreat was often counted in years, but Lin Mingyuan never felt depressed, because at that time Lin Mingyuan was free, and he could go wherever he wanted, even though he didn't know how to go anywhere.
Active seclusion and being passively imprisoned are completely different things. Especially when Lin Mingyuan was imprisoned, the outside world experienced so many changes, and Black Rock City was captured. Lin Mingyuan's depression increased day by day, and he became more and more impatient.
After cheering and celebrating for a while, Lin Mingyuan and Medusa still decided to leave the dimensional stomach prison of the original sin witch Helena as soon as possible, fearing that things would change if it was too late.
Medusa looked at the giant body of the worldly python and looked at the portal as tall as a person, and she was a little troubled: "The two of us can pass through the portal, what about the worldly python?"
Medusa will definitely not abandon the worldly python, if not for the secondment of a batch of supplies for the cultivation of the worldly python, she would not be locked up by the original sin witch.
"Leave it to me." Today, Lin Mingyuan's knowledge of space has been very profound. He walked up to the giant snake of the world and patted its huge scaly body, saying: "Big guy, relax, don't worry about it." resistance."
The worldly python nodded and let the space energy act on it. Everything in front of it became bigger and bigger. Medusa and Lin Mingyuan, who were originally the size of ants, turned into giants.
In a blink of an eye, Lin Mingyuan compressed the space and reduced the worldly python to the size of a water snake, so small that it could be wrapped around his arm.
Zooming in and out are just advanced uses of space energy. The actual mass of the seemingly small earthly python has not changed. No one without unparalleled divine power can't pick up the earthly python. Lin Mingyuan's basic strength exceeds a thousand points, and he can move mountains to capture Yue's hands. It felt like my arms were about to be crushed when I lifted up the giant python.
Holding the giant python in one hand and Medusa in the other, the two snaked through the dimensional stomach bag prison and returned to the 930th floor of the abyss Moyu Palace.
Going back to the underground of the Moyu Palace to eat and drink, the Uranus giant locust, which continued to evolve itself, felt the breath of its master. The dry hot wind raised sand, and Xiao Huang drilled through the wormhole and appeared in front of Lin Mingyuan.
When he was about to get intimate with his master, he discovered that a black snake exuding a terrifying aura was wrapped around his wrist. His round black eyes were full of malice, and a star-grabbing sickle emerged from his palm.
"Don't make trouble." Lin Mingyuan patted Xiao Huang's big head to calm him down.
Breathing the familiar scorching air of the abyss, Medusa, who had regained her freedom, had a sore nose and almost cried again. She held Lin Mingyuan's hand and refused to let go. At this time, Medusa was willing to give her body.
Lin Mingyuan, a goddess like Medusa, couldn't be provoked. He never had any charming thoughts from the beginning to the end, and said seriously, "Congratulations, you are free and can go home."
"Medusa is going home." With a happy smile on Medusa's face, the Gorgon who has lived for thousands of years, the god of Osiris still maintains a girly side, and she can see this side There are too few people, and most of the time she is a goddess who can be seen from afar and cannot be played with.
There are many ways to return to the main material plane, but not bothering the two masters, Medusa still asked Lin Mingyuan to open the portal to the main material plane.
Medusa who had intersected with Lin Mingyuan, Pamela, the Green Dragon Queen of the Jade Clan, and Sabastina, the God of the Swamp, all came from the original universe.
There are many talents in the original universe, and it is rare for a strong person from a branch universe like Lin Mingyuan to come out.
Lin Mingyuan inquired about the approximate coordinates of Medusa's original universe, conducted a sensory search, pinpointed the Osiris Islands, and opened a direct portal.
Back on the 930th floor of the abyss, Lin Mingyuan didn't need to deliberately suppress the energy fluctuations of the portal. He directly created a giant portal that could accommodate the passage of the worldly python, and released the space compression on the worldly python.
The huge portal and the earthly python attracted the attention of the demons guarding Moyu Palace. The demons swarming in found Lin Mingyuan and knelt down to worship, welcoming Lin Mingyuan's return.
Lin Mingyuan, who has resolved the conflict between divinity and humanity, behaved more and more like a true god who cannot be offended in front of outsiders. The devil's kneeling and greeting only got Lin Mingyuan nod indifferently.
"Bon voyage, I won't give it away. The identity of the Fire Demon King is quite eye-catching on the main material plane. I won't go to the main material plane without the strength of the Pantheon of Fearless." Lin Mingyuan has a B number in his heart. The abyss, or the branch universe it is in, naturally has nothing to worry about.
However, the Pantheon of the original universe adopts an attitude of extermination towards the bloodline of the Fire Demon King, and will deal with it if it is discovered, and will never allow the birth of a new Fire Demon King.
Not only the Fire Demon King, but the Uranus giant locust beside Lin Mingyuan is also on the blacklist of the Pantheon. Both master and slave are not welcome in the original universe. Although Lin Mingyuan is very curious about how colorful the original universe is, it is still necessary to control it. Hold on to your curiosity, don't go wandering around in the original universe if you don't have the main god-level combat power, if you can, try not to go, it's dangerous.
"Then. Goodbye?"
"Goodbye."
"Don't you have anything to tell me?" Medusa seemed a little reluctant.
"I told you, have a safe journey and I won't send you far."
"A guy who doesn't understand fun." Medusa bit her lower lip and glanced at Lin Mingyuan sadly, and said, "Since we are going to part soon, I have to say something in my heart for a long time, and if I don't say it, I may not have a chance to say it gone."
"You're not going to confess your love, are you?" Lin Mingyuan pretended to be frightened and teased Medusa, because Lin Mingyuan knew that Medusa was definitely not confessing her love. Although the opening words were similar, it was definitely not the case.
"What are you thinking? It's almost okay for you to take the initiative. If you want me to confess to you, unless you take advantage of others in the Dimensional Stomach Prison."
"I dare not, I am afraid that you will eat me in one bite after you get out of trouble."
"Spiders only eat husbands, don't blame our Gorgon clan." Medusa's casual joke reminded Lin Mingyuan that there really was a big spider in his house.
"Speaking of which, one of my girlfriends really has spider blood, a direct descendant of the Death Spider Emperor."
Freya, who was playing with seal cubs in the snow with Gao Xuan in a snow-white down jacket, suddenly felt a little itchy on her nose, rubbed her fingers twice, and whispered to herself: "Well, it's strange, it can't be that someone is here Talk about me."
Medusa, who was eager to return home, ended the topic that was gradually drifting away, and said bluntly: "Speaking seriously, I have some opinions on your choice of timing for becoming a god. Let's be blunt, I don't recommend you to become a god right away."
"Why?" Lin Mingyuan didn't understand. According to his plan, he would start the God Conferring Plan as soon as he returned to Earth, and confer the gods as quickly as possible. He already had all the prerequisites for conferring the gods, so why not confer the gods at this time? hour.
"There are no more than fifty god kings in the entire multiverse. Among the fifty god kings, there are a small number of natural god kings. They have existed since the beginning of the universe, and they have more than [-] points at the moment of conferring gods. Divine power, Fengshen are god kings, so they are called natural god kings. Except for the natural god kings who came into being, most of the god kings did not climb up step by step as ordinary people think. Lord God, you have more than [-] points of divine power from the moment you become a god. Understand, if you don't have [-] points of divine power to become a god, then you will never be qualified to become a god king."
"People have talent limits, and so do gods. 90.00% of the gods have medium-level divine power as their ceiling. Even those who reach the theoretical ceiling are very few, and they will never become the main god with powerful divine power. For example, I, I I have reached my theoretical upper limit, and now I need hundreds of years of hard work to increase my upper limit of divine power, and it will become slower and slower until it stops completely."
"The upper limit of talent, the upper limit of talent, people always talk about the upper limit of talent, but they don't understand what is the upper limit of talent. The upper limit of talent is hidden. Every time a professional's strength increases by one level, he will get a talent. Your own talent has a hidden talent. Points. Different levels of talents provide different talent points. D-level talents have [-] points, C-level talents have [-] points, B-level talents have [-] points, A-level talents have [-] points, and S-level talents start at more than [-] points. The talent points provided by the powerful S-level talents can reach two hundred points, and the sum of the talent points is the ceiling that can determine your theoretical upper limit."
"Someone once calculated that the theoretical talent points needed to reach the peak of a demigod without encountering too many bottlenecks need [-] points, five relatively mediocre S-level talents or more than two top-level S-level talents, this is hidden Most professionals who have reached the peak of demigods basically have five or six AB-level talents, two or three mediocre S-level talents, and one top-level S-level talent as the core of the talent system. The upper limit of talent."
"When you ignite the divine fire and raise the throne to become an immortal god, you will get a chance to upgrade the talent you currently have to the God's Chosen talent. No matter how mediocre the God's Chosen talent for weak-level divine power promotion, it will be upgraded to the level that can provide An SSS-level talent with up to [-] talent points."
"Presumably you have discovered the gap between S-level talents along the way, but the reason why there is no subdivision is precisely because the gap between S-level talents is not as big as you imagined. Only the truly powerful God's Chosen talents can be recognized. Rated as SSS level, it forms an all-round crushing of S level talent."
"The SSS-level God's Choice talent promoted to a weak divine power can provide [-] talent points. After being promoted to a weak divine power, you can also choose an existing talent to be promoted to an SSS-level God's Choice talent. The God's Choice talent promoted to a weak divine power can provide one Thousand points of talent points, and so on. Those with medium divine power who are promoted to the God's Chosen Talent can get one thousand five hundred talent points. Those with powerful divine power who are promoted to the God's Chosen Talent can get two thousand talent points. Gods will get it every time they move up a level. A more powerful talent chosen by God.”
"That's why I said that it is only possible to become a god king if you start with more than [-] divine powers. It is because the upper limit of talents required to become a god king is [-] points. A god who is promoted step by step can gain a total of four God's chosen talent, [-] plus [-] plus [-] plus [-], the upper limit of the total talent points is [-], which is half of the distance from the god king. Imagine how many ordinary talents are needed to meet the requirements of being promoted to the god king. The upper limit of [-] points of talent? What's more, there is an upper limit to the talents that people can have. The upper limit of ordinary talents is fifteen, and the upper limit of god-chosen talents is five. This is the rule set by the universe."
"Therefore, there are only two ways to be promoted to the God King. Either, you are a natural God King who was born in the early days of the universe, so needless to say. Either you are strong enough to be promoted to the True God with [-] points of divine power. The four god-chosen talents obtained are all based on the standard of the main god. Each god-chosen talent can provide [-] talent points, and a total of [-] talent points can be obtained, and ten top-level S-level talents can provide [-] points It can meet the minimum requirement of [-] points of talent limit required to be promoted to God King."
(End of this chapter)
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