In the room alone, Zi Yang wanted to check the details of his talent when he felt his head suddenly felt a bit heavy. Then his eyes blurred and he felt a familiar and unfamiliar sensation on his nose and ears.
He checked and found that a pair of glasses had attached to him somehow. He took it off and saw that they were the glasses he wore before death.
If one were to wonder how a person could remember his pair of glasses sixteen years later, Zi Yang would outright say that he could not either.
He just saw very clearly the text written on one of the temples of the glasses in tiny letters, “2021 A.D. From one four eyes to another”
This was clearly a gifted from one of his nerd friends in college. The guy created his own company and he had installed an A.I. and all for him on this piece.
He remembered that he named her Joanne after the famous author J.K. Rowling.
‘Joanne’, Zi Yang mumbled.
He didn’t expect that the glasses would suddenly turn into a mini robot and call him master.
He was surprised but it was nothing too much.
He has had his fair share of surprises and shocks over the years.
He bet he could remain calm even if the heavens rained flood and earths cracked wide.
Looking at the mini robot again, he asked softly, “You traveled with me?”
Joanne replied, “Yes master and this silly frog did too.”
Only then did he remember his head feeling a little heavy. But when he saw the hollow jade frog, where is the weight he wondered?
Joanne guessed what he thought through his expression.
“He has huge belly, master. He puts everything into his belly space, so it’s like carrying a bag with an undetectable extension charm but with all the weight!”
It was then he understood. He looked intently and was suddenly a little more curious about him. He hadn’t seen any space beast expect the tentacle of a jellyfish from the royal speed courier.
Just as this thought emerged, he saw a string of data emerge in his conscious. It was like seeing a game panel but better.
It did not pop in front of his eyes, and he didn’t have to be distracted to look at it. It emerged in his mind and he could read it and function at the same time.
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[Name]: Hollow Jade Frog
[Attribute]: Space, Spirit
[Race Level]: High Level Soldier
[Cultivation Level]: Mortal Level 1
[Skills]: Space Jump, Space storage, Spirit Talk, Charming Social Butterfly.
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How did this information jump out to him?
Is this his talent?
This time, he finally checked his talent and learned of it.
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[Talent]: Universal Insight
[Introduction]: An ultimate talent for a seeker. It allows the user to have insights about everything he sees, thinks or feels. It is limited only by one’s imagination and cultivation skills.
[Caution]: Having knowledge without the ability to handle is lethal.
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A very short introduction and a very serious caution!
Could it have something to do with the weird gods who stuff knowledge into your minds and then, a person goes crazy?
The talent says that I can gain insight about what I feel so that should include hunches then, this is it.
Check, is there any danger of overload like from the cthulhu gods like the old ones?
Within a second, he had a thought emerge in his head.
[Nothing to do with Cthulhu gods unless I come into contact with them or evolve a beast into their form. But looking at higher level things, beasts or people prematurely might cause precognitive bias, or involve in cause and effect, or displease a powerhouse who swats you to death!]
Oh, he got it.
Just use with caution and only use when you need to.
Don’t parade it around and use it on a king level or a lord level powerhouse to check his details lest, as his insight, said swat you to death.
Thinking about it, this talent is awesome.
He can figure a lot of things out with its help. It’s almost like a mixture of, or somewhere between ‘Great sage’ talent from that slime anime he saw, and a game panel.
After looking this frog, he once again looked at the mini bot.
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[Name]: Transforming beast (A.I. Joanne)
[Attribute]: Mechanical, Spirit
[Race Level]: Mid-level Extraordinary
[Cultivation Level]: Mortal Level 1
[Skills]: Information Retrieval, Information Parsing, Information Storage, Creative Thinking.
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Both these beasts who were brought along had ‘spirit’ as their attribute. It might be a result of traveling. He was not amazed that an A.I. could evolve into thinking creatively.
As if no had ever thought of this happening!
After looking at it all, he realized that the frog had not spoken at all. He thought it might be feeling a little uncomfortable as it transformed from a jade pendant to a real life…
So, he patted his head and asked, “How are you doing, pal?”
“Oh no, master....”
Soon he understood why Joanne wailed.
He saw the frog sitting still but his voice reached his ears.
Good news: The frog can’t speak
Bad news: He can communicated telepathically.
“Zi Yang pal, thank you so much for giving me life… Joanne was wrong. I wondered how you could not like talking with me. She told me not to speak a word when I came out…
Can you imagine? She spoke but didn’t allow me.
I must tell you this is the kind of utilitarian behavior that is very unbecoming of young ladies. Us too buddies will have to help her on that, yeah.
Afterall she is a companion too.
Well, I’m glad to see you and I was wondering when I could surprise you… Do you know that I have a space storage belly and I can act as your space ring….
The day you died, the rain was……. (3 lines omitted)
Zi Ming sure is a cutie, isn’t he. I’ll play with sometime…. He would def…… (omitted another 100 words.
Your master is very powerful, but why is her blow a little slanted? I can…… (omitted again)”
“Zi Yang”
Came a sound like a heavenly sound of nature.
Zi Yang took advantage of the opportunity and said, “Master is calling me now. Let’s talk more later.”
Joanne cooperated and dragged the frog to the bedside and started lecturing him again.
Thankfully, he escaped.
But he understood somewhat.
The poor kid was locked in a small black room for sixteen years!
Anyone would go hysterical.
Coming to the hall, he saw everyone he most cared about. Master Meng had to return to the Void Palace to pick up his pace on both cultivation level and potions.
Zi Ming ran to his brother and hugged his legs.
“Brother, I dreamed you cried!”
Zi Yang laughed it off. This kid was talking nonsense again.
But he cooperated nicely, “Oh, then did our Zi Ming wipe my tears and bring me cookies?”
Zi Ming choked, “Ah, I only wiped tears. I didn’t bring cookies. I will bring them next time for sure!”
Everyone was amused at the kid.
What do you mean next time?
Do you want to dream of him crying again?
Only the Void empress took it seriously. Even if she listened casually, she marked the words somehow.
She has learned a lesson.
Record everything first. At least have enough literature to prepare for something – paranoid or not – doesn’t matter.
Being prepared for things does.
If there is a chance of something happening again, maybe some unintentional words would serve as a hint to way out.
At dinner, every one congratulated Zi Yang but no one asked him about his talent. It is only of the personal things to a professional.
But Zi Yang was very open about it and shared it with everyone. He even discussed how he thought it could develop.
Both Uncle Baize and Master recommended to keep it a secret and not discuss it with anyone else.
Just mentioning as a normal C-level talent Insight would suffice.
Talents in the beast taming world are divided in five levels: D, C, B, A, S
His talent feels superpowered even compared with an S-level talent – or perhaps it doesn’t fall in this spectrum at all.
He made a mental note of it.
Finally, everyone decided to wait until tomorrow before Zi Yang opens the beast taming space.
When everyone had just decided on this, a small voice crept in mixed with some frog croaks.
The voice was of A.I. Joanne.
Void Empress had introduced the two beasts as Zi Yang’s awakening companions.
In the world of beasts, as human choose their beast partners; beasts also choose humans to be their beast masters.
For some particularly talented people, some beasts choose to form an initial bond at awakening by using their spiritual energy and skills to help a human improve their skills, as a show of goodwill.
They become awakening companions who are usually heavily relied on by the beast masters, after contract.
So, when they heard these words from this tiny robot, none of the people present – Void Empress, two attendants and Mei Li not dare take it seriously.
As for Zi Ming, he had already eloped to the garden with the frog.
They could only express their thoughts after hearing Joanne, in just one sentence.
Life, sure, is not a bed of roses.