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Chapter 162: Replicate Again, Torrent of Time

Searching for Direbeasts…

That was Sapling Ling’s other ability, which Ling Jiu had discovered by accident . It turned out that Sapling Ling could communicate with all the plants on Pandora .

It could find any creature on Pandora with the help of these plants .

There seemed to be nothing special about this ability, but it actually helped Ling Jiu a lot . He had been running around like a headless chicken looking for Direbeasts without the Direbeast Radar .

It had been half a month since they arrived on Pandora . The number of Direbeasts was decreasing day by day following the trainees’ killing frenzy . In the beginning, they could hunt several Direbeasts a day, but now, they could only find one . Their hunting speed and efficiency had dropped tremendously .

Now, things were looking up for Ling Jiu .

He could always find and hunt down Direbeasts accurately, hence his hunting efficiency and harvest far surpassed that of other trainees .

Today, Ling Jiu was not in a hurry to hunt Direbeasts . Instead, he gave Sapling Ling a new instruction: look for Hao Shuai .

The cooling-off period of his Replication Arcana had ended, and he could replicate again after half a month . The first thing he did was make Hao Shuai his target .

“Boss, I’ve found that guy . ”

“Where is he?” Ling Jiu was raring to go .

“On the other side of the planet . ”

“Take me there . ”

Deploying the maglev airship without hesitation, Ling Jiu flew toward Hao Shuai’s location at full speed .

He arrived at a floating mountain half an hour later .

The mountain was floating in the air, with dense trees growing on it and a waterfall flowing down the mountain onto a vast piece of land below .

A lake was at the center of the floating mountain, while a maglev airship was parked on the edge of the lake . Hao Shuai was resting inside the airship .

It was midnight . Ling Jiu saw Hao Shuai sitting cross-legged and absorbing the Gene Arcana from a 10,000-meter radius to enhance his cultivation base .

Ling Jiu hid in a dimension as he slowly approached . As was within 100 meters of Hao Shuai, a notification popped up in his mind .

Name: Hao Shuai

Race: Homo sapien

Abilities: Time Halt (awakened, replicable), Blink Arcana (awakened, replicable), Super Physique (awakened, replicable)

“It’s replicable at a 100-meter range?”

Ling Jiu was stunned . “Is it possible that after the Gene Arcana was replaced with the Dark Bio-energy, the power of my Replication Arcana increased by 10 times? That must be it . ”

Ling Jiu was so delighted . It was no doubt much more convenient to be able to replicate an Arcana from 100 meters away . It was cool because he could do it stealthily too .

“Replicate Time Halt . ”

Ling Jiu activated his replication with no hesitation . He had been coveting this cool Time Halt ability for a long time .

Replication is successful . Install?

“No . ”

Ling Jiu instructed it to not install the Arcana for now . Instead, he quietly left the floating mountain while Hao Shuai was unaware of what had happened the entire time .

Hao Shuai did not even realize that the Time Halt Arcana he had always been proud of was no longer exclusive to him .

“Install Time Halt . ”

Ling Jiu finally installed Time Halt after a painful process . Just like the time he installed the Dimensional Arcana, Ling Jiu saw something different: a big golden river .

The incredibly vast river was filled with a kind of magical golden water that flowed forward at a slow and steady speed .

Ling Jiu saw airships, the floating mountain where airships docked, and everything in the distance immersed in the golden river .

“Is this great river a Torrent of Time? Or is it a River of Time?” Ling Jiu muttered to himself .

He did not know how wide, deep, and long the golden river was . All he knew was that everything within his field of vision was immersed in the golden river and deeply affected by it .

“Let’s call it the Torrent of Time,” Ling Jiu whispered . “It seems that I can stop a small part of the river from flowing . Is this a result of the Time Halt Arcana?”

He found a moth and froze the golden river water around the moth to verify his suspicion .

A part of the river flow halted, and the moth instantly froze in place . It stopped flapping its wings, its eyes stopping turning, and its body was completely still .

“This is Time Halt indeed . ”

He was quietly overjoyed and happily studying it like a child who had found a new toy . After half an hour, Ling Jiu came to a conclusion .

As much as he could halt the time around an object, the length of the Time Halt was completely linked to the object’s strength .

For example, when he halted the time around the moth, he could keep it frozen for as long as he wanted until he exhausted his Dark Bio-energy .

When he tried to freeze Sapling Ling, he could only maintain the Time Halt for 15 seconds, not any longer .

It was apparent that he could only halt the time of a powerful creature for a short period and that of the weak creatures for much, much longer .

The case was similar for the Dimensional Shackle; he could immobilize a mouse for as long as he wanted, but he could only shackle a Class 9 Direbeast for a short while .

“It deserves to be called a BUG-level Arcana!” Ling Jiu exclaimed . “The power of time is indeed the most mysterious . The key to the vast majority of lives cannot touch the edge of time, and they can’t guard against time even if they want to . ”

He had defeated Hao Shuai before, but he admitted to pulling a trick on him .

It was really hard to tell what the battle outcome would have been had Ling Jiu not set up a gravity field in advance to trick Hao Shuai into a trap .

“But now…”

Ling Jiu firmly believed that his Time Halt would be more powerful than Hao Shuai’s . He had no doubt about it .

He spent his remaining time studying Time Halt for a while . Once he was sure that he had mastered the Arcana, he started to practice self-cultivation .

He sensed the dark universe and extracted pure Dark Bio-energy from it .

Dark Bio-energy gushed out of the dark universe and into his body, pouring into him like a divine river . The cells of his body, Gene Arcana Core, and Sapling Ling went into overdrive .

His body cells absorbed the Dark Bio-energy frantically…

His Gene Arcana Core compressed…

And Sapling Ling sucked up the energy in a frenzy .

Time passed by quickly . After a long night, all the creatures on Pandora ushered in a brand-new day .

Getting to his feet and looking at the rising sun, Ling Jiu exhaled .

The cells in his body were overflowing with Dark Bio-energy, and his Gene Arcana Core had regrown to the size of a pomelo after a night of practice .

Sapling Ling had gotten its fill too . It had constantly fed Ling Jiu an enormous amount of vitality to strengthen his physique .

“It’s a new day!”

Just as Ling Jiu was about to resume hunting after breakfast, a loud broadcast sounded through the air .

“Attention all trainees!

“Attention all trainees!

“Attention all trainees!

“The hunting contest is over . Please return to Earth!”

“It’s over?”

Ling Jiu was startled .