In the Black Dragon fighter plane, Wang Yi was carefully studying the two secret techniques for spiritual masters that he had just acquired.
There are two main factions in the universe: one is the warrior faction, and the other is the spiritual master faction.
The inheritance from Meteor Star contains both warrior and spiritual master techniques. Spiritual master techniques are divided into three main branches: the Controller, the Illusionist, and the Spiritual Attacker, each vast and deep in its teachings.
However, it is difficult to grasp the true teachings of the Meteor Star Master. In the original story, Luo Feng had a special Inheritance Soul Seal left by the owner of Meteor Star.
But Wang Yi didn't have this advantage.
Still, with his high mental power, practicing the Escape to Heaven technique, a mind-power weapon secret method, wasn't too difficult.
The Twenty-Four Star Gods technique falls under the soul secret method category and seems to have a significant connection to the Soul Seal inheritance at the core of Meteor Star.
"The Twenty-Four Star Gods actually includes methods to attack, confuse, manipulate, and enslave the souls of others," Wang Yi thought, deeply surprised when he first discovered this. However, compared to the true Soul Seal, the Twenty-Four Star Gods is not as profound or complex.
It can only enslave beings whose soul level is two tiers below Wang Yi's own.
With Wang Yi's current soul strength, it's estimated he can only enslave beings below the God of War level.
But even this was a welcome surprise for Wang Yi.
The Twenty-Four Star Gods gave him new methods to employ.
If Escape to Heaven was focused on controlling mind-power weapons, grounded in reality and raw power, then the Twenty-Four Star Gods was a soul-based secret method—ethereal, strange, and hard to defend against.
The combination of these two techniques made Wang Yi even more formidable in combat.
On January 16th, Wang Yi left the No. 9 Civilization Relic and returned to Jiangnan.
Time passed quickly.
Jiangnan City, Yangzhou City, Mingyue Community.
Warm sunlight streamed through the large windows. Wang Yi sat on the floor of his martial arts training hall on the second floor of his villa, continuing his daily practice of absorbing genetic energy.
Although most of the wooden crystel had been used up for various purposes, Wang Yi still maintained his relentless daily training.
Whether it was genetic power, mental power, or different secret techniques, Wang Yi devoted significant time to each.
And every day, he continued to improve.
Within Wang Yi's dantian, there were six miniature planets. Unlike the transparent miniature planets in his sea of consciousness when they first appeared, these six planets were fiery red!
Each red miniature planet was a unified structure made up of numerous red, six-sided crystals!
Five of the red miniature planets constantly revolved around the largest one in the center, spinning as they emitted strange energy waves.
In the universe, special abilities awakened at the planetary-star level typically fell into eight categories: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder and lightning, and light.
Due to differences in physique and soul, the cosmic energy absorbed by the body varies, and the genetic primal energy formed by this transformation is also different.
For Wang Yi, his genetic energy aligned with fire.
His blood, genes, cells, bones, and skin—all parts of his body—were constantly improving and evolving through the refining effects of his genetic energy and mental power.
At Wang Yi's current level, only some of humanity's most powerful weapons, like laser weapons or nuclear weapons, could still hurt him.
During this time, Wang Yi would travel around the world, visiting various relics to sign in. Although most of the rewards he gained couldn't be used directly, sometimes he would get treasures like the Lesbos Fruit he signed in at a relic in Siberia's Soviet Russia region, which could directly enhance his mental power.
In just a month, Wang Yi's strength increased significantly.
His genetic energy had reached the sixth level of the planetary level, and his mental power had reached the bottleneck of the fifth level.
Now, Wang Yi's martial rank was on par with Hong, but with additional abilities like his domain, Cloud Vine, Dun Tian Shuttle, Escape to Heaven secret technique, and the Twenty-Four Star Gods soul technique, he had surpassed both Hong and Thor, becoming the true strongest person on Earth!
However, Wang Yi had no intention of revealing his full strength just yet. He continued to train quietly, living day by day as if he were just an ordinary person. Over time, the world's first genius of the elite training camp slowly faded from public attention.
At Jiangnan University, the school was on break, and Shen Yan's family had moved to Yangzhou City, now living in Wang Yi's villa. Gao Yurong stayed with her mother, and Lin Youyu often visited her parents.
On one particular day, Wang Yi was playing mahjong with his parents.
With Shen Yan, there were exactly four players.
"Touch, hu!" His mother smiled, placing down her winning hand.
Wang Yi's father, who had lost 19 games in a row, looked at his son with a doubtful expression.
It was the look of a man defeated by sheer bad luck.
Wang Yi pretended not to notice his father's disheartened face and quickly reshuffled the mahjong tiles.
For Wang Yi, moments like this—being with family, chatting, and enjoying life—were a special kind of happiness.
Especially when, during the game, Wang Yi would playfully nudge Shen Yan's feet under the table, causing her face to flush red with embarrassment as she tried her best to stay composed so no one would notice.
Beyond these small, everyday pleasures, Wang Yi spent his time flying around the world. From mid-December to February, over the span of two months, he had signed in at almost all the known relics of ancient civilizations around the world.
Only the most dangerous locations remained—The Three Great Civilization.
On February 17th, during a dark night covered by thick clouds, where both the sky and sea were shrouded in shadows, a sleek black fighter jet silently soared across the turbulent ocean.
This was near the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, home to the No. 12 Ancient Civilization Relic.
The black triangular fighter came to a stop over the sea, the hatch opened, and a figure flew out.
It was a young man with black hair, wearing a gray-black combat suit, with a Black God Suit and Cloud Vine underneath. He carried two dark red war blades, and a silver-gray flying shuttle floated under his feet.
This was Wang Yi.
"This is where the No. 12 Ancient Civilization Relic is located," Wang Yi thought as he looked down at the deep, dark sea.
The Three Great Civilization are the remnants of ancient civilizations: the damaged spacecraft near the Hawaiian Islands, the silver pyramid beneath the Bermuda Triangle, and the poison gas source in Shenlongjia.
For his first target, Wang Yi chose the No. 12 Relic, considered the least dangerous.
"Let's hope I get something good this time," Wang Yi muttered, before transforming into a streak of light and plunging straight into the depths of the ocean at an astonishing speed.