Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Trash Talent? This Is Practically a God-Tier Talent!
In the Catastrophe Era, many plants on Blue Star have undergone mutations.
The impact on Xia’s ancient tea culture is catastrophic, akin to what happened to Western coffee culture.
Either the plants became poisonous, or their flavors changed drastically, making them undrinkable.
In recent years, genetic cultivation has finally managed to restore most original flavors.
But when Li Qianye placed a treasured cup of Maojian tea in front of Lin Yi, Lin Yi took one sip and nonchalantly put it down.
You seriously call this a treasured tea?
Why does it have a taste of cilantro!
I can’t stand it!
After that, Lin Yi never touched that cup of tea again.
After a few awkward exchanges with Li Qianye, Lin Yi’s reward finally arrived.
"Mr. Lin, your 1,000 Xia merit points have been recorded in your professional merit points account."
"The exchange and usage of merit points are linked to the trading systems of all major cities in the country. You can view the list and redeem anywhere nationwide."
"And there’s this." Li Qianye placed a sandalwood box in front of Lin Yi.
When Lin Yi opened it, he saw a multicolored Spirit Crystal shimmering with a gentle purple light, and his eyes lit up.
"This is your A-level talent Spirit Crystal. These Spirit Crystals are usually stored deep in the treasure vault and preserved in a special way. But even so, their shelf life is only about half a year."
"It’s now extracted and transferred. Use it quickly before its effects completely dissipate!"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you how to use it. Just place the Spirit Crystal on your forehead and close your eyes to sense it."
Lin Yi took out the purple-shimmering Spirit Crystal from the box.
The brilliance of the Spirit Crystal spread, casting colorful reflections on the walls of the entire room.
At that moment, Lin Yi saw not only Li Qianye’s subordinates.
Even Li Qianye himself had a glint of excitement in his eyes.
After all, this is an A-level talent!
There’s no such thing as a completely useless talent in this world.
There can only be talents not quite compatible with one’s profession.
But having one is always better than none.
"Good luck with getting a good talent!" Li Qianye wished.
Lin Yi nodded and placed the talent Spirit Crystal on his forehead, then closed his eyes.
He carefully sensed the talent Spirit Crystal.
Before long, Lin Yi felt a wave emerging from his forehead and flooding into his mind.
The next moment, a mysterious power began to take root and sprout in his sea of consciousness.
The experience of gaining talent this way is incredibly wonderful.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have acquired a new talent: Cyber Transformation!]
Lin Yi was taken aback.
What kind of talent name is that!
Does this mean I can turn into a robot?
Lin Yi quickly checked the detailed description of his newly acquired talent.
[Cyber Transformation]
[Rarity: A-level]
[Type: Passive Talent]
[Effect: Adds the official skill trees of Mechanic and Gunner to your auxiliary skill trees.]
[Note: Flesh is weak, embrace mechanical ascension! Join the glorious evolution!]
After seeing the effect.
Lin Yi was completely stunned.
Whoa?
The official skill trees of Mechanic and Gunner have now become part of my auxiliary skill trees?
Doesn’t this mean I can now learn skills from these two professions??
The next moment, Lin Yi’s eyes lit up.
This talent essentially breaks professional barriers!
Seeing Lin Yi’s expression and reaction.
Li Qianye asked, "How about it, successfully awakened?"
"You can check out the professional forum to see how your A-level talent is rated. The pinned thread there lists all A-level talents discovered so far, as rated by the Xia Professional Alliance!"
Each person’s talent is a professional’s most private secret.
It’s extremely rude and risky to ask directly.
Li Qianye surely understands this.
So, he would never ask Lin Yi what talent he awakened. However, seeing Lin Yi’s conflicted expression, he suggested it.
Lin Yi knows about the professional forum.
It’s an official Xia platform where professionals share insights or interesting experiences on a social internet forum.
As long as you’re a professional, after passing an official registration review, you can browse and post.
The officially featured posts are generally authoritative.
Most posts are reviews or specific dungeon guides.
Initially, Lin Yi wasn’t planning to check how his talent fared on the official ratings because he felt it was both novel and powerful.
But since Li Qianye mentioned it.
Out of curiosity, Lin Yi took out his phone and logged into the Xia Professional Forum.
At this moment, Lin Yi’s professional rating was the most basic, rank Kui, and there weren’t many posts available for browsing.
However, there was no threshold for talent rating posts, allowing Lin Yi to view them freely.
Upon entering the post, he first saw the usual director and cosmic disclaimers.
Lin Yi skipped them directly.
Scrolling up with his finger, a table appeared before him.
The table had a total of 1,146 entries!
This indicates that currently the Xia official database has cataloged this many A-level talents.
It’s possible that his talent might not even be in this table.
Lin Yi continued scrolling through the table.
The entire table was sorted according to the editor’s rating rules, listed from T0 to T4, and so on.
As Lin Yi was about to reach the bottom of the table, he saw the description for T4-level evaluations: Lacking flavor, not worth giving up on, a talent that doesn’t significantly enhance combat power after acquiring, considered the shame of A-level talents!
Below this description, Lin Yi immediately spotted his newly unlocked talent.
"Cyber Transformation, a talent that allows non-Mechanic and non-Gunner professionals to unlock the related skill trees."
"Similar to talents like Magic Infusion, Combat Training, Assassin Mastery, they allow other professionals to unlock the official skill trees of Mage, Fighter, and Assassin."
"At first glance, these talents might seem highly creative. After all, using other professionals’ skills can bring unexpected victories in combat and unlock more potential from one’s own professional tree."
"However, imagination is always beautiful."
"The reality is, this type of talent has a significant drawback. Besides just adding them to the auxiliary professional skill tree, upgrading skills involves a pitfall waiting for you to discover."
"That’s right, the skills you unlock from other professions require ten times the skill points of your own profession series to upgrade!"
"This means most professionals, even pushing the limits, can only unlock 1st-level, at most 2nd-level related skills."
"And the editor has yet to see a situation where this creates a 1+1>2 synergy with one’s profession!"
"Essentially, these talents are destined to gather dust in a corner after obtaining them. No one would really choose to forgo adding points to their core profession series skills in favor of spending ten times the skill points on these skills, right?"
Upon seeing this.
Lin Yi’s lips curled into a slight smile.
You know what, there really is someone who would!