Infinite Potential System

It was plain and blatant, fear.

But it wasn\'t the fear of death, or the fear of William\'s ability. It was fear of the Spell itself. Or rather, it brought back memories of something else.

If the Magical Beasts were created by the Heavens, why would they fear their creator?

There were too many questions to ask, and the System wasn\'t helping at all. William felt that by now, the System should acknowledge that he was ready to know these things.

His Cultivation might not have reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, but his combat power was either there or close. To be this close to Ascension, yet to remain unanswered by the System was confusing to say the least.

What are you hiding, System?

No response. Though William never expected one anyway.

He blinked three times again and switched the mode of his Vision Talent once again, finally returning to normal. He stored the corpses of every nearby Magical Beast into his Space Rings, then swept the battlefield while doing the same elsewhere.

William was glad that he had made the Titanium Space Rings, which could store a large portion of the Beasts alone. Not only that, but he had a total of nine specialized Titanium Space Rings, having crafted five of them one night in a hotel, and five more later on, one of which was given to Yuming.

The previous Beast Tide and extracting the Greater Fire Shards had filled two of his Space Rings, while a third was half full of various other ingredients, materials, and equipment. He still had six empty Space Rings to fill, and he intended to do just that!

Carl, Yuming, and the others were doing the same, gathering the spoils of war into their Space Rings. Most of them could only store a few dozen Magical Beasts, but when Carl used up all of his Space Ring storage, he noticed that Yuming was still pulling corpses into his Space Ring.

Yuming\'s portal was open for a while longer than the others, which suggested it was even a specialized Space Ring, which made Carl jealous for the second time.

Now I want him to make me one too! Carl remembered that William had made this Space Ring for Yuming not long ago.

A peak Golden Core Cultivator also noticed that Yuming was using an interesting Space Ring. It was a Player named Sylph that had put all his time and energy into Cultivation, rarely going out unless it was for a chance to earn Potential Points.

After dedicating the entire first month of the game\'s release to deriving Cultivation Techniques and creating his own, Sylph managed to unlock the Cultivation Talent.

After frantically pouring all his Potential Points into the Talent and raising it to B-Rank directly, Sylph\'s Cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, eventually surpassing the entire player base even though they had a head start on him.

When he started Cultivating with a Rare-Ranked Cultivation Technique, Sylph awakened four Elements: Fire, Plant, Light, and Gravity. Having heard that his peers had only awakened two or three at most, rarely including a Legendary Element, Sylph felt like he was at the top of the World!

He kept Cultivating to improve his strength further, but he neglected his Magic and focused more on Cultivation. Since he wasn\'t like the NPCs that could upgrade their Magic naturally up to C-Rank, Sylph\'s Magic had stagnated at F-Rank.

By now, he already had a Heavenly Core and was only a few thousand more Spirit Qi from reaching the peak of the Golden Core Realm but neglecting his Magic had become an issue. Even though he had developed a solid foundation, Sylph found that his physical and Magic abilities were lacking.

The Tribulation from Core Formation to Golden Core was already almost too difficult for him, and he had almost failed it. If the next Tribulation increased in difficulty again, Sylph feared that he wouldn\'t last the entire time.

Worse yet, he was out of Potential Points!

He tried to gather more by killing Magical Beasts and doing Quests, but it was just too slow. The Magical Beasts in this region were extremely rare, only appearing in large groups occasionally. When he did find a few, it took an entire day just to earn a few dozen Potential Points!

So, when he heard about the double Points rewards for participating in the Elemental Beast Tide Region Event, Sylph immediately packed up his things and ran all the way from the northernmost part of the Region to Blue Moon City.

Of course, by the time he reached the area, the Beast Tide was already over. He had expected the fight to take a few days or even a week, but it ended in a matter of hours, all because of one NPC.

He had wasted the entire trip, but he kept his hopes up. He stayed in Blue Moon City to Cultivate, then two weeks later it happened. Another Beast Tide!

He killed almost two dozen of the weakest Golden Core Magical Beasts by himself, earning himself a little over two hundred Points. Combined with the light stockpile from before, he finally had enough to upgrade his Talent again!

If NPC William hadn\'t showed up, he might have earned almost a thousand Potential Points, but it couldn\'t be helped. Powerful Cultivators like that couldn\'t be controlled and asking him to stop would probably lead to Sylph\'s death.

Instead, it was better to be quiet and gather the loot like everyone else.

But seeing an NPC named Yuming using a specialized Space Ring with only Core Formation Cultivation, Sylph just couldn\'t help himself.

He walked over to the group of friends and reached out his arm to pat Yuming\'s shoulder.

"Hey there, friend. Do you mind letting me take a look at that Space Ring?" he asked in the most amicable way he could muster, though his smile was still very off-putting.

Yuming turned his head to look at Sylph, narrowing his eyes slightly as he looked at the newcomer\'s clothing.

Sylph was wearing a set of tight-fitting metal armor that was dyed black. Its shape was incredibly ornate and seemed expensive, though at a closer look the material looked very cheap and not sturdy at all.

He was wearing a helmet with a visor that concealed his face, but the material was the same and was slightly dented in one spot from the battle.

It was as if the man only cared about appearances, and not the actual practicality of the armor itself.

Other than Sylph\'s Cultivation and his bully-like attitude, nothing about the man seemed threatening to Yuming. He smiled politely, then shook his head and pulled another Magical Beast into the Space Ring.

"Oh, you\'re going to ignore me? Then, I guess you don\'t mind if I just take a quick peek." Sylph said with a smile as he reached out to grab the Space Ring on Yuming\'s finger.