Chapter 1618: Incredible Cracking Speed! Is He Cheating?

Here it comes! The Legacy Trial!

Let's go! If I gain the legacy, my military merits, resources, and future are limitless!

As for insight, I'm no worse than anyone else!

On the plain, all the powerful humans stirred with excitement.

Including Lin Qianxue, Brody, and others, all focused intently.

If I gain the legacy, I'll earn a massive amount of military merits!

Getting our battle group to rank first will no longer be a problem.

Lin Qianxue's exquisitely beautiful face wore a solemn expression.

Her pale golden eyes locked onto the crimson light pillar's secret patterns.

Her slender fingertips lightly tapped the air, each touch causing the secret patterns to tremble faintly.

As leader of the Ember Battle Group, she bore the entire group's honor on her shoulders.

Moreover, this group's summit reward was extremely important to her.

Even though her core injury had not yet healed, she must secure the reward first.

"Hmph, I can't match your strength.

But as for insight, I've never feared anyone!"

Brody's three eyes simultaneously blazed with Jin Guang.

His central vertical pupil emitted a brilliant halo.

As the top prodigy of the Three-Eyed Clan, he was born with an exceptionally strong soul and extraordinary insight.

At this moment,

he cast a cold glance at Xu Jingming, a fierce determination rising in his heart.

Being crushed in combat was one thing.

But if he couldn't even match someone in insight, what kind of special life was he?

"These secret patterns aren't that hard."

Xu Jingming glanced at the complex patterns before him.

He already had many ideas in mind.

With his own talent, given enough time, he could crack them.

But the Legacy Trial required cracking one million eight hundred thousand secret patterns!

It was foreseeable that the patterns would grow increasingly difficult toward the end.

If relying solely on his own insight,

completing them before the realm closed was nearly impossible.

"Secret patterns?"

Inside his consciousness, the succubus little girl Vera sat cross-legged.

Swinging her snow-white little feet, she spoke in a tone of "come beg me":

"Want big sister to help you?

With me, your speed cracking these secret patterns will lead by a mile."

She was once the Immortal Sovereign!

In understanding cosmic laws and secret pattern structures,

every person here combined couldn't match one of her fingers!

"You? No need."

Xu Jingming's mind stirred slightly, responding coolly within his consciousness.

He didn't even spare a glance at the smug little succubus.

"Hmph! Don't look down on me!

I was once the Immortal Sovereign!

As for insight, I'm genuinely confident!"

Vera, feeling slighted, instantly bristled, her heart-shaped tail standing straight up.

But Xu Jingming ignored her.

With Shen Lan, he needed no one's help.

'Shen Lan!'

He silently called out, and a pale blue virtual interface appeared before him.

【Detected analyzable target: Starfall Legacy Secret Patterns (First Layer)】

【Analysis requires 2 Source Points】

【Analyze?】

"Analyze."

Xu Jingming's will shifted.

Source Points -2!

First Layer secret patterns cracked!

Instantly, the once-complex secret patterns unraveled like silk being stripped.

All information — internal structure, energy nodes, cracking pathways —

appeared with crystal clarity in Xu Jingming's mind.

If I were to solve it myself, I'd probably need several dozen seconds.

But now, with Shen Lan here, it takes only an instant.

Xu Jingming extended his large hand.

He lightly tapped several points on the secret pattern before him.

Hum—

The blue column trembled slightly; the secret pattern emitted a crisp hum.

Then it dissolved like melting ice and snow, turning into specks of starlight that sank into the depths of the column.

Immediately, a slightly more complex new secret pattern formed rapidly.

The entire process flowed like clouds and water, from the pattern's appearance to its resolution, taking no more than two breaths.

"Huh? Already solved that fast?"

Vera blinked in his consciousness.

Her little face showed a flicker of surprise, but soon she pouted:

"Then again, this little freak's comprehension is naturally monstrous.

The first one was simple; it's normal to solve it quickly.

But this is only the beginning.

The secret patterns grow increasingly complex and profound as they progress.

The computational load explodes—he'll definitely need me at some point."

The little demoness comforted herself.

She swung her little feet, happily imagining the scene where Xu Jingming would come begging for her help.

But reality quickly shattered her fantasy.

Xu Jingming showed not the slightest pause.

Source Point -5!

【Second-layer secret pattern resolved.】

Fingertip tapped. Pattern dissolved.

Source Point -9!

【Third-layer secret pattern resolved.】

Fingertip tapped. Pattern dissolved.

Source Point -14!

【Fourth-layer secret pattern...】

Thus,

Xu Jingming acted like an examiner with the standard answers.

No matter how the questions upgraded or evolved, he handled them effortlessly.

Even as the secret pattern just coalesced and before it fully stabilized, his finger had already struck.

Solve. Generate new. Solve again...

Repeating in an unbroken cycle, with a rhythm so steady it was terrifying.

Meanwhile, everyone else—Lin Qianxue, Yin Hongyu—

even Brody, who boasted of superior comprehension—were still straining over the first few patterns.

Their minds were intensely focused.

Solving a single secret pattern took at least dozens of seconds, sometimes longer.

The Starfall Divine Palace's inheritance trial.

Each time a secret pattern was successfully resolved, the light column surrounding the trial participant would ripple with a distinct golden wave.

Like ripples on water, accompanied by faint, pleasant chimes, signaling progress.

Thus,

across the plain bathed in blue and red light, a strange sight emerged.

Elsewhere, the golden ripples were sporadic.

Rising and falling, like sparse raindrops striking a lake's surface.

Only the blue column where Xu Jingming stood had golden ripples nearly merging into a continuous sheet!

One wave had not yet faded when another rose.

The pleasant "ding-ding" sounds of resolution came so densely they resembled a downpour of rain.

Fast, urgent, with almost no pause!

This anomaly quickly drew attention from others.

"What's going on with Brother Xu?"

An eight-star war general had just barely solved his first secret pattern.

He looked up and saw golden light flashing wildly inside Xu Jingming's column, frozen in shock.

"This... this can't be right? Solving that fast?"

"Damn! Too insane—the pattern gets solved the moment it appears?"

"Could Brother Xu have encountered similar secret patterns before?"

"..."

The others also noticed the anomaly.

Each stared, dumbfounded, their own pattern-solving slowing slightly.

"How is that possible?!"

Brody's eyes went wide as well, the golden light in the vertical pupil on his brow flickering violently.

As a special lifeform, his comprehension was extremely high.

Combined with the fact that the initial secret patterns weren't very difficult, he broke through them very quickly.

But even a single secret pattern still took him dozens of seconds to crack.

But what about Xu Jingming?

The moment a secret pattern appeared, he cracked it.

The frequency of the golden light flashing was dazzlingly fast!

Instantly, he felt the pressure was so immense it was about to explode!

"Little junior brother..."

Lin Qianxue also noticed this scene, a faint look of amazement in her pale-golden beautiful eyes.

But she wasn't as utterly shocked as the others.

After all,

she had long since witnessed Xu Jingming's monstrous comprehension on the Source Core Secret Tome.

"This monster!

I couldn't even get a clear look at the secret pattern, and he's already cracked it?"

Vera was similarly somewhat shaken.

No way, you're not even pretending anymore, are you?

Hakish, you guy, could it be that you're the reincarnation of the Star Fall Overlord?