Chapter 111: Let's Talk About Each Other's Talents (April 1400 Monthly Ticket Bonus Chapter)

A person will have many secrets in their lifetime.

But although they are all secrets, their importance varies.

Some secrets can be told to others without harm, while others cannot be easily revealed.

When a person is trustworthy, the owner of the secret naturally wishes to reveal more secrets.

In Qin Chuan's view, his current secrets can be divided into four items.

First, it is the secret of his dream identity.

Qin Chuan knows this is hard to hide from those who pay attention.

Look at Matsuzaka Shiki: nowadays, wherever he goes, the next day his whereabouts are exposed in reality—one can say he has no secrets at all.

Qin Chuan is still a nobody now, unnoticed, so it doesn't matter.

But once tomorrow, when the news of Shui Hua breaking through to Elite Tier is exposed, the player name Luo will surely attract great attention.

Many traces he left will be dug up by players in the same region.

The attributes of his contracted Spirit Beast are naturally impossible to conceal.

There are only twelve attributes in total; after choosing the first contracted Spirit Beast, a portion is filtered out, and after choosing the second contracted Spirit Beast, another portion is filtered out.

Contracting more Spirit Beasts and mastering more attributes makes it easier for others to discover one's real identity.

Contracting Spirit Beasts of the same attribute as much as possible can reduce this risk, but the singularity of the attribute means one is more easily restrained when facing other superhumans, and also loses many possibilities.

Determined to enter this competition, Qin Chuan naturally would not make such a choice.

Therefore, he deeply knows his identity will inevitably be exposed one day.

Under these circumstances, while trying to conceal his identity as much as possible, guarding the other three secrets becomes all the more important.

Of these three secrets, the outermost is Qin Chuan's ability to probe resource locations.

This is his concealment of the Sundial Talent, but it is also certainly not something just anyone can know.

The middle-layer secret is Qin Chuan's Golden Talent Sundial and its effect.

As one of the Nine Golden Talents, once the Sundial is exposed it will surely cause a great storm.

Once the Sundial's third talent is known, Qin Chuan will fall into a passive state even more.

The deepest layer, and the secret that must not be exposed at all, is Time Stop.

If speaking of the Nine Golden Talents, there are still nine players in the world who can possess them, but Time Stop is an ability unique to Qin Chuan alone.

As of now, Qin Chuan has used this ability only twice.

The first time allowed him to kill the Shadow Leopard, placing him first on the Junior Tier Spirit Beast Ranking and the Achievement Ranking, and enabled him to cross the Shadow Leopard's nest, where during exploration he met Yue Li.

On the surface it was merely killing a Growth Tier Spirit Beast, but the hidden gains are extremely high.

The other time allowed him to possess the Golden Talent Sundial.

Qin Chuan currently has no plan to lightly use the Time Stop ability.

He is waiting.

Waiting for a valuable opportunity.

Every second he is now accumulating is a trump card for winning the future.

And the decision to tell Yue Li about the Sundial is also not a spur-of-the-moment idea.

He was already almost unable to keep it hidden.

Whether it was previously killing the Blue Scale Flood Dragon or this time obtaining the Azure Blue Resonant Shell, he needs to find excuses to cover up, believing there will be more such situations in the future.

Yue Li is simple-minded but not stupid.

The most important point is that, when Qin Chuan considers how to obtain the Azure Blue Resonant Shell, how to boost his strength in the future, and how to deal with the impending risks, all his plans and thoughts seem to subconsciously include Yue Li's ability to increase luck.

When Qin Chuan realizes this, he becomes aware that they should be more frank with each other.

"So, you already knew my talent is Life Prayer, right?" Yue Li glared at Qin Chuan, her cute-and-fierce look making his tangled thoughts suddenly dissipate.

"Yeah." Qin Chuan couldn't help but laugh.

The last shred of luck shattered, Yue Li ground her tiger teeth.

Thinking that over the past half month of their interaction she had assumed the other hadn't noticed, and still wanted to take more care of them, she felt a sense of helpless frustration.

"I want to cut ties with you!"

Yue Li spoke angrily, then added sullenly, "One minute!"

Qin Chuan glanced at the timer below the panel with his peripheral vision.

【04:12:48/08:00:00】【00:00:08】

Okay, one minute.

He stood still in place, intently watching each jump of the seconds.

That earnest look made each second seem as precious as Time Stop.

Noticing Qin Chuan's unusual quiet, Yue Li furtively glanced at him, then the corner of her mouth twitched slightly.

She found the scene inexplicably amusing, but remembering they were in a period of severed ties and couldn't laugh out loud, she let her shoulders shrug slightly.

【04:13:48/08:00:00】【00:00:08】

"One minute is up."

Qin Chuan's voice sounded on the dot, Yue Li could no longer hold back, her lips involuntarily curling up, "Well then, the severed ties are over."

Turning her head to meet Qin Chuan's gaze, she took a deep breath.

"Let's… talk about each other's talents." — The result of frankness was that both were very surprised.

Yue Li never expected Qin Chuan to also have the ability to lock onto players, resources, and Spirit Beasts across the whole map, while Qin Chuan never expected that the harmless-looking Life Prayer could forcibly deprive a target of its luck and transfer it to another target.

If such a move were used in battle, under the give-and-take it would not be impossible for the opponent to trip and fall to their death.

"In seven days, the Sundial's third talent will be usable again." Yue Li spoke softly, "Once Xue Gao also breaks through to Elite Tier, I believe you will surely be able to smoothly advance to Elite Tier player."

By then, you'll become the target of everyone's criticism~

Although Yue Li spoke lightly, the worry in her eyes was obvious.

Even having one contracted spirit beast reach elite rank is a stroke of luck.

With two contracted spirit beasts hitting elite rank back‑to‑back so fast, everyone will suspect Luo has some kind of golden gift.

"It's fine." Qin Chuan shrugged, "I'm already an elite player—can I still be pushed around by a regular player?"

Not even Ericte can act arrogant in front of me.

Yue Li laughed too.

Qin Chuan's confidence rubbed off on her, easing her worries about the future.

No matter what, she'll definitely stand with Luo!

When everyone believed Luo was the sole golden‑talent player, there were actually two—Yue Li felt a little pleased with herself.

She's pretty awesome too! "After I promote, I'll quickly use my third talent to help you find rare resources," Qin Chuan said earnestly. "By then we'll both be elite players—nothing will scare us."

"No need to use it on me." Yue Li grew serious, "Your third talent is precious—we should conserve it."

"Then you…" Qin Chuan glanced at Yue Li, surprised.

I have an idea." Yue Li said confidently, "You still have another method for finding rare resources, don't you?"

Yes, but… Qin Chuan wanted to say that a 20‑kilometer range is beyond what his second talent can scout.

Using Ericte's second talent on myself gives double the effect." Yue Li smiled, "My first talent also gives me an equal boost of luck.

My luck is three times yours." — Tomorrow is the deadline for the 50‑ticket bonus chapter; after that, there will be seven days of 100‑ticket bonus chapters.

We still need to add 51 chapters; we've already made up 8, and we'll keep making up the rest! Thanks to all the readers for your support! Orz (End of chapter)