In the blink of an eye, Lin Tianming had already spent a month in the Heavenly City of the Beiyin Domain.

The contest for the top thirty-two had just ended yesterday, because it was no longer the case that all the fights were completed in a single day.

Today, the competition to advance from the top thirty-two to the top sixteen would commence.

Starting from today, each contestant would only need to fight one match, and the winner would directly advance.

As a participant on the first day of the competition, Lin Tianming's match was once again scheduled as the last and most climactic event.

In fact, the Beiyin Domain officials really didn't want Lin Tianming to be the final highlight.

However, in order to maximize viewership, today's climax of the competition still had to be allocated to Lin Tianming.

And Alice's match for advancing to the top sixteen would take place on the last day, also as the highlight.

During this period, the Beiyin Domain officials had calculated who should be the final contestant each day, to maximize daily viewership.

Top talents over level 40 like Lin Tianming had their competition days strategically staggered.

The competition had already started for the day, but Lin Tianming had not arrived.

He was the last to appear, and it was not yet his turn; he had more important matters to attend to and was still in his own room.

This more important matter, of course, was his impending breakthrough to level 49.

Teacher Jiang Han didn't go to the competition venue either; she stayed in Lin Tianming's room to watch over him.

Once Lin Tianming completed his breakthrough to level 49, she would then take him to the venue.

[This kid... The Divine Hand's Duplicate is showing a very strong reaction this time, it seems that his Divine Hand Duplicate ability will most likely unlock a new upper limit!]

Hearing Jiang Han's thoughts, Lin Tianming also believed that her experienced judgement couldn't be wrong.

Once he stepped into level 49, he would directly sense the changes in the Divine Hand Duplicate ability.

As Lin Tianming continued his cultivation, his level aura quickly reached the peak of level 48.

With a strong push towards level 49, Lin Tianming's level aura surged unstoppably, breaking through the shackles of level 48 and successfully stepping into level 49.

Once his level aura gradually stabilized at level 49, Lin Tianming could clearly feel that his overall combat power had greatly increased.

"Congratulations on breaking through to level 49, Friend Tianming. I haven't had the opportunity to help you seek fortunes during the competition period, nor have I given you any extreme potential training for a long time. This period should have been the slowest in terms of your cultivation speed, yet you still managed to step into level 49, which is really impressive!"

Hearing Teacher Jiang Han's congratulations, Lin Tianming chuckled, "It's all thanks to the solid foundation you laid for me early on, Teacher Jiang Han. Even slacking off for two months during the competition, I was still able to continue improving!"

"You smooth talker!"

[But I like that you say so, Friend Tianming!]

Though verbally teasing him for being a smooth-talker, Jiang Han was very pleased with Lin Tianming's words in her heart.

After a brief moment, Jiang Han said, "You silly boy, carefully sense your Divine Hand Duplicate. I've been observing from the side and noticed that your Divine Hand Duplicate ability seems to have undergone some kind of change. See if there's any improvement?"

Lin Tianming didn't need Jiang Han to remind him, as he had already learned about it from her thoughts.

Still, Lin Tianming pretended to have just found out, nodded, and immediately began to sense the changes in his Divine Hand Duplicate ability.

Indeed, just like Teacher Jiang Han said, upon ascending to level 49, his Divine Hand Duplicate underwent new changes.

Ever since advancing to level 40, Lin Tianming's Divine Hand Duplicate ability hadn't changed for a long time.

During this period, his powers as a Spiritual Power Ascender, Genetic Ascender, and Mechanical Ascender all received considerable enhancements.

Divine Hand's Plunder had also allowed him to seize various special Thunder Powers.

Having waited so long, he was finally pleased to see an improvement in his Divine Hand Duplicate ability.

After careful sensing, Lin Tianming immediately showed an expression of surprise.

"The skill cap for Divine Hand Duplicate has increased directly from ten to twenty!"

Hearing this, Jiang Han also showed a satisfied smile and analyzed Lin Tianming's Divine Hand Duplicate and Plunder for him.

"It's normal to see such a big increase after so long without improvement. However, from observing you, the higher your level, the less significant the role of your Divine Hand Duplicate seems to be, except perhaps it's still useful to Duplicate Super Position Forbidden Curses.

On the other hand, your Divine Hand's Plunder has been especially brilliant recently, capturing plenty of Thunder Power, significantly boosting your combat power among peers."

"If this development continues, when you truly reach the Level of top Awakeners, the skill of duplicating the Super Position Forbidden Curse to preserve your life will become superfluous for you, who by then would have acquired various abilities."

Lin Tianming listened to Jiang Han's analysis of his Divine Hand Ability throughout his journey and deeply agreed.

This Divine Hand's Duplicate functioned more like an early-stage life-saving skill.

When truly grown into the later stages, he would have to rely on his Plunder skill.

At that time, the killer moves copied from the early-stage Super Position Forbidden Cursemight become as trivial as a superfluous rib to him, who would be endowed with various abilities.

Being Level 1 and able to duplicate a Super Position Forbidden Curse gave him the theoretical possibility to defeat top-tiers Awakeners.

At the beginning, he also relied on Divine Hand's Duplicate to resolve one crisis after another.

But ever since he entered Level 40, as his level got increasingly higher, Divine Hand's Plunder, which had had almost no use in the early stages, began to gradually reveal its astonishing growth potential.

It plundered for him all the unique Thunder Power of Thunder Hall and unlocked the upper limit to learn a brand-new Divine Domain Skill.

Together with his equally high-growing powers of a Genetic Ascender, Mechanical Ascender, and Spiritual Power Ascender.

The times he could utilize Divine Hand's Duplicate were almost negligible.

In his past life, the original host only had Divine Hand.

The powers of the Three Ascension Divine Kingdoms are exclusive to him, the transmigrator.

One could say his growth potential is stronger than the original host, who solely possessed Divine Hand.

"Alright, Friend Tianming, we should also head to the site now, lest we be late and the people from Beiyin Domain become dissatisfied and try to find opportunities to trouble us!"

Interrupted by Jiang Han's words, Lin Tianming gathered his thoughts and headed to the competition site with Jiang Han.

At this moment, the competition site was ready to begin Lin Tianming's match as other competitors fought too swiftly.

His opponent today is still a first-year student from Beiyin Domain, and moreover, a Level 28 genius.

You must know that Yong Yu, a second-year student from Imperial Great Emperor Academy, was only Level 29 at the end of the Global High-level Awakened Academy Competition during his first year.

If this Level 28 Beiyin Domain first-year student could advance to Level 29 in another month, he too could be considered a genius on par with Yong Yu.

If it weren't for the interventions of Goddess Reborns and Lin Tianming, the transmigrator, this Beiyin Domain first-year student would undoubtedly be one of the leading contenders for the first place in this competition.

The match, which could have been completed ahead of time, was dragged out for ten minutes because Lin Tianming was occupied with a breakthrough in his cultivation and failed to attend.

However, there are still three minutes left until the set match time.

Thus, as long as Lin Tianming can arrive before then, he won't be considered late.

But the upper echelons of Beiyin Domain are becoming impatient.

They already despise Lin Tianming, who has disgraced Beiyin Domain during this past month, and they seized the opportunity to start their complaints.

"We've already waited for ten minutes, what's the deal with Lin Tianming from Jiuzhou? If he can't make it, then consider it his forfeiture!"

"Exactly, doesn't he think that just because he's recently become the hottest celebrity worldwide, he can afford to be late so casually?"

"This match should simply be declared a win for our Beiyin Domain side, with Lin Tianming eliminated! Such a young age yet lacking any sense of punctuality, utter laziness. Being disqualified for tardiness this time will teach him a lesson. While he's still young, he should thoroughly correct his bad habits!"

The Beiyin Domain officials' proposition to directly consider Lin Tianming as having lost instantly angered the people from Jiuzhou.

Just as they were about to refute Beiyin Domain's arguments, the site echoed with Lin Tianming's familiar voice.

"Aren't there still three minutes before it officially starts? Beiyin Domain's dignitaries, can't you even wait for such a short while?"

Upon hearing this, everyone at the venue looked towards the direction of the voice.

And Lin Tianming's leisurely figure also entered their sight.

The person of highest interest today had finally arrived, and the global live broadcast cameras at the location collectively focused on Lin Tianming, not wanting to miss his arrival.

The Beiyin Domain's officials who had just spoken about disqualifying Lin Tianming twitched at the corners of their mouths.

He didn't come early or late; instead, he appeared right after they believed he was unlikely to make it and had finished their earlier tirade...

This Lin Tianming... was doing this on purpose, wasn't he?

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