Breakthrough?

"I'll figure it out later. Now the most pressing matter is becoming powerful enough to posture properly, then to create cool and unique techniques, and then grow even stronger. Strong enough that I can maybe figure out what happened for me to transmigrate. But before that, I won't worry about it"

With the newfound resolve from being able to posture his amazing talent, Samuel lied down on the bed, and went to sleep. Yep, that's right. He. Went. To. Sleep. Which might sound ridiculous, but thinking about the nonstop grind he had been on for the last few weeks, some of which had been 10,000 times longer, it's not that weird he wanted some rest. Now that he finished his automatic cultivation technique, the only thing he could really do was craft some cool attacks. But doing that in the real world would be redundant.

"I'll sleep for like a day, and then I need to make some signature power or something"

And so he went to sleep, but instead of the day he planned, it only lasted for 5 hours. He was simply too giddy at the thought of the techniques he could make, that he couldn't rest anymore.

"My talent is related to time. Should I make some power related to time? Maybe time reduction or time freeze. Problem with that is time is usually one of the most complex concepts in these types of cultivation worlds. Meaning my pathetic comprehension of positive time dilation probably won't allow me to do this. Hmmm, I don't know. What about an aging beam then?"

Thinking about what happened to Luisa and that assassin when he underwent his metamorphosis, he came up with an idea that sounded plausible. Positive time dilation+beam+target=severe damage/death. If realized, this power would make all souls at the same amount of power as Samuel tremble in fear.

However, just as he was about to utter 'gowla', he felt a weird resonance with the spiritual qi in the air.

"Am I breaking through?"

The feeling of power greater than he possessed before surged into his body. The nine levels in the superior mortal stage were supposedly only there to differentiate levels of power within the stage. However, that did not match what Samuel was experiencing. His power level jumped at least ten times, from a breakthrough that according to Luisa, shouldn't be happening. 

"I'm clearly not breaking through to the mortal evolution stage, so why is this happening? This stage is letting my talent grow. Does that mean that your talent is supposed to improve nine times, before reaching its perfect state? Did Luisa get it wrong? Or is it related to the grade of the talent? Weaker talents will only experience improvement at the peak of the stage, but higher level ones experience it earlier? Is that how it is?"

While he searched for the answer to the questions, the enhancement came to a halt. Wondering if the breakthrough would improve his time sphere in some way, Samuel with his palpable excitement and anticipation entered his talent.

Upon entering he indeed did find something different about the time sphere.