Torchbearer of the Sea of Stars

In the seventh year after Earth became a colony, Lu Zhaoye died on an alien experiment table. When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the day he awakened at seventeen. His parents were still alive, his old friends had not died, and his childhood sweetheart was urging him to make up a physical fitness test. The ancient token that had returned with him also connected, at that very moment, to a System dormant for countless years. His talent was called Myriad Forms Imprint. The imprints left behind by dead enemies and the trust friends placed in him at the brink of life and death could all become opportunities to gain new abilities. Incomplete talents could be restored, three talents could be fused, and even junk picked up through the occasional sign-in might conceal an unexpected use. But he could copy each person only once, and a failed fusion might destroy every talent involved. Lu Zhaoye decided to take things slow at first. He would get into a good university, protect those around him, and then settle the scores from his previous life, one by one. But as Earth's ancient ruins opened and the secrets left behind by an ancient civilization reappeared among the stars, the attention of countless races turned once more to this blue planet. Organizations that hunted geniuses, fleets that carved up territories, and powerful races coveting ancient legacies came one after another. This time, at Lu Zhaoye's back stood the friends and beloved who had grown alongside him, and a civilization that refused to bow its head. The countless races of the star sea all came to compete. He would win Earth's place with his own hands.