Magnetic Field Induction

In the training room, Ji Xinghuo stood up.

He clearly felt a surge of energy in his stomach, churning like a living creature. It quickly pierced through his stomach wall and spread through his internal organs, reaching his entire body within dozens of seconds. Muscles, bones, blood—every part of his body, inside and out, was saturated by it.

At once, a numb, itchy sensation spread from head to toe, and every hair on his body stood on end.

Crackle, crackle...

Ji Xinghuo heard strange sounds coming from above his head and caught a bizarre burning smell. Turning to look at the mirror on the wall, he found that his hair was trembling strand by strand.

Sparks flickered intermittently among his hair. They were jumping currents.

"It feels like I'm being electrocuted!"

Ji Xinghuo looked at the fine hairs on his arm. Faint currents seemed to surface beneath his skin, but aside from the numb itch, he felt no pain.

"Mm..."

He suddenly shook his head. His consciousness had become somewhat hazy, and he was overcome with drowsiness as if he had been hypnotized.

"My brain is being altered too."

Ji Xinghuo struggled to stay awake, sensing his changes bit by bit.

Gradually, the currents generated by his body grew stronger and stronger. The flowing currents amplified the magnetic field, the two originally being two sides of the same coin. The rapidly rotating magnetic field expanded outward, covering nearly half the training room. The Stellar Force drifting within his body reacted with the magnetic field, ultimately forming an invisible vortex!

The invisible magnetic vortex attracted equally invisible energy.

Ji Xinghuo could not see it himself, but he could feel it.

It was Ether energy!

After the Star Gate opened, Ether energy from the Star Realm had continuously poured into Earth. Now, nearly two centuries later, Ether energy had long since filled the entire planet.

From the Earth's core and ocean floor to the atmosphere and near space, every inch of Earth was permeated with Ether energy, as ubiquitous as air.

Naturally, Earth's Ether energy density was far inferior to that of the Star Realm.

The total amount of Ether energy was even further behind, perhaps less than one-trillionth of the Star Realm's.

Even so, it was enough for Earth's Aberrants to cultivate normally. Yet few Aberrants could truly sense the existence of Ether energy.

At that moment.

Ji Xinghuo was like the center of an energy storm. Surging Ether energy rushed toward him like moths to a flame, flooding into his body.

He felt an incomparable exhilaration!

All fifty trillion cells in his body seemed to be cheering, letting out soundless cries. As though they had been starving for decades and were finally satisfied, they greedily devoured the Ether energy.

As Ether energy poured in, Ji Xinghuo's body was transformed inch by inch.

This transformation went beyond physical enhancement. It reached deep into his brain, senses, spirit, and thoughts. If people had souls, then even his soul was undergoing an earth-shattering Great Change! The fusion transformation continued.

More than ten minutes later, currents could be clearly seen on Ji Xinghuo's skin. Though they flashed by in an instant, they easily pierced the air.

The crackling of electric shocks in the training room became increasingly dense.

More and more currents appeared. Ji Xinghuo was surrounded by wildly dancing lightning, but the invisible magnetic field restrained it, preventing it from leaving his body.

Slowly, his entire body was hidden beneath blazing electric light. His feet left the ground, his arms spread wide as he floated in midair.

Half an hour later, the fusion finally entered its final stage.

Crack! Thunder boomed.

The electric light around Ji Xinghuo's body suddenly vanished, revealing his body as his feet returned to the ground.

His clothes and pants had long been reduced to ashes by the high-temperature currents. He was completely naked now, but fortunately, his Power Shoes and phone had been stored in the cabinet, minimizing his losses.

"Whew!"

Ji Xinghuo looked at his sturdy body in the mirror.

From the outside, his body did not look much different from before. He was only slightly more muscular, and his skin had become a little fairer—changes that were impossible to notice without looking closely.

But internally, he had been completely reborn! Every inch of skin had become tougher, while the structure and fibers of every bone and muscle had been strengthened.

Even his blood seemed to have been refined. Its oxygen-carrying capacity had surged, and the nutrients it carried through his body now contained additional energy.

This was because Stellar Force had completely fused into his blood, multiplying the efficiency with which it supplied energy for physical movement!

Ji Xinghuo moved slightly and felt that his strength had increased by at least half. His defense, speed, and recovery had all improved across the board.

His explosive power had probably increased the most!

But he could not test it here, so he had no idea how much it had improved for now.

Ji Xinghuo slowly closed his eyes.

Besides strengthening his body, the Rotating Magnetic Field had granted him an entirely new sensory ability.

This sense differed from sight and hearing, and from all common senses. It allowed him to feel the existence of magnetic fields! Everything in the universe possessed a magnetic field.

From an electron to a star, any form of matter possessed a magnetic field. It was an intrinsic property of matter.

The scale and intensity of a magnetic field depended on the nature of the matter.

Now, without using his eyes, Ji Xinghuo could sense countless curved "lines" in the surrounding space. Every line was closed, with neither beginning nor end. They extended into infinity, yet formed closed circuits.

These were magnetic field lines! Clusters of them gathered together, densely packed by the thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of millions—far too many to count.

Some were strong, some weak; some large, some small. They formed magnetic fields around every object.

Generally speaking, the larger an object was, the larger its magnetic field; conversely, smaller objects had smaller magnetic fields.

Countless magnetic fields overlapped and affected each other. Large magnetic fields contained smaller ones, and smaller magnetic fields contained even smaller ones. They were intertwined, impossible to fully separate by boundaries. They were everywhere, like an infinitely vast ocean of magnetic fields.

The largest magnetic field originated beneath his feet, encompassing nearly all other magnetic fields within it.

"Earth Magnetic Field!"

Ji Xinghuo immediately realized what it was.

Earth's magnetic field was far stronger than other magnetic fields. Yet in terms of macroscopic physical phenomena, its effects were difficult to notice.

Most magnetic fields were ignored in everyday life.

After adapting to this sense a little, Ji Xinghuo discovered that his Magnetic Field Induction could reach as far as three hundred meters! Beyond three hundred meters, magnetic fields rapidly weakened and became unknown.

This range covered almost the entire mall! Within Ji Xinghuo's perception, he "saw" tens of millions of magnetic fields. Most were extremely weak, while only a few were relatively strong. In particular, the long, thin magnetic fields laid within the walls stood out sharply—they were electrical circuits! There were also special magnetic fields of varying sizes and shapes, originating from all kinds of electrical appliances.

Lights, refrigerators, computers, cameras...

Based on the shapes of their magnetic fields, Ji Xinghuo could easily identify what they were.

The magnetic fields of these appliances were almost entirely stationary. Only one kind of magnetic field moved constantly. They were very small in size but highly intense.

"Phones!"

The magnetic signatures of phones were extremely easy to identify. In Ji Xinghuo's perception, they stood out like lights in the darkness.

Every phone's magnetic field was connected to a larger but weaker magnetic field.

That was the human body!

Ji Xinghuo sensed carefully for a while and summarized the pattern.

Most people's biological magnetic fields were very weak, but a small number were different. They were all Aberrants.

The higher an Aberrant's Rank and the stronger they were, the more obvious their magnetic field became.

Not far from him, he sensed an extremely intense humanoid magnetic field. It belonged to the Evil Spirit stationed at the Star Warrior store!

Among the many human magnetic fields, the Evil Spirit's was like the moon in the night sky. Other Aberrants were several times weaker than her.

"Changes in a magnetic field should also reflect someone's condition."

Ji Xinghuo's thoughts stirred.

At once, the Rotating Magnetic Field was activated and began operating. Currents surfaced on his skin, and his strength surged. It felt as though he had inexhaustible power within him! In his perception, the intensity of his body's magnetic field rose sharply.

"Just as expected."

Ji Xinghuo did not continue testing. Fully activating the Rotating Magnetic Field consumed Stellar Force, and this was not the time for testing, so he exited the state.

"As expected of a Super-Limit ability!"

"This supernatural power completely surpasses the limits of the human body."

Ji Xinghuo marveled at it.

The strength enhancement brought by the Rotating Magnetic Field was only one aspect. For someone like him, still an Elementary Esper, magnetic field perception was even more useful at this stage.

Although he could only sense magnetic fields and could neither affect nor manipulate them, this was undoubtedly a top-tier sensory ability.

Once he trained and mastered this sense, he would be able to detect changes around him at every moment.

Not to mention that the Myriad Stellar Eye already had the ability to foresee danger.

With the Myriad Stellar Eye combined with Magnetic Field Induction, Ji Xinghuo believed it would be almost impossible for anyone to ambush him. It gave him tremendous security when adventuring in the Star Realm.

Only then did Ji Xinghuo open the Myriad Stellar Eye interface.

Stellar Force: 97/97

Abilities: Thousand Spirit Dexterous Hands (Level 2, 1/227), Rotating Magnetic Field (Level 1, 1/359)

Spirit Source Energy: 100

"Stellar Force increased by 41 points!" Ji Xinghuo was quite pleasantly surprised. It was common knowledge that fusing an Ability Seed could increase Stellar Force.

He simply had not expected it to increase by so much.

It took him about a week of diligent cultivation to increase Stellar Force by 1 point, while fusing the Rotating Magnetic Field had increased it by 41 points—nearly doubling it. It was equivalent to saving ten months of cultivation!

"No wonder every Aberrant desperately wants Expansion Oddities."

Ji Xinghuo could not help sighing.

Expansion Oddities allowed Aberrants to fuse additional Ability Seeds and could also increase Stellar Force. Their impact on one's strength was truly enormous.

However, the Stellar Force gained from fusing Ability Seeds would not accelerate an Aberrant's life evolution.

If an Aberrant's body were compared to a bottle, then Stellar Force was the water inside it. The Stellar Force gained from fusing an Ability Seed was like making the bottle larger and expanding its capacity. Whatever progress had remained before the next life evolution, after fusion, the gap might become even greater.

That was why precious resources like Life Spirit Seeds were called "expansion" oddities.

Of course, fusing additional Ability Seeds brought nothing but benefits.

Not only did it increase one's strength, it also raised the Stellar Force limit at one's current Rank, laying a more solid foundation for the next evolution!

Next, Ji Xinghuo looked at his new ability.

"A Level 1 Rotating Magnetic Field actually requires 359 points of Spirit Source Energy." He was startled. Looking at the remaining 100 points of Spirit Source Energy, he found that he was still quite far from upgrading either Thousand Spirit Dexterous Hands or the Rotating Magnetic Field.

"Even if I can't upgrade it, I can still increase my strength."

Ji Xinghuo looked at the humanoid projection on the right side of the interface. In the brain area was a projection in the shape of a magnetic field, enveloping his entire body and rotating slowly.

Without hesitation, he invested all 100 points of Spirit Source Energy into the Rotating Magnetic Field.